1976 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 80-82
Finished 3rd in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 886,622, Avg. 11,822
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Bill Virdon (80-82)
Location: Houston, Texas

1976 Houston Astros Roster
1976 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1976 season with a record of 80 wins and 82 losses, finishing third in the NL's West Division.

The Astros scored 625 runs and conceded 657 runs. Cesar Cedeno paced Houston with 18 home runs, and Bob Watson walloped 20 or more, too. Bob Watson drove in 102 runs and topped all regular batters by hitting .313. J. R. Richard led the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 2.75 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon 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
J. R. Richard	20	15	.571	2.75	39	39	0	14	3	0	291.0	221	105	89	14	151	4	214	4	2	13	1218
Larry Dierker	13	14	.481	3.69	28	28	0	7	4	0	187.7	171	85	77	9	72	6	112	6	2	12	790
Joaquin Andujar	9	10	.474	3.60	28	25	1	9	4	0	172.3	163	74	69	8	75	2	59	1	5	1	729
Tom Griffin	5	3	.625	6.05	20	2	2	0	0	0	41.7	44	29	28	4	37	2	33	1	0	3	201
Dan Larson	5	8	.385	3.02	13	13	0	5	0	0	92.3	81	40	31	3	28	1	42	1	2	1	379
Ken Forsch	4	3	.571	2.15	52	0	46	0	0	19	92.0	76	23	22	5	26	7	49	2	1	2	372
Bo McLaughlin	4	5	.444	2.85	17	11	3	4	2	1	79.0	71	31	25	6	17	1	32	2	0	2	315
Joe Niekro	4	8	.333	3.36	36	13	5	0	0	0	118.0	107	60	44	8	56	1	77	1	0	8	515
Mark Lemongello	3	1	.750	2.79	4	4	0	1	0	0	29.0	26	12	9	2	7	2	9	0	0	0	122
Joe Sambito	3	2	.600	3.54	20	4	8	1	1	1	53.3	45	21	21	4	14	1	26	0	0	2	207
Gene Pentz	3	3	.500	2.97	40	0	25	0	0	5	63.7	62	26	21	5	31	2	36	1	0	2	279
Mike Cosgrove	3	4	.429	5.52	22	16	1	1	1	0	89.7	106	63	55	6	58	2	34	2	0	5	425
Mike Barlow	2	2	.500	4.50	16	0	7	0	0	0	22.0	27	13	11	0	17	1	11	0	0	1	107
Gil Rondon	2	2	.500	5.70	19	7	3	0	0	0	53.7	70	37	34	6	39	0	21	0	0	2	264
Jose Sosa	0	0		6.94	9	0	2	0	0	0	11.7	16	9	9	0	6	2	5	3	0	1	60
Larry Hardy	0	0		7.06	15	0	11	0	0	3	21.7	34	19	17	2	10	2	10	0	0	1	106
Paul Siebert	0	2	.000	3.16	19	0	6	0	0	0	25.7	29	10	9	0	18	7	10	1	0	1	124
Totals	80	82	.494	3.56	397	162	120	42	15	29	1444.3	1349	657	571	82	662	43	780	25	12	57	6213

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
Bob Watson	157	662	585	76	183	31	3	16	102	3	3	62	64	.313	.377	.458	.835	268	12	4	2	9	10
Cesar Cedeno	150	635	575	89	171	26	5	18	83	58	15	55	51	.297	.357	.454	.811	261	16	1	0	4	9
Enos Cabell	144	622	586	85	160	13	7	2	43	35	8	29	79	.273	.309	.329	.638	193	13	2	3	2	1
Jose Cruz	133	496	439	49	133	21	5	4	61	28	11	53	46	.303	.377	.401	.777	176	6	0	2	2	5
Greg Gross	128	501	426	52	122	12	3	0	27	2	6	64	39	.286	.375	.329	.704	140	8	0	5	6	3
Rob Andrews	109	448	410	42	105	8	5	0	23	7	3	33	27	.256	.312	.300	.612	123	16	0	5	0	1
Roger Metzger	152	543	481	37	101	13	8	0	29	1	1	52	63	.210	.286	.270	.556	130	11	0	8	2	10
Cliff Johnson	108	384	318	36	72	21	2	10	49	0	0	62	59	.226	.359	.399	.759	127	9	4	0	0	6
