1977 Atlanta Braves Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1977 Atlanta Braves Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1976 / 1978)
61-101, Finished 6th in NL West
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Scored 678 runs, Allowed 895 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 61-101
Manager: Dave Bristol (60-100), Ted Turner (0-1) and Vern Benson (1-0)
Ballpark: Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 872,464 (11th of 12)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 112, Pitching - 114; one-year: Batting - 114, Pitching - 117
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1976 / 1978 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Biff Pocoroba#	23	113	387	321	46	93	24	1	8	44	3	4	57	27	.290	.394	.445	.840	115	143	9	1	4	4	15
2	1B	Willie Montanez*	29	136	582	544	70	156	31	1	20	68	1	1	35	60	.287	.328	.458	.786	99	249	18	0	0	3	3
3	2B	Rod Gilbreath	24	128	463	407	47	99	15	2	8	43	3	9	45	79	.243	.320	.349	.669	72	142	10	2	7	2	6
4	SS	Pat Rockett	22	93	297	264	27	67	10	0	1	24	1	2	27	32	.254	.330	.303	.633	64	80	7	3	3	0	2
5	3B	Junior Moore	24	112	408	361	41	94	9	3	5	34	4	5	33	29	.260	.323	.343	.667	71	124	13	1	12	1	0
6	LF	Gary Matthews	26	148	627	555	89	157	25	5	17	64	22	8	67	90	.283	.362	.438	.799	104	243	13	2	2	1	3
7	CF	Rowland Office*	24	124	461	428	42	103	13	1	5	39	2	4	23	58	.241	.282	.311	.593	52	133	9	3	4	3	1
8	RF	Jeff Burroughs	26	154	671	579	91	157	19	1	41	114	4	1	86	126	.271	.362	.520	.882	123	301	8	0	0	6	2
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	IF	Jerry Royster	24	140	491	445	64	96	10	2	6	28	28	10	38	67	.216	.278	.288	.566	46	128	11	1	6	1	3
10	UT	Barry Bonnell	23	100	403	360	41	108	11	0	1	45	7	5	37	32	.300	.368	.339	.706	83	122	7	2	3	1	8
11	MI	Darrel Chaney#	29	74	231	209	22	42	7	2	3	15	0	0	17	44	.201	.260	.297	.557	43	62	9	0	4	1	2
12	C	Vic Correll	31	54	170	144	16	30	7	0	7	16	2	3	22	33	.208	.314	.403	.716	82	58	3	1	1	2	1
13	1B	Tom Paciorek	30	72	164	155	20	37	8	0	3	15	1	0	6	46	.239	.262	.348	.611	55	54	1	0	0	3	2
14	OF	Brian Asselstine*	23	83	134	124	12	26	6	0	4	17	1	0	9	10	.210	.263	.355	.618	57	44	2	0	1	0	1
15	C	Joe Nolan*	26	62	96	82	13	23	3	0	3	9	1	0	13	12	.280	.375	.427	.802	105	35	2	0	0	1	1
16	UT	Cito Gaston	33	56	93	85	6	23	4	0	3	21	1	0	5	19	.271	.301	.424	.725	84	36	3	0	0	3	0
17	C	Dale Murphy	21	18	76	76	5	24	8	1	2	14	0	1	0	8	.316	.316	.526	.842	112	40	3	0	0	0	0
18	SS	Craig Robinson	28	27	30	29	4	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.207	.233	.241	.475	22	7	0	0	0	0	0
19		Larry Whisenton*	20	4	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	29	1	0	0	0	0	0
20	SS	Rob Belloir	28	6	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
21	P	Phil Niekro	38	44	123	109	2	19	1	0	0	7	0	0	0	15	.174	.180	.183	.364	-6	20	3	1	12	1	0
22	P	Dick Ruthven	26	25	52	45	4	12	1	1	1	3	0	0	2	15	.267	.298	.400	.698	77	18	2	0	5	0	0
23	P	Buzz Capra	29	45	42	36	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	9	.111	.179	.111	.291	-23	4	0	0	3	0	0
