1961 KANSAS CITY ATHLETICS

| Level: MLB

Location: Kansas City,MO
Team Record: 61-100 .379
Result: 10th in American League
Manager(s): Hank Bauer, Joe Gordon
General Manager: Frank Lane
Stadium: Municipal Stadium
Attendance: 683,817
Playoffs: Did not qualify

Kansas City Athletics affiliate history

Oldest Player: Gerry Staley (40)
Youngest Player: Lew Krausse (18)
Longest Tenure: Ray Herbert (5)
Top Hitter: Dick Howser (8)
Top Pitcher: Jim Archer (20)
Top Draft Pick:

Roster Continuity: 45.99%

American League Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct	GB
NY Yankees	109	53	.673	--
Detroit	101	61	.623	8.0
Baltimore	95	67	.586	14.0
Chi White Sox	86	76	.531	23.0
Cleveland	78	83	.484	30.5
Boston	76	86	.469	33.0
Minnesota	70	90	.437	38.0
LA Angels	70	91	.435	38.5
KC Athletics	61	100	.379	47.5
Washington	61	100	.379	47.5

BATTING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Batting Orders

Defensive Lineups

Feats

Splits Analysis

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
1	Dick Howser	ss	8	25	-	MLB	158	611	108	171	29	6	3	45	37	9	92	38	5	0	8	3	8	.280	.377	.362	739	221	719	468	106	6.1	.293
11	Jerry Lumpe	2b	32	28	-	MLB	148	569	81	167	29	9	3	54	1	0	48	39	2	0	4	4	10	.293	.348	.392	740	223	627	420	91	5.8	.309
7	Norm Siebern	1b-of	13	27	-	MLB	153	560	68	166	36	5	18	98	2	4	82	91	1	3	0	6	4	.296	.384	.475	859	266	649	408	114	7.6	.324
19	Leo Posada	of	45	25	-	MLB	116	344	37	87	10	4	7	53	0	0	36	84	4	1	4	12	8	.253	.321	.366	687	126	400	281	41	4.0	.302
8	Haywood Sullivan	c	-	30	-	MLB	117	331	42	80	16	2	6	40	1	0	46	45	0	0	1	1	9	.242	.333	.356	690	118	379	262	44	4.5	.263
2	Wayne Causey	ss-2b	76	24	-	MLB	104	312	37	86	14	1	8	49	0	0	37	28	0	0	8	4	5	.276	.348	.404	752	126	361	243	51	5.7	.279
6	Deron Johnson	1b-3b	-	22	UDFA: 1956	MLB	83	283	31	61	11	3	8	42	0	1	14	44	1	1	1	4	9	.216	.252	.360	612	102	303	237	25	2.9	.226
12	Joe Pignatano	c	-	31	-	MLB	92	243	31	59	10	3	4	22	2	2	36	42	4	2	7	2	0	.243	.347	.358	705	87	292	195	36	4.9	.276
14	Bobby Del Greco	of	-	28	-	MLB	74	239	34	55	14	1	5	21	1	0	30	31	1	2	5	1	4	.230	.317	.360	677	86	276	194	32	4.4	.245
3	Gene Stephens	of	-	28	-	MLB	62	183	22	38	6	1	4	26	3	2	16	27	2	0	2	0	2	.208	.279	.317	596	58	203	151	17	3.0	.224
21	Jay Hankins	of	-	25	-	MLB	76	173	23	32	0	3	3	6	2	0	8	17	1	0	8	0	3	.185	.225	.272	497	47	190	152	10	1.8	.190
10	Jim Rivera	of	-	38	-	MLB	64	141	20	34	8	0	2	10	6	2	24	14	0	0	0	0	3	.241	.352	.340	692	48	165	112	20	4.9	.256
3	Marv Throneberry	1b	-	27	-	MLB	40	130	17	31	2	1	6	24	0	0	19	30	0	1	1	0	4	.238	.336	.408	743	53	150	104	18	4.6	.266
1	Andy Carey	3b	-	29	-	MLB	39	123	20	30	6	2	3	11	0	0	15	23	2	0	2	0	3	.244	.336	.398	734	49	142	98	18	4.9	.278
4	Lou Klimchock	3b-2b	-	21	-	MLB	57	121	8	26	4	1	1	16	0	0	5	13	0	0	1	1	1	.215	.244	.289	533	35	128	98	9	2.5	.231
16	Reno Bertoia	3b-2b	82	26	-	MLB	39	120	12	29	2	0	0	13	1	0	9	15	0	0	4	4	6	.242	.286	.258	544	31	137	105	8	2.0	.266
9	Hank Bauer	of	-	38	-	MLB	43	106	11	28	3	1	3	18	1	0	9	8	0	0	2	1	1	.264	.319	.396	715	42	118	82	16	5.2	.260
13	Bill Tuttle	of	61	31	-	MLB	25	84	15	22	2	2	0	8	0	0	9	9	0	0	2	0	2	.262	.333	.333	667	28	95	66	10	4.3	.293
33	Joe Nuxhall	p	-	32	-	MLB	56	65	5	19	2	1	2	13	0	0	6	18	0	0	5	0	2	.292	.352	.446	798	29	76	53	10	5.0	.378
23	Jerry Walker	p	-	22	-	MLB	45	64	6	16	2	0	0	7	0	0	3	9	0	0	1	0	1	.250	.284	.281	565	18	68	50	5	2.6	.291
