1972 Oakland Athletics Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1971 / 1973

93-62, Finished 1st in AL West (Schedule and Results)
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Manager: Dick Williams (93-62)
Scored 604 runs, Allowed 457 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 97-58

Ballpark: Oakland Coliseum (ballparks.com) · Attendance: 921,323 (5th of 12)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 95, Pitching - 93 · one-year: Batting - 97, Pitching - 94

Postseason: Won World Series (4-3) over Cincinnati Reds
Won AL Championship Series (3-2) over Detroit Tigers

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1971 / 1973 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Team Batting

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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	Dave Duncan	26	121	450	403	39	88	13	0	19	59	0	2	34	68	.218	.283	.392	.676	105	158	13	5	2	6	5
2	1B	Mike Epstein*	29	138	537	455	63	123	18	2	26	70	0	1	68	68	.270	.376	.490	.866	163	223	7	11	0	3	9
3	2B	Tim Cullen	30	72	149	142	10	37	8	1	0	15	0	1	5	17	.261	.286	.331	.617	88	47	3	0	2	0	0
4	SS	Bert Campaneris	30	149	681	625	85	150	25	2	8	32	52	14	32	88	.240	.278	.325	.603	84	203	9	2	20	2	0
5	3B	Sal Bando	28	152	631	535	64	126	20	3	15	77	3	1	78	55	.236	.341	.368	.709	116	197	13	9	6	3	17
6	LF	Joe Rudi	25	147	653	593	94	181	32	9	19	75	3	4	37	62	.305	.345	.486	.830	151	288	15	2	15	6	6
7	CF	Reggie Jackson*	26	135	572	499	72	132	25	2	25	75	9	8	59	125	.265	.350	.473	.823	149	236	5	8	4	2	7
8	RF	Angel Mangual	25	91	292	272	19	67	13	2	5	32	0	1	14	48	.246	.285	.364	.649	97	99	8	1	4	1	1
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	C	Gene Tenace	25	82	256	227	22	51	5	3	5	32	0	0	24	42	.225	.307	.339	.646	97	77	4	3	2	0	2
10	2B	Larry Brown	32	47	157	142	11	26	2	0	0	4	0	0	13	8	.183	.250	.197	.447	38	28	9	0	1	1	1
11	RF	Matty Alou*	33	32	136	121	11	34	5	0	1	16	2	1	11	12	.281	.341	.347	.688	110	42	1	1	1	2	1
12	CF	George Hendrick	22	58	129	121	10	22	1	1	4	15	3	2	3	22	.182	.205	.306	.511	54	37	3	1	2	2	0
13	OF	Bill Voss*	28	40	109	97	10	22	5	1	1	5	0	0	9	16	.227	.296	.330	.626	91	32	2	1	1	1	3
14	2B	Ted Kubiak#	30	51	104	94	14	17	4	1	0	8	0	0	9	11	.181	.250	.245	.495	51	23	2	0	0	1	0
15	1B	Mike Hegan*	29	98	90	79	13	26	3	1	1	5	1	0	7	20	.329	.375	.430	.805	145	34	1	0	2	2	1
16	1B	Don Mincher*	34	47	64	54	2	8	1	0	0	5	0	2	10	16	.148	.281	.167	.448	39	9	4	0	0	0	0
17	OF	Ollie Brown	28	20	60	54	5	13	1	0	1	4	1	1	6	14	.241	.317	.315	.631	93	17	0	0	0	0	1
18	2B	Dick Green	31	26	48	42	1	12	1	1	0	3	0	1	3	5	.286	.348	.357	.705	115	15	1	1	2	0	0
19	CF	Bobby Brooks	26	15	47	39	4	7	0	0	0	5	0	1	8	8	.179	.319	.179	.499	55	7	2	0	0	0	1
20	IF	Marty Martinez#	30	22	44	40	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	6	.125	.186	.125	.311	-4	5	2	0	1	0	0
21	MI	Dal Maxvill	33	27	39	36	2	9	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	11	.250	.270	.278	.548	67	10	0	0	2	0	0
