1957 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 87-67
Finished 2nd in the NL
Attendance: 1,183,575, Avg. 17,400
Ballpark: Sportsman's Park IV
Manager: Fred Hutchinson (87-67)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1957 St. Louis Cardinals Roster
1957 St. Louis Cardinals Results

The St. Louis Cardinals of the National League ended the 1957 season with a record of 87 wins and 67 losses, finishing second in the NL.

The Cardinals plated 737 runs and yielded 666 runs. Stan Musial paced St. Louis with 29 home runs, while Wally Moon, Ken Boyer and Del Ennis each walloped 20 or more also. Del Ennis recorded 105 runs batted in. Stan Musial led hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .351 clip. Larry Jackson and Lindy McDaniel topped the team with 15 wins each, and Larry Jackson recorded a 3.47 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Fred Hutchinson 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	WP	BF
Larry Jackson	15	9	.625	3.47	41	22	11	6	2	1	210.3	196	84	81	21	57	8	96	4	4	861
Lindy McDaniel	15	9	.625	3.49	30	26	1	10	1	0	191.0	196	87	74	13	53	4	75	3	9	804
Sam Jones	12	9	.571	3.60	28	27	1	10	2	0	182.7	164	77	73	17	71	1	154	6	3	767
Willard Schmidt	10	3	.769	4.78	40	8	8	1	0	0	116.7	146	67	62	13	49	6	63	2	7	527
Herm Wehmeier	10	7	.588	4.31	36	18	5	5	0	0	165.0	165	91	79	25	54	7	91	2	4	716
Vinegar Bend Mizell	8	10	.444	3.74	33	21	2	7	2	0	149.3	136	69	62	18	51	4	87	1	1	627
Von McDaniel	7	5	.583	3.22	17	13	2	4	2	0	86.7	71	37	31	7	31	3	45	1	4	356
Murry Dickson	5	3	.625	4.14	14	13	0	3	1	0	74.0	87	41	34	8	25	0	29	1	3	326
Billy Muffett	3	2	.600	2.25	23	0	16	0	0	8	44.0	35	11	11	1	13	4	21	0	1	174
Lloyd Merritt	1	2	.333	3.31	44	0	18	0	0	7	65.3	60	29	24	7	28	5	35	4	0	280
Hoyt Wilhelm	1	4	.200	4.25	40	0	30	0	0	11	55.0	52	28	26	7	21	1	29	3	0	231
Morrie Martin	0	0		2.53	4	1	1	0	0	0	10.7	5	3	3	0	4	0	7	1	0	41
Bob Kuzava	0	0		3.86	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	4	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	13
Bob Smith	0	0		4.66	6	0	3	0	0	1	9.7	12	10	5	0	6	1	11	1	0	53
Bob Miller	0	0		7.00	5	0	4	0	0	0	9.0	13	9	7	2	5	0	7	0	1	46
Lynn Lovenguth	0	1	.000	2.00	2	1	0	0	0	0	9.0	6	3	2	0	6	0	6	0	0	39
Frank Barnes	0	1	.000	4.50	3	1	0	0	0	0	10.0	13	5	5	0	9	1	5	0	3	50
Tom Cheney	0	1	.000	5.00	4	3	0	0	0	0	9.0	6	6	5	0	15	0	10	0	0	44
Jim Davis	0	1	.000	5.27	10	0	4	0	0	1	13.7	18	8	8	1	6	0	5	0	0	61
Totals	87	67	.565	3.78	383	154	108	46	10	29	1413.3	1385	666	593	140	506	45	778	29	40	6016

