1956 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 82-72
Finished 5th in the AL
Attendance: 1,051,182, Avg. 14,837
Ballpark: Briggs Stadium
Manager: Bucky Harris (82-72)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1956 Detroit Tigers Roster
1956 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1956 season with a record of 82 wins and 72 losses, finishing fifth in the AL.

The Tigers tallied 789 runs and gave up 699 runs. Charlie Maxwell paced Detroit with 28 home runs, while Ray Boone and Al Kaline walloped 20 or more, too. Al Kaline recorded 128 runs batted in. Harvey Kuenn led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .332. Frank Lary topped the squad with 21 wins, and Billy Hoeft and Paul Foytack as well added 15 or more victories as well Frank Lary recorded a 3.15 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Bucky Harris 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
Frank Lary	21	13	.618	3.15	41	38	2	20	3	1	294.0	289	116	103	20	116	4	165	12	1	3	1269
Billy Hoeft	20	14	.588	4.06	38	34	2	18	4	0	248.0	276	127	112	22	104	12	172	5	0	7	1094
Paul Foytack	15	13	.536	3.59	43	33	5	16	1	1	256.0	211	114	102	24	142	4	184	2	3	8	1098
Steve Gromek	8	6	.571	4.28	40	13	12	4	0	4	141.0	142	74	67	25	47	7	64	9	0	0	611
Virgil Trucks	6	5	.545	3.83	22	16	3	3	1	1	120.0	104	56	51	15	63	5	43	6	0	3	515
Jim Bunning	5	1	.833	3.71	15	3	5	0	0	1	53.3	55	24	22	6	28	4	34	0	0	3	245
Al Aber	4	4	.500	3.43	42	0	28	0	0	7	63.0	65	30	24	1	25	6	21	2	0	2	281
Bud Black	1	1	.500	3.60	5	1	2	0	0	0	10.0	10	4	4	2	5	0	7	0	0	1	45
Walt Masterson	1	1	.500	4.17	35	0	18	0	0	0	49.7	54	28	23	2	32	1	28	1	0	0	231
Dick Marlowe	1	1	.500	5.73	7	1	1	0	0	0	11.0	12	8	7	1	9	0	4	0	0	0	53
Pete Wojey	0	0		2.25	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	14
Gene Host	0	0		7.71	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.7	9	4	4	2	2	0	5	0	1	0	24
Jim Brady	0	0		28.42	6	0	3	0	0	0	6.3	15	21	20	3	11	1	3	0	0	0	43
Ned Garver	0	2	.000	4.08	6	3	1	1	0	0	17.7	15	10	8	2	13	0	6	1	0	0	80
Bob Miller	0	2	.000	5.68	11	3	1	0	0	0	31.7	37	23	20	5	22	2	16	0	0	1	146
Hal Woodeshick	0	2	.000	13.50	2	2	0	0	0	0	5.3	12	8	8	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	30
Duke Maas	0	7	.000	6.54	26	7	10	0	0	0	63.3	81	51	46	9	32	3	34	6	0	1	308
Totals	82	72	.532	4.06	342	155	93	62	9	15	1379.0	1389	699	622	140	655	49	788	44	5	29	6087

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
Harvey Kuenn	146	657	591	96	196	32	7	12	88	9	5	55	34	.332	.387	.470	.857	278	11	3	0	8	3
Al Kaline	153	693	617	96	194	32	10	27	128	7	1	70	55	.314	.383	.530	.913	327	10	1	1	4	4
Charlie Maxwell	141	592	500	96	163	14	3	28	87	1	1	79	74	.326	.414	.534	.948	267	5	2	3	8	1
Ray Boone	131	568	481	77	148	14	6	25	81	0	0	77	46	.308	.403	.518	.920	249	13	3	2	5	8
Bill Tuttle	140	592	546	61	138	22	4	9	65	5	4	38	48	.253	.301	.357	.658	195	18	1	4	3	1
Frank Bolling	102	422	366	53	103	21	7	7	45	6	2	42	51	.281	.354	.434	.789	159	4	2	7	5	1
Earl Torgeson	117	400	318	61	84	9	3	12	42	6	4	78	47	.264	.406	.425	.831	135	5	0	1	3	0
Frank House	94	348	321	44	77	6	2	10	44	1	1	21	19	.240	.290	.364	.655	117	15	3	0	3	0
