1959 Baltimore Orioles Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 74-80
Finished 6th in the AL
Attendance: 891,926, Avg. 13,941
Ballpark: Memorial Stadium
Manager: Paul Richards (74-80)
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

1959 Baltimore Orioles Roster
1959 Baltimore Orioles Results

The Baltimore Orioles of the American League ended the 1959 season with a record of 74 wins and 80 losses, finishing sixth in the AL.

The Orioles scored 551 runs, worst in the league, and allowed 621 runs. Gus Triandos led Baltimore with 25 home runs, and Bob Nieman walloped 20 or more, too. Gene Woodling drove in 77 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .300. Milt Pappas and Hoyt Wilhelm paced the team with 15 wins each, while Hoyt Wilhelm recorded a 2.19 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Paul Richards coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Milt Pappas	15	9	.625	3.27	33	27	4	15	4	3	209.3	175	82	76	8	75	2	120	4	1	14	858
Hoyt Wilhelm	15	11	.577	2.19	32	27	2	13	3	0	226.0	178	64	55	13	77	3	139	10	0	5	902
Hal Brown	11	9	.550	3.79	31	21	7	2	0	3	164.0	158	73	69	16	32	5	81	1	0	2	674
Jerry Walker	11	10	.524	2.92	30	22	6	7	2	4	182.0	160	68	59	13	52	9	100	3	1	2	736
Billy O'Dell	10	12	.455	2.93	38	24	9	6	2	1	199.3	163	74	65	18	67	7	88	1	0	2	826
Ernie Johnson	4	1	.800	4.11	31	1	16	0	0	1	50.3	57	32	23	6	19	2	29	3	1	2	230
Billy Loes	4	7	.364	4.06	37	0	31	0	0	14	64.3	58	31	29	5	25	3	34	3	0	0	275
Arnie Portocarrero	2	7	.222	6.80	27	14	8	1	0	0	90.0	107	73	68	10	32	0	23	2	0	1	408
Billy Hoeft	1	1	.500	5.71	16	3	6	0	0	0	41.0	50	29	26	6	19	3	30	0	0	2	186
Jack Fisher	1	6	.143	3.05	27	7	10	1	1	2	88.7	76	36	30	7	38	1	52	1	1	0	375
Rip Coleman	0	0		0.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	4	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	17
Wes Stock	0	0		3.55	7	0	2	0	0	1	12.7	16	6	5	1	2	0	8	0	0	2	55
George Bamberger	0	0		7.56	3	1	1	0	0	1	8.3	15	7	7	1	2	0	2	0	0	1	39
George Zuverink	0	1	.000	4.15	6	0	1	0	0	0	13.0	15	7	6	1	6	0	1	0	0	1	55
Jack Harshman	0	6	.000	6.85	14	8	5	0	0	0	47.3	58	39	36	6	28	5	24	2	0	2	221
Totals	74	80	.481	3.56	335	155	110	45	12	30	1400.3	1290	621	554	111	476	40	735	30	4	36	5857

