1958 Chicago Cubs Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1957 / 1959

72-82, Finished 5th in National League (Schedule and Results)
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Manager: Bob Scheffing (72-82)
Scored 709 runs, Allowed 725 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 75-79

Ballpark: Wrigley Field (ballparks.com) · Attendance: 979,904 (6th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 98, Pitching - 99 · one-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 100

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1957 / 1959 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 Taylor*	25	96	329	301	30	78	12	2	6	36	2	1	27	46	.259	.319	.372	.691	84	112	9	0	0	1	4
2	1B	Dale Long*	32	142	554	480	68	130	26	4	20	75	2	0	66	64	.271	.357	.467	.824	119	224	15	2	0	6	9
3	2B	Tony Taylor	22	140	555	497	63	117	15	3	6	27	21	6	40	93	.235	.299	.314	.613	65	156	9	7	7	4	0
4	SS	Ernie Banks	27	154	682	617	119	193	23	11	47	129	4	4	52	87	.313	.366	.614	.980	156	379	14	4	1	8	12
5	3B	Alvin Dark	36	114	506	464	54	137	16	4	3	43	1	1	29	23	.295	.339	.366	.706	89	170	13	5	2	6	1
6	LF	Walt Moryn*	32	143	587	512	77	135	26	7	26	77	1	2	62	83	.264	.350	.494	.845	123	253	7	8	2	3	7
7	CF	Bobby Thomson	34	152	615	547	67	155	27	5	21	82	0	2	56	76	.283	.351	.466	.817	116	255	16	4	2	6	7
8	RF	Lee Walls	25	136	576	513	80	156	19	3	24	72	4	4	47	62	.304	.370	.493	.863	129	253	10	8	6	2	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
9	IF	Johnny Goryl	24	83	250	219	27	53	9	3	4	14	0	1	27	34	.242	.331	.365	.696	86	80	14	2	2	0	2
10	C	Cal Neeman	29	76	226	201	30	52	7	0	12	29	0	0	21	41	.259	.336	.473	.809	114	95	5	3	0	1	2
11	LF	Jim Bolger	26	84	131	120	15	27	4	1	1	11	0	1	9	20	.225	.285	.300	.585	57	36	2	1	1	0	0
12	OF	Chuck Tanner*	28	73	112	103	10	27	6	0	4	17	1	0	9	10	.262	.321	.437	.758	101	45	2	0	0	0	2
13	IF	Bobby Adams	36	62	105	96	14	27	4	4	0	4	2	0	6	15	.281	.324	.406	.730	94	39	2	0	3	0	0
14	UT	Jim Marshall*	27	26	94	81	12	22	2	0	5	11	1	0	12	13	.272	.372	.481	.854	127	39	0	1	0	0	0
15	OF	Lou Jackson*	22	24	36	35	5	6	2	1	1	6	0	1	1	9	.171	.194	.371	.566	47	13	1	0	0	0	0
16	C	El Tappe	31	17	32	28	2	6	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	1	.214	.290	.214	.505	38	6	2	0	1	0	2
17	C	Moe Thacker	24	11	26	24	4	6	1	0	2	3	0	0	1	7	.250	.269	.542	.811	110	13	1	0	0	1	1
18	1B	Paul Smith*	27	18	23	20	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	4	.150	.261	.150	.411	14	3	0	0	0	0	0
19	CF	Chick King	27	8	11	8	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	.250	.455	.250	.705	96	2	0	0	0	0	1
20		Frank Ernaga	27	9	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250	-33	1	0	0	0	0	0
21	2B	Jerry Kindall	23	3	6	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.333	.500	30	2	0	0	0	0	0
22	RF	Bob Will*	26	6	6	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.250	.500	.250	.750	109	1	0	0	0	0	0
23		Footer Johnson*	26	8	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
24		Gabe Gabler*	27	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
25		Gordon Massa*	22	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
