1972 St. Louis Cardinals Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1972 St. Louis Cardinals Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1971 / 1973)
75-81, Finished 4th in NL East
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Scored 568 runs, Allowed 600 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 74-82
Manager: Red Schoendienst (75-81)
Ballpark: Busch Stadium II (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,196,894 (8th of 12)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 99, Pitching - 99; one-year: Batting - 104, Pitching - 105
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1971 / 1973 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	Ted Simmons#	22	152	629	594	70	180	36	6	16	96	1	3	29	57	.303	.336	.465	.801	127	276	18	2	1	3	8
2	1B	Matty Alou*	33	108	431	404	46	127	17	2	3	31	11	4	24	23	.314	.353	.389	.742	112	157	12	1	1	1	2
3	2B	Ted Sizemore	27	120	489	439	53	116	17	4	2	38	8	3	37	36	.264	.324	.335	.659	89	147	11	4	4	5	1
4	SS	Dal Maxvill	33	105	313	276	22	61	6	1	1	23	0	1	31	47	.221	.299	.261	.560	62	72	12	0	5	1	4
5	3B	Joe Torre	31	149	613	544	71	157	26	6	11	81	3	0	54	64	.289	.357	.419	.776	122	228	19	8	0	7	13
6	LF	Lou Brock*	33	153	675	621	81	193	26	8	3	42	63	18	47	93	.311	.359	.393	.752	115	244	6	1	3	3	12
7	CF	Jose Cruz*	24	117	374	332	33	78	14	4	2	23	9	3	36	54	.235	.309	.319	.628	80	106	4	1	2	3	3
8	RF	Bernie Carbo*	24	99	368	302	42	78	13	1	7	34	0	1	57	56	.258	.381	.377	.759	118	114	7	5	1	3	9
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	OF	Luis Melendez	22	118	360	332	32	79	11	3	5	28	5	4	25	34	.238	.292	.334	.627	79	111	8	1	1	1	0
10	MI	Ed Crosby*	23	101	300	276	27	60	9	1	0	19	1	1	18	27	.217	.269	.257	.527	51	71	10	2	3	1	1
11	1B	Donn Clendenon	36	61	154	136	13	26	4	0	4	9	1	2	17	37	.191	.279	.309	.588	68	42	7	0	0	1	4
12	SS	Dwain Anderson	24	57	144	135	12	36	4	1	1	8	0	1	8	23	.267	.313	.333	.646	85	45	4	1	0	0	1
13	1B	Joe Hague*	28	27	96	76	8	18	5	1	3	11	0	1	17	18	.237	.368	.447	.816	133	34	2	0	1	2	2
14	3B	Ken Reitz	21	21	81	78	5	28	4	0	0	10	0	1	2	4	.359	.370	.410	.781	123	32	4	0	0	1	0
15	CF	Jorge Roque	22	32	75	67	3	7	2	1	1	5	1	1	6	19	.104	.176	.209	.385	10	14	3	0	1	1	0
16	C	Skip Jutze	26	21	73	71	1	17	2	0	0	5	0	1	1	16	.239	.247	.268	.514	47	19	2	0	0	1	0
17	SS	Mick Kelleher	24	23	71	63	5	10	2	1	0	1	0	0	6	15	.159	.232	.222	.454	31	14	1	0	2	0	0
18	C	Jerry McNertney	35	39	57	48	3	10	3	1	0	9	0	0	6	16	.208	.291	.313	.603	73	15	1	0	2	1	1
19	MI	Mike Tyson	22	13	38	37	1	7	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	9	.189	.211	.216	.427	22	8	0	0	0	0	0
20	UT	Bill Stein	25	14	38	35	2	11	0	1	2	3	1	0	0	7	.314	.314	.543	.857	141	19	0	0	3	0	0
21	OF	Brant Alyea	31	13	19	19	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.158	.158	.211	.368	5	4	0	0	0	0	0
22	CF	Bill Voss*	28	11	18	15	1	4	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	2	.267	.333	.400	.733	109	6	1	0	0	1	0
23	1B	Ron Allen#	28	7	14	11	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	5	.091	.286	.364	.649	85	4	1	0	0	0	0
24	UT	Mike Fiore*	27	17	13	10	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.100	.250	.100	.350	4	1	1	0	1	0	0
