1958 Kansas City Athletics season explained

The 1958 Kansas City Athletics season was the team's fourth in Kansas City and the 58th in the American League. The season involved the A's finishing seventh in the American League with a record of 73 wins and 81 losses, 19 games behind the World Champion New York Yankees.

Offseason

November 20, 1957: Billy Martin, Mickey McDermott, Tom Morgan, Lou Skizas, Tim Thompson, and Gus Zernial were traded by the Athletics to the Detroit Tigers for Bill Tuttle, Jim Small, Duke Maas, John Tsitouris, Frank House, and Kent Hadley, and a player to be named later. The Tigers completed the deal by sending Jim McManus to the Athletics on April 3, 1958.^[1]
December 2, 1957: Harry Chiti was drafted by the Athletics from the New York Yankees in the 1957 rule 5 draft.^[2]
December 2, 1957: Ramón Conde was drafted by the Athletics from the San Francisco Giants in the 1957 minor league draft.^[3]

April 15, 1958: Ramón Conde was acquired from the Athletics by the Philadelphia Phillies.^[3]
May 14, 1958: Whitey Herzog was purchased by the Athletics from the Washington Senators.^[4]
June 12, 1958: Billy Hunter was traded by the Athletics to the Cleveland Indians for Chico Carrasquel.^[5]
June 15, 1958: Woodie Held and Vic Power were traded by the Athletics to the Cleveland Indians for Roger Maris, Dick Tomanek and Preston Ward.^[6]

1958 Kansas City Athletics
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		Outfielders		ManagerCoaches

= Indicates team leader

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	103	295	79	.268	9	44
1B	52	205	62	.302	4	27
2B	151	564	147	.261	17	73
SS	139	442	97	.219	6	38
3B	99	315	86	.273	5	46
LF	141	515	157	.305	38	104
CF	148	511	118	.231	11	51
RF	99	401	99	.247	19	53

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Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
81	268	68	.254	6	24
73	231	49	.212	0	8
95	226	59	.261	2	23
78	212	56	.264	7	27
76	202	51	.252	4	24
59	160	34	.213	2	13
47	131	28	.214	4	16
88	96	23	.240	0	9
22	58	9	.155	2	11
3	11	2	.182	0	0
2	10	2	.200	1	1
9	6	0	.000	0	0
2	4	0	.000	0	0
5	1	0	.000	0	0

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
40	216.2	11	13	4.24	134
31	201.0	12	11	4.03	72
30	132.0	8	11	5.93	54
7	33.2	0	2	5.88	22
1	3.0	0	0	3.00	1

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
42	175.0	8	8	3.50	108
26	113.2	7	6	3.56	54
27	99.0	9	5	3.27	46
26	70.2	3	2	3.31	39
10	55.1	4	5	3.90	19
8	31.0	0	4	7.84	22
12	28.1	1	1	3.49	11
3	10.1	1	0	0.87	5

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
50	4	4	8	3.51	44
36	5	5	5	3.61	50
23	0	3	0	5.89	22
16	0	1	2	2.05	15
2	0	0	0	9.82	1
2	0	0	0	27.00	1
1	0	0	0	4.50	0

https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/martibi02.shtml Billy Martin page at Baseball Reference
https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/chitiha01.shtml Harry Chiti page at Baseball Reference
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/condera01.shtml Ramón Conde page at Baseball Reference
https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/herzowh01.shtml Whitey Herzog page at Baseball Reference
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19580613&id=NOJYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=THYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6266,1085942&hl=en Hunter goes to Indians for Chico
https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/marisro01.shtml Roger Maris page at Baseball Reference
Web site: 1958 Kansas City Athletics Statistics.
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007