1956 St. Louis Cardinals Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1956 St. Louis Cardinals Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1955 / 1957)
76-78, Finished 4th in National League
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Scored 678 runs, Allowed 698 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 75-79
Manager: Fred Hutchinson (76-78)
Ballpark: Sportsman's Park IV (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,029,773 (4th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 100; one-year: Batting - 99, Pitching - 99

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1955 / 1957 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	Hal Smith	25	75	242	227	27	64	12	0	5	23	1	0	15	22	.282	.326	.401	.727	95	91	7	0	0	0	4
2	1B	Stan Musial*	35	156	682	594	87	184	33	6	27	109	2	0	75	39	.310	.386	.522	.908	142	310	19	3	3	7	15
3	2B	Don Blasingame*	24	150	665	587	94	153	22	7	0	27	8	8	72	52	.261	.344	.322	.666	81	189	3	3	2	1	0
4	SS	Alvin Dark	34	100	442	413	54	118	14	7	4	37	3	1	21	33	.286	.320	.383	.703	89	158	9	2	2	4	0
5	3B	Ken Boyer	25	150	639	595	91	182	30	2	26	98	8	3	38	65	.306	.347	.494	.841	123	294	18	1	2	3	7
6	LF	Rip Repulski	27	112	410	376	44	104	18	3	11	55	2	2	24	46	.277	.330	.428	.758	102	161	14	7	1	2	3
7	CF	Bobby Del Greco	23	102	315	270	29	58	16	2	5	18	1	1	32	50	.215	.308	.344	.652	76	93	2	6	3	4	3
8	RF	Wally Moon*	26	149	622	540	86	161	22	11	16	68	12	9	80	50	.298	.390	.469	.858	130	253	13	1	1	0	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
9	OF	Whitey Lockman*	29	70	213	193	14	48	0	2	0	10	2	2	18	8	.249	.311	.269	.581	59	52	2	0	1	1	4
10	LF	Hank Sauer	39	75	181	151	11	45	4	0	5	24	0	0	25	31	.298	.403	.424	.827	124	64	5	3	0	2	3
11	2B	Red Schoendienst#	33	40	168	153	22	48	9	0	0	15	0	1	13	5	.314	.365	.373	.738	100	57	2	0	1	1	0
12	C	Ray Katt	29	47	167	158	11	41	4	0	6	20	0	1	6	24	.259	.289	.399	.688	83	63	2	1	1	1	1
13	C	Bill Sarni	28	43	159	148	12	43	7	2	5	22	1	0	8	15	.291	.329	.466	.795	111	69	4	1	1	1	2
14	IF	Bobby Morgan	30	61	130	113	14	22	7	0	3	20	0	2	15	24	.195	.287	.336	.623	67	38	4	0	1	1	0
15	2B	Grady Hatton*	33	44	89	73	10	18	1	2	0	7	1	0	13	7	.247	.360	.315	.676	85	23	3	0	3	0	0
16	CF	Bill Virdon*	25	24	80	71	10	15	2	0	2	9	0	1	5	8	.211	.269	.324	.593	59	23	0	1	2	1	2
17	C	Walker Cooper	41	40	72	68	5	18	5	1	2	14	0	0	3	8	.265	.296	.456	.752	99	31	2	0	1	0	1
18	UT	Rocky Nelson*	31	38	62	56	6	13	5	0	3	8	0	0	6	6	.232	.306	.482	.789	108	27	2	0	0	0	1
19	CF	Charlie Peete*	27	23	59	52	3	10	2	2	0	6	0	2	6	10	.192	.288	.308	.596	61	16	6	1	0	0	0
20	CF	Jackie Brandt	22	27	48	42	9	12	3	0	1	3	0	1	4	5	.286	.362	.429	.790	112	18	1	1	1	0	0
21	SS	Dick Schofield#	21	16	30	30	3	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.100	.100	.167	.267	-30	5	1	0	0	0	0
22	RF	Joe Frazier*	33	14	22	19	1	4	2	0	1	4	0	1	3	3	.211	.318	.474	.792	110	9	0	0	0	0	0
23	UT	Chuck Harmon	32	20	17	15	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.118	.000	.118	-64	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	SS	Alex Grammas	30	6	13	12	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.250	.308	.250	.558	53	3	0	0	0	0	0
