1959 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 76-78
Finished 4th in the AL
Attendance: 1,221,221, Avg. 16,507
Ballpark: Briggs Stadium
Manager: Bill Norman (2-15)
Manager: Jimmy Dykes (74-63)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1959 Detroit Tigers Roster
1959 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1959 season with a record of 76 wins and 78 losses, finishing fourth in the AL.

The Tigers scored 713 runs and allowed 732 runs. Charlie Maxwell walloped 31 home runs for Detroit, while Eddie Yost and Al Kaline swatted 20 or more also. Charlie Maxwell accounted for 95 RBI. Harvey Kuenn led batters with significant playing time by hitting .353. Frank Lary, Don Mossi and Jim Bunning topped the team with 17 wins each, and Don Mossi earned a 3.36 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Norman and Jimmy Dykes 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
Don Mossi	17	9	.654	3.36	34	30	2	15	3	0	228.0	210	92	85	20	49	0	125	3	1	2	927
Frank Lary	17	10	.630	3.55	32	32	0	11	3	0	223.0	225	109	88	23	46	4	137	11	1	2	931
Jim Bunning	17	13	.567	3.89	40	35	4	14	1	1	249.7	220	111	108	37	75	0	201	11	1	1	1037
Paul Foytack	14	14	.500	4.64	39	37	1	11	2	1	240.3	239	137	124	34	64	3	110	2	1	6	1000
Ray Narleski	4	12	.250	5.78	42	10	21	1	0	5	104.3	105	83	67	21	59	3	71	1	0	4	487
Jerry Davie	2	2	.500	4.17	11	5	1	1	0	0	36.7	40	25	17	8	17	1	20	4	0	1	174
Billy Hoeft	1	1	.500	5.00	2	2	0	0	0	0	9.0	6	5	5	0	4	0	2	1	0	0	37
Barney Schultz	1	2	.333	4.42	13	0	7	0	0	0	18.3	17	12	9	1	14	1	17	1	0	0	85
Pete Burnside	1	3	.250	3.77	30	0	11	0	0	1	62.0	55	31	26	7	25	1	49	2	0	2	264
Dave Sisler	1	3	.250	4.01	32	0	18	0	0	7	51.7	46	28	23	4	36	1	29	1	0	3	232
Tom Morgan	1	4	.200	3.98	46	1	22	0	0	9	92.7	94	48	41	11	18	3	39	6	1	2	386
Jim Stump	0	0		2.38	5	0	2	0	0	0	11.3	12	3	3	1	4	0	6	0	0	0	48
Hank Aguirre	0	0		3.38	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.7	4	1	1	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	14
George Susce	0	0		12.89	9	0	3	0	0	0	14.7	24	22	21	4	9	0	9	2	0	0	80
Bob Bruce	0	1	.000	9.00	2	1	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	5	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	12
Jim Proctor	0	1	.000	16.88	2	1	0	0	0	0	2.7	8	5	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	19
Bob Smith	0	3	.000	8.18	9	0	6	0	0	0	11.0	20	15	10	5	3	1	10	0	0	0	53
Totals	76	78	.494	4.20	351	154	101	53	9	24	1360.0	1327	732	635	177	432	18	829	45	5	24	5786