20	Jim Archer	p	-	29	-	MLB	39	63	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	19	0	0	6	1	0	.063	.091	.079	170	5	72	66	-4	-1.8	.089
14	Al Pilarcik	of	-	30	-	MLB	35	60	9	12	1	1	0	9	1	0	6	7	0	0	2	1	3	.200	.269	.250	519	15	69	54	4	1.8	.222
30	Norm Bass	p	-	22	-	MLB	41	59	4	7	0	0	1	6	0	0	1	34	0	0	3	0	0	.119	.133	.169	303	10	63	55	-4	-1.8	.250
26	Bob Shaw	p	-	28	-	MLB	28	55	5	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	1	0	2	.200	.200	.200	400	11	56	47	0	0.2	.224
10	Bob Boyd	1b	-	35	-	MLB	26	48	7	11	2	0	0	9	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	.229	.240	.271	511	13	50	41	3	1.7	.234
14	Wes Covington	of	-	29	-	MLB	17	44	3	7	0	0	1	6	0	0	4	7	2	0	0	0	2	.159	.260	.227	487	10	50	39	2	1.2	.167
25	Frank Cipriani	of	-	20	-	MLB	13	36	2	9	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.289	.250	539	9	38	28	2	2.1	.281
35	Ed Rakow	p	-	25	-	MLB	45	29	4	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	10	0	0	3	1	1	.103	.129	.103	232	3	34	31	-2	-1.7	.150
38	Ray Herbert	p	-	31	-	MLB	13	28	1	3	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	5	0	0	2	0	0	.107	.138	.143	281	4	31	27	-1	-0.5	.130
45	Charlie Shoemaker	2b	-	21	-	MLB	7	26	5	10	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.385	.429	.462	890	12	28	17	5	8.5	.417
16	Gordon MacKenzie	c	-	23	-	MLB	11	24	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.160	.125	285	3	25	22	-1	-1.4	.167
4	Ozzie Virgil	3b	-	28	-	MLB	11	21	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	286	3	21	23	-2	-2.6	.167
18	Don Larsen	p	-	31	-	MLB	18	20	2	6	0	0	1	4	0	0	1	5	0	0	1	0	0	.300	.333	.450	783	9	22	15	3	5.3	.357
5,18	Billy Bryan	c	-	22	-	MLB	9	19	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	7	0	0	0	0	1	.158	.238	.316	554	6	21	17	1	1.0	.182
28	Bud Daley	p	-	28	-	MLB	16	18	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	2	.111	.200	.111	311	2	21	19	-1	-1.0	.125
24	Lew Krausse	p	-	18	UDFA: 1962	MLB	13	17	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	0	1	0	0	.118	.167	.118	284	2	19	16	-1	-1.6	.222
22	Bobby Prescott	of	-	30	-	MLB	10	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	.083	.214	.083	298	1	14	12	-1	-1.8	.143
28	Art Ditmar	p	-	32	-	MLB	20	12	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.231	.167	397	2	14	11	0	0.6	.200
32	Bill Kunkel	p	-	24	-	MLB	58	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	1	0	0	.125	.222	.125	347	1	10	8	0	-0.8	.250
16	Chuck Essegian	of	-	29	-	MLB	4	6	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.429	.500	929	3	7	4	1	9.3	.500
22	Mickey McDermott	p	-	32	-	MLB	7	5	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.333	.400	733	2	6	4	1	5.2	.333
22	Stan Johnson	of	-	24	-	MLB	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.400	.000	400	0	5	4	0	-0.8	.000
27	Dave Wickersham	p	-	25	-	MLB	17	3	1	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	1.000	1667	3	3	1	2	46.1	.667
31	Bill Fischer	p	-	30	-	MLB	15	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	3	3	-	-	.000
38	Gerry Staley	p	-	40	-	MLB	23	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	500	0	2	1	0	6.1	.000
17	Ken Johnson	p	-	28	-	MLB	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	1	-	-	.000
22	Clint Courtney	c	-	34	-	MLB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	1	-	-	.000
Totals: (47 players)							161	5423	683	1342	216	47	90	631	58	22	580	770	25	10	89	47	107	.247	.320	.354	674	1922	6164	4346	682	4.2	.272