24	P	Andy Messersmith	31	16	39	34	2	4	2	0	1	3	0	0	3	9	.118	.189	.265	.454	15	9	0	0	2	0	0
25	P	Eddie Solomon	26	18	35	31	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	9	.129	.206	.129	.335	-12	4	0	0	1	0	0
26	P	Max Leon	27	33	23	19	3	6	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	.316	.300	.316	.616	58	6	1	0	3	1	0
27	P	Preston Hanna	22	17	18	14	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	6	.071	.235	.071	.307	-17	1	0	0	1	0	0
28	P	Jamie Easterly*	24	23	17	15	0	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.267	.267	.400	.667	68	6	0	0	2	0	0
29	P	Dave Campbell	25	65	14	12	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.083	.083	.083	.167	-57	1	0	0	2	0	0
30	P	Don Collins	24	40	12	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	1	0	0
31	P	Frank LaCorte	25	14	12	10	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	3	2	0	0	2	0	0
32	P	Mickey Mahler#	24	5	9	6	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.500	.625	.667	1.292	232	4	0	0	1	0	0
33	P	Steve Hargan	34	16	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Rick Camp	24	54	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Bob Johnson*	34	15	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	72	1	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Duane Theiss	23	17	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
37	P	Mike Davey	25	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Joey McLaughlin	20	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Mike Marshall	34	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	416	1	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Mike Beard*	27	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Larry Bradford	27	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Steve Kline	29	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	25.7	162	6205	5534	678	1404	218	20	139	638	82	53	537	876	.254	.320	.376	.696	78	2079	135	17	83	34	50
		Rank in 12 NL teams				7	9	9	12	12	4		11	10	6	7	8	9	10	11		11
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

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Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	Phil Niekro	38	16	20	.444	4.03	44	43	1	20	2	0	330.1	315	166	148	26	164	12	262	8	3	17	1428	111	1.450	8.6	0.7	4.5	7.1	1.60
2	SP	Dick Ruthven	26	7	13	.350	4.23	25	23	1	6	2	0	151.0	158	86	71	14	62	6	84	1	4	2	666	105	1.457	9.4	0.8	3.7	5.0	1.35
3	SP	Andy Messersmith	31	5	4	.556	4.40	16	16	0	1	0	0	102.1	101	54	50	12	39	5	69	2	0	5	447	101	1.368	8.9	1.1	3.4	6.1	1.77
4	SP	Eddie Solomon	26	6	6	.500	4.57	18	16	0	0	0	0	88.2	110	64	45	10	34	2	54	2	2	3	403	98	1.624	11.2	1.0	3.5	5.5	1.59
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
5	CL	Dave Campbell	25	0	6	.000	3.05	65	0	31	0	0	13	88.2	78	32	30	7	33	6	42	3	0	3	375	147	1.252	7.9	0.7	3.3	4.3	1.27
6	RP	Buzz Capra	29	6	11	.353	5.36	45	16	7	0	0	0	139.1	142	88	83	28	80	12	100	4	0	7	633	83	1.593	9.2	1.8	5.2	6.5	1.25
