1958 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 77-77
Finished 5th in the AL
Attendance: 1,098,924, Avg. 15,521
Ballpark: Briggs Stadium
Manager: Jack Tighe (21-28)
Manager: Bill Norman (56-49)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1958 Detroit Tigers Roster
1958 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1958 season with a record of 77 wins and 77 losses, finishing fifth in the AL.

The Tigers tallied 659 runs and yielded 606 runs. Gail Harris paced Detroit with 20 home runs, while Al Kaline walloped 20 or more as well. Al Kaline recorded 85 runs batted in. Harvey Kuenn led all regular hitters by hitting .319. Frank Lary topped the team with 16 wins, plus Paul Foytack added 15 or more wins, too Frank Lary recorded a 2.90 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Jack Tighe and Bill Norman 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	16	15	.516	2.90	39	34	4	19	3	1	260.3	249	91	84	20	68	4	131	12	0	4	1085
Paul Foytack	15	13	.536	3.44	39	33	4	16	2	1	230.0	198	98	88	23	77	1	135	3	0	2	944
Jim Bunning	14	12	.538	3.52	35	34	0	10	3	0	219.7	188	96	86	28	79	4	177	10	3	5	923
Billy Hoeft	10	9	.526	4.15	36	21	9	6	0	3	143.0	148	70	66	15	49	3	94	1	0	3	615
George Susce	4	3	.571	3.67	27	10	7	2	0	1	90.7	90	45	37	7	26	1	42	3	1	2	385
Herb Moford	4	9	.308	3.61	25	11	4	6	0	1	109.7	83	45	44	10	42	6	58	9	0	2	448
Al Cicotte	3	1	.750	3.56	14	2	3	0	0	0	43.0	50	19	17	1	15	1	21	0	0	3	185
Hank Aguirre	3	4	.429	3.75	44	3	16	0	0	5	69.7	67	31	29	5	27	2	38	1	0	1	299
Bill Fischer	2	4	.333	7.63	22	0	13	0	0	2	30.7	46	34	26	6	13	2	16	0	0	3	146
Tom Morgan	2	5	.286	3.16	39	1	11	0	0	1	62.7	70	28	22	7	4	0	32	1	0	0	256
Herm Wehmeier	1	0	1.000	2.38	7	3	2	0	0	0	22.7	21	8	6	2	5	0	11	0	0	0	93
George Spencer	1	0	1.000	2.70	7	0	2	0	0	0	10.0	11	4	3	0	4	0	5	0	0	0	44
Vito Valentinetti	1	0	1.000	3.38	15	0	9	0	0	2	18.7	18	7	7	4	5	0	10	1	0	0	77
Bob Shaw	1	2	.333	5.06	11	2	2	0	0	0	26.7	32	16	15	2	13	1	17	0	0	1	124
Joe Presko	0	0		3.38	7	0	6	0	0	2	10.7	13	4	4	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	43
Lou Sleater	0	0		6.75	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.3	3	4	4	2	6	0	4	0	0	0	25
Don Lee	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	2	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	9
Mickey McDermott	0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	6	4	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	14
Totals	77	77	.500	3.59	374	154	95	59	8	19	1357.3	1294	606	542	133	437	25	797	42	4	27	5715

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	139	619	561	73	179	39	3	8	54	5	10	51	34	.319	.373	.442	.815	248	13	0	3	4	8
Al Kaline	146	607	543	84	170	34	7	16	85	7	4	54	47	.313	.374	.490	.864	266	18	2	3	5	6
Frank Bolling	154	681	610	91	164	25	4	14	75	6	4	54	54	.269	.328	.392	.720	239	9	4	4	9	1
Billy Martin	131	536	498	56	127	19	1	7	42	5	3	16	62	.255	.279	.339	.619	169	16	3	13	6	0
Gail Harris	134	498	451	63	123	18	8	20	83	1	2	36	60	.273	.328	.481	.809	217	10	4	1	6	3
Charlie Maxwell	131	466	397	56	108	14	4	13	65	6	1	64	54	.272	.369	.426	.795	169	5	0	0	5	4
Red Wilson	103	343	298	31	89	13	1	3	29	10	0	35	30	.299	.373	.379	.752	113	8	2	5	3	5
Reno Bertoia	86	273	240	28	56	6	0	6	27	5	2	20	35	.233	.290	.333	.623	80	4	2	4	7	2
Coot Veal	58	230	207	29	53	10	2	0	16	1	1	14	21	.256	.304	.324	.627	67	9	1	6	2	0
Ozzie Virgil	49	203	193	19	47	10	2	3	19	1	0	8	20	.244	.272	.363	.635	70	5	0	1	1	0