26		Bobby Morgan	32	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	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
27	P	Taylor Phillips*	25	39	62	54	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	24	.056	.105	.056	.161	-55	3	1	0	5	0	0
28	P	Dick Drott	21	39	59	55	6	15	0	0	0	6	0	0	3	18	.273	.310	.273	.583	58	15	0	0	1	0	0
29	P	Glen Hobbie	22	55	51	48	3	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	26	.146	.160	.146	.306	-17	7	2	0	1	1	0
30	P	Moe Drabowsky	22	22	48	45	3	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	11	.156	.156	.178	.333	-11	8	0	0	3	0	0
31	P	Dave Hillman	30	32	43	41	4	6	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	20	.146	.146	.195	.341	-10	8	0	0	2	0	0
32	P	John Briggs	24	20	36	35	3	9	1	1	0	6	0	0	0	14	.257	.257	.343	.600	59	12	1	0	1	0	0
33	P	Marcelino Solis*	27	15	21	20	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.250	.286	.300	.586	57	6	1	0	0	0	0
34	P	Bill Henry*	30	44	19	17	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.235	.316	.294	.610	65	5	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Jim Brosnan	28	8	19	19	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.105	.105	.158	.263	-31	3	1	0	0	0	0
36	P	Bob Anderson	22	17	17	17	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.118	.118	.118	.235	-37	2	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Don Elston	29	69	15	14	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.357	.357	.357	.714	92	5	0	0	1	0	0
38	P	Gene Fodge	26	16	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	-63	0	0	0	1	0	0
39	P	John Buzhardt	21	6	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	-33	1	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Dolan Nichols	28	24	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Ed Mayer*	26	19	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	8	1	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Elmer Singleton	40	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	P	Hersh Freeman	29	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	P	Freddy Rodriguez	34	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	P	Dick Ellsworth*	18	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
46	P	Turk Lown	34	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	28.6	154	5902	5289	709	1402	207	49	182	666	39	23	487	853	.265	.330	.426	.756	101	2253	128	45	42	39	50
		Rank in 8 NL teams				3	2	2	7	4	1		6	6	6	2	3	5	1	1		1
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.

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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	Taylor Phillips*	25	7	10	.412	4.76	39	27	4	5	1	1	170.1	178	102	90	22	79	5	102	6	3	8	761	82	1.509	9.4	1.2	4.2	5.4	1.29
2	SP	Dick Drott	21	7	11	.389	5.43	39	31	3	4	0	0	167.1	156	118	101	23	99	6	127	6	0	9	763	72	1.524	8.4	1.2	5.3	6.8	1.28
3	SP	Moe Drabowsky	22	9	11	.450	4.51	22	20	1	4	1	0	125.2	118	73	63	19	73	4	77	5	0	0	569	87	1.520	8.5	1.4	5.2	5.5	1.05
4	SP	Dave Hillman	30	4	8	.333	3.15	31	16	4	3	0	1	125.2	132	57	44	12	31	4	65	0	0	1	540	124	1.297	9.5	0.9	2.2	4.7	2.10
