1954 Milwaukee Braves Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 89-65
Finished 3rd in the NL
Attendance: 2,131,388, Avg. 30,822
Ballpark: County Stadium
Manager: Charlie Grimm (89-65)
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1954 Milwaukee Braves Roster
1954 Milwaukee Braves Results

The Milwaukee Braves of the National League ended the 1954 season with a record of 89 wins and 65 losses, finishing third in the NL.

The Braves scored 670 runs and yielded 556 runs. Eddie Mathews walloped 40 home runs for Milwaukee, while Del Crandall and Joe Adcock swatted 20 or more also. Eddie Mathews drove in 103 runs. Joe Adcock led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .308. Warren Spahn topped the squad with 21 wins, plus Lew Burdette added 15 or more wins, too Lew Burdette recorded a 2.76 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Charlie Grimm 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	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Warren Spahn	21	12	.636	3.14	39	34	3	23	1	3	283.3	262	107	99	24	86	136	1	1	3	1175
Lew Burdette	15	14	.517	2.76	38	32	3	13	4	0	238.0	224	87	73	17	62	79	4	0	1	974
Gene Conley	14	9	.609	2.96	28	27	1	12	2	0	194.3	171	73	64	17	79	113	7	0	4	814
Dave Jolly	11	6	.647	2.43	47	1	31	0	0	10	111.3	87	36	30	6	64	62	2	0	2	479
Chet Nichols	9	11	.450	4.41	35	20	5	5	1	1	122.3	132	68	60	5	65	55	4	0	1	545
Jim Wilson	8	2	.800	3.52	27	19	3	6	4	0	127.7	129	55	50	12	36	52	5	0	1	534
Ernie Johnson	5	2	.714	2.81	40	4	13	1	0	2	99.3	77	34	31	11	34	68	1	1	2	392
Bob Buhl	2	7	.222	4.00	31	14	8	2	1	3	110.3	117	54	49	5	65	57	2	0	5	505
Ray Crone	1	0	1.000	2.02	19	2	7	1	0	1	49.0	44	11	11	6	19	33	1	0	1	200
Phil Paine	1	0	1.000	3.86	11	0	5	0	0	0	14.0	14	9	6	1	12	11	1	0	0	64
Joey Jay	1	0	1.000	6.50	15	1	8	0	0	0	18.0	21	13	13	2	16	13	1	0	1	88
Dave Koslo	1	1	.500	3.12	12	0	3	0	0	1	17.3	13	6	6	0	9	7	0	0	1	71
Charlie Gorin	0	1	.000	1.86	5	0	2	0	0	0	9.7	5	3	2	0	6	12	0	0	1	40
Totals	89	65	.578	3.19	347	154	92	63	13	21	1394.7	1296	556	494	106	553	698	29	2	23	5881

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF
Bill Bruton	142	619	567	89	161	20	7	4	30	34	13	40	78	.284	.336	.365	.701	207	3	4	8	0
Joe Adcock	133	562	500	73	154	27	5	23	87	1	4	44	58	.308	.365	.520	.885	260	7	3	11	4
Johnny Logan	154	638	560	66	154	17	7	8	66	2	0	51	51	.275	.339	.373	.712	209	14	6	15	6
Danny O'Connell	146	604	541	61	151	28	4	2	37	2	2	38	46	.279	.326	.357	.683	193	11	2	19	4
Andy Pafko	138	570	510	61	146	22	4	14	69	1	2	37	36	.286	.335	.427	.763	218	14	4	12	7
Eddie Mathews	138	601	476	96	138	21	4	40	103	10	3	113	61	.290	.423	.603	1.026	287	9	2	3	7
Hank Aaron	122	509	468	58	131	27	6	13	69	2	2	28	39	.280	.322	.447	.769	209	13	3	6	4
Del Crandall	138	514	463	60	112	18	2	21	64	0	3	40	56	.242	.305	.425	.731	197	14	3	6	2
Jack Dittmer	66	219	192	22	47	8	0	6	20	0	1	19	17	.245	.319	.380	.700	73	4	3	3	2
Jim Pendleton	71	179	173	20	38	3	1	1	16	2	1	4	21	.220	.236	.266	.502	46	2	0	1	1
George Metkovich	68	142	123	7	34	5	1	1	15	0	0	15	15	.276	.352	.358	.710	44	6	1	0	3
Bobby Thomson	43	113	99	7	23	3	0	2	15	0	0	12	29	.232	.315	.323	.639	32	3	0	2	0
Charlie White	50	102	93	14	22	4	0	1	8	0	0	9	8	.237	.304	.312	.616	29	5	0	0	0
Warren Spahn	41	112	101	4	21	6	0	1	10	0	0	7	17	.208	.266	.297	.563	30	2	1	3	0
Gene Conley	28	80	77	5	12	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	13	.156	.156	.169	.325	13	2	0	3	0
Sam Calderone	22	34	29	3	11	2	0	0	5	0	0	4	4	.379	.441	.448	.889	13	1	0	0	1
Dave Jolly	48	34	31	6	9	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	7	.290	.313	.419	.732	13	1	0	2	0
Roy Smalley	25	42	36	5	8	0	0	1	7	0	0	4	9	.222	.310	.306	.615	11	2	1	0	1
Jim Wilson	27	48	44	5	7	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	8	.159	.196	.227	.423	10	1	0	2	0
Lew Burdette	39	89	79	3	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	14	.089	.119	.101	.220	8	0	2	5	2
Ernie Johnson	40	18	13	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	0	0	5	0
Chet Nichols	35	39	35	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	12	.086	.086	.086	.171	3	0	0	4	0
Ray Crone	19	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	0	0
Bob Buhl	31	33	31	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	.032	.091	.032	.123	1	0	0	0	0
Dave Koslo	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Queen	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0
Charlie Gorin	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Paine	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Joey Jay	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Sibby Sisti	9	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1822	5921	5261	670	1395	217	41	139	636	54	31	471	619	.265	.327	.401	.728	2111	115	35	110	44

