1958 Major League

1958 Major League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1958 American League 1958 National League

1958 Major League Leaders and Trailers
1958 Postseason
1958 Season as Seen Through the Prism of Player Won-Lost Records

Positional Average (Weighted Avg of Options): 0.500 (1-Year) (9-Year) (Long-Run) "

Positional Averages for Pitchers (Wgted Avg of Options): 0.500 "vs. Different Values for Starting vs. Relief Pitchers: (Empirical) (Based on Pitchers who Do Both)


Basic Player Won-Lost Records by Team (Sorted by pWOPA)
Team	Games	Wins	Losses	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA
New York Yankees	155.0	92.5	62.5	247.5	217.5	30.4
Milwaukee Braves	154.0	92.0	62.0	246.0	216.0	30.2
Pittsburgh Pirates	154.0	84.0	70.0	238.0	224.0	13.5
Chicago White Sox	155.0	82.5	72.5	237.5	227.5	9.9
San Francisco Giants	154.0	80.0	74.0	234.0	228.0	5.7
Boston Red Sox	155.0	79.5	75.5	234.5	230.5	3.6
Cleveland Indians	153.0	77.0	76.0	230.0	229.0	0.5
Detroit Tigers	154.0	77.0	77.0	231.0	231.0	-0.2
Cincinnati Reds	154.0	76.0	78.0	230.0	232.0	-2.9
Baltimore Orioles	154.0	74.5	79.5	228.5	233.5	-5.1
Kansas City Athletics	156.0	74.0	82.0	230.0	238.0	-8.5
Chicago Cubs	154.0	72.0	82.0	226.0	236.0	-10.5
St. Louis Cardinals	154.0	72.0	82.0	226.0	236.0	-10.7
Los Angeles Dodgers	154.0	71.0	83.0	225.0	237.0	-12.9
Philadelphia Phillies	154.0	69.0	85.0	223.0	239.0	-16.1
Washington Senators I	156.0	62.0	94.0	218.0	250.0	-32.4

Ties count as 0.5 win and 0.5 loss. Teams in bold made the postseason. pWins equal team wins plus team games; pLosses equal team losses plus team games.


Expected Won-Lost Records by Team (Sorted by eWORL)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA	eWORL
New York Yankees	241.4	223.6	18.8	44.2
Milwaukee Braves	239.8	222.2	18.6	43.8
Boston Red Sox	236.4	228.6	8.1	33.9
San Francisco Giants	233.7	228.3	5.6	31.6
Detroit Tigers	233.2	228.8	5.0	30.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	233.1	228.9	4.6	30.1
Cleveland Indians	231.2	227.8	3.9	29.7
Cincinnati Reds	232.9	229.1	3.7	29.5
Chicago White Sox	233.6	231.4	2.6	28.4
Chicago Cubs	231.9	230.1	2.1	28.2
Baltimore Orioles	230.3	231.7	-0.4	25.0
Philadelphia Phillies	229.6	232.4	-1.9	23.6
Kansas City Athletics	231.0	237.0	-6.1	20.0
Los Angeles Dodgers	225.7	236.3	-10.1	16.3
St. Louis Cardinals	225.1	236.9	-11.5	14.5
Washington Senators I	225.6	242.4	-16.7	9.6


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Milwaukee Braves	114.2	105.6	0.520	8.6
New York Yankees	114.2	106.0	0.518	8.1
Cleveland Indians	108.7	101.5	0.517	7.2
Boston Red Sox	111.0	104.3	0.515	6.6
Chicago Cubs	108.3	103.4	0.511	4.8
San Francisco Giants	107.7	103.4	0.510	4.3
Detroit Tigers	107.1	107.4	0.499	-0.3
Chicago White Sox	106.4	106.9	0.499	-0.5
Cincinnati Reds	112.0	112.8	0.498	-0.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	105.1	106.2	0.498	-1.0
Los Angeles Dodgers	100.3	101.4	0.497	-1.1
Philadelphia Phillies	107.7	109.4	0.496	-1.7
Kansas City Athletics	104.8	107.8	0.493	-2.9
Baltimore Orioles	104.8	110.4	0.487	-5.6
Washington Senators I	103.2	109.2	0.486	-6.0
St. Louis Cardinals	100.7	109.0	0.480	-8.3