5	SP	John Briggs	24	5	5	.500	4.52	20	17	2	3	1	0	95.2	99	52	48	12	45	1	46	1	2	2	418	87	1.505	9.3	1.1	4.2	4.3	1.02
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
6	CL	Don Elston	29	9	8	.529	2.88	69	0	39	0	0	10	97.0	75	35	31	9	39	10	84	1	1	2	400	136	1.175	7.0	0.8	3.6	7.8	2.15
7	RP	Glen Hobbie	22	10	6	.625	3.74	55	16	21	2	1	2	168.1	163	80	70	13	93	8	91	7	0	7	755	105	1.521	8.7	0.7	5.0	4.9	0.98
8	RP	Bill Henry*	30	5	4	.556	2.88	44	0	18	0	0	6	81.1	63	27	26	8	17	6	58	1	0	0	314	136	0.984	7.0	0.9	1.9	6.4	3.41
9	RP	Dolan Nichols	28	0	4	.000	5.01	24	0	7	0	0	1	41.1	46	27	23	1	16	2	9	1	0	1	179	78	1.500	10.0	0.2	3.5	2.0	0.56
10	RP	Ed Mayer*	26	2	2	.500	3.80	19	0	4	0	0	1	23.2	15	12	10	0	16	1	14	3	0	0	100	103	1.310	5.7	0.0	6.1	5.3	0.88
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
11		Bob Anderson	22	3	3	.500	3.97	17	8	4	2	0	0	65.2	61	29	29	3	29	1	51	1	0	1	275	98	1.371	8.4	0.4	4.0	7.0	1.76
12		Marcelino Solis*	27	3	3	.500	6.06	15	4	3	0	0	0	52.0	74	41	35	5	20	1	15	4	0	2	244	65	1.808	12.8	0.9	3.5	2.6	0.75
13		Jim Brosnan	28	3	4	.429	3.14	8	8	0	2	0	0	51.2	41	20	18	3	29	3	24	0	0	0	215	125	1.355	7.1	0.5	5.1	4.2	0.83
14		Gene Fodge	26	1	1	.500	4.76	16	4	7	1	0	0	39.2	47	22	21	5	11	3	15	0	0	1	175	82	1.462	10.7	1.1	2.5	3.4	1.36
15		John Buzhardt	21	3	0	1.000	1.85	6	2	1	1	0	0	24.1	16	5	5	2	7	1	9	0	1	0	95	212	0.945	5.9	0.7	2.6	3.3	1.29
16		Hersh Freeman	29	0	1	.000	8.31	9	0	3	0	0	0	13.0	23	13	12	3	3	0	7	0	0	0	69	47	2.000	15.9	2.1	2.1	4.8	2.33
17		Freddy Rodriguez	34	0	0		7.36	7	0	3	0	0	2	7.1	8	6	6	2	5	0	5	1	0	0	36	53	1.773	9.8	2.5	6.1	6.1	1.00
18		Elmer Singleton	40	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.2	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	15		0.429	1.9	0.0	1.9	3.9	2.00
19		Turk Lown	34	0	0		4.50	4	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	2	2	2	0	3	0	4	0	0	0	16	87	1.250	4.5	0.0	6.8	9.0	1.33
20		Dick Ellsworth*	18	0	1	.000	15.43	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.1	4	4	4	0	3	0	0	1	0	2	15	25	3.000	15.4	0.0	11.6	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	25.1	72	82	.468	4.22	154	154	127	27	4	24	1361.0	1322	725	638	142	619	57	805	38	7	36	5954	93	1.426	8.7	0.9	4.1	5.3	1.30
		Rank in 8 NL teams		5	3		6				8	8	5	8	2	6	6	3	8		6193
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

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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 Adams	36	27	12	124.2	90	63	24	3	6	.967	-1.5	-14.4	-1.5	-0.6	-0.8		0		6.28	3.22						1B-2B-3B
Bob Anderson	22	17	8	65.2	14	3	11	0	0	1.000									1.92	0.82						P
Ernie Banks	27	154	154	1361.0	792	292	468	32	100	.960	9.5	8.4	11.5	4.6	6.9		-2		5.03	4.94						SS
Jim Bolger	26	39	20	178.2	50	46	1	3	0	.940	2.7	18.1	2.7	0.2	2.5	0			2.37	1.21						LF-RF-CF
John Briggs	24	20	17	96.0	21	7	12	2	0	.905									1.78	0.95						P
Jim Brosnan	28	8	8	51.2	16	4	12	0	2	1.000									2.79	2.00						P
John Buzhardt	21	6	2	24.1	9	2	7	0	0	1.000									3.33	1.50						P
Alvin Dark	36	111	111	964.0	350	107	225	18	24	.949	0.8	1.0	0.8	0.9	-0.1		0		3.10	2.99						3B
Moe Drabowsky	22	22	20	125.2	29	12	16	1	2	.966									2.01	1.27						P
