1959 Kansas City Athletics Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1959 Kansas City Athletics Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1958 / 1960)
66-88, Finished 7th in American League
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Scored 681 runs, Allowed 760 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 69-85
Manager: Harry Craft (66-88)
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium I (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 963,683 (6th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 102, Pitching - 104; one-year: Batting - 101, Pitching - 103

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1958 / 1960 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Redesign Note: Summary Batting, Pitching and Fielding Stats are below. Detailed Batting, Pitching, and Fielding Stats are available using the navigation bar just above this note or the "Detailed" links beside the table headers. Leaderboards have been removed since all tables are now sortable by clicking the headers. The all-stars and salaries are on the roster page linked above.

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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	Frank House*	29	98	371	347	32	82	14	3	1	30	0	3	20	23	.236	.282	.303	.584	60	105	10	2	2	0	6
2	1B	Kent Hadley*	24	113	318	288	40	73	11	1	10	39	1	2	24	74	.253	.310	.403	.713	93	116	6	1	2	3	0
3	2B	Jerry Lumpe*	26	108	451	403	47	98	11	5	3	28	2	1	41	32	.243	.313	.318	.631	73	128	10	0	7	0	1
4	SS	Joe DeMaestri	30	118	387	352	31	86	16	5	6	34	1	0	28	65	.244	.305	.369	.674	83	130	12	4	0	3	8
5	3B	Dick Williams	30	130	538	488	72	130	33	1	16	75	4	1	28	60	.266	.309	.436	.746	101	213	13	5	11	6	1
6	LF	Bob Cerv	33	125	513	463	61	132	22	4	20	87	3	2	35	87	.285	.332	.479	.812	119	222	13	3	1	11	5
7	CF	Bill Tuttle	29	126	521	463	74	139	19	6	7	43	10	6	48	38	.300	.369	.413	.782	113	191	12	4	4	2	2
8	RF	Roger Maris*	24	122	498	433	69	118	21	7	16	72	2	1	58	53	.273	.359	.464	.824	123	201	4	3	0	4	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
9	UT	Hal Smith	28	108	332	292	36	84	12	0	5	31	0	3	34	39	.288	.367	.380	.747	104	111	4	3	2	1	0
10	OF	Russ Snyder*	25	73	267	243	41	76	13	2	3	21	6	2	19	29	.313	.367	.420	.787	114	102	4	2	3	0	0
11	2B	Wayne Terwilliger	34	74	204	180	27	48	11	0	2	18	2	2	19	31	.267	.335	.361	.696	90	65	2	0	4	1	0
12	C	Harry Chiti	26	55	180	162	20	44	11	1	5	25	0	1	17	26	.272	.344	.444	.789	114	72	9	1	0	0	1
13	1B	Ray Boone	35	61	161	132	19	36	6	0	2	12	1	0	27	17	.273	.396	.364	.760	109	48	4	0	2	0	2
14	RF	Whitey Herzog*	27	38	158	123	25	36	7	1	1	9	1	0	34	23	.293	.446	.390	.836	131	48	2	0	1	0	0
15	2B	Hector Lopez	29	35	146	135	22	38	10	3	6	24	1	0	8	23	.281	.324	.533	.857	130	72	1	1	1	1	0
16	1B	Preston Ward*	31	58	119	109	8	27	4	1	2	19	0	0	7	12	.248	.286	.358	.644	75	39	3	0	0	3	1
17	UT	Zeke Bella	28	47	93	82	10	17	2	1	1	9	0	0	9	14	.207	.293	.293	.586	61	24	5	1	1	0	0
18	3B	Ray Jablonski	32	25	68	65	4	17	1	0	2	8	0	0	3	11	.262	.294	.369	.663	80	24	0	0	0	0	0
19	2B	Lou Klimchock*	19	17	68	66	10	18	1	0	4	13	0	0	1	6	.273	.284	.470	.753	102	31	2	0	1	0	0
