1959 Boston Red Sox Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1959 Boston Red Sox Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1958 / 1960)
75-79, Finished 5th in American League
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Scored 726 runs, Allowed 696 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 80-74
Manager: Pinky Higgins (31-42), Rudy York (0-1) and Billy Jurges (44-36)
Ballpark: Fenway Park II (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 984,102 (5th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 104, Pitching - 104; one-year: Batting - 104, Pitching - 104
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1958 / 1960 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Sammy White	30	119	405	377	34	107	13	4	1	42	4	2	23	39	.284	.324	.347	.672	82	131	14	1	1	3	6
2	1B	Dick Gernert	30	117	352	298	41	78	14	1	11	42	1	2	52	49	.262	.369	.426	.795	115	127	11	0	0	2	3
3	2B	Pete Runnels*	31	147	661	560	95	176	33	6	6	57	6	5	95	48	.314	.415	.427	.841	129	239	17	1	5	0	1
4	SS	Don Buddin	25	151	589	485	75	117	24	1	10	53	6	1	92	99	.241	.366	.357	.723	97	173	7	5	5	2	0
5	3B	Frank Malzone	29	154	660	604	90	169	34	2	19	92	6	0	42	58	.280	.323	.437	.760	104	264	15	1	3	10	6
6	LF	Ted Williams*	40	103	331	272	32	69	15	0	10	43	0	0	52	27	.254	.372	.419	.791	114	114	7	2	0	5	6
7	CF	Marty Keough*	24	96	285	251	40	61	13	5	7	27	3	1	26	40	.243	.320	.418	.739	98	105	3	3	4	1	0
8	RF	Jackie Jensen	32	148	636	535	101	148	31	0	28	112	20	5	88	67	.277	.372	.492	.863	132	263	20	0	1	12	3
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	OF	Gary Geiger*	22	120	360	335	45	82	10	4	11	48	9	3	21	55	.245	.289	.397	.686	84	133	5	0	3	1	0
10	OF	Gene Stephens*	26	92	310	270	34	75	13	1	3	39	5	2	29	33	.278	.353	.367	.720	95	99	3	4	4	3	0
11	1B	Vic Wertz*	34	94	273	247	38	68	13	0	7	49	0	0	22	32	.275	.337	.413	.750	102	102	5	2	0	2	5
12	2B	Pumpsie Green#	25	50	207	172	30	40	6	3	1	10	4	2	29	22	.233	.350	.320	.670	83	55	1	2	4	0	0
13	C	Pete Daley	29	65	183	169	9	38	7	0	1	11	1	1	13	31	.225	.279	.284	.563	53	48	0	0	0	1	1
14	CF	Jim Busby	32	61	110	102	16	23	8	0	1	5	0	1	5	18	.225	.266	.333	.599	61	34	3	1	1	1	0
15	2B	Bobby Avila	35	22	51	45	7	11	0	0	3	6	0	0	6	11	.244	.333	.444	.778	109	20	3	0	0	0	0
16	LF	Bill Renna	34	14	27	22	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	9	.091	.259	.091	.350	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0
17	SS	Jim Mahoney	25	31	26	23	10	3	0	0	1	4	0	0	3	7	.130	.231	.261	.492	33	6	0	0	0	0	0
18	SS	Billy Consolo	24	10	17	14	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.214	.313	.286	.598	63	4	0	0	1	0	0
19	CF	Jerry Mallett	23	4	16	15	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.267	.313	.267	.579	59	4	1	0	0	0	0
20	2B	Herb Plews*	31	13	12	12	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.083	.083	.167	.250	-34	2	1	0	0	0	0
21	C	Don Gile	24	3	12	10	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.250	.300	.550	48	3	1	1	0	1	0
