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PIT 1956 Summary

Show Reconciled WAR/VS

Batters

Player GS PA Bat Runs Baserunning Fielding WAM WAR VS
Luis Arroyo 0.1 6 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0
Toby Atwell 0.4 20 -3 0 -1 -0.3 -0.2 0
Roberto Clemente 8.7 572 3 0 7 0.8 2.6 15
Dick Cole 1.7 110 -7 -1 -3 -0.9 -0.5 0
Bobby Del Greco 0.4 24 0 1 0 0.1 0.2 1
Roy Face 0.4 27 -3 0 0 0.0 0.1 1
Hank Foiles 4.6 245 -10 -1 3 -0.3 0.7 6
Gene Freese 3.8 230 -13 -1 0 -1.3 -0.5 2
Bob Friend 1.4 109 -13 -2 0 -0.2 0.1 2
Dick Groat 10.2 575 -17 -3 -1 -1.4 0.7 11
Bill Hall 0.1 3 -1 0 0 -0.1 -0.1 0
Dick Hall 0.4 33 1 -1 0 0.1 0.2 1
Spook Jacobs 0.7 41 -4 0 -2 -0.6 -0.5 -1
Nellie King 0.1 9 -2 0 0 -0.1 -0.1 0
Ron Kline 1.2 89 -13 -1 0 -0.6 -0.4 0
Danny Kravitz 1.3 74 0 0 -2 -0.1 0.2 2
Vern Law 0.9 65 -6 0 0 0.5 0.7 3
Dick Littlefield 0.0 2 -1 0 0 -0.1 -0.1 0
Dale Long 8.6 582 11 0 -8 -0.2 1.6 12
Jerry Lynch 0.3 20 -2 0 0 -0.2 -0.1 0
Bill Mazeroski 4.9 276 -12 1 0 -1.4 -0.4 3
Jack McMahan 0.0 1 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Red Munger 0.4 33 -4 0 0 -0.1 0.0 0
Cholly Naranjo 0.1 8 -1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Eddie O'Brien 1.1 58 -3 1 -3 -0.5 -0.3 0
Johnny O'Brien 2.0 114 -13 1 0 -1.2 -0.8 -1
Laurin Pepper 0.1 7 -1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Howie Pollet 0.0 3 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
John Powers 0.3 22 -5 0 1 -0.5 -0.4 -1
Curt Roberts 1.2 68 -4 0 0 -0.3 -0.1 1
Jack Shepard 5.4 290 -5 3 -2 -0.2 0.9 8
Bob Skinner 3.8 263 -11 -1 -4 -1.8 -1.0 0
Frank Thomas 10.1 637 8 -2 -2 0.0 2.1 15
Bill Virdon 8.7 547 17 -1 -5 0.6 2.4 15
Lee Walls 8.1 537 6 4 8 1.6 3.3 17
Preston Ward 0.6 37 3 0 -2 0.2 0.3 1
Fred Waters 0.3 20 -4 0 0 -0.2 -0.1 0
Total 92.4 5,757 -109 -3 -16 -8.6 10.6 113

Pitchers

Pitcher Game Shares W L WAR VS
Bob Friend 14.5 9.8 4.8 5.5 29
Ron Kline 12.2 8.2 4.0 4.6 25
Roy Face 7.3 4.4 3.0 2.3 13
Nellie King 2.7 1.8 1.0 1.0 5
Red Munger 4.9 2.4 2.6 0.9 7
Fred Waters 2.4 1.6 0.8 0.9 5
Vern Law 9.4 3.5 5.9 0.7 10
Howie Pollet 1.2 0.7 0.5 0.4 2
Bob Garber 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2 1
Johnny O'Brien 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.2 1
Bob Purkey 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0
Lino Donoso 0.1 0.1 -0.1 0.1 0
Max Surkont 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0
Laurin Pepper 1.3 0.4 1.0 0.0 1
Eddie O'Brien 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0
Luis Arroyo 1.4 0.4 1.0 0.0 1
Dick Hall 2.7 0.8 2.0 0.0 2
Dick Littlefield 0.7 0.1 0.5 -0.1 0
Jack McMahan 0.6 0.1 0.5 -0.1 0
Cholly Naranjo 1.7 0.2 1.4 -0.3 1
Red Swanson 0.4 -0.2 0.6 -0.3 -1
Total 64.4 35.0 29.8 16.1 102
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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