Dick Drott	21	39	31	167.1	37	9	27	1	0	.973									1.94	0.92						P
Dick Ellsworth	18	1	1	2.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Don Elston	29	69	0	97.0	26	7	19	0	1	1.000									2.41	0.38						P
Gene Fodge	26	16	4	39.2	8	1	7	0	1	1.000									1.82	0.50						P
Hersh Freeman	29	9	0	13.0	4	1	3	0	0	1.000									2.77	0.44						P
Johnny Goryl	24	79	57	530.0	260	91	153	16	26	.938	3.7	8.4	3.7	3.2	0.4		0		4.14	3.09						3B-2B
Bill Henry	30	44	0	81.0	10	2	8	0	1	1.000									1.11	0.23						P
Dave Hillman	30	31	16	125.2	28	7	20	1	0	.964									1.93	0.87						P
Glen Hobbie	22	55	16	168.1	61	12	44	5	5	.918									2.99	1.02						P
Lou Jackson	22	14	6	58.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-0.2	-4.1	-0.2	-0.8	0.6	0			1.24	0.57						CF-LF-RF
Jerry Kindall	23	3	2	20.0	11	6	5	0	2	1.000	0.3	18.0	0.3	0.0	0.3		0		4.95	3.67						2B
Chick King	27	7	2	28.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-0.1	-4.3	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0			1.93	0.86						CF
Dale Long	32	139	135	1188.1	1268	1173	85	10	130	.992	-6.2	-6.3	-6.2	-2.7	-3.5		0	0	9.53	9.05	1	0	0	0		1B-C
Turk Lown	34	4	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Jim Marshall	27	26	23	189.0	131	122	8	1	11	.992	-3.0	-19.0	-3.0	-1.8	-1.1	0	0		6.19	5.00						1B-RF
Ed Mayer	26	19	0	23.2	5	1	3	1	0	.800									1.52	0.21						P
Walt Moryn	32	141	136	1190.2	276	266	4	6	1	.978	1.9	1.9	3.9	0.2	3.7	-2			2.04	1.91						LF
Cal Neeman	29	71	57	506.0	368	340	25	3	6	.992	0.0	0.0						0	6.49	5.14	8	12	23	13	36%	C
Dolan Nichols	28	24	0	41.1	13	0	13	0	0	1.000									2.83	0.54						P
Taylor Phillips	25	39	27	170.1	47	7	35	5	3	.894									2.22	1.08						P
Freddy Rodriguez	34	7	0	7.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Elmer Singleton	40	2	0	4.2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000									1.93	0.50						P
Paul Smith	27	4	2	20.0	17	14	2	1	0	.941	-0.5	-30.0	-0.5	-0.5	0.0		0		7.20	4.00						1B
Marcelino Solis	27	15	4	52.0	13	5	8	0	0	1.000									2.25	0.87						P
Chuck Tanner	28	15	11	118.2	19	18	0	1	0	.947	-2.7	-27.3	-1.7	-0.4	-1.3	-1			1.37	1.20						RF-CF-LF
El Tappe	31	16	9	85.2	52	46	4	2	0	.962	0.0	0.0						0	5.25	3.13	1	0	2	1	33%	C
Sammy Taylor	25	87	81	700.2	489	460	23	6	4	.988	-3.0	-5.1						-3	6.20	5.55	2	21	24	9	27%	C
Tony Taylor	22	138	128	1110.2	708	311	374	23	103	.968	-2.5	-2.7	-1.5	-7.3	5.8		-1		5.55	4.96						2B-3B
Moe Thacker	24	9	7	67.0	42	34	6	2	1	.952	0.0	0.0						0	5.37	4.44	0	2	6	3	33%	C
Bobby Thomson	34	158	148	1308.2	363	342	16	5	4	.986	2.4	2.2	-3.6	-6.2	2.6	6	0		2.46	2.27						CF-3B-RF-LF
Lee Walls	25	132	131	1136.1	250	237	11	2	1	.992	2.9	3.1	2.9	-0.3	3.2	0			1.96	1.88						RF
Bob Will	26	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0.4	-240.0	-0.4	-0.4	0.0	0			0.00	0.00						RF
Team Totals	28.1	154	1386	12249.0	5911	4083	1678	150	434	.975	4.1	0.4	7.1	-11.9	19.2	3	-3	-3	4.23	3.19	12	35	55	26	32%
Rank in 8 NL teams								3	4	5
	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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