Английская Википедия:1956 Kansas City Athletics season

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox baseball team season The 1956 Kansas City Athletics season, the team's 56th in the American League and second in Kansas City, involved the A's finishing 8th in the American League with a record of 52 wins and 102 losses, 45 games behind the World Series champion New York Yankees.

Offseason

• March 2, 1956: Tommy Lasorda was purchased by the Athletics from the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Regular season

Notable transactions

• April 16, 1956: Lee Wheat, Tom Saffell and cash were traded by the Athletics to the Brooklyn Dodgers for Tim Thompson.
• April 16, 1956: Johnny Groth was purchased by the Athletics from the Washington Senators.
• May 1956: Marion Fricano and $60,000 were traded by the Athletics to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Jack Crimian.
• June 14, 1956: Moe Burtschy, Bill Renna and cash were traded by the Athletics to the New York Yankees for Lou Skizas and Eddie Robinson.
• July 11, 1956: Tommy Lasorda was traded by the Athletics to the New York Yankees for Wally Burnette.
• August 17, 1956: Joe Ginsberg was traded by the Athletics to the Baltimore Orioles for Hal Smith.
• August 25, 1956: Enos Slaughter was selected off waivers from the Athletics by the New York Yankees.

Player stats

= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Tim Thompson	92	268	73	.272	1	27
1B	Vic Power	127	530	164	.309	14	63
2B	Jim Finigan	91	250	54	.216	2	21
SS	Joe DeMaestri	133	434	101	.233	6	39
3B	Héctor López	151	561	153	.273	18	69
LF	Gus Zernial	109	272	61	.224	16	44
CF	Al Pilarcik	69	239	60	.251	4	22
RF	Harry Simpson	141	543	159	.293	21	105

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Lou Skizas	83	297	94	.316	11	39
Johnny Groth	95	244	63	.258	5	37
Enos Slaughter	91	223	62	.278	2	23
Joe Ginsberg	71	195	48	.246	1	12
Eddie Robinson	75	172	34	.198	2	12
Hal Smith	37	142	39	.275	2	24
Clete Boyer	67	129	28	.217	1	4
Mike Baxes	73	106	24	.226	1	5
Spook Jacobs	32	97	21	.216	0	5
Rance Pless	48	85	23	.271	0	9
Bill Renna	33	48	13	.271	2	5
Jim Pisoni	10	30	8	.267	2	5
Joe Astroth	8	13	1	.077	0	0
Elmer Valo	9	9	2	.222	0	2
Dave Melton	3	3	1	.333	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Art Ditmar	44	254.1	12	22	4.42	126
Wally Burnette	18	121.1	6	8	2.89	54
Lou Kretlow	25	118.2	4	9	5.31	61
Alex Kellner	20	91.2	7	4	4.32	44
Шаблон:Sortname	3	23.1	0	2	4.24	6
Walt Craddock	2	9.1	0	2	6.75	8
Carl Duser	2	6.0	1	1	9.00	5

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Tom Gorman	52	171.1	9	10	3.83	56
Troy Herriage	31	103.0	1	13	6.64	59
Jack McMahan	23	61.2	0	5	4.82	13
Шаблон:Sortname	18	45.1	0	4	6.15	28
José Santiago	9	21.2	1	2	8.31	9
Art Ceccarelli	3	10.0	0	1	7.20	2
George Brunet	6	9.0	0	0	7.00	5
Arnie Portocarrero	3	8.0	0	1	10.13	2

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Bobby Shantz	45	2	7	9	4.35	67
Jack Crimian	54	4	8	3	5.51	59
Bill Harrington	23	2	2	1	6.45	14
Moe Burtschy	21	3	1	0	3.95	18
Bob Spicer	2	0	0	0	19.29	0
Bill Bradford	1	0	0	0	9.00	0

Farm system

Шаблон:MLB Farm System LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Seminole

External links

• 1956 Kansas City Athletics team page at Baseball Reference
• 1956 Kansas City Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com