Johnny Groth	88	161	146	24	41	5	2	2	11	0	1	13	19	.281	.340	.384	.723	56	4	0	2	0	0
Gus Zernial	66	131	124	8	40	7	1	5	23	0	0	6	25	.323	.351	.516	.867	64	3	0	0	1	0
Ray Boone	39	132	114	16	27	4	1	6	20	0	2	14	13	.237	.323	.447	.770	51	3	1	2	1	1
Jim Hegan	45	140	130	14	25	6	0	1	7	0	0	10	32	.192	.250	.262	.512	34	5	0	0	0	1
Paul Foytack	39	88	75	5	18	2	0	0	9	1	0	6	20	.240	.296	.267	.563	20	1	0	7	0	0
Tito Francona	45	84	69	11	17	5	0	0	10	0	0	15	16	.246	.381	.319	.700	22	2	0	0	0	3
Frank Lary	39	100	88	6	15	1	1	1	6	0	2	3	20	.170	.198	.239	.436	21	2	0	9	0	0
Bob Hazle	43	63	58	5	14	2	0	2	5	0	0	5	13	.241	.302	.379	.681	22	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Bunning	36	84	75	7	14	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	24	.187	.218	.213	.431	16	3	0	6	0	0
Billy Hoeft	43	50	44	10	12	0	2	0	5	0	0	4	11	.273	.327	.364	.690	16	1	0	1	1	0
Charlie Lau	30	82	68	8	10	1	2	0	6	0	0	12	15	.147	.293	.221	.513	15	2	2	0	0	2
Lou Skizas	23	38	33	4	8	2	0	1	2	0	0	5	1	.242	.342	.394	.736	13	1	0	0	0	1
Milt Bolling	24	37	31	3	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	7	.194	.306	.258	.564	8	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Shaw	12	9	8	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.375	.444	.375	.819	3	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Taylor	8	8	8	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.375	.375	.375	.750	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hank Aguirre	44	15	14	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.214	.267	.286	.552	4	0	0	0	0	0
Al Cicotte	15	17	17	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.176	.176	.176	.353	3	0	0	0	0	0
George Susce	27	28	24	0	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	11	.125	.192	.167	.359	4	0	1	2	0	0
Tom Morgan	39	11	10	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	1	0	0
Lou Sleater	4	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	4.000	5.000	4	0	0	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	4	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Thompson	4	9	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.167	.444	.167	.611	1	0	0	0	0	0
Herb Moford	25	41	37	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	9	.027	.053	.027	.080	1	1	0	3	0	0
Steve Boros	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Fischer	22	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	1	0	1	0	0
Bobo Osborne	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Herm Wehmeier	7	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	1	0	0	0	0
George Alusik	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Feller	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Vito Valentinetti	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
George Thomas	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Lee	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Presko	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
George Spencer	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1944	5805	5194	659	1384	229	41	109	612	48	32	463	678	.266	.326	.389	.715	2022	127	22	75	51	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Gail Harris	1B	122	112	1013.3	942	79	15	90	.986	9.068	8.369	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	1B	32	32	254.0	236	15	3	26	.988	8.894	7.844	0	0	0	0
Charlie Maxwell	1B	14	10	89.0	89	4	1	9	.989	9.404	6.643	0	0	0	0
