1963 Kansas City Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 73-89
Finished 8th in the AL
Attendance: 762,364, Avg. 9,765
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium I
Manager: Eddie Lopat (73-89)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1963 Kansas City Athletics Roster
1963 Kansas City Athletics Results

The Kansas City Athletics of the American League ended the 1963 season with a record of 73 wins and 89 losses, finishing eighth in the AL.

The Athletics scored 615 runs and surrendered 704 runs. Norm Siebern paced Kansas City with 16 home runs, and Ed Charles walloped 20 or more, too. Norm Siebern drove in 83 runs. Wayne Causey led all regular batters with a .280 average. Orlando Pena and Dave Wickersham topped the squad with 12 wins each, while Moe Drabowsky recorded a 3.05 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Eddie Lopat 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
Dave Wickersham	12	15	.444	4.09	38	34	2	4	1	1	237.7	244	116	108	21	79	2	118	9	2	5	1020
Orlando Pena	12	20	.375	3.69	35	33	2	9	3	0	217.0	218	93	89	24	53	2	128	5	0	4	914
Bill Fischer	9	6	.600	3.57	45	2	22	0	0	3	95.7	86	44	38	13	29	5	34	3	1	1	398
Diego Segui	9	6	.600	3.77	38	23	4	4	1	0	167.0	173	84	70	17	73	7	116	2	1	5	739
Ed Rakow	9	10	.474	3.92	34	26	2	7	1	0	174.3	173	85	76	18	61	4	104	5	0	8	738
Moe Drabowsky	7	13	.350	3.05	26	22	1	9	2	0	174.3	135	62	59	16	64	2	109	8	0	6	707
John Wyatt	6	4	.600	3.13	63	0	53	0	0	21	92.0	83	37	32	12	43	2	81	0	1	7	401
Ted Bowsfield	5	7	.417	4.45	41	11	14	2	1	3	111.3	115	60	55	14	47	5	67	3	0	2	488
Dan Pfister	1	0	1.000	1.93	3	1	1	0	0	0	9.3	8	2	2	1	3	0	9	1	0	0	40
Jose Santiago	1	0	1.000	9.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	8	7	7	4	2	0	6	0	1	0	31
Pete Lovrich	1	1	.500	7.84	20	1	11	0	0	0	20.7	25	23	18	5	10	1	16	1	1	0	99
Tom Sturdivant	1	2	.333	3.74	17	3	4	0	0	0	53.0	47	24	22	3	17	2	26	1	0	3	219
Bill Landis	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	6
Aurelio Monteagudo	0	0		2.57	4	0	0	0	0	0	7.0	4	2	2	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	28
Norm Bass	0	0		11.74	3	1	0	0	0	0	7.7	11	11	10	2	9	0	4	0	0	0	44
John O'Donoghue	0	1	.000	1.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	6	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	23
Dave Thies	0	1	.000	4.62	9	2	3	0	0	0	25.3	26	15	13	2	12	0	9	2	0	1	110
Fred Norman	0	1	.000	11.37	2	2	0	0	0	0	6.3	9	9	8	1	7	0	6	0	0	1	35
Dale Willis	0	2	.000	5.04	25	0	6	0	0	1	44.7	46	28	25	3	25	3	47	4	0	0	207
Totals	73	89	.451	3.92	409	162	127	35	9	29	1458.0	1417	704	635	156	540	35	887	44	8	43	6247