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
Stan Musial	134	579	502	82	176	38	3	29	102	1	1	66	34	.351	.422	.612	1.034	307	13	2	1	8	19
Don Blasingame	154	728	650	108	176	25	7	8	58	21	9	71	49	.271	.343	.368	.711	239	4	1	5	1	4
Al Dark	140	625	583	80	169	25	8	4	64	3	4	29	56	.290	.326	.381	.707	222	7	4	5	4	4
Wally Moon	142	586	516	86	152	28	5	24	73	5	6	62	57	.295	.367	.508	.875	262	14	1	0	7	12
Ken Boyer	142	598	544	79	144	18	3	19	62	12	8	44	77	.265	.318	.414	.732	225	11	1	4	5	8
Del Ennis	136	537	490	61	140	24	3	24	105	1	3	37	50	.286	.332	.494	.826	242	22	1	1	8	3
Eddie Kasko	134	519	479	59	131	16	5	1	35	6	1	33	53	.273	.319	.334	.653	160	7	0	5	2	7
Hal Smith	100	355	333	25	93	12	3	2	37	2	2	18	18	.279	.314	.351	.665	117	9	0	1	3	2
Joe Cunningham	122	329	261	50	83	15	0	9	52	3	3	56	29	.318	.439	.479	.918	125	3	5	1	6	6
Hobie Landrith	75	243	214	18	52	6	0	3	26	1	2	25	27	.243	.318	.313	.631	67	4	0	1	3	1
Bobby Smith	93	201	185	24	39	7	1	3	18	1	1	13	35	.211	.260	.308	.568	57	5	0	1	2	3
Walker Cooper	48	85	78	7	21	5	1	3	10	0	0	5	10	.269	.310	.474	.784	37	6	0	1	1	1
Lindy McDaniel	31	77	74	7	19	5	0	1	5	0	0	0	24	.257	.257	.365	.622	27	2	0	3	0	0
Larry Jackson	41	79	72	5	13	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	20	.181	.224	.194	.418	14	1	0	3	0	0
Herm Wehmeier	40	60	59	9	12	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	14	.203	.200	.237	.437	14	0	0	0	1	0
Irv Noren	17	35	30	3	11	4	1	1	10	0	1	4	6	.367	.429	.667	1.095	20	1	0	0	1	2
Jim King	22	39	35	1	11	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	2	.314	.385	.314	.699	11	0	0	0	0	2
Sam Jones	28	70	63	2	10	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	25	.159	.182	.175	.356	11	0	1	4	1	0
Dick Schofield	65	64	56	10	9	0	0	0	1	1	3	7	13	.161	.254	.161	.415	9	2	0	1	0	0
Eddie Miksis	49	45	38	3	8	0	0	1	2	0	0	7	7	.211	.333	.289	.623	11	2	0	0	0	1
Willard Schmidt	40	38	33	3	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	8	.212	.235	.212	.447	7	0	1	4	0	0
Murry Dickson	14	28	27	4	6	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	6	.222	.250	.259	.509	7	1	1	0	0	0
Tom Alston	9	18	17	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	.294	.333	.353	.686	6	0	0	0	0	0
Vinegar Bend Mizell	33	49	45	1	4	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	17	.089	.146	.133	.279	6	1	0	1	0	0
Gene Green	6	16	15	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.200	.188	.267	.454	4	1	0	0	1	0
Don Lassetter	4	14	13	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.154	.214	.308	.522	4	2	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	9	3	3	2	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	1.000	1.333	3	0	0	0	0	0
Lloyd Merritt	44	9	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.222	.000	.222	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Barnes	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Cheney	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Davis	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Smith	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hoyt Wilhelm	40	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lynn Lovenguth	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Muffett	23	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Morrie Martin	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Von McDaniel	17	27	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Miller	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Kuzava	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1993	6082	5472	737	1497	235	43	132	685	58	44	493	672	.274	.333	.405	.737	2214	118	18	45	54	75