Jack Phillips	67	247	224	31	66	13	2	1	20	1	1	21	19	.295	.354	.384	.738	86	11	0	1	1	0
Red Wilson	78	278	228	32	66	12	2	7	38	2	1	42	18	.289	.393	.452	.844	103	6	0	3	5	7
Wayne Belardi	79	179	154	24	43	3	1	6	15	0	0	15	13	.279	.371	.429	.799	66	4	8	1	1	1
Bob Kennedy	69	207	177	17	41	5	0	4	22	2	2	24	19	.232	.328	.328	.656	58	10	2	3	1	2
Jim Brideweser	70	180	156	23	34	4	0	0	10	3	1	20	19	.218	.307	.244	.550	38	4	0	4	0	2
Jim Small	58	99	91	13	29	4	2	0	10	0	0	6	10	.319	.361	.407	.767	37	1	0	2	0	0
Billy Hoeft	42	97	80	16	20	3	1	0	9	0	0	12	22	.250	.348	.313	.660	25	1	0	5	0	0
Frank Lary	41	119	103	14	19	2	0	1	12	0	0	8	25	.184	.239	.233	.472	24	5	0	6	2	0
Reno Bertoia	22	73	66	7	12	2	0	1	5	0	0	6	12	.182	.260	.258	.518	17	4	1	0	0	0
Virgil Trucks	22	47	45	4	11	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	4	.244	.244	.289	.533	13	0	0	2	0	0
Paul Foytack	43	98	90	7	11	2	0	0	7	0	0	2	30	.122	.141	.144	.286	13	2	0	6	0	0
Buddy Hicks	26	50	47	5	10	2	0	0	5	0	1	3	2	.213	.260	.255	.515	12	1	0	0	0	0
Jim Bunning	15	20	18	4	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.333	.333	.444	.778	8	1	0	2	0	0
Steve Gromek	40	41	27	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	11	10	.148	.395	.148	.543	4	1	0	3	0	0
Al Aber	42	13	10	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.300	.364	.300	.664	3	0	0	2	0	0
Fred Hatfield	8	15	12	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	3	0	1	0	0	0
Duke Maas	26	18	16	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	8	.188	.278	.250	.528	4	0	0	0	0	0
Walt Streuli	3	9	8	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.250	.333	.375	.708	3	0	0	0	0	0
Chick King	7	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Lau	3	9	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jay Porter	14	22	21	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	8	.095	.091	.095	.186	2	1	0	0	1	0
Walt Masterson	35	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	11	8	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.143	.250	.286	.536	2	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Host	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bud Black	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Delsing	10	16	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	1	0	0	0
Ned Garver	6	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Marlowe	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Brady	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Wojey	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Woodeshick	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1884	6143	5364	789	1494	209	50	150	745	43	26	643	618	.279	.356	.420	.776	2253	133	28	58	50	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Earl Torgeson	1B	83	75	680.3	623	32	5	62	.992	8.665	7.892	0	0	0	0
Jack Phillips	1B	56	55	458.7	422	32	9	49	.981	8.908	8.107	0	0	0	0
Wayne Belardi	1B	31	25	240.0	240	17	3	21	.988	9.637	8.290	0	0	0	0
Frank Bolling	2B	102	99	891.7	223	260	11	72	.978	4.875	4.735	0	0	0	0
Jim Brideweser	2B	31	31	263.0	84	83	4	20	.977	5.715	5.387	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	2B	18	18	151.0	51	57	2	18	.982	6.437	6.000	0	0	0	0