20	3B	Joe Morgan*	28	20	24	21	2	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	7	.190	.292	.286	.577	58	6	1	0	0	0	0
21	1B	Harry Simpson*	33	8	18	14	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	4	.286	.389	.500	.889	141	7	0	1	0	1	0
22	IF	Tom Carroll	22	14	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	-22	1	0	0	0	0	0
23		Bob Martyn*	28	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.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
24	P	Bud Daley*	26	39	87	78	5	23	1	0	0	13	0	0	2	11	.295	.329	.308	.637	75	24	1	2	5	0	0
25	P	Ned Garver	33	32	80	71	9	20	2	1	2	9	0	0	4	7	.282	.316	.423	.738	100	30	2	0	4	1	0
26	P	Ray Herbert	29	37	63	57	5	12	2	0	1	5	0	0	3	9	.211	.250	.298	.548	49	17	1	0	3	0	0
27	P	Johnny Kucks	25	33	53	47	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	22	.085	.140	.106	.246	-32	5	1	0	3	0	0
28	P	Bob Grim	29	40	41	32	2	3	0	0	1	5	0	0	2	17	.094	.143	.188	.330	-11	6	0	0	6	1	0
29	P	Rip Coleman*	27	29	26	25	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.080	.080	.080	.160	-56	2	0	0	1	0	0
30	P	John Tsitouris	23	24	24	20	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.150	.190	.150	.340	-6	3	1	0	3	0	0
31	P	Ralph Terry	23	9	18	17	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.176	.176	.176	.353	-3	3	1	0	1	0	0
32	P	Tom Sturdivant*	29	37	18	17	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.059	.059	.059	.118	-68	1	0	0	1	0	0
33	P	Murry Dickson	42	38	17	17	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.176	.176	.176	.353	-3	3	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Al Grunwald*	29	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Howie Reed	22	6	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	-25	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Ken Johnson	26	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Russ Meyer#	35	18	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Dick Tomanek*	28	16	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	174	1	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	28.4	154	5885	5264	681	1383	231	43	117	637	34	24	481	780	.263	.326	.390	.716	95	2051	124	33	69	38	32
		Rank in 8 AL teams				4	5	3	2	2	6		6	5	6	4	1	3	4	5		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.

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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	Bud Daley*	26	16	13	.552	3.16	39	29	5	12	2	1	216.1	212	90	76	24	62	2	125	11	0	7	911	127	1.267	8.8	1.0	2.6	5.2	2.02
2	SP	Ned Garver	33	10	13	.435	3.71	32	30	1	9	2	1	201.1	214	94	83	22	42	0	61	3	0	4	848	108	1.272	9.6	1.0	1.9	2.7	1.45
3	SP	Ray Herbert	29	11	11	.500	4.85	37	26	3	10	2	1	183.2	196	108	99	24	62	4	99	1	0	2	795	83	1.405	9.6	1.2	3.0	4.9	1.60
4	SP	Johnny Kucks	25	8	11	.421	3.87	33	23	6	6	1	1	151.1	163	76	65	10	42	0	51	12	0	0	649	104	1.355	9.7	0.6	2.5	3.0	1.21
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	Tom Sturdivant	29	2	6	.250	4.65	36	3	16	0	0	5	71.2	70	45	37	9	34	4	57	6	0	3	323	86	1.451	8.8	1.1	4.3	7.2	1.68
6	RP	Bob Grim	29	6	10	.375	4.09	40	9	16	3	1	4	125.1	124	69	57	10	57	6	65	3	0	4	548	98	1.444	8.9	0.7	4.1	4.7	1.14