25	IF	Marty Martinez#	30	9	7	7	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.429	.429	.429	.857	146	3	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
26	P	Bob Gibson	36	34	106	103	12	20	6	0	5	12	0	1	1	25	.194	.202	.398	.600	68	41	0	0	2	0	0
27	P	Rick Wise	26	35	100	93	8	16	2	0	1	9	0	0	1	30	.172	.181	.226	.407	16	21	1	0	6	0	0
28	P	Reggie Cleveland	24	33	84	71	3	17	0	0	0	7	0	0	1	13	.239	.260	.239	.500	44	17	3	1	11	0	0
29	P	Al Santorini	24	30	46	40	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	13	.075	.140	.075	.215	-37	3	1	0	3	0	0
30	P	Scipio Spinks	24	21	44	42	4	7	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	21	.167	.167	.167	.333	-4	7	0	0	2	0	0
31	P	Don Durham	23	14	14	14	3	7	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	4	.500	.500	.929	1.429	301	13	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Jim Bibby	27	6	12	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.125	.300	.125	.425	26	1	0	0	2	0	0
33	P	Diego Segui	34	33	7	7	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.286	.429	20	2	1	0	0	0	0
34	P	John Cumberland	25	14	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
35	P	Lowell Palmer	24	17	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Tony Cloninger	31	17	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Dennis Higgins	32	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Lance Clemons*	24	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Rich Folkers*	25	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	0	0	0
40	P	Al Hrabosky	22	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Joe Grzenda	35	30	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Moe Drabowsky	36	30	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	P	Don Shaw*	28	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	P	Charlie Hudson*	22	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
45	P	Santiago Guzman	22	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
46	P	Tim Plodinec	25	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
47	P	Ray Bare	23	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	27.5	156	5884	5326	568	1383	214	42	70	518	104	48	437	793	.260	.317	.355	.672	92	1891	141	27	58	36	61
		Rank in 12 NL teams				2	8	2	3	3	12		4	5	10	10	2	7	8	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.

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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	Bob Gibson	36	19	11	.633	2.46	34	34	0	23	4	0	278.0	226	83	76	14	88	11	208	3	2	10	1119	139	1.129	7.3	0.5	2.8	6.7	2.36
2	SP	Rick Wise	26	16	16	.500	3.11	35	35	0	20	2	0	269.0	250	98	93	16	71	13	142	1	0	4	1089	110	1.193	8.4	0.5	2.4	4.8	2.00
3	SP	Reggie Cleveland	24	14	15	.483	3.94	33	33	0	11	3	0	230.2	229	120	101	21	60	12	153	5	2	3	971	87	1.253	8.9	0.8	2.3	6.0	2.55
4	SP	Al Santorini	24	8	11	.421	4.11	30	19	2	3	3	0	133.2	136	63	61	6	46	7	72	1	0	5	568	83	1.362	9.2	0.4	3.1	4.8	1.57
5	SP	Scipio Spinks	24	5	5	.500	2.67	16	16	0	6	0	0	118.0	96	39	35	5	59	2	93	2	0	7	497	128	1.314	7.3	0.4	4.5	7.1	1.58
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	Diego Segui	34	3	1	.750	3.07	33	0	21	0	0	9	55.2	47	23	19	2	32	10	54	0	1	5	244	111	1.419	7.6	0.3	5.2	8.7	1.69
7	RP	Joe Grzenda*	35	1	0	1.000	5.66	30	0	16	0	0	0	35.0	46	24	22	1	17	8	15	3	0	3	165	60	1.800	11.8	0.3	4.4	3.9	0.88