Buddy Hicks	2B	6	5	47.0	15	13	0	2	1.000	5.362	4.667	0	0	0	0
Fred Hatfield	2B	4	2	24.3	7	6	0	1	1.000	4.808	3.250	0	0	0	0
Jack Phillips	2B	1	0	2.0	1	0	1	0	.500	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	3B	130	130	1127.3	151	243	17	23	.959	3.145	3.031	0	0	0	0
Bob Kennedy	3B	27	21	209.0	35	38	8	3	.901	3.144	2.704	0	0	0	0
Jim Brideweser	3B	4	3	25.7	2	5	0	1	1.000	2.455	1.750	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	3B	2	1	14.0	3	4	0	1	1.000	4.500	3.500	0	0	0	0
Buddy Hicks	3B	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Frank House	C	88	78	700.7	450	33	7	8	.986	6.204	5.489	3	16	17	17	50.0
Red Wilson	C	78	70	621.3	393	34	4	7	.991	6.185	5.474	7	13	15	18	54.5
Walt Streuli	C	3	3	24.0	13	1	1	1	.933	5.250	4.667	0	0	1	1	50.0
Charlie Lau	C	3	3	23.0	17	0	0	0	1.000	6.652	5.667	0	0	0	0
Jay Porter	C	2	1	10.0	7	0	0	1	1.000	6.300	3.500	1	0	0	0
Al Kaline	OF	153	153	1345.0	343	18	6	4	.984	2.416	2.359	0	0	0	0
Bill Tuttle	OF	137	133	1185.0	348	13	9	2	.976	2.742	2.635	0	0	0	0
Charlie Maxwell	OF	136	132	1163.3	281	12	4	1	.987	2.267	2.154	0	0	0	0
Bob Kennedy	OF	29	20	191.3	52	2	4	0	.931	2.540	1.862	0	0	0	0
Jim Small	OF	26	19	172.3	47	0	3	0	.940	2.455	1.808	0	0	0	0
Chick King	OF	4	2	22.0	4	0	1	0	.800	1.636	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Delsing	OF	3	2	19.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.421	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jay Porter	OF	2	2	15.0	2	0	1	0	.667	1.200	1.000	0	0	0	0
Wayne Belardi	OF	2	1	14.0	3	0	2	0	.600	1.929	1.500	0	0	0	0
Jack Phillips	OF	1	1	9.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Lary	P	41	38	294.0	15	45	3	3	.952	1.837	1.463	0	0	0	0
Paul Foytack	P	43	33	256.0	11	33	3	5	.936	1.547	1.023	0	0	0	0
Billy Hoeft	P	38	34	248.0	5	28	1	1	.971	1.198	.868	0	0	0	0
Steve Gromek	P	40	13	141.0	1	16	0	0	1.000	1.085	.425	0	0	0	0
Virgil Trucks	P	22	16	120.0	6	18	3	1	.889	1.800	1.091	0	0	0	0
Duke Maas	P	26	7	63.3	5	8	2	0	.867	1.847	.500	0	0	0	0
Al Aber	P	42	0	63.0	1	12	1	1	.929	1.857	.310	0	0	0	0
Jim Bunning	P	15	3	53.3	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.350	.533	0	0	0	0
Walt Masterson	P	35	0	49.7	3	6	2	1	.818	1.631	.257	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	11	3	31.7	2	3	2	1	.714	1.421	.455	0	0	0	0
Ned Garver	P	6	3	17.7	1	5	0	1	1.000	3.057	1.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Marlowe	P	7	1	11.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	2.455	.429	0	0	0	0
Bud Black	P	5	1	10.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.700	.600	0	0	0	0
Jim Brady	P	6	0	6.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.421	.167	0	0	0	0
Hal Woodeshick	P	2	2	5.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.000	0	0	0	0
Gene Host	P	1	1	4.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Pete Wojey	P	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	SS	141	140	1181.0	219	388	20	86	.968	4.626	4.305	0	0	0	0
Jim Brideweser	SS	32	11	134.0	27	51	1	12	.987	5.239	2.438	0	0	0	0
Buddy Hicks	SS	16	4	64.0	6	18	0	3	1.000	3.375	1.500	0	0	0	0
Totals		1695	1395	12411.0	4130	1547	140	412	.976	4.117	3.349	11	29	33	36	52.2

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