1956 Chicago White Sox Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1956 Chicago White Sox Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1955 / 1957)
85-69, Finished 3rd in American League
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Scored 776 runs, Allowed 634 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 91-63
Manager: Marty Marion (85-69)
Ballpark: Comiskey Park (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,000,090 (5th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 101, Pitching - 99; one-year: Batting - 103, Pitching - 101
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1955 / 1957 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	Sherm Lollar	31	136	527	450	55	132	28	2	11	75	2	0	53	34	.293	.383	.438	.821	116	197	19	16	2	6	4
2	1B	Walt Dropo	33	125	412	361	42	96	13	1	8	52	1	0	37	51	.266	.334	.374	.708	87	135	15	3	5	6	2
3	2B	Nellie Fox*	28	154	721	649	109	192	20	10	4	52	8	4	44	14	.296	.347	.376	.723	91	244	19	10	13	5	1
4	SS	Luis Aparicio	22	152	583	533	69	142	19	6	3	56	21	4	34	63	.266	.311	.341	.653	72	182	9	1	14	1	2
5	3B	Fred Hatfield*	31	106	373	321	46	84	9	1	7	33	1	0	37	36	.262	.349	.361	.710	88	116	7	8	3	4	3
6	LF	Minnie Minoso	30	151	665	545	106	172	29	11	21	88	12	6	86	40	.316	.425	.525	.950	149	286	10	23	4	7	4
7	CF	Larry Doby*	32	140	619	504	89	135	22	3	24	102	0	1	102	105	.268	.392	.466	.858	126	235	7	4	4	5	6
8	RF	Jim Rivera*	33	139	555	491	76	125	23	5	12	66	20	9	49	75	.255	.322	.395	.718	88	194	3	3	6	6	2
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	UT	Dave Philley#	36	86	316	279	44	74	14	2	4	47	1	3	28	27	.265	.328	.373	.701	85	104	9	1	2	6	0
10	3B	Sammy Esposito	24	81	234	184	30	42	8	2	3	25	1	2	41	19	.228	.371	.342	.714	89	63	4	2	5	2	0
11	C	Les Moss	31	56	147	127	20	31	4	0	10	22	0	0	18	15	.244	.338	.512	.850	121	65	7	0	2	0	0
12	RF	Bubba Phillips	28	67	107	99	16	27	6	0	2	11	1	2	6	12	.273	.321	.394	.715	88	39	0	1	1	0	0
13	3B	George Kell	33	21	91	80	7	25	5	0	1	11	0	0	8	6	.313	.371	.413	.783	106	33	3	0	2	1	0
14	1B	Ron Jackson	22	22	66	56	7	12	3	0	1	4	1	0	10	13	.214	.333	.321	.655	74	18	2	0	0	0	1
15	OF	Ron Northey*	36	53	60	48	4	17	2	0	3	23	0	0	8	1	.354	.417	.583	1.000	161	28	2	0	0	4	2
16	OF	Jim Delsing*	30	55	52	41	11	5	3	0	0	2	1	0	10	13	.122	.294	.195	.489	31	8	0	0	1	0	0
17	RF	Bob Nieman	29	14	44	40	3	12	1	0	2	4	0	1	4	4	.300	.364	.475	.839	120	19	4	0	0	0	2
18	3B	Bob Kennedy	35	8	15	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.077	.200	.077	.277	-24	1	0	0	0	0	0
19	SS	Jim Brideweser	29	10	12	11	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.182	.250	.273	.523	38	3	0	1	0	0	0
20	OF	Cal Abrams*	32	4	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.333	.600	.333	.933	152	1	0	0	0	0	0
21	C	Earl Battey	21	4	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	75	1	2	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
