1955 Pittsburgh Pirates Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1955 Pittsburgh Pirates Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1954 / 1956)
60-94, Finished 8th in National League
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Scored 560 runs, Allowed 767 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 55-99
Manager: Fred Haney (60-94)
Ballpark: Forbes Field (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 469,397 (8th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 98, Pitching - 101; one-year: Batting - 96, Pitching - 99
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1954 / 1956 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	Jack Shepard	23	94	301	264	24	63	10	2	2	23	1	0	33	25	.239	.321	.314	.635	72	83	8	0	2	2	3
2	1B	Dale Long*	29	131	478	419	59	122	19	13	16	79	0	1	48	72	.291	.362	.513	.875	132	215	14	1	6	4	6
3	2B	Johnny O'Brien	24	84	304	278	22	83	15	2	1	25	1	1	20	19	.299	.346	.378	.723	94	105	7	1	3	2	1
4	SS	Dick Groat	24	151	572	521	45	139	28	2	4	51	0	2	38	26	.267	.317	.351	.669	79	183	20	1	11	1	11
5	3B	Gene Freese	21	134	510	455	69	115	21	8	14	44	5	1	34	57	.253	.310	.426	.736	95	194	10	4	16	1	4
6	LF	Frank Thomas	26	142	581	510	72	125	16	2	25	72	2	0	60	76	.245	.324	.431	.755	100	220	13	2	3	6	10
7	CF	Eddie O'Brien	24	75	261	236	26	55	3	1	0	8	4	5	18	13	.233	.290	.254	.544	48	60	2	1	6	0	0
8	RF	Roberto Clemente	20	124	501	474	48	121	23	11	5	47	2	5	18	60	.255	.284	.382	.666	77	181	14	2	4	3	3
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	OF	Jerry Lynch*	24	88	308	282	43	80	18	6	5	28	2	2	22	33	.284	.331	.443	.774	106	125	7	0	0	4	4
10	IF	Dick Cole	29	77	260	239	16	54	8	3	0	21	0	0	18	22	.226	.285	.285	.569	54	68	5	2	0	1	1
11	C	Toby Atwell*	31	71	253	207	21	44	8	0	1	18	0	1	40	16	.213	.337	.266	.603	65	55	4	1	1	4	9
12	1B	Preston Ward*	27	84	208	179	16	38	7	4	5	25	0	0	22	28	.212	.296	.380	.675	80	68	3	0	5	2	4
13	3B	George Freese	28	51	202	179	17	46	8	2	3	22	1	1	17	18	.257	.327	.374	.701	88	67	7	2	3	1	2
14	LF	Roman Mejias	24	71	176	167	14	36	8	1	3	21	1	3	9	13	.216	.256	.329	.585	56	55	3	0	0	0	0
15	CF	Tom Saffell*	33	73	132	113	21	19	1	0	1	3	1	0	15	22	.168	.266	.204	.469	28	23	1	0	4	0	3
16	OF	Felipe Montemayor*	27	36	114	95	10	20	1	3	2	8	1	0	18	24	.211	.342	.347	.689	86	33	2	1	0	0	2
17	C	Hardy Peterson	25	32	92	81	7	20	6	0	1	10	0	0	7	7	.247	.311	.358	.669	79	29	3	1	2	1	1
18	UT	Sid Gordon	37	16	49	47	2	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.170	.204	.191	.396	7	9	3	0	0	0	0
19	CF	Earl Smith	27	5	21	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	.063	.286	.063	.348	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
20	2B	Curt Roberts	25	6	19	17	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.118	.211	.176	.387	5	3	0	0	0	0	0
21	C	Nick Koback	19	5	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	54	2	0	0	0	0	0
22	RF	John Powers*	25	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	35	1	0	0	0	0	0
