1969 Billings Mustangs

1969 > Class Rookie > 1969 Pioneer League
Overall: 26-45
Scored 374 runs, Allowed 464 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 29-42

Affiliation: Seattle Pilots-AL
Manager: Bob Mavis and Roland LeBlanc
Represented: Billings, MT
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1970

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	Rick Auerbach	19	12	61	49	12	14	4	0	3	9	0	0	11	11	.286	.410	.551	.961	27	0	0	1
2	Leon Beasley*	18	21	82	67	12	11	1	0	0	4	0	0	15	25	.164	.317	.179	.496	12	0	0	0
3	Sten Berg	22	20	16	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.167	.333	.167	.500	2	0	1	0
4	Louie Bunch	21	20	66	57	7	14	3	1	1	8	0	0	8	15	.246	.348	.386	.734	22	1	0	0
5	Bob Coluccio	17	63	248	213	36	52	11	2	3	23	6	1	30	51	.244	.335	.357	.692	76	0	3	2
6	John Conzatti	19	21	20	16	2	2	1	0	0	4	0	0	3	4	.125	.250	.188	.438	3	0	0	1
7	Bobby Cook*	18	14	19	17	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	.118	.211	.176	.387	3	0	0	0
8	Ernest De La O	22	15	17	16	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.125	.176	.125	.301	2	0	0	0
9	Pedro Garcia	19	69	296	234	46	58	15	2	10	32	1	0	47	82	.248	.394	.457	.851	107	10	4	1
10	Stephen Harvey	18	5	6	4	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.500	.667	.500	1.167	2	0	0	0
11	Norman Hill#	--	31	81	72	8	14	3	0	0	5	1	0	8	36	.194	.284	.236	.520	17	1	0	0
12	Dan Johnson	19	15	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
13	Larry Kissock	21	21	60	45	9	9	2	0	0	5	0	0	14	15	.200	.400	.244	.644	11	1	0	0
14	Jeffrey Lemon#	21	12	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0
15	David Lindsey*	21	28	76	63	12	20	4	1	3	14	0	0	9	19	.317	.419	.556	.974	35	2	2	0
16	Chuck Loseth	18	16	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	1	0
17	Michael Marble	21	20	12	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	2	0	0	0
18	John Martin*	22	25	75	64	6	10	1	0	1	4	0	0	10	15	.156	.280	.219	.499	14	1	0	0
19	Gary Martz	18	66	279	252	35	66	6	4	6	40	1	0	24	62	.262	.330	.389	.719	98	2	0	1
20	Bob Matulich	23	9	39	32	7	7	3	0	1	7	0	0	6	2	.219	.359	.406	.765	13	1	0	0
21	Larry May	19	14	29	27	4	7	0	1	0	4	0	0	1	8	.259	.286	.333	.619	9	0	1	0
22	Larry Nero	19	45	112	106	11	19	8	2	0	9	0	0	5	46	.179	.214	.292	.507	31	0	0	1
23	Charles Pankow	20	7	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	0
24	Bill Parsons	20	1	4	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	2	0	1	0
25	Edgar Pate	19	8	16	15	3	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	3	.200	.250	.267	.517	4	0	0	0
26	Stephen Peters	22	20	69	50	14	13	3	0	0	9	0	0	16	9	.260	.435	.320	.755	16	1	0	2
27	Jose Salado	19	48	168	139	25	35	4	1	2	15	4	1	23	30	.252	.371	.338	.709	47	4	1	1
28	Jim Slaton	19	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
29	Virgil Smith	19	37	86	76	13	17	2	0	0	3	0	0	10	31	.224	.314	.250	.564	19	0	0	0
30	James Spencer	18	26	86	70	8	12	0	0	0	2	0	0	14	23	.171	.306	.171	.477	12	0	1	1
31	Charles Sprinkle	21	17	12	8	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	.250	.455	.250	.705	2	0	1	0
32	Albert Strane	22	26	121	87	25	22	5	0	3	14	4	3	30	11	.253	.446	.414	.860	36	2	0	2
33	Gorman Thomas	18	41	162	142	23	42	10	3	4	28	4	2	16	45	.296	.363	.493	.855	70	0	2	2
34	Rudolph Toth*	18	3	7	7	1	4	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	3	.571	.571	.571	1.143	4	0	0	0
35	William Turner#	18	11	6	5	2	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	2	.400	.500	.400	.900	2	0	0	0
36	James Walton*	18	42	133	113	21	34	7	0	1	16	0	0	15	20	.301	.397	.389	.786	44	3	2	0
37	Phillip Zahn*	22	49	188	159	25	55	3	4	8	35	5	0	20	45	.346	.436	.566	1.002	90	7	0	2
	37 Players	19.3	71	2677	2253	374	560	98	21	46	306	26	7	351	646	.249	.356	.372	.728	838	36	20	17	5

