1921 Chicago White Sox season

The 1921 Chicago White Sox season involved the White Sox attempting to win the American League pennant. However, with the core of the team banned after the Black Sox Scandal broke, they fell back to seventh place.

Regular season

Owner Charles Comiskey struggled to find replacements for his stars. For example, new third baseman Eddie Mulligan had a.623 OPS, lowest among the team's regulars and quite a drop from Buck Weaver's.785 in 1920.
The pitching staff took a much worse beating. Chicago had lost its two best starters in Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams and could not recover. Red Faber won 25 games with a league-leading 2.48 ERA. The only other pitcher over.500 was Dickey Kerr, who indeed allowed more hits and earned runs than anyone else in the majors. Number three starter Roy Wilkinson went 4–20, and nobody else started more than 10 games.

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	Ray Schalk	128	416	105	.252	0	47
1B	Earl Sheely	154	563	171	.304	11	95
2B	Eddie Collins	139	526	177	.337	2	58
3B		151	609	153	.251	1	45
SS		142	613	181	.295	1	51
OF	Amos Strunk	121	401	133	.332	3	69
OF	Harry Hooper	108	419	137	.327	3	58
OF	Bibb Falk	152	585	167	.285	5	82

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
Johnny Mostil	100	326	98	.301	3	42
	63	196	35	.179	1	14
Yam Yaryan	45	102	31	.304	0	15
	20	42	9	.214	0	4
Fred Bratschi	16	28	8	.286	0	3
Red Ostergard	12	11	4	.364	0	0
Elmer Leifer	9	10	3	.300	0	1
	6	5	1	.200	0	0
Frank Pratt	1	1	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
	43	330.2	25	15	2.48	124
	44	308.2	19	17	4.72	80
	11	66.1	2	5	5.29	15
	12	56.0	2	8	7.23	10
Lee Thompson	4	20.2	0	3	8.27	4

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
	32	198.1	4	20	5.13	50
	36	142.2	6	8	6.56	25
Doug McWeeny	27	97.2	3	6	6.08	46
	7	27.2	1	2	5.86	7
Jack Wieneke	10	25.1	0	1	8.17	10
	5	22.1	0	1	6.45	6
Bugs Bennett	3	17.2	0	3	6.11	2
	2	7.0	0	0	7.71	1

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
	13	0	3	0	6.88	9
	4	0	0	0	8.44	2
John Michaelson	2	0	0	0	10.13	1
	1	0	0	0	0.00	0

Awards and honors

League top ten finishers

Red Faber

MLB leader in ERA
#3 in AL in wins
#4 in AL in strikeouts

Dickey Kerr

MLB leader in earned runs allowed
MLB leader in hits allowed
#3 in AL in losses
#3 in AL in walks allowed

Roy Wilkinson

#2 in AL in losses