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1935 MLB Earned Run Average by Team

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

The Chicago Cubs led all of MLB in earned run average in 1935, with 3.26, 0.16 ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The average across 24 MLB teams is 4.53.

Led all of MLB in 1935 Chicago Cubs 154 games
3.26 Earned Run Average 0.16 clear of Pittsburgh Pirates
# Team League G ERA
1 Chicago Cubs NL 154 3.26
2 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 153 3.42
3 St. Louis Cardinals NL 154 3.52
4 New York Yankees AL 149 3.60
5 New York Cubans NN2 56 3.71
6 New York Giants NL 156 3.78
7 Detroit Tigers AL 152 3.82
8 Columbus Elite Giants NN2 54 4.00
9 Boston Red Sox AL 154 4.05
10 Pittsburgh Crawfords NN2 74 4.10
11 Cleveland Indians AL 156 4.15
12 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 154 4.22
13 Cincinnati Reds NL 154 4.30
14 Chicago White Sox AL 153 4.38
MLB average 4.53
15 Philadelphia Phillies NL 156 4.76
16 Boston Braves NL 153 4.93
17 Philadelphia Athletics AL 149 5.12
18 Washington Senators AL 154 5.25
19 St. Louis Browns AL 155 5.26
20 Philadelphia Stars NN2 68 5.28
21 Brooklyn Eagles NN2 63 5.34
22 Chicago American Giants NN2 56 5.37
23 Homestead Grays NN2 61 5.62
24 Newark Dodgers NN2 62 7.45

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.