1956 Milwaukee Braves Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 92-62
Finished 2nd in the NL
Attendance: 2,046,331, Avg. 30,180
Ballpark: County Stadium
Manager: Charlie Grimm (24-22)
Manager: Fred Haney (68-40)
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1956 Milwaukee Braves Roster
1956 Milwaukee Braves Results

The Milwaukee Braves of the National League ended the 1956 season with a record of 92 wins and 62 losses, finishing second in the NL.

The Braves gave up 569 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Milwaukee tallied 709 runs. Joe Adcock walloped 38 home runs for the team, while Hank Aaron, Bobby Thomson, Del Crandall, Johnny Logan and Eddie Mathews each added 20 or more, too. Joe Adcock drove in 103 runs. Hank Aaron led hitters with significant playing time by hitting .328. Warren Spahn topped the squad with 20 wins, and Bob Buhl and Lew Burdette contributed 15 or more victories also Lew Burdette recorded a 2.70 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Charlie Grimm and Fred Haney 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
Warren Spahn	20	11	.645	2.78	39	35	3	20	3	3	281.3	249	92	87	25	52	12	128	3	0	7	1113
Lew Burdette	19	10	.655	2.70	39	35	2	16	6	1	256.3	234	92	77	22	52	7	110	3	0	2	1035
Bob Buhl	18	8	.692	3.32	38	33	0	13	2	0	216.7	190	96	80	18	105	7	86	2	1	3	924
Ray Crone	11	10	.524	3.87	35	21	7	6	0	2	169.7	173	92	73	19	44	3	73	1	1	3	716
Gene Conley	8	9	.471	3.13	31	19	9	5	1	3	158.3	169	74	55	13	52	10	68	2	0	3	681
Taylor Phillips	5	3	.625	2.26	23	6	6	3	0	2	87.7	69	25	22	6	33	8	36	7	0	0	357
Ernie Johnson	4	3	.571	3.71	36	0	23	0	0	6	51.0	54	21	21	9	21	2	26	1	0	1	224
Bob Trowbridge	3	2	.600	2.66	19	4	8	1	0	0	50.7	38	15	15	4	34	2	40	2	0	3	220
Lou Sleater	2	2	.500	3.15	25	1	11	0	0	2	45.7	42	22	16	6	27	9	32	0	0	0	209
Dave Jolly	2	3	.400	3.74	29	0	18	0	0	7	45.7	39	21	19	7	35	4	20	0	0	2	209
Phil Paine	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Humberto Robinson	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	9
Red Murff	0	0		4.44	14	1	4	0	0	1	24.3	25	14	12	3	7	0	18	0	0	0	103
Chet Nichols	0	1	.000	6.75	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	9	3	3	1	3	1	2	0	0	0	20
Totals	92	62	.597	3.10	332	155	91	64	12	27	1393.3	1295	569	480	133	467	65	639	21	2	24	5823

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
Hank Aaron	153	660	609	106	200	34	14	26	92	2	4	37	54	.328	.365	.558	.923	340	21	2	5	7	6
Johnny Logan	148	631	545	69	153	27	5	15	46	3	0	46	49	.281	.340	.431	.771	235	13	5	31	4	2
Eddie Mathews	151	651	552	103	150	21	2	37	95	6	0	91	86	.272	.373	.518	.892	286	4	1	3	4	17
Bill Bruton	147	578	525	73	143	23	15	8	56	8	6	26	63	.272	.304	.419	.723	220	7	1	18	8	11
Joe Adcock	137	500	454	76	132	23	1	38	103	1	0	32	86	.291	.337	.597	.934	271	11	1	11	2	6
Danny O'Connell	139	598	498	71	119	17	9	2	42	3	3	76	42	.239	.342	.321	.663	160	6	4	16	4	0
Bobby Thomson	142	505	451	59	106	10	4	20	74	2	4	43	75	.235	.302	.408	.710	184	9	2	5	4	4
Del Crandall	112	358	311	37	74	14	2	16	48	1	2	35	30	.238	.313	.450	.763	140	5	1	6	5	15
Frank Torre	111	175	159	17	41	6	0	0	16	1	0	11	4	.258	.304	.296	.600	47	5	0	4	1	2
Del Rice	71	208	188	15	40	9	1	3	17	0	0	18	34	.213	.282	.319	.601	60	5	0	2	0	7
Wes Covington	75	157	138	17	39	4	0	2	16	1	0	16	20	.283	.361	.355	.716	49	2	1	2	0	3
Jack Dittmer	44	112	102	8	25	4	0	1	6	0	0	8	8	.245	.300	.314	.614	32	0	0	2	0	0
Andy Pafko	45	104	93	15	24	5	0	2	9	0	0	10	13	.258	.330	.376	.706	35	0	0	1	0	0
Warren Spahn	39	111	105	8	22	3	0	3	10	1	0	4	32	.210	.239	.324	.562	34	3	0	2	0	0
Lew Burdette	45	102	86	9	16	1	0	0	8	0	0	2	16	.186	.209	.198	.406	17	1	1	11	2	0
Felix Mantilla	35	56	53	9	15	1	1	0	3	0	1	1	8	.283	.309	.340	.649	18	1	1	1	0	0
Chuck Tanner	60	73	63	6	15	2	0	1	4	0	0	10	10	.238	.342	.317	.660	20	3	0	0	0	2
Gene Conley	31	54	45	1	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	3	.156	.174	.178	.352	8	1	0	8	0	0
Bob Buhl	38	80	73	1	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	34	.096	.108	.123	.231	9	0	0	6	0	0
Ray Crone	35	62	49	4	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	8	18	.122	.246	.143	.388	7	1	0	5	0	0
Lou Sleater	25	11	10	1	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	3	.500	.545	.500	1.045	5	0	0	0	0	0
Toby Atwell	15	34	30	2	5	1	0	2	7	0	0	4	1	.167	.265	.400	.665	12	0	0	0	0	1
Earl Hersh	7	13	13	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.231	.231	.462	.692	6	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Roselli	4	2	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	2.000	2.500	4	0	0	0	0	0
Ernie Johnson	36	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.200	.250	.450	1	0	0	0	1	0
Red Murff	14	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Taylor Phillips	23	24	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	11	.000	.087	.000	.087	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Pendleton	14	12	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.083	.000	.083	0	1	0	0	0	0
Chet Nichols	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Jolly	29	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Trowbridge	19	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	1	0	0
Humberto Robinson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Paine	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1948	5897	5207	709	1350	212	54	177	667	29	20	486	714	.259	.323	.423	.745	2201	99	20	142	42	76