22	2B	Ted Lepcio	28	3	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.667	1.000	164	2	0	0	0	0	0
23	C	Haywood Sullivan	28	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
24	P	Tom Brewer	27	47	80	72	7	8	0	0	1	5	2	0	1	16	.111	.123	.153	.276	-26	11	2	0	7	0	0
25	P	Frank Sullivan	29	30	69	60	2	12	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	15	.200	.210	.217	.426	16	13	1	0	7	1	0
26	P	Jerry Casale	25	31	68	59	7	10	2	0	3	9	0	0	5	21	.169	.234	.356	.590	57	21	0	0	4	0	0
27	P	Ike Delock	29	28	55	47	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	24	.064	.120	.128	.248	-33	6	0	0	5	0	0
28	P	Bill Monbouquette	22	35	51	46	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	28	.065	.104	.065	.169	-53	3	0	0	3	0	0
29	P	Frank Baumann*	25	26	32	29	0	6	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	13	.207	.258	.276	.534	45	8	0	0	1	0	0
30	P	Mike Fornieles	27	46	19	19	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.158	.158	.211	.368	-1	4	0	0	0	0	0
31	P	Ted Wills*	25	9	19	16	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.250	.294	.375	.669	80	6	0	0	2	0	0
32	P	Al Schroll	27	14	13	9	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	4	.111	.273	.222	.495	36	2	0	0	2	0	0
33	P	Jack Harshman*	31	9	11	7	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2	.143	.300	.143	.443	24	1	0	0	1	1	0
34	P	Murray Wall	32	26	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Earl Wilson	24	9	8	8	0	4	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.750	1.250	234	6	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Leo Kiely*	29	41	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Nelson Chittum	26	21	6	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.400	.600	58	2	0	0	1	0	0
38	P	Billy Hoeft*	27	7	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Dave Sisler	27	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	172	1	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Herb Moford	30	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Ted Bowsfield	24	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	29.1	154	5985	5225	726	1335	248	28	125	678	68	25	626	810	.256	.335	.385	.721	95	2014	120	23	65	46	31
		Rank in 8 AL teams				5	2	5	1	6	5		2	4	1	3	5	1	5	3		5
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

Team Pitching

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Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	Tom Brewer	27	10	12	.455	3.76	36	32	2	11	3	2	215.1	219	96	90	14	88	5	121	2	0	11	927	107	1.426	9.2	0.6	3.7	5.1	1.38
2	SP	Jerry Casale	25	13	8	.619	4.31	31	26	1	9	3	0	179.2	162	89	86	20	89	3	93	5	0	7	779	93	1.397	8.1	1.0	4.5	4.7	1.04
3	SP	Frank Sullivan	29	9	11	.450	3.95	30	26	1	5	2	1	177.2	172	86	78	17	67	2	107	7	1	2	751	102	1.345	8.7	0.9	3.4	5.4	1.60
4	SP	Ike Delock	29	11	6	.647	2.95	28	17	5	4	0	0	134.1	120	53	44	12	62	1	55	2	1	2	585	136	1.355	8.0	0.8	4.2	3.7	0.89