PITCHING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Starting Pitcher Log

Feats

Splits Analysis

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO	BABIP	GB/FB
20	Jim Archer	20	29	-	MLB	9	15	3.20	39	27	9	2	7	5	205.1	204	99	73	11	60	110	2	4	1.29	8.94	0.48	2.63	4.82	0.55	.287	1.40
30	Norm Bass	63	22	-	MLB	11	11	4.69	40	23	6	2	9	0	170.2	164	98	89	17	82	74	5	0	1.44	8.65	0.90	4.32	3.90	1.11	.266	1.11
23	Jerry Walker	55	22	-	MLB	8	14	4.82	36	24	4	0	10	2	168.0	161	100	90	23	96	56	9	0	1.53	8.63	1.23	5.14	3.00	1.71	.247	0.85
26	Bob Shaw	40	28	-	MLB	9	10	4.31	26	24	6	0	1	0	150.1	165	87	72	13	58	60	4	0	1.48	9.88	0.78	3.47	3.59	0.97	--	1.38
33	Joe Nuxhall	-	32	-	MLB	5	8	5.34	37	13	1	0	9	1	128.0	135	81	76	12	65	81	6	1	1.56	9.49	0.84	4.57	5.70	0.80	.299	0.70
35	Ed Rakow	62	25	-	MLB	2	8	4.76	45	11	1	0	8	1	124.2	131	80	66	14	49	81	8	0	1.44	9.46	1.01	3.54	5.85	0.60	.298	1.81
32	Bill Kunkel	42	24	-	MLB	3	4	5.18	58	2	0	0	26	4	88.2	103	58	51	11	32	46	8	0	1.52	10.45	1.12	3.25	4.67	0.70	.308	1.41
38	Ray Herbert	38	31	-	MLB	3	6	5.38	13	12	1	0	0	0	83.2	103	56	50	10	30	34	0	1	1.59	11.08	1.08	3.23	3.66	0.88	.314	1.28
28	Bud Daley	34	28	-	MLB	4	8	4.95	16	10	2	0	4	1	63.2	84	46	35	6	22	36	0	0	1.66	11.87	0.85	3.11	5.09	0.61	--	1.23
24	Lew Krausse	-	18	UDFA: 1962	MLB	2	5	4.85	12	8	2	1	1	0	55.2	49	33	30	3	46	32	2	0	1.71	7.92	0.49	7.44	5.17	1.44	.275	0.93
28	Art Ditmar	-	32	-	MLB	0	5	5.67	20	5	0	0	2	1	54.0	60	34	34	6	23	19	1	0	1.54	10.00	1.00	3.83	3.17	1.21	.292	1.37
38	Gerry Staley	49	40	-	MLB	1	1	3.60	23	0	0	0	15	2	30.0	32	15	12	4	10	16	3	0	1.40	9.60	1.20	3.00	4.80	0.63	--	2.45
31	Bill Fischer	54	30	-	MLB	1	0	3.86	15	0	0	0	10	2	21.0	26	9	9	2	6	12	1	0	1.52	11.14	0.86	2.57	5.14	0.50	--	1.58
27	Dave Wickersham	-	25	-	MLB	2	1	5.14	17	0	0	0	11	2	21.0	25	12	12	0	5	10	1	0	1.43	10.71	0.00	2.14	4.29	0.50	.352	1.30
18	Don Larsen	-	31	-	MLB	1	0	4.20	8	1	0	0	5	0	15.0	21	9	7	2	11	13	2	0	2.13	12.60	1.20	6.60	7.80	0.85	--	0.76
17	Ken Johnson	-	28	-	MLB	0	4	10.61	6	1	0	0	1	0	9.1	11	11	11	2	7	4	0	0	1.93	10.61	1.93	6.75	3.86	1.75	--	2.29
27	John Wyatt	-	26	-	MLB	0	0	2.45	5	0	0	0	5	1	7.1	8	3	2	0	4	6	1	0	1.64	9.82	0.00	4.91	7.36	0.67	.381	1.57
36	Ed Keegan	-	21	-	MLB	0	0	4.50	6	0	0	0	5	1	6.0	6	5	3	0	5	3	1	0	1.83	9.00	0.00	7.50	4.50	1.67	.300	1.00
22	Mickey McDermott	-	32	-	MLB	0	0	14.29	4	0	0	0	1	0	5.2	14	12	9	0	10	3	3	1	4.24	22.24	0.00	15.88	4.76	3.33	.500	1.50
29	Bill Kirk	-	25	-	MLB	0	0	12.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	6	4	4	2	1	3	0	0	2.33	18.00	6.00	3.00	9.00	0.33	.364	--
27	Dan Pfister	-	24	-	MLB	0	0	15.43	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	5	4	4	2	4	3	1	0	3.86	19.29	7.71	15.43	11.57	1.33	.429	0.00
27	Paul Giel	-	29	-	MLB	0	0	37.80	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.2	6	7	7	1	3	1	0	0	5.40	32.40	5.40	16.20	5.40	3.00	--	0.00
Totals: (47 players)						61	100	4.74	161	161	32	5	129	23	1,415	1519	863	746	90	629	703	58	7	1.36	9.66	0.90	4.00	4.47	0.89	.400

