1954 Cleveland Indians Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 111-43
Finished 1st in the AL
Attendance: 1,335,472, Avg. 19,933
Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium
Won League Championship Series
World Series - Lost to New York Giants 4-0
Manager: Al Lopez (111-43)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

1954 Cleveland Indians Roster
1954 Cleveland Indians Results

The Cleveland Indians of the American League ended the 1954 season with a record of 111 wins and 43 losses, finishing first in the AL.

The Indians surrendered 504 runs, fewest in the league. Cleveland plated 746 runs. Larry Doby walloped 32 home runs for the team, while Al Rosen and Bobby Avila swatted 20 or more also. Larry Doby drove in 126 runs. Bobby Avila led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .341. Early Wynn and Bob Lemon apiece earned 23 wins on the mound for the squad, and Mike Garcia and Art Houtteman as well added 15 or more victories as well Mike Garcia recorded a 2.64 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Al Lopez coached the team. The 1954 Cleveland Indians won the League Championship Series.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Bob Lemon	23	7	.767	2.72	36	33	1	21	2	0	258.3	228	95	78	12	92	110	4	1	6	1077
Early Wynn	23	11	.676	2.73	40	36	4	20	3	2	270.7	225	93	82	21	83	155	0	0	2	1102
Mike Garcia	19	8	.704	2.64	45	34	8	13	5	5	258.7	220	85	76	6	71	129	2	0	1	1053
Art Houtteman	15	7	.682	3.35	32	25	3	11	1	0	188.0	198	80	70	14	59	68	3	0	1	805
Bob Feller	13	3	.813	3.09	19	19	0	9	1	0	140.0	127	53	48	13	39	59	3	0	0	580
Hal Newhouser	7	2	.778	2.51	26	1	15	0	0	7	46.7	34	16	13	3	18	25	0	0	0	187
Don Mossi	6	1	.857	1.94	40	5	18	2	0	7	93.0	56	22	20	5	39	55	1	0	0	368
Ray Narleski	3	3	.500	2.22	42	2	19	1	0	13	89.0	59	25	22	8	44	52	2	1	2	362
Bob Chakales	2	0	1.000	0.87	3	0	0	0	0	0	10.3	4	1	1	0	12	3	0	0	0	47
Jose Santiago	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	8
Bob Hooper	0	0		4.93	17	0	8	0	0	2	34.7	39	22	19	3	16	12	1	0	0	155
Dick Tomanek	0	0		5.40	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	7
Dave Hoskins	0	1	.000	3.04	14	1	3	0	0	0	26.7	29	10	9	3	10	9	0	0	1	115
Totals	111	43	.721	2.78	316	156	79	77	12	36	1419.3	1220	504	439	89	486	678	16	2	13	5866

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF
Bobby Avila	143	638	555	112	189	27	2	15	67	9	7	59	31	.341	.402	.477	.880	265	9	1	19	4
Larry Doby	153	675	577	94	157	18	4	32	126	3	1	85	94	.272	.364	.484	.847	279	7	3	1	9
Al Rosen	137	566	466	76	140	20	2	24	102	6	2	85	43	.300	.404	.506	.910	236	14	3	1	11
Al Smith	131	583	481	101	135	29	6	11	50	2	9	88	65	.281	.398	.435	.832	209	2	7	5	2
Dave Philley	133	522	452	48	102	13	3	12	60	2	4	57	48	.226	.308	.347	.655	157	16	0	6	7
Jim Hegan	139	468	423	56	99	12	7	11	40	0	1	34	48	.234	.289	.374	.662	158	15	0	7	4
Vic Wertz	94	335	295	33	81	14	2	14	48	0	2	34	40	.275	.344	.478	.822	141	4	0	1	5
George Strickland	112	433	361	42	77	12	3	6	37	2	1	55	62	.213	.314	.313	.627	113	10	1	10	6
Wally Westlake	85	274	240	36	63	9	2	11	42	0	1	26	37	.263	.337	.454	.791	109	8	2	4	2
Sam Dente	68	194	169	18	45	7	1	1	19	0	0	14	4	.266	.319	.337	.656	57	5	0	9	2
Rudy Regalado	65	208	180	21	45	5	0	2	24	0	2	19	16	.250	.333	.311	.644	56	5	4	4	1
Bill Glynn	111	185	171	19	43	3	2	5	18	3	2	12	21	.251	.297	.380	.677	65	4	0	0	2
Hank Majeski	57	129	121	10	34	4	0	3	17	0	0	7	14	.281	.320	.388	.709	47	5	0	1	0
Dave Pope	60	114	102	21	30	2	1	4	13	2	1	10	22	.294	.354	.451	.805	46	2	0	1	1
Hal Naragon	46	113	101	10	24	2	2	0	12	0	0	9	12	.238	.300	.297	.597	30	0	0	3	0
Bob Lemon	40	113	98	11	21	4	1	2	10	0	0	6	24	.214	.257	.337	.594	33	1	0	8	1
Art Houtteman	32	76	65	6	18	2	0	1	10	1	0	2	11	.277	.294	.354	.648	23	1	0	8	1
Dale Mitchell	53	69	60	6	17	1	0	1	6	0	0	9	1	.283	.377	.350	.727	21	1	0	0	0
Early Wynn	40	105	93	10	17	3	0	0	4	0	0	7	13	.183	.240	.215	.455	20	2	0	5	0
Mike Garcia	45	94	81	5	11	0	0	0	4	0	0	6	22	.136	.193	.136	.329	11	1	0	6	1
Bob Feller	19	55	48	6	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	17	.188	.250	.208	.458	10	1	0	3	0
Don Mossi	40	23	19	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	10	.158	.273	.158	.431	3	0	0	1	0
Mickey Grasso	4	8	6	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.833	1.333	5	0	1	0	0
Hal Newhouser	26	14	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	0	0	1	0
Jim Dyck	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0
Joe Ginsberg	3	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.667	1.500	2.167	3	0	1	0	0
Bob Chakales	3	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	1	0
Luke Easter	6	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0
Dave Hoskins	15	9	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Hooper	17	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Narleski	42	19	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.059	.000	.059	0	0	0	2	0
Rocky Nelson	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0
Jose Santiago	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0
Dick Tomanek	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Bob Kennedy	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1928	6048	5222	746	1368	188	39	156	714	30	33	637	668	.262	.341	.403	.744	2102	114	23	107	59

