1956 Kansas City Athletics Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1955 / 1957

52-102, Finished 8th in American League (Schedule and Results)
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Manager: Lou Boudreau (52-102)
Scored 619 runs, Allowed 831 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 57-97

Ballpark: Municipal Stadium I (ballparks.com) · Attendance: 1,015,154 (4th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 104 · one-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 104

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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	Tim Thompson*	32	92	288	268	21	73	13	2	1	27	2	4	17	23	.272	.319	.347	.666	77	93	4	2	0	1	1
2	1B	Vic Power	28	127	559	530	77	164	21	5	14	63	2	2	24	16	.309	.340	.447	.787	107	237	5	1	3	1	2
3	2B	Jim Finigan	27	91	290	250	29	54	7	2	2	21	3	1	30	28	.216	.298	.284	.582	55	71	6	1	5	4	1
4	SS	Joe DeMaestri	27	133	468	434	41	101	16	1	6	39	3	3	25	73	.233	.277	.316	.593	57	137	8	3	3	3	2
5	3B	Hector Lopez	26	151	639	561	91	153	27	3	18	69	4	5	63	73	.273	.347	.428	.775	104	240	13	3	8	4	3
6	LF	Gus Zernial	33	109	311	272	36	61	12	0	16	44	2	0	33	66	.224	.315	.445	.760	99	121	5	4	0	2	2
7	CF	Al Pilarcik*	25	69	272	239	28	60	10	1	4	22	9	2	30	32	.251	.333	.351	.685	82	84	2	0	2	1	1
8	RF	Harry Simpson*	30	141	597	543	76	159	22	11	21	105	2	3	47	82	.293	.347	.490	.837	120	266	19	1	1	5	8
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	LF	Lou Skizas	24	83	317	297	39	94	11	3	11	39	3	1	15	17	.316	.346	.485	.831	118	144	13	0	2	3	1
10	OF	Johnny Groth	29	95	280	244	22	63	13	3	5	37	1	2	30	31	.258	.335	.398	.732	93	97	9	0	2	4	2
11	OF	Enos Slaughter*	40	91	255	223	37	62	14	3	2	23	1	0	29	20	.278	.362	.395	.757	100	88	6	1	1	1	1
12	C	Joe Ginsberg*	29	71	220	195	15	48	8	1	1	12	1	1	23	17	.246	.323	.313	.636	69	61	7	0	0	2	3
13	1B	Eddie Robinson*	35	75	202	172	13	34	5	1	2	12	0	0	26	20	.198	.308	.273	.582	55	47	7	2	1	1	1
14	C	Hal Smith	25	37	148	142	15	39	9	2	2	24	1	1	3	12	.275	.284	.408	.692	81	58	2	0	0	3	0
15	2B	Clete Boyer	19	67	143	129	15	28	3	1	1	4	1	1	11	24	.217	.284	.279	.563	50	36	2	1	2	0	1
16	SS	Mike Baxes	25	73	128	106	9	24	3	1	1	5	0	1	18	15	.226	.339	.302	.641	71	32	2	0	4	0	1
17	2B	Spook Jacobs	30	32	115	97	13	21	3	0	0	5	4	1	15	5	.216	.321	.247	.569	53	24	4	0	3	0	1
18	CI	Rance Pless	30	48	96	85	4	23	3	1	0	9	0	1	10	13	.271	.354	.329	.684	82	28	5	1	0	0	0
19	OF	Bill Renna	31	33	51	48	12	13	3	0	2	5	1	0	3	10	.271	.314	.458	.772	102	22	1	0	0	0	0
20	CF	Jim Pisoni	26	10	33	30	4	8	0	0	2	5	0	0	2	8	.267	.303	.467	.770	101	14	2	0	0	1	0
21	C	Joe Astroth	33	8	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.077	.077	.077	.154	-59	1	0	0	1	0	0
22	LF	Elmer Valo*	35	9	11	9	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.222	.273	.222	.495	33	2	0	0	0	1	0
23	LF	Dave Melton	27	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	77	1	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	Art Ditmar	27	44	98	91	5	13	0	0	1	4	0	1	3	24	.143	.170	.176	.346	-8	16	0	0	4	0	0
25	P	Wally Burnette	27	18	45	39	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.051	.075	.051	.126	-66	2	0	0	5	0	0
