2008 Houston Astros Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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2008 Houston Astros Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 2007 / 2009)
86-75, Finished 3rd in NL Central
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Scored 712 runs, Allowed 743 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 77-84
Manager: Cecil Cooper (86-75)
Ballpark: Minute Maid Park (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 2,779,487 (8th of 16)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 98, Pitching - 98; one-year: Batting - 103, Pitching - 103
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2007 / 2009 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	Brad Ausmus	39	81	250	216	15	47	8	0	3	24	0	2	25	41	.218	.303	.296	.600	60	64	4	2	6	1	3
2	1B	Lance Berkman#	32	159	665	554	114	173	46	4	29	106	18	4	99	108	.312	.420	.567	.986	159	314	13	7	0	5	18
3	2B	Kazuo Matsui#	32	96	422	375	58	110	26	3	6	33	20	5	37	53	.293	.354	.427	.781	106	160	3	0	7	3	0
4	SS	Miguel Tejada	34	158	666	632	92	179	38	3	13	66	7	7	24	72	.283	.314	.415	.729	92	262	32	6	1	3	4
5	3B	Ty Wigginton	30	111	429	386	50	110	22	1	23	58	4	6	32	69	.285	.350	.526	.876	128	203	9	8	0	3	1
6	LF	Carlos Lee	32	115	481	436	61	137	27	0	28	100	4	1	37	49	.314	.368	.569	.937	144	248	8	3	0	5	7
7	CF	Michael Bourn*	25	138	514	467	57	107	10	4	5	29	41	10	37	111	.229	.288	.300	.588	57	140	3	2	7	1	0
8	RF	Hunter Pence	25	157	642	595	78	160	34	4	25	83	11	10	40	124	.269	.318	.466	.783	105	277	14	4	0	3	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	3B	Geoff Blum#	35	114	356	325	36	78	14	1	14	53	1	2	21	54	.240	.287	.418	.705	84	136	5	3	0	7	2
10	OF	Darin Erstad*	34	140	342	322	49	89	16	0	4	31	2	3	14	68	.276	.309	.363	.672	78	117	3	2	2	2	3
11	2B	Mark Loretta	36	101	297	261	27	73	15	0	4	38	0	0	29	30	.280	.350	.383	.733	95	100	9	2	0	5	1
12	C	Humberto Quintero	28	59	183	168	16	38	6	0	2	12	0	0	6	34	.226	.270	.298	.567	51	50	5	4	5	0	0
13	C	J.R. Towles	24	54	171	146	10	20	5	0	4	16	0	0	16	40	.137	.250	.253	.503	34	37	3	6	3	0	1
14	2B	David Newhan*	34	64	111	104	11	27	5	2	2	12	1	0	6	28	.260	.297	.404	.701	84	42	3	0	0	1	0
15	OF	Reggie Abercrombie	27	34	60	55	10	17	5	0	2	5	5	2	1	23	.309	.339	.509	.848	121	28	0	2	1	1	0
16	OF	Jose Cruz#	34	38	60	49	6	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	11	9	.122	.283	.143	.426	18	7	0	0	0	0	0
17	IF	Jose Castillo	27	15	35	32	4	9	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	10	.281	.314	.313	.627	67	10	0	0	0	1	0
18	1B	Mark Saccomanno	28	10	10	10	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.600	.800	101	6	0	0	0	0	0
19	IF	Tomas Perez#	34	8	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	7	2	0	0	0	0	0
20	MI	Edwin Maysonet	26	7	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	-24	1	0	0	0	0	0