22	P	Billy Pierce*	29	39	113	102	6	16	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	22	.157	.189	.157	.346	-8	16	3	1	7	0	0
23	P	Dick Donovan*	28	44	107	90	10	20	4	0	3	15	0	0	14	30	.222	.330	.367	.697	84	33	2	1	1	1	1
24	P	Jack Harshman*	28	36	87	71	8	12	1	0	6	19	0	0	11	21	.169	.277	.437	.714	86	31	0	0	4	1	0
25	P	Jim Wilson	34	28	66	62	6	19	2	0	1	8	0	0	1	13	.306	.313	.387	.700	84	24	2	0	2	1	0
26	P	Bob Keegan	35	20	40	32	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	7	.125	.222	.125	.347	-6	4	1	0	4	0	0
27	P	Jerry Staley	35	26	35	32	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	6	.094	.147	.094	.241	-35	3	0	0	1	0	0
28	P	Dixie Howell*	36	34	19	17	4	4	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	6	.235	.316	.588	.904	134	10	0	0	0	0	0
29	P	Howie Pollet*	35	12	9	8	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.375	.375	.375	.750	98	3	0	0	1	0	0
30	P	Paul LaPalme*	32	29	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
31	P	Jim McDonald	29	8	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	-52	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Mike Fornieles	24	6	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.400	.600	55	2	0	0	1	0	0
33	P	Morrie Martin*	33	10	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	44	1	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Sandy Consuegra	35	28	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Connie Johnson	33	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Ellis Kinder	41	29	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Jim Derrington*	16	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	165	1	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Harry Byrd	31	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Dick Marlowe	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Bill Fischer	25	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Jerry Dahlke	27	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	30.0	154	6122	5286	776	1412	218	43	128	726	70	33	619	658	.267	.349	.397	.746	96	2100	130	75	86	56	30
		Rank in 8 AL teams				4	4	4	2	5	5		1	4	5	7	4	4	4	4		4
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	Billy Pierce*	29	20	9	.690	3.32	35	33	2	21	1	1	276.1	261	108	102	24	100	7	192	3	1	6	1166	124	1.306	8.5	0.8	3.3	6.3	1.92
2	SP	Dick Donovan	28	12	10	.545	3.64	34	31	2	14	3	0	234.2	212	99	95	22	59	6	120	6	1	5	966	113	1.155	8.1	0.8	2.3	4.6	2.03
3	SP	Jack Harshman*	28	15	11	.577	3.10	34	30	3	15	4	0	226.2	183	85	78	14	102	4	143	3	0	7	950	133	1.257	7.3	0.6	4.1	5.7	1.40
4	SP	Jim Wilson	34	9	12	.429	4.06	28	21	4	6	3	0	159.2	149	82	72	15	70	5	82	2	2	3	680	101	1.372	8.4	0.8	3.9	4.6	1.17
5	SP	Bob Keegan	35	5	7	.417	3.93	20	16	1	4	0	0	105.1	119	56	46	15	35	2	32	2	0	1	463	105	1.462	10.2	1.3	3.0	2.7	0.91
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	RP	Dixie Howell	36	5	6	.455	4.62	34	1	18	0	0	4	64.1	79	39	33	3	36	10	28	2	0	4	298	89	1.788	11.1	0.4	5.0	3.9	0.78
