1957 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 78-76
Finished 4th in the AL
Attendance: 1,272,346, Avg. 17,430
Ballpark: Briggs Stadium
Manager: Jack Tighe (78-76)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1957 Detroit Tigers Roster
1957 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1957 season with a record of 78 wins and 76 losses, finishing fourth in the AL.

The Tigers scored 614 runs and surrendered 614 runs. Charlie Maxwell led Detroit with 24 home runs, while Al Kaline and Frank Bolling walloped 20 or more also. Al Kaline recorded 90 runs batted in and topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .295. Jim Bunning paced the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 2.69 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Jack Tighe 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
Jim Bunning	20	8	.714	2.69	45	30	4	14	1	1	267.3	214	91	80	33	72	5	182	11	1	4	1081
Paul Foytack	14	11	.560	3.14	38	27	8	8	1	1	212.0	175	79	74	19	104	12	118	4	0	5	904
Frank Lary	11	16	.407	3.98	40	35	3	12	2	3	237.7	250	111	105	23	72	9	107	12	2	5	1012
Duke Maas	10	14	.417	3.28	45	26	13	8	2	6	219.3	210	92	80	23	65	7	116	4	0	1	925
Billy Hoeft	9	11	.450	3.48	34	28	4	10	1	1	207.0	188	85	80	15	69	2	111	5	0	1	870
Harry Byrd	4	3	.571	3.36	37	1	18	0	0	5	59.0	53	23	22	6	28	4	20	2	0	1	252
Lou Sleater	3	3	.500	3.76	41	0	19	0	0	2	69.3	61	33	29	9	28	7	43	1	0	1	296
Al Aber	3	3	.500	6.81	28	0	13	0	0	1	37.0	46	33	28	6	11	3	15	1	0	0	167
Jim Stump	1	0	1.000	2.03	6	0	1	0	0	0	13.3	11	4	3	0	8	0	2	0	0	0	61
John Tsitouris	1	0	1.000	8.10	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	8	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	18
Joe Presko	1	1	.500	1.64	7	0	6	0	0	0	11.0	10	3	2	0	4	1	3	1	0	0	46
Don Lee	1	3	.250	4.66	11	6	2	0	0	0	38.7	48	22	20	6	18	0	19	1	0	0	179
Pete Wojey	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	1.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Chuck Daniel	0	0		7.71	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	3	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	9
Steve Gromek	0	1	.000	6.08	15	1	6	0	0	1	23.7	32	16	16	3	13	3	11	1	0	1	113
Bob Shaw	0	1	.000	7.45	7	0	0	0	0	0	9.7	11	9	8	2	7	1	4	0	0	0	46
Jack Crimian	0	1	.000	12.71	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.7	9	8	8	1	4	2	1	0	0	0	29
Totals	78	76	.506	3.56	363	154	102	52	7	21	1417.7	1330	614	560	147	505	56	756	43	3	19	6014

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	151	679	624	74	173	30	6	9	44	5	8	47	28	.277	.327	.388	.715	242	15	0	6	2	4
Al Kaline	149	636	577	83	170	29	4	23	90	11	9	43	38	.295	.343	.478	.821	276	10	3	6	7	7
Frank Bolling	146	644	576	72	149	27	6	15	40	4	9	57	64	.259	.327	.405	.732	233	15	2	8	1	3
Charlie Maxwell	138	580	492	75	136	23	3	24	82	3	2	76	84	.276	.377	.482	.858	237	6	5	4	3	7
Ray Boone	129	531	462	48	126	25	3	12	65	1	1	57	47	.273	.353	.418	.771	193	16	3	4	5	6
Bill Tuttle	133	503	451	49	113	12	4	5	47	2	6	44	41	.251	.316	.328	.644	148	14	1	3	4	4
Frank House	106	390	348	31	90	9	0	7	36	1	1	35	26	.259	.327	.345	.672	120	12	1	5	1	13
Reno Bertoia	97	324	295	28	81	16	2	4	28	2	3	19	43	.275	.326	.383	.709	113	7	4	5	1	2
Dave Philley	65	181	173	15	49	8	1	2	16	3	1	7	16	.283	.309	.376	.685	65	4	0	0	1	0
Jim Finigan	64	204	174	20	47	4	2	0	17	1	1	23	18	.270	.357	.316	.673	55	3	1	5	1	2
Red Wilson	60	213	180	21	43	8	1	3	13	2	3	25	19	.239	.341	.344	.686	62	3	3	5	0	2
Jay Porter	58	156	140	14	35	8	0	2	18	0	0	14	20	.250	.323	.350	.673	49	1	1	1	0	1