Leon Roberts	87	260	235	31	68	11	2	7	33	1	0	19	43	.289	.347	.443	.790	104	2	3	1	2	1
Ed Herrmann	79	296	265	14	54	8	0	3	25	0	0	22	40	.204	.273	.268	.541	71	6	4	3	2	2
Wilbur Howard	94	201	191	26	42	7	2	1	18	7	5	7	28	.220	.245	.293	.538	56	5	0	1	2	1
Larry Milbourne	59	161	145	22	36	4	0	0	7	6	1	14	10	.248	.319	.276	.595	40	3	1	1	0	0
Ken Boswell	91	137	126	12	33	8	1	0	18	1	0	8	8	.262	.301	.341	.643	43	8	0	1	2	2
Jerry DaVanon	61	130	107	19	31	3	3	1	20	0	2	21	12	.290	.408	.402	.810	43	2	1	0	1	1
Skip Jutze	42	97	92	7	14	2	3	0	6	0	0	4	16	.152	.186	.239	.425	22	2	0	0	1	0
J. R. Richard	39	104	100	6	14	1	0	2	9	0	0	0	33	.140	.146	.210	.356	21	0	1	1	2	0
Alex Taveras	14	48	46	3	10	0	0	0	2	1	2	2	1	.217	.250	.217	.467	10	2	0	0	0	0
Dan Larson	14	34	31	5	9	1	1	0	6	0	0	1	3	.290	.313	.387	.700	12	0	0	2	0	0
Larry Dierker	28	69	64	3	9	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	20	.141	.136	.188	.324	12	1	0	3	2	0
Joaquin Andujar	28	61	57	4	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	29	.140	.169	.158	.327	9	0	0	2	0	0
Al Javier	8	26	24	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.208	.269	.208	.478	5	1	0	0	0	1
Joe Niekro	36	32	27	1	5	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	8	.185	.214	.370	.585	10	0	0	4	0	0
Gil Rondon	19	16	14	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.286	.286	.286	.571	4	1	0	2	0	0
Art Howe	21	35	29	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	.138	.286	.172	.458	5	1	0	0	0	1
Rich Chiles	5	4	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.750	1.250	3	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	20	12	9	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	.222	.417	.222	.639	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Cosgrove	22	30	23	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.087	.160	.087	.247	2	0	0	5	0	0
Gene Pentz	40	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	52	14	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	1	0	2	0	0
Mike Barlow	16	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Paul Siebert	19	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Lemongello	4	10	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bo McLaughlin	17	23	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	.000	.095	.000	.095	0	0	0	2	0	0
Larry Hardy	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	20	7	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jose Sosa	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2040	6111	5464	625	1401	195	50	66	571	150	57	530	719	.256	.322	.347	.669	1894	127	21	57	39	54

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Watson	1B	155	154	1355.0	1395	96	15	126	.990	9.903	9.619	0	0	0
Cliff Johnson	1B	16	8	86.3	117	1	0	8	1.000	12.301	7.375	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	1B	3	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Rob Andrews	2B	107	101	913.7	228	354	14	66	.977	5.733	5.439	0	0	0
Larry Milbourne	2B	32	32	286.3	67	100	6	19	.965	5.249	5.219	0	0	0