22	OF	Brant Alyea	31	20	34	31	3	6	1	0	1	2	0	0	3	5	.194	.265	.323	.587	78	10	1	0	0	0	0
23	1B	Gonzalo Marquez*	26	23	26	21	2	8	0	0	0	4	1	1	3	4	.381	.462	.381	.842	159	8	0	1	0	1	0
24	IF	Ron Clark	29	14	18	15	1	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.267	.353	.400	.753	129	6	1	0	1	0	0
25	3B	Bill McNulty	25	4	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.100	.250	.100	.350	10	1	0	0	0	0	0
26	LF	Adrian Garrett*	29	14	12	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.083	.000	.083	-73	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	UT	Curt Blefary*	28	8	12	11	1	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.455	.417	.636	1.053	218	7	0	0	0	1	0
28	OF	Allan Lewis#	30	24	10	10	5	2	1	0	0	2	8	3	0	1	.200	.200	.300	.500	51	3	0	0	0	0	0
29		Art Shamsky*	30	8	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.125	.000	.125	-60	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	IF	Dwain Anderson	24	3	8	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.125	.000	.125	-60	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	UT	Larry Haney	29	5	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
32		Orlando Cepeda	34	3	3	3	0	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
33	P	Catfish Hunter	26	39	116	105	5	23	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	16	.219	.215	.219	.434	33	23	0	0	9	2	0
34	P	Ken Holtzman	26	40	102	90	6	16	4	0	0	6	0	0	1	25	.178	.187	.222	.409	24	20	4	0	11	0	0
35	P	Blue Moon Odom	27	59	72	66	16	8	1	0	2	2	4	2	1	29	.121	.134	.227	.362	9	15	0	0	5	0	0
36	P	Vida Blue#	22	27	52	45	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	34	.044	.140	.044	.184	-42	2	0	0	2	0	0
37	P	Dave Hamilton*	24	25	33	26	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	12	.154	.313	.192	.505	57	5	1	1	1	0	0
38	P	Rollie Fingers	25	65	20	19	2	6	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.316	.316	.474	.789	139	9	0	0	1	0	0
39	P	Joe Horlen	34	32	17	17	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.176	.176	.176	.353	8	3	1	0	0	0	0
40	P	Darold Knowles*	30	54	14	12	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.250	.308	.250	.558	72	3	0	0	1	0	0
41	P	Bob Locker#	34	56	9	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	.000	.333	.000	.333	8	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Diego Segui	34	7	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	-13	1	0	0	0	0	0
43	P	Denny McLain	28	5	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	2	0	0
44	P	Gary Waslewski	30	8	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	P	Mike Kilkenny	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
46	P	Jim Roland	29	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
47	P	Don Shaw*	28	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	27.6	155	5846	5200	604	1248	195	29	134	565	87	48	463	886	.240	.306	.366	.672	104	1903	112	47	100	36	55
		Rank in 12 AL teams				4	2	6	4	4	1		3	5	10	5	6	7	2	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

