1954 Philadelphia Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 51-103
Finished 8th in the AL
Attendance: 304,666, Avg. 5,092
Ballpark: Connie Mack Stadium
Manager: Eddie Joost (51-103)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1954 Philadelphia Athletics Roster
1954 Philadelphia Athletics Results

The Philadelphia Athletics of the American League ended the 1954 season with a record of 51 wins and 103 losses, finishing eighth in the AL.

The Athletics scored 542 runs and yielded 875 runs, most in the circuit. Bill Wilson led Philadelphia with 15 home runs Gus Zernial drove in 62 runs. Jim Finigan paced all regular hitters with a .302 average. Arnie Portocarrero topped the team with 9 wins and a team-best 4.06 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Eddie Joost 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
Arnie Portocarrero	9	18	.333	4.06	34	33	0	16	1	0	248.0	233	124	112	25	114	132	5	0	9	1086
Bob Trice	7	8	.467	5.60	19	18	1	8	1	0	119.0	146	86	74	14	48	22	0	1	1	540
Alex Kellner	6	17	.261	5.39	27	27	0	8	1	0	173.7	204	118	104	16	88	69	6	0	4	793
Moe Burtschy	5	4	.556	3.80	46	0	30	0	0	4	94.7	80	45	40	7	53	54	8	0	7	413
Sonny Dixon	5	7	.417	4.86	38	6	23	1	0	4	107.3	136	63	58	8	27	42	3	1	1	483
Marion Fricano	5	11	.313	5.16	37	20	10	4	0	1	151.7	163	98	87	17	64	43	4	1	3	672
Charlie Bishop	4	6	.400	4.41	20	12	4	4	0	1	96.0	98	49	47	10	50	34	5	0	0	427
Johnny Gray	3	12	.200	6.51	18	16	1	5	0	0	105.0	111	83	76	10	91	51	0	0	4	501
Morrie Martin	2	4	.333	5.47	13	6	3	2	0	0	52.7	57	32	32	9	19	24	2	0	0	232
Al Sima	2	5	.286	5.22	29	7	11	1	0	2	79.3	101	51	46	9	32	36	0	0	2	362
Bobby Shantz	1	0	1.000	7.88	2	1	0	0	0	0	8.0	12	7	7	2	3	3	1	0	0	38
Dutch Romberger	1	1	.500	11.49	10	0	2	0	0	0	15.7	28	20	20	3	12	6	0	0	0	83
Art Ditmar	1	4	.200	6.41	14	5	8	0	0	0	39.3	50	35	28	4	36	14	1	0	3	199
Bill Upton	0	0		1.80	2	0	2	0	0	1	5.0	6	1	1	1	1	2	0	0	2	22
Hal Raether	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	1	1	0	4	0	0	1	0	9
Dick Rozek	0	0		6.75	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	0	1	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	9
Bill Oster	0	1	.000	6.32	8	1	4	0	0	0	15.7	19	15	11	2	12	5	0	0	1	75
Carl Scheib	0	1	.000	22.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	5	5	5	0	1	1	1	0	0	12
Lee Wheat	0	2	.000	5.72	8	1	5	0	0	0	28.3	38	18	18	1	9	7	1	1	0	137
Ozzie Van Brabant	0	2	.000	7.09	9	2	2	0	0	0	26.7	35	23	21	3	18	10	1	1	2	124
Totals	51	103	.331	5.18	338	156	107	49	3	13	1371.3	1523	875	789	141	685	555	39	6	40	6217

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF
Jim Finigan	136	560	487	57	147	25	6	7	51	2	8	64	66	.302	.381	.421	.802	205	17	0	6	3
Spook Jacobs	132	575	508	63	131	11	1	0	26	17	3	60	22	.258	.336	.283	.619	144	5	0	6	1
Joe DeMaestri	146	572	539	49	124	16	3	8	40	1	4	20	63	.230	.258	.315	.574	170	10	3	3	7
Vic Power	127	485	462	36	118	17	5	8	38	2	1	19	19	.255	.287	.366	.652	169	16	2	0	2
Bill Renna	123	474	422	52	98	15	4	13	53	1	3	41	60	.232	.302	.379	.681	160	7	3	4	4
Gus Zernial	97	373	336	42	84	8	2	14	62	0	0	30	60	.250	.316	.411	.727	138	8	4	0	3