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Stan Musial	1B	130	129	1110.3	1167	99	10	131	.992	1.262	9.738	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	1B	57	22	270.0	279	17	0	17	1.000	9.867	5.193	0	0	0	0
Tom Alston	1B	6	3	33.0	35	1	2	4	.947	9.818	6.000	0	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	2B	154	154	1410.3	372	512	14	128	.984	5.641	5.740	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	2B	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	3B	120	117	1056.7	100	224	13	21	.961	2.760	2.700	0	0	0	0
Ken Boyer	3B	41	36	348.7	41	93	13	7	.912	3.459	3.268	0	0	0	0
Al Dark	3B	1	1	8.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0	0
Hal Smith	C	97	86	795.0	468	42	5	8	.990	5.774	5.258	17	21	28	15	34.9
Hobie Landrith	C	67	56	516.7	339	29	5	3	.987	6.410	5.493	4	15	16	14	46.7
Walker Cooper	C	13	12	101.7	62	5	3	0	.957	5.931	5.154	1	4	2	1	33.3
Wally Moon	OF	133	132	1210.7	245	8	9	1	.966	1.881	1.902	0	0	0	0
Del Ennis	OF	127	122	1068.3	180	3	11	0	.943	1.542	1.441	0	0	0	0
Ken Boyer	OF	105	102	885.7	275	2	1	1	.996	2.815	2.638	0	0	0	0
Bobby Smith	OF	79	45	477.7	138	6	4	4	.973	2.713	1.823	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	OF	46	42	344.0	81	1	3	0	.965	2.145	1.783	0	0	0	0
Eddie Miksis	OF	31	4	84.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	1.393	.419	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	OF	8	5	50.7	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.066	.750	0	0	0	0
Jim King	OF	8	4	49.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.875	0	0	0	0
Don Lassetter	OF	3	3	27.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	3.000	0	0	0	0
Gene Green	OF	3	3	27.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667	.667	0	0	0	0
Chuck Harmon	OF	8	0	16.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500	0	0	0	0
Larry Jackson	P	41	22	210.3	18	53	0	3	1.000	3.038	1.732	0	0	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	P	30	26	191.0	12	33	1	3	.978	2.120	1.500	0	0	0	0
Sam Jones	P	28	27	182.7	13	27	1	1	.976	1.971	1.429	0	0	0	0
Herm Wehmeier	P	36	18	165.0	18	24	1	0	.977	2.291	1.167	0	0	0	0
Vinegar Bend Mizell	P	33	21	149.3	8	29	0	3	1.000	2.230	1.121	0	0	0	0
Willard Schmidt	P	40	8	116.7	8	22	1	1	.968	2.314	.750	0	0	0	0
Von McDaniel	P	17	13	86.7	3	9	0	3	1.000	1.246	.706	0	0	0	0
Murry Dickson	P	14	13	74.3	11	20	1	0	.969	3.753	2.214	0	0	0	0
Lloyd Merritt	P	44	0	65.3	3	13	2	0	.889	2.204	.364	0	0	0	0
Hoyt Wilhelm	P	40	0	55.0	3	8	0	0	1.000	1.800	.275	0	0	0	0
Billy Muffett	P	23	0	43.7	2	4	1	1	.857	1.237	.261	0	0	0	0
Jim Davis	P	10	0	13.7	0	3	0	1	1.000	1.976	.300	0	0	0	0
Morrie Martin	P	4	1	10.7	1	3	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.000	0	0	0	0
Frank Barnes	P	3	1	10.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Smith	P	6	0	9.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.862	.333	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	5	0	9.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	.600	0	0	0	0
Lynn Lovenguth	P	2	1	9.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Tom Cheney	P	4	3	9.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	3.000	.750	0	0	0	0
Bob Kuzava	P	3	0	2.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.333	0	0	0	0
Al Dark	SS	139	134	1203.7	276	419	25	105	.965	5.197	5.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Schofield	SS	23	11	125.3	21	34	3	8	.948	3.949	2.391	0	0	0	0
Eddie Kasko	SS	13	9	84.3	18	24	2	5	.955	4.482	3.231	0	0	0	0
Totals		1796	1386	12720.0	4240	1776	131	460	.979	4.257	3.350	22	40	46	30	39.5

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