* - 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	Catfish Hunter	26	21	7	.750	2.04	38	37	1	16	5	0	295.1	200	74	67	21	70	6	191	3	0	3	1148	140	0.914	6.1	0.6	2.1	5.8	2.73
2	SP	Ken Holtzman*	26	19	11	.633	2.51	39	37	0	16	4	0	265.1	232	83	74	23	52	6	134	4	0	4	1058	114	1.070	7.9	0.8	1.8	4.5	2.58
3	SP	Blue Moon Odom	27	15	6	.714	2.50	31	30	0	4	2	0	194.1	164	62	54	10	87	2	86	3	0	5	804	114	1.292	7.6	0.5	4.0	4.0	0.99
4	SP	Vida Blue*	22	6	10	.375	2.80	25	23	0	5	4	0	151.0	117	55	47	11	48	3	111	1	0	2	606	102	1.093	7.0	0.7	2.9	6.6	2.31
5	SP	Dave Hamilton*	24	6	6	.500	2.93	25	14	3	1	0	0	101.1	94	34	33	7	31	2	55	1	0	0	419	97	1.234	8.3	0.6	2.8	4.9	1.77
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
6	CL	Rollie Fingers	25	11	9	.550	2.51	65	0	41	0	0	21	111.1	85	35	31	8	32	7	113	1	1	2	437	114	1.051	6.9	0.6	2.6	9.1	3.53
7	RP	Joe Horlen	34	3	4	.429	3.00	32	6	6	0	0	1	84.0	74	33	28	3	20	4	58	4	0	4	339	95	1.119	7.9	0.3	2.1	6.2	2.90
8	RP	Bob Locker	34	6	1	.857	2.65	56	0	29	0	0	10	78.0	69	25	23	1	16	5	47	2	0	6	317	108	1.090	8.0	0.1	1.8	5.4	2.94
9	RP	Darold Knowles*	30	5	1	.833	1.37	54	0	29	0	0	11	65.2	49	12	10	1	37	4	36	0	0	1	272	208	1.310	6.7	0.1	5.1	4.9	0.97
10	RP	Gary Waslewski	30	0	3	.000	2.04	8	0	3	0	0	0	17.2	12	5	4	3	8	1	8	0	0	0	71	140	1.132	6.1	1.5	4.1	4.1	1.00
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
11		Diego Segui	34	0	1	.000	3.57	7	3	1	0	0	0	22.2	25	10	9	2	7	1	11	0	1	1	95	80	1.412	9.9	0.8	2.8	4.4	1.57
12		Denny McLain	28	1	2	.333	6.04	5	5	0	0	0	0	22.1	32	17	15	4	8	0	8	0	0	0	108	47	1.791	12.9	1.6	3.2	3.2	1.00
13		Don Shaw*	28	0	1	.000	16.88	3	0	0	0	0	0	5.1	12	10	10	2	2	0	4	0	0	1	29	17	2.625	20.3	3.4	3.4	6.8	2.00
14		Jim Roland*	29	0	0		3.86	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	74	2.143	19.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
15		Mike Kilkenny*	27	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	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	26.8	93	62	.600	2.58	155	155	113	42	15	43	1417.2	1170	457	406	96	418	41	862	19	2	29	5718	111	1.120	7.4	0.6	2.7	5.5	2.06
		Rank in 12 AL teams		1	12		2				7	1	1	1	3	2	2	7	3		10175
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
Matty Alou	33	34	31	279.1	58	55	3	0	1	1.000	1.1	4.7	0.1	0.2	-0.1	1	0		1.87	1.71						RF-LF-1B
Brant Alyea	31	8	7	56.0	24	21	3	0	0	1.000	2.6	55.7	2.6	0.4	2.2	0			3.86	3.00						RF-LF
Dwain Anderson	24	2	1	15.0	5	1	4	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0		3.00	2.50						SS-3B
Sal Bando	28	152	151	1344.2	481	124	337	20	29	.958	10.9	9.7	9.9	4.6	5.3		1		3.09	3.03						3B-2B
Curt Blefary	28	3	1	11.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	0.4	43.6	0.4	0.0	0.4	0			2.45	1.00						LF-2B-1B
Vida Blue	22	25	23	151.0	23	4	17	2	0	.913									1.25	0.84						P
Bobby Brooks	26	11	11	101.0	43	40	0	3	0	.930	3.8	45.1	2.8	0.3	2.6	1			3.56	3.64						CF
Larry Brown	32	47	44	389.2	228	110	112	6	31	.974	-3.0	-9.2	-3.0	-0.7	-2.3		0		5.13	4.72						2B-3B
Ollie Brown	28	18	13	121.0	33	33	0	0	0	1.000	-1.0	-9.9	-1.0	-1.7	0.7	0			2.45	1.83						CF-RF
Bert Campaneris	30	148	148	1337.1	795	283	494	18	93	.977	15.4	13.8	13.4	1.7	11.7		2		5.23	5.25						SS
Ron Clark	29	14	3	45.0	25	12	13	0	6	1.000	-0.3	-8.0	-1.3	0.0	-1.3		1		5.00	1.79						2B-3B