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	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	Sten Berg	22	1	2	.333	6.43	19	4	1	0	0	49.0	63	38	35	2	23	0	34	1	3	0	1.755	11.6	0.4	4.2	6.2	1.48
2	John Conzatti	19	3	5	.375	5.37	21	4	1	0	0	57.0	60	43	34	4	27	0	73	2	0	5	1.526	9.5	0.6	4.3	11.5	2.70
3	Ernest De La O	22	1	3	.250	5.87	14	8	0	0	1	46.0	64	42	30	3	29	0	46	1	0	5	2.022	12.5	0.6	5.7	9.0	1.59
4	Stephen Harvey	18	0	2	.000	10.59	5	5	0	0	0	17.0	26	21	20	0	17	0	7	2	2	1	2.529	13.8	0.0	9.0	3.7	0.41
5	Dan Johnson	19	1	0	1.000	7.58	15	1	0	0	2	19.0	19	18	16	1	19	0	10	2	0	4	2.000	9.0	0.5	9.0	4.7	0.53
6	Jeffrey Lemon	21	1	0	1.000	6.19	12	0	0	0	0	16.0	20	13	11	0	11	0	12	1	0	4	1.938	11.2	0.0	6.2	6.8	1.09
7	David Lindsey*	21	3	6	.333	6.43	13	10	1	0	1	42.0	58	54	30	3	45	0	31	3	1	2	2.452	12.4	0.6	9.6	6.6	0.69
8	Chuck Loseth	18	0	10	.000	6.45	16	8	0	0	0	53.0	46	46	38	4	65	1	52	5	2	5	2.094	7.8	0.7	11.0	8.8	0.80
9	Michael Marble	21	0	3	.000	2.93	20	1	0	0	1	46.0	48	32	15	3	22	0	35	2	0	2	1.522	9.4	0.6	4.3	6.8	1.59
10	Larry May	19	3	4	.429	3.00	13	12	1	1	0	66.0	63	37	22	3	45	0	40	0	0	4	1.636	8.6	0.4	6.1	5.5	0.89
11	Larry Nero	19	0	1	.000	5.73	8	4	0	0	0	22.0	22	17	14	0	18	0	16	1	2	6	1.818	9.0	0.0	7.4	6.5	0.89
12	Charles Pankow*	20	1	1	.500	6.50	7	3	1	0	1	18.0	21	19	13	0	18	0	15	1	0	4	2.167	10.5	0.0	9.0	7.5	0.83
13	Bill Parsons	20	1	0	1.000	2.57	1	1	1	0	0	7.0	4	3	2	0	3	0	11	0	0	0	1.000	5.1	0.0	3.9	14.1	3.67
14	Edgar Pate*	19	2	4	.333	6.40	8	8	1	0	0	45.0	57	43	32	2	30	0	33	5	0	1	1.933	11.4	0.4	6.0	6.6	1.10
15	Jim Slaton	19	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	8.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	16	1	2	0	0.125	1.1	0.0	0.0	18.0
16	Charles Sprinkle	21	6	2	.750	5.40	17	0	0	0	4	30.0	33	19	18	2	17	0	36	4	0	3	1.667	9.9	0.6	5.1	10.8	2.12
17	William Turner	18	2	2	.500	5.54	11	2	0	0	0	26.0	33	19	16	0	20	0	26	1	0	1	2.038	11.4	0.0	6.9	9.0	1.30
	17 Players	19.9	26	45	.366		71	71						464

Team Fielding--By Pos

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

C

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB
Jose Salado	42	299	30	3	4	.991	7.83	13
Louie Bunch	19	124	16	4	2	.972	7.37	12
Larry Kissock	17	105	3	1	0	.991	6.35	10

1B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Leon Beasley	21	132	8	7	14	.952	6.67
James Spencer	15	89	4	4	8	.959	6.20
David Lindsey	13	97	7	4	12	.963	8.00
Bob Matulich	8	62	3	4	3	.942	8.13
Phillip Zahn	8	41	3	2	4	.957	5.50
Gorman Thomas	5	33	4	1	2	.974	7.40
Jose Salado	3	19	1	1	1	.952	6.67
Rudolph Toth	1	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.00

2B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Pedro Garcia	54	116	100	17	18	.927	4.00
Norman Hill	24	40	36	7	8	.916	3.17
Jose Salado	1	2	4	0	0	1.000	6.00

3B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
John Martin	18	12	19	11	1	.738	1.72
Stephen Peters	16	9	21	3	4	.909	1.88
Bob Coluccio	12	13	27	6	3	.870	3.33
Albert Strane	12	5	16	6	3	.778	1.75
James Spencer	10	2	19	5	1	.808	2.10
Pedro Garcia	6	2	12	2	0	.875	2.33
Bobby Cook	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00

