1979 Houston Astros Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1979 Houston Astros Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1978 / 1980)
89-73, Finished 2nd in NL West
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Scored 583 runs, Allowed 582 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 81-81
Manager: Bill Virdon (89-73)
Ballpark: Astrodome (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,900,312 (5th of 12)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 94, Pitching - 94; one-year: Batting - 89, Pitching - 89
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1978 / 1980 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	Alan Ashby#	27	108	370	336	25	68	15	2	2	35	0	0	26	70	.202	.262	.277	.538	51	93	8	2	3	3	10
2	1B	Cesar Cedeno	28	132	549	470	57	123	27	4	6	54	30	13	64	52	.262	.348	.374	.722	103	176	15	3	3	9	8
3	2B	Rafael Landestoy#	26	129	319	282	33	76	9	6	0	30	13	4	29	24	.270	.338	.344	.682	92	97	1	1	5	2	5
4	SS	Craig Reynolds*	26	146	616	555	63	147	20	9	0	39	12	6	21	49	.265	.292	.333	.625	75	185	2	2	34	4	0
5	3B	Enos Cabell	29	155	630	603	60	164	30	5	6	67	37	18	21	68	.272	.299	.368	.668	87	222	18	3	2	1	7
6	LF	Jose Cruz*	31	157	636	558	73	161	33	7	9	72	36	14	72	66	.289	.367	.421	.788	121	235	5	0	1	5	16
7	CF	Terry Puhl*	22	157	672	600	87	172	22	4	8	49	30	22	58	46	.287	.352	.377	.729	105	226	7	4	8	2	8
8	RF	Jeffrey Leonard	23	134	467	411	47	119	15	5	0	47	23	10	46	68	.290	.360	.350	.710	101	144	11	2	3	5	7
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	Art Howe	32	118	398	355	32	88	15	2	6	33	3	1	36	37	.248	.316	.352	.668	87	125	7	1	2	4	5
10	MI	Julio Gonzalez	26	68	195	181	16	45	5	2	0	10	2	1	5	14	.249	.280	.298	.579	63	54	4	3	6	0	0
11	1B	Bob Watson	33	49	182	163	15	39	4	0	3	18	0	0	16	23	.239	.304	.319	.623	75	52	3	0	1	2	1
12	RF	Denny Walling*	25	82	165	147	21	48	8	4	3	31	3	2	17	21	.327	.394	.497	.891	149	73	2	0	0	1	2
13	C	Bruce Bochy	24	56	143	129	11	28	4	0	1	6	0	0	13	25	.217	.294	.271	.565	60	35	5	1	0	0	4
14	C	Luis Pujols	23	26	78	75	7	17	2	1	0	8	0	0	2	14	.227	.247	.280	.527	48	21	3	0	1	0	0
15	IF	Jimmy Sexton	27	52	50	43	8	9	0	0	0	1	1	3	7	7	.209	.320	.209	.529	52	9	0	0	0	0	0
16	UT	Jesus Alou	37	42	49	43	3	11	4	0	0	10	0	0	6	7	.256	.347	.349	.696	96	15	4	0	0	0	1
17	UT	Reggie Baldwin	24	14	20	20	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.250	.450	26	5	2	0	0	0	0
18	LF	Danny Heep*	21	14	17	14	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.143	.176	.143	.319	-9	2	0	0	0	2	1
19	1B	Dave Bergman*	26	13	15	15	4	6	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.400	.400	.600	1.000	177	9	0	0	0	0	0
20	UT	Alan Knicely	24	7	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.250	.000	.250	-23	0	2	0	0	0	0
21	OF	Tom Wiedenbauer	20	4	6	6	0	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.667	.667	.833	1.500	319	5	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
22	P	J.R. Richard	29	38	108	95	6	12	1	1	2	6	0	1	1	24	.126	.134	.221	.355	-2	21	4	0	11	1	0
23	P	Joe Niekro	34	38	99	83	1	10	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	21	.120	.140	.145	.284	-20	12	0	0	13	1	0
24	P	Ken Forsch	32	26	68	58	4	8	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	22	.138	.194	.155	.349	-1	9	1	0	6	0	0
25	P	Joaquin Andujar#	26	46	65	57	3	5	1	0	2	7	0	0	2	32	.088	.117	.211	.327	-10	12	0	0	5	1	0
26	P	Rick Williams	26	31	36	31	2	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	18	.258	.324	.290	.614	74	9	0	0	2	0	0
27	P	Vern Ruhle	28	13	22	19	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	.053	.100	.105	.205	-42	2	0	0	2	0	0
28	P	Randy Niemann*	23	26	17	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.133	.188	.133	.321	-8	2	1	0	1	0	0
29	P	Joe Sambito*	27	63	12	7	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	0	.286	.583	.429	1.012	189	3	0	0	0	0	0
