1954 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 53-101
Finished 8th in the NL
Attendance: 475,494, Avg. 7,664
Ballpark: Forbes Field
Manager: Fred Haney (53-101)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1954 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1954 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1954 season with a record of 53 wins and 101 losses, finishing eighth in the NL.

The Pirates plated 557 runs, worst in the circuit, and yielded 845 runs, most in the league. Frank Thomas paced Pittsburgh with 23 home runs and drove in 94 runs, while leading all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .298 clip. Dick Littlefield topped the squad with 10 wins and a team-best 3.60 earned run average, leading 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	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Dick Littlefield	10	11	.476	3.60	23	21	1	7	1	0	155.0	140	78	62	10	85	92	2	0	2	686
Vern Law	9	13	.409	5.51	39	18	17	7	0	3	161.7	201	109	99	20	56	57	3	0	6	728
Max Surkont	9	18	.333	4.41	33	29	2	11	0	0	208.3	216	124	102	25	78	78	4	0	4	916
Bob Friend	7	12	.368	5.07	35	20	8	4	2	2	170.3	204	106	96	16	58	73	1	2	1	758
Johnny Hetki	4	4	.500	4.99	58	1	46	0	0	9	83.0	102	53	46	11	30	27	0	0	2	384
Paul LaPalme	4	10	.286	5.52	33	15	7	2	0	0	120.7	147	79	74	15	54	57	0	1	8	552
Bob Purkey	3	8	.273	5.07	36	11	7	0	0	0	131.3	145	78	74	3	62	38	7	1	1	581
Jake Thies	3	9	.250	3.87	33	18	7	3	1	0	130.3	120	70	56	13	49	57	3	0	2	559
George O'Donnell	3	9	.250	4.53	21	10	6	3	0	1	87.3	105	50	44	4	21	8	2	0	2	373
Laurin Pepper	1	5	.167	7.99	14	8	4	0	0	0	50.7	63	53	45	4	43	17	0	1	4	254
Nelson King	0	0		5.14	4	0	3	0	0	0	7.0	10	5	4	0	1	3	0	0	0	31
Joe Page	0	0		11.17	7	0	4	0	0	0	9.7	16	17	12	4	7	4	1	0	0	54
Cal Hogue	0	1	.000	4.91	3	2	0	0	0	0	11.0	11	6	6	1	12	7	0	0	0	52
Len Yochim	0	1	.000	7.32	10	1	5	0	0	0	19.7	30	17	16	2	8	7	0	0	5	95
Totals	53	101	.344	4.92	349	154	117	37	4	15	1346.0	1510	845	736	128	564	525	23	5	37	6023

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF
Frank Thomas	153	653	577	81	172	32	7	23	94	3	2	51	74	.298	.359	.497	.856	287	10	10	4	11
Dick Cole	138	541	486	40	131	22	5	1	40	0	0	41	48	.270	.323	.342	.664	166	20	0	8	6
Bob Skinner	132	530	470	67	117	15	9	8	46	4	0	47	59	.249	.316	.370	.686	174	11	0	11	2
Curt Roberts	134	565	496	47	115	18	7	1	36	6	3	55	49	.232	.309	.302	.612	150	6	2	9	3
Sid Gordon	131	447	363	38	111	12	0	12	49	0	0	67	24	.306	.405	.438	.843	159	10	0	8	9
Preston Ward	117	406	360	37	97	16	2	7	48	0	0	39	61	.269	.337	.383	.721	138	5	0	3	4
Toby Atwell	96	340	287	36	83	8	4	3	26	2	3	43	21	.289	.384	.376	.760	108	11	3	4	3
Gair Allie	121	482	418	38	83	8	6	3	30	1	1	56	84	.199	.294	.268	.562	112	3	2	3	3
Dick Hall	112	353	310	38	74	8	4	2	27	3	0	33	46	.239	.304	.310	.614	96	14	0	1	9
Jack Shepard	82	265	227	24	69	8	2	3	22	0	0	26	33	.304	.370	.396	.766	90	10	0	8	4
Jerry Lynch	98	308	284	27	68	4	5	8	36	2	2	20	43	.239	.290	.373	.663	106	9	1	1	2
Eddie Pellagrini	73	142	125	12	27	6	0	0	16	0	0	9	21	.216	.288	.264	.552	33	1	4	3	1
Bob Friend	35	57	51	6	14	1	1	1	7	0	0	5	8	.275	.339	.392	.731	20	2	0	1	0
Hal Rice	28	96	81	10	14	4	1	1	9	0	2	14	24	.173	.295	.284	.579	23	2	0	1	0
Vern Law	50	64	52	10	12	5	0	1	13	0	0	5	8	.231	.310	.385	.695	20	4	1	6	0
Vic Janowicz	41	84	73	10	11	3	0	0	2	0	0	7	23	.151	.235	.192	.426	14	0	1	3	0
Max Surkont	33	76	60	3	10	1	0	0	5	0	0	6	19	.167	.239	.183	.422	11	2	0	9	1
Gail Henley	14	35	30	7	9	1	0	1	2	0	0	4	4	.300	.382	.433	.816	13	0	0	1	0
Dick Littlefield	23	55	49	4	8	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	13	.163	.196	.245	.441	12	1	0	4	0
Cal Abrams	17	52	42	6	6	1	1	0	2	0	0	10	9	.143	.308	.214	.522	9	2	0	0	0
Jim Mangan	14	30	26	2	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	9	.192	.300	.192	.492	5	0	0	0	0
Paul LaPalme	33	39	35	2	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	.143	.167	.229	.395	8	0	1	3	0
Laurin Pepper	14	17	17	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.235	.235	.294	.529	5	0	0	0	0
Walker Cooper	14	17	15	0	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	.200	.294	.333	.627	5	1	0	0	0
Dick Smith	12	37	31	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	6	5	.097	.243	.194	.437	6	1	0	0	0
Johnny Hetki	58	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	1	0
George O'Donnell	21	24	23	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	10	.087	.125	.217	.342	5	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	36	33	26	2	2	1	0	0	4	0	0	4	12	.077	.200	.115	.315	3	0	0	3	0
Len Yochim	10	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0
Luis Marquez	14	14	9	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.111	.385	.111	.496	1	0	0	1	0
Jake Thies	33	40	33	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	11	.030	.158	.030	.188	1	0	0	2	0
Sam Jethroe	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Cal Hogue	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0
Nick Koback	4	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Hall	5	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Page	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Nelson King	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1912	5836	5088	557	1260	181	57	76	526	21	13	566	737	.248	.323	.350	.673	1783	125	25	99	58