23	SS	Dick Smith	27	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000				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	Bob Friend	24	44	70	61	3	10	1	0	0	4	0	0	3	15	.164	.203	.180	.383	4	11	0	0	6	0	0
25	P	Vern Law	25	44	69	63	8	16	3	0	1	8	1	0	4	16	.254	.299	.349	.648	73	22	0	0	2	0	0
26	P	Max Surkont	33	35	59	50	5	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	13	.140	.218	.160	.378	4	8	0	1	4	0	0
27	P	Dick Hall	24	21	47	40	3	7	1	0	1	3	0	0	6	5	.175	.283	.275	.558	51	11	3	0	1	0	0
28	P	Ron Kline	23	37	40	38	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	21	.132	.154	.132	.285	-22	5	0	0	1	0	0
29	P	Dick Littlefield*	29	35	39	34	1	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	15	.176	.263	.206	.469	28	7	0	0	1	0	0
30	P	Roy Face	27	43	30	26	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.115	.148	.154	.302	-19	4	0	0	3	0	0
31	P	Lino Donoso*	32	25	30	27	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.185	.185	.185	.370	-0	5	2	0	3	0	0
32	P	Bob Purkey	25	14	22	19	1	6	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	4	.316	.316	.474	.789	108	9	0	0	3	0	0
33	P	Nellie King	27	17	14	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	2	0	0
34	P	Ben Wade	32	11	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	-40	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Al Grunwald*	25	3	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	170	2	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Roger Bowman	27	7	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	170	1	0	0	1	0	0
37	P	Laurin Pepper	24	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Jake Thies	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000				0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Fred Waters*	28	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Paul Martin	23	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Red Swanson	18	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Bill Bell	21	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	25.3	154	5790	5173	560	1262	210	60	91	532	22	22	471	652	.244	.308	.361	.668	79	1865	132	21	93	32	64
		Rank in 8 NL teams				7	8	8	6	1	8		8	7	6	6	8	7	8	8		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

* - 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	Vern Law	25	10	10	.500	3.81	43	24	13	8	1	1	200.2	221	98	85	19	61	7	82	1	0	5	865	107	1.405	9.9	0.9	2.7	3.7	1.34
2	SP	Max Surkont	33	7	14	.333	5.57	35	22	7	5	0	2	166.1	194	109	103	23	78	4	84	3	0	6	745	73	1.635	10.5	1.2	4.2	4.5	1.08
3	SP	Ron Kline	23	6	13	.316	4.15	36	19	12	2	1	2	136.2	161	78	63	13	53	5	48	5	2	2	611	98	1.566	10.6	0.9	3.5	3.2	0.91
4	SP	Dick Hall	24	6	6	.500	3.91	15	13	2	4	0	1	94.1	92	43	41	8	28	4	46	2	0	0	401	104	1.272	8.8	0.8	2.7	4.4	1.64
5	SP	Bob Purkey	25	2	7	.222	5.32	14	10	3	2	0	1	67.2	77	47	40	5	25	1	24	2	0	1	298	77	1.507	10.2	0.7	3.3	3.2	0.96
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	Roy Face	27	5	7	.417	3.58	42	10	21	4	0	5	125.2	128	58	50	10	40	4	84	0	0	3	524	114	1.337	9.2	0.7	2.9	6.0	2.10
