2008 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 86-75
Finished 3rd in the NL's Central Division
Attendance: 2,740,888, Avg. 35,140
Ballpark: Minute Maid Park
Manager: Cecil Cooper (86-75)
Location: Houston, Texas

2008 Houston Astros Roster
2008 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 2008 season with a record of 86 wins and 75 losses, finishing third in the NL's Central Division.

The Astros scored 712 runs and surrendered 743 runs. Lance Berkman led Houston with 29 home runs, while Ty Wigginton, Carlos Lee and Hunter Pence each walloped 20 or more, too. Lance Berkman drove in 106 runs. Carlos Lee paced all regular batters by hitting .314. Roy Oswalt topped the team with 17 wins, and Roy Oswalt and Wandy Rodriguez recorded a 3.54 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Cecil Cooper coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Roy Oswalt	17	10	.630	3.54	32	32	0	3	2	0	208.7	199	89	82	23	47	2	165	10	0	1	862
Brian Moehler	11	8	.579	4.56	31	26	0	0	0	0	150.0	166	79	76	20	36	1	82	4	0	3	650
Wandy Rodriguez	9	7	.563	3.54	25	25	0	0	0	0	137.3	136	65	54	14	44	3	131	5	3	2	587
Brandon Backe	9	14	.391	6.05	31	31	0	0	0	0	166.7	202	114	112	36	77	2	127	4	0	2	756
Doug Brocail	7	5	.583	3.93	72	0	21	0	0	2	68.7	63	30	30	8	21	5	64	3	1	1	286
Randy Wolf	6	2	.750	3.57	12	12	0	1	1	0	70.7	68	31	28	7	24	4	57	4	0	1	301
Jose Valverde	6	3	.667	3.38	74	0	71	0	0	44	72.0	62	28	27	10	23	6	83	2	2	3	303
Chris Sampson	6	4	.600	4.22	54	11	6	0	0	0	117.3	118	60	55	8	23	5	61	3	0	0	478
Wesley Wright	4	3	.571	5.01	71	0	15	0	0	1	55.7	45	34	31	8	34	4	57	4	1	2	250
LaTroy Hawkins	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
Tim Byrdak	2	1	.667	3.90	59	0	9	0	0	0	55.3	45	24	24	10	29	2	47	2	0	0	237
Geoff Geary	2	3	.400	2.53	55	0	8	0	0	0	64.0	45	18	18	3	28	5	45	2	1	0	262
Shawn Chacon	2	3	.400	5.04	15	15	0	0	0	0	85.7	88	52	48	16	41	5	53	2	0	2	374
Jack Cassel	1	1	.500	5.64	9	3	1	0	0	0	30.3	38	21	19	5	8	2	14	1	1	2	132
Alberto Arias	1	1	.500	6.75	3	2	0	0	0	0	8.0	11	6	6	0	6	0	8	1	0	0	39
Oscar Villarreal	1	3	.250	5.02	35	0	13	0	0	0	37.7	42	25	21	12	17	0	21	2	0	2	168
Chad Paronto	0	1	.000	4.35	6	0	3	0	0	0	10.3	11	5	5	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	41
Fernando Nieve	0	1	.000	8.44	11	0	1	0	0	0	10.7	17	10	10	2	2	0	12	0	0	0	49
Dave Borkowski	0	2	.000	7.50	26	0	5	0	0	0	36.0	54	30	30	9	14	5	24	1	0	0	173
Runelvys Hernandez	0	3	.000	8.38	4	4	0	0	0	0	19.3	32	19	18	4	11	1	15	0	0	0	98
Totals	86	75	.534	4.39	649	161	157	4	3	48	1425.3	1453	743	695	197	492	53	1095	50	9	22	6125