7	RP	Max Leon	27	4	4	.500	3.97	31	9	11	0	0	1	81.2	89	42	36	9	25	2	44	9	1	1	359	112	1.396	9.8	1.0	2.8	4.8	1.76
8	RP	Rick Camp	24	6	3	.667	4.00	54	0	34	0	0	10	78.2	89	47	35	6	47	13	51	1	2	8	374	111	1.729	10.2	0.7	5.4	5.8	1.09
9	RP	Don Collins*	24	3	9	.250	5.09	40	6	8	0	0	2	70.2	82	43	40	8	41	8	27	1	3	3	324	88	1.741	10.4	1.0	5.2	3.4	0.66
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
10		Preston Hanna	22	2	6	.250	4.95	17	9	2	1	0	1	60.0	69	40	33	6	34	1	37	2	0	5	282	90	1.717	10.4	0.9	5.1	5.6	1.09
11		Jamie Easterly*	24	2	4	.333	6.14	22	5	6	0	0	1	58.2	72	46	40	5	30	4	37	3	0	0	275	73	1.739	11.0	0.8	4.6	5.7	1.23
12		Frank LaCorte	25	1	8	.111	11.68	14	7	1	0	0	0	37.0	67	51	48	10	29	1	28	2	0	0	205	38	2.595	16.3	2.4	7.1	6.8	0.97
13		Steve Hargan	34	0	3	.000	6.87	16	5	3	0	0	0	36.2	49	31	28	3	16	1	18	0	1	6	172	65	1.773	12.0	0.7	3.9	4.4	1.13
14		Mickey Mahler*	24	1	2	.333	6.26	5	5	0	0	0	0	23.0	31	19	16	4	9	0	14	1	0	1	109	71	1.739	12.1	1.6	3.5	5.5	1.56
15		Bob Johnson	34	0	1	.000	7.25	15	0	5	0	0	0	22.1	24	18	18	7	14	1	16	2	0	1	106	62	1.701	9.7	2.8	5.6	6.4	1.14
16		Duane Theiss	23	1	1	.500	6.53	17	0	7	0	0	0	20.2	26	16	15	1	16	5	7	1	0	0	102	68	2.032	11.3	0.4	7.0	3.0	0.44
17		Steve Kline	29	0	0		6.64	16	0	7	0	0	1	20.1	21	15	15	4	12	3	10	0	3	1	93	67	1.623	9.3	1.8	5.3	4.4	0.83
18		Mike Davey*	25	0	0		5.06	16	0	7	0	0	2	16.0	19	9	9	1	9	4	7	0	0	1	75	88	1.750	10.7	0.6	5.1	3.9	0.78
19		Joey McLaughlin	20	0	0		15.00	3	2	1	0	0	0	6.0	10	10	10	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	31	30	2.167	15.0	4.5	4.5	0.0	0.00
20		Mike Marshall	34	1	0	1.000	9.00	4	0	0	0	0	0	6.0	12	6	6	1	2	0	6	0	0	0	32	50	2.333	18.0	1.5	3.0	9.0	3.00
21		Mike Beard*	27	0	0		9.64	4	0	2	0	0	0	4.2	14	11	5	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	33	46	3.429	27.0	5.8	3.9	1.9	0.50
22		Larry Bradford*	27	0	0		3.38	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.2	3	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	132	1.125	10.1	3.4	0.0	3.4
		Team Totals	29.2	61	101	.377	4.87	162	162	134	28	4	31	1445.1	1581	895	782	169	701	86	915	42	19	64	6535	92	1.579	9.8	1.1	4.4	5.7	1.31
		Rank in 12 NL teams		12	1		12				6	11	9	10	12	12	12	12	12		10489
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary
Brian Asselstine	23	36	20	204.0	59	57	1	1	0	.983	2.3	13.5	1.3	-2.3	3.6	1			2.56	1.61						CF-LF-RF
Mike Beard	27	4	0	4.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									1.93	0.25						P
Rob Belloir	28	3	0	3.2	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	0.4	130.9	0.4	-0.1	0.5		0		7.36	1.00						SS
Barry Bonnell	23	109	88	796.0	273	200	65	8	1	.971	-3.7	-5.6	-1.7	-2.7	1.0	-1	-1		3.00	2.43						CF-3B-RF-LF
Larry Bradford	27	2	0	2.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									3.38	0.50						P
Jeff Burroughs	26	154	153	1346.0	264	248	9	7	3	.973	-25.9	-23.1	-17.9	-10.7	-7.3	-8			1.72	1.67						RF
Dave Campbell	25	65	0	88.2	10	0	9	1	0	.900									0.91	0.14						P
Rick Camp	24	54	0	78.2	16	4	10	2	1	.875									1.60	0.26						P
Buzz Capra	29	45	16	139.1	25	6	18	1	1	.960									1.55	0.53						P