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Haywood Sullivan	C	88		387	32	7	7	.984	0.00
Joe Pignatano	C	83		379	35	9	7	.979	0.00
Gordon MacKenzie	C	7		22	3	0	2	1.000	0.00
Billy Bryan	C	4		16	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Ozzie Virgil	C	3		8	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Norm Siebern	1B	109		907	76	11	88	.989	0.00
Marv Throneberry	1B	30		241	25	1	31	.996	0.00
Haywood Sullivan	1B	16		101	12	2	12	.983	0.00
Lou Klimchock	1B	11		78	4	2	4	.976	0.00
Bob Boyd	1B	8		44	2	0	4	1.000	0.00
Deron Johnson	1B	3		11	2	0	2	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Jerry Lumpe	2B	147		403	426	18	105	.979	0.00
Wayne Causey	2B	9		17	10	1	2	.964	0.00
Reno Bertoia	2B	6		12	13	0	5	1.000	0.00
Charlie Shoemaker	2B	6		17	18	0	3	1.000	0.00
Lou Klimchock	2B	1		0	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Wayne Causey	3B	88		102	193	14	20	.955	0.00
Andy Carey	3B	39		32	70	6	12	.944	0.00
Reno Bertoia	3B	29		27	70	6	6	.942	0.00
Deron Johnson	3B	19		17	43	3	5	.952	0.00
Lou Klimchock	3B	6		3	6	4	0	.692	0.00
Ozzie Virgil	3B	4		2	7	2	1	.818	0.00
Joe Pignatano	3B	2		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Dick Howser	SS	157		299	427	38	85	.950	0.00
Wayne Causey	SS	11		14	25	1	3	.975	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Leo Posada	OF	102		205	8	6	0	.973	0.00
Bobby Del Greco	OF	73		168	8	3	2	.983	0.00
Jay Hankins	OF	65		97	1	3	0	.970	0.00
Deron Johnson	OF	59		104	6	6	0	.948	0.00
Gene Stephens	OF	54		114	6	4	4	.968	0.00
Norm Siebern	OF	47		83	3	1	1	.989	0.00
Jim Rivera	OF	43		51	0	1	0	.981	0.00
Hank Bauer	OF	35		44	2	2	0	.958	0.00
Bill Tuttle	OF	25		58	0	3	0	.951	0.00
Al Pilarcik	OF	21		31	2	0	1	1.000	0.00
Wes Covington	OF	12		14	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Frank Cipriani	OF	11		20	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Marv Throneberry	OF	10		16	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Lou Klimchock	OF	7		11	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Haywood Sullivan	OF	5		6	0	1	0	.857	0.00
Stan Johnson	OF	2		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Bobby Prescott	OF	2		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Chuck Essegian	OF	1		4	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Don Larsen	OF	1		3	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Bill Kunkel	P	58	88	10	13	3	2	.885	2.35
Ed Rakow	P	45	124	12	19	1	3	.969	2.25
Norm Bass	P	40	170	5	17	2	2	.917	1.16
Jim Archer	P	39	205	6	36	2	2	.955	1.84
Joe Nuxhall	P	37	128	10	13	3	1	.885	1.62
Jerry Walker	P	36	168	9	31	0	4	1.000	2.14
Bob Shaw	P	26	150	15	23	2	2	.950	2.28
Gerry Staley	P	23	30	1	8	0	2	1.000	2.70
Art Ditmar	P	20	54	5	7	1	0	.923	2.00
Dave Wickersham	P	17	21	0	5	1	0	.833	2.14
Bud Daley	P	16	63	6	12	2	1	.900	2.56
Bill Fischer	P	15	21	1	4	0	0	1.000	2.14
Ray Herbert	P	13	83	6	15	0	0	1.000	2.27
Lew Krausse	P	12	55	1	4	1	0	.833	0.82
Don Larsen	P	8	15	1	4	0	0	1.000	3.00
Ken Johnson	P	6	9	1	4	0	0	1.000	4.95
Ed Keegan	P	6	6	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.50
John Wyatt	P	5	7	0	2	1	0	.667	2.54
Mickey McDermott	P	4	5	1	0	1	0	.500	1.73
Dan Pfister	P	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Paul Giel	P	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Bill Kirk	P	1	3	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00

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