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1956 Season

1955 / 1957

1956 World Series
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Left Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Frank Robinson	CIN	6.5	6.1	-0.2
Ted Williams	BOS	6.0	5.8	-0.3
Lee Walls	PIT	2.5	2.5	-0.5
Dave Melton	KC1	0.1	-0.0	0.1
Bill Renna	KC1	0.0	0.1	-0.2

Center Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Duke Snider	BRO	7.6	6.7	1.0
Dick Williams	MULT	1.9	1.9	-0.2
Jim Small	DET	0.3	0.2	0.1
Karl Olson	WS1	-1.6	-0.5	-1.2

Right Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Jackie Jensen	BOS	3.7	3.2	-0.2
Bill Taylor	NY1	-0.0	0.0	-0.1
Bob Bowman	PHI	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
Irv Noren	NYA	-0.1	-0.0	-0.1

Shortstop	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Gil McDougald	NYA	5.1	4.4	1.4
Mike Baxes	KC1	0.3	0.1	0.5
Jim Brideweser	MULT	0.2	-0.1	0.6
Joe DeMaestri	KC1	0.0	-1.0	1.7
Eddie Bressoud	NY1	-0.2	0.3	-0.2

Second Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Solly Hemus	MULT	2.0	2.3	-0.2
Billy Martin	NYA	1.3	1.6	0.1
Curt Roberts	PIT	0.1	-0.1	0.3
Gene Mauch	BOS	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
Billy Consolo	BOS	-0.2	-0.0	-0.1

Third Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Eddie Mathews	ML1	5.7	6.4	-0.4
Jackie Robinson	BRO	4.6	2.7	2.0
Ray Boone	DET	3.4	4.5	-1.0
Hank Thompson	NY1	1.1	1.0	0.1
Bobby Adams	BAL	0.2	0.6	-0.3

First Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Wayne Belardi	DET	0.2	0.5	-0.5
Dee Fondy	CHN	-0.5	-0.2	-0.9

Catcher	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Gus Triandos	BAL	3.0	2.5	0.6
Del Crandall	ML1	2.1	1.9	0.7
Lou Berberet	WS1	1.9	1.3	0.8
Bill Sarni	MULT	1.3	1.2	0.8
Jack Shepard	PIT	0.8	0.7	0.5

Starting Pitcher	Tm	IP	WAR	Pit	Off
Bob Lemon	CLE	255.3	5.9	5.2	0.7
Jack Harshman *	CHA	226.7	5.2	4.3	0.8
Don Larsen	NYA	179.7	3.4	2.6	0.8
Frank Sullivan	BOS	242.0	3.2	3.9	-0.7
Don Drysdale	BRO	99.0	1.9	1.8	0.1
Mike Garcia	CLE	197.7	1.6	2.2	-0.6
Jim Wilson	MULT	208.0	1.4	0.9	0.6
Bill Wight *	BAL	174.7	1.3	1.4	-0.1
Erv Palica	BAL	116.3	0.7	0.9	-0.2
Charlie Beamon	BAL	13.0	0.6	0.7	-0.1

Swingman	Tm	IP	WAR	Pit	Off
Jim Davis *	CHN	120.3	1.4	1.3	0.1
Gordon Jones	SLN	11.3	-0.3	-0.3	-0.0

Relief Pitcher	Tm	IP	WAR	Pit	Off
Marv Grissom	NY1	80.7	3.8	3.9	-0.1
Don Mossi *	CLE	87.7	1.9	1.9	0.1
Windy McCall *	NY1	77.3	0.8	0.9	-0.0
John Briggs	CHN	5.3	0.2	0.2	0.0
Tex Clevenger	WS1	31.7	0.0	-0.0	0.0
Bob Ross *	PHI	3.3	-0.1	-0.1	0.0
Bud Daley *	CLE	20.3	-0.2	-0.2	-0.1
Duane Pillette	PHI	23.3	-0.5	-0.4	-0.0
Tom Morgan	NYA	71.3	-0.8	-0.8	-0.1

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Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James