1957 Pittsburgh Pirates Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1957 Pittsburgh Pirates Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1956 / 1958)
62-92, Finished 7th in National League
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Scored 586 runs, Allowed 696 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 65-89
Manager: Bobby Bragan (36-67) and Danny Murtaugh (26-25)
Ballpark: Forbes Field (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 850,732 (6th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 97, Pitching - 98; one-year: Batting - 94, Pitching - 96

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1956 / 1958 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	Hank Foiles	28	109	322	281	32	76	10	4	9	36	1	3	37	53	.270	.352	.431	.783	112	121	5	0	1	3	5
2	1B	Dee Fondy*	32	95	357	323	42	101	13	2	2	35	11	5	25	59	.313	.360	.384	.744	103	124	5	1	4	4	0
3	2B	Bill Mazeroski	20	148	568	526	59	149	27	7	8	54	3	3	27	49	.283	.318	.407	.725	96	214	6	1	11	3	2
4	SS	Dick Groat	26	125	551	501	58	158	30	5	7	54	0	1	27	28	.315	.350	.437	.787	113	219	16	3	14	6	1
5	3B	Gene Freese	23	114	372	346	44	98	18	2	6	31	9	4	17	42	.283	.319	.399	.718	94	138	4	2	5	2	0
6	LF	Bob Skinner*	25	126	431	387	58	118	12	6	13	45	10	4	38	50	.305	.370	.468	.838	127	181	2	2	4	0	6
7	CF	Bill Virdon*	26	144	605	561	59	141	28	11	8	50	3	3	33	69	.251	.291	.383	.675	82	215	8	0	8	3	5
8	RF	Roberto Clemente	22	111	475	451	42	114	17	7	4	30	0	4	23	45	.253	.288	.348	.637	73	157	13	0	0	1	1
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	Frank Thomas	28	151	658	594	72	172	30	1	23	89	3	1	44	66	.290	.335	.460	.795	114	273	16	3	5	12	9
10	IF	Gene Baker	32	111	407	365	36	97	19	4	2	36	3	2	29	29	.266	.318	.356	.674	84	130	8	1	8	4	5
11	OF	Paul Smith*	26	81	167	150	12	38	4	0	3	11	0	2	12	17	.253	.313	.340	.653	78	51	5	1	4	0	1
12	RF	Roman Mejias	26	58	153	142	12	39	7	4	2	15	2	2	6	13	.275	.309	.423	.731	97	60	3	1	4	0	1
13	C	Dick Rand	26	60	122	105	7	23	2	1	1	9	0	0	11	24	.219	.288	.286	.574	58	30	0	0	4	2	1
14	C	Hardy Peterson	27	30	85	73	10	22	2	1	2	11	0	1	9	10	.301	.378	.438	.816	122	32	5	0	3	0	2
15	UT	Jim Pendleton	33	46	72	59	9	18	1	1	0	9	0	0	9	14	.305	.394	.356	.750	107	21	2	1	1	2	1
16	OF	John Powers*	27	20	44	35	7	10	3	0	2	8	0	0	5	9	.286	.409	.543	.952	157	19	0	3	0	1	0
17	C	Danny Kravitz*	26	19	43	41	2	6	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	10	.146	.186	.171	.357	-2	7	0	0	0	0	0
18	MI	Johnny O'Brien	26	34	39	35	7	11	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	4	.314	.368	.429	.797	117	15	1	2	1	0	0
19	1B	Dale Long*	31	7	27	22	0	4	1	0	0	5	0	0	4	10	.182	.296	.227	.524	46	5	1	0	0	1	0
20	LF	Lee Walls	24	8	24	22	3	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	.182	.250	.227	.477	32	5	0	0	0	0	0
