1963 New York Mets Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 51-111
Finished 10th in the NL
Attendance: 1,080,108, Avg. 15,613
Ballpark: Polo Grounds IV
Manager: Casey Stengel (51-111)
Location: New York, New York

1963 New York Mets Roster
1963 New York Mets Results

The New York Mets of the National League ended the 1963 season with a record of 51 wins and 111 losses, finishing tenth in the NL.

The Mets scored 501 runs and surrendered 774 runs, most in the circuit. Jim Hickman led New York with 17 home runs, and Frank Thomas walloped 20 or more, too. Frank Thomas drove in 60 runs. Ron Hunt topped hitters with significant playing time with a .272 average. Al Jackson paced the squad with 13 wins, while Carl Willey recorded a 3.10 ERA, best among 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
Al Jackson	13	17	.433	3.96	37	34	1	11	0	1	227.0	237	128	100	25	84	2	142	12	2	9	1000
Carl Willey	9	14	.391	3.10	30	28	1	7	4	0	183.0	149	74	63	24	69	2	101	4	1	7	755
Galen Cisco	7	15	.318	4.34	51	17	15	1	0	0	155.7	165	88	75	15	64	1	81	7	2	10	688
Tracy Stallard	6	17	.261	4.71	39	23	7	5	0	1	154.7	156	89	81	23	77	6	110	1	4	6	684
Roger Craig	5	22	.185	3.78	46	31	9	14	0	2	236.0	249	117	99	28	58	2	108	6	6	4	1014
Jay Hook	4	14	.222	5.48	41	20	13	3	0	1	152.7	168	104	93	21	53	2	89	9	0	6	672
Ken MacKenzie	3	1	.750	4.97	34	0	17	0	0	3	58.0	63	35	32	11	12	2	41	2	0	0	252
Larry Bearnarth	3	8	.273	3.42	58	2	34	0	0	4	126.3	127	61	48	7	47	9	48	5	0	4	544
Grover Powell	1	1	.500	2.72	20	4	10	1	1	0	49.7	37	23	15	2	32	0	39	1	0	9	218
Don Rowe	0	0		4.28	26	1	12	0	0	0	54.7	59	27	26	6	21	0	27	1	5	1	237
Ed Bauta	0	0		5.21	9	0	1	0	0	0	19.0	22	11	11	0	9	0	13	0	0	0	86
Steve Dillon	0	0		10.80	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	3	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7
Craig Anderson	0	2	.000	8.68	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.3	17	15	9	0	3	0	6	0	0	1	51
Totals	51	111	.315	4.12	395	162	120	42	5	12	1427.7	1452	774	654	162	529	26	806	48	20	57	6208