7	RP	Bob Friend	24	14	9	.609	2.83	44	20	11	9	2	2	200.1	178	80	63	18	52	4	98	2	0	0	813	144	1.148	8.0	0.8	2.3	4.4	1.88
8	RP	Dick Littlefield*	29	5	12	.294	5.12	35	17	5	4	1	0	130.0	148	91	74	15	68	8	70	2	1	5	598	80	1.662	10.2	1.0	4.7	4.8	1.03
9	RP	Lino Donoso*	32	4	6	.400	5.31	25	9	10	3	0	1	95.0	106	58	56	16	35	3	38	1	0	1	418	77	1.484	10.0	1.5	3.3	3.6	1.09
10	RP	Nellie King	27	1	3	.250	2.98	17	4	7	0	0	0	54.1	60	24	18	2	14	3	21	2	0	0	232	137	1.362	9.9	0.3	2.3	3.5	1.50
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		Ben Wade	32	0	1	.000	3.21	11	1	7	0	0	1	28.0	26	12	10	3	14	4	7	1	0	0	123	127	1.429	8.4	1.0	4.5	2.3	0.50
12		Laurin Pepper	24	0	1	.000	10.35	14	1	6	0	0	0	20.0	30	24	23	5	25	0	7	2	0	2	111	39	2.750	13.5	2.3	11.3	3.2	0.28
13		Roger Bowman*	27	0	3	.000	8.64	7	2	1	0	0	0	16.2	25	18	16	2	10	2	8	1	0	4	85	47	2.100	13.5	1.1	5.4	4.3	0.80
14		Al Grunwald*	25	0	0		4.70	3	0	1	0	0	0	7.2	7	4	4	1	7	0	2	0	0	0	36	87	1.826	8.2	1.2	8.2	2.3	0.29
15		Paul Martin	23	0	1	.000	14.14	7	1	3	0	0	0	7.0	13	12	11	0	17	0	3	1	1	1	49	29	4.286	16.7	0.0	21.9	3.9	0.18
16		Fred Waters*	28	0	0		3.60	2	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	7	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	24	113	1.800	12.6	1.8	3.6	0.0	0.00
17		Jake Thies	29	0	1	.000	4.91	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.2	5	5	2	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	20	83	2.182	12.3	0.0	7.4	0.0	0.00
18		Red Swanson	18	0	0		18.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	4	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	10	23	2.500	9.0	4.5	13.5	0.0	0.00
19		Bill Bell	21	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4		1.000	0.0	0.0	9.0	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	26.8	60	94	.390	4.39	154	154	113	41	5	16	1362.0	1480	767	665	142	536	50	622	26	4	30	5967	93	1.480	9.8	0.9	3.5	4.1	1.16
		Rank in 8 NL teams		8	1		7				7	7	5	7	8	8	7	2	4		5420
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
Toby Atwell	31	67	58	524.2	361	334	24	3	3	.992	-2.0	-4.6						-2	6.14	5.34	5	8	19	7	27%	C
Bill Bell	21	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Roger Bowman	27	7	2	16.2	6	1	5	0	0	1.000									3.24	0.86						P
Roberto Clemente	20	122	107	964.0	274	250	18	6	4	.978	1.2	1.5	-1.8	-1.1	-0.6	3			2.50	2.20						RF-CF
Dick Cole	29	69	55	509.2	271	103	158	10	25	.963	-0.2	-0.5	-0.2	2.0	-2.2		0		4.61	3.78						3B-2B-SS
Lino Donoso	32	25	9	95.0	26	6	18	2	1	.923									2.27	0.96						P
Roy Face	27	42	10	125.2	28	14	13	1	1	.964									1.93	0.64						P
George Freese	28	50	49	431.0	141	50	82	9	3	.936	-8.9	-24.8	-7.9	-2.7	-5.1		-1		2.76	2.64						3B
Gene Freese	21	122	116	1019.2	505	183	300	22	57	.956	-0.4	-0.5	-0.4	1.1	-1.4		0		4.26	3.96						3B-2B
Bob Friend	24	44	20	200.0	59	7	50	2	6	.966									2.56	1.30						P
Sid Gordon	37	12	12	95.1	34	12	21	1	4	.971	1.4	17.6	1.4	0.3	1.1	0	0		3.12	2.75						3B-LF
Dick Groat	24	149	148	1287.2	812	330	450	32	107	.961	0.9	0.8	-0.1	2.0	-2.1		1		5.45	5.23						SS