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	617	561	99	198	42	7	9	71	7	2	48	37	.353	.402	.501	.903	281	6	1	3	4	1
Al Kaline	136	595	511	86	167	19	2	27	94	10	4	72	42	.327	.410	.530	.940	271	11	4	2	6	12
Eddie Yost	148	675	521	115	145	19	0	21	61	9	2	135	77	.278	.435	.436	.871	227	6	12	4	3	1
Charlie Maxwell	145	611	518	81	130	12	2	31	95	0	2	81	91	.251	.357	.461	.819	239	9	6	4	2	5
Frank Bolling	127	520	459	56	122	18	3	13	55	2	2	45	37	.266	.339	.403	.742	185	6	7	7	2	2
Rocky Bridges	116	420	381	38	102	16	3	3	35	1	2	30	35	.268	.320	.349	.670	133	14	1	5	3	2
Gail Harris	114	387	349	39	77	4	3	9	39	0	1	29	49	.221	.290	.327	.617	114	7	6	1	2	3
Lou Berberet	100	380	338	38	73	8	2	13	44	0	0	35	59	.216	.284	.367	.651	124	9	0	0	7	1
Ted Lepcio	76	234	215	25	60	8	0	7	24	2	0	17	49	.279	.332	.414	.746	89	7	0	2	0	2
Red Wilson	67	247	228	28	60	17	2	4	35	2	2	10	23	.263	.295	.408	.703	93	8	2	3	4	1
Bobo Osborne	86	228	209	27	40	7	1	3	21	1	0	16	41	.191	.254	.278	.532	58	3	2	0	1	0
Gus Zernial	60	141	132	11	30	4	0	7	26	0	0	7	27	.227	.262	.417	.679	55	3	0	0	2	0
Johnny Groth	55	112	102	12	24	7	1	1	10	0	0	7	14	.235	.284	.353	.637	36	0	0	3	0	0
Coot Veal	77	103	89	12	18	1	0	1	15	0	0	8	7	.202	.273	.247	.520	22	0	1	4	1	1
Jim Bunning	40	102	89	7	17	0	1	1	7	0	0	5	25	.191	.234	.247	.481	22	5	0	8	0	0
Neil Chrisley	65	120	106	7	14	3	0	6	11	0	0	12	10	.132	.225	.330	.555	35	1	1	0	1	0
Don Mossi	36	86	77	6	13	4	0	1	8	0	0	3	28	.169	.198	.260	.457	20	0	0	5	1	0
Larry Doby	18	64	55	5	12	3	1	0	4	0	0	8	9	.218	.313	.309	.622	17	0	0	0	1	0
Frank Lary	32	92	80	7	10	1	1	1	2	0	0	4	26	.125	.167	.200	.367	16	1	0	8	0	0
Tom Morgan	46	23	23	3	9	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	6	.391	.391	.652	1.043	15	1	0	0	0	0
Paul Foytack	39	93	81	6	9	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	20	.111	.172	.123	.296	10	1	1	6	0	0
Jerry Davie	11	12	10	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	3	.400	.500	.400	.900	4	0	0	0	0	0
Barney Schultz	13	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Demeter	11	18	18	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.111	.111	.167	.278	3	1	0	0	0	0
Ray Narleski	42	25	21	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	.095	.095	.190	.286	4	1	0	4	0	0
Jim Stump	5	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ossie Alvarez	8	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Hoeft	3	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	2	0	0
Dave Sisler	32	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	1	0	0
Charlie Lau	2	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Shoop	3	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	1	0	0	0	0
Bob Smith	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
George Susce	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Burnside	30	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Bruce	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Proctor	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Hank Aguirre	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1907	5948	5211	713	1346	196	30	160	667	34	17	580	735	.258	.335	.400	.735	2082	101	44	73	40	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Gail Harris	1B	93	83	752.0	728	57	6	59	.992	9.395	8.441	0	0	0	0
Bobo Osborne	1B	56	40	393.0	377	27	7	36	.983	9.252	7.214	0	0	0	0
Gus Zernial	1B	32	31	215.0	197	10	6	20	.972	8.665	6.469	0	0	0	0
Frank Bolling	2B	126	126	1111.0	281	340	8	81	.987	5.031	4.929	0	0	0	0
Ted Lepcio	2B	24	24	200.0	59	58	5	18	.959	5.265	4.875	0	0	0	0
Rocky Bridges	2B	5	4	47.0	16	15	0	4	1.000	5.936	6.200	0	0	0	0
Eddie Yost	2B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Yost	3B	146	144	1267.0	168	259	17	21	.962	3.033	2.925	0	0	0	0
Ted Lepcio	3B	11	8	72.0	5	20	1	0	.962	3.125	2.273	0	0	0	0
Steve Demeter	3B	4	2	21.0	4	6	1	1	.909	4.286	2.500	0	0	0	0
Lou Berberet	C	95	91	812.0	511	39	6	4	.989	6.096	5.789	6	14	19	24	55.8
Red Wilson	C	64	60	518.0	374	25	5	8	.988	6.932	6.234	8	8	24	11	31.4
Ron Shoop	C	3	2	19.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	3.789	2.667	0	2	2	0	0.0
Charlie Lau	C	2	1	11.0	11	1	0	1	1.000	9.818	6.000	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	OF	137	137	1199.0	247	6	3	0	.988	1.899	1.847	0	0	0	0
Charlie Maxwell	OF	136	136	1193.3	285	6	4	1	.986	2.195	2.140	0	0	0	0
Al Kaline	OF	136	136	1174.7	364	4	4	0	.989	2.820	2.706	0	0	0	0
Johnny Groth	OF	41	21	223.3	58	0	1	0	.983	2.337	1.415	0	0	0	0
Neil Chrisley	OF	21	15	153.0	28	0	0	0	1.000	1.647	1.333	0	0	0	0
Larry Doby	OF	16	16	125.7	23	1	1	1	.960	1.719	1.500	0	0	0	0
Bobo Osborne	OF	1	1	9.0	1	0	1	0	.500	1.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Gus Zernial	OF	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Bunning	P	40	35	249.7	11	16	3	1	.900	.973	.675	0	0	0	0
Paul Foytack	P	39	37	240.3	9	36	1	0	.978	1.685	1.154	0	0	0	0
Don Mossi	P	34	30	228.0	12	38	1	5	.980	1.974	1.471	0	0	0	0
Frank Lary	P	32	32	223.0	15	34	3	1	.942	1.978	1.531	0	0	0	0
Ray Narleski	P	42	10	104.3	4	8	2	0	.857	1.035	.286	0	0	0	0
Tom Morgan	P	46	1	92.7	4	15	0	2	1.000	1.845	.413	0	0	0	0
Pete Burnside	P	30	0	62.0	3	11	0	1	1.000	2.032	.467	0	0	0	0
Dave Sisler	P	32	0	51.7	0	7	0	0	1.000	1.219	.219	0	0	0	0
Jerry Davie	P	11	5	36.7	4	9	0	0	1.000	3.191	1.182	0	0	0	0
Barney Schultz	P	13	0	18.3	1	2	2	0	.600	1.473	.231	0	0	0	0
George Susce	P	9	0	14.7	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.841	.333	0	0	0	0
Jim Stump	P	5	0	11.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.382	.600	0	0	0	0
Bob Smith	P	9	0	11.0	0	3	1	0	.750	2.455	.333	0	0	0	0
Billy Hoeft	P	2	2	9.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Proctor	P	2	1	2.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.375	.500	0	0	0	0
Hank Aguirre	P	3	0	2.7	0	1	0	1	1.000	3.375	.333	0	0	0	0
Bob Bruce	P	2	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Rocky Bridges	SS	110	108	861.7	179	293	24	66	.952	4.930	4.291	0	0	0	0
Coot Veal	SS	72	25	290.7	57	96	6	16	.962	4.737	2.125	0	0	0	0
Ted Lepcio	SS	35	21	207.7	32	65	5	12	.951	4.204	2.771	0	0	0	0
Totals		1719	1386	12240.0	4080	1515	124	360	.978	4.114	3.255	14	24	45	35	43.8

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