1955 Kansas City Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 63-91
Finished 6th in the AL
Attendance: 1,393,054, Avg. 20,123
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium I
Manager: Lou Boudreau (63-91)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1955 Kansas City Athletics Roster
1955 Kansas City Athletics Results

The Kansas City Athletics of the American League ended the 1955 season with a record of 63 wins and 91 losses, finishing sixth in the AL.

The Athletics plated 638 runs and allowed 911 runs, most in the league. Gus Zernial walloped 30 home runs for Kansas City, while Bill Wilson, Hector Lopez and Vic Power each swatted 20 or more as well. Gus Zernial drove in 84 runs. Vic Power topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .319 average. Art Ditmar led the squad with 12 wins, and Alex Kellner recorded a 4.20 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Lou Boudreau 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
Art Ditmar	12	12	.500	5.03	35	22	8	7	1	1	175.3	180	109	98	23	86	5	79	7	1	7	773
Alex Kellner	11	8	.579	4.20	30	24	3	6	3	0	162.7	164	81	76	18	60	2	75	5	0	3	704
Tom Gorman	7	6	.538	3.55	57	0	35	0	0	18	109.0	98	48	43	11	36	5	46	4	0	2	451
Cloyd Boyer	5	5	.500	6.22	30	11	12	2	0	0	98.3	107	81	68	21	69	3	32	7	0	3	466
Arnie Portocarrero	5	9	.357	4.77	24	20	1	4	1	0	111.3	109	66	59	12	67	4	34	4	1	0	506
Bobby Shantz	5	10	.333	4.54	23	17	2	4	1	0	125.0	124	70	63	8	66	11	58	1	0	2	550
Vic Raschi	4	6	.400	5.42	20	18	0	1	0	0	101.3	132	66	61	10	35	4	38	1	0	2	466
Art Ceccarelli	4	7	.364	5.31	31	16	6	3	1	0	123.7	123	81	73	20	71	2	68	0	1	4	557
Bill Harrington	3	3	.500	4.11	34	1	18	0	0	2	76.7	69	41	35	6	41	4	26	2	0	1	336
Moe Burtschy	2	0	1.000	10.32	7	0	0	0	0	0	11.3	17	13	13	0	10	1	9	1	0	0	60
Johnny Sain	2	5	.286	5.44	25	0	13	0	0	1	44.7	54	28	27	10	10	4	12	0	0	0	197
Charlie Bishop	1	0	1.000	5.40	4	0	2	0	0	0	6.7	6	7	4	1	8	2	4	3	0	0	36
Lou Sleater	1	1	.500	7.71	16	1	7	0	0	0	25.7	33	22	22	3	21	0	11	0	0	0	127
Ray Herbert	1	8	.111	6.26	23	11	4	2	0	0	87.7	99	65	61	10	40	9	30	1	0	4	396
Bill Wilson	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5
Marion Fricano	0	0		3.15	10	0	5	0	0	0	20.0	19	9	7	2	9	0	5	0	0	2	84
Bob Trice	0	0		9.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	10.0	14	13	10	4	6	0	2	0	0	0	51
Sonny Dixon	0	0		16.20	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	6	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Ozzie Van Brabant	0	0		18.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	4	4	4	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	13
Lee Wheat	0	0		22.50	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	8	7	5	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	18
Bob Spicer	0	0		33.75	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	9	10	10	2	4	0	2	1	0	0	22
Ewell Blackwell	0	1	.000	6.75	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	3	3	3	1	5	0	2	1	0	0	18
Gus Keriazakos	0	1	.000	12.34	5	1	2	0	0	0	11.7	15	16	16	4	7	0	8	0	0	1	54
Walt Craddock	0	2	.000	7.80	4	2	0	0	0	0	15.0	18	14	13	3	10	0	9	0	0	0	73
Mike Kume	0	2	.000	7.99	6	4	0	0	0	0	23.7	35	23	21	1	15	0	7	3	0	5	121
Glenn Cox	0	2	.000	30.86	2	2	0	0	0	0	2.3	11	8	8	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	19
Johnny Gray	0	3	.000	6.41	8	5	1	0	0	0	26.7	28	23	19	2	24	0	11	1	0	0	129
Totals	63	91	.409	5.35	410	155	126	29	7	22	1382.0	1486	911	822	175	707	59	573	42	3	36	6243

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
Vic Power	147	639	596	91	190	34	10	19	76	0	2	35	27	.319	.354	.505	.859	301	12	0	3	5	6
Hector Lopez	128	527	483	50	140	15	2	15	68	1	4	33	58	.290	.337	.422	.759	204	15	3	4	4	1
Jim Finigan	150	615	545	72	139	30	7	9	68	1	3	61	49	.255	.333	.385	.718	210	18	3	5	1	6
Harry Simpson	112	436	396	42	119	16	7	5	52	3	5	34	61	.301	.356	.414	.770	164	10	2	1	3	4
Joe DeMaestri	123	486	457	42	114	14	1	6	37	3	5	20	47	.249	.284	.324	.608	148	12	3	4	2	1
Gus Zernial	120	454	413	62	105	9	3	30	84	1	0	30	90	.254	.304	.508	.812	210	17	3	0	8	1
Elmer Valo	112	338	283	50	103	17	4	3	37	5	3	52	18	.364	.460	.484	.944	137	5	0	1	2	2
Enos Slaughter	108	315	267	49	86	12	4	5	34	2	3	40	17	.322	.408	.453	.861	121	8	2	1	5	4