8	RP	Lowell Palmer	24	0	3	.000	3.89	16	2	3	0	0	0	34.2	30	16	15	2	26	1	25	1	0	3	155	88	1.615	7.8	0.5	6.8	6.5	0.96
9	RP	Moe Drabowsky	36	1	1	.500	2.60	30	0	15	0	0	2	27.2	29	13	8	4	14	4	22	1	0	2	128	132	1.554	9.4	1.3	4.6	7.2	1.57
10	RP	Tony Cloninger	31	0	2	.000	5.19	17	0	4	0	0	0	26.0	29	17	15	2	19	3	11	1	0	0	122	66	1.846	10.0	0.7	6.6	3.8	0.58
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		Don Durham	23	2	7	.222	4.34	10	8	0	1	0	0	47.2	42	28	23	1	22	5	35	0	0	2	207	79	1.343	7.9	0.2	4.2	6.6	1.59
12		Jim Bibby	27	1	3	.250	3.35	6	6	0	0	0	0	40.1	29	18	15	4	19	4	28	1	0	2	166	102	1.190	6.5	0.9	4.2	6.2	1.47
13		Dennis Higgins	32	1	2	.333	3.97	15	1	7	0	0	1	22.2	19	14	10	0	22	0	20	0	0	2	107	86	1.809	7.5	0.0	8.7	7.9	0.91
14		John Cumberland*	25	1	1	.500	6.65	14	1	3	0	0	0	21.2	23	17	16	6	7	0	7	0	0	1	91	51	1.385	9.6	2.5	2.9	2.9	1.00
15		Ray Bare	23	0	1	.000	0.54	14	0	5	0	0	1	16.2	18	2	1	0	6	2	5	0	0	0	71	634	1.440	9.7	0.0	3.2	2.7	0.83
16		Rich Folkers*	25	1	0	1.000	3.38	9	0	4	0	0	0	13.1	12	5	5	0	5	0	7	0	0	1	56	101	1.275	8.1	0.0	3.4	4.7	1.40
17		Charlie Hudson*	22	1	0	1.000	5.11	12	0	6	0	0	0	12.1	10	8	7	0	7	0	4	1	0	0	54	67	1.378	7.3	0.0	5.1	2.9	0.57
18		Al Hrabosky*	22	1	0	1.000	0.00	5	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	2	0	0	0	3	0	9	0	0	1	27		0.714	2.6	0.0	3.9	11.6	3.00
19		Lance Clemons*	24	0	1	.000	10.12	3	1	2	0	0	0	5.1	8	7	6	1	5	0	2	1	0	1	28	34	2.438	13.5	1.7	8.4	3.4	0.40
20		Don Shaw*	28	0	1	.000	9.00	8	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	5	3	3	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	16	38	2.667	15.0	3.0	9.0	0.0	0.00
21		Santiago Guzman	22	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	38	1.000	9.0	9.0	0.0	0.0
22		Tim Plodinec	25	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	13	9.000	81.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	28.0	75	81	.481	3.43	156	156	92	64	12	13	1399.2	1290	600	533	87	531	82	912	21	5	53	5889	100	1.301	8.3	0.6	3.4	5.9	1.72
		Rank in 12 NL teams		7	6		6				1	7	12	8	5	6	6	2	9		10545
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

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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
Ron Allen	28	5	2	25.2	31	29	1	1	1	.968	-1.0	-46.8	-1.0	-1.0	0.0		0		10.52	6.00						1B
Matty Alou	33	105	98	836.0	639	588	44	7	53	.989	0.2	0.3	-0.8	-0.4	-0.4	1	0		6.80	6.02						1B-RF
Brant Alyea	31	3	2	16.0	5	4	1	0	1	1.000	-0.3	-22.5	-0.3	-0.2	-0.1	0			2.81	1.67						RF-LF
Dwain Anderson	24	57	33	324.0	175	70	97	8	18	.954	-3.1	-11.5	-4.1	-2.9	-1.2		1		4.64	2.93						SS-3B-2B
Ray Bare	23	14	0	16.2	3	0	2	1	0	.667									1.08	0.14						P
Jim Bibby	27	6	6	40.1	8	2	6	0	0	1.000									1.79	1.33						P
Lou Brock	33	149	147	1303.2	269	250	6	13	1	.952	-13.2	-12.2	-11.2	-9.8	-1.4	-2			1.77	1.72						LF
Bernie Carbo	24	93	87	777.0	183	161	16	6	3	.967	3.8	5.9	-2.2	-1.3	-0.9	6	0		2.05	1.90						RF-3B
Lance Clemons	24	3	1	5.1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									1.69	0.33						P
Donn Clendenon	36	36	31	279.0	289	259	26	4	34	.986	-1.8	-7.7	-1.8	-2.3	0.5		0		9.19	7.92						1B
Reggie Cleveland	24	33	33	230.2	46	17	25	4	0	.913									1.64	1.27						P
Tony Cloninger	31	17	0	26.0	8	1	7	0	1	1.000									2.77	0.47						P
