1956 Kansas City Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 52-102
Finished 8th in the AL
Attendance: 1,015,154, Avg. 13,306
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium I
Manager: Lou Boudreau (52-102)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1956 Kansas City Athletics Roster
1956 Kansas City Athletics Results

The Kansas City Athletics of the American League ended the 1956 season with a record of 52 wins and 102 losses, finishing eighth in the AL.

The Athletics tallied 619 runs and allowed 831 runs. Harry Simpson paced Kansas City with 21 home runs, while Hector Lopez and Gus Zernial walloped 20 or more as well. Harry Simpson drove in 105 runs. Vic Power topped all regular hitters with a .309 average. Art Ditmar led the squad with 12 wins, and Tom Gorman recorded a 3.83 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	22	.353	4.42	44	34	6	14	2	1	254.3	254	141	125	30	108	6	126	7	0	5	1101
Tom Gorman	9	10	.474	3.83	52	13	23	1	0	3	171.3	168	83	73	23	68	7	56	2	1	2	733
Alex Kellner	7	4	.636	4.32	20	17	3	5	0	0	91.7	103	49	44	15	33	3	44	2	0	1	399
Wally Burnette	6	8	.429	2.89	18	14	4	4	1	0	121.3	115	48	39	13	39	3	54	2	1	3	507
Jack Crimian	4	8	.333	5.51	54	7	16	0	0	3	129.0	129	87	79	19	49	2	59	5	0	2	556
Lou Kretlow	4	9	.308	5.31	25	20	3	3	0	0	118.7	121	75	70	17	74	4	61	0	0	3	542
Moe Burtschy	3	1	.750	3.95	21	0	9	0	0	0	43.3	41	22	19	6	30	4	18	3	0	2	195
Bill Harrington	2	2	.500	6.45	23	1	8	0	0	1	37.7	40	27	27	3	26	1	14	0	1	3	173
Bobby Shantz	2	7	.222	4.35	45	2	26	1	0	9	101.3	95	51	49	12	37	4	67	3	0	1	425
Carl Duser	1	1	.500	9.00	2	2	0	0	0	0	6.0	14	6	6	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	33
Jose Santiago	1	2	.333	8.31	9	5	1	0	0	0	21.7	36	26	20	8	17	0	9	5	0	1	117
Troy Herriage	1	13	.071	6.64	31	16	7	1	0	0	103.0	135	83	76	16	64	6	59	6	0	2	501
George Brunet	0	0		7.00	6	1	1	0	0	0	9.0	10	8	7	1	11	0	5	0	0	0	47
Bill Bradford	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	9
Bob Spicer	0	0		19.29	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	6	5	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	13
Art Ceccarelli	0	1	.000	7.20	3	2	0	0	0	0	10.0	13	13	8	3	4	1	2	1	0	1	49
Arnie Portocarrero	0	1	.000	10.13	3	1	1	0	0	0	8.0	9	9	9	2	7	0	2	0	0	0	38
Glenn Cox	0	2	.000	4.24	3	3	0	1	0	0	23.3	15	11	11	2	22	0	6	0	0	2	101
Walt Craddock	0	2	.000	6.75	2	2	0	0	0	0	9.3	9	7	7	1	10	0	8	0	0	2	45
Tom Lasorda	0	4	.000	6.15	18	5	7	0	0	1	45.3	40	38	31	6	45	3	28	3	0	7	220
Jack McMahan	0	5	.000	4.82	23	9	8	0	0	0	61.7	69	40	33	7	31	0	13	2	0	1	279
Totals	52	102	.338	4.86	405	154	124	30	3	18	1370.3	1424	831	740	187	679	44	636	42	3	38	6083

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	127	559	530	77	164	21	5	14	63	2	2	24	16	.309	.340	.447	.787	237	5	1	3	1	2
Harry Simpson	141	597	543	76	159	22	11	21	105	2	3	47	82	.293	.347	.490	.837	266	19	1	1	5	8
Hector Lopez	151	639	561	91	153	27	3	18	69	4	5	63	73	.273	.347	.428	.775	240	13	3	8	4	3
Joe DeMaestri	133	468	434	41	101	16	1	6	39	3	3	25	73	.233	.277	.316	.593	137	8	3	3	3	2
Lou Skizas	83	317	297	39	94	11	3	11	39	3	1	15	17	.316	.346	.485	.831	144	13	0	2	3	1
Tim Thompson	92	288	268	21	73	13	2	1	27	2	4	17	23	.272	.319	.347	.666	93	4	2	0	1	1
Johnny Groth	95	280	244	22	63	13	3	5	37	1	2	30	31	.258	.335	.398	.732	97	9	0	2	4	2
Enos Slaughter	91	255	223	37	62	14	3	2	23	1	0	29	20	.278	.362	.395	.757	88	6	1	1	1	1
Gus Zernial	109	311	272	36	61	12	0	16	44	2	0	33	66	.224	.315	.445	.760	121	5	4	0	2	2
Al Pilarcik	69	272	239	28	60	10	1	4	22	9	2	30	32	.251	.333	.351	.685	84	2	0	2	1	1
