1978 Modesto A's

1978 > Class A > 1978 California League (North)
Overall: 61-79
Scored 672 runs, Allowed 834 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 56-84

Affiliation: Oakland Athletics-AL
Manager: Gaylen Pitts
Represented: Modesto, CA
Ballpark: John Thurman Field (Modesto, CA)
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1977 / 1979

Team Batting

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

Rk		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	Eric Attaway*	20	61	217	173	26	44	12	0	0	16	4	3	39	31	.254	.393	.324	.716	56	1	3	1
2	Shooty Babitt	19	109	452	388	70	102	20	4	6	55	18	5	52	40	.263	.351	.381	.733	148	3	5	4
3	Jim Bennett*	20	67	244	223	33	62	13	2	6	29	9	3	20	55	.278	.336	.435	.771	97	0	0	1
4	Dana Berry*	19	46	173	167	20	41	8	0	4	21	4	2	6	50	.246	.272	.365	.637	61	0	0	0
5	Greg Darichuk*	22	16	40	37	1	8	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	6	.216	.256	.270	.527	10	1	1	0
6	Mike Davis*	19	106	472	406	74	136	12	4	2	35	33	16	55	62	.335	.415	.399	.814	162	3	5	3
7	Pat Dempsey	21	106	416	388	50	98	12	1	2	40	4	1	23	37	.253	.295	.304	.600	118	1	3	1
8	Donald Eagan	21	52	174	137	21	38	4	1	1	18	1	3	34	19	.277	.424	.343	.767	47	1	2	0
9	Bruce Fournier*	20	98	419	354	53	113	27	1	10	69	7	6	57	32	.319	.411	.486	.897	172	1	3	4
10	David Gallino	22	31	115	94	16	24	3	0	1	8	7	1	18	8	.255	.377	.319	.696	30	1	1	1
11	Michael Kennedy#	20	30	102	89	11	25	0	2	0	18	1	1	9	14	.281	.333	.326	.659	29	0	0	4
12	Robert Klebba	23	96	379	330	39	65	14	0	3	31	4	3	40	45	.197	.288	.267	.555	88	3	4	2
13	John Kniss	20	85	327	289	48	76	12	1	2	29	12	1	33	42	.263	.344	.332	.676	96	3	1	1
14	Robert Markham*	22	28	98	82	10	17	4	0	0	9	3	1	13	17	.207	.316	.256	.572	21	1	0	2
15	Al Minker	20	38	164	135	19	39	5	0	6	27	0	1	26	35	.289	.405	.459	.864	62	1	1	1
16	Paul Mize	23	124	493	419	43	106	14	1	1	54	9	7	57	51	.253	.350	.298	.649	125	8	5	4
17	Donald Morris	22	69	294	253	35	67	11	1	2	24	6	11	36	47	.265	.356	.340	.696	86	1	2	2
18	Tadeusz Nowakowski#	21	60	213	189	24	41	9	0	4	22	3	4	21	59	.217	.299	.328	.627	62	1	2	0
19	Mike Patterson*	20	96	404	354	58	99	24	10	8	54	13	5	45	68	.280	.360	.472	.832	167	1	1	3
20	Howard Robinson#	20	38	140	125	20	27	1	1	0	7	7	1	15	31	.216	.300	.240	.540	30	0	0	0
	20 Players	20.6	140	5345	4632	672	1228	207	29	58	569	143	75	610	749	.265	.352	.360	.712	1667	31	38	34	19

Only players for whom we have stats are shown. See roster for more complete team list.