Bill Wilson	94	371	323	43	77	10	1	15	33	1	2	39	59	.238	.334	.415	.749	134	4	8	0	1
Lou Limmer	115	356	316	41	73	10	3	14	32	2	3	35	37	.231	.305	.415	.720	131	6	0	2	3
Don Bollweg	103	307	268	35	60	15	3	5	24	1	0	35	33	.224	.319	.358	.677	96	4	3	0	1
Joe Astroth	77	252	226	22	50	8	1	1	23	0	0	21	19	.221	.296	.279	.575	63	2	3	2	0
Elmer Valo	95	281	224	28	48	11	6	1	33	2	1	51	18	.214	.356	.330	.686	74	2	0	3	3
Billy Shantz	51	181	164	13	42	9	3	1	17	0	0	17	23	.256	.326	.366	.692	60	5	0	0	0
Pete Suder	69	215	205	8	41	11	1	0	16	0	0	7	16	.200	.225	.263	.489	54	6	0	2	1
Jim Robertson	63	173	147	9	27	8	0	0	8	0	0	23	25	.184	.298	.238	.536	35	2	1	2	0
Eddie Joost	19	57	47	7	17	3	0	1	9	0	1	10	10	.362	.474	.489	.963	23	4	0	0	0
Joe Taylor	18	60	58	5	13	1	1	1	8	0	1	2	9	.224	.250	.328	.578	19	2	0	0	0
Bob Trice	20	46	42	6	12	3	0	1	5	0	0	3	10	.286	.348	.429	.776	18	0	1	0	0
Ed McGhee	21	58	53	5	11	2	0	2	9	0	1	4	8	.208	.259	.358	.617	19	0	0	0	1
Alex Kellner	27	63	55	2	10	2	0	0	6	0	0	2	8	.182	.207	.218	.425	12	1	0	5	1
Jack Littrell	9	36	30	7	9	2	0	1	3	1	0	6	3	.300	.417	.467	.883	14	2	0	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	34	87	75	3	8	0	1	1	2	0	0	5	30	.107	.163	.173	.336	13	0	0	7	0
Sonny Dixon	38	30	28	2	7	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	9	.250	.300	.321	.621	9	0	0	0	0
Morrie Martin	13	18	17	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.235	.235	.294	.529	5	0	0	1	0
Charlie Bishop	22	34	33	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	.121	.121	.152	.273	5	0	0	1	0
Marion Fricano	42	48	41	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	12	.098	.119	.098	.217	4	1	0	6	0
Moe Burtschy	46	18	17	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.118	.167	.118	.284	2	1	0	0	0
Bill Oster	8	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0
Bobby Shantz	7	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0
Ozzie Van Brabant	9	7	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.200	.429	.200	.629	1	0	0	0	0
Art Ditmar	14	11	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.125	.300	.125	.425	1	0	0	1	0
Lee Wheat	8	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	1	0	0	0
Al Sima	29	22	20	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	7	.050	.050	.050	.100	1	0	0	2	0
Johnny Gray	19	36	34	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	15	.029	.057	.029	.087	1	0	0	1	0
Dutch Romberger	10	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Upton	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Dick Rozek	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Carl Scheib	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Hal Raether	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1847	5823	5206	542	1228	191	41	94	503	30	29	504	677	.236	.305	.342	.648	1783	106	28	54	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Lou Limmer	1B	79	73	636.0	597	56	8	63	.988	9.241	8.266	0	0	0	0
Don Bollweg	1B	71	66	573.0	530	51	13	55	.978	9.126	8.183	0	0	0	0
Vic Power	1B	21	17	155.3	150	12	2	17	.988	9.386	7.714	0	0	0	0
Gus Zernial	1B	2	0	7.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	6.429	2.500	0	0	0	0
