1957 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 62-92
Finished 7th in the NL
Attendance: 850,732, Avg. 13,088
Ballpark: Forbes Field
Manager: Bobby Bragan (36-67)
Manager: Danny Murtaugh (26-25)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1957 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1957 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1957 season with a record of 62 wins and 92 losses, finishing seventh in the NL.

The Pirates plated 586 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 696 runs. Frank Thomas paced Pittsburgh with 23 home runs and drove in 89 runs. Dick Groat led all regular batters by connecting at a .315 clip. Bob Friend topped the team with 14 wins, while Vern Law earned a 2.87 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bobby Bragan and Danny Murtaugh 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	14	18	.438	3.38	40	38	1	17	3	0	277.0	273	121	104	28	68	8	143	1	1	3	1148
Bob Purkey	11	14	.440	3.86	48	21	11	6	1	2	179.7	194	84	77	10	38	9	51	7	0	2	761
Vern Law	10	8	.556	2.87	31	25	5	9	3	1	172.7	172	72	55	18	32	8	55	2	0	2	716
Ron Kline	9	16	.360	4.04	40	31	2	11	2	0	205.0	214	107	92	28	61	6	88	1	0	2	871
Roy Face	4	6	.400	3.07	59	1	32	0	0	10	93.7	97	41	32	9	24	5	53	1	0	2	395
Whammy Douglas	3	3	.500	3.26	11	8	1	0	0	0	47.0	48	23	17	5	30	2	28	3	0	0	213
Red Swanson	3	3	.500	3.72	32	8	8	1	0	0	72.7	68	35	30	9	31	3	29	1	0	1	309
Luis Arroyo	3	11	.214	4.68	54	10	15	0	0	1	130.7	151	76	68	19	31	9	101	7	0	6	585
Nelson King	2	1	.667	4.50	36	0	19	0	0	1	52.0	69	27	26	7	16	6	23	2	0	1	229
Bob Smith	2	4	.333	3.11	20	4	4	2	0	0	55.0	48	22	19	2	25	3	35	1	0	2	237
Eddie O'Brien	1	0	1.000	2.19	3	1	0	1	0	0	12.3	11	3	3	2	3	0	10	0	0	0	51
Chuck Churn	0	0		4.32	5	0	3	0	0	0	8.3	9	4	4	1	4	1	4	0	0	1	34
Bob Kuzava	0	0		9.00	4	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	12
Dick Hall	0	0		10.80	8	0	0	0	0	0	10.0	17	12	12	4	5	1	7	1	0	0	53
Bennie Daniels	0	1	.000	1.29	1	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	5	2	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	28
Laurin Pepper	0	1	.000	8.00	5	1	1	0	0	0	9.0	11	8	8	1	5	2	4	0	0	0	43
Red Witt	0	1	.000	40.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.3	4	6	6	1	5	0	1	0	0	0	13
Joe Trimble	0	2	.000	8.24	5	4	0	0	0	0	19.7	23	19	18	7	13	1	9	1	0	2	95
Johnny O'Brien	0	3	.000	6.08	16	1	5	0	0	0	40.0	46	32	27	7	24	2	19	1	0	2	188
Totals	62	92	.403	3.88	419	155	108	47	9	15	1395.0	1463	696	601	158	421	66	663	29	1	26	5981

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
Frank Thomas	151	658	594	72	172	30	1	23	89	3	1	44	66	.290	.335	.460	.795	273	16	3	5	12	9
Dick Groat	125	551	501	58	158	30	5	7	54	0	1	27	28	.315	.350	.437	.787	219	16	3	14	6	1
Bill Mazeroski	148	568	526	59	149	27	7	8	54	3	3	27	49	.283	.318	.407	.725	214	6	1	11	3	2
Bill Virdon	144	605	561	59	141	28	11	8	50	3	3	33	69	.251	.291	.383	.675	215	8	0	8	3	5
Bob Skinner	126	431	387	58	118	12	6	13	45	10	4	38	50	.305	.370	.468	.838	181	2	2	4	0	6
Roberto Clemente	111	475	451	42	114	17	7	4	30	0	4	23	45	.253	.288	.348	.637	157	13	0	0	1	1
Dee Fondy	95	357	323	42	101	13	2	2	35	11	5	25	59	.313	.360	.384	.744	124	5	1	4	4	0
Gene Freese	114	372	346	44	98	18	2	6	31	9	4	17	42	.283	.319	.399	.718	138	4	2	5	2	0
Gene Baker	111	407	365	36	97	19	4	2	36	3	2	29	29	.266	.318	.356	.674	130	8	1	8	4	5
