1956 St. Louis Cardinals
76 - 78
1955 / 1957 (Organization)
4th place in the NL (17 GB)
Home Record:
Away Record: 		43 - 34 (.558)
33 - 44 (.429)		 +1.8 wins
-2.8 wins
   
Scored/Expected: 678 / 672 ( +6 )
Allowed/Expected: 698 / 672 ( -26 )
Pyth Record: 75 - 79 (+1)
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Attendance: 1,029,773 Avg Att: 13,202 (0.95)
Att Rank: 4 / 8 Lg Avg: 13,928
       
Park Factor: 1.01    
HR Factor: 0.99 R/L HR: 0.91 / 1.12
Notes:


All-Original St. Louis Cardinals
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com


Left Field
23.8
1.8
MULT
 22.2
1.5
SLN
 27.7
1.1

Center Field
SLN
 27.4
-0.1
33.4
-0.4


Right Field
SLN
 26.2
3.6
MULT
 40.2
1.3
Shortstop
SLN
 21.5
-0.6
Second Base
SLN
 24.3
3.5
MULT
 33.4
2.1
MULT
 33.2
2.0
Third Base
SLN
 25.1
6.3
30.2
-0.3
First Base
SLN
 35.6
5.5
MULT
 31.6
0.1
SLN
 30.4
0.0
SLN
 24.8
-0.1
32.0
-0.9
 
Catcher
MULT
 28.8
1.3
SLN
 25.1
0.8
SLN
 41.5
-0.3
33.7
-0.4
Starting Pitcher
IP
MULT
 39.9
219.3
4.3
MULT
 30.8
230.3
3.2
SLN
 25.9
208.7
1.9
28.7
211.0
1.8
SLN
 28.1
147.7
1.6
37.7
107.0
0.8
35.2
129.3
-0.2
22.8
2.7
-0.3
SLN
 21.0
41.0
-0.8
Swingman
IP
MULT
 35.9
102.0
1.3
SLN
 20.6
116.3
0.7
MULT
 35.0
49.7
0.7
MULT
 28.5
114.0
0.4
MULT
 34.0
39.7
-0.1
SLN
 26.2
11.3
-0.3
Relief Pitcher
IP
35.7
51.7
1.7
28.3
60.0
1.3
31.9
97.3
0.5
SLN
 29.0
60.0
0.5
SLN
 25.1
85.3
0.4
29.4
28.7
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