Joe Astroth	101	338	274	29	69	4	1	5	23	2	3	47	33	.252	.372	.328	.700	90	11	6	10	1	6
Bill Wilson	98	300	273	39	61	12	0	15	38	1	1	24	63	.223	.288	.432	.720	118	8	1	1	1	0
Billy Shantz	79	232	217	18	56	4	1	1	12	0	0	11	14	.258	.293	.300	.592	65	6	0	3	1	1
Bill Renna	100	284	249	33	53	7	3	7	28	0	3	31	42	.213	.305	.349	.654	87	4	2	2	0	0
Clete Boyer	47	82	79	3	19	1	0	0	6	0	0	3	17	.241	.268	.253	.521	20	3	0	0	0	0
Pete Suder	26	83	81	3	17	4	1	0	1	0	1	2	13	.210	.229	.284	.513	23	1	0	0	0	0
Jerry Schypinski	22	70	69	7	15	2	0	0	5	0	0	1	6	.217	.229	.246	.475	17	1	0	0	0	0
Jack Littrell	37	76	70	7	14	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	12	.200	.243	.229	.472	16	1	0	2	0	0
Art Ditmar	35	67	62	3	13	0	0	0	6	0	0	1	9	.210	.222	.210	.432	13	2	0	4	0	0
Alex Kellner	30	62	56	6	12	2	1	0	5	0	0	4	7	.214	.267	.286	.552	16	3	0	2	0	0
Dick Kryhoski	28	53	47	2	10	2	0	0	2	0	1	6	7	.213	.302	.255	.557	12	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Saffell	9	41	37	5	8	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	7	.216	.293	.216	.509	8	1	0	0	0	0
Spook Jacobs	13	28	23	7	6	0	0	0	1	1	2	3	0	.261	.370	.261	.631	6	1	1	1	0	0
Vic Raschi	20	37	33	0	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	10	.182	.206	.212	.418	7	2	0	3	0	0
Bobby Shantz	26	44	41	5	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.146	.167	.146	.313	6	0	0	2	0	0
Ray Herbert	24	24	21	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	7	.190	.217	.238	.455	5	1	0	1	1	0
Arnie Portocarrero	24	40	37	3	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	17	.108	.132	.189	.321	7	1	0	2	0	0
Art Ceccarelli	31	42	38	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	17	.079	.103	.079	.182	3	1	0	3	0	0
Bob Trice	4	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Marion Fricano	10	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Robertson	6	9	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	0	0	0
Lou Sleater	21	13	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	1	0	0	0	0
Bill Harrington	34	19	17	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.118	.211	.118	.328	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Stewart	11	19	18	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.111	.158	.167	.325	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Gorman	57	26	24	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	.083	.120	.125	.245	3	1	0	1	0	0
Cloyd Boyer	30	32	29	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	11	.069	.129	.069	.198	2	0	0	1	0	0
Charlie Bishop	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Moe Burtschy	7	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Kume	6	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Gray	8	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Don Bollweg	12	12	9	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	2	.111	.333	.111	.444	1	0	0	0	0	2
Alex George	5	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	0	0	0	0	0
Don Plarski	8	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Bevan	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Walt Craddock	4	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eric MacKenzie	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gus Keriazakos	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Spicer	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Glenn Cox	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Sain	25	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ewell Blackwell	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Ozzie Van Brabant	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Lee Wheat	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Sonny Dixon	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2024	5915	5335	638	1395	189	46	121	592	22	36	462	718	.261	.321	.382	.704	2039	146	26	58	34	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Vic Power	1B	144	143	1248.0	1281	130	10	140	.993	1.175	9.799	0	0	0	0
Dick Kryhoski	1B	14	8	87.0	76	6	1	7	.988	8.483	5.857	0	0	0	0
Jack Littrell	1B	6	3	30.0	24	4	1	3	.966	8.400	4.667	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	1B	3	1	10.0	10	2	0	2	1.000	1.800	4.000	0	0	0	0