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Gene Woodling	140	524	440	63	132	22	2	14	77	1	1	78	35	.300	.402	.455	.856	200	5	0	1	5	4
Willie Tasby	142	552	505	69	126	16	5	13	48	3	5	34	80	.250	.303	.378	.682	191	8	6	5	2	0
Bob Boyd	128	461	415	42	110	20	2	3	41	3	1	29	14	.265	.312	.345	.656	143	12	1	12	4	1
Bob Nieman	118	409	360	49	105	18	2	21	60	1	2	42	55	.292	.367	.528	.895	190	12	2	3	2	3
Brooks Robinson	88	333	313	29	89	15	2	4	24	2	2	17	37	.284	.325	.383	.709	120	5	2	1	0	5
Billy Gardner	140	451	401	34	87	13	2	6	27	2	1	38	61	.217	.284	.304	.589	122	12	1	8	3	9
Gus Triandos	126	468	393	43	85	7	1	25	73	0	0	65	56	.216	.330	.430	.760	169	12	3	4	3	6
Billy Klaus	104	377	321	33	80	11	0	3	25	2	4	51	38	.249	.350	.312	.662	100	6	0	3	2	1
Al Pilarcik	130	317	273	37	77	12	1	3	16	9	3	30	25	.282	.355	.366	.722	100	7	1	13	0	1
Chico Carrasquel	114	391	346	28	77	13	0	4	28	2	3	34	41	.223	.292	.295	.587	102	10	1	8	2	1
Walt Dropo	62	166	151	17	42	9	0	6	21	0	0	12	20	.278	.329	.457	.786	69	6	0	2	1	0
Albie Pearson	80	152	138	22	32	4	2	0	6	4	0	13	5	.232	.296	.290	.586	40	4	0	0	1	0
Jim Finigan	48	130	119	14	30	6	0	1	10	1	0	9	10	.252	.300	.328	.628	39	6	0	0	2	0
Joe Ginsberg	65	190	166	14	30	2	0	1	14	1	0	21	13	.181	.268	.211	.479	35	6	0	0	3	3
Barry Shetrone	33	88	79	8	16	1	1	0	5	3	0	5	9	.203	.247	.241	.488	19	0	0	3	1	1
Whitey Lockman	38	78	69	7	15	1	1	0	2	0	0	8	4	.217	.299	.261	.560	18	1	0	1	0	0
Willy Miranda	65	96	88	8	14	5	0	0	7	0	0	7	16	.159	.221	.216	.437	19	2	0	1	0	0
Jerry Adair	12	36	35	3	11	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	5	.314	.333	.371	.705	13	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Walker	31	69	65	4	11	0	0	1	4	1	0	1	15	.169	.182	.215	.397	14	0	0	3	0	0
Milt Pappas	33	81	79	4	11	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	35	.139	.150	.152	.302	12	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Hale	40	56	54	2	10	3	0	0	7	0	0	2	6	.185	.214	.241	.455	13	1	0	0	0	1
Bobby Avila	20	51	47	1	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	5	.170	.235	.170	.406	8	5	0	0	0	0
Lenny Green	27	27	24	3	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	3	.292	.346	.417	.763	10	0	1	1	0	0
Fred Valentine	12	22	19	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	4	.316	.409	.316	.725	6	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Taylor	14	43	32	2	5	1	0	1	2	0	0	11	5	.156	.372	.281	.653	9	0	0	0	0	0
Billy O'Dell	43	66	60	5	5	0	0	1	2	1	1	4	18	.083	.141	.133	.274	8	1	0	2	0	0
Hoyt Wilhelm	32	85	76	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	23	.053	.111	.053	.164	4	1	0	4	0	0
Billy Hoeft	16	12	12	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.250	.250	.333	.583	4	1	0	0	0	0
Jack Fisher	27	24	23	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	8	.130	.167	.174	.341	4	0	1	0	0	0
Ernie Johnson	31	6	6	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	1	0	0	0	0
Jack Harshman	15	12	10	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	.200	.333	.500	.833	5	0	0	0	0	0
Leo Burke	5	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.200	.273	.200	.473	2	1	1	0	0	0
Hal Brown	31	55	42	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	13	.048	.130	.095	.226	4	1	0	9	0	0
Billy Loes	37	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
George Bamberger	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	27	25	21	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	13	.000	.045	.000	.045	0	0	0	3	0	0
Wes Stock	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	2	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Saverine	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rip Coleman	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
George Zuverink	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2096	5883	5208	551	1240	182	23	109	514	36	24	536	690	.238	.310	.345	.655	1795	126	20	88	31	36