30	P	Frank Riccelli*	26	11	6	6	1	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.833	131	3	0	0	0	0	0
31	P	George Throop	28	14	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Frank LaCorte	27	12	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	P	Bert Roberge	24	26	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Pete Ladd	22	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Tom Dixon	24	19	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	464	1	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Bo McLaughlin	25	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Gordie Pladson	22	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Gary Wilson	24	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Mike Mendoza	23	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Bobby Sprowl*	23	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	27.2	162	6029	5394	583	1382	224	52	49	542	190	95	461	745	.256	.315	.344	.659	85	1857	105	22	109	43	75
		Rank in 12 NL teams				12	12	10	8	4	12		1	1	10	12	8	10	12	11		12
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	J.R. Richard	29	18	13	.581	2.71	38	38	0	19	4	0	292.1	220	98	88	13	98	5	313	3	1	19	1175	130	1.088	6.8	0.4	3.0	9.6	3.19
2	SP	Joe Niekro	34	21	11	.656	3.00	38	38	0	11	5	0	263.2	221	102	88	17	107	1	119	7	0	19	1095	117	1.244	7.5	0.6	3.7	4.1	1.11
3	SP	Ken Forsch	32	11	6	.647	3.04	26	24	1	10	2	0	177.2	155	67	60	14	35	2	58	0	1	0	700	116	1.069	7.9	0.7	1.8	2.9	1.66
4	SP	Rick Williams	26	4	7	.364	3.26	31	16	3	2	2	0	121.1	122	45	44	6	30	1	37	2	1	0	508	108	1.253	9.0	0.4	2.2	2.7	1.23
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	Joe Sambito*	27	8	7	.533	1.77	63	0	51	0	0	22	91.1	80	20	18	8	23	4	83	4	0	0	375	198	1.128	7.9	0.8	2.3	8.2	3.61
6	RP	Joaquin Andujar	26	12	12	.500	3.43	46	23	9	8	0	4	194.0	168	86	74	7	88	6	77	2	0	5	825	102	1.320	7.8	0.3	4.1	3.6	0.88
7	RP	Randy Niemann*	23	3	2	.600	3.76	26	7	4	3	2	1	67.0	68	32	28	1	22	3	24	1	2	0	287	93	1.343	9.1	0.1	3.0	3.2	1.09
8	RP	Bert Roberge	24	3	0	1.000	1.69	26	0	12	0	0	4	32.0	20	6	6	0	17	0	13	0	0	2	120	208	1.156	5.6	0.0	4.8	3.7	0.76
9	RP	Tom Dixon	24	1	2	.333	6.66	19	1	6	0	0	0	25.2	39	23	19	2	15	1	9	0	0	0	130	53	2.104	13.7	0.7	5.3	3.2	0.60
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		Vern Ruhle	28	2	6	.250	4.07	13	10	0	2	2	0	66.1	64	33	30	9	8	0	33	2	0	2	269	86	1.085	8.7	1.2	1.1	4.5	4.13
11		Frank LaCorte	27	1	2	.333	5.00	12	3	3	0	0	0	27.0	21	16	15	3	10	1	24	0	0	1	114	70	1.148	7.0	1.0	3.3	8.0	2.40
12		George Throop	28	1	0	1.000	3.22	14	0	2	0	0	0	22.1	23	10	8	4	11	0	15	1	0	1	100	109	1.522	9.3	1.6	4.4	6.0	1.36
13		Frank Riccelli*	26	2	2	.500	4.09	11	2	3	0	0	0	22.0	22	11	10	0	18	0	20	0	0	2	103	86	1.818	9.0	0.0	7.4	8.2	1.11
14		Bo McLaughlin	25	1	2	.333	5.51	12	0	3	0	0	0	16.1	22	15	10	2	4	0	12	0	0	1	76	64	1.592	12.1	1.1	2.2	6.6	3.00
15		Pete Ladd	22	1	1	.500	2.92	10	0	4	0	0	0	12.1	8	5	4	1	8	0	6	2	0	2	56	120	1.297	5.8	0.7	5.8	4.4	0.75
16		Gary Wilson	24	0	0		12.27	6	0	3	0	0	0	7.1	15	11	10	2	6	0	6	0	0	1	42	29	2.864	18.4	2.5	7.4	7.4	1.00
17		Gordie Pladson	22	0	0		4.50	4	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	9	2	2	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	22	78	2.750	20.3	2.3	4.5	4.5	1.00
18		Bobby Sprowl*	23	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	14		0.750	2.3	0.0	4.5	6.8	1.50
19		Mike Mendoza	23	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3		0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	28.7	89	73	.549	3.20	162	162	107	55	17	31	1447.2	1278	582	514	90	504	24	854	24	5	55	6014	110	1.231	7.9	0.6	3.1	5.3	1.69
		Rank in 12 NL teams		4	9		2				1	1	9	5	1	2	2	1	6		9921
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
Jesus Alou	37	7	1	20.0	8	8	0	0	1	1.000	0.8	48.0	0.8	0.6	0.2	0			3.60	1.14						LF-1B-RF
