1959 Kansas City Athletics season explained

Kansas City Athletics
Season:	1959
League:	American League
Ballpark:	Municipal Stadium
City:	Kansas City, Missouri
Owners:	Arnold Johnson
General Managers:	Parke Carroll
Managers:	Harry Craft
Television:	WDAF-TV
Radio:	WDAF (Merle Harmon, Bill Grigsby)

The 1959 Kansas City Athletics season was the fifth for the franchise in Kansas City, and its 59th overall. It involved the A's finishing seventh in the American League with a record of 66 wins and 88 losses, 28 games behind the AL Champion Chicago White Sox.

Offseason

October 2, 1958: Chico Carrasquel was traded by the Athletics to the Baltimore Orioles for Dick Williams.^[1]

Regular season

Notable transactions

May 2, 1959: Harry Simpson was traded by the Athletics to the Chicago White Sox for Ray Boone.^[2]
May 26, 1959: Ralph Terry and Héctor López were traded by the Athletics to the New York Yankees for Johnny Kucks, Tom Sturdivant, and Jerry Lumpe.^[3]
August 20, 1959: Ray Boone was selected off waivers from the Athletics by the Milwaukee Braves.^[2]
August 20, 1959: Ray Jablonski was selected off waivers by the Athletics from the St. Louis Cardinals.^[4]

Roster

1959 Kansas City Athletics
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		OutfieldersOther batters		ManagerCoaches

Player stats

= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

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

Avg.	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	98	347	32	82	.236	1	30
1B	113	288	40	73	.253	10	39
2B	108	403	47	98	.243	3	28
3B	130	488	72	130	.266	16	75
SS	118	352	31	86	.244	6	34
LF	125	463	61	132	.285	20	87
CF	126	463	74	139	.300	7	43
RF	122	433	69	118	.273	16	72

^[5]

Other batters

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

G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
108	292	36	84	.288	5	31
73	243	41	76	.313	3	21
74	180	27	48	.267	2	18
55	162	20	44	.272	5	25
35	135	22	38	.281	6	24
61	132	19	36	.273	2	12
38	123	25	36	.293	1	9
58	109	8	27	.248	2	19
47	82	10	17	.207	1	9
17	66	10	18	.273	4	13
25	65	4	17	.262	2	8
20	21	2	4	.190	0	3
8	14	1	4	.286	1	2
14	7	1	1	.143	0	1
1	1	0	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
39	216.1	16	13	3.16	125
32	201.0	10	13	3.71	61
37	183.2	11	11	4.85	99
33	151.1	8	11	3.87	51
9	46.1	2	4	5.24	35
2	11.0	1	1	4.09	8

Other pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
40	125.1	6	10	4.09	65
24	83.1	4	3	4.97	50
29	81.0	2	10	4.56	54
6	20.2	0	3	7.40	11
6	11.1	0	1	7.94	9

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
36	2	6	5	4.65	57
38	2	1	0	4.94	36
18	1	0	1	4.50	10
17	1	0	1	7.08	9
16	0	1	2	6.53	13
4	0	0	1	0.00	1
4	0	0	0	4.76	1
3	0	0	0	9.82	1
2	0	0	0	11.57	7

Awards and honors

All-Star Game
- Roger Maris appeared in his first All-Star Game^[6]

Farm system

External links

Notes and References

https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/carrach01.shtml Chico Carrasquel page at Baseball Reference
https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boonera01.shtml Ray Boone page at Baseball Reference
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19590526&id=_zoyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7uQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3073,4227926&hl=en K.C. A's trade two to Yankees
https://www.baseball-reference.com/j/jablora01.shtml Ray Jablonski page at Baseball Reference
Web site: 1959 Kansas City Athletics Statistics.
Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero, p. 113, Tom Clavin and Danny Peary, Touchstone Books, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010,
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007