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Boyd	1B	109	101	878.0	927	46	15	88	.985	9.974	8.927	0	0	0	0
Walt Dropo	1B	54	37	355.0	386	18	4	42	.990	1.242	7.481	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	1B	22	12	112.7	116	3	1	13	.992	9.506	5.409	0	0	0	0
Bob Hale	1B	8	5	44.7	48	2	0	5	1.000	1.075	6.250	0	0	0	0
Chico Carrasquel	1B	1	0	3.0	3	0	1	1	.750	9.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	2B	139	129	1114.3	333	392	18	104	.976	5.856	5.216	0	0	0	0
Chico Carrasquel	2B	22	15	124.0	29	33	1	4	.984	4.500	2.818	0	0	0	0
Jerry Adair	2B	11	8	70.0	24	17	3	4	.932	5.271	3.727	0	0	0	0
Bobby Avila	2B	8	2	37.0	9	10	1	2	.950	4.622	2.375	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	2B	5	0	17.0	8	6	1	4	.933	7.412	2.800	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	2B	6	0	14.0	6	11	0	2	1.000	1.929	2.833	0	0	0	0
Leo Burke	2B	2	1	13.0	4	3	0	0	1.000	4.846	3.500	0	0	0	0
Willy Miranda	2B	5	0	7.3	3	2	0	1	1.000	6.136	1.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Klaus	2B	1	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Brooks Robinson	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Brooks Robinson	3B	87	80	723.3	92	187	13	25	.955	3.471	3.207	0	0	0	0
Billy Klaus	3B	49	45	362.3	43	84	6	7	.955	3.155	2.592	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	3B	42	29	267.7	30	64	4	4	.959	3.161	2.238	0	0	0	0
Willy Miranda	3B	11	0	23.7	6	8	1	1	.933	5.324	1.273	0	0	0	0
Leo Burke	3B	2	1	10.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.900	.500	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	3B	1	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000	0	0	0	0
Walt Dropo	3B	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Chico Carrasquel	3B	2	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bobby Avila	3B	1	0	1.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.000	0	0	0	0
Gus Triandos	C	125	115	967.3	597	63	13	5	.981	6.141	5.280	28	29	33	27	45.0
Joe Ginsberg	C	62	40	433.0	241	29	2	4	.993	5.612	4.355	21	6	7	13	65.0
Willie Tasby	OF	137	123	1123.3	320	13	11	4	.968	2.668	2.431	0	0	0	0
Gene Woodling	OF	124	118	976.7	210	2	4	0	.981	1.954	1.710	0	0	0	0
Bob Nieman	OF	97	94	723.7	171	6	5	0	.973	2.201	1.825	0	0	0	0
Al Pilarcik	OF	106	60	649.7	133	3	3	1	.978	1.884	1.283	0	0	0	0
Albie Pearson	OF	50	23	273.0	75	2	1	0	.987	2.538	1.540	0	0	0	0
Barry Shetrone	OF	23	17	174.7	36	0	2	0	.947	1.855	1.565	0	0	0	0
Joe Taylor	OF	12	10	88.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.023	.833	0	0	0	0
Lenny Green	OF	23	5	76.0	9	2	0	0	1.000	1.303	.478	0	0	0	0
Bobby Avila	OF	10	9	60.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.200	0	0	0	0
Fred Valentine	OF	8	6	55.0	7	1	1	0	.889	1.309	1.000	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hoyt Wilhelm	P	32	27	226.0	13	32	0	1	1.000	1.792	1.406	0	0	0	0
Milt Pappas	P	33	27	209.3	6	36	3	2	.933	1.806	1.273	0	0	0	0
Billy O'Dell	P	38	24	199.3	7	44	3	3	.944	2.303	1.342	0	0	0	0
Jerry Walker	P	30	22	182.0	5	32	0	2	1.000	1.830	1.233	0	0	0	0
Hal Brown	P	31	21	164.0	9	25	1	2	.971	1.866	1.097	0	0	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	P	27	14	90.0	6	20	1	0	.963	2.600	.963	0	0	0	0
Jack Fisher	P	27	7	88.7	2	11	1	0	.929	1.320	.481	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	P	37	0	64.3	3	15	0	3	1.000	2.518	.486	0	0	0	0
Ernie Johnson	P	31	1	50.3	1	10	1	0	.917	1.967	.355	0	0	0	0
Jack Harshman	P	14	8	47.3	4	12	0	2	1.000	3.042	1.143	0	0	0	0
Billy Hoeft	P	16	3	41.0	0	7	1	1	.875	1.537	.438	0	0	0	0
George Zuverink	P	6	0	13.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.769	.667	0	0	0	0
Wes Stock	P	7	0	12.7	0	2	1	0	.667	1.421	.286	0	0	0	0
George Bamberger	P	3	1	8.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.240	1.000	0	0	0	0
Rip Coleman	P	3	0	4.0	0	4	0	1	1.000	9.000	1.333	0	0	0	0
Chico Carrasquel	SS	89	80	691.3	124	237	11	63	.970	4.700	4.056	0	0	0	0
Billy Klaus	SS	59	41	407.0	77	147	7	21	.970	4.953	3.797	0	0	0	0
Willy Miranda	SS	47	30	269.0	51	98	4	23	.974	4.985	3.170	0	0	0	0
Jerry Adair	SS	1	2	17.0	2	2	1	1	.800	2.118	4.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	SS	2	2	13.0	2	6	1	1	.889	5.538	4.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	SS	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Gardner	SS	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1905	1395	12596.0	4202	1760	147	448	.976	4.260	3.130	49	35	40	40	50.0

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