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Vic Wertz	1B	83	79	595.7	557	52	7	57	.989	9.201	7.337	0	0	0	0
Bill Glynn	1B	96	34	431.0	424	35	6	38	.987	9.585	4.781	0	0	0	0
Al Rosen	1B	46	43	385.7	391	39	7	34	.984	1.035	9.348	0	0	0	0
Rocky Nelson	1B	2	0	6.0	6	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Dale Mitchell	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Bobby Avila	2B	141	139	1224.3	356	406	19	100	.976	5.601	5.404	0	0	0	0
Hank Majeski	2B	25	11	146.0	54	44	1	10	.990	6.041	3.920	0	0	0	0
Sam Dente	2B	7	6	43.0	10	14	2	3	.923	5.023	3.429	0	0	0	0
Rudy Regalado	2B	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Al Rosen	2B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Al Rosen	3B	87	85	753.7	110	149	11	14	.959	3.093	2.977	0	0	0	0
Rudy Regalado	3B	50	45	410.3	62	84	5	7	.967	3.202	2.920	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	3B	21	18	173.7	23	25	6	3	.889	2.488	2.286	0	0	0	0
Hank Majeski	3B	10	8	81.7	13	20	2	1	.943	3.637	3.300	0	0	0	0
Jim Hegan	C	137	121	1113.3	661	49	4	9	.994	5.740	5.182	3	11	27	28	50.9
Hal Naragon	C	45	33	284.7	132	14	0	1	1.000	4.616	3.244	2	2	14	11	44.0
Mickey Grasso	C	4	2	21.0	9	1	2	0	.833	4.286	2.500	1	2	2	1	33.3
Joe Ginsberg	C	1	0	0.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	27.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Larry Doby	OF	153	153	1354.3	411	14	2	6	.995	2.824	2.778	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	OF	129	120	1110.0	237	6	4	0	.984	1.970	1.884	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	OF	109	105	956.3	241	8	4	1	.984	2.343	2.284	0	0	0	0
Wally Westlake	OF	70	60	567.0	131	1	5	0	.964	2.095	1.886	0	0	0	0
Dave Pope	OF	29	22	195.0	45	1	0	0	1.000	2.123	1.586	0	0	0	0
Dale Mitchell	OF	6	4	37.0	7	1	1	0	.889	1.946	1.333	0	0	0	0
Vic Wertz	OF	5	4	36.3	10	0	0	0	1.000	2.477	2.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Kennedy	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Glynn	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Early Wynn	P	40	36	270.7	17	27	2	1	.957	1.463	1.100	0	0	0	0
Mike Garcia	P	45	34	258.7	20	41	1	2	.984	2.122	1.356	0	0	0	0
Bob Lemon	P	36	33	258.3	22	57	3	8	.963	2.752	2.194	0	0	0	0
Art Houtteman	P	32	25	188.0	17	38	2	3	.965	2.633	1.719	0	0	0	0
Bob Feller	P	19	19	140.0	7	15	0	2	1.000	1.414	1.158	0	0	0	0
Don Mossi	P	40	5	93.0	4	11	0	1	1.000	1.452	.375	0	0	0	0
Ray Narleski	P	42	2	89.0	5	10	2	2	.882	1.517	.357	0	0	0	0
Hal Newhouser	P	26	1	46.7	3	7	0	0	1.000	1.929	.385	0	0	0	0
Bob Hooper	P	17	0	34.7	2	6	0	0	1.000	2.077	.471	0	0	0	0
Dave Hoskins	P	14	1	26.7	2	4	0	0	1.000	2.025	.429	0	0	0	0
Bob Chakales	P	3	0	10.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Tomanek	P	1	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jose Santiago	P	1	0	1.7	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
George Strickland	SS	112	108	973.3	193	321	21	61	.961	4.753	4.589	0	0	0	0
Sam Dente	SS	60	48	412.0	66	133	6	33	.971	4.347	3.317	0	0	0	0
Bobby Avila	SS	7	0	25.0	5	4	2	2	.818	3.240	1.286	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	SS	4	0	8.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500	0	0	0	0
Al Rosen	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1762	1404	12774.0	4258	1641	128	400	.979	4.156	3.348	6	15	43	40	48.2