Darrel Chaney	29	65	54	479.0	303	113	182	8	30	.974	2.5	6.3	3.5	2.5	1.1		-1		5.54	4.54						SS-2B
Don Collins	24	40	6	70.2	8	1	7	0	0	1.000									1.02	0.20						P
Vic Correll	31	49	46	372.2	293	247	38	8	2	.973	-6.0	-19.3						-6	6.88	5.82	10	16	57	22	28%	C
Mike Davey	25	16	0	16.0	4	3	1	0	0	1.000									2.25	0.25						P
Jamie Easterly	24	22	5	58.2	6	2	3	1	0	.833									0.77	0.23						P
Cito Gaston	33	14	11	100.0	48	43	4	1	2	.979	-2.4	-28.8	-2.4	-1.8	-0.6	0	0		4.23	3.36						LF-1B-RF
Rod Gilbreath	24	123	113	1006.1	598	277	308	13	61	.978	-12.2	-14.5	-8.2	-7.3	-1.0		-4		5.23	4.76						2B-3B
Preston Hanna	22	17	9	60.0	23	2	18	3	0	.870									3.00	1.18						P
Steve Hargan	34	16	5	36.2	15	3	11	1	0	.933									3.44	0.88						P
Bob Johnson	34	15	0	22.1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									0.40	0.07						P
Steve Kline	29	16	0	20.1	3	0	2	1	0	.667									0.89	0.13						P
Frank LaCorte	25	14	7	37.0	8	2	6	0	0	1.000									1.95	0.57						P
Max Leon	27	31	9	81.2	22	9	12	1	0	.955									2.31	0.68						P
Mickey Mahler	24	5	5	23.0	4	0	3	1	1	.750									1.17	0.60						P
Mike Marshall	34	4	0	6.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Gary Matthews	26	145	145	1283.1	283	262	11	10	1	.965	-4.2	-3.9	-5.2	-1.3	-3.9	1			1.91	1.88						LF
Joey McLaughlin	20	3	2	6.0	3	0	3	0	0	1.000									4.50	1.00						P
Andy Messersmith	31	16	16	102.1	22	5	15	2	1	.909									1.76	1.25						P
Willie Montanez	29	134	134	1172.0	1209	1129	70	10	88	.992	-12.3	-12.6	-12.3	-11.2	-1.1		0		9.21	8.95						1B
Junior Moore	24	105	92	813.2	292	86	189	17	10	.942	-5.5	-8.1	-4.5	-2.9	-1.6		-1		3.04	2.62						3B-2B
Dale Murphy	21	18	17	154.0	131	114	11	6	2	.954	-7.0	-54.5						-7	7.31	6.94	5	8	25	5	17%	C
Phil Niekro	38	44	43	330.1	71	20	51	0	5	1.000									1.93	1.61						P
Joe Nolan	26	19	13	120.1	87	80	7	0	2	1.000	-4.0	-39.9						-4	6.51	4.58	4	7	20	4	17%	C
Rowland Office	24	105	99	861.2	260	250	7	3	3	.988	-6.4	-8.9	-5.4	-0.9	-4.5	-1			2.68	2.45						CF-LF-1B
Tom Paciorek	30	42	29	282.0	270	249	16	5	20	.981	-0.1	-0.4	-0.1	0.4	-0.5	0	0		8.46	6.31						1B-RF-LF-CF-3B
Biff Pocoroba	23	100	86	798.1	627	542	78	7	8	.989	-4.0	-6.0						-4	6.99	6.20	15	33	103	52	34%	C
Craig Robinson	28	23	9	90.2	53	26	27	0	6	1.000	-0.3	-4.0	-0.3	-1.8	1.5		0		5.26	2.30						SS
Pat Rockett	22	84	82	694.2	384	152	209	23	38	.940	-24.0	-41.5	-21.0	-13.5	-7.6		-3		4.68	4.30						SS
Jerry Royster	24	146	105	984.1	477	182	267	28	40	.941	-25.1	-30.6	-22.1	-8.2	-14.1		-3		4.11	3.08						3B-SS-2B-CF
Dick Ruthven	26	25	23	151.0	31	10	16	5	1	.839									1.55	1.04						P
Eddie Solomon	26	18	16	88.2	18	5	12	1	0	.944									1.73	0.94						P
Duane Theiss	23	17	0	20.2	5	2	3	0	0	1.000									2.18	0.29						P
Team Totals	25.8	162	1458	13008.0	6216	4336	1705	175	327	.972	-137.9	-12.7	-95.9	-61.8	-34.5	-8	-13	-21	4.18	3.08	34	64	205	83	29%
Rank in 12 NL teams								3	12	10
	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary

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