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1934 MLB Earned Run Average by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Earned runs allowed per nine innings

The Philadelphia Stars led all of MLB in earned run average in 1934, with 2.83, 0.36 ahead of the New York Giants. The average across 24 MLB teams is 4.75.

Led all of MLB in 1934 Philadelphia Stars 54 games
2.83 Earned Run Average 0.36 clear of New York Giants
# Team League G ERA
1 Philadelphia Stars NN2 54 2.83
2 New York Giants NL 153 3.19
3 Pittsburgh Crawfords NN2 67 3.57
4 St. Louis Cardinals NL 154 3.69
5 Chicago Cubs NL 152 3.76
5 New York Yankees AL 154 3.76
7 Detroit Tigers AL 154 4.06
8 Boston Braves NL 152 4.11
9 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 151 4.20
10 Cleveland Indians AL 154 4.28
11 Boston Red Sox AL 153 4.32
12 Cincinnati Reds NL 152 4.37
13 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 153 4.48
14 St. Louis Browns AL 154 4.49
15 Nashville Elite Giants NN2 41 4.56
16 Washington Senators AL 155 4.68
MLB average 4.75
17 Philadelphia Phillies NL 149 4.76
18 Chicago American Giants NN2 48 4.83
19 Philadelphia Athletics AL 153 5.01
20 Chicago White Sox AL 153 5.41
21 Philadelphia Bacharach Giants NN2 25 5.81
22 Newark Dodgers NN2 33 6.42
23 Cleveland Red Sox NN2 25 7.59
24 Baltimore Black Sox NN2 11 9.72

A team's total is its players' numbers for the club added up, so a player traded mid-season counts for each team only what he did there. Rates such as ERA and batting average are worked out from the team's summed totals, not averaged across players.