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MLN 1956 Summary

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Batters

Player GS PA Bat Runs Baserunning Fielding WAM WAR VS
Hank Aaron 9.6 660 41 -1 17 5.1 7.1 30
Joe Adcock 7.2 501 30 2 3 3.9 5.4 22
Toby Atwell 0.6 34 -1 0 2 0.1 0.2 1
Bill Bruton 9.0 578 -2 5 12 2.1 4.0 20
Bob Buhl 1.0 80 -13 0 0 -0.3 -0.1 1
Lew Burdette 1.3 102 -9 -1 0 0.3 0.6 3
Gene Conley 0.7 54 -6 0 0 0.0 0.1 1
Wes Covington 2.2 157 0 -1 0 0.0 0.5 3
Del Crandall 6.6 357 2 -2 8 1.7 3.1 15
Ray Crone 0.8 62 -6 0 0 0.2 0.4 2
Jack Dittmer 1.9 112 -4 -1 0 -0.3 0.1 2
Earl Hersh 0.2 13 0 0 -2 -0.3 -0.3 -1
Ernie Johnson 0.1 5 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Dave Jolly 0.1 6 -1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Johnny Logan 10.8 631 11 1 5 2.1 4.3 22
Felix Mantilla 0.9 55 -2 0 3 0.1 0.3 2
Eddie Mathews 10.2 651 33 2 -7 3.6 5.7 26
Red Murff 0.1 5 -1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Chet Nichols 0.0 1 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Danny O'Connell 9.8 598 -5 1 2 0.5 2.5 16
Andy Pafko 1.5 105 0 0 1 0.0 0.3 2
Jim Pendleton 0.2 12 -3 0 0 -0.3 -0.3 -1
Taylor Phillips 0.3 25 -6 0 0 -0.3 -0.2 0
Del Rice 3.9 208 -9 -2 -1 -0.9 -0.1 3
Bob Roselli 0.0 2 1 0 0 0.1 0.1 0
Lou Sleater 0.1 11 1 0 0 0.1 0.1 1
Warren Spahn 1.4 111 -7 0 0 0.6 0.9 4
Chuck Tanner 1.0 73 -1 -3 -4 -0.9 -0.7 -1
Bobby Thomson 7.5 505 -3 1 7 0.7 2.2 13
Frank Torre 2.5 175 -7 0 1 -0.5 0.0 2
Bob Trowbridge 0.1 9 -2 -1 0 -0.2 -0.2 0
Total 91.6 5,898 31 0 47 17.2 36.0 188

Pitchers

Pitcher Game Shares W L WAR VS
Warren Spahn 12.8 9.5 3.3 5.7 28
Lew Burdette 11.6 8.0 3.6 4.6 24
Taylor Phillips 3.8 2.8 1.0 1.7 8
Bob Buhl 9.7 4.4 5.4 1.5 13
Gene Conley 7.5 3.7 3.9 1.5 11
Bob Trowbridge 2.3 1.8 0.6 1.1 5
Ernie Johnson 2.4 1.1 1.3 0.4 3
Lou Sleater 2.4 1.1 1.3 0.4 3
Humberto Robinson 0.0 0.1 -0.1 0.1 0
Chet Nichols 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0
Ray Crone 7.6 2.2 5.4 0.0 7
Red Murff 0.8 0.1 0.7 -0.1 0
Dave Jolly 2.3 0.6 1.8 -0.1 2
Phil Paine 0.0 -0.1 0.1 -0.1 0
Total 63.4 35.4 28.4 16.8 104
Glossary
GSGame Shares
WAMWins above Majors. Formerly wins above average, but WAM! sounds better than WAA. Credit to Don Sobocinski for the name.
WARWins above Replacement
VSVictory Shares
WWins - Not traditional pitcher wins. Estimate of the number of wins each pitcher was responsible for. His share, as opposed to the shares of his fielders and offense.
LLosses - See wins above, just the opposite side of the final score.

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