1953 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics

1952 Season 1954 Season

Record: 83-71-3, Finished 3rd in National League (Schedule and Results)

Manager: Eddie Stanky (83-71-3)

Ballpark: Busch Stadium I

Attendance: 880,242 (3rd of 8)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 99
One-year: Batting - 101, Pitching - 100

Pythagorean W-L: 82-72, 768 Runs, 713 Runs Allowed

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Top 12 Players

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Standard Batting Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	WAR	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	rOBA	Rbat+	TB	GIDP	HBP	SH	IBB	Pos	Awards
1	Del Rice	30	C	-0.1	135	480	419	32	99	22	1	6	37	0	0	48	49	.236	.323	.337	.660	72	.306	64	141	13	6	7	13	*2/H	AS
2	Steve Bilko	24	1B	1.0	154	642	570	72	143	23	3	21	84	0	1	70	*125*	.251	.334	.412	.746	93	.345	93	235	17	1	0	7	*3/H
3	Red Schoendienst#	30	2B	6.7	146	627	564	107	193	35	5	15	79	3	3	60	23	.342	.405	.502	.907	135	.416	143	283	19	0	3	0	*4/H	AS,MVP-4
4	Solly Hemus*	30	SS	5.6	154	691	585	110	163	32	11	14	61	2	1	86	40	.279	.382	.443	.825	114	.388	123	259	10	12	7	0	*6/H4
5	Ray Jablonski	26	3B	0.3	157	640	604	64	162	23	5	21	112	2	2	34	61	.268	.308	.427	.735	89	.331	84	258	15	1	1	2	*5	ROY-3
6	Stan Musial*	32	OF	7.6	157	698	593	127	200	53	9	30	113	3	4	105	32	.337	*.437*	.609	1.046	169	.454	171	361	10	0	0	12	*79/8	AS,MVP-8
7	Rip Repulski	24	OF	1.8	153	614	567	75	156	25	4	15	66	3	6	33	71	.275	.325	.413	.738	91	.342	94	234	14	9	5	3	*8/H	ROY-4
8	Enos Slaughter*	37	OF	2.5	143	579	492	64	143	34	9	6	89	4	4	80	28	.291	.395	.433	.828	116	.386	123	213	10	5	1	12	*9H	AS
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	WAR	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	rOBA	Rbat+	TB	GIDP	HBP	SH	IBB	Pos	Awards
9	Peanuts Lowrey	35	OF	-0.3	104	198	182	26	49	9	2	5	27	1	0	15	21	.269	.325	.423	.748	93	.337	86	77	8	0	1	1	H748/95
10	Harry Elliott	29	OF	0.1	24	63	59	6	15	6	1	1	6	0	0	3	8	.254	.302	.441	.742	91	.369	110	26	3	1	0	0	7/H9
11	Sal Yvars	29	C	-0.3	30	62	57	4	14	2	0	1	6	0	1	4	6	.246	.306	.333	.640	67	.285	57	19	4	1	0	0	2/H
12	Pete Castiglione	32	IF	-0.4	67	55	52	9	9	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	5	.173	.204	.212	.415	9	.209	-3	11	3	0	1	0	5H/46
13	Dick Sisler*	32	1B	-0.2	32	44	43	3	11	1	1	0	4	0	0	1	4	.256	.273	.326	.598	55	.278	46	14	1	0	0	1	H3
14	Dick Schofield#	18	SS	0.0	33	41	39	9	7	0	0	2	4	0	0	2	11	.179	.220	.333	.553	42	.299	70	13	0	0	0	0	H6
15	Eddie Stanky	37	2B	0.2	17	40	30	5	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	4	.267	.405	.267	.672	80	.335	85	8	0	1	3	0	H/4
16	Ferrell Anderson	35	C	-0.3	18	35	35	1	10	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.286	.286	.343	.629	63	.280	48	12	0	0	0	0	2/H
17	Dick Rand	22	C	0.1	9	34	31	3	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.290	.333	.323	.656	72	.331	83	10	0	0	1	0	/2
18	Grant Dunlap	29	OF	0.2	16	17	17	2	6	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	2	.353	.353	.647	1.000	154	.480	186	11	1	0	0	0	H/9
19	Les Fusselman	32	C	0.1	11	9	8	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.375	.625	60	.272	35	3	1	0	1	0	2
20	Hal Rice*	29			8	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	31	.227	11	2	0	0	0	0	/H
21	Billy Johnson	34	3B	0.1	11	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.400	.733	90	.332	84	2	0	0	0	0	5
22	Vern Benson*	28			13	5	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	-42	.145	-44	0	0	0	0	0	H
23	Virgil Stallcup	31			1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-150	0	0	0	0	0	/H
24	Eddie Phillips#	22			9	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0								0	0	0	0	0	/H
25	Fred Marolewski	24	1B	0.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0								0	0	0	0	0	/3
26	Harvey Haddix*	27	P	0.9	48	107	97	21	28	3	3	1	11	0	0	5	19	.289	.337	.412	.749	94	.344	92	40	2	2	3	0	1H	AS,MVP-17,ROY-2
27	Gerry Staley	32	P	-0.7	40	90	78	4	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	21	.103	.146	.103	.249	-34	.147	-58	8	3	0	7	0	1	AS
28	Vinegar Bend Mizell	22	P	-0.7	33	89	83	4	7	1	1	1	8	0	0	3	42	.084	.116	.157	.273	-30	.135	-57	13	0	0	3	0	1
29	Joe Presko	24	P	0.0	35	67	59	6	13	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	5	.220	.270	.237	.507	34	.239	15	14	3	0	4	0	1/H
30	Stu Miller	25	P	0.2	42	50	43	4	8	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	.186	.239	.233	.472	24	.261	29	10	2	0	4	0	1/H
31	Hal White	34	P	-0.3	49	17	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.059	.000	.059	-83	.043	-116	0	1	0	0	0	1
32	Al Brazle*	39	P	0.2	61	17	15	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.400	.733	90	.389	126	6	0	0	2	0	1
33	Cliff Chambers*	31	P	-0.1	32	17	17	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.118	.118	.176	.294	-25	.128	-57	3	0	0	0	0	1
34	Eddie Erautt	28	P	0.0	20	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-13	.152	-64	1	0	0	1	0	1
35	Mike Clark	31	P	-0.1	23	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-145	0	1	0	0	0	1
36	Willard Schmidt	25	P	-0.1	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-143	0	0	0	0	0	/1
37	Jackie Collum*	26	P	0.0	7	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	-28	.181	-18	0	0	0	0	0	/1
38	Jack Faszholz	26	P	-0.1	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-143	0	0	0	0	0	/1
39	John Romonosky	23	P	0.0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-150	0	0	0	0	0	/1
40	Dick Bokelmann	26	P	0.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0								0	0	0	0	0	/1
41	Eddie Yuhas	28	P	0.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0								0	0	0	0	0	/1
	Team Totals			23.9	157	6069	5397	768	1474	281	56	140	722	18	22	574	617	.273	.347	.424	.771	100	.356	101	2287	141	39	55	51
	Non-Pitcher Totals			24.8		5575	4952	720	1400	272	52	138	698	18	22	552	501	.283	.359	.442	.801	108	.368	110	2190	129	37	31	51
	Pitcher Totals			-0.9		480	432	42	72	9	4	2	24	0	0	21	111	.167	.209	.220	.429	12	.213	-3	95	12	2	24	0

