1959 Cincinnati Redlegs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 74-80
Finished 5th in the NL
Attendance: 801,298, Avg. 11,447
Ballpark: Crosley Field
Manager: Mayo Smith (35-45)
Manager: Fred Hutchinson (39-35)
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

1959 Cincinnati Redlegs Roster
1959 Cincinnati Redlegs Results

The Cincinnati Redlegs of the National League ended the 1959 season with a record of 74 wins and 80 losses, finishing fifth in the NL.

The Redlegs scored 764 runs, most in the league. Cincinnati conceded 738 runs, most in the circuit. Frank Robinson walloped 36 home runs for the squad, while Jerry Lynch, Vada Pinson and Gus Bell each added 20 or more also. Frank Robinson accounted for 125 RBI. Vada Pinson led batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .316 clip. Don Newcombe and Bob Purkey topped the squad with 13 wins each, and Don Newcombe recorded a 3.16 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Mayo Smith and Fred Hutchinson 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
Don Newcombe	13	8	.619	3.16	30	29	1	17	2	1	222.0	216	87	78	25	27	3	100	5	0	4	899
Bob Purkey	13	18	.419	4.25	38	33	5	9	1	1	218.0	241	118	103	25	43	2	78	6	0	4	927
Joe Nuxhall	9	9	.500	4.24	28	21	3	6	1	1	131.7	155	76	62	10	35	1	75	1	1	0	574
Jim Brosnan	8	3	.727	3.35	26	9	10	1	1	2	83.3	79	35	31	7	26	2	56	5	0	0	358
Brooks Lawrence	7	12	.368	4.77	43	14	22	3	0	10	128.3	144	74	68	17	45	9	64	4	0	4	564
Jay Hook	5	5	.500	5.13	17	15	1	4	0	0	79.0	79	46	45	11	39	1	37	3	0	1	341
Jim O'Toole	5	8	.385	5.15	28	19	4	3	1	0	129.3	144	78	74	14	73	2	68	4	1	8	592
Orlando Pena	5	9	.357	4.76	46	8	16	1	0	5	136.0	150	80	72	26	39	5	76	0	0	1	587
Bob Mabe	4	2	.667	5.46	18	1	9	0	0	3	29.7	29	28	18	6	19	2	8	0	0	0	134
Willard Schmidt	3	2	.600	3.95	36	4	10	0	0	0	70.7	80	36	31	4	30	4	40	1	0	2	307
Luis Arroyo	1	0	1.000	3.95	10	0	5	0	0	0	13.7	17	11	6	0	11	3	8	0	0	2	72
Tom Acker	1	2	.333	4.12	37	0	11	0	0	2	63.3	57	31	29	10	37	5	45	4	0	1	277
Don Rudolph	0	0		4.91	5	0	2	0	0	0	7.3	13	4	4	1	3	1	8	0	0	0	36
Claude Osteen	0	0		7.04	2	0	0	0	0	0	7.7	11	10	6	1	9	1	3	0	0	0	44
Mike Cuellar	0	0		15.75	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	7	8	7	1	4	1	5	0	0	1	24
Hal Jeffcoat	0	1	.000	3.32	17	0	11	0	0	1	21.7	21	8	8	3	10	2	12	0	0	1	93
Jim Bailey	0	1	.000	6.17	3	1	0	0	0	0	11.7	17	8	8	1	6	1	7	1	0	0	58
Totals	74	80	.481	4.31	386	154	110	44	6	26	1357.3	1460	738	650	162	456	45	690	34	2	29	5887

