1956 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 66-88
Finished 7th in the NL
Attendance: 949,878, Avg. 14,543
Ballpark: Forbes Field
Manager: Bobby Bragan (66-88)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1956 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1956 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1956 season with a record of 66 wins and 88 losses, finishing seventh in the NL.

The Pirates plated 588 runs and surrendered 653 runs. Dale Long paced Pittsburgh with 27 home runs, and Frank Thomas walloped 20 or more, too. Dale Long recorded 91 runs batted in. Bill Virdon led all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .334 clip. Bob Friend topped the team with 17 wins, while Ron Kline earned a 3.38 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Bobby Bragan 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
Bob Friend	17	17	.500	3.46	49	42	7	19	4	3	314.3	310	137	121	25	85	18	166	2	0	5	1315
Ron Kline	14	18	.438	3.38	44	39	2	9	2	2	264.0	263	110	99	26	81	8	125	5	0	10	1102
Roy Face	12	13	.480	3.52	68	3	34	0	0	6	135.3	131	57	53	16	42	15	96	1	0	1	569
Vern Law	8	16	.333	4.32	39	32	6	6	0	2	195.7	218	110	94	24	49	10	60	6	0	8	851
Nelson King	4	1	.800	3.15	38	0	21	0	0	5	60.0	54	24	21	8	19	5	25	1	1	2	246
Luis Arroyo	3	3	.500	4.71	18	2	4	1	0	0	28.7	36	17	15	5	12	1	17	0	0	0	134
Red Munger	3	4	.429	4.04	35	13	6	0	0	2	107.0	126	56	48	8	41	6	45	0	0	3	475
Fred Waters	2	2	.500	2.82	23	5	6	1	0	0	51.0	48	18	16	3	30	1	14	1	0	1	224
Johnny O'Brien	1	0	1.000	2.84	8	0	4	0	0	0	19.0	8	6	6	2	9	0	9	2	0	1	73
Laurin Pepper	1	1	.500	3.00	11	7	2	0	0	0	30.0	30	17	10	1	25	1	12	0	0	0	143
Cholly Naranjo	1	2	.333	4.46	17	3	7	0	0	0	34.3	37	22	17	7	17	1	26	1	0	1	155
Lino Donoso	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	9
Eddie O'Brien	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7
Bob Garber	0	0		2.25	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	3	1	1	1	3	1	3	0	0	0	18
Bob Purkey	0	0		2.25	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	14
Dick Littlefield	0	0		4.26	6	2	0	0	0	0	12.7	14	8	6	2	6	0	10	0	0	2	55
Max Surkont	0	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	11
Jack McMahan	0	0		6.08	11	0	3	0	0	0	13.3	18	9	9	1	9	0	9	0	0	1	64
Red Swanson	0	0		10.03	9	0	1	0	0	0	11.7	21	13	13	1	8	1	5	0	0	1	63
Howie Pollet	0	4	.000	3.09	19	0	8	0	0	3	23.3	18	10	8	3	8	1	10	0	0	1	96
Dick Hall	0	7	.000	4.76	19	9	5	1	0	1	62.3	64	36	33	8	21	3	27	0	0	0	267
Totals	66	88	.429	3.74	423	157	120	37	6	24	1376.3	1406	653	572	142	469	72	662	20	1	37	5891

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
Bill Virdon	133	547	509	67	170	21	10	8	37	6	6	33	63	.334	.374	.462	.836	235	12	1	2	2	7
Roberto Clemente	147	572	543	66	169	30	7	7	60	6	6	13	58	.311	.330	.431	.761	234	14	4	8	4	2
Frank Thomas	157	637	588	69	166	24	3	25	80	0	5	36	61	.282	.326	.461	.787	271	22	5	2	6	5
Dick Groat	142	575	520	40	142	19	3	0	37	0	3	35	25	.273	.317	.321	.638	167	14	0	17	3	3
Dale Long	148	582	517	64	136	20	7	27	91	1	0	54	85	.263	.326	.485	.812	251	10	0	0	11	11
Lee Walls	143	537	474	72	130	20	11	11	54	3	5	50	83	.274	.345	.432	.777	205	11	2	9	2	0
Bill Mazeroski	81	277	255	30	62	8	1	3	14	0	0	18	24	.243	.293	.318	.611	81	4	0	4	0	1
Jack Shepard	100	290	256	24	62	11	2	7	30	1	1	25	37	.242	.309	.383	.691	98	8	0	8	1	5
Hank Foiles	79	245	222	24	47	10	2	7	25	0	1	17	56	.212	.266	.369	.635	82	5	0	4	2	4
Bob Skinner	113	262	233	29	47	8	3	5	29	1	1	26	50	.202	.282	.326	.609	76	6	1	0	2	1
Gene Freese	65	230	207	17	43	9	0	3	14	2	1	16	45	.208	.273	.295	.568	61	0	3	3	1	3
Dick Cole	72	110	99	7	21	2	1	0	9	0	0	11	9	.212	.291	.253	.543	25	5	0	0	0	0
Danny Kravitz	32	74	68	6	18	2	2	2	10	1	1	5	9	.265	.311	.441	.752	30	2	0	0	1	1
Johnny O'Brien	73	114	104	13	18	1	0	0	3	0	0	5	7	.173	.209	.183	.392	19	2	0	4	1	0