Team Pitching

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Team Pitching
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Harvey Haddix*	27	20	9	.690	3.06	36	33	2	19	6	1	253.0	220	97	86	24	69	1	163	4	0	9	1031	139	3.40	1.142	7.8	0.9	2.5	5.8	2.36
2	SP	Gerry Staley	32	18	9	.667	3.99	40	32	6	10	1	4	230.0	243	118	102	31	54	8	88	17	1	1	980	106	4.51	1.291	9.5	1.2	2.1	3.4	1.63
3	SP	Vinegar Bend Mizell*	22	13	11	.542	3.49	33	33	0	10	1	0	224.1	193	93	87	12	114	6	173	4	2	4	980	122	3.32	1.368	7.7	0.5	4.6	6.9	1.52
4	SP	Joe Presko	24	6	13	.316	5.01	34	25	3	4	0	1	161.2	165	95	90	19	65	5	56	5	0	4	707	85	4.73	1.423	9.2	1.1	3.6	3.1	0.86
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
5	CL	Al Brazle*	39	6	7	.462	4.19	61	0	35	0	0	18	92.1	101	47	43	8	43	10	57	2	0	0	418	102	3.95	1.560	9.8	0.8	4.2	5.6	1.33
6	RP	Stu Miller	25	7	8	.467	5.56	40	18	10	8	2	4	137.2	161	86	85	19	47	3	79	2	0	2	608	77	4.31	1.511	10.5	1.2	3.1	5.2	1.68
7	RP	Hal White	34	6	5	.545	2.99	49	0	23	0	0	7	84.1	84	32	28	5	39	7	32	0	1	2	357	143	3.99	1.458	9.0	0.5	4.2	3.4	0.82
8	RP	Cliff Chambers*	31	3	6	.333	4.86	32	8	8	0	0	0	79.2	82	50	43	7	43	4	26	1	1	3	362	88	4.74	1.569	9.3	0.8	4.9	2.9	0.60
9	RP	Mike Clark	31	1	0	1.000	4.79	23	2	8	0	0	1	35.2	46	21	19	2	21	1	17	2	0	1	171	89	4.30	1.879	11.6	0.5	5.3	4.3	0.81
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
10		Eddie Erautt	28	3	1	.750	6.31	20	1	7	0	0	0	35.2	43	25	25	6	16	3	15	2	1	0	162	68	5.45	1.654	10.9	1.5	4.0	3.8	0.94
11		Willard Schmidt	25	0	2	.000	9.17	6	2	1	0	0	0	17.2	21	20	18	1	13	0	11	1	0	0	89	47	4.46	1.925	10.7	0.5	6.6	5.6	0.85
12		Jack Faszholz	26	0	0		6.94	4	1	1	0	0	0	11.2	16	9	9	3	1	0	7	1	0	0	51	63	5.25	1.457	12.3	2.3	0.8	5.4	7.00
13		Jackie Collum*	26	0	0		6.35	7	0	2	0	0	0	11.1	15	10	8	1	4	1	5	0	0	2	52	69	3.92	1.676	11.9	0.8	3.2	4.0	1.25
14		John Romonosky	23	0	0		4.70	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.2	9	6	4	1	4	0	3	1	0	1	37	95	5.46	1.696	10.6	1.2	4.7	3.5	0.75
15		Dick Bokelmann	26	0	0		6.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	79	2.59	1.333	12.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
16		Eddie Yuhas	28	0	0		18.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	32	2.59	3.000	27.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	28.0	83	71	.539	4.23	157	157	106	51	10	36	1386.2	1406	713	651	139	533	49	732	42	6	30	6024	101	4.08	1.398	9.1	0.9	3.5	4.8	1.37
		Rank in 8 NL teams		3	5		4				3	3	1	2	4	4	5	3	4		3
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W