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Hal Newhouser	WS	0			1	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
Don Mossi	WS	0		0.00	3	0	2	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	13
Ray Narleski	WS	0		2.25	2	0	0	0	4.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	14
Art Houtteman	WS	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	9
Early Wynn	WS	1	.000	3.86	1	1	0	0	7.0	4	3	3	1	2	0	5	1	27
Mike Garcia	WS	1	.000	5.40	2	1	1	0	5.0	6	4	3	0	4	1	4	1	26
Bob Lemon	WS	2	.000	6.75	2	2	0	1	13.3	16	11	10	1	8	2	11	1	64
Totals		4	.000	4.84	12	4	3	1	35.3	33	21	19	2	17	4	24	3	155

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	IBB
Vic Wertz	WS	4	18	16	2	8	2	1	1	3	2	2	.500	.556	.938	1.493	15	0	0	0	0
Al Rosen	WS	3	13	12	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	WS	4	17	14	2	3	0	0	1	2	2	2	.214	.353	.429	.782	6	1	1	0	0
Jim Hegan	WS	4	14	13	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	.154	.214	.231	.445	3	0	0	0	0
Bobby Avila	WS	4	18	15	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	.133	.235	.133	.369	2	0	0	1	0
Larry Doby	WS	4	18	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	4	.125	.222	.125	.347	2	0	0	0	1
Bill Glynn	WS	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0	0
Early Wynn	WS	1	3	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	1	0
Rudy Regalado	WS	4	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0
Hank Majeski	WS	4	6	6	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	1	.167	.167	.667	.833	4	1	0	0	0
Wally Westlake	WS	2	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.143	.250	.143	.393	1	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	WS	4	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.125	.222	.125	.347	1	0	0	0	0
Sam Dente	WS	3	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	1	0
Bob Lemon	WS	3	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0
Dale Mitchell	WS	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Pope	WS	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	1
George Strickland	WS	3	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Garcia	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Mickey Grasso	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Art Houtteman	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Don Mossi	WS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Hal Naragon	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Ray Narleski	WS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Hal Newhouser	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals		66	157	137	9	26	5	1	3	9	16	23	.190	.279	.307	.586	42	2	1	3	2

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Vic Wertz	WS	1B	4	4	35.0	33	6	1	2	.975	1.029	9.750
Bill Glynn	WS	1B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bobby Avila	WS	2B	4	4	35.3	12	7	0	1	1.000	4.840	4.750
Al Rosen	WS	3B	3	3	24.3	2	5	0	0	1.000	2.589	2.333
Hank Majeski	WS	3B	1	1	9.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	3.000
Rudy Regalado	WS	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Jim Hegan	WS	C	4	4	34.0	27	3	0	0	1.000	7.941	7.500
Hal Naragon	WS	C	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000
Mickey Grasso	WS	C	1	0	0.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	27.000	1.000
Larry Doby	WS	CF	4	4	35.3	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.783	1.750
Al Smith	WS	LF	4	4	33.3	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.080	1.000
Dave Pope	WS	LF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bob Lemon	WS	P	2	2	13.3	2	2	0	0	1.000	2.700	2.000
Early Wynn	WS	P	1	1	7.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000
Mike Garcia	WS	P	2	1	5.0	0	2	1	0	.667	3.600	1.000
Ray Narleski	WS	P	2	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500
Don Mossi	WS	P	3	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	.667
Art Houtteman	WS	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Hal Newhouser	WS	P	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000
Wally Westlake	WS	RF	2	2	17.0	6	0	1	0	.857	3.176	3.000
Dave Philley	WS	RF	2	2	16.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.563	.500
Dave Pope	WS	RF	1	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
George Strickland	WS	SS	3	3	23.0	6	9	1	1	.938	5.870	5.000
Sam Dente	WS	SS	3	1	12.3	1	1	0	1	1.000	1.459	.667
Totals			52	36	318.0	106	40	4	5	.973	4.132	2.808

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