1956 Kansas City Athletics

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Season Record: 52-102
Attendance: 1,015,154
1956 AL Final Standings

Team Batting Statistics
PlayerGABRH2B3BHRRBISBCSBBSOAvgOBPSLGOPS
Lopez, Hector 151 561 91 153 27 3 18 69 4 5 63 73 .273 .347 .428 .775
Simpson, Harry 141 543 76 159 22 11 21 105 2 3 47 82 .293 .347 .490 .837
Power, Vic 127 530 77 164 21 5 14 63 2 2 24 16 .309 .340 .447 .787
DeMaestri, Joe 133 434 41 101 16 1 6 39 3 3 25 73 .233 .277 .316 .593
Skizas, Lou 83 297 39 94 11 3 11 39 3 1 15 17 .316 .346 .485 .831
Zernial, Gus 109 272 36 61 12 0 16 44 2 0 33 66 .224 .315 .445 .760
Thompson, Tim 92 268 21 73 13 2 1 27 2 4 17 23 .272 .319 .347 .666
Finigan, Jim 91 250 29 54 7 2 2 21 3 1 30 28 .216 .298 .284 .582
Groth, Johnny 95 244 22 63 13 3 5 37 1 2 30 31 .258 .335 .398 .732
Pilarcik, Al 69 239 28 60 10 1 4 22 9 2 30 32 .251 .333 .351 .685
Slaughter, Enos 91 223 37 62 14 3 2 23 1 0 29 20 .278 .362 .395 .757
Ginsberg, Joe 71 195 15 48 8 1 1 12 1 1 23 17 .246 .323 .313 .636
Robinson, Eddie 75 172 13 34 5 1 2 12 0 0 26 20 .198 .308 .273 .582
Smith, Hal 37 142 15 39 9 2 2 24 1 1 3 12 .275 .284 .408 .692
Boyer, Clete 67 129 15 28 3 1 1 4 1 1 11 24 .217 .284 .279 .563
Baxes, Mike 73 106 9 24 3 1 1 5 0 1 18 15 .226 .339 .302 .641
Jacobs, Spook 32 97 13 21 3 0 0 5 4 1 15 5 .216 .321 .247 .569
Ditmar, Art 44 91 5 13 0 0 1 4 0 1 3 24 .143 .170 .176 .346
Pless, Rance 48 85 4 23 3 1 0 9 0 1 10 13 .271 .354 .329 .684
Renna, Bill 33 48 12 13 3 0 2 5 1 0 3 10 .271 .314 .458 .772
Gorman, Tom 52 39 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 22 .051 .140 .051 .191
Burnette, Wally 18 39 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 .051 .075 .051 .126
Kretlow, Lou 25 33 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 19 .061 .162 .061 .223
Pisoni, Jim 10 30 4 8 0 0 2 5 0 0 2 8 .267 .303 .467 .770
Kellner, Alex 21 30 2 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 10 .200 .273 .200 .473
Herriage, Troy 34 25 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 17 .120 .185 .120 .305
Crimian, Jack 55 22 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 .227 .320 .227 .547
Shantz, Bobby 51 22 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 4 .091 .167 .136 .303
McMahan, Jack 23 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 .000 .000 .000 .000
Lasorda, Tom 19 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .077 .077 .077 .154
Astroth, Joe 8 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .077 .077 .077 .154
Valo, Elmer 9 9 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 .222 .273 .222 .495
Burtschy, Moe 21 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 .125 .125 .125 .250
Cox, Glenn 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .000 .000 .000 .000
Harrington, Bill 23 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .125 .000 .125
Santiago, Jose 9 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .400 .400 .400 .800
Ceccarelli, Art 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 .000 .250 .000 .250
Melton, Dave 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667
Duser, Carl 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000
Craddock, Walt 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Brunet, George 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000
Portocarrero, Arnie 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000

Team Pitching Statistics
PlayerWLGGSCGSHOSVIPHRERERAWHIPHRBBSO
Ditmar, Art 12 22 44 34 14 2 1 254.1 254 141 125 4.42 1.42 30 108 126
Gorman, Tom 9 10 52 13 1 0 3 171.1 168 83 73 3.83 1.38 23 68 56
Crimian, Jack 4 8 54 7 0 0 3 129.0 129 87 79 5.51 1.38 19 49 59
Burnette, Wally 6 8 18 14 4 1 0 121.1 115 48 39 2.89 1.27 13 39 54
Kretlow, Lou 4 9 25 20 3 0 0 118.2 121 75 70 5.31 1.64 17 74 61
Herriage, Troy 1 13 31 16 1 0 0 103.0 135 83 76 6.64 1.93 16 64 59
Shantz, Bobby 2 7 45 2 1 0 9 101.1 95 51 49 4.35 1.30 12 37 67
Kellner, Alex 7 4 20 17 5 0 0 91.2 103 49 44 4.32 1.48 15 33 44
McMahan, Jack 0 5 23 9 0 0 0 61.2 69 40 33 4.82 1.62 7 31 13
Lasorda, Tom 0 4 18 5 0 0 1 45.1 40 38 31 6.15 1.88 6 45 28
Burtschy, Moe 3 1 21 0 0 0 0 43.1 41 22 19 3.95 1.64 6 30 18
Harrington, Bill 2 2 23 1 0 0 1 37.2 40 27 27 6.45 1.75 3 26 14
Cox, Glenn 0 2 3 3 1 0 0 23.1 15 11 11 4.24 1.59 2 22 6
Santiago, Jose 1 2 9 5 0 0 0 21.2 36 26 20 8.31 2.45 8 17 9
Ceccarelli, Art 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 10.0 13 13 8 7.20 1.70 3 4 2
Craddock, Walt 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 9.1 9 7 7 6.75 2.04 1 10 8
Brunet, George 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 9.0 10 8 7 7.00 2.33 1 11 5
Portocarrero, Arnie 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 8.0 9 9 9 10.13 2.00 2 7 2
Duser, Carl 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 6.0 14 6 6 9.00 2.67 0 2 5
Spicer, Bob 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2.1 6 5 5 19.29 3.00 1 1 0
Bradford, Bill 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 2 2 2 9.00 1.50 2 1 0