Don Bollweg	1B	3	0	7.0	8	0	0	3	1.000	1.286	2.667	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	2B	90	87	773.7	236	228	12	72	.975	5.398	5.156	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	2B	36	35	299.3	93	98	6	32	.970	5.743	5.306	0	0	0	0
Pete Suder	2B	24	18	176.0	51	44	1	17	.990	4.858	3.958	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	2B	10	5	55.0	12	11	2	1	.920	3.764	2.300	0	0	0	0
Spook Jacobs	2B	7	6	48.0	9	9	0	4	1.000	3.375	2.571	0	0	0	0
Jack Littrell	2B	4	2	16.0	1	5	1	1	.857	3.375	1.500	0	0	0	0
Jerry Schypinski	2B	2	2	14.0	5	6	0	2	1.000	7.071	5.500	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	3B	93	90	804.7	104	233	23	26	.936	3.769	3.624	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	3B	59	59	514.3	55	135	8	13	.960	3.325	3.220	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	3B	11	6	61.0	7	17	0	1	1.000	3.541	2.182	0	0	0	0
Hal Bevan	3B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Astroth	C	100	92	818.0	420	50	5	9	.989	5.171	4.700	11	16	21	21	50.0
Billy Shantz	C	78	61	544.0	261	27	3	8	.990	4.765	3.692	3	16	15	11	42.3
Jim Robertson	C	4	2	19.0	8	2	0	0	1.000	4.737	2.500	0	2	1	1	50.0
Eric MacKenzie	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Gus Zernial	OF	103	102	860.3	231	9	9	4	.964	2.511	2.330	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	OF	100	95	858.7	262	5	6	2	.978	2.799	2.670	0	0	0	0
Bill Wilson	OF	82	66	610.3	186	4	6	0	.969	2.802	2.317	0	0	0	0
Elmer Valo	OF	72	69	607.3	147	5	2	2	.987	2.252	2.111	0	0	0	0
Bill Renna	OF	79	62	540.7	118	5	1	2	.992	2.047	1.557	0	0	0	0
Enos Slaughter	OF	77	56	537.7	126	5	2	2	.985	2.193	1.701	0	0	0	0
Tom Saffell	OF	9	9	76.0	25	0	1	0	.962	2.961	2.778	0	0	0	0
Bill Stewart	OF	6	3	32.0	7	1	0	1	1.000	2.250	1.333	0	0	0	0
Don Plarski	OF	6	3	23.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	2.739	1.167	0	0	0	0
Art Ditmar	P	35	22	175.3	15	29	1	3	.978	2.259	1.257	0	0	0	0
Alex Kellner	P	30	24	162.3	4	30	3	2	.919	1.885	1.133	0	0	0	0
Bobby Shantz	P	23	17	125.0	9	26	2	2	.946	2.520	1.522	0	0	0	0
Art Ceccarelli	P	31	16	123.7	3	14	0	0	1.000	1.237	.548	0	0	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	P	24	20	111.3	7	15	1	0	.957	1.778	.917	0	0	0	0
Tom Gorman	P	57	0	109.0	8	13	3	1	.875	1.734	.368	0	0	0	0
Vic Raschi	P	20	18	101.3	10	21	1	1	.969	2.753	1.550	0	0	0	0
Cloyd Boyer	P	30	11	98.3	9	13	2	0	.917	2.014	.733	0	0	0	0
Ray Herbert	P	23	11	88.0	8	24	0	0	1.000	3.273	1.391	0	0	0	0
Bill Harrington	P	34	1	76.7	4	11	0	0	1.000	1.761	.441	0	0	0	0
Johnny Sain	P	25	0	44.7	3	5	0	0	1.000	1.612	.320	0	0	0	0
Johnny Gray	P	8	5	26.7	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.013	.375	0	0	0	0
Lou Sleater	P	16	1	25.7	2	3	0	0	1.000	1.753	.313	0	0	0	0
Mike Kume	P	6	4	23.7	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.901	.833	0	0	0	0
Marion Fricano	P	10	0	20.0	5	4	1	0	.900	4.050	.900	0	0	0	0
Walt Craddock	P	4	2	15.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.200	.500	0	0	0	0
Gus Keriazakos	P	5	1	11.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.771	.200	0	0	0	0
Moe Burtschy	P	7	0	11.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Trice	P	4	0	10.0	3	4	0	0	1.000	6.300	1.750	0	0	0	0
Charlie Bishop	P	4	0	6.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.350	.250	0	0	0	0
Ewell Blackwell	P	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Spicer	P	2	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Glenn Cox	P	2	2	2.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	7.714	1.000	0	0	0	0
Lee Wheat	P	3	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.333	0	0	0	0
Ozzie Van Brabant	P	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Sonny Dixon	P	2	0	1.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	.500	0	0	0	0
Bill Wilson	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	SS	122	118	1030.7	206	358	21	78	.964	4.925	4.623	0	0	0	0
Jerry Schypinski	SS	21	18	149.0	22	46	5	10	.932	4.107	3.238	0	0	0	0
Jack Littrell	SS	22	12	126.0	30	42	4	8	.947	5.143	3.273	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	SS	12	5	58.3	13	13	1	4	.963	4.011	2.167	0	0	0	0
Alex George	SS	5	2	18.0	6	5	1	1	.917	5.500	2.200	0	0	0	0
Totals		1816	1395	12438.0	4142	1729	146	464	.976	4.248	3.233	14	34	37	33	47.1

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