Tim Cullen	30	70	43	408.2	239	107	121	11	24	.954	1.0	2.9	-0.0	-1.7	1.7		1		5.02	3.26						2B-3B-SS
Dave Duncan	26	113	109	1003.1	709	661	43	5	9	.993	2.0	2.4						2	6.31	6.23	9	20	52	29	36%	C
Mike Epstein	29	137	137	1101.2	1196	1111	73	12	101	.990	0.6	0.7	-0.4	2.1	-2.6		1		9.67	8.64						1B
Rollie Fingers	25	65	0	111.1	18	7	11	0	1	1.000									1.46	0.28						P
Adrian Garrett	29	2	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.2	60.0	0.2	0.0	0.2	0			2.25	0.50						LF
Dick Green	31	26	22	144.1	83	35	45	3	9	.964	4.7	39.1	3.7	0.7	3.0		1		4.99	3.08						2B
Dave Hamilton	24	25	14	101.1	22	4	17	1	0	.955									1.87	0.84						P
Larry Haney	29	5	0	10.0	5	4	0	1	0	.800	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0	0	3.60	0.80	0	1	0	0		C-2B
Mike Hegan	29	67	6	191.2	180	169	11	0	22	1.000	2.1	13.1	2.1	0.1	2.1	0	0		8.45	2.69						1B-RF
George Hendrick	22	45	20	259.2	67	67	0	0	0	1.000	0.1	0.5	-0.9	-0.2	-0.8	1			2.32	1.49						CF-RF-LF
Ken Holtzman	26	39	37	265.1	55	7	47	1	4	.982									1.83	1.38						P
Joe Horlen	34	32	6	84.0	20	5	15	0	0	1.000									2.14	0.63						P
Catfish Hunter	26	38	37	295.1	55	23	30	2	1	.964									1.62	1.39						P
Reggie Jackson	26	135	135	1176.2	316	302	5	9	5	.972	0.1	0.1	1.1	0.8	0.3	-1			2.35	2.27						CF-RF
Mike Kilkenny	27	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Darold Knowles	30	54	0	65.2	29	2	26	1	0	.966									3.84	0.52						P
Ted Kubiak	30	50	18	286.2	170	80	88	2	21	.988	5.0	20.9	3.0	0.8	2.2		2		5.27	3.36						2B-3B
Allan Lewis	30	6	1	29.0	10	9	0	1	0	.900	-0.3	-12.4	0.7	0.5	0.3	-1			2.79	1.50						LF-RF
Bob Locker	34	56	0	78.0	15	5	9	1	0	.933									1.62	0.25						P
Angel Mangual	25	78	66	599.2	173	164	4	5	2	.971	5.5	11.0	6.5	3.3	3.2	-1			2.52	2.15						RF-CF-LF
Gonzalo Marquez	26	2	1	13.0	14	12	1	1	1	.929	-0.5	-46.2	-0.5	-0.3	-0.1		0		9.00	6.50						1B
Marty Martinez	30	24	8	112.2	72	28	40	4	8	.944	-0.9	-9.6	-0.9	-0.9	0.1		0		5.43	2.83						2B-SS-3B
Dal Maxvill	33	28	23	127.1	69	28	40	1	9	.986	0.3	2.8	0.3	-0.8	1.0		0		4.81	2.43						2B-SS
Denny McLain	28	5	5	22.1	5	0	5	0	0	1.000									2.01	1.00						P
Bill McNulty	25	3	3	23.0	5	2	2	1	0	.800	-1.4	-73.0	-1.4	-1.4	0.0		0		1.57	1.33						3B
Don Mincher	34	11	8	68.1	81	77	3	1	4	.988	-0.1	-1.8	-0.1	0.4	-0.5		0		10.54	7.27						1B
Blue Moon Odom	27	31	30	194.1	55	15	33	7	2	.873									2.22	1.55						P
Jim Roland	29	2	0	2.1	2	0	1	1	0	.500									3.86	0.50						P
Joe Rudi	25	148	147	1315.1	259	248	9	2	1	.992	3.1	2.8	-1.9	3.2	-5.1	5			1.76	1.74						LF-3B
Diego Segui	34	7	3	22.2	4	0	3	1	0	.750									1.19	0.43						P
Don Shaw	28	3	0	5.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Gene Tenace	25	69	59	534.1	359	329	23	7	5	.981	-3.3	-7.4	-1.3	-0.2	-1.1	-1	0	-1	5.93	5.10	4	8	20	9	31%	C-RF-1B-3B-2B
Bill Voss	28	35	24	232.0	62	59	3	0	0	1.000	1.5	7.8	0.5	-0.5	1.0	1			2.41	1.77						RF-CF-LF
Gary Waslewski	30	8	0	17.2	6	2	4	0	0	1.000									3.06	0.75						P
Team Totals	27.9	155	1395	12759.0	6075	4250	1695	130	389	.979	49.6	4.7	34.6	10.7	24.1	5	9	1	4.19	3.18	13	29	72	38	35%
Rank in 12 AL teams								6	6	6
	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

1971 / 1973 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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