1957 Kansas City Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 59-94
Finished 7th in the AL
Attendance: 901,067, Avg. 12,502
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium I
Manager: Lou Boudreau (36-67)
Manager: Harry Craft (23-27)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1957 Kansas City Athletics Roster
1957 Kansas City Athletics Results

The Kansas City Athletics of the American League ended the 1957 season with a record of 59 wins and 94 losses, finishing seventh in the AL.

The Athletics scored 563 runs, worst in the league, and allowed 710 runs. Gus Zernial led Kansas City with 27 home runs, while Woodie Held and Lou Skizas walloped 20 or more also. Gus Zernial drove in 69 runs. Vic Power topped all regular hitters with a .259 average. Tom Morgan and Virgil Trucks paced the team with 9 wins each, and Jack Urban recorded a 3.34 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Lou Boudreau and Harry Craft 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
Virgil Trucks	9	7	.563	3.03	48	7	23	0	0	7	116.0	106	45	39	12	62	8	55	2	0	7	502
Tom Morgan	9	7	.563	4.64	46	13	24	5	0	7	143.7	160	76	74	19	61	9	32	3	0	3	619
Jack Urban	7	4	.636	3.34	31	13	9	3	0	0	129.3	111	55	48	7	45	3	55	1	2	4	530
Wally Burnette	7	12	.368	4.30	38	9	13	1	0	1	113.0	115	62	54	8	44	3	57	1	2	1	486
Alex Kellner	6	5	.545	4.27	28	21	3	3	0	0	132.7	141	65	63	18	41	3	72	2	0	4	559
Ned Garver	6	13	.316	3.84	24	23	0	6	1	0	145.3	120	72	62	13	55	5	61	5	1	1	608
Tom Gorman	5	9	.357	3.83	38	12	12	3	1	3	124.7	125	59	53	18	33	7	66	1	0	3	523
Arnie Portocarrero	4	9	.308	3.92	33	17	8	1	0	0	114.7	103	55	50	10	34	2	42	3	0	1	474
Ralph Terry	4	11	.267	3.38	21	19	0	3	1	0	130.7	119	63	49	15	47	2	80	4	1	3	556
Glenn Cox	1	0	1.000	5.02	10	0	3	0	0	0	14.3	18	9	8	1	9	1	8	0	0	2	66
Mickey McDermott	1	4	.200	5.48	29	4	14	0	0	0	69.0	68	47	42	9	50	2	29	0	0	5	316
Harry Taylor	0	0		3.12	2	0	0	0	0	0	8.7	11	4	3	0	4	0	4	1	0	1	40
Ed Blake	0	0		5.40	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	8
Hal Raether	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Al Aber	0	0		12.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	6	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	17
Dave Hill	0	0		27.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	6	7	7	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	16
George Brunet	0	1	.000	5.56	4	2	1	0	0	0	11.3	13	7	7	2	4	0	3	0	1	1	51
Gene Host	0	2	.000	7.23	11	2	6	0	0	0	23.7	29	19	19	5	14	0	9	0	0	0	109
Ryne Duren	0	3	.000	5.27	14	6	2	0	0	1	42.7	37	26	25	4	30	1	37	2	0	5	193
Rip Coleman	0	7	.000	5.93	19	6	8	1	1	0	41.0	53	32	27	5	25	0	15	0	0	2	194
Totals	59	94	.386	4.19	404	154	128	26	4	19	1369.7	1344	710	637	153	565	47	626	25	7	45	5875

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	129	495	467	48	121	15	1	14	42	3	2	19	21	.259	.291	.385	.676	180	10	3	3	3	3
Hector Lopez	121	441	391	51	115	19	4	11	35	1	6	41	66	.294	.357	.448	.805	175	8	0	4	5	5
Joe DeMaestri	135	492	461	44	113	14	6	9	33	6	1	22	82	.245	.280	.360	.640	166	14	2	3	4	1
Hal Smith	107	383	360	41	109	26	0	13	41	2	2	14	44	.303	.328	.483	.811	174	13	1	5	3	0
Gus Zernial	131	478	437	56	103	20	1	27	69	1	1	34	84	.236	.290	.471	.761	206	12	1	2	4	0
Bob Cerv	124	371	345	35	94	14	2	11	44	1	1	20	57	.272	.312	.420	.732	145	13	1	2	3	1
Lou Skizas	119	411	376	34	92	14	1	18	44	5	2	27	15	.245	.297	.431	.727	162	9	2	3	3	1