Al Grunwald	25	3	0	7.2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000									2.35	0.67						P
Dick Hall	24	19	15	111.2	16	10	6	0	0	1.000	-0.2	-2.1	-1.2	-1.2	0.0	1			1.29	0.84						P-CF-LF
Nellie King	27	17	4	54.1	13	7	6	0	1	1.000									2.15	0.76						P
Ron Kline	23	37	19	136.2	52	20	30	2	2	.962									3.29	1.35						P-3B
Nick Koback	19	2	1	11.0	5	4	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0						0	4.09	2.50	0	2	0	0		C
Vern Law	25	43	24	200.2	53	14	35	4	3	.925									2.20	1.14						P
Dick Littlefield	29	35	17	130.0	22	7	12	3	1	.864									1.32	0.54						P
Dale Long	29	119	116	995.2	1078	968	97	13	114	.988	2.2	2.7	2.2	3.7	-1.4		0		9.63	8.95						1B
Jerry Lynch	24	74	66	578.0	129	111	12	6	3	.953	-7.1	-14.7	-8.1	-4.7	-3.3	0		1	1.92	1.66	0	0	0	1	100%	LF-RF-C
Paul Martin	23	7	1	7.1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									1.23	0.14						P
Roman Mejias	24	44	39	327.0	76	62	8	6	2	.921	-3.1	-11.4	-4.1	-0.5	-3.4	1			1.93	1.59						LF-RF-CF
Felipe Montemayor	27	30	24	208.1	48	46	0	2	0	.958	-1.8	-10.4	-1.8	0.0	-1.8	0			1.99	1.53						CF-RF-LF
Eddie O'Brien	24	69	62	517.2	180	156	20	4	1	.978	-4.2	-9.7	-5.2	-2.7	-2.5	1	0		3.06	2.55						CF-3B-SS-LF
Johnny O'Brien	24	78	75	672.2	418	185	220	13	53	.969	-2.4	-4.3	-3.4	-0.9	-2.5		1		5.42	5.19						2B
Laurin Pepper	24	14	1	20.0	3	1	2	0	1	1.000									1.35	0.21						P
Hardy Peterson	25	31	22	214.1	143	117	21	5	4	.965	2.0	11.2						2	5.79	4.45	1	0	8	9	53%	C
John Powers	25	2	2	13.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	0.2	18.5	0.2	0.0	0.2	0			2.08	1.50						RF
Bob Purkey	25	14	10	67.2	19	2	16	1	0	.947									2.39	1.29						P
Curt Roberts	25	6	5	44.0	23	7	14	2	4	.913	-0.3	-8.2	-0.3	-0.4	0.1		0		4.30	3.50						2B
Tom Saffell	33	47	22	248.2	81	77	2	2	0	.975	-4.5	-21.7	-4.5	-1.2	-3.3	0			2.86	1.68						CF-LF-RF
Jack Shepard	23	77	71	594.0	328	288	34	6	6	.982	0.0	0.0						0	4.88	4.18	13	6	12	12	50%	C
Dick Smith	27	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0		0.00	0.00						SS
Earl Smith	27	5	5	43.0	10	10	0	0	0	1.000	-2.8	-78.1	-1.8	-1.0	-0.7	-1			2.09	2.00						CF
Max Surkont	33	35	22	166.1	31	8	21	2	0	.935									1.57	0.83						P
Red Swanson	18	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Jake Thies	29	1	1	3.2	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Frank Thomas	26	145	136	1205.0	322	309	8	5	3	.984	-10.4	-10.4	-8.4	-8.6	0.3	-2			2.37	2.19						LF-CF
Ben Wade	32	11	1	28.0	7	4	3	0	0	1.000									2.25	0.64						P
Preston Ward	27	49	39	373.1	420	384	35	1	41	.998	1.1	3.5	1.1	0.8	0.3		0		10.10	8.55						1B-RF
Fred Waters	28	2	0	5.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									1.80	0.50						P
Team Totals	25.7	154	1386	12258.0	5997	4087	1744	166	451	.972	-39.3	-3.8	-44.3	-15.1	-28.3	3	1	1	4.28	3.41	19	16	39	29	43%
Rank in 8 NL teams								1	1	8
	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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