Under the Philadelphia club's management of 1893 but three pitchers were in the box in over 20 games each; and but two others in 10 games and over, seven pitchers being employed during that season. In 1894, the blunder was committed of experimenting with no less than _thirteen_ pitchers with the result of finding it difficult to reach fourth place at the end of the race; while the club, after being in second place in April, fell down to the second division in July. But for this error of judgment, the team might have ended among the three leaders. Of those who pitched in over 10 games, Taylor took a decided lead by a total percentage of .706 to Weyhing's .548 and Carsey's .533. Of those who pitched in less than 10 games and over 5, Harper led with .667 to Haddock's .571. None of the other pitchers reached average figures--.500--except Jones, who only pitched in one game, which he won against St. Louis, while four of the thirteen did not pitch in a single victory. Experimenting with thirteen pitchers was a costly mistake in the management, and should not be repeated. It is bad enough to try too many changes in the _in_ and _out_ field teams, but worse in battery-team-experiments of this kind. Harper led in percentage of victories with .800 against the Eastern club batsmen, while Taylor led against those of the West with .728. The failures of the season were Fanning, Callahan, Johnson, Turner, Burns, Figgemeir and Lukens, the former being the only pitcher of the seven who pitched in a single victory against the Eastern batsmen. Here is the record in full: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. G G r W P C L r a B a C i i o a n W a N B s l t S n u n d o l e r h P e t C t c i P d P PHILADELPHIA n t w B o i e v s h . i s e e / i o o n T r e b i L n v T r T r vs. L m Y s k g o c l u c o n i o c o c o o o t l t t e a r a u a l t e t e s r r o y o a n n g g i t l a n a n Pitchers t e k n n n l t d h o s i e l t l t ---------------------------------------------------------------------------