7	RP	Paul LaPalme*	32	3	1	.750	2.36	29	0	14	0	0	2	45.2	31	14	12	2	27	2	23	0	0	2	193	174	1.270	6.1	0.4	5.3	4.5	0.85
8	RP	Sandy Consuegra	35	1	2	.333	5.17	28	1	12	0	0	3	38.1	45	25	22	0	11	3	7	1	0	0	168	80	1.461	10.6	0.0	2.6	1.6	0.64
9	RP	Ellis Kinder	41	3	1	.750	2.73	29	0	19	0	0	3	29.2	33	10	9	2	8	0	19	0	0	0	130	151	1.382	10.0	0.6	2.4	5.8	2.38
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		Jerry Staley	35	8	3	.727	2.92	26	10	6	5	0	0	101.2	98	37	33	11	20	3	25	6	0	1	420	141	1.161	8.7	1.0	1.8	2.2	1.25
11		Howie Pollet*	35	3	1	.750	4.10	11	4	1	0	0	0	26.1	27	15	12	2	11	0	14	0	0	1	119	100	1.443	9.2	0.7	3.8	4.8	1.27
12		Jim McDonald	29	0	2	.000	8.68	8	3	0	0	0	0	18.2	29	18	18	2	7	0	10	1	0	1	88	47	1.929	14.0	1.0	3.4	4.8	1.43
13		Morrie Martin*	33	1	0	1.000	4.91	10	0	3	0	0	0	18.1	21	10	10	1	7	0	9	0	0	1	80	84	1.527	10.3	0.5	3.4	4.4	1.29
14		Mike Fornieles	24	0	1	.000	4.60	6	0	0	0	0	0	15.2	22	9	8	1	6	1	6	0	0	0	79	90	1.787	12.6	0.6	3.4	3.4	1.00
15		Connie Johnson	33	0	1	.000	3.65	5	2	2	0	0	0	12.1	11	5	5	1	7	0	6	0	0	1	56	113	1.459	8.0	0.7	5.1	4.4	0.86
16		Jim Derrington*	16	0	1	.000	7.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	9	6	5	2	6	0	3	0	1	0	31	55	2.500	13.5	3.0	9.0	4.5	0.50
17		Harry Byrd	31	0	1	.000	10.38	3	1	0	0	0	0	4.1	9	6	5	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	26	40	3.000	18.7	0.0	8.3	0.0	0.00
18		Jerry Dahlke	27	0	0		19.29	5	0	1	0	0	0	2.1	5	5	5	0	6	0	1	0	0	0	18	21	4.714	19.3	0.0	23.1	3.9	0.17
19		Bill Fischer	25	0	0		21.60	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.2	6	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	12	19	4.200	32.4	0.0	5.4	10.8	2.00
20		Dick Marlowe	27	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	46	3.000	18.0	9.0	9.0	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	31.1	85	69	.552	3.73	154	154	89	65	11	13	1389.0	1351	634	575	118	524	43	722	26	5	33	5948	111	1.350	8.8	0.8	3.4	4.7	1.38
		Rank in 8 AL teams		3	6		3				2	2	8	2	3	3	3	4	1		5814
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
Cal Abrams	32	2	0	3.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.5	200.0	0.5	0.5	0.0	0			6.00	1.00						LF-RF
Luis Aparicio	22	152	151	1299.2	759	250	474	35	91	.954	2.5	2.3	1.5	5.8	-4.2		1		5.01	4.76						SS
Earl Battey	21	3	1	11.1	5	4	0	1	0	.800	0.0	0.0						0	3.18	1.33	1	0	0	0		C
Jim Brideweser	29	10	2	35.1	16	4	11	1	1	.938	0.7	23.8	0.7	0.1	0.6		0		3.82	1.50						SS
Harry Byrd	31	3	1	4.1	2	0	2	0	0	1.000									4.15	0.67						P
Sandy Consuegra	35	28	1	38.1	10	1	8	1	0	.900									2.11	0.32						P
Jerry Dahlke	27	5	0	2.1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									3.86	0.20						P
Jim Delsing	30	30	3	84.2	21	20	0	1	0	.952	0.6	8.5	0.6	0.2	0.4	0			2.13	0.67						LF-RF-CF
Jim Derrington	16	1	1	6.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Larry Doby	32	137	136	1205.1	387	378	4	5	2	.987	5.0	5.0	7.0	2.3	4.8	-2			2.85	2.79						CF
