1959 Milwaukee Braves Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 86-70
Finished 2nd in the NL
Attendance: 1,749,112, Avg. 24,163
Ballpark: County Stadium
Manager: Fred Haney (86-70)
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1959 Milwaukee Braves Roster
1959 Milwaukee Braves Results

The Milwaukee Braves of the National League ended the 1959 season with a record of 86 wins and 70 losses, finishing second in the NL.

The Braves scored 724 runs and surrendered 623 runs. Eddie Mathews walloped 46 home runs for Milwaukee, while Del Crandall, Hank Aaron and Joe Adcock each added 20 or more as well. Hank Aaron drove in 123 runs and topped all regular hitters by hitting .355. Lew Burdette and Warren Spahn led the squad with 21 wins each, and Bob Buhl contributed 15 or more victories as well Bob Buhl earned a 2.86 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

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	21	15	.583	2.96	40	36	3	21	4	0	292.0	282	106	96	21	70	9	143	1	0	2	1203
Lew Burdette	21	15	.583	4.07	41	39	2	20	4	1	289.7	312	144	131	38	38	3	105	1	0	2	1193
Bob Buhl	15	9	.625	2.86	31	25	2	12	4	0	198.0	181	76	63	19	74	3	105	2	0	4	832
Juan Pizarro	6	2	.750	3.77	29	14	4	6	2	0	133.7	117	61	56	13	70	3	126	8	0	4	578
Joey Jay	6	11	.353	4.09	34	19	5	4	1	0	136.3	130	71	62	11	64	6	88	5	0	1	601
Don McMahon	5	3	.625	2.57	60	0	49	0	0	15	80.7	81	26	23	5	37	5	55	1	1	3	359
Bob Rush	5	6	.455	2.40	31	9	6	1	1	0	101.3	102	39	27	5	23	2	64	1	0	2	427
Carl Willey	5	9	.357	4.15	26	15	4	5	2	0	117.0	126	60	54	12	31	4	51	2	0	4	503
Bob Giggie	1	0	1.000	4.05	13	0	7	0	0	1	20.0	24	10	9	2	10	0	15	0	1	0	88
Bob Trowbridge	1	0	1.000	5.93	16	0	6	0	0	1	30.3	45	25	20	2	10	2	22	0	0	3	146
Bob Hartman	0	0		27.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	6	5	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	13
Totals	86	70	.551	3.51	324	157	88	69	18	18	1400.7	1406	623	546	128	429	37	775	21	2	25	5943

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	154	693	629	116	223	46	7	39	123	8	0	51	54	.355	.401	.636	1.037	400	19	4	0	9	17
Eddie Mathews	148	682	594	118	182	16	8	46	114	2	1	80	71	.306	.390	.593	.983	352	6	3	3	2	2
Bill Bruton	133	522	478	72	138	22	6	6	41	13	5	35	54	.289	.338	.397	.735	190	9	1	7	1	2
Johnny Logan	138	540	470	59	137	17	0	13	50	1	3	57	45	.291	.369	.411	.780	193	12	3	6	4	9
Del Crandall	150	581	518	65	133	19	2	21	72	5	1	46	48	.257	.318	.423	.741	219	24	3	9	5	8
Joe Adcock	115	444	404	53	118	19	2	25	76	0	0	32	77	.292	.339	.535	.874	216	8	0	2	6	6
Wes Covington	103	405	373	38	104	17	3	7	45	0	1	26	41	.279	.329	.397	.726	148	13	3	1	2	8
Frank Torre	115	307	263	23	60	15	1	1	33	0	0	35	12	.228	.321	.304	.625	80	5	3	2	4	6
Felix Mantilla	103	274	251	26	54	5	0	3	19	6	1	16	31	.215	.266	.271	.537	68	8	2	3	2	1
Lee Maye	51	150	140	17	42	5	1	4	16	2	2	7	26	.300	.338	.436	.774	61	2	1	2	0	2
Bobby Avila	51	204	172	29	41	3	2	3	19	3	0	24	31	.238	.330	.331	.661	57	1	0	7	1	0
Andy Pafko	71	158	142	17	31	8	2	1	15	0	0	14	15	.218	.293	.324	.617	46	4	1	1	0	1
Warren Spahn	40	112	104	11	24	1	0	2	8	0	0	3	28	.231	.243	.298	.541	31	2	0	1	4	0
Johnny O'Brien	44	133	116	16	23	4	0	1	8	0	0	11	15	.198	.271	.259	.530	30	3	1	4	1	1
Lew Burdette	52	113	104	14	21	7	1	0	8	0	0	3	36	.202	.231	.288	.520	30	0	1	5	0	0
Mickey Vernon	74	99	91	8	20	4	0	3	14	0	0	7	20	.220	.283	.363	.645	33	2	1	0	0	1
Casey Wise	22	86	76	11	13	2	0	1	5	0	0	10	5	.171	.267	.237	.504	18	3	0	0	0	0
Del Rice	13	32	29	3	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.207	.250	.207	.457	6	2	0	0	1	0
Bob Rush	31	33	32	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	.188	.188	.188	.375	6	1	0	1	0	0
Al Spangler	6	14	12	3	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	.417	.462	.583	1.045	7	0	0	1	0	0
Joe Morgan	13	26	23	2	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.217	.280	.261	.541	6	1	0	1	0	0
Juan Pizarro	29	46	41	2	5	2	0	0	5	0	0	2	14	.122	.159	.171	.330	7	0	0	2	1	0
Stan Lopata	25	51	48	0	5	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	13	.104	.157	.104	.261	5	1	0	0	0	0
Jim Pisoni	9	26	24	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.167	.231	.208	.439	5	1	0	0	0	0
Carl Willey	26	41	39	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	22	.103	.125	.128	.253	5	1	0	1	0	0
Bob Buhl	31	74	70	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	38	.057	.083	.057	.140	4	1	0	2	0	0
Ray Boone	13	20	15	3	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	2	.200	.368	.400	.768	6	1	0	1	0	0
Enos Slaughter	11	21	18	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	3	.167	.286	.167	.452	3	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Cottier	10	28	24	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	7	.125	.222	.167	.389	4	0	0	1	0	0
Mel Roach	19	33	31	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.097	.152	.097	.248	3	0	0	0	0	0
Joey Jay	34	38	35	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	15	.086	.135	.086	.221	3	0	0	1	0	0
Don McMahon	60	10	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	0	0	0
John DeMerit	11	6	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Trowbridge	16	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Giggie	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Red Schoendienst	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Hartman	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1942	6010	5388	724	1426	216	36	177	683	41	14	488	765	.265	.326	.417	.743	2245	130	27	64	43	64