SS

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Gorman Thomas	34	61	78	26	10	.842	4.09
Albert Strane	14	33	42	8	6	.904	5.36
Rick Auerbach	12	14	29	6	1	.878	3.58
Pedro Garcia	9	20	33	4	6	.930	5.89
Bobby Cook	2	1	3	0	1	1.000	2.00
John Martin	2	1	3	1	1	.800	2.00

OF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Gary Martz	66	82	4	6	0	.935	1.30
Bob Coluccio	46	80	7	8	1	.916	1.89
Phillip Zahn	36	75	3	4	1	.951	2.17
James Walton	32	36	0	1	0	.973	1.13
Larry Nero	26	37	2	4	1	.907	1.50
Virgil Smith	22	19	1	0	0	1.000	0.91

P

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
John Conzatti	21	3	11	0	0	1.000	0.67
Michael Marble	20	2	8	3	0	.769	0.50
Sten Berg	19	5	8	1	0	.929	0.68
Charles Sprinkle	17	2	3	0	1	1.000	0.29
Chuck Loseth	16	2	13	3	2	.833	0.94
Dan Johnson	15	0	2	0	1	1.000	0.13
Ernest De La O	14	2	6	1	0	.889	0.57
David Lindsey	13	2	4	0	1	1.000	0.46
Larry May	13	5	9	1	1	.933	1.08
Jeffrey Lemon	12	0	4	1	0	.800	0.33
William Turner	11	2	3	0	1	1.000	0.45
Larry Nero	8	3	1	1	0	.800	0.50
Edgar Pate	8	2	8	2	0	.833	1.25
Charles Pankow	7	0	1	1	0	.500	0.14
Stephen Harvey	5	1	1	1	0	.667	0.40
Jim Slaton	2	1	0	1	0	.500	0.50
Bill Parsons	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Rick Auerbach	19	R	R	6' 0.0"	165	Feb 15, 1950	Woodland Hills, CA, US
Leon Beasley	18	L	L	6' 2.0"	177	1951
Sten Berg	22	R	R	6' 3.0"	185	1947
Louie Bunch	21	R	R	5' 10.0"	175	1948
Bob Coluccio	17	R	R	5' 11.0"	183	Oct 2, 1951	Centralia, WA, US
John Conzatti	19	R	R	5' 11.0"	188	Apr 14, 1950	Chehalis, WA, US
Bobby Cook	18	L	R	5' 10.0"	165	1951
Ernest De La O	22	R	R	6' 5.0"	230	1947
Pedro Garcia	19	R	R	5' 10.0"	175	Apr 17, 1950	Guayama, PR
Stephen Harvey	18	R	R	6' 1.0"	180	Jan 19, 1951	Seattle, WA, US
Norman Hill	--	S	R	5' 9.0"	160	Unknown
Dan Johnson	19	R	R	6' 2.0"	195	1950
Larry Kissock	21	R	R	6' 0.0"	195	1948
Jeffrey Lemon	21	S	R	5' 10.0"	160	1948
David Lindsey	21	L	L	5' 11.0"	175	Jan 27, 1948	Los Angeles, CA, US
Chuck Loseth	18	R	R	6' 1.0"	175	Jan 10, 1951
Michael Marble	21	R	R	5' 9.0"	185	1948
John Martin	22	L	R	5' 10.0"	170	1947
Gary Martz	18	R	R	6' 4.0"	210	Jan 10, 1951	Spokane, WA, US
Bob Matulich	23	R	R	6' 1.0"	185	1946
Larry May	19	R	R	6' 1.0"	175	1950
Larry Nero	19	R	R	6' 0.0"	180	1950
Charles Pankow	20	R	L			1949
Bill Parsons	20	R	R	6' 6.0"	195	Aug 17, 1948	Riverside, CA, US
Edgar Pate	19	R	L	6' 7.0"	220	1950
Stephen Peters	22	R	R	5' 9.0"	175	1947
Jose Salado	19	R	R	5' 10.0"	160	1950
Jim Slaton	19	R	R	6' 0.0"	185	Jun 19, 1950	Long Beach, CA, US
Virgil Smith	19	R	R	5' 9.0"	165	1950
James Spencer	18	R	R	6' 0.0"	175	1951
Charles Sprinkle	21	R	R	6' 0.0"	180	Jan 28, 1948	Detroit, MI, US
Albert Strane	22	R	R	5' 11.0"	160	1947
Gorman Thomas	18	R	R	6' 2.0"	210	Dec 12, 1950	Charleston, SC, US
Rudolph Toth	18	L	R	6' 2.0"	195	1951
William Turner	18	S	R	6' 1.0"	190	1951
James Walton	18	L	L	5' 9.0"	175	1951
Phillip Zahn	22	L	R	6' 1.0"	195	1947

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