Johnny Groth	38	112	103	11	30	10	0	0	16	0	0	6	7	.291	.333	.388	.722	40	1	1	1	1	0
Ron Samford	54	99	91	6	20	1	2	0	5	1	0	6	15	.220	.276	.275	.550	25	1	1	1	0	0
Jim Bunning	45	104	94	10	20	2	1	1	4	0	0	5	29	.213	.253	.287	.540	27	6	0	5	0	0
Paul Foytack	38	79	63	4	14	0	0	0	5	0	1	4	17	.222	.269	.222	.491	14	1	0	12	0	0
Earl Torgeson	30	62	50	5	12	2	1	1	5	0	0	12	10	.240	.387	.380	.767	19	1	0	0	0	0
Billy Hoeft	42	78	67	13	10	2	0	3	10	0	0	5	14	.149	.205	.313	.519	21	3	0	5	1	0
Jim Small	36	44	42	7	9	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	11	.214	.250	.262	.512	11	1	0	0	0	0
Frank Lary	40	84	73	4	9	0	1	0	4	0	0	2	22	.123	.147	.151	.297	11	2	0	9	0	0
Bill Taylor	9	23	23	4	8	2	0	1	3	0	0	0	3	.348	.348	.565	.913	13	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Boros	24	42	41	4	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	8	.146	.167	.171	.337	7	2	0	0	0	0
Duke Maas	45	81	71	2	6	1	0	1	8	0	0	3	27	.085	.118	.141	.259	10	0	0	5	2	0
Lou Sleater	41	22	20	4	5	0	0	3	7	0	0	1	2	.250	.286	.700	.986	14	1	0	1	0	1
Jack Dittmer	16	24	22	3	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	.227	.292	.273	.564	6	0	0	0	0	1
Bobo Osborne	11	30	27	4	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	7	.148	.233	.185	.419	5	0	0	0	0	0
Don Lee	11	13	12	1	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	1	0	0
Karl Olson	8	15	14	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.143	.143	.143	.286	2	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Stump	6	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	1	0	0
Al Aber	28	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.125	.222	.125	.347	1	0	0	0	0	0
John Tsitouris	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Harry Byrd	37	10	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
George Thomas	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Clark	5	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Tom Yewcic	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Shaw	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Gromek	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Robinson	13	13	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.308	.000	.308	0	1	1	0	0	1
Joe Presko	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Phillips	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Crimian	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					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
Chuck Daniel	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1914	6004	5348	614	1376	224	37	116	574	36	47	503	641	.257	.323	.378	.701	2022	127	27	96	30	54

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Ray Boone	1B	117	117	1035.3	972	45	10	103	.990	8.841	8.692	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	1B	27	23	227.3	203	25	1	19	.996	9.026	8.444	0	0	0	0
Earl Torgeson	1B	17	9	103.7	98	7	0	11	1.000	9.116	6.176	0	0	0	0
Jay Porter	1B	3	3	26.0	28	3	1	2	.969	1.731	1.333	0	0	0	0
Bobo Osborne	1B	4	2	20.0	20	1	0	1	1.000	9.450	5.250	0	0	0	0
Eddie Robinson	1B	1	0	4.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	11.250	5.000	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Bolling	2B	146	144	1325.3	394	401	16	112	.980	5.399	5.445	0	0	0	0
Ron Samford	2B	11	6	56.0	17	21	1	5	.974	6.107	3.455	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	2B	3	2	21.0	8	4	1	2	.923	5.143	4.000	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	2B	2	1	10.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	2.700	1.500	0	0	0	0