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
Ron Hunt	143	600	533	64	145	28	4	10	42	5	4	40	50	.272	.334	.396	.730	211	13	13	8	6	0
Jim Hickman	146	546	494	53	113	21	6	17	51	0	5	44	120	.229	.291	.399	.690	197	8	1	3	4	1
Frank Thomas	126	458	420	34	109	9	1	15	60	0	0	33	48	.260	.317	.393	.709	165	23	3	0	2	5
Duke Snider	129	415	354	44	86	8	3	14	45	0	1	56	74	.243	.345	.401	.746	142	2	1	0	4	9
Tim Harkness	123	420	375	35	79	12	3	10	41	4	3	36	79	.211	.290	.339	.629	127	5	7	0	2	5
Al Moran	119	370	331	26	64	5	2	1	23	3	7	36	60	.193	.274	.230	.503	76	6	1	1	1	1
Charlie Neal	72	282	253	26	57	12	1	3	18	1	2	27	49	.225	.302	.316	.619	80	1	1	1	0	3
Ed Kranepool	86	294	273	22	57	12	2	2	14	4	2	18	50	.209	.256	.289	.545	79	10	0	1	2	0
Rod Kanehl	109	201	191	26	46	6	0	1	9	6	3	5	26	.241	.268	.288	.556	55	7	2	3	0	0
Choo-Choo Coleman	106	277	247	22	44	0	0	3	9	5	5	24	49	.178	.264	.215	.479	53	4	5	1	0	3
Jesse Gonder	42	134	126	12	38	4	0	3	15	1	2	6	25	.302	.328	.405	.733	51	3	0	0	2	0
Joe Hicks	56	169	159	16	36	6	1	5	22	0	2	7	31	.226	.272	.371	.643	59	1	3	0	0	0
Duke Carmel	47	167	149	11	35	5	3	3	18	2	2	16	37	.235	.307	.369	.676	55	0	0	1	1	2
Joe Christopher	64	168	149	19	33	5	1	1	8	1	3	13	21	.221	.295	.289	.584	43	2	3	2	1	0
Chico Fernandez	58	157	145	12	29	6	0	1	9	3	0	9	30	.200	.244	.262	.506	38	0	0	1	2	2
Jim Piersall	40	140	124	13	24	4	1	1	10	1	2	10	14	.194	.250	.266	.516	33	3	0	4	2	1
Larry Burright	41	110	100	9	22	2	1	0	3	1	0	8	25	.220	.291	.260	.551	26	0	2	0	0	1
Norm Sherry	63	161	147	6	20	1	0	2	11	1	0	10	26	.136	.205	.184	.389	27	6	3	0	1	1
Al Jackson	49	84	79	8	16	2	0	0	4	0	1	1	23	.203	.210	.228	.438	18	1	0	3	1	0
Pumpsie Green	17	66	54	8	15	1	2	1	5	0	2	12	13	.278	.409	.426	.835	23	1	0	0	0	0
Cliff Cook	50	120	106	9	15	2	1	2	8	0	1	12	37	.142	.229	.236	.465	25	1	0	2	0	4
Dick Smith	20	47	42	4	10	0	1	0	3	3	2	5	10	.238	.319	.286	.605	12	0	0	0	0	2
Sammy Taylor	22	41	35	3	9	0	1	0	6	0	0	5	7	.257	.341	.314	.656	11	3	0	0	1	1
Jay Hook	41	43	38	4	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	13	.237	.268	.263	.531	10	1	0	2	1	0
Chris Cannizzaro	16	35	33	4	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	8	.242	.257	.273	.530	9	0	0	0	1	0
Ted Schreiber	39	55	50	1	8	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	14	.160	.236	.160	.396	8	1	1	0	0	0
Larry Bearnarth	58	31	30	2	6	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	12	.200	.226	.300	.526	9	0	1	0	0	0
Carl Willey	30	62	54	3	6	0	0	1	5	0	0	2	32	.111	.143	.167	.310	9	1	0	6	0	0
Roger Craig	46	77	69	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	39	.087	.149	.087	.236	6	2	0	3	0	0
Gil Hodges	11	25	22	2	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	2	.227	.320	.227	.547	5	0	0	0	0	0
Galen Cisco	51	45	38	0	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	9	.132	.209	.158	.367	6	0	0	2	1	0
Don Rowe	26	13	13	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tracy Stallard	39	50	48	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	21	.063	.063	.063	.125	3	1	0	2	0	0
Grover Powell	20	12	10	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.200	.333	.200	.533	2	0	0	0	0	0
Marv Throneberry	14	15	14	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.143	.200	.214	.414	3	0	0	0	0	0
Cleon Jones	6	15	15	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Anderson	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Bauta	9	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken MacKenzie	34	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Dillon	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2172	5921	5336	501	1168	156	35	96	459	41	52	457	1078	.219	.285	.315	.600	1682	106	47	46	35	41