25		Solly Hemus*	33	8	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.200	.429	.200	.629	78	1	0	1	1	0	0
26	1B	Joe Cunningham*	24	4	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	-24	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	1B	Tom Alston*	30	3	2	2	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
28	P	Vinegar Bend Mizell	25	33	85	75	5	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	4	16	.107	.163	.120	.283	-22	9	4	1	5	0	0
29	P	Murry Dickson	39	32	80	77	6	19	2	2	0	6	0	0	1	9	.247	.256	.325	.581	55	25	1	0	2	0	0
30	P	Tom Poholsky	26	33	73	69	7	11	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	14	.159	.171	.188	.360	-3	13	2	0	3	0	0
31	P	Herm Wehmeier	29	42	61	58	6	13	3	0	2	8	0	0	2	17	.224	.250	.379	.629	67	22	0	0	1	0	0
32	P	Willard Schmidt	28	33	48	43	3	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	16	.233	.267	.256	.522	42	11	0	0	3	0	0
33	P	Lindy McDaniel	20	39	33	32	1	7	4	0	0	2	0	0	1	10	.219	.242	.344	.586	56	11	1	0	0	0	0
34	P	Jackie Collum*	29	38	17	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	.214	.294	.214	.508	40	3	0	0	0	1	0
35	P	Larry Jackson	25	51	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.091	.167	.091	.258	-28	1	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Harvey Haddix*	30	5	11	9	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.222	.364	.333	.697	90	3	1	0	0	0	0
37	P	Bob Blaylock	21	14	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	-51	1	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Ben Flowers	29	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Gordon Jones	26	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Ellis Kinder	41	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Dick Littlefield*	30	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Don Liddle*	31	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	P	Max Surkont	34	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	P	Stu Miller	28	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	P	Jim Konstanty	39	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		.000				0	0	0	0	1	0
		Team Totals	28.6	156	5986	5378	678	1443	234	49	124	628	41	35	503	622	.268	.333	.399	.732	96	2147	128	33	41	31	53
		Rank in 8 NL teams				1	4	1	1	4	6		6	3	4	8	1	3	4	4		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

* - 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	Vinegar Bend Mizell*	25	14	14	.500	3.62	33	33	0	11	3	0	208.2	172	93	84	20	92	5	153	7	0	4	881	104	1.265	7.4	0.9	4.0	6.6	1.66
2	SP	Tom Poholsky	26	9	14	.391	3.59	33	29	1	7	2	0	203.0	210	100	81	27	44	7	95	5	0	6	847	105	1.251	9.3	1.2	2.0	4.2	2.16
3	SP	Murry Dickson	39	13	8	.619	3.07	28	27	0	12	3	0	196.1	175	75	67	20	57	4	109	1	0	7	799	123	1.182	8.0	0.9	2.6	5.0	1.91
4	SP	Herm Wehmeier	29	12	9	.571	3.69	34	19	6	7	2	1	170.2	150	80	70	16	71	8	68	1	0	2	715	102	1.295	7.9	0.8	3.7	3.6	0.96
5	SP	Willard Schmidt	28	6	8	.429	3.84	33	21	6	2	0	1	147.2	131	69	63	18	78	7	52	1	0	6	629	98	1.415	8.0	1.1	4.8	3.2	0.67
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	Larry Jackson	25	2	2	.500	4.11	51	1	26	0	0	9	85.1	75	44	39	5	45	8	50	1	1	4	366	92	1.406	7.9	0.5	4.7	5.3	1.11