Woodie Held	92	371	326	48	78	14	3	20	50	4	0	37	81	.239	.321	.485	.805	158	6	3	3	2	1
Billy Martin	73	283	265	33	68	9	3	9	27	7	1	12	20	.257	.295	.415	.710	110	7	3	2	1	0
Billy Hunter	116	359	319	39	61	10	4	8	29	1	2	27	43	.191	.259	.323	.581	103	5	3	7	3	2
Harry Simpson	50	193	179	24	53	9	6	6	24	0	1	12	28	.296	.339	.514	.853	92	8	0	1	1	2
Tim Thompson	81	249	230	25	47	10	0	7	19	0	0	18	26	.204	.262	.339	.601	78	3	0	1	0	6
Bob Martyn	58	144	131	10	35	2	4	1	12	1	3	11	20	.267	.322	.366	.688	48	2	0	1	1	3
Irv Noren	81	172	160	8	34	8	0	2	16	0	0	11	19	.213	.267	.300	.567	48	6	1	0	0	2
Milt Graff	56	176	155	16	28	4	3	0	10	2	5	15	10	.181	.260	.245	.505	38	1	2	3	1	0
Jim Pisoni	44	111	97	14	23	2	2	3	12	0	0	10	17	.237	.318	.392	.710	38	0	2	1	1	1
Johnny Groth	55	68	59	10	15	0	0	0	2	0	0	7	6	.254	.333	.254	.588	15	2	0	2	0	0
Mickey McDermott	58	58	49	6	12	1	0	4	7	0	0	9	16	.245	.362	.510	.872	25	2	0	0	0	2
Jack Urban	37	42	39	1	11	1	0	0	5	1	0	2	8	.282	.317	.308	.625	12	1	0	1	0	0
Alex Kellner	28	50	47	7	11	2	0	3	6	0	0	2	10	.234	.265	.468	.733	22	3	0	1	0	0
Wally Burnette	38	36	32	1	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.250	.273	.250	.523	8	1	0	3	0	0
Ned Garver	24	51	44	7	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	4	9	.182	.245	.205	.449	9	1	0	2	1	0
Ralph Terry	22	44	42	1	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.143	.143	.143	.286	6	2	0	2	0	0
Virgil Trucks	48	29	28	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	10	.143	.143	.143	.286	4	1	0	1	0	0
Tom Gorman	38	35	33	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	16	.121	.147	.121	.268	4	0	0	1	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	33	34	28	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	9	.107	.194	.107	.301	3	1	0	3	0	0
Tom Morgan	46	38	33	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.091	.118	.091	.209	3	3	0	4	0	0
Al Aber	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Harry Taylor	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ryne Duren	14	14	14	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.071	.071	.071	.143	1	1	0	0	0	0
Gene Host	11	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Glenn Cox	10	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rip Coleman	19	11	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	1	0	0
Hal Raether	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Blake	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Hill	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2022	5655	5170	563	1262	195	40	166	536	35	27	363	761	.244	.295	.394	.688	2035	135	24	62	36	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Vic Power	1B	113	100	935.0	968	99	2	95	.998	1.271	9.442	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	1B	27	27	233.7	243	23	1	21	.996	1.245	9.852	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	1B	25	25	189.0	191	12	2	24	.990	9.667	8.120	0	0	0	0
Gus Zernial	1B	1	0	7.0	4	1	1	0	.833	6.429	5.000	0	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	1B	2	2	5.0	5	0	1	0	.833	9.000	2.500	0	0	0	0
Billy Hunter	2B	64	58	508.7	111	152	7	40	.974	4.653	4.109	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	2B	52	48	417.3	121	111	3	28	.987	5.003	4.462	0	0	0	0
Milt Graff	2B	53	43	397.7	110	127	3	36	.988	5.364	4.472	0	0	0	0