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Joe Adcock	1B	89	85	714.0	761	80	2	67	.998	1.601	9.449	0	0	0	0
Frank Torre	1B	87	63	591.0	622	46	4	43	.994	1.173	7.678	0	0	0	0
Mickey Vernon	1B	10	4	56.7	54	4	1	3	.983	9.212	5.800	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	1B	3	3	21.0	19	1	0	4	1.000	8.571	6.667	0	0	0	0
Stan Lopata	1B	2	2	18.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Bobby Avila	2B	51	45	410.7	103	131	8	21	.967	5.128	4.588	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	2B	60	44	383.3	97	126	7	26	.970	5.236	3.717	0	0	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	2B	37	34	296.0	70	83	2	24	.987	4.652	4.135	0	0	0	0
Casey Wise	2B	20	18	153.0	46	41	1	13	.989	5.118	4.350	0	0	0	0
Chuck Cottier	2B	10	9	75.7	18	22	1	2	.976	4.758	4.000	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	2B	8	3	38.7	8	14	3	2	.880	5.121	2.750	0	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	2B	7	4	37.0	9	12	2	1	.913	5.108	3.000	0	0	0	0
Red Schoendienst	2B	4	0	6.3	1	1	1	0	.667	2.842	.500	0	0	0	0
Eddie Mathews	3B	148	148	1315.7	144	305	18	21	.961	3.071	3.034	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	3B	9	4	42.0	4	9	2	1	.867	2.786	1.444	0	0	0	0
Hank Aaron	3B	5	5	42.0	2	10	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.400	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Del Crandall	C	146	142	1271.7	783	71	5	15	.994	6.044	5.849	2	22	28	32	53.3
Stan Lopata	C	11	7	65.3	43	0	0	1	1.000	5.923	3.909	1	1	6	0	0.0
Del Rice	C	9	8	63.7	42	1	2	1	.956	6.079	4.778	2	2	1	0	0.0
Hank Aaron	OF	152	149	1326.7	261	12	5	3	.982	1.852	1.796	0	0	0	0
Bill Bruton	OF	133	114	1045.3	309	6	3	2	.991	2.712	2.368	0	0	0	0
Wes Covington	OF	94	93	814.7	148	6	6	2	.963	1.701	1.638	0	0	0	0
Andy Pafko	OF	64	35	343.3	87	1	2	0	.978	2.307	1.375	0	0	0	0
Lee Maye	OF	44	37	318.0	80	3	2	1	.976	2.349	1.886	0	0	0	0
Joe Adcock	OF	21	20	160.3	46	1	5	0	.904	2.638	2.238	0	0	0	0
Jim Pisoni	OF	9	5	53.0	15	1	1	0	.941	2.717	1.778	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	OF	7	3	29.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.862	.857	0	0	0	0
Enos Slaughter	OF	5	5	27.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.667	1.000	0	0	0	0
Al Spangler	OF	4	2	23.7	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.282	1.500	0	0	0	0
Mel Roach	OF	4	4	23.0	4	2	2	0	.750	2.348	1.500	0	0	0	0
Mickey Vernon	OF	4	3	22.3	11	0	1	0	.917	4.433	2.750	0	0	0	0
John DeMerit	OF	4	1	15.7	7	0	0	0	1.000	4.021	1.750	0	0	0	0
Warren Spahn	P	40	36	292.0	14	45	3	4	.952	1.818	1.475	0	0	0	0
Lew Burdette	P	41	39	289.7	21	47	1	6	.986	2.113	1.659	0	0	0	0
Bob Buhl	P	31	25	198.0	21	43	1	4	.985	2.909	2.065	0	0	0	0
Joey Jay	P	34	19	136.3	13	28	2	3	.953	2.707	1.206	0	0	0	0
Juan Pizarro	P	29	14	133.7	7	18	0	0	1.000	1.683	.862	0	0	0	0
Carl Willey	P	26	15	117.0	5	17	1	0	.957	1.692	.846	0	0	0	0
Bob Rush	P	31	9	101.3	9	13	3	0	.880	1.954	.710	0	0	0	0
Don McMahon	P	60	0	80.7	4	10	2	0	.875	1.562	.233	0	0	0	0
Bob Trowbridge	P	16	0	30.3	0	4	0	0	1.000	1.187	.250	0	0	0	0
Bob Giggie	P	13	0	20.0	0	8	0	0	1.000	3.600	.615	0	0	0	0
Bob Hartman	P	3	0	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny Logan	SS	138	137	1201.0	260	431	18	78	.975	5.178	5.007	0	0	0	0
Felix Mantilla	SS	23	20	190.7	29	76	8	13	.929	4.956	4.565	0	0	0	0
Casey Wise	SS	5	0	9.0	2	3	2	2	.714	5.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1752	1413	12606.0	4202	1732	127	363	.979	4.237	3.387	5	25	35	32	47.8

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