7	RP	John Tsitouris	23	4	3	.571	4.97	24	10	4	0	0	0	83.1	90	52	46	3	35	3	50	3	1	4	377	81	1.500	9.7	0.3	3.8	5.4	1.43
8	RP	Rip Coleman*	27	2	10	.167	4.56	29	11	6	2	0	2	81.0	85	46	41	8	34	0	54	1	0	3	357	88	1.469	9.4	0.9	3.8	6.0	1.59
9	RP	Murry Dickson	42	2	1	.667	4.94	38	0	12	0	0	0	71.0	85	46	39	9	27	1	36	0	0	1	326	81	1.577	10.8	1.1	3.4	4.6	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
10		Ralph Terry	23	2	4	.333	5.24	9	7	1	2	0	0	46.1	56	29	27	9	19	1	35	1	0	1	205	77	1.619	10.9	1.7	3.7	6.8	1.84
11		Russ Meyer	35	1	0	1.000	4.50	18	0	7	0	0	1	24.0	24	12	12	3	11	0	10	1	0	2	107	89	1.458	9.0	1.1	4.1	3.8	0.91
12		Howie Reed	22	0	3	.000	7.40	6	3	2	0	0	0	20.2	26	19	17	3	10	0	11	0	0	3	97	54	1.742	11.3	1.3	4.4	4.8	1.10
13		Dick Tomanek*	28	0	1	.000	6.53	16	0	12	0	0	2	20.2	27	15	15	6	12	1	13	2	1	5	104	61	1.887	11.8	2.6	5.2	5.7	1.08
14		Tom Gorman	34	1	0	1.000	7.08	17	0	9	0	0	1	20.1	24	21	16	3	14	0	9	1	0	1	101	57	1.869	10.6	1.3	6.2	4.0	0.64
15		Al Grunwald*	29	0	1	.000	7.94	6	1	3	0	0	1	11.1	18	14	10	1	11	1	9	0	0	0	62	51	2.559	14.3	0.8	8.7	7.1	0.82
16		Ken Johnson	26	1	1	.500	4.09	2	2	0	0	0	0	11.0	11	6	5	2	5	0	8	0	0	0	47	98	1.455	9.0	1.6	4.1	6.5	1.60
17		Marty Kutyna	26	0	0		0.00	4	0	4	0	0	1	7.1	7	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	30		1.091	8.6	0.0	1.2	1.2	1.00
18		Evans Killeen	23	0	0		4.76	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.2	4	3	3	0	4	0	1	0	0	1	23	84	1.412	6.4	0.0	6.4	1.6	0.25
19		George Brunet*	24	0	0		11.57	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.2	10	9	6	2	7	1	7	1	1	0	32	35	3.643	19.3	3.9	13.5	13.5	1.00
20		Mark Freeman	28	0	0		9.82	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.2	6	6	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	20	41	2.455	14.7	0.0	7.4	2.5	0.33
		Team Totals	28.6	66	88	.429	4.35	154	154	110	44	8	21	1360.2	1452	760	658	148	492	24	703	46	3	41	5962	92	1.429	9.6	1.0	3.3	4.6	1.43
		Rank in 8 AL teams		7	2						5	7	7	6	8	8	8	6	4		7
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
Zeke Bella	28	26	19	144.0	24	22	2	0	1	1.000	-1.1	-9.2	-2.1	-1.9	-0.2	1			1.50	0.92						RF-LF-1B
Ray Boone	35	41	31	265.0	311	277	29	5	20	.984	1.2	5.4	1.2	-0.2	1.4		0		10.39	7.46						1B-3B
George Brunet	24	2	0	4.2	5	0	4	1	0	.800	0.0	0.0							7.71	2.00						P
Tom Carroll	22	12	1	28.0	19	7	11	1	1	.947	0.4	17.1	0.4	0.8	-0.4		0		5.79	1.50						SS-3B
Bob Cerv	33	119	119	1009.2	244	231	8	5	2	.980	-4.1	-4.9	-4.1	-3.3	-0.8	0			2.13	2.01						LF
Harry Chiti	26	47	44	383.1	256	228	25	3	5	.988	1.0	3.1						1	5.94	5.38	5	9	12	11	48%	C
Rip Coleman	27	29	11	81.0	17	1	14	2	2	.882	0.0	0.0							1.67	0.52						P
Bud Daley	26	39	29	216.1	47	10	35	2	2	.957	0.0	0.0							1.87	1.15						P
Joe DeMaestri	30	115	106	905.1	509	167	320	22	63	.957	-6.7	-8.9	-5.7	-7.0	1.4		-1		4.84	4.23						SS
Murry Dickson	42	38	0	71.0	15	1	13	1	0	.933	0.0	0.0							1.77	0.37						P
Mark Freeman	28	3	0	3.2	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Ned Garver	33	32	30	201.1	46	10	35	1	3	.978	0.0	0.0							2.01	1.41						P
