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1958 Kansas City Athletics season

Field	Value
name	Kansas City Athletics
season	1958
image	Kansas City Athletics Cap Logo (1955 to 1959).svg
league	American League
ballpark	Municipal Stadium
city	Kansas City, Missouri
record
league_place	7th
owners	Arnold Johnson
general_managers	George Selkirk
managers	Harry Craft
radio	KMBC
(Merle Harmon, Ed Edwards)

(Merle Harmon, Ed Edwards) |}} 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.
December 2, 1957: Harry Chiti was drafted by the Athletics from the New York Yankees in the 1957 rule 5 draft.
December 2, 1957: Ramón Conde was drafted by the Athletics from the San Francisco Giants in the 1957 minor league draft.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

April 15, 1958: Ramón Conde was acquired from the Athletics by the Philadelphia Phillies.
May 14, 1958: Whitey Herzog was purchased by the Athletics from the Washington Senators.
June 12, 1958: Billy Hunter was traded by the Athletics to the Cleveland Indians for Chico Carrasquel.
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.

Roster

1958 Kansas City Athletics
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

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

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C		103	295	79	.268	9	44
1B	Vic Power	52	205	62	.302	4	27
2B		151	564	147	.261	17	73
SS	Joe DeMaestri	139	442	97	.219	6	38
3B	Hal W. Smith	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

Other batters

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

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Preston Ward	81	268	68	.254	6	24
Mike Baxes	73	231	49	.212	0	8
Bob Martyn	95	226	59	.261	2	23
Harry Simpson	78	212	56	.264	7	27
	76	202	51	.252	4	24
Chico Carrasquel	59	160	34	.213	2	13
	47	131	28	.214	4	16
	88	96	23	.240	0	9
Billy Hunter	22	58	9	.155	2	11
	3	11	2	.182	0	0
Lou Klimchock	2	10	2	.200	1	1
Dave Melton	9	6	0	.000	0	0
	2	4	0	.000	0	0
Milt Graff	5	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

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

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Ray Herbert	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
Wally Burnette	12	28.1	1	1	3.49	11
Howie Reed	3	10.1	1	0	0.87	5

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	50	4	4	8	3.51	44
Dick Tomanek	36	5	5	5	3.61	50
	23	0	3	0	5.89	22
Virgil Trucks	16	0	1	2	2.05	15
	2	0	0	0	9.82	1
Ken Johnson	2	0	0	0	27.00	1
	1	0	0	0	4.50	0

Farm system

Rochester franchise moved to Winona, June 29, 1958

References

[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]
"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

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