1956 Cleveland Indians Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 88-66
Finished 2nd in the AL
Attendance: 865,467, Avg. 13,107
Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium
Manager: Al Lopez (88-66)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

1956 Cleveland Indians Roster
1956 Cleveland Indians Results

The Cleveland Indians of the American League ended the 1956 season with a record of 88 wins and 66 losses, finishing second in the AL.

The Indians led the league with just 581 runs allowed. Cleveland scored 712 runs. Vic Wertz walloped 32 home runs for the squad, while Al Rosen, Al Smith and Rocky Colavito each swatted 20 or more also. Vic Wertz recorded 106 runs batted in. Al Smith topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .274. Early Wynn, Bob Lemon and Herb Score paced the squad with 20 wins each, and Herb Score recorded a 2.53 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Al Lopez 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
Herb Score	20	9	.690	2.53	35	33	1	16	5	0	249.3	162	82	70	18	129	2	263	2	0	11	1022
Early Wynn	20	9	.690	2.72	38	35	2	18	4	2	277.7	233	93	84	19	91	7	158	5	0	5	1144
Bob Lemon	20	14	.588	3.03	39	35	3	21	2	3	255.3	230	103	86	23	89	2	94	6	0	4	1074
Mike Garcia	11	12	.478	3.78	35	30	1	8	4	0	197.7	213	93	83	18	74	5	119	5	0	3	874
Don Mossi	6	5	.545	3.59	48	3	24	0	0	11	87.7	79	38	35	6	33	5	59	1	0	1	372
Ray Narleski	3	2	.600	1.52	32	0	21	0	0	4	59.3	36	11	10	5	19	0	42	1	0	0	234
Hank Aguirre	3	5	.375	3.72	16	9	3	2	1	1	65.3	63	35	27	7	27	1	31	1	2	3	282
Art Houtteman	2	2	.500	6.56	22	4	5	0	0	1	46.7	60	39	34	5	31	2	19	4	0	1	234
Cal McLish	2	4	.333	4.96	37	2	17	0	0	1	61.7	67	36	34	5	32	5	27	0	0	1	276
Bud Daley	1	0	1.000	6.20	14	0	6	0	0	0	20.3	21	15	14	2	14	1	13	5	0	1	101
Sal Maglie	0	0		3.60	2	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	6	2	2	1	2	0	2	0	0	1	22
Bob Feller	0	4	.000	4.97	19	4	5	2	0	1	58.0	63	34	32	7	23	4	18	0	1	0	253
Totals	88	66	.571	3.32	337	155	88	67	16	24	1384.0	1233	581	511	116	564	34	845	30	3	31	5888

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
Al Smith	141	626	526	87	144	26	5	16	71	6	3	84	72	.274	.378	.433	.812	228	15	8	2	6	7
Vic Wertz	136	568	481	65	127	22	0	32	106	0	0	75	87	.264	.364	.509	.874	245	8	5	0	7	10
Jim Busby	135	546	494	72	116	17	3	12	50	8	3	43	47	.235	.301	.354	.656	175	13	4	5	0	2
Chico Carrasquel	141	544	474	60	115	15	1	7	48	0	4	52	61	.243	.323	.323	.646	153	9	6	9	3	0
Bobby Avila	138	597	513	74	115	14	2	10	54	17	4	70	68	.224	.323	.318	.640	163	12	5	8	1	0
Al Rosen	121	481	416	64	111	18	2	15	61	1	3	58	44	.267	.351	.428	.779	178	13	0	0	7	4
Rocky Colavito	101	380	322	55	89	11	4	21	65	0	1	49	46	.276	.372	.531	.903	171	4	2	4	3	0
Gene Woodling	100	399	317	56	83	17	0	8	38	2	6	69	29	.262	.395	.391	.787	124	6	3	7	3	2
Jim Hegan	122	368	315	42	70	15	2	6	34	1	1	49	54	.222	.327	.340	.667	107	8	0	4	0	6
Preston Ward	87	170	150	18	38	10	0	6	21	0	0	16	20	.253	.325	.440	.765	66	0	0	4	0	0
George Strickland	85	199	171	22	36	1	2	3	17	0	1	22	27	.211	.299	.292	.591	50	6	0	5	1	0
Hal Naragon	53	140	122	11	35	3	1	3	18	0	0	13	9	.287	.355	.402	.757	49	3	1	2	2	2
Sam Mele	57	128	114	17	29	7	0	4	20	0	1	12	20	.254	.320	.421	.741	48	4	0	0	2	0
Early Wynn	38	113	101	5	23	5	0	1	15	1	0	7	22	.228	.278	.307	.585	31	1	0	5	0	0
Earl Averill	42	110	93	12	22	6	0	3	14	0	1	14	25	.237	.343	.398	.740	37	2	1	2	0	1
Bob Lemon	43	110	93	8	18	0	0	5	12	0	0	9	21	.194	.272	.355	.627	33	1	1	7	0	0
Dave Pope	25	72	70	6	17	3	1	0	3	0	0	1	12	.243	.250	.314	.564	22	0	0	0	1	0
Herb Score	35	100	87	11	16	3	0	1	8	0	1	9	32	.184	.260	.253	.513	22	1	0	4	0	0
Joe Caffie	12	44	38	7	13	0	0	0	1	3	2	4	8	.342	.432	.342	.774	13	0	2	0	0	0
Rudy Regalado	16	52	47	4	11	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	1	.234	.308	.255	.563	12	1	1	0	0	0
Mike Garcia	35	75	61	1	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	10	.115	.164	.131	.295	8	2	1	8	2	0
Kenny Kuhn	27	22	22	7	6	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	4	.273	.273	.318	.591	7	0	0	0	0	0
Dale Mitchell	38	37	30	2	4	0	0	0	6	0	0	7	2	.133	.297	.133	.431	4	0	0	0	0	1
Don Mossi	48	22	20	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	10	.150	.227	.250	.477	5	1	0	0	0	0
Ray Narleski	32	9	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	0	0	0
Art Houtteman	23	13	12	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	1	0	0
Hank Aguirre	16	21	18	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	11	.111	.111	.111	.222	2	0	0	3	0	0
Stu Locklin	9	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Cal McLish	39	15	9	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	6	4	.111	.467	.222	.689	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Feller	19	17	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.000	.059	.000	.059	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bud Daley	14	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Sal Maglie	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Hank Foiles	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Hoot Evers	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Young	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1935	5988	5148	712	1256	199	23	153	677	40	32	681	764	.244	.335	.381	.715	1960	110	40	81	38	35