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Tim Harkness	1B	106	101	883.3	898	112	14	73	.986	1.291	9.528	0	0	0	0
Duke Carmel	1B	18	17	154.0	185	10	4	13	.980	11.396	1.833	0	0	0	0
Ed Kranepool	1B	20	15	144.3	150	13	0	16	1.000	1.164	8.150	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	1B	15	15	120.7	146	9	1	9	.994	11.561	1.333	0	0	0	0
Gil Hodges	1B	10	6	56.0	61	8	0	7	1.000	11.089	6.900	0	0	0	0
Cliff Cook	1B	5	4	27.0	20	3	3	5	.885	7.667	4.600	0	0	0	0
Rod Kanehl	1B	3	2	23.0	30	1	0	2	1.000	12.130	1.333	0	0	0	0
Marv Throneberry	1B	3	1	11.0	9	0	0	1	1.000	7.364	3.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Smith	1B	2	1	8.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	12.375	5.500	0	0	0	0
Ron Hunt	2B	142	140	1206.7	350	416	26	85	.967	5.713	5.394	0	0	0	0
Larry Burright	2B	15	13	112.0	29	44	3	11	.961	5.866	4.867	0	0	0	0
Rod Kanehl	2B	12	6	75.7	22	14	6	3	.857	4.282	3.000	0	0	0	0
Chico Fernandez	2B	3	2	21.0	6	4	0	0	1.000	4.286	3.333	0	0	0	0
Ted Schreiber	2B	3	1	12.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.667	0	0	0	0
Charlie Neal	3B	66	64	556.3	61	135	8	10	.961	3.171	2.970	0	0	0	0
Jim Hickman	3B	59	54	476.3	45	103	14	14	.914	2.796	2.508	0	0	0	0
Pumpsie Green	3B	16	16	129.0	12	36	8	2	.857	3.349	3.000	0	0	0	0
Ted Schreiber	3B	17	10	100.7	12	31	1	3	.977	3.844	2.529	0	0	0	0
Rod Kanehl	3B	13	7	64.0	7	15	4	0	.846	3.094	1.692	0	0	0	0
Cliff Cook	3B	9	6	55.0	4	22	1	0	.963	4.255	2.889	0	0	0	0
Chico Fernandez	3B	5	4	35.0	6	6	3	1	.800	3.086	2.400	0	0	0	0
Ron Hunt	3B	1	1	4.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Larry Burright	3B	1	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Al Moran	3B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Choo-Choo Coleman	C	91	66	613.0	418	54	15	9	.969	6.930	5.187	11	23	29	29	50.0
Norm Sherry	C	61	52	416.3	265	26	6	6	.980	6.291	4.770	3	10	17	18	51.4
Jesse Gonder	C	31	30	248.0	120	16	3	3	.978	4.935	4.387	9	15	10	5	33.3
Chris Cannizzaro	C	15	10	86.0	49	6	0	0	1.000	5.756	3.667	1	6	1	4	80.0
Sammy Taylor	C	13	4	64.0	55	3	0	1	1.000	8.156	4.462	0	2	4	2	33.3
Duke Snider	OF	106	94	801.0	139	5	2	0	.986	1.618	1.358	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	OF	96	94	783.3	158	8	2	1	.988	1.907	1.729	0	0	0	0
Jim Hickman	OF	82	72	646.0	149	6	6	2	.963	2.159	1.890	0	0	0	0
Ed Kranepool	OF	55	51	441.7	78	5	4	1	.954	1.691	1.509	0	0	0	0
Joe Hicks	OF	41	36	326.7	83	1	3	0	.966	2.314	2.049	0	0	0	0
Joe Christopher	OF	45	33	300.0	58	1	1	1	.983	1.770	1.311	0	0	0	0
Jim Piersall	OF	38	34	289.7	65	3	0	0	1.000	2.113	1.789	0	0	0	0
Rod Kanehl	OF	58	24	263.7	69	5	2	2	.974	2.526	1.276	0	0	0	0
Duke Carmel	OF	21	21	181.3	47	1	1	0	.980	2.382	2.286	0	0	0	0
Cliff Cook	OF	21	15	139.7	26	2	0	0	1.000	1.804	1.333	0	0	0	0
Dick Smith	OF	10	9	78.0	15	0	0	0	1.000	1.731	1.500	0	0	0	0
Cleon Jones	OF	5	3	29.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.862	1.200	0	0	0	0
Choo-Choo Coleman	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Roger Craig	P	46	31	236.0	18	60	8	4	.907	2.975	1.696	0	0	0	0
Al Jackson	P	37	34	227.0	15	46	3	5	.953	2.419	1.649	0	0	0	0
Carl Willey	P	30	28	183.0	20	29	2	0	.961	2.410	1.633	0	0	0	0
Galen Cisco	P	51	17	155.7	9	26	1	0	.972	2.024	.686	0	0	0	0
Tracy Stallard	P	39	23	154.7	12	20	0	0	1.000	1.862	.821	0	0	0	0
Jay Hook	P	41	20	152.7	11	20	3	1	.912	1.828	.756	0	0	0	0
Larry Bearnarth	P	58	2	126.3	11	35	3	1	.939	3.277	.793	0	0	0	0
Ken MacKenzie	P	34	0	57.7	3	6	1	0	.900	1.405	.265	0	0	0	0
Don Rowe	P	26	1	54.7	3	5	2	1	.800	1.317	.308	0	0	0	0
Grover Powell	P	20	4	49.7	7	7	2	1	.875	2.537	.700	0	0	0	0
Ed Bauta	P	9	0	19.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.421	.333	0	0	0	0
Craig Anderson	P	3	2	9.3	1	2	1	0	.750	2.893	1.000	0	0	0	0
Steve Dillon	P	1	0	1.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000	0	0	0	0
Al Moran	SS	116	112	945.7	189	332	27	57	.951	4.958	4.491	0	0	0	0
Chico Fernandez	SS	45	27	273.0	57	79	8	16	.944	4.484	3.022	0	0	0	0
Larry Burright	SS	19	18	150.7	40	66	6	10	.946	6.332	5.579	0	0	0	0
Charlie Neal	SS	8	5	43.7	15	14	1	6	.967	5.977	3.625	0	0	0	0
Ted Schreiber	SS	9	0	14.3	2	12	0	0	1.000	8.791	1.556	0	0	0	0
Totals		1928	1458	12845.0	4282	1888	210	383	.967	4.323	3.200	24	56	61	58	48.7

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