21		J.R. House	28	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.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
22	P	Roy Oswalt	30	30	75	70	3	15	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	18	.214	.214	.214	.429	14	15	0	0	5	0	0
23	P	Brandon Backe	30	29	56	47	8	13	2	0	2	3	0	0	3	18	.277	.333	.447	.780	105	21	0	1	5	0	0
24	P	Brian Moehler	36	30	50	44	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	27	.023	.104	.045	.150	-58	2	0	0	2	0	0
25	P	Wandy Rodriguez#	29	24	45	41	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	.122	.122	.146	.268	-29	6	1	0	4	0	0
26	P	Shawn Chacon	30	13	28	24	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.125	.192	.125	.317	-13	3	0	0	2	0	0
27	P	Chris Sampson	30	52	26	22	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.136	.174	.136	.310	-16	3	0	0	3	0	0
28	P	Randy Wolf*	31	12	26	23	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	13	.130	.167	.130	.297	-20	3	0	0	2	0	0
29	P	Jack Cassel	27	9	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444	19	2	0	0	0	0	0
30	P	Runelvys Hernandez	30	4	6	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.250	.400	.250	.650	78	1	0	0	1	0	0
31	P	Tim Byrdak*	34	56	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	-11	1	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Chad Paronto	32	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	P	Alberto Arias	24	3	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	Fernando Nieve	25	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	Geoff Geary	31	53	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	0	0	0
36	P	Jose Valverde	28	69	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	Doug Brocail*	41	65	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	1	0	0
38	P	Oscar Villarreal*	26	33	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	Dave Borkowski	31	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Wesley Wright	23	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	LaTroy Hawkins	35	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	31.1	161	6050	5451	712	1432	284	22	167	684	114	52	449	1051	.263	.323	.415	.737	94	2261	116	52	57	41	42
		Rank in 16 NL teams				15	11	9	10	14	8		5	1	16	10	6	11	7	10		10		8		10
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	Roy Oswalt	30	17	10	.630	3.54	32	32	0	3	2	0	208.2	199	89	82	23	47	2	165	10	0	1	862	119	1.179	8.6	1.0	2.0	7.1	3.51
2	SP	Brandon Backe	30	9	14	.391	6.05	31	31	0	0	0	0	166.2	202	114	112	36	77	2	127	4	0	2	756	70	1.674	10.9	1.9	4.2	6.9	1.65
3	SP	Brian Moehler	36	11	8	.579	4.56	31	26	0	0	0	0	150.0	166	79	76	20	36	1	82	4	0	3	650	92	1.347	10.0	1.2	2.2	4.9	2.28
4	SP	Wandy Rodriguez*	29	9	7	.563	3.54	25	25	0	0	0	0	137.1	136	65	54	14	44	3	131	5	3	2	587	119	1.311	8.9	0.9	2.9	8.6	2.98
5	SP	Shawn Chacon	30	2	3	.400	5.04	15	15	0	0	0	0	85.2	88	52	48	16	41	5	53	2	0	2	374	83	1.506	9.2	1.7	4.3	5.6	1.29