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
Vada Pinson	154	706	648	131	205	47	9	20	84	21	6	55	98	.316	.371	.509	.880	330	9	1	2	0	3
Johnny Temple	149	696	598	102	186	35	6	8	67	14	3	72	40	.311	.380	.430	.809	257	11	2	11	13	2
Gus Bell	148	620	580	59	170	27	2	19	115	2	3	29	44	.293	.325	.445	.770	258	13	2	1	8	1
Frank Robinson	146	626	540	106	168	31	4	36	125	18	8	69	93	.311	.391	.583	.975	315	16	8	0	9	9
Jerry Lynch	117	415	379	49	102	16	3	17	58	2	0	29	50	.269	.320	.462	.782	175	7	1	3	3	1
Ed Bailey	121	447	379	43	100	13	0	12	40	2	0	62	53	.264	.370	.393	.763	149	10	2	4	0	6
Eddie Kasko	118	347	329	39	93	14	1	2	31	2	2	14	38	.283	.309	.350	.659	115	5	0	1	3	5
Frank Thomas	108	412	374	41	84	18	2	12	47	0	2	27	56	.225	.278	.380	.658	142	13	3	2	6	6
Roy McMillan	79	280	246	38	65	14	2	9	24	0	2	27	27	.264	.345	.447	.792	110	11	4	2	1	3
Willie Jones	72	265	233	33	58	12	1	7	31	0	2	28	26	.249	.330	.399	.729	93	8	1	1	2	1
Dutch Dotterer	52	181	161	21	43	7	0	2	17	0	0	16	23	.267	.328	.348	.676	56	3	0	1	3	1
Don Newcombe	61	123	105	10	32	2	0	3	21	0	0	17	23	.305	.402	.410	.811	43	1	0	1	0	1
Jim Pendleton	65	123	113	13	29	2	0	3	9	3	0	8	18	.257	.309	.354	.663	40	4	1	0	1	2
Whitey Lockman	52	89	84	10	22	5	1	0	7	0	0	4	6	.262	.292	.345	.637	29	1	0	0	1	0
Pete Whisenant	36	79	71	13	17	2	0	5	11	0	0	8	18	.239	.316	.479	.795	34	1	0	0	0	0
John Powers	43	47	43	8	11	2	1	2	4	0	0	3	13	.256	.319	.488	.808	21	0	1	0	0	0
Joe Nuxhall	28	48	44	5	11	3	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.250	.283	.318	.601	14	2	1	2	0	0
Bob Purkey	38	77	66	8	11	2	1	1	6	0	0	6	34	.167	.247	.273	.519	18	1	1	4	0	0
Cliff Cook	9	24	21	3	8	2	1	0	5	1	0	2	8	.381	.435	.571	1.006	12	0	0	1	0	1
Brooks Lawrence	43	42	40	5	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	13	.150	.150	.175	.325	7	1	0	2	0	0
Jim O'Toole	29	44	37	4	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	11	.135	.220	.135	.355	5	1	0	3	0	0
Del Ennis	5	14	12	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.333	.429	.333	.762	4	0	0	0	0	1
Walt Dropo	26	44	39	4	4	1	0	1	2	0	0	4	7	.103	.205	.205	.410	8	3	1	0	0	0
Buddy Gilbert	7	23	20	4	3	0	0	2	2	0	0	3	4	.150	.261	.450	.711	9	0	0	0	0	0
Jay Hook	19	27	24	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	9	.125	.160	.125	.285	3	0	0	2	0	0
Orlando Pena	46	44	34	3	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	5	20	.088	.205	.118	.323	4	0	0	5	0	0
Hal Jeffcoat	17	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Thurman	4	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Acker	37	12	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.111	.200	.111	.311	1	0	0	2	0	0
Willard Schmidt	36	17	12	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.083	.313	.083	.396	1	0	3	1	0	0
Jim Brosnan	26	25	23	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.043	.083	.043	.127	1	0	0	1	0	0
Luis Arroyo	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Bailey	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Rudolph	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Henrich	14	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Mabe	18	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Claude Osteen	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Cuellar	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Pavletich	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1946	5922	5288	764	1448	258	34	161	721	65	28	499	763	.274	.337	.427	.764	2257	121	32	53	50	43