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	10.8	8.4	0.563	2.4
Chicago Cubs	9.2	7.9	0.537	1.3
New York Yankees	9.7	8.5	0.532	1.2
Detroit Tigers	9.9	8.8	0.530	1.1
Boston Red Sox	9.6	8.5	0.529	1.0
Milwaukee Braves	9.1	8.1	0.528	0.9
Los Angeles Dodgers	7.6	7.5	0.502	0.1
Pittsburgh Pirates	8.4	8.3	0.502	0.1
Kansas City Athletics	8.8	8.9	0.497	-0.1
Baltimore Orioles	8.1	8.3	0.494	-0.2
San Francisco Giants	9.7	10.1	0.489	-0.4
Cincinnati Reds	9.2	9.7	0.487	-0.5
St. Louis Cardinals	8.6	9.4	0.479	-0.8
Cleveland Indians	8.6	9.6	0.472	-1.0
Philadelphia Phillies	8.5	9.6	0.468	-1.1
Washington Senators I	7.8	9.1	0.464	-1.2


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cincinnati Reds	71.5	65.7	0.521	5.8
New York Yankees	73.9	68.4	0.519	5.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	74.5	69.7	0.516	4.7
Milwaukee Braves	72.5	68.1	0.516	4.4
Baltimore Orioles	73.9	69.9	0.514	4.0
Philadelphia Phillies	72.8	69.1	0.513	3.6
Detroit Tigers	74.2	71.0	0.511	3.1
Boston Red Sox	71.4	70.8	0.502	0.6
San Francisco Giants	72.8	73.0	0.499	-0.2
Chicago White Sox	74.6	75.6	0.497	-1.0
St. Louis Cardinals	74.3	75.5	0.496	-1.2
Kansas City Athletics	73.2	74.9	0.495	-1.6
Cleveland Indians	72.1	73.8	0.494	-1.8
Chicago Cubs	72.5	75.2	0.491	-2.7
Washington Senators I	74.1	77.7	0.488	-3.7
Los Angeles Dodgers	75.5	84.6	0.472	-9.1


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Milwaukee Braves	43.4	41.0	0.514	2.4
Los Angeles Dodgers	43.5	41.7	0.511	1.9
New York Yankees	42.9	41.4	0.509	1.5
San Francisco Giants	43.2	42.0	0.507	1.2
Chicago White Sox	41.7	40.5	0.507	1.2
Pittsburgh Pirates	45.4	44.4	0.505	1.0
Baltimore Orioles	43.6	43.0	0.503	0.6
St. Louis Cardinals	42.3	42.2	0.500	0.1
Cleveland Indians	42.4	42.3	0.500	0.1
Detroit Tigers	41.8	41.8	0.500	-0.0
Boston Red Sox	44.7	44.8	0.499	-0.2
Kansas City Athletics	44.7	45.0	0.498	-0.3
Cincinnati Reds	40.0	41.0	0.494	-1.0
Chicago Cubs	42.3	43.2	0.494	-1.0
Philadelphia Phillies	41.0	43.9	0.483	-3.0
Washington Senators I	41.5	45.5	0.477	-4.1

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1958 Major League

Ballpark Factors
Net Win Values
Positional Averages
Replacement Levels
Division of Shared Credit
Event Probabilities

^*Player won-loss records are calculated using Retrosheet play-by-play data. For some seasons, Retrosheet does not have full play-by-play data for all games. In these cases, some games may be missing.
The number of Games shown here are the number of games for which Retrosheet play-by-play data exist and were used in these calculations.

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