1916 Philadelphia Athletics season

The 1916 Philadelphia Athletics season was the 16th season of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball franchise. The team concluded the season in eighth place within the American League, achieving a record of 36 wins against 117 losses. Baseball historians frequently regard the 1916 Athletics as the poorest-performing team in the history of the American League, with a winning percentage of.235, which remains the lowest for any modern major league team since 1900. The 117 losses recorded by the team stood as a Major League Baseball record until the expansion New York Mets surpassed it in 1962, finishing with 120 losses but a slightly better winning percentage of.250.

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Billy Meyer	50	138	32	.232	1	12
1B	Stuffy McInnis	140	512	151	.295	1	60
2B		113	426	105	.246	2	35
SS	Whitey Witt	143	563	138	.245	2	36
3B	Charlie Pick	121	398	96	.241	0	20
OF	Wally Schang	110	338	90	.266	7	38
OF		150	544	172	.316	3	49
OF		114	390	91	.233	1	27

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Lee McElwee	54	155	41	.265	0	10
Rube Oldring	40	146	36	.247	0	14
	42	144	27	.188	0	8
Otis Lawry	41	123	25	.203	0	4
Val Picinich	40	118	23	.195	0	5
	34	108	25	.231	0	4
	20	77	21	.273	0	7
Bill Stellbauer	25	48	13	.271	0	5
	14	42	10	.238	1	5
Ralph Mitterling	13	39	6	.154	0	2
Harland Rowe	17	36	5	.139	0	3
	19	33	6	.182	0	1
Buck Thrasher	7	29	9	.310	0	4
Mike Murphy	14	27	3	.111	0	1
Thomas Healy	6	23	6	.261	0	2
Doc Carroll	10	22	2	.091	0	0
Charlie Grimm	12	22	2	.091	0	0
	15	17	0	.000	0	0
	4	15	4	.267	0	1
Moxie Divis	3	6	1	.167	0	1
Lew Malone	5	4	0	.000	0	0
	2	4	1	.250	0	0
	1	0	0	----	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	44	315.0	14	23	3.66	182
	40	286.2	15	24	2.57	157
	40	212.2	1	20	3.47	74
	12	84.1	2	8	3.74	25
	4	24.2	2	1	4.01	8

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	38	188.0	1	16	3.69	54
Marsh Williams	10	51.1	0	6	7.89	17
	9	39.2	0	5	4.99	15
	6	26.0	0	4	7.27	6
	6	24.1	0	3	8.14	9
	3	21.2	1	2	4.15	5
Weldon Wyckoff	7	21.1	0	1	5.48	4
	4	15.0	0	2	6.60	8
	3	9.1	0	1	4.82	5

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Harry Weaver	3	0	0	0	10.13	2
	1	0	1	0	5.40	0
	1	0	0	0	4.50	1
	1	0	0	0	6.75	2
Walt Whittaker	1	0	0	0	4.50	0
	1	0	0	0	40.50	1

Awards and honors

League top five finishers

Bullet Joe Bush: #4 in AL in strikeouts
Bullet Joe Bush: #3 in AL in shutouts
Bullet Joe Bush: #3 in AL in complete games
Bullet Joe Bush: MLB leader in losses
Bullet Joe Bush: MLB leader in wild pitches
Bullet Joe Bush: #2 in AL in walks allowed
Elmer Myers: #2 in AL in strikeouts
Elmer Myers: #2 in AL in complete games
Elmer Myers: #2 in AL in losses
Elmer Myers: MLB leader in earned runs allowed
Elmer Myers: #2 in AL in hits allowed
Elmer Myers: MLB leader in walks allowed
Elmer Myers: #2 in AL in home runs allowed
Elmer Myers: #2 in AL in wild pitches
Elmer Myers: #2 in AL in hit batsmen
Jack Nabors: #3 in AL in losses
Amos Strunk: #4 in AL in batting average