7	RP	Lindy McDaniel	20	7	6	.538	3.40	39	7	10	1	0	0	116.1	121	60	44	7	42	7	59	0	0	8	499	111	1.401	9.4	0.5	3.2	4.6	1.40
8	RP	Jackie Collum*	29	6	2	.750	4.20	38	1	20	0	0	7	60.0	63	29	28	6	27	6	17	2	0	2	260	90	1.500	9.5	0.9	4.1	2.6	0.63
9	RP	Jim Konstanty	39	1	1	.500	4.58	27	0	16	0	0	5	39.1	46	20	20	4	6	1	7	0	0	0	167	82	1.322	10.5	0.9	1.4	1.6	1.17
10	RP	Ellis Kinder	41	2	0	1.000	3.51	22	0	17	0	0	6	25.2	23	11	10	3	9	3	4	0	0	0	108	108	1.247	8.1	1.1	3.2	1.4	0.44
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
11		Bob Blaylock	21	1	6	.143	6.37	14	6	3	0	0	0	41.0	45	32	29	7	24	1	39	0	0	0	189	59	1.683	9.9	1.5	5.3	8.6	1.63
12		Don Liddle*	31	1	2	.333	8.39	14	2	6	0	0	0	24.2	36	25	23	8	18	5	14	0	0	3	122	45	2.189	13.1	2.9	6.6	5.1	0.78
13		Harvey Haddix*	30	1	0	1.000	5.32	4	4	0	1	1	0	23.2	28	15	14	3	10	0	16	0	0	1	106	71	1.606	10.6	1.1	3.8	6.1	1.60
14		Ben Flowers	29	1	1	.500	6.94	3	3	0	0	0	0	11.2	15	9	9	1	5	1	5	0	0	0	53	54	1.714	11.6	0.8	3.9	3.9	1.00
15		Gordon Jones	26	0	2	.000	5.56	5	1	0	0	0	0	11.1	14	9	7	2	5	0	6	0	0	0	53	68	1.676	11.1	1.6	4.0	4.8	1.20
16		Dick Littlefield*	30	0	2	.000	7.45	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.2	9	9	8	2	4	1	5	0	0	0	43	51	1.345	8.4	1.9	3.7	4.7	1.25
17		Stu Miller	28	0	1	.000	4.91	3	0	2	0	0	1	7.1	12	6	4	3	5	0	5	0	0	0	37	77	2.318	14.7	3.7	6.1	6.1	1.00
18		Max Surkont	34	0	0		9.53	5	0	2	0	0	0	5.2	10	6	6	3	2	0	5	0	0	0	27	40	2.118	15.9	4.8	3.2	7.9	2.50
19		Paul LaPalme*	32	0	0		81.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	4	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	8	5	9.000	54.0	0.0	27.0	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	28.6	76	78	.494	3.97	156	156	115	41	11	30	1388.2	1339	698	612	155	546	64	709	18	1	45	5909	95	1.357	8.7	1.0	3.5	4.6	1.30
		Rank in 8 NL teams		4	5						5	1	1	4	5	6	6	5	6		5
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
Tom Alston	30	3	0	5.2	5	4	1	0	1	1.000	0.7	148.2	0.7	0.4	0.3		0		7.94	1.67						1B
Don Blasingame	24	149	145	1282.2	836	373	442	21	120	.975	13.6	12.7	10.6	3.0	7.5		3		5.72	5.47						2B-SS-3B
Bob Blaylock	21	14	6	41.0	9	1	8	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.98	0.64						P
Ken Boyer	25	149	148	1298.2	457	130	309	18	37	.961	16.6	15.3	14.6	0.8	13.8		2		3.04	2.95						3B
Jackie Brandt	22	26	10	110.0	35	34	1	0	1	1.000	-1.1	-12.0	0.9	0.1	0.6	-2			2.86	1.35						CF-RF-LF
Jackie Collum	29	38	1	60.0	22	4	16	2	1	.909	0.0	0.0							3.00	0.53						P
Walker Cooper	41	16	12	112.0	61	56	4	1	0	.984	-4.0	-42.9						-4	4.82	3.75	2	9	5	0	0%	C
Joe Cunningham	24	1	0	2.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0.2	-120.0	-0.2	0.0	-0.2		0		9.00	2.00						1B
Alvin Dark	34	99	99	857.1	490	178	292	20	66	.959	5.2	7.3	4.2	-0.9	5.1		1		4.93	4.75						SS
Bobby Del Greco	23	99	87	760.1	223	215	4	4	0	.982	3.9	6.2	0.9	1.3	-0.4	3			2.59	2.21						CF
Murry Dickson	39	28	27	196.1	70	24	45	1	4	.986	0.0	0.0							3.16	2.46						P
Ben Flowers	29	3	3	11.2	4	2	2	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							3.09	1.33						P
Joe Frazier	33	3	3	25.0	5	4	0	1	0	.800	-0.8	-38.4	-0.8	0.0	-0.8	0			1.44	1.33						RF
Alex Grammas	30	5	3	31.0	12	3	9	0	1	1.000	0.9	34.8	0.9	0.4	0.5		0		3.48	2.40						SS