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Vic Wertz	1B	133	133	1086.7	971	77	9	99	.991	8.680	7.880	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	1B	60	16	240.3	226	21	3	20	.988	9.250	4.117	0	0	0	0
Sam Mele	1B	8	6	56.0	59	5	0	5	1.000	1.286	8.000	0	0	0	0
Rudy Regalado	1B	1	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Bobby Avila	2B	135	130	1154.0	322	351	16	83	.977	5.249	4.985	0	0	0	0
George Strickland	2B	28	25	216.0	73	69	2	21	.986	5.917	5.071	0	0	0	0
Kenny Kuhn	2B	5	0	12.0	4	3	1	1	.875	5.250	1.400	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Al Rosen	3B	116	114	966.0	89	219	18	20	.945	2.870	2.655	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	3B	28	23	207.3	22	38	5	2	.923	2.605	2.143	0	0	0	0
Rudy Regalado	3B	14	11	109.0	9	9	5	3	.783	1.486	1.286	0	0	0	0
George Strickland	3B	26	7	99.7	13	20	1	3	.971	2.980	1.269	0	0	0	0
Chico Carrasquel	3B	1	0	2.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Hegan	C	118	97	864.3	648	28	10	2	.985	7.039	5.729	2	17	25	10	28.6
Hal Naragon	C	48	33	293.7	162	7	2	0	.988	5.179	3.521	6	8	11	6	35.3
Earl Averill	C	34	25	225.0	157	15	1	2	.994	6.880	5.059	2	6	16	9	36.0
Hank Foiles	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Busby	OF	133	122	1116.7	344	3	4	0	.989	2.797	2.609	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	OF	122	114	1010.0	248	6	5	1	.981	2.263	2.082	0	0	0	0
Rocky Colavito	OF	98	88	815.3	177	6	6	0	.968	2.020	1.867	0	0	0	0
Gene Woodling	OF	85	83	736.3	154	3	3	0	.981	1.919	1.847	0	0	0	0
Dave Pope	OF	18	18	137.0	34	1	0	0	1.000	2.299	1.944	0	0	0	0
Sam Mele	OF	20	15	130.7	29	2	1	0	.969	2.135	1.550	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	OF	17	14	113.0	29	1	0	0	1.000	2.389	1.765	0	0	0	0
Joe Caffie	OF	10	10	83.0	21	1	0	0	1.000	2.386	2.200	0	0	0	0
Stu Locklin	OF	1	1	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Dale Mitchell	OF	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Early Wynn	P	38	35	277.7	15	48	3	3	.955	2.042	1.658	0	0	0	0
Bob Lemon	P	39	35	255.7	24	61	6	6	.934	2.992	2.179	0	0	0	0
Herb Score	P	35	33	249.3	1	19	2	0	.909	.722	.571	0	0	0	0
Mike Garcia	P	35	30	197.7	13	27	0	2	1.000	1.821	1.143	0	0	0	0
Don Mossi	P	48	3	87.7	3	15	1	1	.947	1.848	.375	0	0	0	0
Hank Aguirre	P	16	9	65.3	3	8	2	0	.846	1.515	.688	0	0	0	0
Cal McLish	P	37	2	61.0	5	14	0	0	1.000	2.803	.514	0	0	0	0
Ray Narleski	P	32	0	59.0	2	5	0	1	1.000	1.068	.219	0	0	0	0
Bob Feller	P	19	4	58.0	2	8	1	0	.909	1.552	.526	0	0	0	0
Art Houtteman	P	22	4	46.7	3	9	0	0	1.000	2.314	.545	0	0	0	0
Bud Daley	P	14	0	21.0	4	6	0	0	1.000	4.286	.714	0	0	0	0
Sal Maglie	P	2	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Chico Carrasquel	SS	141	135	1173.0	240	352	20	70	.967	4.542	4.199	0	0	0	0
George Strickland	SS	28	17	163.0	32	56	2	10	.978	4.859	3.143	0	0	0	0
Kenny Kuhn	SS	17	3	48.0	9	11	0	3	1.000	3.750	1.176	0	0	0	0
Totals		1785	1395	12456.0	4149	1527	129	358	.978	4.101	3.180	10	31	52	25	32.5

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