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
5	CL	Mike Fornieles	27	5	3	.625	3.07	46	0	26	0	0	11	82.0	77	29	28	6	29	3	54	1	0	2	342	131	1.293	8.5	0.7	3.2	5.9	1.86
6	RP	Bill Monbouquette	22	7	7	.500	4.15	34	17	3	4	0	0	151.2	165	86	70	15	33	1	87	3	0	3	631	97	1.305	9.8	0.9	2.0	5.2	2.64
7	RP	Frank Baumann*	25	6	4	.600	4.05	26	10	8	2	0	1	95.2	96	47	43	11	55	3	48	1	0	2	432	99	1.578	9.0	1.0	5.2	4.5	0.87
8	RP	Leo Kiely*	29	3	3	.500	4.20	41	0	23	0	0	7	55.2	67	26	26	8	18	3	30	1	0	1	249	96	1.527	10.8	1.3	2.9	4.9	1.67
9	RP	Murray Wall	32	2	5	.286	5.51	26	0	19	0	0	3	49.0	57	32	30	7	26	6	14	1	0	2	221	73	1.694	10.5	1.3	4.8	2.6	0.54
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
10		Ted Wills*	25	2	6	.250	5.27	9	8	1	2	0	0	56.1	68	35	33	9	24	2	24	1	0	3	254	76	1.633	10.9	1.4	3.8	3.8	1.00
11		Al Schroll	27	1	4	.200	4.70	14	5	4	1	0	0	46.0	47	29	24	3	22	1	26	1	0	2	203	86	1.500	9.2	0.6	4.3	5.1	1.18
12		Nelson Chittum	26	3	0	1.000	1.19	21	0	13	0	0	0	30.1	29	9	4	0	11	2	12	0	1	0	124	338	1.319	8.6	0.0	3.3	3.6	1.09
13		Jack Harshman*	31	2	3	.400	6.57	8	2	3	0	0	0	24.2	29	19	18	2	10	0	14	0	0	0	114	61	1.581	10.6	0.7	3.6	5.1	1.40
14		Earl Wilson	24	1	1	.500	6.08	9	4	3	0	0	0	23.2	21	17	16	2	31	0	17	0	0	1	122	66	2.197	8.0	0.8	11.8	6.5	0.55
15		Billy Hoeft*	27	0	3	.000	5.60	5	3	0	0	0	0	17.2	22	12	11	1	8	1	8	1	0	0	83	72	1.698	11.2	0.5	4.1	4.1	1.00
16		Ted Bowsfield*	24	0	1	.000	15.00	5	2	1	0	0	0	9.0	16	15	15	2	9	0	4	0	0	0	50	27	2.778	16.0	2.0	9.0	4.0	0.44
17		Herb Moford	30	0	2	.000	11.42	4	2	1	0	0	0	8.2	10	11	11	3	6	0	7	0	0	0	41	35	1.846	10.4	3.1	6.2	7.3	1.17
18		Dave Sisler	27	0	0		6.75	3	0	2	0	0	0	6.2	9	5	5	3	1	0	3	0	0	0	30	60	1.500	12.2	4.1	1.4	4.1	3.00
		Team Totals	26.7	75	79	.487	4.17	154	154	116	38	8	25	1364.0	1386	696	632	135	589	33	724	26	3	38	5938	96	1.448	9.1	0.9	3.9	4.8	1.23
		Rank in 8 AL teams		5	4		6				7	5	4	5	7	5	6	5	6		6082
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary
Bobby Avila	35	11	9	88.0	40	19	20	1	8	.975	-1.7	-23.2	-1.7	-0.8	-0.9		0		3.99	3.55						2B
Frank Baumann	25	26	10	95.2	28	5	20	3	1	.893									2.35	0.96						P
Ted Bowsfield	24	5	2	9.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000									1.00	0.20						P
Tom Brewer	27	36	32	215.1	74	23	49	2	1	.973									3.01	2.00						P
Don Buddin	25	150	145	1225.0	682	235	412	35	89	.949	-10.3	-10.1	-10.3	-4.1	-6.2		0		4.75	4.31						SS
Jim Busby	32	34	19	197.1	51	49	1	1	0	.980	-1.9	-11.6	-1.9	0.8	-2.7	0			2.28	1.47						CF-LF-RF
Jerry Casale	25	31	26	179.2	23	8	12	3	1	.870									1.00	0.65						P
Nelson Chittum	26	21	0	30.1	10	1	9	0	0	1.000									2.97	0.48						P
Billy Consolo	24	2	2	18.0	11	6	3	2	1	.818	-1.7	-113.3	-1.7	0.0	-1.7		0		4.50	4.50						SS
Pete Daley	29	58	41	394.2	274	245	28	1	5	.996	3.0	9.1						3	6.23	4.71	6	6	5	10	67%	C
Ike Delock	29	28	17	134.1	24	8	15	1	1	.958									1.54	0.82						P
