1929 Boston Braves season

The 1929 Boston Braves season was the 59th season of the franchise.

Offseason

November 7, 1928: Rogers Hornsby was traded by the Braves to the Chicago Cubs for Socks Seibold, Percy Jones, Lou Legett, Freddie Maguire, Bruce Cunningham, and $200,000.

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	Al Spohrer	114	342	93	.272	2	48
1B	George Sisler	154	629	205	.326	2	79
2B		138	496	125	.252	0	41
SS	Rabbit Maranville	146	560	159	.284	0	55
3B	Les Bell	139	483	144	.298	9	72
OF	Lance Richbourg	139	557	170	.305	3	56
OF		136	457	133	.291	10	68
OF	Earl Clark	84	279	88	.315	1	30

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
Jimmy Welsh	53	186	54	.290	2	16
Joe Dugan	60	125	38	.304	0	15
Zack Taylor	34	101	25	.248	0	10
Bernie James	46	101	31	.307	0	9
	46	93	19	.204	0	11
	39	81	13	.160	0	6
Johnny Cooney	41	72	23	.319	0	6
Phil Voyles	20	68	16	.235	0	14
Buzz Boyle	17	57	15	.263	1	2
Bill Dunlap	10	29	12	.414	1	4
	8	28	8	.286	0	6
Red Barron	10	21	4	.190	0	1
Jack Smith	19	20	5	.250	0	2
Hank Gowdy	10	16	7	.438	0	3
Henry Peploski	6	10	2	.200	0	1
Bill Cronin	6	9	1	.111	0	0
Doc Farrell	5	8	1	.125	0	2
Jack Cummings	3	6	1	.167	0	1
Pat Collins	7	5	0	.000	0	2
Al Weston	3	3	0	.000	0	0
Johnny Evers	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
	34	231.0	11	17	4.68	65
	33	205.2	12	17	4.73	54
	26	167.2	8	13	5.53	50
	27	157.0	4	13	4.47	25

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
	35	188.1	7	15	4.64	69
Dixie Leverett	24	97.2	3	7	6.36	28
	17	91.2	4	6	4.52	22
Art Delaney	20	75.0	3	5	6.12	17
Red Peery	9	44.0	0	1	5.11	3
Bunny Hearn	10	18.1	2	0	4.42	12
Kent Greenfield	6	15.2	0	0	10.91	7
	2	7.0	0	1	10.29	0

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
Johnny Cooney	14	2	3	3	5.00	11
Johnny Werts	4	0	0	1	10.50	2
Clay Touchstone	1	0	0	0	16.88	1