Tito Francona	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Bolling	2B	154	154	1350.3	342	445	12	109	.985	5.245	5.110	0	0	0	0
Steve Boros	2B	1	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.000	0	0	0	0
Milt Bolling	2B	1	0	3.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	3B	68	64	561.0	70	139	11	13	.950	3.353	3.074	0	0	0	0
Ozzie Virgil	3B	49	47	422.3	55	101	3	7	.981	3.324	3.184	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	3B	41	39	342.0	47	59	3	5	.972	2.789	2.585	0	0	0	0
Lou Skizas	3B	4	4	30.0	1	7	2	0	.800	2.400	2.000	0	0	0	0
Milt Bolling	3B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Red Wilson	C	101	90	796.3	565	34	5	6	.992	6.770	5.931	9	14	25	18	41.9
Jim Hegan	C	45	43	353.3	211	19	1	4	.996	5.858	5.111	5	4	10	7	41.2
Charlie Lau	C	27	19	186.7	120	10	2	3	.985	6.268	4.815	2	8	4	11	73.3
Tim Thompson	C	4	2	20.0	8	1	0	0	1.000	4.050	2.250	0	0	1	1	50.0
Jack Feller	C	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	1	0	0
Al Kaline	OF	145	143	1232.3	316	23	2	4	.994	2.476	2.338	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	OF	138	138	1206.3	358	9	6	1	.984	2.738	2.659	0	0	0	0
Charlie Maxwell	OF	114	104	890.3	201	4	3	0	.986	2.072	1.798	0	0	0	0
Johnny Groth	OF	80	31	347.3	95	2	1	1	.990	2.513	1.213	0	0	0	0
Gus Zernial	OF	24	24	163.0	30	1	2	0	.939	1.712	1.292	0	0	0	0
Tito Francona	OF	18	13	124.7	22	0	0	0	1.000	1.588	1.222	0	0	0	0
Bob Hazle	OF	12	7	75.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	1.440	1.000	0	0	0	0
Lou Skizas	OF	5	2	22.0	3	0	1	0	.750	1.227	.600	0	0	0	0
Bill Taylor	OF	1	0	4.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	OF	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
George Alusik	OF	1	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
George Thomas	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Lary	P	39	34	260.3	20	39	1	1	.983	2.040	1.513	0	0	0	0
Paul Foytack	P	39	33	230.0	12	25	0	3	1.000	1.448	.949	0	0	0	0
Jim Bunning	P	35	34	219.7	9	16	0	0	1.000	1.024	.714	0	0	0	0
Billy Hoeft	P	36	21	142.0	6	15	3	2	.875	1.331	.583	0	0	0	0
Herb Moford	P	25	11	109.3	5	24	0	2	1.000	2.387	1.160	0	0	0	0
George Susce	P	27	10	91.7	6	6	1	1	.923	1.178	.444	0	0	0	0
Hank Aguirre	P	44	3	69.7	3	14	0	1	1.000	2.196	.386	0	0	0	0
Tom Morgan	P	39	1	62.7	2	9	1	1	.917	1.580	.282	0	0	0	0
Al Cicotte	P	14	2	43.3	5	12	0	0	1.000	3.531	1.214	0	0	0	0
Bill Fischer	P	22	0	30.7	0	8	0	0	1.000	2.348	.364	0	0	0	0
Bob Shaw	P	11	2	26.7	0	9	1	0	.900	3.038	.818	0	0	0	0
Herm Wehmeier	P	7	3	22.7	0	4	0	0	1.000	1.588	.571	0	0	0	0
Vito Valentinetti	P	15	0	18.7	0	2	1	0	.667	.964	.133	0	0	0	0
Joe Presko	P	7	0	10.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.286	0	0	0	0
George Spencer	P	7	0	10.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.700	.429	0	0	0	0
Lou Sleater	P	4	0	5.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.375	.500	0	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	P	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Don Lee	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	SS	88	88	757.7	159	229	17	58	.958	4.609	4.409	0	0	0	0
Coot Veal	SS	58	58	502.7	95	160	5	30	.981	4.566	4.397	0	0	0	0
Milt Bolling	SS	13	6	69.0	14	21	2	7	.946	4.565	2.692	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	SS	5	2	28.0	2	3	1	0	.833	1.607	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1744	1386	12216.0	4069	1557	106	384	.982	4.145	3.226	16	27	40	37	48.1

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