Tom Gorman	34	17	0	20.1	1	0	0	1	0	.000	0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Bob Grim	29	40	9	125.1	21	7	13	1	1	.952	0.0	0.0							1.44	0.50						P
Al Grunwald	29	6	1	11.0	3	0	2	1	1	.667	0.0	0.0							1.64	0.33						P
Kent Hadley	24	95	71	661.1	706	656	42	8	66	.989	-2.8	-5.1	-2.8	-0.3	-2.4		0		9.50	7.35						1B
Ray Herbert	29	37	26	184.2	37	13	23	1	4	.973	0.0	0.0							1.75	0.97						P
Whitey Herzog	27	35	33	280.0	90	85	2	3	1	.967	5.9	25.3	3.9	0.2	3.8	2	0		2.80	2.49						RF-CF-LF-1B
Frank House	29	95	92	808.2	499	447	43	9	7	.982	-6.0	-8.9						-6	5.45	5.16	7	25	33	16	33%	C
Ray Jablonski	32	17	13	116.0	38	13	23	2	3	.947	-1.8	-18.6	-1.8	-0.4	-1.4		0		2.79	2.12						3B
Ken Johnson	26	2	2	11.0	3	0	3	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.45	1.50						P
Evans Killeen	23	4	0	6.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Lou Klimchock	19	16	16	139.2	79	34	41	4	11	.949	-2.8	-24.1	-2.8	-2.0	-0.9		0		4.83	4.69						2B
Johnny Kucks	25	33	23	151.0	42	10	31	1	4	.976	0.0	0.0							2.44	1.24						P
Marty Kutyna	26	4	0	7.1	4	1	3	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							4.91	1.00						P
Hector Lopez	29	33	33	284.1	163	81	71	11	15	.933	-5.7	-24.1	-3.7	1.0	-4.6		-2		4.81	4.61						2B
Jerry Lumpe	26	121	102	907.2	540	220	307	13	80	.976	-7.8	-10.3	-8.8	-4.1	-4.6		1		5.23	4.36						2B-SS-3B
Roger Maris	24	119	110	994.2	244	231	7	6	4	.975	4.2	5.1	1.2	-0.1	1.2	3			2.15	2.00						RF-CF
Russ Meyer	35	18	0	24.0	4	2	2	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.50	0.22						P
Joe Morgan	28	2	2	13.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	-0.7	-64.6	-0.7	-0.7	0.0		0		2.08	1.50						3B
Howie Reed	22	6	3	20.2	3	0	2	1	0	.667	0.0	0.0							0.87	0.33						P
Harry Simpson	33	4	4	31.0	32	30	2	0	2	1.000	-0.2	-7.7	-0.2	0.0	-0.2		0		9.29	8.00						1B
Hal Smith	28	99	78	722.0	354	210	129	15	15	.958	-13.5	-22.4	-12.5	-7.3	-5.1		0	-1	4.23	3.42	3	7	5	4	44%	3B-C
Russ Snyder	25	70	55	501.2	138	127	9	2	2	.986	-3.9	-9.3	-5.9	-5.2	-0.7	2			2.44	1.94						CF-LF-RF
Tom Sturdivant	29	36	3	71.2	26	6	17	3	1	.885	0.0	0.0							2.89	0.64						P
Ralph Terry	23	9	7	46.1	13	4	8	1	4	.923	0.0	0.0							2.33	1.33						P
Wayne Terwilliger	34	66	51	469.0	320	144	167	9	42	.972	2.6	6.7	2.6	1.7	0.9		0		5.97	4.71						2B-SS-3B
Dick Tomanek	28	16	0	20.2	6	0	6	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.61	0.38						P
John Tsitouris	23	24	10	83.0	18	3	13	2	0	.889	0.0	0.0							1.73	0.67						P
Bill Tuttle	29	121	111	1000.1	317	295	17	5	3	.984	12.9	15.5	4.9	2.6	2.3	8			2.81	2.58						CF
Preston Ward	31	23	21	163.2	172	161	7	4	14	.977	0.2	1.5	0.2	0.3	-0.1	0	0		9.24	7.30						1B-LF
Dick Williams	30	139	120	1059.2	543	349	181	13	42	.976	3.4	3.9	3.4	-4.8	8.1	0	0		4.50	3.81						3B-1B-LF-RF-CF-2B
Team Totals	28.6	154	1386	12249.0	5914	4086	1669	159	421	.973	-25.3	-2.5	-33.3	-30.7	-2.3	16	-2	-6	4.23	3.20	15	41	50	31	38%
Rank in 8 AL teams								2	4	7
	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

1958 / 1960 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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