1959 New York Yankees Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 79-75
Finished 3rd in the AL
Attendance: 1,552,030, Avg. 25,091
Ballpark: Yankee Stadium I
Manager: Casey Stengel (79-75)
Location: New York, New York

1959 New York Yankees Roster
1959 New York Yankees Results

The New York Yankees of the American League ended the 1959 season with a record of 79 wins and 75 losses, finishing third in the AL.

The Yankees plated 687 runs and conceded 647 runs. Mickey Mantle walloped 31 home runs for New York, while Hector Lopez, Bill Skowron, Yogi Berra and Elston Howard each swatted 20 or more also. Mickey Mantle drove in 75 runs. Bobby Richardson paced all regular hitters by hitting .301. Whitey Ford topped the team with 16 wins, and Art Ditmar recorded a 2.90 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Casey Stengel 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
Whitey Ford	16	10	.615	3.04	35	29	4	9	2	1	204.0	194	82	69	13	89	5	114	1	1	5	877
Duke Maas	14	8	.636	4.43	38	21	9	3	1	4	138.0	149	82	68	14	53	1	67	2	0	1	600
Art Ditmar	13	9	.591	2.90	38	25	7	7	1	1	202.0	156	75	65	17	52	2	96	8	1	0	810
Bob Turley	8	11	.421	4.32	33	22	6	7	3	0	154.3	141	80	74	15	83	3	111	3	0	2	678
Bobby Shantz	7	3	.700	2.38	33	4	14	2	2	3	94.7	64	33	25	4	33	5	66	0	0	3	376
Jim Coates	6	1	.857	2.87	37	4	17	2	0	0	100.3	89	39	32	10	36	4	64	3	2	1	425
Don Larsen	6	7	.462	4.33	25	18	3	3	1	3	124.7	122	65	60	14	76	2	69	2	0	7	560
Ryne Duren	3	6	.333	1.88	41	0	29	0	0	14	76.7	49	18	16	6	43	2	96	3	0	4	322
Ralph Terry	3	7	.300	3.39	24	16	1	5	1	0	127.3	130	55	48	7	30	5	55	2	0	2	529
Eli Grba	2	5	.286	6.44	19	6	5	0	0	0	50.3	52	44	36	6	39	0	23	0	0	0	240
John Gabler	1	1	.500	2.79	3	1	0	0	0	0	19.3	21	6	6	1	10	0	11	1	0	1	85
Mark Freeman	0	0		2.57	1	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	6	2	2	0	2	0	4	1	0	0	29
Zach Monroe	0	0		5.40	3	0	2	0	0	0	3.3	3	2	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	15
Gary Blaylock	0	1	.000	3.51	15	1	7	0	0	0	25.7	30	13	10	0	15	0	20	1	1	1	118
Johnny Kucks	0	1	.000	8.64	9	1	4	0	0	0	16.7	21	16	16	5	9	0	9	0	0	1	76
Tom Sturdivant	0	2	.000	4.97	7	3	1	0	0	0	25.3	20	16	14	4	9	0	16	0	0	1	103
Jim Bronstad	0	3	.000	5.22	16	3	8	0	0	2	29.3	34	19	17	2	13	0	14	1	0	1	133
Totals	79	75	.513	3.60	377	155	117	38	11	28	1399.0	1281	647	560	120	594	29	836	28	5	30	5976

