1956 Pittsburgh Pirates Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1956 Pittsburgh Pirates Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1955 / 1957)
66-88, Finished 7th in National League
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Scored 588 runs, Allowed 653 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 70-84
Manager: Bobby Bragan (66-88)
Ballpark: Forbes Field (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 949,878 (5th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 97, Pitching - 100; one-year: Batting - 102, 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	Jack Shepard	24	100	290	256	24	62	11	2	7	30	1	1	25	37	.242	.309	.383	.691	87	98	8	0	8	1	5
2	1B	Dale Long*	30	148	582	517	64	136	20	7	27	91	1	0	54	85	.263	.326	.485	.812	118	251	10	0	0	11	11
3	2B	Bill Mazeroski	19	81	277	255	30	62	8	1	3	14	0	0	18	24	.243	.293	.318	.611	67	81	4	0	4	0	1
4	SS	Dick Groat	25	142	575	520	40	142	19	3	0	37	0	3	35	25	.273	.317	.321	.638	75	167	14	0	17	3	3
5	3B	Frank Thomas	27	157	637	588	69	166	24	3	25	80	0	5	36	61	.282	.326	.461	.787	112	271	22	5	2	6	5
6	LF	Lee Walls	23	143	537	474	72	130	20	11	11	54	3	5	50	83	.274	.345	.432	.777	111	205	11	2	9	2	0
7	CF	Bill Virdon*	25	133	547	509	67	170	21	10	8	37	6	6	33	63	.334	.374	.462	.836	127	235	12	1	2	2	7
8	RF	Roberto Clemente	21	147	572	543	66	169	30	7	7	60	6	6	13	58	.311	.330	.431	.761	106	234	14	4	8	4	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	Bob Skinner*	24	113	262	233	29	47	8	3	5	29	1	1	26	50	.202	.282	.326	.609	66	76	6	1	0	2	1
10	C	Hank Foiles	27	79	245	222	24	47	10	2	7	25	0	1	17	56	.212	.266	.369	.635	71	82	5	0	4	2	4
11	IF	Gene Freese	22	65	230	207	17	43	9	0	3	14	2	1	16	45	.208	.273	.295	.568	55	61	0	3	3	1	3
12	2B	Johnny O'Brien	25	73	114	104	13	18	1	0	0	3	0	0	5	7	.173	.209	.183	.392	8	19	2	0	4	1	0
13	IF	Dick Cole	30	72	110	99	7	21	2	1	0	9	0	0	11	9	.212	.291	.253	.543	50	25	5	0	0	0	0
14	C	Danny Kravitz*	25	32	74	68	6	18	2	2	2	10	1	1	5	9	.265	.311	.441	.752	102	30	2	0	0	1	1
15	2B	Curt Roberts	26	31	68	62	6	11	5	2	0	4	1	0	5	12	.177	.239	.323	.561	52	20	1	0	1	0	0
16	SS	Eddie O'Brien	25	63	58	53	17	14	2	0	0	3	1	1	2	2	.264	.291	.302	.593	62	16	0	0	3	0	0
17	2B	Spook Jacobs	30	11	41	37	4	6	2	0	0	1	0	2	2	5	.162	.225	.216	.441	21	8	0	1	1	0	0
18	UT	Preston Ward*	28	16	37	30	3	10	0	1	1	11	0	0	6	4	.333	.432	.500	.932	154	15	0	0	0	1	0
19	UT	Bobby Del Greco	23	14	24	20	4	4	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	3	.200	.304	.500	.804	115	10	1	0	1	0	0
20	OF	John Powers*	26	11	22	21	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.048	.091	.048	.139	-61	1	2	0	0	0	0
21	C	Toby Atwell*	32	12	20	18	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	5	.111	.158	.111	.269	-25	2	2	0	1	0	0
22	LF	Jerry Lynch*	25	19	20	19	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	.158	.200	.263	.463	25	5	0	0	0	0	0