Ed Crosby	23	95	68	632.1	337	130	197	10	42	.970	-1.7	-3.2	-2.7	-1.0	-1.6		1		4.65	3.44						2B-SS-3B
Jose Cruz	24	105	89	805.2	233	220	8	5	5	.979	-6.4	-9.5	-4.4	-5.2	0.8	-2			2.55	2.17						CF-RF-LF
John Cumberland	25	14	1	21.2	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Moe Drabowsky	36	30	0	27.2	6	2	1	3	0	.500									0.98	0.10						P
Don Durham	23	10	8	47.2	5	1	4	0	0	1.000									0.94	0.50						P
Mike Fiore	27	7	0	9.0	7	7	0	0	2	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.1		0		7.00	1.00						1B-RF
Rich Folkers	25	9	0	13.1	2	0	2	0	0	1.000									1.35	0.22						P
Bob Gibson	36	34	34	278.0	59	12	46	1	3	.983									1.88	1.71						P
Joe Grzenda	35	30	0	35.0	8	2	6	0	0	1.000									2.06	0.27						P
Santiago Guzman	22	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Joe Hague	28	25	22	198.2	201	190	11	0	16	1.000	3.0	18.1	2.0	0.8	1.2	1	0		9.11	8.04						1B-RF
Dennis Higgins	32	15	1	22.2	3	2	1	0	0	1.000									1.19	0.20						P
Al Hrabosky	22	5	0	7.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Charlie Hudson	22	12	0	12.1	4	1	3	0	0	1.000									2.92	0.33						P
Skip Jutze	26	17	17	148.0	112	93	15	4	1	.964	3.0	24.3						3	6.57	6.35	2	5	6	12	67%	C
Mick Kelleher	24	23	23	188.0	123	60	61	2	14	.984	-0.8	-5.1	-0.8	-0.7	-0.1		0		5.79	5.26						SS
Marty Martinez	30	6	0	11.0	5	3	2	0	1	1.000	-0.7	-76.4	-0.7	-0.5	-0.2		0		4.09	0.83						SS-2B-3B
Dal Maxvill	33	106	88	784.2	456	173	273	10	60	.978	1.5	2.3	-0.5	0.2	-0.7		2		5.12	4.21						SS-2B
Jerry McNertney	35	10	5	58.0	55	50	4	1	0	.982	0.0	0.0						0	8.38	5.40	1	4	2	4	67%	C
Luis Melendez	22	115	80	765.2	221	207	5	9	0	.959	-3.0	-4.7	2.0	-3.5	5.4	-5			2.49	1.84						CF-RF-LF
Lowell Palmer	24	16	2	34.2	7	3	4	0	0	1.000									1.82	0.44						P
Tim Plodinec	25	1	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Ken Reitz	21	20	20	174.0	45	17	26	2	3	.956	-0.3	-2.1	-0.3	0.6	-0.9		0		2.22	2.15						3B
Jorge Roque	22	24	19	169.0	50	49	0	1	0	.980	1.5	10.7	0.5	-0.3	0.8	1			2.61	2.04						CF-RF
Al Santorini	24	30	19	133.2	23	10	12	1	1	.957									1.48	0.73						P
Diego Segui	34	33	0	55.2	15	5	9	1	1	.933									2.26	0.42						P
Don Shaw	28	8	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Ted Simmons	22	150	149	1325.2	1073	967	93	13	15	.988	-1.6	-1.4	-1.6	-0.3	-1.2		0	0	7.20	7.07	15	44	83	39	32%	C-1B
Ted Sizemore	27	111	106	940.1	578	222	342	14	68	.976	2.0	2.6	1.0	-3.7	4.7		1		5.40	5.08						2B
Scipio Spinks	24	16	16	118.0	24	2	21	1	1	.958									1.75	1.44						P
Bill Stein	25	9	6	66.0	10	6	4	0	0	1.000	-1.8	-32.7	-1.8	-1.7	-0.1	0	0		1.36	1.11						3B-LF-RF
Joe Torre	31	144	142	1253.0	549	336	198	15	34	.973	-5.6	-5.4	-5.6	-3.5	-2.1		0		3.84	3.71						3B-1B
Mike Tyson	22	13	12	91.0	65	26	36	3	4	.954	0.6	7.9	0.6	2.5	-1.9		0		6.13	4.77						2B-SS
Bill Voss	28	2	2	16.0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	-0.9	-67.5	-0.9	0.0	-0.9	0			2.25	2.00						CF
Rick Wise	26	35	35	269.0	64	15	48	1	7	.984									2.11	1.80						P
Team Totals	27.6	156	1404	12597.0	6005	4199	1665	141	390	.977	-26.6	-2.5	-34.6	-34.2	-0.4	0	5	3	4.19	3.28	18	53	91	55	38%
Rank in 12 NL teams								5	4	8
	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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