1956 Pittsburgh Pirates

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

Name	Age	W	L	Win%	SV	G	GS	GF	CG	ShO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HB	GIDP	ERA	WHIP
Bob Friend	25	17	17	.500	3	49	42	7	19	4	314.1	310	137	121	25	85	18	166	2	0	3.46	1.26
Ron Kline	24	14	18	.438	2	44	39	2	9	2	264.0	263	110	99	26	81	8	125	5	0	3.38	1.30
Vern Law	26	8	16	.333	2	39	32	6	6	0	195.2	218	110	94	24	49	10	60	6	0	4.32	1.36
Roy Face	28	12	13	.480	6	68	3	34	0	0	135.1	131	57	53	16	42	15	96	1	0	3.52	1.28
Red Munger	37	3	4	.429	2	35	13	6	0	0	107.0	126	56	48	8	41	6	45	0	0	4.04	1.56
Dick Hall	25	0	7	.000	1	19	9	5	1	0	62.1	64	36	33	8	21	3	27	0	0	4.76	1.36
Nellie King	28	4	1	.800	5	38	0	21	0	0	60.0	54	24	21	8	19	5	25	1	0	3.15	1.22
Fred Waters	29	2	2	.500	0	23	5	6	1	0	51.0	48	18	16	3	30	1	14	1	0	2.82	1.53
Cholly Naranjo	21	1	2	.333	0	17	3	7	0	0	34.1	37	22	17	7	17	1	26	1	0	4.46	1.57
Laurin Pepper	25	1	1	.500	0	11	7	2	0	0	30.0	30	17	10	1	25	1	12	0	0	3.00	1.83
Luis Arroyo	29	3	3	.500	0	18	2	4	1	0	28.2	36	17	15	5	12	1	17	0	0	4.71	1.67
Howie Pollet	35	0	4	.000	3	19	0	8	0	0	23.1	18	10	8	3	8	1	10	0	0	3.09	1.11
Johnny O'Brien	25	1	0	1.000	0	8	0	4	0	0	19.0	8	6	6	2	9	0	9	2	0	2.84	0.89
Jack McMahan	23	0	0	---	0	11	0	3	0	0	13.1	18	9	9	1	9	0	9	0	0	6.08	2.03
Dick Littlefield	30	0	0	---	0	6	2	0	0	0	12.2	14	8	6	2	6	0	10	0	0	4.26	1.58
Red Swanson	19	0	0	---	0	9	0	1	0	0	11.2	21	13	13	1	8	1	5	0	0	10.03	2.49
Bob Garber	27	0	0	---	0	2	0	1	0	0	4.0	3	1	1	1	3	1	3	0	0	2.25	1.50
Bob Purkey	26	0	0	---	0	2	0	1	0	0	4.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	2.25	0.50
Max Surkont	34	0	0	---	0	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	4.50	2.50
Eddie O'Brien	25	0	0	---	0	1	0	1	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.50
Lino Donoso	33	0	0	---	0	3	0	1	0	0	1.2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0.00	1.80
Totals		66	88	.429	24	157	157	120	37	6	1376.1	1406	653	572	142	469	72	662	20	0	3.74	1.36

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