21	MI	Buddy Pritchard	21	23	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	-50	1	0	0	1	0	0
22	SS	Ken Hamlin	22	2	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
23	P	Bob Friend	26	40	100	87	5	16	2	0	0	4	0	0	6	22	.184	.234	.207	.441	22	18	0	0	6	1	0
24	P	Ron Kline	25	40	70	66	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	24	.061	.075	.061	.135	-62	4	2	0	3	0	0
25	P	Vern Law	27	34	69	63	3	12	1	1	0	6	0	0	1	11	.190	.215	.238	.453	24	15	0	1	4	0	0
26	P	Bob Purkey	27	48	52	45	3	5	0	2	0	6	0	0	3	22	.111	.180	.200	.380	4	9	0	1	2	1	0
27	P	Luis Arroyo*	30	56	34	32	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.156	.182	.156	.338	-6	5	1	0	1	0	0
28	P	Roy Face	29	59	17	16	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	-31	2	0	0	1	0	0
29	P	Whammy Douglas	22	11	16	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	.063	.063	.063	.125	-66	1	3	0	0	0	0
30	P	Bob Smith	26	20	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.077	.077	.077	.154	-58	1	0	0	1	0	0
31	P	Red Swanson	20	32	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.000	.071	.000	.071	-78	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Joe Trimble	26	5	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	-22	1	1	0	0	0	0
33	P	Nellie King	29	36	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
34	P	Eddie O'Brien	26	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Bennie Daniels*	25	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Chuck Churn	27	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Dick Hall	26	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	26.1	155	5942	5402	586	1447	231	60	92	551	46	35	374	733	.268	.315	.384	.699	90	2074	107	23	97	46	40
		Rank in 8 NL teams				3	8	4	3	2	8		6	4	8	5	4	6	6	6		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

* - 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	26	14	18	.438	3.38	40	38	1	17	3	0	277.0	273	121	104	28	68	8	143	1	1	3	1148	112	1.231	8.9	0.9	2.2	4.6	2.10
2	SP	Ron Kline	25	9	16	.360	4.04	40	31	2	11	2	0	205.0	214	107	92	28	61	6	88	1	0	2	871	94	1.341	9.4	1.2	2.7	3.9	1.44
3	SP	Vern Law	27	10	8	.556	2.87	31	25	5	9	3	1	172.2	172	72	55	18	32	8	55	2	0	2	716	133	1.181	9.0	0.9	1.7	2.9	1.72
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	29	4	6	.400	3.07	59	1	32	0	0	10	93.2	97	41	32	9	24	5	53	1	0	2	395	124	1.292	9.3	0.9	2.3	5.1	2.21
5	RP	Bob Purkey	27	11	14	.440	3.86	48	21	11	6	1	2	179.2	194	84	77	10	38	9	51	7	0	2	761	99	1.291	9.7	0.5	1.9	2.6	1.34
6	RP	Luis Arroyo*	30	3	11	.214	4.68	54	10	15	0	0	1	130.2	151	76	68	19	31	9	101	7	0	6	585	81	1.393	10.4	1.3	2.1	7.0	3.26
7	RP	Red Swanson	20	3	3	.500	3.72	32	8	8	1	0	0	72.2	68	35	30	9	31	3	29	1	0	1	309	102	1.362	8.4	1.1	3.8	3.6	0.94
8	RP	Nellie King	29	2	1	.667	4.50	36	0	19	0	0	1	52.0	69	27	26	7	16	6	23	2	0	1	229	84	1.635	11.9	1.2	2.8	4.0	1.44
