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Tippy Cavanaugh	Bats: Left Throws: Left Height: 6' 1'' Weight: 230   Born: June 18, 1909 in Greene, VT

Awards & Accomplishments
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR	1929
All-Star Selections	1935    1939    1943

Batting Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won BATTER OF THE YEAR or ROOKIE OF THE YEAR.
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	XR	OWS
1928	19	CHN	NL	15	36	3	9	1	0	0	5	2	0	3	3	.250	.300	.278	.578	3.3	0.0
		AAA		82	308	64	102	32	4	1	26	20	3	64	31	.331	.446	.471	.917	65.8
		AA		14	54	10	17	7	0	0	4	1	1	8	12	.315	.403	.444	.848	9.1
		A		20	68	16	23	2	1	0	10	3	3	13	14	.338	.444	.397	.842	12.2
1929	20	CHN	NL	134	438	73	142	31	13	2	66	20	23	66	55	.324	.412	.468	.880	76.9	11.8
1930	21	CHN	NL	145	550	98	188	38	12	6	110	3	4	83	61	.342	.425	.487	.912	106.8	17.6
1931	22	CHN	NL	141	486	79	147	25	14	0	43	1	4	72	60	.302	.395	.412	.806	73.5	13.7
1932	23	CHN	NL	149	557	99	187	36	12	4	68	3	6	89	64	.336	.429	.465	.894	105.1	21.3
1933	24	CHN	NL	116	412	58	130	22	9	2	53	25	19	59	40	.316	.400	.427	.827	67.1	14.2
1934	25	CHN	NL	146	531	78	166	22	8	2	59	41	26	78	81	.313	.398	.395	.793	83.7	16.6
1935	26	CHN	NL	145	539	115	178	26	12	3	61	1	7	75	69	.330	.416	.440	.856	92.3	20.2
1936	27	CHN	NL	143	453	92	142	25	9	2	70	1	10	71	57	.313	.411	.422	.833	76.4	11.8
1937	28	CHN	NL	145	523	92	153	40	15	2	98	2	5	74	70	.293	.381	.438	.819	81.6	14.9
1938	29	CHN	NL	140	445	77	127	12	11	1	56	2	5	83	72	.285	.400	.369	.768	68.1	12.0
1939	30	CHN	NL	148	545	109	164	29	13	8	78	2	4	93	86	.301	.404	.446	.850	96.9	16.5
1940	31	CHN	NL	149	539	89	144	25	9	2	61	5	5	90	90	.267	.375	.358	.733	75.4	13.2
1941	32	CHN	NL	27	94	18	28	8	1	0	18	4	2	12	14	.298	.374	.404	.778	14.1	3.0
		PHI	NL	120	444	76	133	24	4	2	39	20	11	72	69	.300	.397	.385	.782	70.4	15.1
		TOT		147	538	94	161	32	5	2	57	24	13	84	83	.299	.393	.388	.782	84.5	18.0
1942	33	PHI	NL	132	426	66	107	17	3	3	56	3	2	77	75	.251	.366	.326	.693	56.0	10.1
1943	34	PHI	NL	148	550	89	149	29	8	1	73	2	9	84	74	.271	.371	.358	.729	73.5	17.6
1944	35	PHI	NL	121	431	63	113	28	7	0	40	0	3	53	69	.262	.346	.360	.705	54.9	11.8
1945	36	PHI	NL	84	253	25	55	13	1	0	27	0	5	43	35	.217	.327	.277	.603	25.6	2.3
18 Years Sim				2348	8252	1399	2462	451	161	40	1081	137	150	1277	1144	.298	.393	.407	.800	1301.6	243.6
1 Years AAA				82	308	64	102	32	4	1	26	20	3	64	31	.331	.445	.471	.916	65.8
1 Years AA				14	54	10	17	7	0	0	4	1	1	8	12	.315	.397	.444	.841	9.1
1 Years A				20	68	16	23	2	1	0	10	3	3	13	14	.338	.446	.397	.843	12.2
3 Years Minors				116	430	90	142	41	5	1	40	24	7	85	57	.330	.439	.456	.895	87.0
162 Game Average					569	96	169	31	11	2	74	9	10	88	78	.298	.393	.407	.800	89.8
Career Highs				149	557	115	188	40	15	8	110	41	26	93	90	.342	.429	.487	.912	106.8