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Skinner	1B	118	116	1006.3	1026	84	16	87	.986	9.927	9.407	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	1B	48	38	339.7	338	41	6	31	.984	1.042	7.896	0	0	0	0
Curt Roberts	2B	131	131	1129.0	357	394	24	82	.969	5.987	5.733	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	2B	17	18	160.0	43	46	3	5	.967	5.006	5.235	0	0	0	0
Eddie Pellagrini	2B	7	5	57.0	24	17	0	5	1.000	6.474	5.857	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	3B	55	50	434.0	48	112	10	7	.941	3.318	2.909	0	0	0	0
Sid Gordon	3B	40	35	304.3	28	71	8	5	.925	2.928	2.475	0	0	0	0
Eddie Pellagrini	3B	31	14	153.7	18	43	2	5	.968	3.573	1.968	0	0	0	0
Gair Allie	3B	19	18	152.0	19	35	3	0	.947	3.197	2.842	0	0	0	0
Vic Janowicz	3B	18	18	139.0	15	32	5	3	.904	3.043	2.611	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	3B	11	12	96.0	7	20	3	0	.900	2.531	2.455	0	0	0	0
Dick Smith	3B	9	7	67.0	7	21	2	3	.933	3.761	3.111	0	0	0	0
Toby Atwell	C	88	83	719.3	360	39	4	4	.990	4.992	4.534	5	6	32	15	31.9
Jack Shepard	C	67	62	539.3	257	46	7	5	.977	5.056	4.522	4	15	15	17	53.1
Jim Mangan	C	7	5	47.3	24	3	0	1	1.000	5.134	3.857	0	0	0	1	100.0
Nick Koback	C	4	2	21.0	14	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	3.500	0	1	0	0
Walker Cooper	C	2	1	11.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	4.909	3.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Hall	C	1	1	8.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	4.000	0	1	1	0	0.0
Frank Thomas	OF	153	152	1328.0	418	14	5	2	.989	2.928	2.824	0	0	0	0
Dick Hall	OF	102	84	774.3	235	5	11	1	.956	2.789	2.353	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lynch	OF	83	73	617.0	127	10	5	2	.965	1.998	1.651	0	0	0	0
Sid Gordon	OF	73	67	578.3	121	9	3	1	.977	2.023	1.781	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	OF	42	41	342.7	74	8	6	3	.932	2.154	1.952	0	0	0	0
Hal Rice	OF	24	22	192.7	55	3	0	2	1.000	2.709	2.417	0	0	0	0
Cal Abrams	OF	13	11	97.7	23	2	0	0	1.000	2.304	1.923	0	0	0	0
Gail Henley	OF	9	7	67.3	13	1	0	0	1.000	1.871	1.556	0	0	0	0
Bob Skinner	OF	2	2	15.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Luis Marquez	OF	4	1	13.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.769	1.000	0	0	0	0
Vic Janowicz	OF	1	1	9.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Sam Jethroe	OF	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Vern Law	OF	1	1	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Max Surkont	P	33	29	208.3	8	40	1	1	.980	2.074	1.455	0	0	0	0
Bob Friend	P	35	20	170.0	7	27	1	1	.971	1.800	.971	0	0	0	0
Vern Law	P	39	18	161.7	11	23	1	2	.971	1.893	.872	0	0	0	0
Dick Littlefield	P	23	21	155.0	5	14	3	0	.864	1.103	.826	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	P	36	11	131.3	16	40	0	6	1.000	3.838	1.556	0	0	0	0
Jake Thies	P	33	18	130.7	8	24	4	2	.889	2.204	.970	0	0	0	0
Paul LaPalme	P	33	15	120.7	7	19	0	1	1.000	1.939	.788	0	0	0	0
George O'Donnell	P	21	10	87.3	7	19	0	1	1.000	2.679	1.238	0	0	0	0
Johnny Hetki	P	58	1	83.0	3	11	0	0	1.000	1.518	.241	0	0	0	0
Laurin Pepper	P	14	8	50.7	1	17	1	0	.947	3.197	1.286	0	0	0	0
Len Yochim	P	10	1	19.7	4	6	1	0	.909	4.576	1.000	0	0	0	0
Cal Hogue	P	3	2	11.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.636	.667	0	0	0	0
Joe Page	P	7	0	9.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.862	.286	0	0	0	0
Nelson King	P	4	0	7.0	0	3	0	1	1.000	3.857	.750	0	0	0	0
Gair Allie	SS	95	92	799.7	192	260	23	59	.952	5.087	4.758	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	SS	66	62	544.3	101	178	15	29	.949	4.613	4.227	0	0	0	0
Eddie Pellagrini	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1692	1386	12114.0	4038	1741	173	357	.971	4.293	3.415	9	23	48	33	40.7

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