23	C	Bill Hall*	27	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.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	Bob Friend	25	49	109	97	7	16	2	0	1	8	0	0	1	19	.165	.173	.216	.390	6	21	1	0	11	0	0
25	P	Ron Kline	24	44	89	79	2	10	0	0	0	3	1	0	4	26	.127	.167	.127	.293	-18	10	0	0	5	1	0
26	P	Vern Law	26	39	65	57	3	10	1	0	1	8	0	0	4	16	.175	.226	.246	.471	29	14	1	0	3	1	0
27	P	Dick Hall	25	33	34	29	5	10	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	7	.345	.441	.345	.786	119	10	1	0	0	0	0
28	P	Red Munger	37	35	33	28	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	11	.107	.194	.143	.336	-6	4	0	1	2	0	0
29	P	Roy Face	28	69	27	26	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.192	.192	.192	.385	6	5	0	0	1	0	0
30	P	Fred Waters*	29	23	20	20	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	5	.050	.050	.150	.200	-48	3	0	0	0	0	0
31	P	Cholly Naranjo*	21	17	8	7	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.143	.125	.286	.411	8	2	0	0	0	1	0
32	P	Nellie King	28	38	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	2	0	0
33	P	Laurin Pepper	25	11	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.143	.000	.143	-56	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Luis Arroyo*	29	18	6	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	174	2	0	0	2	0	0
35	P	Howie Pollet*	35	19	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	53	0	0	0	1	0	0
36	P	Dick Littlefield*	30	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Jack McMahan	23	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Bob Purkey	26	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Max Surkont	34	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Red Swanson	19	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Bob Garber	27	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Lino Donoso*	33	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	25.0	157	5757	5221	588	1340	199	57	110	546	24	33	383	752	.257	.307	.380	.687	86	1983	124	18	95	40	43
		Rank in 8 NL teams				4	7	4	7	1	8		8	5	8	3	5	6	8	6		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	Bob Friend	25	17	17	.500	3.46	49	42	7	19	4	3	314.1	310	137	121	25	85	18	166	2	0	5	1315	109	1.257	8.9	0.7	2.4	4.8	1.95
2	SP	Ron Kline	24	14	18	.438	3.38	44	39	2	9	2	2	264.0	263	110	99	26	81	8	125	5	0	10	1102	112	1.303	9.0	0.9	2.8	4.3	1.54
3	SP	Vern Law	26	8	16	.333	4.32	39	32	6	6	0	2	195.2	218	110	94	24	49	10	60	6	0	8	851	87	1.365	10.0	1.1	2.3	2.8	1.22
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
4	CL	Roy Face	28	12	13	.480	3.52	68	3	34	0	0	6	135.1	131	57	53	16	42	15	96	1	0	1	569	107	1.278	8.7	1.1	2.8	6.4	2.29
5	RP	Red Munger	37	3	4	.429	4.04	35	13	6	0	0	2	107.0	126	56	48	8	41	6	45	0	0	3	475	93	1.561	10.6	0.7	3.4	3.8	1.10
6	RP	Dick Hall	25	0	7	.000	4.76	19	9	5	1	0	1	62.1	64	36	33	8	21	3	27	0	0	0	267	79	1.364	9.2	1.2	3.0	3.9	1.29
7	RP	Nellie King	28	4	1	.800	3.15	38	0	21	0	0	5	60.0	54	24	21	8	19	5	25	1	1	2	246	120	1.217	8.1	1.2	2.9	3.8	1.32