Career Batting Splits     Help
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Category	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	XR
vs RH		5613	970	1735	306	113	25	734	98	94	819	730	.309	.397	.417	.814	913.1
vs LH		2639	429	727	145	48	15	347	39	56	458	414	.275	.386	.384	.770	396.7
Home	1162	3924	665	1200	210	84	23	542	56	78	644	552	.306	.404	.420	.824	655.8
Away	1186	4328	734	1262	241	77	17	539	81	72	633	592	.292	.383	.395	.778	654.0
RISP		2085	0	645	125	39	9	937	0	0	357	284	.309	.406	.420	.826	362.7
Pinch Hitting		127	18	38	5	3	1	24	1	2	17	19	.299	.381	.409	.790	19.4
Close/Late		966	131	276	47	20	5	111	0	1	132	129	.286	.372	.391	.763	142.2
Mar/Apr	237	848	126	242	45	17	7	106	10	12	130	101	.285	.382	.403	.785	130.6
May	473	1696	266	470	95	36	3	215	23	34	265	262	.277	.375	.381	.756	243.8
June	436	1509	233	454	69	28	10	184	29	31	203	180	.301	.385	.404	.789	229.7
July	434	1538	268	464	97	26	2	209	38	34	222	227	.302	.391	.402	.793	237.6
August	391	1341	272	434	80	34	10	193	22	24	241	199	.324	.427	.456	.884	253.5
Sep/Oct	377	1320	234	398	65	20	8	174	15	15	216	175	.302	.400	.399	.799	214.4

Fielding Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won GOLD GLOVE AWARD.
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Pos	G	GS	IP	PO	A	E	DP	FPct	RF					DWS
1928	19	CHN	NL	RF	10	10	69.0	22	2	1	0	.960	3.13					0.3
				CF	4	1	15.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	4.80
				LF	1	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	6.00
1929	20	CHN	NL	RF	129	129	1061.7	252	18	1	2	.996	2.29					3.7
				CF	6	1	20.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	3.15
				LF	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
1930	21	CHN	NL	CF	101	93	834.0	258	10	6	2	.978	2.89					3.7
				RF	48	47	387.7	94	1	3	0	.969	2.21
				LF	2	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.50
1931	22	CHN	NL	CF	109	101	917.7	294	6	3	0	.990	2.94					6.5
				RF	30	27	219.3	47	2	1	0	.980	2.01
				LF	8	2	35.3	13	0	0	0	1.000	3.31
1932	23	CHN	NL	CF	137	132	1186.0	401	17	5	4	.988	3.17					2.9
				RF	7	6	46.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.76
				LF	4	0	9.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.00
1933	24	CHN	NL	RF	93	93	771.3	238	5	6	0	.976	2.84					3.1
				CF	20	17	152.7	55	2	0	0	1.000	3.36
				LF	4	0	6.7	5	0	0	0	1.000	6.76
1934	25	CHN	NL	RF	139	136	1186.7	289	8	5	3	.983	2.25					1.2
				LF	3	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.80
				CF	2	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.50
1935	26	CHN	NL	RF	138	133	1182.0	293	10	1	2	.997	2.31					3.6
				LF	5	0	10.7	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.53
				CF	1	1	9.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.00
1936	27	CHN	NL	RF	116	110	994.0	227	10	3	1	.988	2.15					3.3
				LF	7	2	29.3	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.76
				CF	2	1	10.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	3.60
1937	28	CHN	NL	RF	136	135	1168.7	325	11	10	3	.971	2.59					4.6
				LF	4	1	16.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.69
				CF	4	1	12.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	3.65
1938	29	CHN	NL	RF	103	100	898.7	258	5	4	1	.985	2.63					3.7
				CF	17	7	83.0	26	1	2	0	.931	2.93
				LF	13	3	44.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.84
				1B	3	3	24.0	32	1	1	1	.971	12.38					0.1
1939	30	CHN	NL	RF	136	129	1147.7	335	6	8	1	.977	2.67					3.4
				1B	4	4	37.0	37	4	1	1	.976	9.97					0.0
				LF	3	1	16.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	3.38
1940	31	CHN	NL	RF	140	137	1224.0	377	11	7	4	.982	2.85					3.2
				LF	5	0	12.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	3.65
				CF	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.00
1941	32	CHN	NL	1B	22	21	172.8	194	11	1	17	.995	10.68					0.6
				LF	5	5	38.9	10	1	1	0	.917	2.54					0.1
				RF	0	0	0.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	30.00					0.0
		PHI	NL	1B	96	95	843.2	945	55	7	81	.993	10.67					0.7
				LF	23	21	189.8	51	3	2	0	.964	2.56					0.7
				RF	1	0	1.7	2	0	0	0	1.000	10.59					0.0
		TOT		1B	118	116	1016.0	1139	66	8	98	.993	10.67					1.2
				LF	28	26	228.7	61	4	3	0	.956	2.56					0.9
				RF	1	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	13.50					0.0
1942	33	PHI	NL	1B	124	117	1034.0	1140	86	4	125	.997	10.67					1.8
				CF	2	2	20.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.90					0.1
				LF	3	1	11.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	4.91
1943	34	PHI	NL	1B	144	143	1292.7	1445	92	15	133	.990	10.70					2.1
				LF	2	0	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.80					0.0
1944	35	PHI	NL	RF	102	100	862.3	227	6	5	0	.979	2.43					1.9
				1B	19	16	137.0	144	13	2	9	.987	10.31					0.2
				CF	1	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.00
				LF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
1945	36	PHI	NL	RF	69	69	588.7	156	8	3	2	.982	2.51					2.0
				1B	13	11	106.0	120	5	1	13	.992	10.61					0.2
				LF	2	0	4.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.25
				RF	1397	1361	11809.6	3152	103	58	19	.982	2.48					34.1
				1B	425	410	3646.7	4057	267	32	380	.993	10.67					5.5
				CF	407	357	3267.7	1067	36	16	6	.986	3.04					13.2
				LF	97	36	445.0	131	5	3	0	.978	2.75					0.9
Career Totals					2326	2164	19168.9	8407	411	109	405	.988	4.14					53.6
Career Highs					151	143	1297.7	1445	93	15	133	.997	10.67