Jim Finigan	91	290	250	29	54	7	2	2	21	3	1	30	28	.216	.298	.284	.582	71	6	1	5	4	1
Joe Ginsberg	71	220	195	15	48	8	1	1	12	1	1	23	17	.246	.323	.313	.636	61	7	0	0	2	3
Hal Smith	37	148	142	15	39	9	2	2	24	1	1	3	12	.275	.284	.408	.692	58	2	0	0	3	0
Eddie Robinson	75	202	172	13	34	5	1	2	12	0	0	26	20	.198	.308	.273	.582	47	7	2	1	1	1
Clete Boyer	67	143	129	15	28	3	1	1	4	1	1	11	24	.217	.284	.279	.563	36	2	1	2	0	1
Mike Baxes	73	128	106	9	24	3	1	1	5	0	1	18	15	.226	.339	.302	.641	32	2	0	4	0	1
Rance Pless	48	96	85	4	23	3	1	0	9	0	1	10	13	.271	.354	.329	.684	28	5	1	0	0	0
Spook Jacobs	32	115	97	13	21	3	0	0	5	4	1	15	5	.216	.321	.247	.569	24	4	0	3	0	1
Bill Renna	33	51	48	12	13	3	0	2	5	1	0	3	10	.271	.314	.458	.772	22	1	0	0	0	0
Art Ditmar	44	98	91	5	13	0	0	1	4	0	1	3	24	.143	.170	.176	.346	16	0	0	4	0	0
Jim Pisoni	10	33	30	4	8	0	0	2	5	0	0	2	8	.267	.303	.467	.770	14	2	0	0	1	0
Alex Kellner	21	36	30	2	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	10	.200	.273	.200	.473	6	1	0	3	0	0
Jack Crimian	55	30	22	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	6	.227	.320	.227	.547	5	1	0	5	0	0
Troy Herriage	34	29	25	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	17	.120	.185	.120	.305	3	0	0	2	0	0
Jose Santiago	9	6	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	1	0	0
Elmer Valo	9	11	9	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.222	.273	.222	.495	2	0	0	0	1	0
Bobby Shantz	51	26	22	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.091	.167	.136	.303	3	1	0	2	0	0
Lou Kretlow	25	41	33	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	19	.061	.162	.061	.223	2	0	0	4	0	0
Tom Gorman	52	44	39	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	22	.051	.140	.051	.191	2	0	0	1	0	0
Wally Burnette	18	45	39	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.051	.075	.051	.126	2	0	0	5	0	0
Dave Melton	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Moe Burtschy	21	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Astroth	8	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	0	0	1	0	0
Tom Lasorda	19	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	1	0	0	0	0
Bill Harrington	23	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	2	0	0
Walt Craddock	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Carl Duser	2	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack McMahan	23	14	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Glenn Cox	3	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Art Ceccarelli	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Spicer	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Bradford	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2065	5859	5256	619	1325	204	41	112	584	40	30	479	725	.252	.315	.370	.685	1947	127	20	67	37	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Vic Power	1B	76	72	630.7	671	62	5	73	.993	1.460	9.645	0	0	0	0
Eddie Robinson	1B	47	41	367.7	360	19	9	43	.977	9.277	8.064	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	1B	32	29	257.0	269	15	4	32	.986	9.946	8.875	0	0	0	0
Rance Pless	1B	15	12	115.0	137	7	0	18	1.000	11.270	9.600	0	0	0	0
Vic Power	2B	47	45	389.7	122	138	7	40	.974	6.005	5.532	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	2B	52	39	351.3	114	105	7	35	.969	5.610	4.212	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	2B	51	34	324.3	94	110	6	31	.971	5.661	4.000	0	0	0	0