6	SP	Randy Wolf*	31	6	2	.750	3.57	12	12	0	1	1	0	70.2	68	31	28	7	24	4	57	4	0	1	301	118	1.302	8.7	0.9	3.1	7.3	2.38
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	Jose Valverde	28	6	3	.667	3.38	74	0	71	0	0	44	72.0	62	28	27	10	23	6	83	2	2	3	303	125	1.181	7.8	1.3	2.9	10.4	3.61
8	RP	Doug Brocail	41	7	5	.583	3.93	72	0	21	0	0	2	68.2	63	30	30	8	21	5	64	3	1	1	286	107	1.223	8.3	1.0	2.8	8.4	3.05
9	RP	Geoff Geary	31	2	3	.400	2.53	55	0	8	0	0	0	64.0	45	18	18	3	28	5	45	2	1	0	262	166	1.141	6.3	0.4	3.9	6.3	1.61
10	RP	Wesley Wright*	23	4	3	.571	5.01	71	0	15	0	0	1	55.2	45	34	31	8	34	4	57	4	1	2	250	84	1.419	7.3	1.3	5.5	9.2	1.68
11	RP	Tim Byrdak*	34	2	1	.667	3.90	59	0	9	0	0	0	55.1	45	24	24	10	29	2	47	2	0	0	237	108	1.337	7.3	1.6	4.7	7.6	1.62
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		Chris Sampson	30	6	4	.600	4.22	54	11	6	0	0	0	117.1	118	60	55	8	23	5	61	3	0	0	478	100	1.202	9.1	0.6	1.8	4.7	2.65
13		Oscar Villarreal	26	1	3	.250	5.02	35	0	13	0	0	0	37.2	42	25	21	12	17	0	21	2	0	2	168	84	1.566	10.0	2.9	4.1	5.0	1.24
14		Dave Borkowski	31	0	2	.000	7.50	26	0	5	0	0	0	36.0	54	30	30	9	14	5	24	1	0	0	173	56	1.889	13.5	2.3	3.5	6.0	1.71
15		Jack Cassel	27	1	1	.500	5.64	9	3	1	0	0	0	30.1	38	21	19	5	8	2	14	1	1	2	132	75	1.516	11.3	1.5	2.4	4.2	1.75
16		LaTroy Hawkins	35	2	0	1.000	0.43	24	0	4	0	0	1	21.0	11	3	1	0	5	1	25	0	0	1	79	982	0.762	4.7	0.0	2.1	10.7	5.00
17		Runelvys Hernandez	30	0	3	.000	8.38	4	4	0	0	0	0	19.1	32	19	18	4	11	1	15	0	0	0	98	50	2.224	14.9	1.9	5.1	7.0	1.36
18		Fernando Nieve	25	0	1	.000	8.44	11	0	1	0	0	0	10.2	17	10	10	2	2	0	12	0	0	0	49	50	1.781	14.3	1.7	1.7	10.1	6.00
19		Chad Paronto	32	0	1	.000	4.35	6	0	3	0	0	0	10.1	11	5	5	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	41	97	1.258	9.6	1.7	1.7	3.5	2.00
20		Alberto Arias	24	1	1	.500	6.75	3	2	0	0	0	0	8.0	11	6	6	0	6	0	8	1	0	0	39	62	2.125	12.4	0.0	6.8	9.0	1.33
		Team Totals	30.8	86	75	.534	4.39	161	161	157	4	3	48	1425.1	1453	743	695	197	492	53	1095	50	9	22	6125	96	1.365	9.2	1.2	3.1	6.9	2.23
		Rank in 16 NL teams		5	12		9				5	1	1	16	10	8	8	15	3		17960
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
Reggie Abercrombie	27	23	12	109.1	38	36	2	0	1	1.000	-1.0	-11.0				-1			3.13	1.65						CF-LF
Alberto Arias	24	3	2	8.0	2	1	0	1	0	.500									1.12	0.33						P
Brad Ausmus	39	81	62	575.2	469	433	33	3	4	.994	2.4	5.0	-0.6	0.0	-0.6		0	3	7.29	5.75	4	9	19	5	21%	C-1B-2B-3B
Brandon Backe	30	31	31	166.2	33	15	17	1	2	.970									1.73	1.03						P
Lance Berkman	32	157	151	1307.1	1377	1240	132	5	122	.996	9.6	8.8	9.6	7.6	2.0		0		9.45	8.74						1B-DH
Geoff Blum	35	92	78	691.0	244	71	169	4	11	.984	3.4	5.9	4.4	1.3	3.1		-1		3.13	2.61						3B-2B-SS-1B
Dave Borkowski	31	26	0	36.0	9	4	5	0	0	1.000									2.25	0.35						P
Michael Bourn	25	130	111	1009.0	305	291	9	5	2	.984	-11.5	-13.7	-11.5	3.5	-15.0	0			2.68	2.31						CF
Doug Brocail	41	72	0	68.2	18	9	8	1	1	.944									2.23	0.24						P
