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2013 AL Earned Run Average by Team

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

The Kansas City Royals led the AL in earned run average in 2013, with 3.45, 0.11 ahead of the Oakland Athletics. The average across 15 AL teams is 3.99.

Led the AL in 2013 Kansas City Royals 162 games
3.45 Earned Run Average 0.11 clear of Oakland Athletics
# Team G ERA
1 Kansas City Royals 162 3.45
2 Oakland Athletics 162 3.56
3 Detroit Tigers 162 3.61
4 Texas Rangers 163 3.63
5 Tampa Bay Rays 163 3.74
6 Boston Red Sox 162 3.79
7 Cleveland Indians 162 3.82
8 New York Yankees 162 3.94
AL average 3.99
9 Chicago White Sox 162 4.00
10 Baltimore Orioles 162 4.20
11 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 162 4.24
12 Toronto Blue Jays 162 4.26
13 Seattle Mariners 162 4.32
14 Minnesota Twins 162 4.55
15 Houston Astros 162 4.79

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.