Vic Power	2B	4	4	30.0	12	7	0	0	1.000	5.700	4.750	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	2B	4	1	16.0	5	2	0	1	1.000	3.938	1.750	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	2B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	3B	111	97	877.3	117	227	23	20	.937	3.529	3.099	0	0	0	0
Lou Skizas	3B	32	28	230.3	29	57	5	3	.945	3.360	2.688	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	3B	20	19	164.0	29	24	2	4	.964	2.909	2.650	0	0	0	0
Billy Hunter	3B	17	10	96.0	18	22	2	2	.952	3.750	2.353	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hal Smith	C	103	95	855.0	463	55	9	8	.983	5.453	5.029	16	22	31	18	36.7
Tim Thompson	C	62	59	514.7	272	29	2	7	.993	5.264	4.855	6	17	19	12	38.7
Gus Zernial	OF	113	111	941.0	213	4	11	1	.952	2.075	1.920	0	0	0	0
Woodie Held	OF	92	92	822.3	266	12	1	2	.996	3.043	3.022	0	0	0	0
Bob Cerv	OF	89	77	690.3	157	6	6	1	.964	2.125	1.831	0	0	0	0
Lou Skizas	OF	76	67	574.3	119	5	3	2	.976	1.943	1.632	0	0	0	0
Bob Martyn	OF	49	33	319.0	77	3	2	0	.976	2.257	1.633	0	0	0	0
Jim Pisoni	OF	44	30	281.0	88	3	1	1	.989	2.915	2.068	0	0	0	0
Johnny Groth	OF	50	16	193.0	37	0	1	0	.974	1.725	.740	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	OF	21	21	171.0	29	1	1	0	.968	1.579	1.429	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	OF	6	6	53.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	1.358	1.333	0	0	0	0
Vic Power	OF	6	6	38.0	12	0	1	0	.923	2.842	2.000	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	OF	3	3	26.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.038	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ned Garver	P	24	23	145.3	13	21	1	2	.971	2.106	1.417	0	0	0	0
Tom Morgan	P	46	13	143.7	20	37	1	6	.983	3.571	1.239	0	0	0	0
Alex Kellner	P	28	21	132.7	5	24	2	4	.935	1.967	1.036	0	0	0	0
Ralph Terry	P	21	19	130.7	11	19	1	2	.968	2.066	1.429	0	0	0	0
Jack Urban	P	31	13	129.3	12	27	1	2	.975	2.714	1.258	0	0	0	0
Tom Gorman	P	38	12	124.7	10	19	2	0	.935	2.094	.763	0	0	0	0
Virgil Trucks	P	48	7	116.0	8	21	1	0	.967	2.250	.604	0	0	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	P	33	17	114.7	6	16	1	1	.957	1.727	.667	0	0	0	0
Wally Burnette	P	38	9	113.0	10	25	0	6	1.000	2.788	.921	0	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	P	29	4	69.0	7	17	1	0	.960	3.130	.828	0	0	0	0
Ryne Duren	P	14	6	42.7	3	8	0	0	1.000	2.320	.786	0	0	0	0
Rip Coleman	P	19	6	41.0	1	9	1	1	.909	2.195	.526	0	0	0	0
Gene Host	P	11	2	23.7	0	6	0	0	1.000	2.282	.545	0	0	0	0
Glenn Cox	P	10	0	14.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.884	.300	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	P	4	2	11.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.588	.500	0	0	0	0
Harry Taylor	P	2	0	8.7	0	1	1	0	.500	1.038	.500	0	0	0	0
Al Aber	P	3	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.000	.667	0	0	0	0
Dave Hill	P	2	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hal Raether	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ed Blake	P	2	0	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	SS	134	130	1126.0	248	387	13	87	.980	5.075	4.739	0	0	0	0
Billy Hunter	SS	35	23	230.7	46	89	9	19	.938	5.267	3.857	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	SS	2	1	13.0	1	5	0	1	1.000	4.154	3.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1816	1386	12327.0	4108	1720	125	427	.979	4.255	3.209	22	39	50	30	37.5

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