Spook Jacobs	2B	131	131	1126.3	347	300	17	98	.974	5.170	4.939	0	0	0	0
Pete Suder	2B	35	25	234.0	71	75	6	23	.961	5.615	4.171	0	0	0	0
Eddie Joost	2B	1	0	8.0	1	4	0	1	1.000	5.625	5.000	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	2B	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Finigan	3B	136	133	1158.3	151	305	25	34	.948	3.543	3.353	0	0	0	0
Pete Suder	3B	20	18	165.0	26	59	2	2	.977	4.636	4.250	0	0	0	0
Eddie Joost	3B	5	5	40.0	4	11	0	1	1.000	3.375	3.000	0	0	0	0
Vic Power	3B	1	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	3B	1	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Astroth	C	71	64	583.0	300	39	4	5	.988	5.233	4.775	4	19	23	16	41.0
Billy Shantz	C	51	49	407.3	170	28	5	1	.975	4.375	3.882	5	7	7	18	72.0
Jim Robertson	C	50	43	381.0	207	18	6	6	.974	5.315	4.500	3	15	18	7	28.0
Bill Renna	OF	115	113	977.0	226	13	7	5	.972	2.202	2.078	0	0	0	0
Vic Power	OF	101	97	835.7	256	13	4	3	.985	2.897	2.663	0	0	0	0
Bill Wilson	OF	91	91	802.0	270	7	3	4	.989	3.108	3.044	0	0	0	0
Gus Zernial	OF	90	87	753.3	180	4	9	1	.953	2.198	2.044	0	0	0	0
Elmer Valo	OF	62	56	507.3	135	3	5	1	.965	2.448	2.226	0	0	0	0
Joe Taylor	OF	16	13	132.0	32	1	2	0	.943	2.250	2.063	0	0	0	0
Ed McGhee	OF	13	11	106.7	42	0	3	0	.933	3.544	3.231	0	0	0	0
Arnie Portocarrero	P	34	33	248.0	15	22	4	0	.902	1.343	1.088	0	0	0	0
Alex Kellner	P	27	27	173.7	6	32	0	2	1.000	1.969	1.407	0	0	0	0
Marion Fricano	P	37	20	151.7	9	20	3	2	.906	1.721	.784	0	0	0	0
Bob Trice	P	19	18	119.0	11	21	3	4	.914	2.420	1.684	0	0	0	0
Sonny Dixon	P	38	6	108.3	10	30	1	1	.976	3.323	1.053	0	0	0	0
Johnny Gray	P	18	16	105.0	11	14	1	2	.962	2.143	1.389	0	0	0	0
Charlie Bishop	P	20	12	95.0	6	9	0	0	1.000	1.421	.750	0	0	0	0
Moe Burtschy	P	46	0	94.7	7	15	3	2	.880	2.092	.478	0	0	0	0
Al Sima	P	29	7	79.3	1	12	2	0	.867	1.475	.448	0	0	0	0
Morrie Martin	P	13	6	52.7	3	8	1	1	.917	1.880	.846	0	0	0	0
Art Ditmar	P	14	5	39.3	4	5	1	1	.900	2.059	.643	0	0	0	0
Lee Wheat	P	8	1	28.3	3	3	0	1	1.000	1.906	.750	0	0	0	0
Ozzie Van Brabant	P	9	2	26.7	1	8	0	0	1.000	3.038	1.000	0	0	0	0
Dutch Romberger	P	10	0	15.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.149	.200	0	0	0	0
Bill Oster	P	8	1	15.7	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.723	.375	0	0	0	0
Bobby Shantz	P	2	1	8.0	1	2	1	0	.750	3.375	1.500	0	0	0	0
Bill Upton	P	2	0	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500	0	0	0	0
Carl Scheib	P	1	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hal Raether	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	1	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Rozek	P	2	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	SS	142	139	1223.0	285	406	25	90	.965	5.085	4.866	0	0	0	0
Jack Littrell	SS	9	9	79.0	19	22	1	8	.976	4.671	4.556	0	0	0	0
Eddie Joost	SS	9	7	56.7	9	17	1	3	.963	4.129	2.889	0	0	0	0
Pete Suder	SS	2	1	11.3	3	0	1	0	.750	2.382	1.500	0	0	0	0
Vic Power	SS	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1665	1404	12342.0	4104	1655	169	438	.971	4.200	3.459	12	41	48	41	46.1

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