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
Jerry Lumpe	157	663	595	75	161	26	7	5	59	3	2	58	44	.271	.333	.363	.696	216	9	0	6	4	3
Ed Charles	158	679	603	82	161	28	2	15	79	15	8	58	79	.267	.332	.395	.727	238	21	5	5	8	7
Wayne Causey	139	619	554	72	155	32	4	8	44	4	2	56	54	.280	.345	.395	.740	219	9	0	7	2	3
Norm Siebern	152	644	556	80	151	25	2	16	83	1	4	79	82	.272	.358	.410	.768	228	10	0	1	8	6
Gino Cimoli	145	581	529	56	139	19	11	4	48	3	1	39	72	.263	.313	.363	.675	192	12	2	5	6	3
Bobby Del Greco	121	358	306	40	65	7	1	8	29	1	2	40	52	.212	.311	.320	.631	98	6	5	4	3	1
Doc Edwards	71	255	240	16	60	12	0	6	35	0	1	11	23	.250	.287	.375	.662	90	5	2	1	1	6
George Alusik	87	252	221	28	59	11	0	9	37	0	1	26	33	.267	.345	.439	.784	97	6	1	3	1	0
Jose Tartabull	79	262	242	27	58	8	5	1	19	16	1	17	17	.240	.290	.326	.616	79	2	0	3	0	0
Charlie Lau	62	207	187	15	55	11	0	3	26	1	0	14	17	.294	.340	.401	.741	75	7	0	4	2	3
Ken Harrelson	79	253	226	16	52	10	1	6	23	1	1	23	58	.230	.299	.363	.662	82	10	0	2	2	3
Chuck Essegian	101	254	231	23	52	9	0	5	27	0	0	19	48	.225	.285	.329	.614	76	7	1	1	2	0
Manny Jimenez	60	181	157	12	44	9	0	0	15	0	1	16	14	.280	.361	.338	.699	53	6	5	1	2	2
Haywood Sullivan	40	131	113	9	24	6	1	0	8	0	0	15	15	.212	.300	.283	.583	32	6	0	1	2	2
Diego Segui	38	60	55	5	12	0	1	0	4	0	0	1	24	.218	.232	.255	.487	14	2	0	4	0	0
Tony LaRussa	34	53	44	4	11	1	1	0	1	0	0	7	12	.250	.346	.318	.664	14	0	0	1	1	0
John Wojcik	19	67	59	7	11	0	0	0	2	2	0	8	8	.186	.284	.186	.470	11	0	0	0	0	2
Billy Bryan	24	74	65	11	11	1	1	3	7	0	0	9	22	.169	.270	.354	.624	23	1	0	0	0	5
Dave Wickersham	38	85	80	3	11	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	25	.138	.148	.138	.286	11	0	0	4	0	0
Dick Green	13	41	37	5	10	2	0	1	4	0	0	2	10	.270	.317	.405	.722	15	1	1	0	1	0
Moe Drabowsky	26	65	62	4	10	3	0	2	8	0	0	0	21	.161	.161	.306	.468	19	1	0	3	0	0
Orlando Pena	35	78	62	3	9	0	0	1	8	0	0	6	24	.145	.221	.194	.414	12	0	0	10	0	0
Dick Howser	15	49	41	4	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	3	.195	.313	.195	.508	8	0	0	1	0	1
Jay Hankins	10	34	34	2	6	0	1	1	4	0	1	0	3	.176	.176	.324	.500	11	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Rakow	34	64	57	6	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	27	.105	.177	.123	.300	7	1	0	2	0	0
Sammy Esposito	18	29	25	3	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	3	.200	.276	.240	.516	6	2	0	0	1	0
Hector Martinez	6	16	14	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	1	1	3	.286	.375	.500	.875	7	0	1	0	0	0
Dave Thies	9	6	6	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.500	.833	3	0	0	0	0	0
Dale Willis	26	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Fischer	45	22	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	6	.067	.263	.067	.330	1	0	1	3	0	0
Tommie Reynolds	8	21	19	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.053	.143	.105	.248	2	1	1	0	0	0
Ted Bowsfield	43	28	23	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	9	.043	.154	.087	.241	2	0	0	2	0	0
John Wyatt	63	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	17	14	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.083	.000	.083	0	0	0	2	0	0
Joe Azcue	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norm Bass	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Pfister	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John O'Donoghue	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Norman	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aurelio Monteagudo	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Lovrich	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Bill Landis	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Santiago	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2013	6172	5495	615	1356	225	38	95	582	47	26	529	829	.247	.313	.353	.667	1942	125	25	77	46	47

