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1972 Oakland Athletics Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1971 / 1973)
93-62, Finished 1st in AL West
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Scored 604 runs, Allowed 457 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 97-58
Manager: Dick Williams (93-62)
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
World Series Champs
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
Redesign Note: Summary Batting, Pitching and Fielding Stats are below. Detailed Batting, Pitching, and Fielding Stats are available using the navigation bar just above this note or the "Detailed" links beside the table headers. Leaderboards have been removed since all tables are now sortable by clicking the headers. The all-stars and salaries are on the roster page linked above.

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
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
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* - 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 7 1 1 1 3 2 2 7 3 6
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
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* - 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 0.0 0.0 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 0.0 0.0 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 0.0 0.0 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 0.0 0.0 1.83 1.38 P
Joe Horlen 34 32 6 84.0 20 5 15 0 0 1.000 0.0 0.0 2.14 0.63 P
Catfish Hunter 26 38 37 295.1 55 23 30 2 1 .964 0.0 0.0 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 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.00 P
Darold Knowles 30 54 0 65.2 29 2 26 1 0 .966 0.0 0.0 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 0.0 0.0 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 0.0 0.0 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 0.0 0.0 2.22 1.55 P
Jim Roland 29 2 0 2.1 2 0 1 1 0 .500 0.0 0.0 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 0.0 0.0 1.19 0.43 P
Don Shaw 28 3 0 5.1 0 0 0 0 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 0.0 0.0 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