The Yankees won their third straight pennant, and second with Ralph Houk at the helm. The biggest competition this year is the Twins, as New York beats Minnesota by five games in the standings, but the Yankees lead all the way down the stretch. This in spite of SS Tony Kubek spending most of the season in the army (he was ably replaced by rookie Tom Tresh) and Mickey Mantle being limited by injuries to 123 games (he still won the MVP). The Los Angeles Angels posted a surprise third-place finish in their second year of existence, and it would remain their high-water mark for some time. Detroit was 4th and Chicago 5th. In the second division and below .500 were Cleveland, Baltimore, Boston, Kansas City, and last with 101 losses, Washington. The Yankees took the World Series in 7 games, and it would be their last WS title until 1976. Nobody knew it then.
Pete Runnels won the batting title at .326 (with Mantle second at .321) and Mantle led in OPS as well as on-base and slugging. Harmon Killebrew led in HR with 48 and RBI with 126, with Luis Aparicio the SB leader at 31. Albie Pearson had 115 runs, edging Norm Siebern's 114, Bobby Richardson had 209 hits, Floyd Robinson had 45 doubles, and Gino Cimoli had 15 triples. The AL's slowness to integrate was really beginning to show in a talent imbalance with the NL. Save Mantle, all the best players were in the NL.
Ralph Terry led in wins with 23, while Hank Aguirre had a big lead in the ERA race, posting a 2.21 mark. Dick Donovan, Ray Herbert, and Camilo Pascual each won 20. Robin Roberts was second in ERA at 2.78. Pascual led in strikeouts with 206, ahead of Jim Bunning at 184. Dick Radatz topped the loop in saves with 24 as a rookie.
Win Shares leaders, players: Mickey Mantle (New York) 33, Brooks Robinson (Baltimore), Floyd Robinson (Chicago) and Norm Siebern (Kansas City) 27, Johnny Romano (Cleveland) and Rocky Colavito (Detroit) 26, Roger Maris and Tom Tresh (New York) 25, Pete Runnels (Boston), Joe Cunningham (Chicago), Billy Moran and Leon Wagner (Los Angeles) and Harmon Killebrew (Washington) 24, Norm Cash (Detroit), Bob Allison, Rich Rollins and Lenny Green (Minnesota) 23, Lee Thomas (Los Angeles) and Bobby Richardson (New York) 22.
Win Shares leaders, pitchers: Camilo Pascual (Minnesota) 23, Hank Aguirre (Detroit) and Jim Kaat (Minnesota) 22, Dick Radatz (Boston), Jim Bunning (Detroit) and Ralph Terry (New York) 21, Ray Herbert (Chicago), Dick Donovan (Cleveland) and Whitey Ford (New York) 20, Bill Monbouquette (Boston) and Dean Chance (Los Angeles) 17.
WARP3 leaders, position players: Clete Boyer (New York) 7.4, Mantle 7.0, B. Robinson 6.5, Elston Howard (New York) 6.2, Siebern 6.0, Ed Charles (Kansas City) 5.5, Al Kaline (Detroit) 5.3, Romano and Richardson 5.0, Tresh 4.9, Cunningham 4.7, Colavito 4.5.
WARP3 leaders, pitchers: Aguirre 8.4, Pascual and Kaat 7.1, Bunning 6.2, Radatz 6.0, Robin Roberts (Baltimore) 5.7, Herbert 5.2, Dick Hall (Baltimore) 5.1, Dave Stenhouse (Washington) 4.9, Donovan 4.8, Chance and Monbouquette 4.4.
WAR, position players (fWAR): B. Robinson 7.2, Colavito 7.0, Mantle 6.7, Siebern 6.1, Boyer 6.0, Romano and Yastrzemski 5.7, Bressoud 5.5, Cunningham 5.3, Cash and Tresh 5.1, Allison and Charles 5.0, Rollins 4.9, Howard 4.8, Maris 4.7, F. Robinson 4.6. Pitchers (bWAR): Aguirre 6.9, Kaat 5.2, Pascual 4.8, Ford 4.7, Herbert, Radatz, and Roberts 4.4, Bunning 4.3, Chance 4.0, Cheney 3.7, Monbouquette 3.6, Stenhouse 3.5, Terry 3.4.