Team Pitching

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

Rk		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	Dave Beard	18	12	6	.667	2.92	25	25		11	5	0	185.0	161	94	60	17	64	0	142	6	0	9	1.216	7.8	0.8	3.1	6.9	2.22
2	Barton Braun	22	2	0	1.000	2.42	15	0		0	0	5	26.0	24	13	7	2	7	0	15	0	0	0	1.192	8.3	0.7	2.4	5.2	2.14
3	Ernie Camacho	23	0	0		0.00	1	0		0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	9.0	9.0	1.00
4	Randall Cashore	--	2	3	.400	5.79	12	0		0	0	1	28.0	40	20	18	1	12	0	17	1	0	3	1.857	12.9	0.3	3.9	5.5	1.42
5	Bruce Fournier	20	0	0		6.00	1	0		0	0	0	3.0	2	2	2	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	0.667	6.0	3.0	0.0	12.0
6	David Fuqua	25	5	7	.417	4.74	20	2		0	0	2	57.0	66	42	30	10	21	2	36	0	0	3	1.526	10.4	1.6	3.3	5.7	1.71
7	Craig Harris	19	5	8	.385	6.59	23	18		3	1	0	116.0	152	109	85	9	77	1	69	6	2	6	1.974	11.8	0.7	6.0	5.4	0.90
8	Douglas Hunt	21	1	2	.333	8.38	15	0		0	0	0	29.0	45	38	27	5	19	0	12	1	1	1	2.207	14.0	1.6	5.9	3.7	0.63
9	Brian Kingman	23	2	2	.500	2.37	10	9		0	0	0	38.0	27	13	10	1	29	0	43	1	1	2	1.474	6.4	0.2	6.9	10.2	1.48
10	John Lavery	25	0	0		10.38	9	0		0	0	0	13.0	18	15	15	1	13	2	2	1	0	1	2.385	12.5	0.7	9.0	1.4	0.15
11	David McCarthy*	22	4	8	.333	4.26	35	16		2	0	4	131.0	145	82	62	7	65	0	108	2	2	8	1.603	10.0	0.5	4.5	7.4	1.66
12	Michael McLellan	22	3	8	.273	5.93	27	14		1	1	2	82.0	105	77	54	7	85	1	46	2	2	14	2.317	11.5	0.8	9.3	5.0	0.54
13	Bobby Moore	19	2	10	.167	6.69	23	21		1	0	0	117.0	102	104	87	7	136	1	123	2	4	21	2.034	7.8	0.5	10.5	9.5	0.90
14	Kenneth Palmer	--	6	8	.429	4.59	33	2		1	0	2	100.0	127	64	51	12	31	4	41	2	0	3	1.580	11.4	1.1	2.8	3.7	1.32
15	Donald Schubert	19	7	7	.500	3.22	31	11		5	2	6	109.0	116	60	39	5	52	1	64	1	0	9	1.541	9.6	0.4	4.3	5.3	1.23
16	Donald VanMarter	20	3	4	.429	4.65	11	9		1	0	0	62.0	59	46	32	3	44	0	28	4	1	2	1.661	8.6	0.4	6.4	4.1	0.64
17	Dennis Wyszynski	21	7	6	.538	3.48	17	13		4	0	0	101.0	108	55	39	7	51	0	76	2	1	3	1.574	9.6	0.6	4.5	6.8	1.49
	17 Players	20.6	61	79	.436	4.64	140	140	111	29	9	22	1200.0	1297	834	619	95	707	12	828	31	14	86	1.670	9.7	0.7	5.3	6.2	1.17

Team Fielding--By Pos

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

C

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
Pat Dempsey	102		652	81	26	9	.966	7.19	14
Tadeusz Nowakowski	45		226	40	9	3	.967	5.91	13

1B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Eric Attaway	48	361	37	6	37	.985	8.29
Dana Berry	38	300	27	12	25	.965	8.61
Al Minker	38	279	14	4	27	.987	7.71
Greg Darichuk	15	86	8	4	5	.959	6.27
Bruce Fournier	7	37	1	1	4	.974	5.43
Mike Davis	4	24	2	0	2	1.000	6.50
Pat Dempsey	4	24	4	2	0	.933	7.00
John Kniss	1	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.00

2B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Robert Klebba	82	183	220	13	42	.969	4.91
Howard Robinson	37	72	76	12	17	.925	4.00
Paul Mize	23	65	67	6	17	.957	5.74
John Kniss	5	11	6	4	1	.810	3.40
Shooty Babitt	1	3	3	1	1	.857	6.00

3B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Bruce Fournier	87	84	140	26	11	.896	2.57
Shooty Babitt	34	36	61	11	7	.898	2.85
Robert Klebba	12	12	22	2	2	.944	2.83
David Gallino	9	10	14	4	2	.857	2.67
John Kniss	6	6	3	0	0	1.000	1.50
Paul Mize	5	4	7	1	0	.917	2.20

SS

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Paul Mize	96	147	262	38	43	.915	4.26
Michael Kennedy	30	52	72	12	14	.912	4.13
David Gallino	22	43	58	10	12	.910	4.59
John Kniss	2	1	5	0	1	1.000	3.00