26	P	Tom Gorman	31	52	44	39	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	22	.051	.140	.051	.191	-47	2	0	0	1	0	0
27	P	Lou Kretlow	35	25	41	33	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	19	.061	.162	.061	.223	-39	2	0	0	4	0	0
28	P	Alex Kellner	31	21	36	30	2	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	10	.200	.273	.200	.473	27	6	1	0	3	0	0
29	P	Jack Crimian	30	55	30	22	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	6	.227	.320	.227	.547	47	5	1	0	5	0	0
30	P	Troy Herriage	25	34	29	25	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	17	.120	.185	.120	.305	-18	3	0	0	2	0	0
31	P	Bobby Shantz	30	51	26	22	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.091	.167	.136	.303	-19	3	1	0	2	0	0
32	P	Jack McMahan	23	23	14	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	P	Tommy Lasorda*	28	19	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.077	.077	.077	.154	-59	1	1	0	0	0	0
34	P	Bill Harrington	28	23	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	-64	0	0	0	2	0	0
35	P	Moe Burtschy	34	21	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	-34	1	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Glenn Cox	25	3	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	0	0	0
37	P	Jose Santiago	27	9	6	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	113	2	0	0	1	0	0
38	P	Art Ceccarelli	26	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	-28	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Carl Duser*	23	2	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Walt Craddock	24	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	George Brunet	21	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Arnie Portocarrero	24	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	P	Bob Spicer*	31	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
44	P	Bill Bradford	34	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	28.6	154	5859	5256	619	1325	204	41	112	584	40	30	479	725	.252	.315	.370	.685	81	1947	127	20	67	37	31
		Rank in 8 AL teams				5	7	5	4	6	6		4	6	8	4	5	8	7	7		7
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	Art Ditmar	27	12	22	.353	4.42	44	34	6	14	2	1	254.1	254	141	125	30	108	6	126	7	0	5	1101	98	1.423	9.0	1.1	3.8	4.5	1.17
2	SP	Wally Burnette	27	6	8	.429	2.89	18	14	4	4	1	0	121.1	115	48	39	13	39	3	54	2	1	3	507	150	1.269	8.5	1.0	2.9	4.0	1.38
3	SP	Lou Kretlow	35	4	9	.308	5.31	25	20	3	3	0	0	118.2	121	75	70	17	74	4	61	0	0	3	542	81	1.643	9.2	1.3	5.6	4.6	0.82
4	SP	Troy Herriage	25	1	13	.071	6.64	31	16	7	1	0	0	103.0	135	83	76	16	64	6	59	6	0	2	501	65	1.932	11.8	1.4	5.6	5.2	0.92
5	SP	Alex Kellner*	31	7	4	.636	4.32	20	17	3	5	0	0	91.2	103	49	44	15	33	3	44	2	0	1	399	100	1.484	10.1	1.5	3.2	4.3	1.33
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	Bobby Shantz*	30	2	7	.222	4.35	45	2	26	1	0	9	101.1	95	51	49	12	37	4	67	3	0	1	425	99	1.303	8.4	1.1	3.3	6.0	1.81
7	RP	Tom Gorman	31	9	10	.474	3.83	52	13	23	1	0	3	171.1	168	83	73	23	68	7	56	2	1	2	733	113	1.377	8.8	1.2	3.6	2.9	0.82