Actual award winners:
MVP (top 20): | Season Results
Rk Name Team 1st Place Points Max Points Share| AB H HR BA OPS SB| W-L IP ERA WHIP SO SV
+--+----------------+----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+---+--+-----------+---+--
1 Mickey Mantle NYY 13 234 280 0.84 | 377 121 30 .321 1.091 9
2 Bobby Richardson NYY 5 152 280 0.54 | 692 209 8 .302 .743 11
3 Harmon Killebrew MIN 1 99 280 0.35 | 552 134 48 .243 .912 1
4 Leon Wagner LAA 0 85 280 0.30 | 612 164 37 .268 .826 7
5 Dick Donovan CLE 0 64 280 0.23 | 89 16 4 .180 .581 0| 20-10 251 3.59 1.205 94
6 Al Kaline DET 0 58 280 0.21 | 398 121 29 .304 .969 4
7 Norm Siebern KCA 0 53 280 0.19 | 600 185 25 .308 .907 3
8 Rich Rollins MIN 0 47 280 0.17 | 624 186 16 .298 .802 3
9 Brooks Robinson BAL 0 41 280 0.15 | 634 192 23 .303 .828 3
10 Floyd Robinson CHW 0 33 280 0.12 | 600 187 11 .312 .859 4
11 Lee Thomas LAA 0 32 280 0.11 | 583 169 26 .290 .821 6
12 Tom Tresh NYY 1 30 280 0.11 | 622 178 20 .286 .800 4
13 Billy Moran LAA 0 28 280 0.10 | 659 186 17 .282 .731 5
14 Ralph Terry NYY 0 19 280 0.07 | 106 20 0 .189 .407 0| 23-12 299 3.19 1.051 176 2
15 Camilo Pascual MIN 0 14 280 0.05 | 97 26 2 .268 .682 0| 20-11 258 3.32 1.145 206
16 Rocky Colavito DET 0 13 280 0.05 | 601 164 37 .273 .885 2
17 Hank Aguirre DET 0 10 280 0.04 | 75 2 0 .027 .066 0| 16-8 216 2.21 1.051 156 3
18 Joe Cunningham CHW 0 9 280 0.03 | 526 155 8 .295 .837 3
18 Pete Runnels BOS 0 9 280 0.03 | 562 183 10 .326 .863 3
18 Carl Yastrzemski BOS 0 9 280 0.03 | 646 191 19 .296 .832 7
Mantle won easily over teammate Richardson, the only other real contender.
Cy Young: no AL pitcher received votes.
Rookie: | Season Results
Rk Name Team 1st Place Points Max Points Share| AB H HR BA OPS SB| W-L IP ERA WHIP SO SV
+--+----------------+----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+---+--+-----+------+---
1 Tom Tresh NYY 13 13 20 0.65 | 622 178 20 .286 .800 4
2 Buck Rodgers LAA 4 4 20 0.20 | 565 146 6 .258 .681 1
3 Bernie Allen MIN 1 1 20 0.05 | 573 154 12 .269 .741 0
3 Dean Chance LAA 1 1 20 0.05 | 65 4 0 .062 .164 0| 14-10 207 2.96 1.263 127 8
3 Dick Radatz BOS 1 1 20 0.05 | 31 3 0 .097 .222 0| 9-6 125 2.24 1.083 144 24
A bit surprising Tresh won so easily over Radatz, even bigger that Radatz was third, but Tresh's season was accomplished in a pennant race.
Top player: Mickey Mantle. It says something about the field that even with a month out, Mantle was still the top player. He won the MVP for a reason.
#1 Mickey Mantle, #2 Brooks Robinson, #3 Norm Siebern, #4 Johnny Romano, #5 Rocky Colavito, #6 Clete Boyer.
Top pitcher: Camilo Pascual. The two best were Twins pitchers, Pascual and Kaat. Pascual's stats, with 20 wins and the strikeout lead, are more impressive.
#1 Camilo Pascual, #2 Jim Kaat, #3 Hank Aguirre, #4 Dick Radatz, #5 Jim Bunning.
Top rookie: Dick Radatz had the best season, and was very dominating. Tresh and Chance were very effective also. None had an overly impressive career, although all three had useful periods.
Top manager: Bill Rigney, bringing the second-year Angels in for a surprising finish.
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