1919 Philadelphia Athletics season

The 1919 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing last in the American League with a record of 36 wins and 104 losses. It was their fifth consecutive season in the cellar after owner-manager Connie Mack sold off his star players.
Philadelphia led the AL in fewest runs scored and most runs allowed, and they did so by wide margins. Their team ERA was 4.26, nearly a full run higher than the second worst team in the league that year. The A's team batting average of.244 was the lowest in both leagues. The pitching staff pitched only one shutout in the entire season.
In July 1919, a newspaper reported, "Veteran Harry Davis has been coaxed out of his retirement and has been made assistant manager of the Athletics." Although Connie Mack was the team's manager, the report said, "Mack hereafter will devote most of his time to business affairs of the club" and that the understanding was that Davis "really is in full charge of the team."

Regular season

Notable transactions

June 13, 1919: Roy Grover was traded by the Athletics to the Washington Senators for Harry Thompson.

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		101	305	77	.252	2	29
1B		126	470	139	.296	8	57
2B		39	155	42	.271	0	14
3B		124	453	96	.212	2	23
SS		104	387	105	.271	1	30
OF		125	456	133	.292	10	64
OF		75	235	53	.226	1	12
OF		122	460	123	.267	0	33

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
Braggo Roth	48	195	63	.323	5	29
	60	194	41	.211	0	13
Dick Burrus	70	194	50	.258	0	8
Wickey McAvoy	62	170	24	.141	0	11
Terry Turner	38	127	24	.189	0	6
Ivy Griffin	17	68	20	.294	0	6
Chick Galloway	17	63	9	.143	0	4
Al Wingo	15	59	18	.305	0	2
	22	56	13	.232	0	2
	15	54	9	.167	2	7
Jimmy Dykes	17	49	9	.184	0	1
Art Ewoldt	9	32	7	.219	0	2
Charlie High	11	29	2	.069	0	1
	9	22	3	.136	0	0
Lena Styles	8	22	6	.273	0	5
Snooks Dowd	13	18	3	.167	0	6
	3	9	0	.000	0	0
Lew Groh	2	4	0	.000	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
	31	204.2	5	18	3.34	68
Jing Johnson	34	202.0	9	15	3.61	67
	25	183.2	4	17	3.58	38
Tom Rogers	23	140.0	4	12	4.31	37
	2	12.0	0	2	5.25	5
Pat Martin	2	11.0	0	2	4.09	6
	1	9.0	0	1	4.00	5
Lefty York	2	4.1	0	2	24.92	2

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
Walt Kinney	43	202.2	9	15	3.64	97
Win Noyes	10	49.0	1	5	5.69	20
	14	45.2	2	3	5.32	19
	9	32.1	0	3	4.73	9
Jimmy Zinn	5	25.2	1	3	6.31	9
	2	16.0	0	1	3.94	6
	3	14.2	0	1	6.75	1
Mule Watson	4	14.1	0	1	6.91	6
Ray Roberts	3	14.0	0	2	7.71	2
	5	12.0	0	0	14.25	3
William Pierson	2	7.2	0	0	3.52	4

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
	3	1	0	0	3.86	10
	3	0	1	0	6.75	1
	2	0	0	0	7.88	2
	1	0	0	0	3.86	0

Awards and honors

League top ten finishers

Rollie Naylor

#3 in AL in losses

Scott Perry

#4 in AL in losses