Tim Byrdak	34	59	0	55.1	14	7	7	0	1	1.000									2.28	0.24						P
Jack Cassel	27	9	3	30.1	8	2	5	1	0	.875									2.08	0.78						P
Jose Castillo	27	10	8	73.0	26	11	15	0	1	1.000	2.2	36.2	2.2	0.9	1.3		0		3.21	2.60						3B-2B
Shawn Chacon	30	15	15	85.2	13	3	9	1	0	.923									1.26	0.80						P
Jose Cruz	34	18	7	70.0	18	18	0	0	0	1.000	0.2	3.4	0.2	-0.7	0.9	0			2.31	1.00						CF-LF-RF
Darin Erstad	34	114	64	623.1	221	217	4	0	5	1.000	2.7	5.2	2.7	1.9	0.8	0	0		3.19	1.94						CF-LF-1B-RF
Geoff Geary	31	55	0	64.0	11	4	7	0	0	1.000									1.55	0.20						P
LaTroy Hawkins	35	24	0	21.0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000									0.86	0.08						P
Runelvys Hernandez	30	4	4	19.1	5	1	4	0	1	1.000									2.33	1.25						P
Carlos Lee	32	114	110	915.1	192	187	4	1	0	.995	-9.3	-12.2	-7.3	-2.6	-4.7	-2			1.88	1.68						LF-DH
Mark Loretta	36	70	59	531.2	281	109	168	4	32	.986	2.1	4.7	2.1	3.2	-1.1		0		4.69	3.96						2B-3B-SS-1B
Kazuo Matsui	32	94	94	806.0	421	190	219	12	56	.971	-7.0	-10.4	-6.0	-3.4	-2.6		-1		4.57	4.35						2B
Edwin Maysonet	26	7	0	13.0	9	2	6	1	0	.889	-1.5	-138.5	-1.5	-0.8	-0.7		0		5.54	1.14						SS-2B
Brian Moehler	36	31	26	150.0	25	14	10	1	0	.960									1.44	0.77						P
David Newhan	34	30	19	179.2	73	33	39	1	11	.986	-3.0	-20.0	-3.0	-0.5	-2.5		0		3.61	2.40						2B-LF
Fernando Nieve	25	11	0	10.2	2	1	1	0	1	1.000									1.69	0.18						P
Roy Oswalt	30	32	32	208.2	54	24	30	0	4	1.000									2.33	1.69						P
Chad Paronto	32	6	0	10.1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									0.87	0.17						P
Hunter Pence	25	156	154	1366.1	357	340	16	1	4	.997	-4.1	-3.6	-9.1	-2.9	-6.2	5			2.34	2.28						RF
Tomas Perez	34	6	1	17.0	4	2	2	0	2	1.000	-1.1	-77.6	-1.1	-0.8	-0.3		0		2.12	0.67						2B-3B
Humberto Quintero	28	59	52	447.0	400	373	26	1	3	.998	6.0	16.1						6	8.03	6.76	1	5	15	9	38%	C
Wandy Rodriguez	29	25	25	137.1	23	9	14	0	2	1.000									1.51	0.92						P
Mark Saccomanno	28	2	0	6.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0		9.00	3.00						1B
Chris Sampson	30	54	11	117.1	23	15	7	1	2	.957									1.69	0.41						P
Miguel Tejada	34	157	154	1354.1	640	187	442	11	97	.983	5.0	4.4	4.0	0.9	3.1		1		4.18	4.01						SS
J.R. Towles	24	53	47	408.2	327	312	13	2	1	.994	3.0	8.8						3	7.16	6.13	3	8	13	7	35%	C
Jose Valverde	28	74	0	72.0	10	6	3	1	0	.900									1.12	0.12						P
Oscar Villarreal	26	35	0	37.2	8	3	5	0	1	1.000									1.91	0.23						P
Ty Wigginton	30	112	105	899.0	244	92	146	6	11	.975	-3.4	-4.5	-4.4	1.6	-6.0	2	-1		2.38	2.13						3B-LF
Randy Wolf	31	12	12	70.2	17	5	10	2	0	.882									1.91	1.25						P
Wesley Wright	23	71	0	55.2	9	2	7	0	1	1.000									1.46	0.13						P
Team Totals	31.0	161	1449	12828.0	5939	4276	1596	67	379	.989	-5.3	-0.5	-19.3	9.2	-28.5	4	-2	12	4.12	2.75	8	22	47	21	31%
Rank in 16 NL teams								16	9	1
	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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