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Miguel Tejada	158	666	632	92	179	38	3	13	66	7	7	24	72	.283	.314	.415	.729	262	32	6	1	3	4
Lance Berkman	159	665	554	114	173	46	4	29	106	18	4	99	108	.312	.420	.567	.986	314	13	7	0	5	18
Hunter Pence	157	642	595	78	160	34	4	25	83	11	10	40	124	.269	.318	.466	.783	277	14	4	0	3	2
Carlos Lee	115	481	436	61	137	27	0	28	100	4	1	37	49	.314	.368	.569	.937	248	8	3	0	5	7
Kazuo Matsui	96	422	375	58	110	26	3	6	33	20	5	37	53	.293	.354	.427	.781	160	3	0	7	3	0
Ty Wigginton	111	429	386	50	110	22	1	23	58	4	6	32	69	.285	.350	.526	.876	203	9	8	0	3	1
Michael Bourn	138	514	467	57	107	10	4	5	29	41	10	37	111	.229	.288	.300	.588	140	3	2	7	1	0
Darin Erstad	140	342	322	49	89	16	0	4	31	2	3	14	68	.276	.309	.363	.672	117	3	2	2	2	3
Geoff Blum	114	356	325	36	78	14	1	14	53	1	2	21	54	.240	.287	.418	.705	136	5	3	0	7	2
Mark Loretta	101	297	261	27	73	15	0	4	38	0	0	29	30	.280	.350	.383	.733	100	9	2	0	5	1
Brad Ausmus	81	250	216	15	47	8	0	3	24	0	2	25	41	.218	.303	.296	.600	64	4	2	6	1	3
Humberto Quintero	59	183	168	16	38	6	0	2	12	0	0	6	34	.226	.270	.298	.567	50	5	4	5	0	0
David Newhan	64	111	104	11	27	5	2	2	12	1	0	6	28	.260	.297	.404	.701	42	3	0	0	1	0
J. R. Towles	54	171	146	10	20	5	0	4	16	0	0	16	40	.137	.250	.253	.503	37	3	6	3	0	1
Reggie Abercrombie	34	60	55	10	17	5	0	2	5	5	2	1	23	.309	.339	.509	.848	28	0	2	1	1	0
Roy Oswalt	32	75	70	3	15	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	18	.214	.214	.214	.429	15	0	0	5	0	0
Brandon Backe	32	56	47	8	13	2	0	2	3	0	0	3	18	.277	.333	.447	.780	21	0	1	5	0	0
Jose Castillo	15	35	32	4	9	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	10	.281	.314	.313	.627	10	0	0	0	1	0
Jose Cruz	38	60	49	6	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	11	9	.122	.283	.143	.426	7	0	0	0	0	0
Wandy Rodriguez	25	45	41	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	.122	.122	.146	.268	6	1	0	4	0	0
Chris Sampson	54	26	22	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.136	.174	.136	.310	3	0	0	3	0	0
Randy Wolf	12	26	23	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	13	.130	.167	.130	.297	3	0	0	2	0	0
Shawn Chacon	15	28	24	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.125	.192	.125	.317	3	0	0	2	0	0
Jack Cassel	9	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Saccomanno	10	10	10	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.600	.800	6	0	0	0	0	0
Tomas Perez	8	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	0	0	0
Runelvys Hernandez	4	6	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	1	0	0
Tim Byrdak	59	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Edwin Maysonet	7	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Moehler	31	50	44	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	27	.023	.104	.045	.150	2	0	0	2	0	0
Geoff Geary	55	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Oscar Villarreal	35	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alberto Arias	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chad Paronto	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fernando Nieve	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
J. R. House	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Valverde	74	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Borkowski	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Brocail	72	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
LaTroy Hawkins	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Wesley Wright	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2312	6050	5451	712	1432	284	22	167	684	114	52	449	1051	.263	.323	.415	.737	2261	116	52	57	41	42

