1978 Atlanta Braves Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1978 Atlanta Braves Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1977 / 1979)
69-93, Finished 6th in NL West
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Scored 600 runs, Allowed 750 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 65-97
Manager: Bobby Cox (69-93)
Ballpark: Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 904,494 (12th of 12)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 112, Pitching - 114; one-year: Batting - 113, Pitching - 115
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1977 / 1979 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#	24	92	327	289	21	70	8	0	6	34	0	3	29	14	.242	.312	.332	.644	72	96	15	2	3	4	6
2	1B	Dale Murphy	22	151	583	530	66	120	14	3	23	79	11	7	42	145	.226	.284	.394	.679	80	209	15	3	3	5	3
3	2B	Jerry Royster	25	140	600	529	67	137	17	8	2	35	27	17	56	49	.259	.331	.333	.664	78	176	9	3	8	4	2
4	SS	Darrel Chaney#	30	89	274	245	27	55	9	1	3	20	1	0	25	48	.224	.295	.306	.601	61	75	1	0	3	1	7
5	3B	Bob Horner	20	89	359	323	50	86	17	1	23	63	0	0	24	42	.266	.313	.539	.852	124	174	7	2	1	9	2
6	LF	Jeff Burroughs	27	153	611	488	72	147	30	6	23	77	1	2	117	92	.301	.432	.529	.961	156	258	16	0	0	6	12
7	CF	Rowland Office*	25	146	439	404	40	101	13	1	9	40	8	6	22	52	.250	.297	.354	.651	73	143	8	6	4	3	2
8	RF	Gary Matthews	27	129	542	474	75	135	20	5	18	62	8	7	61	92	.285	.366	.462	.828	120	219	16	2	1	4	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	Rod Gilbreath	25	116	356	326	22	80	13	3	3	31	7	6	26	51	.245	.300	.331	.632	69	108	6	0	3	1	3
10	CF	Barry Bonnell	24	117	326	304	36	73	11	3	1	16	12	6	20	30	.240	.287	.306	.593	59	93	15	0	2	0	1
11	C	Joe Nolan*	27	95	249	213	22	49	7	3	4	22	3	2	34	28	.230	.339	.347	.686	84	74	3	1	1	0	5
12	1B	Bob Beall#	30	108	225	185	29	45	8	0	1	16	4	5	36	27	.243	.368	.303	.670	81	56	4	1	2	1	0
13	2B	Glenn Hubbard	20	44	179	163	15	42	4	0	2	13	2	1	10	20	.258	.309	.319	.628	68	52	2	2	4	0	1
14	SS	Pat Rockett	23	55	157	142	6	20	2	0	0	4	1	2	13	12	.141	.212	.155	.366	-0	22	6	0	1	1	3
15	UT	Cito Gaston	34	60	124	118	5	27	1	0	1	9	0	0	3	20	.229	.244	.263	.507	36	31	4	0	1	2	0
16	RF	Brian Asselstine*	24	39	122	103	11	28	3	3	2	13	2	1	11	16	.272	.339	.417	.756	101	43	1	2	1	5	1
17	C	Bruce Benedict	22	22	58	52	3	13	2	0	0	1	0	0	6	6	.250	.328	.288	.616	66	15	0	0	0	0	2
18	IF	Chico Ruiz	26	18	48	46	3	13	3	0	0	2	0	0	2	4	.283	.313	.348	.660	76	16	1	0	0	0	1
19	OF	Eddie Miller#	21	6	24	21	5	3	1	0	0	2	3	0	2	4	.143	.250	.190	.440	19	4	0	1	0	0	0
20	RF	Larry Whisenton*	21	6	17	16	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.188	.235	.250	.485	30	4	0	0	0	0	0
21	3B	Jerry Maddox	24	7	15	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.214	.267	.214	.481	30	3	1	0	0	0	0
22	1B	Tom Paciorek	31	5	9	9	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	79	3	0	0	0	0	0
23	1B	Hank Small	24	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	0	0	0