Jack Dittmer	2B	1	1	5.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	3B	83	79	690.3	76	125	10	8	.953	2.620	2.422	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	3B	59	46	440.7	58	108	8	9	.954	3.390	2.814	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	3B	17	16	144.0	24	33	3	4	.950	3.562	3.353	0	0	0	0
Steve Boros	3B	9	7	75.7	7	22	3	1	.906	3.449	3.222	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	3B	4	4	35.0	5	12	2	0	.895	4.371	4.250	0	0	0	0
Jack Dittmer	3B	3	2	16.3	3	3	0	0	1.000	3.306	2.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Samford	3B	4	0	13.0	2	2	1	0	.800	2.769	1.000	0	0	0	0
George Thomas	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	3B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Frank House	C	97	95	849.3	535	54	2	5	.997	6.241	6.072	5	12	22	21	48.8
Red Wilson	C	60	50	483.0	280	29	0	5	1.000	5.758	5.150	7	6	8	15	65.2
Jay Porter	C	12	9	82.0	50	7	3	3	.950	6.256	4.750	0	0	2	3	60.0
Tom Yewcic	C	1	0	3.0	4	1	1	0	.833	15.000	5.000	0	0	1	0	0.0
Al Kaline	OF	145	143	1310.7	319	13	5	2	.985	2.280	2.290	0	0	0	0
Charlie Maxwell	OF	137	133	1198.3	317	6	1	1	.997	2.426	2.358	0	0	0	0
Bill Tuttle	OF	128	107	1042.3	331	5	6	1	.982	2.901	2.625	0	0	0	0
Johnny Groth	OF	36	24	237.7	73	0	0	0	1.000	2.764	2.028	0	0	0	0
Jay Porter	OF	27	25	179.3	40	1	2	0	.953	2.058	1.519	0	0	0	0
Dave Philley	OF	12	11	99.0	16	0	1	0	.941	1.455	1.333	0	0	0	0
Jim Small	OF	14	7	72.7	15	0	0	0	1.000	1.858	1.071	0	0	0	0
Bobo Osborne	OF	5	5	37.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.946	1.600	0	0	0	0
Bill Taylor	OF	5	5	36.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Karl Olson	OF	5	1	30.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.200	0	0	0	0
Mel Clark	OF	2	1	9.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Bunning	P	45	30	266.7	12	19	0	0	1.000	1.046	.689	0	0	0	0
Frank Lary	P	40	35	237.7	14	43	1	4	.983	2.158	1.425	0	0	0	0
Duke Maas	P	45	26	219.3	8	41	1	2	.980	2.011	1.089	0	0	0	0
Paul Foytack	P	38	27	212.3	3	30	4	1	.892	1.399	.868	0	0	0	0
Billy Hoeft	P	34	28	207.0	8	28	2	2	.947	1.565	1.059	0	0	0	0
Lou Sleater	P	41	0	69.3	2	11	3	2	.813	1.688	.317	0	0	0	0
Harry Byrd	P	37	1	59.0	0	10	0	0	1.000	1.525	.270	0	0	0	0
Don Lee	P	11	6	38.7	1	6	0	0	1.000	1.629	.636	0	0	0	0
Al Aber	P	28	0	37.0	3	10	0	0	1.000	3.162	.464	0	0	0	0
Steve Gromek	P	15	1	23.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.141	.200	0	0	0	0
Jim Stump	P	6	0	13.3	2	3	0	0	1.000	3.375	.833	0	0	0	0
Joe Presko	P	7	0	11.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.818	.143	0	0	0	0
Bob Shaw	P	7	0	9.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.862	.286	0	0	0	0
Jack Crimian	P	4	0	5.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.588	.250	0	0	0	0
John Tsitouris	P	2	0	3.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	.500	0	0	0	0
Chuck Daniel	P	1	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Pete Wojey	P	2	0	1.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	6.750	.500	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	SS	136	134	1186.0	225	354	27	86	.955	4.394	4.257	0	0	0	0
Ron Samford	SS	35	20	199.7	34	72	4	18	.964	4.778	3.029	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	SS	7	0	16.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.620	.429	0	0	0	0
Steve Boros	SS	5	0	15.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	3.600	1.200	0	0	0	0
Totals		1746	1386	12756.0	4244	1571	121	410	.980	4.103	3.330	12	18	33	39	54.2

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