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Lance Berkman	1B	152	151	1307.3	1240	132	5	122	.996	9.445	9.026	0	0	0
Darin Erstad	1B	12	6	66.3	71	2	0	4	1.000	9.905	6.083	0	0	0
Geoff Blum	1B	5	2	24.7	17	1	0	1	1.000	6.568	3.600	0	0	0
Mark Loretta	1B	2	2	17.0	14	0	0	0	1.000	7.412	7.000	0	0	0
Mark Saccomanno	1B	2	0	6.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
Brad Ausmus	1B	2	0	4.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	11.250	2.500	0	0	0
Kazuo Matsui	2B	94	94	806.0	190	219	12	56	.971	4.567	4.351	0	0	0
Mark Loretta	2B	46	41	368.0	85	119	1	28	.995	4.989	4.435	0	0	0
David Newhan	2B	28	19	177.7	33	39	1	11	.986	3.647	2.571	0	0	0
Geoff Blum	2B	8	5	40.7	9	17	0	2	1.000	5.754	3.250	0	0	0
Tomas Perez	2B	5	1	15.0	2	2	0	2	1.000	2.400	.800	0	0	0
Jose Castillo	2B	3	1	13.0	5	4	0	1	1.000	6.231	3.000	0	0	0
Edwin Maysonet	2B	3	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.667	0	0	0
Brad Ausmus	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ty Wigginton	3B	82	74	652.0	46	144	6	11	.969	2.623	2.317	0	0	0
Geoff Blum	3B	75	68	599.7	43	144	4	8	.979	2.807	2.493	0	0	0
Mark Loretta	3B	17	12	110.7	7	31	1	1	.974	3.090	2.235	0	0	0
Jose Castillo	3B	7	7	60.0	6	11	0	0	1.000	2.550	2.429	0	0	0
Tomas Perez	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Brad Ausmus	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Brad Ausmus	C	77	62	569.7	428	33	2	4	.996	7.283	5.987	4	19	5	20.8
Humberto Quintero	C	59	52	447.0	373	26	1	3	.998	8.034	6.763	1	15	9	37.5
J. R. Towles	C	53	47	408.7	312	13	2	1	.994	7.157	6.132	3	13	7	35.0
Hunter Pence	OF	156	154	1366.3	340	16	1	4	.997	2.345	2.282	0	0	0
Michael Bourn	OF	130	111	1009.0	291	9	5	2	.984	2.676	2.308	0	0	0
Carlos Lee	OF	110	110	915.3	187	4	1	0	.995	1.878	1.736	0	0	0
Darin Erstad	OF	88	58	557.0	146	2	0	1	1.000	2.391	1.682	0	0	0
Ty Wigginton	OF	30	31	247.0	46	2	0	0	1.000	1.749	1.600	0	0	0
Reggie Abercrombie	OF	22	12	109.3	36	2	0	1	1.000	3.128	1.727	0	0	0
Jose Cruz	OF	15	7	70.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	2.314	1.200	0	0	0
David Newhan	OF	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Roy Oswalt	P	32	32	208.7	24	30	0	4	1.000	2.329	1.688	0	0	0
Brandon Backe	P	31	31	166.7	15	17	1	2	.970	1.728	1.032	0	0	0
Brian Moehler	P	31	26	150.0	14	10	1	0	.960	1.440	.774	0	0	0
Wandy Rodriguez	P	25	25	137.3	9	14	0	2	1.000	1.507	.920	0	0	0
Chris Sampson	P	54	11	117.3	15	7	1	2	.957	1.688	.407	0	0	0
Shawn Chacon	P	15	15	85.7	3	9	1	0	.923	1.261	.800	0	0	0
Jose Valverde	P	74	0	72.0	6	3	1	0	.900	1.125	.122	0	0	0
Randy Wolf	P	12	12	70.7	5	10	2	0	.882	1.910	1.250	0	0	0
Doug Brocail	P	72	0	68.7	9	8	1	1	.944	2.228	.236	0	0	0
Geoff Geary	P	55	0	64.0	4	7	0	0	1.000	1.547	.200	0	0	0
Wesley Wright	P	71	0	55.7	2	7	0	1	1.000	1.455	.127	0	0	0
Tim Byrdak	P	59	0	55.3	7	7	0	1	1.000	2.277	.237	0	0	0
Oscar Villarreal	P	35	0	37.7	3	5	0	1	1.000	1.912	.229	0	0	0
Dave Borkowski	P	26	0	36.0	4	5	0	0	1.000	2.250	.346	0	0	0
Jack Cassel	P	9	3	30.3	2	5	1	0	.875	2.077	.778	0	0	0
LaTroy Hawkins	P	24	0	21.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	.857	.083	0	0	0
Runelvys Hernandez	P	4	4	19.3	1	4	0	1	1.000	2.328	1.250	0	0	0
Fernando Nieve	P	11	0	10.7	1	1	0	1	1.000	1.688	.182	0	0	0
Chad Paronto	P	6	0	10.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.871	.167	0	0	0
Alberto Arias	P	3	2	8.0	1	0	1	0	.500	1.125	.333	0	0	0
Miguel Tejada	SS	157	154	1354.3	187	442	11	97	.983	4.180	4.006	0	0	0
Mark Loretta	SS	5	4	36.0	3	18	2	3	.913	5.250	4.200	0	0	0
Geoff Blum	SS	4	3	26.0	2	7	0	0	1.000	3.115	2.250	0	0	0
Edwin Maysonet	SS	4	0	9.0	0	6	1	0	.857	6.000	1.500	0	0	0
Totals		2107	1449	12828.0	4276	1596	67	379	.989	4.120	2.787	8	47	21	30.9

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