8	RP	Fred Waters*	29	2	2	.500	2.82	23	5	6	1	0	0	51.0	48	18	16	3	30	1	14	1	0	1	224	134	1.529	8.5	0.5	5.3	2.5	0.47
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
9		Cholly Naranjo	21	1	2	.333	4.46	17	3	7	0	0	0	34.1	37	22	17	7	17	1	26	1	0	1	155	85	1.573	9.7	1.8	4.5	6.8	1.53
10		Laurin Pepper	25	1	1	.500	3.00	11	7	2	0	0	0	30.0	30	17	10	1	25	1	12	0	0	0	143	126	1.833	9.0	0.3	7.5	3.6	0.48
11		Luis Arroyo*	29	3	3	.500	4.71	18	2	4	1	0	0	28.2	36	17	15	5	12	1	17	0	0	0	134	80	1.674	11.3	1.6	3.8	5.3	1.42
12		Howie Pollet*	35	0	4	.000	3.09	19	0	8	0	0	3	23.1	18	10	8	3	8	1	10	0	0	1	96	122	1.114	6.9	1.2	3.1	3.9	1.25
13		Johnny O'Brien	25	1	0	1.000	2.84	8	0	4	0	0	0	19.0	8	6	6	2	9	0	9	2	0	1	73	133	0.895	3.8	0.9	4.3	4.3	1.00
14		Jack McMahan*	23	0	0		6.08	11	0	3	0	0	0	13.1	18	9	9	1	9	0	9	0	0	1	64	62	2.025	12.2	0.7	6.1	6.1	1.00
15		Dick Littlefield*	30	0	0		4.26	6	2	0	0	0	0	12.2	14	8	6	2	6	0	10	0	0	2	55	88	1.579	9.9	1.4	4.3	7.1	1.67
16		Red Swanson	19	0	0		10.03	9	0	1	0	0	0	11.2	21	13	13	1	8	1	5	0	0	1	63	38	2.486	16.2	0.8	6.2	3.9	0.63
17		Bob Purkey	26	0	0		2.25	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	14	168	0.500	4.5	2.3	0.0	2.3
18		Bob Garber	27	0	0		2.25	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	3	1	1	1	3	1	3	0	0	0	18	168	1.500	6.8	2.3	6.8	6.8	1.00
19		Eddie O'Brien	25	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7		0.500	4.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
20		Max Surkont	34	0	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	11	84	2.500	9.0	0.0	13.5	4.5	0.33
21		Lino Donoso*	33	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	9		1.800	10.8	0.0	5.4	5.4	1.00
		Team Totals	26.6	66	88	.429	3.74	157	157	120	37	6	24	1376.1	1406	653	572	142	469	72	662	20	1	37	5891	101	1.362	9.2	0.9	3.1	4.3	1.41
		Rank in 8 NL teams		7	2		3				6	5	6	7	6	4	3	3	5		5695
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
Luis Arroyo	29	18	2	28.2	6	1	5	0	0	1.000									1.88	0.33						P
Toby Atwell	32	9	6	41.1	29	27	2	0	0	1.000	-1.0	-29.0						-1	6.31	3.22	1	2	3	0	0%	C
Roberto Clemente	21	152	130	1174.1	315	280	20	15	2	.952	3.8	3.9	3.8	3.0	0.8	0	0		2.30	1.97						RF-LF-CF-2B-3B
Dick Cole	30	36	16	150.0	60	20	38	2	9	.967	-1.6	-12.8	-0.6	0.9	-1.4		-1		3.48	1.61						3B-2B-SS
Bobby Del Greco	23	12	6	48.0	14	11	3	0	0	1.000	-0.4	-10.0	-0.4	0.2	-0.6	0	0		2.62	1.17						CF-3B-RF
Lino Donoso	33	3	0	1.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									5.40	0.33						P
Roy Face	28	68	3	135.1	36	10	25	1	2	.972									2.33	0.51						P
Hank Foiles	27	73	66	563.0	325	291	30	4	8	.988	2.0	4.3						2	5.13	4.40	7	12	4	11	73%	C
Gene Freese	22	73	50	452.1	188	69	115	4	9	.979	1.7	4.5	1.7	2.2	-0.4		0		3.66	2.52						3B-2B
Bob Friend	25	49	42	314.1	65	14	49	2	1	.969									1.80	1.29						P
Bob Garber	27	2	0	4.0	1	0	0	1	0	.000									0.00	0.00						P
Dick Groat	25	143	138	1219.0	746	288	424	34	75	.954	0.1	0.1	1.1	0.6	0.6		-1		5.26	4.98						SS-3B