Bob Friend	49	109	97	7	16	2	0	1	8	0	0	1	19	.165	.173	.216	.390	21	1	0	11	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	63	58	53	17	14	2	0	0	3	1	1	2	2	.264	.291	.302	.593	16	0	0	3	0	0
Curt Roberts	31	68	62	6	11	5	2	0	4	1	0	5	12	.177	.239	.323	.561	20	1	0	1	0	0
Dick Hall	33	34	29	5	10	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	7	.345	.441	.345	.786	10	1	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	16	37	30	3	10	0	1	1	11	0	0	6	4	.333	.432	.500	.932	15	0	0	0	1	0
Vern Law	39	65	57	3	10	1	0	1	8	0	0	4	16	.175	.226	.246	.471	14	1	0	3	1	0
Ron Kline	44	89	79	2	10	0	0	0	3	1	0	4	26	.127	.167	.127	.293	10	0	0	5	1	0
Spook Jacobs	11	41	37	4	6	2	0	0	1	0	2	2	5	.162	.225	.216	.441	8	0	1	1	0	0
Roy Face	69	27	26	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.192	.192	.192	.385	5	0	0	1	0	0
Bobby Del Greco	14	24	20	4	4	0	0	2	3	0	0	3	3	.200	.304	.500	.804	10	1	0	1	0	0
Jerry Lynch	19	20	19	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	.158	.200	.263	.463	5	0	0	0	0	0
Red Munger	35	33	28	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	11	.107	.194	.143	.336	4	0	1	2	0	0
Luis Arroyo	18	6	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	2	0	0
Toby Atwell	12	20	18	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	5	.111	.158	.111	.269	2	2	0	1	0	0
Cholly Naranjo	17	8	7	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.143	.125	.286	.411	2	0	0	0	1	0
Fred Waters	23	20	20	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	5	.050	.050	.150	.200	3	0	0	0	0	0
John Powers	11	22	21	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.048	.091	.048	.139	1	2	0	0	0	0
Howie Pollet	19	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	1	0	0
Laurin Pepper	11	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nelson King	38	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Bill Hall	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack McMahan	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Littlefield	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Red Swanson	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Max Surkont	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Lino Donoso	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Garber	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2093	5757	5221	588	1340	199	57	110	546	24	33	383	752	.257	.307	.380	.687	1983	124	18	95	40	43

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Dale Long	1B	138	136	1195.7	1201	99	24	92	.982	9.785	9.420	0	0	0	0
Bob Skinner	1B	23	19	174.3	176	6	1	21	.995	9.396	7.913	0	0	0	0
Jack Shepard	1B	2	1	3.3	3	0	0	0	1.000	8.100	1.500	0	0	0	0
Dick Hall	1B	1	1	3.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	15.000	5.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Mazeroski	2B	81	81	671.0	163	242	8	56	.981	5.432	5.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	2B	53	28	251.7	67	98	7	17	.959	5.901	3.113	0	0	0	0
Curt Roberts	2B	27	17	154.7	39	45	1	12	.988	4.888	3.111	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	2B	26	15	137.3	31	50	0	7	1.000	5.308	3.115	0	0	0	0
Spook Jacobs	2B	11	11	90.7	26	24	4	5	.926	4.963	4.545	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	2B	12	5	58.0	14	17	0	3	1.000	4.810	2.583	0	0	0	0
Roberto Clemente	2B	2	0	6.0	1	1	1	0	.667	3.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	2B	4	0	5.7	3	0	0	0	1.000	4.765	.750	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	2B	2	0	1.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	.500	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	3B	111	105	903.3	118	176	18	21	.942	2.929	2.649	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	3B	47	35	315.0	38	65	4	2	.963	2.943	2.191	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	3B	18	7	69.0	4	14	1	2	.947	2.348	1.000	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	3B	5	5	30.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.200	0	0	0	0
Bobby Del Greco	3B	3	3	20.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.667	0	0	0	0