8	RP	Jack Crimian	30	4	8	.333	5.51	54	7	16	0	0	3	129.0	129	87	79	19	49	2	59	5	0	2	556	78	1.380	9.0	1.3	3.4	4.1	1.20
9	RP	Jack McMahan*	23	0	5	.000	4.82	23	9	8	0	0	0	61.2	69	40	33	7	31	0	13	2	0	1	279	90	1.622	10.1	1.0	4.5	1.9	0.42
10	RP	Bill Harrington	28	2	2	.500	6.45	23	1	8	0	0	1	37.2	40	27	27	3	26	1	14	0	1	3	173	67	1.752	9.6	0.7	6.2	3.3	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
11		Tommy Lasorda*	28	0	4	.000	6.15	18	5	7	0	0	1	45.1	40	38	31	6	45	3	28	3	0	7	220	70	1.875	7.9	1.2	8.9	5.6	0.62
12		Moe Burtschy	34	3	1	.750	3.95	21	0	9	0	0	0	43.1	41	22	19	6	30	4	18	3	0	2	195	110	1.638	8.5	1.2	6.2	3.7	0.60
13		Glenn Cox	25	0	2	.000	4.24	3	3	0	1	0	0	23.1	15	11	11	2	22	0	6	0	0	2	101	102	1.586	5.8	0.8	8.5	2.3	0.27
14		Jose Santiago	27	1	2	.333	8.31	9	5	1	0	0	0	21.2	36	26	20	8	17	0	9	5	0	1	117	52	2.446	15.0	3.3	7.1	3.7	0.53
15		Art Ceccarelli*	26	0	1	.000	7.20	3	2	0	0	0	0	10.0	13	13	8	3	4	1	2	1	0	1	49	60	1.700	11.7	2.7	3.6	1.8	0.50
16		Walt Craddock*	24	0	2	.000	6.75	2	2	0	0	0	0	9.1	9	7	7	1	10	0	8	0	0	2	45	64	2.036	8.7	1.0	9.6	7.7	0.80
17		George Brunet*	21	0	0		7.00	6	1	1	0	0	0	9.0	10	8	7	1	11	0	5	0	0	0	47	62	2.333	10.0	1.0	11.0	5.0	0.45
18		Arnie Portocarrero	24	0	1	.000	10.12	3	1	1	0	0	0	8.0	9	9	9	2	7	0	2	0	0	0	38	43	2.000	10.1	2.3	7.9	2.3	0.29
19		Carl Duser*	23	1	1	.500	9.00	2	2	0	0	0	0	6.0	14	6	6	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	33	48	2.667	21.0	0.0	3.0	7.5	2.50
20		Bob Spicer	31	0	0		19.29	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	6	5	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	13	22	3.000	23.1	3.9	3.9	0.0	0.00
21		Bill Bradford	34	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	48	1.500	9.0	9.0	4.5	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	28.8	52	102	.338	4.86	154	154	124	30	3	18	1370.1	1424	831	740	187	679	44	636	42	3	38	6083	89	1.535	9.4	1.2	4.5	4.2	0.94
		Rank in 8 AL teams		8	1		7				8	7	5	6	7	7	7	8	7		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

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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
Joe Astroth	33	8	5	42.0	24	19	5	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0						0	5.14	3.00	0	2	2	2	50%	C
Mike Baxes	25	63	27	302.2	181	57	113	11	17	.939	2.0	7.9	2.0	1.8	0.2		0		5.06	2.70						SS-2B
Clete Boyer	19	58	40	372.1	230	100	124	6	34	.974	2.7	8.7	2.7	0.3	2.4		0		5.41	3.86						2B-3B
Bill Bradford	34	1	0	2.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									4.50	1.00						P
George Brunet	21	6	1	9.0	3	0	3	0	0	1.000									3.00	0.50						P
Wally Burnette	27	18	14	121.0	23	6	16	1	2	.957									1.64	1.22						P
Moe Burtschy	34	21	0	43.2	17	2	15	0	2	1.000									3.50	0.81						P
Art Ceccarelli	26	3	2	10.0	5	0	5	0	0	1.000									4.50	1.67						P
Glenn Cox	25	3	3	23.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Walt Craddock	24	2	2	9.1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									0.96	0.50						P
Jack Crimian	30	54	7	127.2	26	3	22	1	1	.962									1.76	0.46						P
Joe DeMaestri	27	134	125	1055.2	640	210	407	23	95	.964	9.2	10.5	5.2	2.5	2.8		4		5.26	4.60						SS-2B