Bill Hall	27	1	0	7.0	8	7	1	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0						0	10.29	8.00	0	0	0	1	100%	C
Dick Hall	25	20	10	65.1	13	6	7	0	0	1.000	-0.1	-1.8	-0.1	0.0	-0.1		0		1.79	0.65						P-1B
Spook Jacobs	30	11	11	90.2	54	26	24	4	5	.926	-1.7	-22.5	-1.7	0.0	-1.7		0		4.96	4.55						2B
Nellie King	28	38	0	60.0	11	6	5	0	0	1.000									1.65	0.29						P
Ron Kline	24	44	39	264.0	63	17	42	4	3	.937									2.01	1.34						P
Danny Kravitz	25	28	14	136.1	109	93	10	6	2	.945	-0.9	-7.9	0.1	0.0	0.1		0	-1	6.80	3.68	5	2	2	2	50%	C-3B
Vern Law	26	39	32	195.2	43	12	31	0	3	1.000									1.98	1.10						P
Dick Littlefield	30	6	2	12.2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000									0.71	0.17						P
Dale Long	30	138	136	1195.2	1324	1201	99	24	92	.982	-4.3	-4.3	-3.3	-4.2	0.9		-1		9.79	9.42						1B
Jerry Lynch	25	1	1	5.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000									5.40	3.00						LF
Bill Mazeroski	19	81	81	671.0	413	163	242	8	56	.981	2.1	3.8	1.1	0.8	0.3		1		5.43	5.00						2B
Jack McMahan	23	11	0	13.1	4	0	4	0	0	1.000									2.70	0.36						P
Red Munger	37	35	13	107.0	22	4	16	2	1	.909									1.68	0.57						P
Cholly Naranjo	21	17	3	34.1	17	8	9	0	0	1.000									4.46	1.00						P
Eddie O'Brien	25	37	17	167.0	94	38	54	2	14	.979	-1.1	-7.9	-1.1	0.7	-1.8	0	0		4.96	2.49						SS-LF-3B-CF-P-2B-RF
Johnny O'Brien	25	62	28	271.2	175	67	99	9	17	.949	2.3	10.2	2.3	1.7	0.5		0		5.50	2.68						2B-P-SS
Laurin Pepper	25	11	7	30.0	4	2	2	0	0	1.000									1.20	0.36						P
Howie Pollet	35	19	0	23.1	7	3	4	0	0	1.000									2.70	0.37						P
John Powers	26	5	3	35.0	9	9	0	0	0	1.000	0.7	24.0	0.7	0.4	0.3	0			2.31	1.80						LF-RF
Bob Purkey	26	2	0	4.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									2.25	0.50						P
Curt Roberts	26	27	17	154.2	85	39	45	1	12	.988	2.5	19.4	2.5	1.9	0.6		0		4.89	3.11						2B
Jack Shepard	24	88	72	639.0	399	359	36	4	4	.990	2.7	5.1	-0.3	0.0	-0.3		0	3	5.56	4.49	4	8	11	12	52%	C-1B
Bob Skinner	24	60	49	406.1	217	206	9	2	21	.991	-4.3	-12.7	-5.3	-2.0	-3.3	1	0		4.76	3.58						1B-LF-RF-3B
Max Surkont	34	1	0	2.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									4.50	1.00						P
Red Swanson	19	9	0	11.2	6	1	5	0	0	1.000									4.63	0.67						P
Frank Thomas	27	172	155	1327.1	410	212	179	19	22	.954	-2.8	-2.5	-2.8	0.0	-2.8	0	0		2.65	2.27						3B-LF-2B
Bill Virdon	25	130	126	1113.0	347	333	10	4	1	.988	-4.5	-4.9	-3.5	-0.9	-2.6	-1			2.77	2.64						CF
Lee Walls	23	140	124	1098.0	310	288	9	13	1	.958	3.4	3.7	3.4	3.0	0.4	0			2.43	2.12						LF-RF-CF-3B
Preston Ward	28	10	9	59.0	8	5	3	0	0	1.000	-1.8	-36.6	-1.8	-0.3	-1.4	0	0		1.22	0.80						3B-RF
Fred Waters	29	23	5	51.0	5	2	3	0	0	1.000									0.88	0.22						P
Team Totals	25.4	157	1413	12383.0	5954	4129	1663	162	362	.973	-3.2	-0.3	-4.2	8.0	-11.9	0	-2	3	4.21	3.07	17	24	20	26	57%
Rank in 8 NL teams								1	7	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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