Dick Donovan	28	34	31	234.2	58	11	46	1	4	.983									2.19	1.68						P
Walt Dropo	33	117	91	869.0	911	855	50	6	95	.993	-5.3	-7.3	-5.3	-3.4	-1.9		0		9.37	7.74						1B
Sammy Esposito	24	83	48	474.1	190	52	132	6	19	.968	7.0	17.7	6.0	-1.7	7.9		1		3.49	2.22						3B-SS-2B
Bill Fischer	25	3	0	1.2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000									5.40	0.33						P
Mike Fornieles	24	6	0	15.2	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									1.72	0.50						P
Nellie Fox	28	154	154	1380.0	886	478	396	12	124	.986	-3.5	-3.0	-4.5	-3.2	-1.4		1		5.70	5.68						2B
Jack Harshman	28	34	30	226.2	35	2	29	4	3	.886									1.23	0.91						P
Fred Hatfield	31	103	84	777.1	286	84	191	11	21	.962	3.1	4.8	3.1	-4.2	7.3		0		3.18	2.67						3B-SS
Dixie Howell	36	34	1	64.1	16	2	12	2	2	.875									1.96	0.41						P
Ron Jackson	22	19	15	137.0	149	138	11	0	16	1.000	-0.1	-0.9	-0.1	1.0	-1.1		0		9.79	7.84						1B
Connie Johnson	33	5	2	12.1	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									2.19	0.60						P
Bob Keegan	35	20	16	105.1	25	6	18	1	0	.960									2.05	1.20						P
George Kell	33	22	21	171.1	67	36	31	0	4	1.000	-0.1	-0.7	-0.1	-0.9	0.8		0		3.52	3.05						3B-1B
Bob Kennedy	35	6	4	32.0	7	4	3	0	2	1.000	-1.3	-48.7	-1.3	-1.2	-0.1		0		1.97	1.17						3B
Ellis Kinder	41	29	0	29.2	4	2	2	0	0	1.000									1.21	0.14						P
Paul LaPalme	32	29	0	46.0	12	1	11	0	1	1.000									2.35	0.41						P
Sherm Lollar	31	132	123	1074.2	724	679	40	5	6	.993	3.0	3.3						3	6.02	5.45	4	24	17	20	54%	C
Dick Marlowe	27	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Morrie Martin	33	10	0	18.1	5	0	4	1	1	.800									1.96	0.40						P
Jim McDonald	29	8	3	18.2	5	1	3	1	0	.800									1.93	0.50						P
Minnie Minoso	30	158	148	1283.0	312	286	16	10	1	.968	2.1	2.0	2.1	4.4	-2.3	0	0		2.12	1.91						LF-3B-1B-RF
Les Moss	31	49	30	303.0	160	149	10	1	1	.994	-3.0	-11.9						-3	4.72	3.24	4	10	11	4	27%	C
Bob Nieman	29	10	10	80.0	24	24	0	0	0	1.000	1.2	18.0	0.2	1.2	-1.0	1			2.70	2.40						RF
Ron Northey	36	6	2	19.2	4	3	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0			1.83	0.67						RF-LF
Bubba Phillips	28	37	24	206.0	67	63	4	0	2	1.000	0.4	2.3	3.4	1.3	1.9	-3	0		2.93	1.81						RF-CF-LF-3B
Dave Philley	36	86	70	581.1	373	347	19	7	31	.981	-5.5	-11.4	-5.5	-3.8	-1.8	0	0		5.67	4.26						1B-RF-LF
Billy Pierce	29	35	33	276.1	40	4	33	3	2	.925									1.21	1.06						P
Howie Pollet	35	11	4	26.1	7	1	6	0	0	1.000									2.39	0.64						P
Jim Rivera	33	136	115	1084.0	281	265	9	7	4	.975	6.2	6.9	6.2	1.7	4.5	0			2.27	2.01						RF-CF
Jerry Staley	35	26	10	101.1	27	4	23	0	2	1.000									2.40	1.04						P
Jim Wilson	34	28	21	159.2	32	7	25	0	1	1.000									1.80	1.14						P
Team Totals	30.3	154	1386	12501.0	5920	4168	1630	122	436	.979	13.5	1.3	14.5	0.1	14.4	-4	3	0	4.17	3.24	9	34	28	24	46%
Rank in 8 AL teams								8	5	1
	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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