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Norm Siebern	1B	131	131	1167.3	1193	102	12	95	.991	9.984	9.885	0	0	0	0
Ken Harrelson	1B	34	31	290.7	283	16	6	24	.980	9.258	8.794	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	2B	155	155	1377.7	341	451	10	92	.988	5.174	5.110	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	2B	7	3	33.7	2	6	0	1	1.000	2.139	1.143	0	0	0	0
Dick Green	2B	4	3	30.7	5	14	1	2	.950	5.576	4.750	0	0	0	0
Tony LaRussa	2B	3	1	16.0	6	3	0	1	1.000	5.063	3.000	0	0	0	0
Ed Charles	3B	158	158	1414.0	153	310	25	19	.949	2.947	2.930	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	3B	3	2	22.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.636	1.333	0	0	0	0
Wayne Causey	3B	2	2	18.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Bobby Del Greco	3B	2	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Doc Edwards	C	63	58	542.3	341	30	5	4	.987	6.157	5.889	4	20	33	10	23.3
Charlie Lau	C	50	49	427.7	258	15	5	2	.982	5.745	5.460	5	10	28	8	22.2
Haywood Sullivan	C	37	33	300.0	226	15	2	3	.992	7.230	6.514	0	5	28	7	20.0
Billy Bryan	C	24	22	183.0	147	4	3	0	.981	7.426	6.292	2	6	7	1	12.5
Joe Azcue	C	1	0	5.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	5.000	0	0	0	0
Gino Cimoli	OF	136	134	1176.7	256	14	4	3	.985	2.065	1.985	0	0	0	0
Bobby Del Greco	OF	110	77	770.3	207	5	4	0	.981	2.477	1.927	0	0	0	0
Jose Tartabull	OF	71	58	526.7	135	3	2	1	.986	2.358	1.944	0	0	0	0
George Alusik	OF	63	53	482.0	98	5	0	1	1.000	1.923	1.635	0	0	0	0
Chuck Essegian	OF	53	51	426.0	95	2	1	0	.990	2.049	1.830	0	0	0	0
Manny Jimenez	OF	40	40	325.0	66	6	3	0	.960	1.994	1.800	0	0	0	0
Ken Harrelson	OF	28	26	241.7	43	1	1	0	.978	1.639	1.571	0	0	0	0
John Wojcik	OF	17	15	144.0	34	1	0	0	1.000	2.187	2.059	0	0	0	0
Norm Siebern	OF	16	16	143.7	30	1	0	0	1.000	1.942	1.938	0	0	0	0
Jay Hankins	OF	9	8	69.0	19	1	1	1	.952	2.609	2.222	0	0	0	0
Tommie Reynolds	OF	5	5	43.0	8	0	2	0	.800	1.674	1.600	0	0	0	0
Hector Martinez	OF	3	3	26.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	2.423	2.333	0	0	0	0
Dave Wickersham	P	38	34	237.7	15	43	2	2	.967	2.196	1.526	0	0	0	0
Orlando Pena	P	35	33	217.0	11	26	0	0	1.000	1.535	1.057	0	0	0	0
Ed Rakow	P	34	26	174.3	15	30	1	3	.978	2.323	1.324	0	0	0	0
Moe Drabowsky	P	26	22	174.3	11	19	1	1	.968	1.549	1.154	0	0	0	0
Diego Segui	P	38	23	167.0	7	33	6	1	.870	2.156	1.053	0	0	0	0
Ted Bowsfield	P	41	11	111.3	12	25	1	2	.974	2.991	.902	0	0	0	0
Bill Fischer	P	45	2	95.7	3	14	1	1	.944	1.599	.378	0	0	0	0
John Wyatt	P	63	0	92.0	3	12	2	1	.882	1.467	.238	0	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	P	17	3	53.0	4	8	0	1	1.000	2.038	.706	0	0	0	0
Dale Willis	P	25	0	44.7	4	8	1	0	.923	2.418	.480	0	0	0	0
Dave Thies	P	9	2	25.3	0	6	0	0	1.000	2.132	.667	0	0	0	0
Pete Lovrich	P	20	1	20.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.435	.050	0	0	0	0
Dan Pfister	P	3	1	9.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.893	1.000	0	0	0	0
Norm Bass	P	3	1	7.7	0	1	2	0	.333	1.174	.333	0	0	0	0
Jose Santiago	P	4	0	7.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.750	0	0	0	0
Aurelio Monteagudo	P	4	0	7.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.857	.750	0	0	0	0
Fred Norman	P	2	2	6.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.842	1.000	0	0	0	0
John O'Donoghue	P	1	1	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Landis	P	1	0	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Wayne Causey	SS	135	135	1189.0	266	402	15	81	.978	5.056	4.948	0	0	0	0
Tony LaRussa	SS	14	10	106.0	23	22	2	7	.957	3.821	3.214	0	0	0	0
Dick Howser	SS	10	10	89.0	21	23	2	6	.957	4.449	4.400	0	0	0	0
Dick Green	SS	6	5	52.0	9	23	2	3	.941	5.538	5.333	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	SS	4	2	22.0	4	6	2	1	.833	4.091	2.500	0	0	0	0
Totals		1803	1458	13122.0	4373	1721	127	359	.980	4.180	3.380	11	41	96	26	21.3

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