Dick Groat	3B	2	2	14.0	1	4	0	1	1.000	3.214	2.500	0	0	0	0
Danny Kravitz	3B	2	0	7.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	2.571	1.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	3B	4	0	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.250	0	0	0	0
Lee Walls	3B	1	0	4.0	0	1	1	0	.500	2.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Skinner	3B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Roberto Clemente	3B	1	0	2.0	0	2	1	0	.667	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Jack Shepard	C	86	71	635.7	356	36	4	4	.990	5.550	4.558	4	8	11	12	52.2
Hank Foiles	C	73	66	563.0	291	30	4	8	.988	5.131	4.397	7	12	4	11	73.3
Danny Kravitz	C	26	14	129.3	93	8	6	1	.944	7.028	3.885	5	2	2	2	50.0
Toby Atwell	C	9	6	41.3	27	2	0	0	1.000	6.315	3.222	1	2	3	0	0.0
Bill Hall	C	1	0	7.0	7	1	0	1	1.000	1.286	8.000	0	0	0	1	100.0
Roberto Clemente	OF	139	130	1166.3	274	17	13	2	.957	2.245	2.094	0	0	0	0
Bill Virdon	OF	130	126	1113.0	334	10	4	2	.989	2.782	2.646	0	0	0	0
Lee Walls	OF	133	124	1094.0	284	10	10	1	.967	2.419	2.211	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	OF	56	50	418.3	95	3	0	1	1.000	2.108	1.750	0	0	0	0
Bob Skinner	OF	36	30	230.0	40	2	1	0	.977	1.643	1.167	0	0	0	0
John Powers	OF	5	3	35.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.314	1.800	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	OF	5	4	29.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.621	.400	0	0	0	0
Bobby Del Greco	OF	7	3	28.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.893	1.286	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	OF	6	0	10.3	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.742	.333	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lynch	OF	1	1	5.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	3.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Friend	P	49	42	314.3	14	49	2	1	.969	1.804	1.286	0	0	0	0
Ron Kline	P	44	39	264.0	17	42	4	3	.937	2.011	1.341	0	0	0	0
Vern Law	P	39	32	195.7	12	31	0	3	1.000	1.978	1.103	0	0	0	0
Roy Face	P	68	3	135.3	10	25	1	2	.972	2.328	.515	0	0	0	0
Red Munger	P	35	13	107.0	4	16	2	1	.909	1.682	.571	0	0	0	0
Dick Hall	P	19	9	62.3	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.155	.421	0	0	0	0
Nelson King	P	38	0	60.0	6	5	0	0	1.000	1.650	.289	0	0	0	0
Fred Waters	P	23	5	51.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	.882	.217	0	0	0	0
Cholly Naranjo	P	17	3	34.3	8	9	0	0	1.000	4.456	1.000	0	0	0	0
Laurin Pepper	P	11	7	30.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.200	.364	0	0	0	0
Luis Arroyo	P	18	2	28.7	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.884	.333	0	0	0	0
Howie Pollet	P	19	0	23.3	3	4	0	0	1.000	2.700	.368	0	0	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	P	8	0	19.0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Jack McMahan	P	11	0	13.3	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.700	.364	0	0	0	0
Dick Littlefield	P	6	2	12.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	.711	.167	0	0	0	0
Red Swanson	P	9	0	11.7	1	5	0	0	1.000	4.629	.667	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	P	2	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500	0	0	0	0
Bob Garber	P	2	0	4.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Max Surkont	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Lino Donoso	P	3	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	.333	0	0	0	0
Dick Groat	SS	141	136	1205.0	287	420	34	74	.954	5.280	5.014	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	SS	23	17	147.3	35	53	2	14	.978	5.376	3.826	0	0	0	0
Dick Cole	SS	6	4	23.0	2	7	1	4	.900	3.522	1.500	0	0	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	SS	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1884	1413	12383.0	4129	1663	162	362	.973	4.210	3.074	17	24	20	26	56.5

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