Mike Fornieles	27	46	0	82.0	19	5	13	1	0	.947									1.98	0.39						P
Gary Geiger	22	109	76	695.1	186	179	5	2	1	.989	4.8	8.3	1.8	-2.6	4.5	3			2.38	1.69						CF-LF-RF
Dick Gernert	30	103	74	692.1	644	589	51	4	54	.994	8.4	14.6	7.4	3.7	3.7	1	0		8.32	6.21						1B-LF-RF
Don Gile	24	3	2	25.0	18	17	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0						0	6.48	6.00	0	0	2	0	0%	C
Pumpsie Green	25	46	43	390.1	248	109	132	7	38	.972	3.8	11.7	2.8	1.9	1.0		1		5.56	5.24						2B-SS
Jack Harshman	31	8	2	24.2	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									1.09	0.38						P
Billy Hoeft	27	5	3	17.2	7	4	3	0	0	1.000									3.57	1.40						P
Jackie Jensen	32	149	146	1288.2	320	302	12	6	4	.981	10.0	9.3	11.0	6.1	4.9	-1			2.19	2.11						RF-CF
Marty Keough	24	72	54	509.1	172	166	5	1	2	.994	2.9	6.8	1.9	2.1	-0.2	1	0		3.02	2.38						CF-1B
Leo Kiely	29	41	0	55.2	19	7	12	0	1	1.000									3.07	0.46						P
Ted Lepcio	28	1	0	2.1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.2	102.9	0.2	0.2	0.0		0		3.86	1.00						2B
Jim Mahoney	25	30	6	95.0	67	24	39	4	5	.940	-0.2	-2.5	-0.2	0.7	-0.9		0		5.97	2.10						SS
Jerry Mallett	23	4	4	37.0	13	11	2	0	2	1.000	0.8	25.9	0.8	0.1	0.7	0			3.16	3.25						CF
Frank Malzone	29	154	154	1364.0	515	134	357	24	40	.953	1.3	1.1	0.3	0.1	0.2		1		3.24	3.19						3B
Herb Moford	30	4	2	8.2	2	0	2	0	0	1.000									2.08	0.50						P
Bill Monbouquette	22	34	17	151.2	33	11	22	0	3	1.000									1.96	0.97						P
Herb Plews	31	2	0	3.0	6	3	2	1	1	.833	0.2	80.0	0.2	0.1	0.1		0		15.00	2.50						2B
Bill Renna	34	7	5	40.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	-0.6	-18.0	-0.6	-0.6	0.0	0			0.90	0.57						LF
Pete Runnels	31	154	144	1260.2	980	663	307	10	131	.990	4.8	4.6	4.8	0.3	4.5		0		6.92	6.30						2B-1B-SS
Al Schroll	27	14	5	46.0	8	0	7	1	0	.875									1.37	0.50						P
Dave Sisler	27	3	0	6.2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000									1.35	0.33						P
Gene Stephens	26	86	65	626.2	155	141	11	3	0	.981	5.3	10.1	3.3	2.1	1.1	2			2.18	1.77						LF-CF-RF
Frank Sullivan	29	30	26	177.2	37	15	20	2	4	.946									1.77	1.17						P
Haywood Sullivan	28	2	0	4.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0						0	9.00	2.00	0	0	0	0		C
Murray Wall	32	26	0	49.0	18	4	12	2	0	.889									2.94	0.62						P
Vic Wertz	34	64	56	456.2	482	440	38	4	44	.992	2.7	7.1	3.7	1.3	2.4		-1		9.42	7.47						1B
Sammy White	30	119	111	940.1	619	557	56	6	8	.990	-1.0	-1.3						-1	5.87	5.15	7	29	30	24	44%	C
Ted Williams	40	76	75	549.1	98	91	4	3	0	.969	-11.3	-24.7	-9.3	-5.8	-3.6	-2			1.56	1.25						LF
Ted Wills	25	9	8	56.1	10	1	9	0	1	1.000									1.60	1.11						P
Earl Wilson	24	9	4	23.2	8	2	5	1	0	.875									2.66	0.78						P
Team Totals	28.6	154	1385	12267.0	5922	4092	1699	131	446	.978	19.5	1.9	12.5	5.6	6.9	4	1	2	4.25	3.23	13	35	37	34	48%
Rank in 8 AL teams								5	1	2
	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary

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