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

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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
39	P	Tom Gorman	34	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Evans Killeen	23	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Mark Freeman	28	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Marty Kutyna	26	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
43	P	George Brunet	24	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	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		8				5	7	7	6	8	8	8	6	4		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

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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									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									1.67	0.52						P
Bud Daley	26	39	29	216.1	47	10	35	2	2	.957									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									1.77	0.37						P
Mark Freeman	28	3	0	3.2	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Ned Garver	33	32	30	201.1	46	10	35	1	3	.978									2.01	1.41						P
Tom Gorman	34	17	0	20.1	1	0	0	1	0	.000									0.00	0.00						P
Bob Grim	29	40	9	125.1	21	7	13	1	1	.952									1.44	0.50						P
Al Grunwald	29	6	1	11.0	3	0	2	1	1	.667									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									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									2.45	1.50						P
Evans Killeen	23	4	0	6.0	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									2.44	1.24						P
Marty Kutyna	26	4	0	7.1	4	1	3	0	0	1.000									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									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									0.87	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									2.89	0.64						P
Ralph Terry	23	9	7	46.1	13	4	8	1	4	.923									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									2.61	0.38						P
John Tsitouris	23	24	10	83.0	18	3	13	2	0	.889									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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