Spook Jacobs	2B	31	28	236.0	78	71	5	26	.968	5.682	4.806	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	2B	8	8	66.0	18	18	2	7	.947	4.909	4.500	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	2B	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Mike Baxes	2B	1	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	.667	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	3B	121	114	1034.3	152	254	26	23	.940	3.533	3.355	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	3B	32	29	254.0	29	70	9	7	.917	3.508	3.094	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	3B	7	6	48.0	6	14	0	3	1.000	3.750	2.857	0	0	0	0
Rance Pless	3B	5	5	34.0	5	13	0	2	1.000	4.765	3.600	0	0	0	0
Tim Thompson	C	68	63	572.3	328	38	7	7	.981	5.755	5.382	9	17	16	21	56.8
Joe Ginsberg	C	57	50	451.3	238	28	3	3	.989	5.304	4.667	5	8	16	15	48.4
Hal Smith	C	37	36	304.7	183	22	3	3	.986	6.056	5.541	5	9	15	9	37.5
Joe Astroth	C	8	5	42.0	19	5	0	1	1.000	5.143	3.000	0	2	2	2	50.0
Harry Simpson	OF	111	109	965.3	188	3	7	2	.965	1.781	1.721	0	0	0	0
Lou Skizas	OF	74	72	622.0	148	9	4	0	.975	2.272	2.122	0	0	0	0
Johnny Groth	OF	84	61	598.3	140	8	0	3	1.000	2.226	1.762	0	0	0	0
Al Pilarcik	OF	67	61	544.0	154	9	4	1	.976	2.697	2.433	0	0	0	0
Gus Zernial	OF	69	69	525.3	111	9	2	1	.984	2.056	1.739	0	0	0	0
Enos Slaughter	OF	56	47	430.0	105	1	2	0	.981	2.219	1.893	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	OF	20	20	173.0	44	3	2	0	.959	2.445	2.350	0	0	0	0
Bill Renna	OF	25	7	104.7	18	1	1	0	.950	1.634	.760	0	0	0	0
Jim Pisoni	OF	9	9	74.3	24	4	1	1	.966	3.390	3.111	0	0	0	0
Vic Power	OF	7	6	56.0	14	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0	0
Dave Melton	OF	3	0	12.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Elmer Valo	OF	1	1	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Art Ditmar	P	44	34	253.7	20	33	2	3	.964	1.880	1.205	0	0	0	0
Tom Gorman	P	52	13	171.0	11	29	3	1	.930	2.105	.769	0	0	0	0
Jack Crimian	P	54	7	127.7	3	22	1	1	.962	1.762	.463	0	0	0	0
Wally Burnette	P	18	14	121.0	6	16	1	2	.957	1.636	1.222	0	0	0	0
Lou Kretlow	P	25	20	119.7	5	16	2	1	.913	1.579	.840	0	0	0	0
Troy Herriage	P	31	16	103.0	0	11	3	0	.786	.961	.355	0	0	0	0
Bobby Shantz	P	45	2	100.7	10	20	2	2	.938	2.682	.667	0	0	0	0
Alex Kellner	P	20	17	91.7	1	17	1	2	.947	1.767	.900	0	0	0	0
Jack McMahan	P	23	9	61.7	3	10	0	1	1.000	1.897	.565	0	0	0	0
Tom Lasorda	P	18	5	45.3	3	9	1	0	.923	2.382	.667	0	0	0	0
Moe Burtschy	P	21	0	43.7	2	15	0	2	1.000	3.504	.810	0	0	0	0
Bill Harrington	P	23	1	39.7	3	5	0	1	1.000	1.815	.348	0	0	0	0
Glenn Cox	P	3	3	23.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jose Santiago	P	9	5	21.7	1	5	0	1	1.000	2.492	.667	0	0	0	0
Art Ceccarelli	P	3	2	10.0	0	5	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.667	0	0	0	0
Walt Craddock	P	2	2	9.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.964	.500	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	P	6	1	9.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	P	3	1	8.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.125	.333	0	0	0	0
Carl Duser	P	2	2	6.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Spicer	P	2	0	2.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.500	0	0	0	0
Bill Bradford	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	SS	132	125	1053.7	210	407	23	95	.964	5.270	4.674	0	0	0	0
Mike Baxes	SS	62	27	301.7	56	112	10	17	.944	5.012	2.710	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	SS	4	2	15.0	4	7	0	2	1.000	6.600	2.750	0	0	0	0
Totals		1826	1386	12333.0	4111	1785	166	493	.973	4.303	3.229	19	36	49	47	49.0

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