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Joe Adcock	1B	133	132	1178.7	1229	67	6	125	.995	9.896	9.744	0	0	0	0
George Metkovich	1B	18	13	135.0	143	15	0	15	1.000	1.533	8.778	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	1B	8	8	65.0	63	5	0	7	1.000	9.415	8.500	0	0	0	0
Roy Smalley	1B	2	1	11.0	14	1	0	1	1.000	12.273	7.500	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	1B	1	0	5.0	3	0	0	2	1.000	5.400	3.000	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	2B	103	100	905.7	244	314	12	83	.979	5.545	5.417	0	0	0	0
Jack Dittmer	2B	55	50	445.0	119	141	6	31	.977	5.258	4.727	0	0	0	0
Roy Smalley	2B	7	4	44.0	13	15	0	5	1.000	5.727	4.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mathews	3B	127	126	1117.3	112	254	13	28	.966	2.948	2.882	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	3B	35	28	277.3	44	67	0	7	1.000	3.602	3.171	0	0	0	0
Del Crandall	C	136	133	1167.3	665	79	8	11	.989	5.736	5.471	6	15	26	23	46.9
Charlie White	C	28	16	158.3	101	4	2	0	.981	5.968	3.750	1	3	4	2	33.3
Sam Calderone	C	16	5	69.0	45	4	0	3	1.000	6.391	3.063	3	1	3	3	50.0
Andy Pafko	OF	138	136	1211.0	245	9	8	3	.969	1.888	1.841	0	0	0	0
Bill Bruton	OF	141	129	1193.3	350	14	7	3	.981	2.745	2.582	0	0	0	0
Hank Aaron	OF	116	113	1031.0	223	5	7	0	.970	1.990	1.966	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	OF	50	39	356.7	90	5	5	0	.950	2.397	1.900	0	0	0	0
Bobby Thomson	OF	26	23	200.0	45	3	1	2	.980	2.160	1.846	0	0	0	0
George Metkovich	OF	13	12	101.0	17	2	0	0	1.000	1.693	1.462	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mathews	OF	10	10	90.0	21	0	2	0	.913	2.100	2.100	0	0	0	0
Billy Queen	OF	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Warren Spahn	P	39	34	283.3	12	57	4	4	.945	2.192	1.769	0	0	0	0
Lew Burdette	P	38	32	238.0	17	49	4	4	.943	2.496	1.737	0	0	0	0
Gene Conley	P	28	27	194.3	10	29	1	3	.975	1.806	1.393	0	0	0	0
Jim Wilson	P	27	19	127.7	7	26	0	2	1.000	2.326	1.222	0	0	0	0
Chet Nichols	P	35	20	122.3	3	27	0	3	1.000	2.207	.857	0	0	0	0
Dave Jolly	P	47	1	111.3	4	21	1	3	.962	2.021	.532	0	0	0	0
Bob Buhl	P	31	14	110.3	5	18	1	1	.958	1.876	.742	0	0	0	0
Ernie Johnson	P	40	4	99.3	4	22	0	2	1.000	2.356	.650	0	0	0	0
Ray Crone	P	19	2	49.0	1	7	0	0	1.000	1.469	.421	0	0	0	0
Joey Jay	P	15	1	18.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.500	.200	0	0	0	0
Dave Koslo	P	12	0	17.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Phil Paine	P	11	0	14.0	0	1	1	0	.500	.643	.091	0	0	0	0
Charlie Gorin	P	5	0	9.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	.931	.200	0	0	0	0
Johnny Logan	SS	154	154	1354.0	324	489	26	104	.969	5.404	5.279	0	0	0	0
Roy Smalley	SS	9	0	37.7	9	10	1	5	.950	4.540	2.111	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	SS	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1675	1386	12552.0	4184	1763	116	457	.981	4.264	3.550	10	19	33	28	45.9

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