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Joe Adcock	1B	129	129	1004.3	1086	75	6	109	.995	1.404	9.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Torre	1B	89	26	388.0	390	42	3	34	.993	1.021	4.854	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	2B	138	132	1142.0	295	381	10	98	.985	5.327	4.899	0	0	0	0
Jack Dittmer	2B	42	23	248.3	64	78	3	15	.979	5.146	3.381	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	2B	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mathews	3B	150	149	1321.0	133	287	25	22	.944	2.861	2.800	0	0	0	0
Bobby Thomson	3B	3	3	27.0	5	10	3	0	.833	5.000	5.000	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	3B	4	1	25.0	3	2	1	0	.833	1.800	1.250	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	3B	3	2	19.0	2	4	1	0	.857	2.842	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	3B	2	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Del Crandall	C	109	87	819.7	448	44	2	9	.996	5.402	4.514	3	6	9	7	43.8
Del Rice	C	65	59	497.0	271	21	5	2	.983	5.288	4.492	0	7	4	2	33.3
Toby Atwell	C	10	9	69.7	32	4	0	1	1.000	4.651	3.600	1	1	1	4	80.0
Bob Roselli	C	3	0	7.0	8	1	0	1	1.000	11.571	3.000	1	0	0	1	100.0
Hank Aaron	OF	152	152	1349.3	316	17	13	4	.962	2.221	2.191	0	0	0	0
Bill Bruton	OF	145	138	1246.3	391	10	13	1	.969	2.896	2.766	0	0	0	0
Bobby Thomson	OF	136	115	1059.3	257	7	7	0	.974	2.243	1.941	0	0	0	0
Wes Covington	OF	35	33	255.3	44	2	1	1	.979	1.621	1.314	0	0	0	0
Andy Pafko	OF	37	21	206.7	43	2	1	0	.978	1.960	1.216	0	0	0	0
Chuck Tanner	OF	8	4	44.0	4	0	1	0	.800	.818	.500	0	0	0	0
Earl Hersh	OF	2	2	19.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Warren Spahn	P	39	35	281.3	16	41	1	7	.983	1.823	1.462	0	0	0	0
Lew Burdette	P	39	35	256.3	19	48	1	4	.985	2.352	1.718	0	0	0	0
Bob Buhl	P	38	33	216.7	19	35	1	2	.982	2.243	1.421	0	0	0	0
Ray Crone	P	35	21	169.7	15	23	1	2	.974	2.016	1.086	0	0	0	0
Gene Conley	P	31	19	158.3	8	25	2	3	.943	1.876	1.065	0	0	0	0
Taylor Phillips	P	23	6	87.7	9	23	0	2	1.000	3.285	1.391	0	0	0	0
Ernie Johnson	P	36	0	51.0	4	10	1	0	.933	2.471	.389	0	0	0	0
Bob Trowbridge	P	19	4	50.7	0	11	1	1	.917	1.954	.579	0	0	0	0
Lou Sleater	P	25	1	45.7	4	11	0	0	1.000	2.956	.600	0	0	0	0
Dave Jolly	P	29	0	45.7	0	5	1	1	.833	.985	.172	0	0	0	0
Red Murff	P	14	1	24.3	4	4	1	0	.889	2.959	.571	0	0	0	0
Chet Nichols	P	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Humberto Robinson	P	1	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Phil Paine	P	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny Logan	SS	148	147	1299.7	266	467	24	94	.968	5.076	4.953	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	SS	15	8	87.7	19	41	0	8	1.000	6.160	4.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	SS	3	0	5.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000	0	0	0	0
Danny O'Connell	SS	1	0	1.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1763	1395	12540.0	4180	1738	130	422	.979	4.247	3.357	5	14	14	14	50.0

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