24	IF	Rob Belloir	29	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	684	2	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
25	P	Phil Niekro	39	45	129	120	5	27	4	0	0	10	0	0	3	25	.225	.248	.258	.506	36	31	3	1	4	1	0
26	P	Preston Hanna	23	29	52	49	4	9	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	18	.184	.200	.286	.486	29	14	1	0	2	0	0
27	P	Mickey Mahler#	25	34	47	41	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.098	.119	.098	.217	-41	4	1	0	5	0	0
28	P	Larry McWilliams*	24	15	36	32	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	19	.063	.063	.125	.188	-51	4	0	0	4	0	0
29	P	Eddie Solomon	27	38	30	29	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.138	.167	.138	.305	-18	4	3	1	0	0	0
30	P	Dick Ruthven	27	13	27	24	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.083	.083	.083	.167	-55	2	0	0	3	0	0
31	P	Jamie Easterly*	25	37	21	19	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.211	.250	.263	.513	37	5	1	0	1	0	0
32	P	Tommy Boggs	22	16	19	18	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.333	.500	31	6	0	0	1	0	0
33	P	Adrian Devine	26	31	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.091	.091	.091	.182	-51	1	0	0	1	0	0
34	P	Gene Garber	30	44	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.091	.167	.091	.258	-29	1	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Rick Camp	25	42	10	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.111	.000	.111	-68	0	0	0	1	0	0
36	P	Jim Bouton	39	5	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	-64	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Craig Skok	30	43	8	8	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.375	.625	65	3	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Frank LaCorte	26	2	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
39	P	Duane Theiss	24	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Mike Davey	26	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Dave Campbell	26	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Max Leon	28	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	25.4	162	6066	5381	600	1313	191	39	123	558	90	65	550	874	.244	.315	.363	.677	81	1951	140	27	61	47	53
		Rank in 12 NL teams				10	10	12	12	8	4		10	4	6	3	12	8	7	8		8
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.

Team Pitching

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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	39	19	18	.514	2.88	44	42	1	22	4	1	334.1	295	129	107	16	102	5	248	13	3	11	1389	142	1.187	7.9	0.4	2.7	6.7	2.43
2	SP	Preston Hanna	23	7	13	.350	5.13	29	28	1	0	0	0	140.1	132	89	80	10	93	5	90	3	2	11	637	80	1.603	8.5	0.6	6.0	5.8	0.97
3	SP	Mickey Mahler*	25	4	11	.267	4.68	34	21	3	1	0	0	134.2	130	82	70	16	66	6	92	7	3	12	597	87	1.455	8.7	1.1	4.4	6.1	1.39
4	SP	Larry McWilliams*	24	9	3	.750	2.81	15	15	0	3	1	0	99.1	84	38	31	11	35	4	42	2	0	2	417	145	1.198	7.6	1.0	3.2	3.8	1.20
5	SP	Dick Ruthven	27	2	6	.250	4.11	13	13	0	2	1	0	81.0	78	43	37	8	28	2	45	0	0	3	342	99	1.309	8.7	0.9	3.1	5.0	1.61