Joaquin Andujar	26	46	23	194.0	71	16	50	5	2	.930									3.06	1.43						P
Alan Ashby	27	105	104	890.2	613	548	57	8	5	.987	-2.0	-2.7						-2	6.11	5.76	9	33	71	31	30%	C
Reggie Baldwin	24	4	1	16.0	11	10	1	0	0	1.000	-0.3	-22.5	-0.3	-0.3	0.0		0	0	6.19	2.75	0	1	0	0		C-1B
Dave Bergman	26	4	1	13.0	8	8	0	0	1	1.000	-0.5	-46.2	-0.5	-0.4	0.0		0		5.54	2.00						1B
Bruce Bochy	24	55	36	355.0	234	198	29	7	4	.970	-1.0	-3.4						-1	5.75	4.13	4	12	36	18	33%	C
Enos Cabell	29	183	154	1343.2	609	396	199	14	31	.977	-12.5	-11.2	-11.5	-7.0	-4.4		-1		3.99	3.25						3B-1B
Cesar Cedeno	28	132	128	1117.2	1000	948	35	17	79	.983	5.0	5.4	4.0	2.1	1.8	1	0		7.92	7.45						1B-CF
Jose Cruz	31	156	156	1355.2	344	320	10	14	0	.959	14.8	13.1	14.8	4.6	10.2	0			2.19	2.12						LF
Tom Dixon	24	19	1	25.2	9	3	6	0	1	1.000									3.16	0.47						P
Ken Forsch	32	26	24	177.2	48	10	37	1	5	.979									2.38	1.81						P
Julio Gonzalez	26	62	44	409.1	243	92	146	5	27	.979	-0.5	-1.5	0.5	-1.7	2.2		-1		5.23	3.84						2B-SS-3B
Danny Heep	21	2	1	12.0	7	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.4	140.0	1.4	0.9	0.5	0			5.25	3.50						LF
Art Howe	32	130	99	846.0	456	188	261	7	42	.985	6.3	8.9	7.3	-4.0	11.2		-1		4.78	3.45						2B-3B-1B
Alan Knicely	24	4	0	8.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0.1	-15.0	-0.1	0.0	-0.1			0	2.25	0.50	0	0	0	0		C-3B
Frank LaCorte	27	12	3	27.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									0.33	0.08						P
Pete Ladd	22	10	0	12.1	5	3	2	0	0	1.000									3.65	0.50						P
Rafael Landestoy	26	117	69	711.2	417	168	237	12	54	.971	3.0	5.1	2.0	-0.9	2.9		1		5.12	3.46						2B-SS
Jeffrey Leonard	23	126	107	989.0	239	224	5	10	1	.958	4.9	5.9	6.9	-0.7	7.6	-2			2.08	1.82						RF-CF-LF
Bo McLaughlin	25	12	0	16.1	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									1.65	0.25						P
Mike Mendoza	23	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Joe Niekro	34	38	38	263.2	53	14	39	0	4	1.000									1.81	1.39						P
Randy Niemann	23	26	7	67.0	8	1	7	0	0	1.000									1.07	0.31						P
Gordie Pladson	22	4	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Terry Puhl	22	157	149	1334.2	364	356	8	0	3	1.000	9.1	8.2	8.1	-0.2	8.3	1			2.45	2.32						CF-RF-LF
Luis Pujols	23	26	22	189.0	143	136	6	1	0	.993	-5.0	-31.7						-5	6.76	5.46	5	9	20	1	5%	C
Craig Reynolds	26	143	140	1235.1	659	208	428	23	88	.965	8.0	7.8	8.0	1.0	7.1		0		4.63	4.45						SS
Frank Riccelli	26	11	2	22.0	6	0	6	0	0	1.000									2.45	0.55						P
J.R. Richard	29	38	38	292.1	51	14	32	5	0	.902									1.42	1.21						P
Bert Roberge	24	26	0	32.0	6	3	3	0	0	1.000									1.69	0.23						P
Vern Ruhle	28	13	10	66.1	8	3	5	0	0	1.000									1.09	0.62						P
Joe Sambito	27	63	0	91.1	21	5	14	2	2	.905									1.87	0.30						P
Jimmy Sexton	27	17	6	69.2	37	11	24	2	6	.946	-1.1	-18.9	-1.1	-2.1	1.1		0		4.52	2.06						SS-3B-2B
Bobby Sprowl	23	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
George Throop	28	14	0	22.1	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									1.21	0.21						P
Denny Walling	25	42	32	283.2	66	63	2	1	0	.985	1.6	6.8	1.6	-0.3	1.9	0			2.06	1.55						RF-LF
Bob Watson	33	44	44	359.1	407	371	33	3	23	.993	1.9	6.3	1.9	-0.2	2.1		0		10.12	9.18						1B
Tom Wiedenbauer	20	3	1	13.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	0.2	18.5	0.2	0.2	0.0	0			2.08	1.00						RF-CF-LF
Rick Williams	26	31	16	121.1	27	3	23	1	2	.963									1.93	0.84						P
Gary Wilson	24	6	0	7.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Team Totals	27.1	162	1457	13020.0	6188	4343	1707	138	381	.978	34.0	3.1	44.0	-8.4	52.6	0	-2	-8	4.18	3.17	18	55	127	50	28%
Rank in 12 NL teams								6	8	7
	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

1978 / 1980 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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