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		Bob Smith*	26	2	4	.333	3.11	20	4	4	2	0	0	55.0	48	22	19	2	25	3	35	1	0	2	237	122	1.327	7.9	0.3	4.1	5.7	1.40
10		Whammy Douglas	22	3	3	.500	3.26	11	8	1	0	0	0	47.0	48	23	17	5	30	2	28	3	0	0	213	117	1.660	9.2	1.0	5.7	5.4	0.93
11		Johnny O'Brien	26	0	3	.000	6.08	16	1	5	0	0	0	40.0	46	32	27	7	24	2	19	1	0	2	188	63	1.750	10.4	1.6	5.4	4.3	0.79
12		Joe Trimble	26	0	2	.000	8.24	5	4	0	0	0	0	19.2	23	19	18	7	13	1	9	1	0	2	95	46	1.831	10.5	3.2	5.9	4.1	0.69
13		Eddie O'Brien	26	1	0	1.000	2.19	3	1	0	1	0	0	12.1	11	3	3	2	3	0	10	0	0	0	51	174	1.135	8.0	1.5	2.2	7.3	3.33
14		Dick Hall	26	0	0		10.80	8	0	0	0	0	0	10.0	17	12	12	4	5	1	7	1	0	0	53	35	2.200	15.3	3.6	4.5	6.3	1.40
15		Laurin Pepper	26	0	1	.000	8.00	5	1	1	0	0	0	9.0	11	8	8	1	5	2	4	0	0	0	43	48	1.778	11.0	1.0	5.0	4.0	0.80
16		Chuck Churn	27	0	0		4.32	5	0	3	0	0	0	8.1	9	4	4	1	4	1	4	0	0	1	34	88	1.560	9.7	1.1	4.3	4.3	1.00
17		Bennie Daniels	25	0	1	.000	1.29	1	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	5	2	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	28	296	1.143	6.4	0.0	3.9	2.6	0.67
18		Bob Kuzava*	34	0	0		9.00	4	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	12	42	3.000	13.5	0.0	13.5	4.5	0.33
19		George Witt	23	0	1	.000	40.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.1	4	6	6	1	5	0	1	0	0	0	13	9	6.750	27.0	6.8	33.8	6.8	0.20
		Team Totals	26.4	62	92	.403	3.88	155	155	108	47	9	15	1395.0	1463	696	601	158	421	66	663	29	1	26	5981	98	1.351	9.4	1.0	2.7	4.3	1.57
		Rank in 8 NL teams		7	1						3	3	8	7	7	5	5	7	2		8
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	30	54	10	130.2	17	4	12	1	0	.941	0.0	0.0							1.10	0.30						P
Gene Baker	32	101	91	833.2	368	129	219	20	35	.946	-3.9	-5.6	-4.9	1.0	-5.8		1		3.76	3.45						3B-SS-2B
Chuck Churn	27	5	0	8.1	6	2	4	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							6.48	1.20						P
Roberto Clemente	22	111	107	945.1	287	272	9	6	1	.979	23.8	30.2	17.8	6.2	11.6	6			2.68	2.53						RF-CF
Bennie Daniels	25	1	1	7.0	6	1	4	1	0	.833	0.0	0.0							6.43	5.00						P
Whammy Douglas	22	11	8	46.0	11	4	6	1	0	.909	0.0	0.0							1.96	0.91						P
Roy Face	29	59	1	93.2	13	4	9	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.25	0.22						P
Hank Foiles	28	109	90	788.0	477	436	32	9	2	.981	-1.0	-1.5						-1	5.35	4.29	9	15	18	10	36%	C
Dee Fondy	32	73	71	651.0	766	698	54	14	63	.982	1.4	2.6	1.4	0.9	0.5		0		10.40	10.30						1B
Gene Freese	23	94	80	721.1	261	94	149	18	20	.931	3.6	6.0	1.6	-1.0	2.5	1	1		3.03	2.59						3B-LF-2B
Bob Friend	26	40	38	277.0	57	18	38	1	3	.982	0.0	0.0							1.82	1.40						P
Dick Groat	26	125	124	1099.0	632	226	385	21	74	.967	5.3	5.8	4.3	-2.1	6.4		1		5.00	4.89						SS-3B