6	SP	Tommy Boggs	22	2	8	.200	6.71	16	12	2	1	1	0	59.0	80	46	44	8	26	3	21	1	1	3	283	61	1.797	12.2	1.2	4.0	3.2	0.81
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
7	CL	Gene Garber	30	4	4	.500	2.53	43	0	36	0	0	22	78.1	58	26	22	11	13	3	61	2	2	3	302	161	0.906	6.7	1.3	1.5	7.0	4.69
8	RP	Eddie Solomon	27	4	6	.400	4.08	37	8	13	0	0	2	106.0	98	52	48	12	50	11	64	2	1	5	459	100	1.396	8.3	1.0	4.2	5.4	1.28
9	RP	Rick Camp	25	2	4	.333	3.75	42	4	9	0	0	0	74.1	99	42	31	5	32	10	23	3	1	1	344	109	1.762	12.0	0.6	3.9	2.8	0.72
10	RP	Dave Campbell	26	4	4	.500	4.80	53	0	35	0	0	1	69.1	67	39	37	10	49	12	45	5	2	2	322	85	1.673	8.7	1.3	6.4	5.8	0.92
11	RP	Craig Skok*	30	3	2	.600	4.35	43	0	11	0	0	2	62.0	64	38	30	8	27	8	28	0	1	4	273	94	1.468	9.3	1.2	3.9	4.1	1.04
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
12		Jamie Easterly*	25	3	6	.333	5.65	37	6	8	0	0	1	78.0	91	52	49	9	45	6	42	2	0	7	355	72	1.744	10.5	1.0	5.2	4.8	0.93
13		Adrian Devine	26	5	4	.556	5.92	31	6	11	0	0	3	65.1	84	45	43	3	25	5	26	0	2	2	294	69	1.668	11.6	0.4	3.4	3.6	1.04
14		Jim Bouton	39	1	3	.250	4.97	5	5	0	0	0	0	29.0	25	18	16	4	21	1	10	0	0	0	129	82	1.586	7.8	1.2	6.5	3.1	0.48
15		Frank LaCorte	26	0	1	.000	3.68	2	2	0	0	0	0	14.2	9	6	6	0	4	1	7	0	0	1	56	111	0.886	5.5	0.0	2.5	4.3	1.75
16		Duane Theiss	24	0	0		1.42	3	0	2	0	0	0	6.1	3	1	1	0	3	0	3	1	0	0	24	287	0.947	4.3	0.0	4.3	4.3	1.00
17		Max Leon	28	0	0		6.35	5	0	1	0	0	0	5.2	6	4	4	1	4	0	1	1	0	0	29	64	1.765	9.5	1.6	6.4	1.6	0.25
18		Mike Davey*	26	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	9		0.750	3.4	0.0	3.4	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	29.0	69	93	.426	4.10	162	162	133	29	7	32	1440.1	1404	750	656	132	624	82	848	42	18	67	6261	100	1.408	8.8	0.8	3.9	5.3	1.36
		Rank in 12 NL teams		10	2		12				8	7	6	7	9	12	11	12	12		9906
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	24	42	26	249.2	62	59	1	2	0	.968	-0.8	-3.8	-0.8	-3.3	2.6	0			2.16	1.43						RF-CF
Bob Beall	30	48	34	320.2	310	282	24	4	23	.987	-4.1	-15.3	-4.1	-2.4	-1.7	0	0		8.59	6.38						1B-LF-CF
Rob Belloir	29	2	0	4.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	-0.5	-150.0	-0.5	-0.1	-0.4		0		2.25	0.50						3B-SS
Bruce Benedict	22	22	16	141.0	96	81	14	1	1	.990	2.0	17.0						2	6.06	4.32	0	4	16	11	41%	C
Tommy Boggs	22	16	12	59.0	11	5	3	3	0	.727									1.22	0.50						P
Barry Bonnell	24	147	73	713.0	221	180	35	6	3	.973	4.5	7.6	0.5	2.3	-1.9	4	0		2.71	1.46						CF-LF-3B-RF
Jim Bouton	39	5	5	29.0	7	3	3	1	0	.857									1.86	1.20						P
Jeff Burroughs	27	147	147	1182.2	247	228	13	6	2	.976	-9.1	-9.2	-3.1	-4.4	1.2	-6			1.83	1.64						LF
Dave Campbell	26	53	0	69.1	16	6	9	1	1	.938									1.95	0.28						P
Rick Camp	25	42	4	74.1	23	8	12	3	0	.870									2.42	0.48						P
Darrel Chaney	30	86	60	588.1	306	100	199	7	32	.977	1.3	2.7	2.3	-1.8	4.1		-1		4.57	3.48						SS-3B-2B
Mike Davey	26	3	0	2.2	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Adrian Devine	26	31	6	65.1	20	10	9	1	1	.950									2.62	0.61						P