Art Ditmar	27	44	34	253.2	55	20	33	2	3	.964									1.88	1.20						P
Carl Duser	23	2	2	6.0	2	0	2	0	0	1.000									3.00	1.00						P
Jim Finigan	27	84	68	605.1	334	143	175	16	42	.952	-3.8	-7.5	-4.8	-4.4	-0.4		1		4.73	3.79						2B-3B
Joe Ginsberg	29	57	50	451.1	269	238	28	3	3	.989	3.0	8.0						3	5.30	4.67	5	8	16	15	48%	C
Tom Gorman	31	52	13	171.0	43	11	29	3	1	.930									2.11	0.77						P
Johnny Groth	29	88	61	598.1	141	134	7	0	3	1.000	-7.2	-14.4	-7.2	-4.8	-2.3	0			2.12	1.60						CF-RF-LF
Bill Harrington	28	23	1	39.2	8	3	5	0	1	1.000									1.82	0.35						P
Troy Herriage	25	31	16	103.0	14	0	11	3	0	.786									0.96	0.35						P
Spook Jacobs	30	31	28	236.0	154	78	71	5	26	.968	-1.3	-6.6	-3.3	-2.1	-1.2		2		5.68	4.81						2B
Alex Kellner	31	20	17	91.2	19	1	17	1	2	.947									1.77	0.90						P
Lou Kretlow	35	25	20	119.2	23	5	16	2	1	.913									1.58	0.84						P
Tommy Lasorda	28	18	5	45.1	13	3	9	1	0	.923									2.38	0.67						P
Hector Lopez	26	153	144	1288.1	530	218	282	30	32	.943	-3.2	-3.0	-1.2	-2.4	1.1	-1	-1		3.49	3.27						3B-CF-2B-SS
Jack McMahan	23	23	9	61.2	13	3	10	0	1	1.000									1.90	0.57						P
Dave Melton	27	3	0	12.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	0.6	60.0	0.6	0.1	0.6	0			2.25	1.00						LF
Al Pilarcik	25	67	61	544.0	167	155	8	4	1	.976	-3.4	-7.5	-3.4	-2.2	-1.2	0			2.70	2.43						CF-RF
Jim Pisoni	26	9	9	74.1	30	25	4	1	1	.967	0.4	6.5	0.4	0.2	0.3	0			3.51	3.22						CF
Rance Pless	30	20	17	149.0	162	142	20	0	20	1.000	2.2	17.7	2.2	0.0	2.1		0		9.79	8.10						1B-3B
Arnie Portocarrero	24	3	1	8.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									1.12	0.33						P
Vic Power	28	130	123	1076.1	1019	807	200	12	113	.988	-0.6	-0.7	-0.6	-2.5	2.0	-1	1		8.42	7.75						1B-2B-LF
Bill Renna	31	25	7	104.2	20	18	1	1	0	.950	-1.3	-14.9	-1.3	0.1	-1.5	0			1.63	0.76						LF-RF
Eddie Robinson	35	47	41	367.2	388	360	19	9	43	.977	0.8	2.6	0.8	-1.7	2.5		0		9.28	8.06						1B
Jose Santiago	27	9	5	21.2	6	1	5	0	1	1.000									2.49	0.67						P
Bobby Shantz	30	45	2	100.2	32	10	20	2	2	.938									2.68	0.67						P
Harry Simpson	30	147	138	1222.1	485	456	18	11	34	.977	-12.6	-12.4	-8.6	-4.0	-4.5	-4	0		3.49	3.22						RF-1B-CF
Lou Skizas	24	75	72	622.0	160	147	9	4	0	.975	1.6	3.1	2.6	0.8	1.8	-1			2.26	2.08						LF-RF
Enos Slaughter	40	57	47	430.0	109	106	1	2	0	.982	2.9	8.1	3.9	2.7	1.2	-1			2.24	1.88						RF-LF-CF
Hal Smith	25	37	36	304.2	208	183	22	3	3	.986	-1.0	-3.9						-1	6.06	5.54	5	9	15	9	38%	C
Bob Spicer	31	2	0	2.1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									3.86	0.50						P
Tim Thompson	32	68	63	572.1	373	328	38	7	7	.981	1.0	2.1						1	5.76	5.38	9	17	16	21	57%	C
Elmer Valo	35	1	1	6.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0.2	-40.0	-0.2	-0.2	0.0	0			0.00	0.00						LF
Gus Zernial	33	69	69	525.1	123	112	9	2	1	.984	-2.1	-4.8	-3.1	-3.4	0.3	1			2.07	1.75						LF
Team Totals	28.4	154	1386	12333.0	6062	4111	1785	166	493	.973	-10.3	-1.0	-13.3	-19.2	6.2	-7	7	3	4.30	3.23	19	36	49	47	49%
Rank in 8 AL teams								3	2	6
	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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