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
Mickey Mantle	144	639	541	104	154	23	4	31	75	21	3	93	126	.285	.390	.514	.904	278	7	2	1	2	6
Tony Kubek	132	553	512	67	143	25	7	6	51	3	3	24	46	.279	.313	.391	.704	200	11	2	13	2	3
Bobby Richardson	134	508	469	53	141	18	6	2	33	5	5	26	20	.301	.335	.377	.713	177	3	0	10	3	3
Yogi Berra	131	521	472	64	134	25	1	19	69	1	2	43	38	.284	.347	.462	.809	218	6	4	0	2	5
Elston Howard	125	474	443	59	121	24	6	18	73	0	1	20	57	.273	.306	.476	.783	211	12	3	4	4	4
Hector Lopez	112	447	406	60	115	16	2	16	69	3	1	28	54	.283	.336	.451	.786	183	9	6	3	4	1
Gil McDougald	127	481	434	44	109	16	8	4	34	0	3	35	40	.251	.309	.353	.661	153	11	3	5	4	3
Norm Siebern	120	431	380	52	103	17	0	11	53	3	1	41	71	.271	.341	.403	.744	153	3	2	3	5	2
Bill Skowron	74	309	282	39	84	13	5	15	59	1	0	20	47	.298	.349	.539	.888	152	10	3	2	2	0
Hank Bauer	114	380	341	44	81	20	0	9	39	4	2	33	54	.238	.307	.375	.682	128	4	2	2	2	1
Marv Throneberry	80	214	192	27	46	5	0	8	22	0	0	18	51	.240	.302	.391	.693	75	2	0	2	2	1
Andy Carey	41	109	101	11	26	1	0	3	9	1	1	7	17	.257	.306	.356	.662	36	4	0	1	0	0
Clete Boyer	47	124	114	4	20	2	0	0	3	1	0	6	23	.175	.215	.193	.408	22	2	0	3	1	2
Enos Slaughter	74	114	99	10	17	2	0	6	21	1	0	13	19	.172	.265	.374	.639	37	2	0	1	1	1
Whitey Ford	35	80	65	6	15	4	0	1	6	0	0	12	11	.231	.351	.338	.689	22	0	0	3	0	0
Art Ditmar	38	78	76	6	15	4	0	1	11	1	0	0	10	.197	.195	.289	.484	22	5	0	1	1	0
Don Larsen	29	56	47	8	12	2	0	0	8	0	0	7	15	.255	.345	.298	.643	14	2	0	1	1	0
Fritz Brickell	18	41	39	4	10	1	0	1	4	0	0	1	10	.256	.275	.359	.634	14	1	0	1	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	18	53	45	2	10	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	7	.222	.314	.222	.536	10	2	0	2	0	5
Johnny Blanchard	49	66	59	6	10	1	0	2	4	0	0	7	12	.169	.258	.288	.546	17	2	0	0	0	0
Bobby Shantz	40	29	23	4	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	6	.217	.308	.304	.612	7	0	0	3	0	0
Duke Maas	38	49	40	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	15	.125	.182	.125	.307	5	1	0	5	1	0
Ken Hunt	6	13	12	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.333	.308	.417	.724	5	0	0	0	1	0
Ralph Terry	24	44	41	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.098	.119	.098	.217	4	0	0	2	0	0
Bob Turley	33	54	46	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	18	.087	.192	.087	.279	4	1	1	2	0	0
Eli Grba	19	16	14	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.214	.267	.286	.552	4	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Pisoni	17	20	17	2	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	9	.176	.222	.294	.516	5	0	0	2	0	0
Jim Coates	37	22	21	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	16	.095	.136	.095	.232	2	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Blaylock	15	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	7	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Johnny Kucks	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Gabler	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Freeman	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryne Duren	41	20	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.000	.176	.000	.176	0	1	1	3	0	0
Jim Bronstad	16	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	1	0	0	0
Gordie Windhorn	7	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zach Monroe	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1958	5980	5379	687	1397	224	40	153	651	45	22	457	828	.260	.319	.402	.721	2160	101	30	76	38	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Bill Skowron	1B	72	71	607.3	626	43	6	68	.991	9.914	9.292	0	0	0	0
Elston Howard	1B	50	48	416.0	444	26	7	39	.985	1.168	9.400	0	0	0	0
Marv Throneberry	1B	54	34	352.7	337	27	4	40	.989	9.289	6.741	0	0	0	0
Norm Siebern	1B	2	2	20.0	15	2	0	1	1.000	7.650	8.500	0	0	0	0