Hank Foiles	109	322	281	32	76	10	4	9	36	1	3	37	53	.270	.352	.431	.783	121	5	0	1	3	5
Roman Mejias	58	153	142	12	39	7	4	2	15	2	2	6	13	.275	.309	.423	.731	60	3	1	4	0	1
Paul Smith	81	167	150	12	38	4	0	3	11	0	2	12	17	.253	.313	.340	.653	51	5	1	4	0	1
Dick Rand	60	122	105	7	23	2	1	1	9	0	0	11	24	.219	.288	.286	.574	30	0	0	4	2	1
Hardy Peterson	30	85	73	10	22	2	1	2	11	0	1	9	10	.301	.378	.438	.816	32	5	0	3	0	2
Jim Pendleton	46	72	59	9	18	1	1	0	9	0	0	9	14	.305	.394	.356	.750	21	2	1	1	2	1
Bob Friend	40	100	87	5	16	2	0	0	4	0	0	6	22	.184	.234	.207	.441	18	0	0	6	1	0
Vern Law	34	69	63	3	12	1	1	0	6	0	0	1	11	.190	.215	.238	.453	15	0	1	4	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	34	39	35	7	11	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	4	.314	.368	.429	.797	15	1	2	1	0	0
John Powers	20	44	35	7	10	3	0	2	8	0	0	5	9	.286	.409	.543	.952	19	0	3	0	1	0
Danny Kravitz	19	43	41	2	6	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	10	.146	.186	.171	.357	7	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Arroyo	56	34	32	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.156	.182	.156	.338	5	1	0	1	0	0
Bob Purkey	48	52	45	3	5	0	2	0	6	0	0	3	22	.111	.180	.200	.380	9	0	1	2	1	0
Dale Long	7	27	22	0	4	1	0	0	5	0	0	4	10	.182	.296	.227	.524	5	1	0	0	1	0
Lee Walls	8	24	22	3	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	.182	.250	.227	.477	5	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Kline	40	70	66	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	24	.061	.075	.061	.135	4	2	0	3	0	0
Roy Face	59	17	16	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	2	0	0	1	0	0
Joe Trimble	5	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	1	0	0	0	0
Buddy Pritchard	23	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Smith	20	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	0	0	1	0	0
Whammy Douglas	11	16	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	.063	.063	.063	.125	1	3	0	0	0	0
Bennie Daniels	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Churn	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Red Swanson	32	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.000	.071	.000	.071	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Hall	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Hamlin	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nelson King	36	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Laurin Pepper	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Kuzava	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Red Witt	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2034	5942	5402	586	1447	231	60	92	551	46	35	374	733	.268	.315	.384	.699	2074	107	23	97	46	40

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Dee Fondy	1B	73	71	651.0	698	54	14	63	.982	1.396	1.301	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	1B	71	70	619.0	597	52	15	53	.977	9.436	9.141	0	0	0	0
Bob Skinner	1B	9	8	72.0	60	6	1	7	.985	8.250	7.333	0	0	0	0
Dale Long	1B	7	6	51.0	54	5	0	6	1.000	1.412	8.429	0	0	0	0
Paul Smith	1B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Mazeroski	2B	144	141	1238.3	308	443	17	96	.978	5.458	5.215	0	0	0	0
Gene Baker	2B	13	10	93.7	30	26	2	6	.966	5.381	4.308	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	2B	10	4	52.0	13	16	0	4	1.000	5.019	2.900	0	0	0	0