OF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Mike Patterson	93	161	6	7	0	.960	1.80
Mike Davis	91	177	8	13	0	.934	2.03
Donald Morris	68	158	8	8	0	.954	2.44
Jim Bennett	61	121	8	8	4	.942	2.11
Donald Eagan	45	48	5	4	1	.930	1.18
John Kniss	36	49	8	6	1	.905	1.58
Robert Markham	28	55	3	8	1	.879	2.07
Shooty Babitt	16	20	3	4	0	.852	1.44
Eric Attaway	9	12	2	1	1	.933	1.56
Paul Mize	1	1	0	2	0	.333	1.00

P

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
David McCarthy	35	12	27	1	1	.975	1.11
Kenneth Palmer	33	4	10	3	0	.824	0.42
Donald Schubert	31	4	21	0	1	1.000	0.81
Michael McLellan	27	9	8	11	0	.607	0.63
Dave Beard	25	6	21	3	0	.900	1.08
Craig Harris	23	7	14	2	2	.913	0.91
Bobby Moore	23	9	14	2	0	.920	1.00
David Fuqua	20	2	13	0	1	1.000	0.75
Dennis Wyszynski	17	5	12	5	0	.773	1.00
Barton Braun	15	2	5	0	0	1.000	0.47
Douglas Hunt	15	4	3	1	0	.875	0.47
Randall Cashore	12	0	5	0	3	1.000	0.42
Donald VanMarter	11	4	2	2	0	.750	0.55
Brian Kingman	10	2	8	0	0	1.000	1.00
John Lavery	9	1	2	2	0	.600	0.33
Ernie Camacho	1	0	0	0	0		0.00
Bruce Fournier	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.00

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Eric Attaway	20	L	L	6' 0.0"	175	May 13, 1958
Shooty Babitt	19	R	R	5' 8.0"	174	Mar 9, 1959	Oakland, CA, US
Dave Beard	18	L	R	6' 5.0"	190	Oct 2, 1959	Atlanta, GA, US
Jim Bennett	20	L	L	6' 0.0"	175	Feb 8, 1958
Dana Berry	19	L	R	6' 3.0"	185	1959
Barton Braun	22	R	R	6' 2.0"	174	Apr 14, 1956
Ernie Camacho	23	R	R	6' 1.0"	180	Feb 1, 1955	Salinas, CA, US
Randall Cashore	--	R	R			Unknown
Greg Darichuk	22	L	L	6' 1.0"	180	1956
Mike Davis	19	L	L	6' 2.0"	175	Jun 11, 1959	San Diego, CA, US
Pat Dempsey	21	R	R	6' 4.0"	185	Oct 23, 1956	Encino, CA, US
Donald Eagan	21	R	R	6' 0.0"	178	Jan 4, 1957
Bruce Fournier	20	L	R	6' 2.0"	195	Sep 18, 1957
David Fuqua	25	R	R	6' 1.0"	172	Feb 8, 1953	Bend, OR, US
David Gallino	22	R	R	5' 10.0"	170	Nov 8, 1955
Craig Harris	19	R	R	6' 5.0"	210	1959
Douglas Hunt	21	L	R	6' 1.0"	195	Dec 28, 1956
Michael Kennedy	20	S	R	6' 0.0"	170	1958
Brian Kingman	23	R	R	6' 2.0"	200	Jul 27, 1954	Los Angeles, CA, US
Robert Klebba	23	R	R	5' 11.0"	175	1955
John Kniss	20	R	R	5' 11.0"	168	Sep 3, 1957
John Lavery	25	R	R	5' 11.0"	175	1953
Robert Markham	22	L	L	5' 11.0"	180	1956
David McCarthy	22	L	L	6' 1.0"	185	Jan 30, 1956	Evergreen Park, IL, US
Michael McLellan	22	R	R	6' 1.0"	195	1956
Al Minker	20	R	R	6' 6.0"	230	Aug 18, 1957
Paul Mize	23	R	R	5' 11.0"	165	1955
Bobby Moore	19	R	R	6' 4.0"	200	Nov 8, 1958	Sweetwater, LA, US
Donald Morris	22	R	R	6' 0.0"	178	1956
Tadeusz Nowakowski	21	S	R	6' 3.0"	200	1957
Kenneth Palmer	--	R	R			Unknown
Mike Patterson	20	L	R	5' 10.0"	170	Jan 26, 1958	Santa Monica, CA, US
Howard Robinson	20	S	R	6' 1.0"	170	Nov 30, 1957
Donald Schubert	19	R	R	6' 2.0"	188	Aug 24, 1958
Donald VanMarter	20	R	R	6' 3.0"	190	1958
Dennis Wyszynski	21	R	R	6' 1.0"	175	1957

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