Jamie Easterly	25	37	6	78.0	17	2	14	1	1	.941									1.85	0.43						P
Gene Garber	30	44	1	78.1	22	11	11	0	0	1.000									2.53	0.50						P-CF
Cito Gaston	34	35	23	208.0	72	67	2	3	1	.958	-1.6	-9.2	0.4	1.2	-0.8	-2	0		2.99	1.97						RF-LF-1B-CF
Rod Gilbreath	25	101	87	780.1	321	108	204	9	22	.972	-3.6	-5.5	-1.6	-2.1	0.6		-2		3.60	3.09						3B-2B
Preston Hanna	23	29	28	140.1	28	10	18	0	1	1.000									1.80	0.97						P
Bob Horner	20	89	88	769.2	293	81	199	13	17	.956	-1.8	-2.8	-1.8	0.8	-2.6		0		3.27	3.15						3B
Glenn Hubbard	20	44	44	389.1	237	102	130	5	30	.979	2.2	6.8	1.2	1.9	-0.7		1		5.36	5.27						2B
Frank LaCorte	26	2	2	14.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									0.61	0.50						P
Max Leon	28	5	0	5.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									1.59	0.20						P
Jerry Maddox	24	5	4	33.0	11	3	7	1	0	.909	-0.5	-18.2	-0.5	-0.5	0.0		0		2.73	2.00						3B
Mickey Mahler	25	34	21	134.2	19	4	15	0	1	1.000									1.27	0.56						P
Gary Matthews	27	127	126	1076.2	257	239	10	8	0	.969	2.5	2.8	3.5	2.5	1.1	-1			2.08	1.96						RF
Larry McWilliams	24	15	15	99.1	29	10	19	0	1	1.000									2.63	1.93						P
Eddie Miller	21	5	5	48.2	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-0.9	-22.2	-0.9	-0.7	-0.2	0			1.11	1.20						CF-LF
Dale Murphy	22	150	141	1255.0	1348	1220	105	23	84	.983	-4.1	-3.9	-2.1	-5.1	3.0		-1	-1	9.50	8.83	6	10	13	12	48%	1B-C
Phil Niekro	39	44	42	334.1	84	17	65	2	4	.976									2.21	1.86						P
Joe Nolan	27	61	53	470.0	326	295	24	7	3	.979	-13.0	-33.2						-13	6.11	5.23	14	24	55	9	14%	C
Rowland Office	25	136	96	912.0	299	292	4	3	2	.990	6.6	8.7	8.6	5.2	3.4	-2			2.92	2.18						CF
Tom Paciorek	31	2	2	13.0	21	21	0	0	1	1.000	0.2	18.5	0.2	0.5	-0.3		0		14.54	10.50						1B
Biff Pocoroba	24	79	77	682.2	502	454	43	5	1	.990	-9.0	-15.8						-9	6.55	6.29	12	29	82	25	23%	C
Pat Rockett	23	51	45	383.2	166	64	97	5	16	.970	-13.9	-43.5	-11.9	-5.6	-6.4		-2		3.78	3.16						SS
Jerry Royster	25	136	133	1155.2	683	284	376	23	66	.966	-11.8	-12.3	-7.8	-6.7	-1.1		-4		5.14	4.85						2B-SS-3B
Chico Ruiz	26	15	11	103.0	64	31	32	1	5	.984	-0.1	-1.2	-0.1	-0.4	0.3		0		5.50	4.20						2B-3B
Dick Ruthven	27	13	13	81.0	29	9	13	7	0	.759									2.44	1.69						P
Craig Skok	30	43	0	62.0	12	3	9	0	0	1.000									1.74	0.28						P
Hank Small	24	1	1	9.0	13	12	1	0	1	1.000	0.3	40.0	0.3	0.0	0.3		0		13.00	13.00						1B
Eddie Solomon	27	37	8	106.0	23	5	16	2	1	.913									1.78	0.57						P
Duane Theiss	24	3	0	6.1	2	2	0	0	0	1.000									2.84	0.67						P
Larry Whisenton	21	4	3	33.2	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.4	0			1.34	1.25						RF
Team Totals	25.7	162	1457	12963.0	6213	4321	1739	153	321	.975	-55.2	-5.1	-18.2	-19.0	0.9	-7	-9	-21	4.21	3.10	32	67	166	57	26%
Rank in 12 NL teams								3	9	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

1977 / 1979 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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