Buddy Pritchard	2B	3	0	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	.333	0	0	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	2B	2	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	3B	74	69	606.3	62	132	16	16	.924	2.880	2.622	0	0	0	0
Gene Baker	3B	60	57	513.0	61	108	8	12	.955	2.965	2.817	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	3B	31	24	232.7	27	53	7	4	.920	3.095	2.581	0	0	0	0
Dick Groat	3B	2	2	19.0	0	5	1	0	.833	2.368	2.500	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	3B	2	2	18.0	2	2	1	0	.800	2.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Skinner	3B	1	1	6.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Hank Foiles	C	109	90	788.0	436	32	9	2	.981	5.345	4.294	9	15	18	10	35.7
Dick Rand	C	57	34	320.3	172	11	5	5	.973	5.142	3.211	3	3	10	4	28.6
Hardy Peterson	C	30	25	212.7	116	14	2	3	.985	5.502	4.333	2	0	7	7	50.0
Danny Kravitz	C	15	6	74.0	45	9	0	1	1.000	6.568	3.600	0	2	5	1	16.7
Bill Virdon	OF	141	138	1242.0	403	13	6	2	.986	3.014	2.950	0	0	0	0
Roberto Clemente	OF	109	107	945.3	272	9	6	1	.979	2.675	2.578	0	0	0	0
Bob Skinner	OF	93	83	743.7	172	9	7	2	.963	2.190	1.946	0	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	OF	59	57	501.3	105	14	3	3	.975	2.136	2.017	0	0	0	0
Roman Mejias	OF	42	30	290.0	60	6	0	0	1.000	2.048	1.571	0	0	0	0
Paul Smith	OF	33	24	219.3	52	2	0	0	1.000	2.216	1.636	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	OF	9	7	67.0	10	1	1	0	.917	1.478	1.222	0	0	0	0
John Powers	OF	9	6	66.3	14	1	0	0	1.000	2.035	1.667	0	0	0	0
Gene Freese	OF	10	7	63.0	19	1	2	0	.909	2.857	2.000	0	0	0	0
Lee Walls	OF	7	6	47.0	13	1	0	0	1.000	2.681	2.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Friend	P	40	38	277.0	18	38	1	3	.982	1.819	1.400	0	0	0	0
Ron Kline	P	40	31	205.0	18	27	1	2	.978	1.976	1.125	0	0	0	0
Bob Purkey	P	48	21	179.7	13	30	3	3	.935	2.154	.896	0	0	0	0
Vern Law	P	31	25	173.7	13	23	2	2	.947	1.866	1.161	0	0	0	0
Luis Arroyo	P	54	10	130.7	4	12	1	0	.941	1.102	.296	0	0	0	0
Roy Face	P	59	1	93.7	4	9	0	0	1.000	1.249	.220	0	0	0	0
Red Swanson	P	32	8	72.7	4	8	0	1	1.000	1.486	.375	0	0	0	0
Bob Smith	P	20	4	55.0	3	5	1	0	.889	1.309	.400	0	0	0	0
Nelson King	P	36	0	52.0	6	6	0	0	1.000	2.077	.333	0	0	0	0
Whammy Douglas	P	11	8	46.0	4	6	1	0	.909	1.957	.909	0	0	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	P	16	1	40.0	2	4	1	0	.857	1.350	.375	0	0	0	0
Joe Trimble	P	5	4	19.7	1	5	1	1	.857	2.746	1.200	0	0	0	0
Eddie O'Brien	P	3	1	12.3	0	2	0	1	1.000	1.459	.667	0	0	0	0
Dick Hall	P	8	0	10.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Laurin Pepper	P	5	1	9.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	.200	0	0	0	0
Chuck Churn	P	5	0	8.3	2	4	0	1	1.000	6.480	1.200	0	0	0	0
Bennie Daniels	P	1	1	7.0	1	4	1	0	.833	6.429	5.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Kuzava	P	4	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Red Witt	P	1	1	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Groat	SS	123	122	1080.0	226	380	20	74	.968	5.050	4.927	0	0	0	0
Gene Baker	SS	28	24	227.0	38	85	10	17	.925	4.877	4.393	0	0	0	0
Johnny O'Brien	SS	8	7	57.0	11	12	3	2	.885	3.632	2.875	0	0	0	0
Buddy Pritchard	SS	10	2	29.0	11	7	1	3	.947	5.586	1.800	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ken Hamlin	SS	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1816	1395	12554.0	4185	1695	170	396	.972	4.215	3.238	14	20	40	22	35.5

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