Harvey Haddix	30	4	4	23.2	4	3	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.52	1.00						P
Chuck Harmon	32	15	4	45.0	14	13	1	0	1	1.000	-0.2	-5.3	-0.2	-0.4	0.1	0			2.80	0.93						RF-CF-LF-1B-3B
Grady Hatton	33	14	12	112.0	61	24	34	3	8	.951	-0.7	-7.5	-0.7	0.1	-0.8		0		4.66	4.14						2B-3B
Larry Jackson	25	51	1	85.1	33	4	26	3	0	.909	0.0	0.0							3.16	0.59						P
Gordon Jones	26	5	1	11.1	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.59	0.40						P
Ray Katt	29	47	46	404.0	251	231	16	4	3	.984	-2.0	-5.9						-2	5.50	5.26	2	8	14	4	22%	C
Ellis Kinder	41	22	0	25.2	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.70	0.09						P
Jim Konstanty	39	27	0	39.1	5	0	5	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.14	0.19						P
Paul LaPalme	32	1	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Don Liddle	31	14	2	24.2	7	3	3	1	0	.857	0.0	0.0							2.19	0.43						P
Dick Littlefield	30	3	2	9.2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.93	0.33						P
Whitey Lockman	29	66	47	433.1	128	119	2	7	1	.945	-0.6	-1.7	0.4	-1.1	1.6	-1	0		2.51	1.83						LF-CF-RF-1B
Lindy McDaniel	20	39	7	116.1	36	9	24	3	0	.917	0.0	0.0							2.55	0.85						P
Stu Miller	28	3	0	7.1	1	0	1	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.23	0.33						P
Vinegar Bend Mizell	25	33	33	208.2	51	19	30	2	2	.961	0.0	0.0							2.11	1.48						P
Wally Moon	26	149	147	1292.1	722	656	55	11	54	.985	0.2	0.2	-1.8	-2.6	0.8	2	0		4.95	4.77						RF-1B-CF
Bobby Morgan	30	30	22	217.1	104	42	56	6	6	.942	-2.2	-12.1	-0.2	1.6	-1.7		-2		4.06	3.27						2B-3B-SS
Stan Musial	35	157	156	1340.1	1055	953	94	8	96	.992	2.4	2.1	1.4	6.1	-4.7	2	-1		7.03	6.67						1B-RF-LF
Rocky Nelson	31	22	8	108.1	72	65	7	0	6	1.000	1.7	18.8	1.7	1.5	0.2	0	0		5.98	3.27						LF-1B
Charlie Peete	27	21	13	130.2	40	37	3	0	1	1.000	2.1	19.3	1.1	0.5	0.5	1			2.76	1.90						CF
Tom Poholsky	26	33	29	203.0	47	12	35	0	3	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.08	1.42						P
Rip Repulski	27	102	93	831.1	190	183	2	5	0	.974	0.3	0.4	4.3	0.1	4.2	-4			2.00	1.81						LF-RF-CF
Bill Sarni	28	41	40	356.2	246	219	25	2	1	.992	0.0	0.0						0	6.16	5.95	3	7	18	8	31%	C
Hank Sauer	39	37	34	287.2	58	56	2	0	1	1.000	1.9	7.9	0.9	-0.8	1.6	1			1.81	1.57						LF-RF
Willard Schmidt	28	33	21	147.2	40	6	34	0	3	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.44	1.21						P
Red Schoendienst	33	36	36	313.2	193	99	93	1	27	.995	-3.0	-11.5	-3.0	-2.2	-0.8		0		5.51	5.33						2B
Dick Schofield	21	9	3	52.1	26	11	13	2	4	.923	-1.4	-32.1	-1.4	-0.8	-0.6		0		4.13	2.67						SS
Hal Smith	25	66	58	516.0	340	300	34	6	3	.982	-2.0	-4.7						-2	5.83	5.06	1	21	15	11	42%	C
Max Surkont	34	5	0	5.2	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Bill Virdon	25	24	22	183.2	57	54	2	1	0	.982	1.8	11.8	-0.2	-0.8	0.6	2			2.74	2.33						CF
Herm Wehmeier	29	34	19	170.2	41	15	24	2	1	.951	0.0	0.0							2.06	1.15						P
Team Totals	28.4	156	1404	12498.0	6058	4166	1758	134	454	.978	33.1	3.2	34.1	6.3	27.4	4	3	-8	4.27	3.36	8	45	52	23	31%
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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

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