Dick Hall	26	8	0	10.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Ken Hamlin	22	1	0	1.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0		18.00	2.00						SS
Nellie King	29	36	0	52.0	12	6	6	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.08	0.33						P
Ron Kline	25	40	31	205.0	46	18	27	1	2	.978	0.0	0.0							1.98	1.13						P
Danny Kravitz	26	15	6	74.0	54	45	9	0	1	1.000	-1.0	-16.2						-1	6.57	3.60	0	2	5	1	17%	C
Bob Kuzava	34	4	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Vern Law	27	31	25	173.2	38	13	23	2	2	.947	0.0	0.0							1.87	1.16						P
Dale Long	31	7	6	51.0	59	54	5	0	6	1.000	0.4	9.4	0.4	0.3	0.1		0		10.41	8.43						1B
Bill Mazeroski	20	144	141	1238.1	768	308	443	17	96	.978	8.4	8.1	6.4	3.1	3.4		2		5.46	5.22						2B
Roman Mejias	26	43	30	290.0	64	58	6	0	0	1.000	2.2	9.1	0.2	-0.7	0.9	2			1.99	1.49						RF-LF-CF
Eddie O'Brien	26	3	1	12.1	2	0	2	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.46	0.67						P
Johnny O'Brien	26	26	8	102.0	34	14	16	4	2	.882	-0.8	-9.4	-0.8	0.0	-0.8		0		2.65	1.15						SS-P-2B
Jim Pendleton	33	12	9	86.0	18	13	3	2	0	.889	-2.6	-36.3	-2.6	-0.9	-1.7	0	0		1.67	1.33						RF-3B-LF-CF-SS
Laurin Pepper	26	5	1	9.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.00	0.20						P
Hardy Peterson	27	30	25	212.2	132	116	14	2	3	.985	2.0	11.3						2	5.50	4.33	2	0	7	7	50%	C
John Powers	27	8	6	66.1	16	15	1	0	0	1.000	1.1	19.9	1.1	1.6	-0.5	0			2.17	2.00						LF-RF
Buddy Pritchard	21	13	2	34.0	20	11	8	1	3	.950	-1.7	-60.0	-1.7	-0.7	-1.0		0		5.03	1.46						SS-2B
Bob Purkey	27	48	21	179.2	46	13	30	3	3	.935	0.0	0.0							2.15	0.90						P
Dick Rand	26	57	34	320.1	188	172	11	5	5	.973	-1.0	-3.7						-1	5.14	3.21	3	3	10	4	29%	C
Bob Skinner	25	103	92	821.2	259	233	18	8	9	.969	4.2	6.1	0.2	-1.6	1.8	4	0		2.75	2.44						LF-1B-3B
Bob Smith	26	20	4	55.0	9	3	5	1	0	.889	0.0	0.0							1.31	0.40						P
Paul Smith	26	38	24	221.1	56	54	2	0	0	1.000	0.3	1.6	0.3	-0.4	0.7	0			2.28	1.47						RF-LF-1B-CF
Red Swanson	20	32	8	72.2	12	4	8	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.49	0.38						P
Frank Thomas	28	168	151	1353.0	866	721	120	25	60	.971	-1.2	-1.1	-5.2	-0.7	-4.4	4	0		5.59	5.01						1B-LF-3B-RF-CF
Joe Trimble	26	5	4	19.2	7	1	5	1	1	.857	0.0	0.0							2.75	1.20						P
Bill Virdon	26	141	138	1242.0	414	396	11	7	1	.983	13.2	12.8	10.2	2.4	7.9	3			2.95	2.89						CF
Lee Walls	24	7	6	47.0	14	13	1	0	0	1.000	0.3	7.7	0.3	-0.2	0.4	0			2.68	2.00						LF
George Witt	23	1	1	1.1	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Team Totals	26.2	155	1395	12554.0	6050	4185	1695	170	396	.972	53.0	5.1	29.0	7.2	22.0	20	5	-1	4.22	3.24	14	20	40	22	35%
Rank in 8 NL teams								1	4	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

1956 / 1958 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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