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Frank Robinson	1B	125	123	1036.0	998	75	17	111	.984	9.321	8.584	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	1B	14	14	118.0	111	15	2	11	.984	9.610	9.000	0	0	0	0
Walt Dropo	1B	23	9	104.3	103	11	0	11	1.000	9.834	4.957	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	1B	20	8	98.7	92	10	3	9	.971	9.304	5.100	0	0	0	0
Johnny Temple	2B	149	149	1302.0	322	390	19	96	.974	4.922	4.779	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	2B	6	5	51.0	9	13	0	4	1.000	3.882	3.667	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	2B	2	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500	0	0	0	0
Willie Jones	3B	68	64	566.3	92	105	7	9	.966	3.131	2.897	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	3B	64	63	512.0	55	111	13	8	.927	2.918	2.594	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	3B	16	14	127.3	13	28	2	0	.953	2.898	2.563	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	3B	31	8	99.7	10	23	2	2	.943	2.980	1.065	0	0	0	0
Cliff Cook	3B	9	5	49.7	7	13	2	2	.909	3.624	2.222	0	0	0	0
Bobby Henrich	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	3B	1	0	0.0	0	1	0	0	1.000		1.000	0	0	0	0
Ed Bailey	C	117	110	961.7	549	64	6	6	.990	5.737	5.239	3	17	20	27	57.4
Dutch Dotterer	C	51	44	395.3	230	20	2	3	.992	5.691	4.902	3	11	20	8	28.6
Vada Pinson	OF	154	154	1355.0	423	11	7	4	.984	2.883	2.818	0	0	0	0
Gus Bell	OF	145	137	1235.0	269	15	1	1	.996	2.070	1.959	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lynch	OF	98	94	757.0	180	5	4	3	.979	2.199	1.888	0	0	0	0
Frank Robinson	OF	40	22	222.0	51	3	1	0	.982	2.189	1.350	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	OF	33	18	183.3	40	0	4	0	.909	1.964	1.212	0	0	0	0
Pete Whisenant	OF	21	17	126.0	27	1	1	1	.966	2.000	1.333	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	OF	24	9	98.3	31	2	1	0	.971	3.020	1.375	0	0	0	0
Buddy Gilbert	OF	6	6	47.0	15	0	0	0	1.000	2.872	2.500	0	0	0	0
Del Ennis	OF	3	3	23.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.957	1.667	0	0	0	0
John Powers	OF	5	2	22.3	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.612	.800	0	0	0	0
Whitey Lockman	OF	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Don Newcombe	P	30	29	222.0	14	31	1	4	.978	1.824	1.500	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	P	38	33	218.0	19	35	2	1	.964	2.229	1.421	0	0	0	0
Orlando Pena	P	46	8	136.0	12	16	1	1	.966	1.853	.609	0	0	0	0
Joe Nuxhall	P	28	21	131.7	6	19	1	1	.962	1.709	.893	0	0	0	0
Jim O'Toole	P	28	19	129.3	5	24	0	2	1.000	2.018	1.036	0	0	0	0
Brooks Lawrence	P	43	14	128.0	7	22	3	1	.906	2.039	.674	0	0	0	0
Jim Brosnan	P	26	9	83.3	5	15	1	2	.952	2.160	.769	0	0	0	0
Jay Hook	P	17	15	79.0	7	8	1	2	.938	1.709	.882	0	0	0	0
Willard Schmidt	P	36	4	70.7	5	16	0	2	1.000	2.675	.583	0	0	0	0
Tom Acker	P	37	0	63.3	1	5	0	0	1.000	.853	.162	0	0	0	0
Bob Mabe	P	18	1	29.7	1	3	0	2	1.000	1.213	.222	0	0	0	0
Hal Jeffcoat	P	17	0	21.7	4	2	0	1	1.000	2.492	.353	0	0	0	0
Luis Arroyo	P	10	0	13.7	0	5	1	0	.833	3.293	.500	0	0	0	0
Jim Bailey	P	3	1	11.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Claude Osteen	P	2	0	7.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.174	.500	0	0	0	0
Don Rudolph	P	5	0	7.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.227	.200	0	0	0	0
Mike Cuellar	P	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	SS	84	82	723.0	182	271	11	61	.976	5.639	5.393	0	0	0	0
Roy McMillan	SS	73	72	621.0	163	205	10	50	.974	5.333	5.041	0	0	0	0
Bobby Henrich	SS	5	0	8.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.400	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	SS	3	0	5.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	3.600	.667	0	0	0	0
Totals		1778	1386	12213.0	4072	1597	126	412	.978	4.178	3.188	6	28	40	35	46.7

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