Post-Season Batting Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won World Series MVP Award.
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
1935	26	CHN	NL	7	27	5	8	0	0	0	4	0	1	4	4	.296	.406	.296	.703
1937	28	CHN	NL	4	16	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.063	.118	.063	.180
Career Post-Season Batting				11	43	5	9	0	0	0	5	0	1	5	9	.209	.306	.209	.515

Batting Leaderboards     Help

Top 10 finishes. Stats are Year-Rank-Value. League leaders are in bold. (*) indicates hit-less at-bats added to meet minimum plate appearances. Season Rankings are League Based.

Batting Average 1932-5-.336 1935-9-.330 On-Base Pct 1929-7-.412 1931-9-.395 1932-4-.429 1933-4-.400 1934-9-.398 1935-4-.416 1936-10-.411 1938-9-.400 1939-9-.404 1941-8-.393 1943-8-.371 OPS 1929-10-.880 1932-9-.894 1933-7-.827 1935-8-.856 OPS+ 1932-8-140 1933-7-134 1935-9-132 1939-10-131 XR 1930-10-106.8 1932-8-105.1 1939-8-96.9 Games 1932-3-149 1939-9-148 1940-4-149 1941-9-147 At-Bats 1932-8-557 Runs 1935-3-115 1939-5-109 1940-7-89 1941-7-94 1943-4-89 Hits 1930-9-188 1932-5-187 1935-8-178 1941-9-161 Walks 1930-9-83 1931-9-72 1932-5-89 1934-6-78 1935-7-75 1939-8-93 1940-7-90 1942-10-77 1943-4-84 Times on Base 1930-3-271 1932-4-279 1934-9-245 1935-8-258 1939-8-260 1940-8-238 1941-7-247 1943-4-239 Singles 1932-6-135 1935-9-137 Doubles 1930-8-38 1932-10-36 1934-10-22 1937-5-40 1941-6-32 1943-5-29 Triples 1929-2-13 1930-5-12 1931-5-14 1932-4-12 1933-10-9 1934-10-8 1935-4-12 1937-3-15 1938-5-11 1939-6-13 1940-9-9 1943-8-8 Extra Base Hits 1937-8-57 RBIs 1930-6-110 1937-7-98 Stolen Bases 1934-3-41 Caught Stealing 1929-1-23 1933-4-19 1934-1-26 Stolen Base Percentage 1931-10-0 1938-10-0 1939-9-0 1940-8-0 1941-9-65 Strikeouts 1930-3-61 1931-7-60 1932-4-64 1934-3-81 1935-4-69 1936-8-57 1937-5-70 1938-2-72 1939-1-86 1940-1-90 1941-1-83 1942-1-75 1943-2-74 1944-1-69 Offensive Win Shares 1930-9-17.8 1932-8-21.1 1935-4-20.5 1939-10-16.5 1941-9-18 1943-10-17.3

Black Ink Test: 0    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 31)    Gray Ink Test: 92    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 177)    Hall of Fame Standards: 51    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 57)

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History

Had first career hit (double) on 6/3/1928, off Sayer Calhoun (NY1)

Hit first career homerun on 6/15/1929, off James Gladstone (PHI)

Won Player of the Week award on 9/22/1929, hitting .579 with 0 HR, 6 RBI

Won ROOKIE OF THE YEAR in 1929, hitting .324 with 2 HR, 66 RBI

Had 5 hits with 6 RBI against Philadelphia (N) on 5/5/1930

Won Player of the Week award on 5/12/1930, hitting .591 with 0 HR, 12 RBI

Won Player of the Week award on 7/28/1930, hitting .600 with 0 HR, 13 RBI

Drove in 7 runs against Philadelphia (N) on 9/13/1930

Had 5 hits with 1 RBI against New York (N) on 8/10/1932

Injured on 8/23/1933 with a Ruptured Medial Collateral Ligament, out for 9 weeks

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