Johnny Blanchard	1B	1	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Bobby Richardson	2B	109	107	949.7	256	292	17	85	.970	5.193	5.028	0	0	0	0
Gil McDougald	2B	53	48	438.3	119	146	3	40	.989	5.441	5.000	0	0	0	0
Fritz Brickell	2B	3	0	6.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.667	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	2B	1	0	3.0	2	1	0	1	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Tony Kubek	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	3B	76	73	619.0	66	147	17	15	.926	3.097	2.803	0	0	0	0
Andy Carey	3B	34	23	239.7	39	48	8	10	.916	3.267	2.559	0	0	0	0
Gil McDougald	3B	25	23	201.7	13	59	2	5	.973	3.213	2.880	0	0	0	0
Tony Kubek	3B	17	15	123.3	20	36	2	5	.966	4.086	3.294	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	3B	12	12	100.0	5	24	0	3	1.000	2.610	2.417	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	3B	16	9	90.0	9	27	1	0	.973	3.600	2.250	0	0	0	0
Bobby Richardson	3B	12	0	25.3	2	3	0	0	1.000	1.776	.417	0	0	0	0
Yogi Berra	C	116	112	1000.7	698	61	2	9	.997	6.826	6.543	3	19	32	26	44.8
Elston Howard	C	43	41	358.3	221	23	2	2	.992	6.128	5.674	4	9	5	9	64.3
Johnny Blanchard	C	12	2	40.0	25	1	1	1	.963	5.850	2.167	4	2	5	1	16.7
Mickey Mantle	OF	143	143	1257.7	366	7	2	3	.995	2.669	2.608	0	0	0	0
Norm Siebern	OF	93	92	810.7	175	1	2	0	.989	1.954	1.892	0	0	0	0
Hank Bauer	OF	111	83	795.0	139	2	4	0	.972	1.596	1.270	0	0	0	0
Tony Kubek	OF	53	47	422.3	78	3	2	2	.976	1.726	1.528	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	OF	35	35	291.0	62	1	3	1	.955	1.948	1.800	0	0	0	0
Elston Howard	OF	28	23	213.3	47	0	1	0	.979	1.983	1.679	0	0	0	0
Enos Slaughter	OF	26	13	135.7	27	0	1	0	.964	1.791	1.038	0	0	0	0
Marv Throneberry	OF	13	10	85.3	9	2	0	0	1.000	1.160	.846	0	0	0	0
Jim Pisoni	OF	15	4	57.0	17	0	0	0	1.000	2.684	1.133	0	0	0	0
Yogi Berra	OF	7	7	46.0	8	1	2	1	.818	1.761	1.286	0	0	0	0
Johnny Blanchard	OF	8	4	31.0	8	0	1	0	.889	2.323	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ken Hunt	OF	5	2	29.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.793	1.800	0	0	0	0
Gordie Windhorn	OF	4	2	23.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.565	1.000	0	0	0	0
Whitey Ford	P	35	29	204.0	15	49	1	5	.985	2.824	1.829	0	0	0	0
Art Ditmar	P	38	25	202.0	21	25	3	2	.939	2.050	1.211	0	0	0	0
Bob Turley	P	33	22	154.3	11	18	1	1	.967	1.691	.879	0	0	0	0
Duke Maas	P	38	21	138.0	5	28	1	2	.971	2.152	.868	0	0	0	0
Ralph Terry	P	24	16	127.3	10	21	2	0	.939	2.191	1.292	0	0	0	0
Don Larsen	P	25	18	124.7	5	22	2	1	.931	1.949	1.080	0	0	0	0
Jim Coates	P	37	4	100.3	7	17	2	0	.923	2.153	.649	0	0	0	0
Bobby Shantz	P	33	4	94.7	8	20	2	1	.933	2.662	.848	0	0	0	0
Ryne Duren	P	41	0	76.7	1	9	0	2	1.000	1.174	.244	0	0	0	0
Eli Grba	P	19	6	50.3	3	9	1	0	.923	2.146	.632	0	0	0	0
Jim Bronstad	P	16	3	29.3	3	6	0	0	1.000	2.761	.563	0	0	0	0
Gary Blaylock	P	15	1	25.7	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.403	.267	0	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	P	7	3	25.3	3	4	0	1	1.000	2.487	1.000	0	0	0	0
John Gabler	P	3	1	19.3	1	3	0	1	1.000	1.862	1.333	0	0	0	0
Johnny Kucks	P	9	1	16.7	1	5	0	0	1.000	3.240	.667	0	0	0	0
Mark Freeman	P	1	1	7.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000	0	0	0	0
Zach Monroe	P	3	0	3.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.700	.333	0	0	0	0
Tony Kubek	SS	67	64	582.3	121	217	11	42	.968	5.224	5.045	0	0	0	0
Gil McDougald	SS	52	45	394.3	58	140	5	25	.975	4.519	3.808	0	0	0	0
Clete Boyer	SS	26	22	194.3	40	63	1	14	.990	4.770	3.962	0	0	0	0
Bobby Richardson	SS	14	13	109.0	11	41	5	9	.912	4.294	3.714	0	0	0	0
Fritz Brickell	SS	15	9	95.7	14	35	4	3	.925	4.610	3.267	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	SS	4	2	23.3	4	11	0	2	1.000	5.786	3.750	0	0	0	0
Totals		1805	1395	12591.0	4195	1730	131	442	.978	4.235	3.283	11	30	42	36	46.2

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