Jerry DaVanon	2B	17	17	141.3	30	67	2	7	.980	6.177	5.706	0	0	0
Alex Taveras	2B	7	6	51.0	15	21	3	2	.923	6.353	5.143	0	0	0
Roger Metzger	2B	2	2	17.0	5	6	0	0	1.000	5.824	5.500	0	0	0
Art Howe	2B	2	2	16.0	1	7	0	2	1.000	4.500	4.000	0	0	0
Wilbur Howard	2B	2	2	14.0	2	6	1	1	.889	5.143	4.000	0	0	0
Ken Boswell	2B	3	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	.333	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	3B	143	142	1250.7	128	263	17	24	.958	2.814	2.734	0	0	0
Ken Boswell	3B	16	15	120.0	7	21	2	4	.933	2.100	1.750	0	0	0
Art Howe	3B	8	4	46.0	6	9	1	1	.938	2.935	1.875	0	0	0
Jerry DaVanon	3B	9	1	27.7	3	6	1	1	.900	2.928	1.000	0	0	0
Ed Herrmann	C	79	75	660.3	412	37	6	5	.987	6.120	5.684	10	66	27	29.0
Cliff Johnson	C	66	64	545.3	312	34	8	2	.977	5.710	5.242	12	76	22	22.4
Skip Jutze	C	42	23	238.7	125	21	2	5	.986	5.506	3.476	10	24	10	29.4
Cesar Cedeno	OF	146	145	1276.3	377	11	8	5	.980	2.736	2.658	0	0	0
Jose Cruz	OF	125	114	1025.0	265	10	8	4	.972	2.415	2.200	0	0	0
Greg Gross	OF	115	110	981.3	208	13	5	4	.978	2.027	1.922	0	0	0
Leon Roberts	OF	60	55	476.7	99	1	2	0	.980	1.888	1.667	0	0	0
Wilbur Howard	OF	63	35	370.0	96	2	4	1	.961	2.384	1.556	0	0	0
Cliff Johnson	OF	20	20	148.0	39	0	1	0	.975	2.372	1.950	0	0	0
Al Javier	OF	7	7	54.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.167	1.000	0	0	0
Ken Boswell	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rich Chiles	OF	1	0	0.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.000	0	0	0
J. R. Richard	P	39	39	291.0	19	39	10	2	.853	1.794	1.487	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	P	28	28	187.7	17	18	2	2	.946	1.679	1.250	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	P	28	25	172.3	12	24	3	1	.923	1.880	1.286	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	36	13	118.0	9	13	3	1	.880	1.678	.611	0	0	0
Dan Larson	P	13	13	92.3	7	13	0	2	1.000	1.949	1.538	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	P	52	0	92.0	4	17	0	0	1.000	2.054	.404	0	0	0
Mike Cosgrove	P	22	16	89.7	2	14	0	2	1.000	1.606	.727	0	0	0
Bo McLaughlin	P	17	11	79.0	10	10	0	2	1.000	2.278	1.176	0	0	0
Gene Pentz	P	40	0	63.7	3	12	0	2	1.000	2.120	.375	0	0	0
Gil Rondon	P	19	7	53.7	5	4	0	0	1.000	1.509	.474	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	P	20	4	53.3	4	10	0	1	1.000	2.363	.700	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	P	20	2	41.7	2	6	1	1	.889	1.728	.400	0	0	0
Mark Lemongello	P	4	4	29.0	1	9	0	0	1.000	3.103	2.500	0	0	0
Paul Siebert	P	19	0	25.7	3	1	1	0	.800	1.403	.211	0	0	0
Mike Barlow	P	16	0	22.0	0	7	0	0	1.000	2.864	.438	0	0	0
Larry Hardy	P	15	0	21.7	0	4	0	1	1.000	1.662	.267	0	0	0
Jose Sosa	P	9	0	11.7	2	5	0	0	1.000	5.400	.778	0	0	0
Roger Metzger	SS	150	149	1304.3	253	462	10	93	.986	4.934	4.767	0	0	0
Jerry DaVanon	SS	17	7	85.0	20	21	4	8	.911	4.341	2.412	0	0	0
Alex Taveras	SS	7	6	51.0	11	23	0	2	1.000	6.000	4.857	0	0	0
Rob Andrews	SS	3	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	.667	0	0	0
Totals		1821	1458	12999.0	4333	1800	140	407	.978	4.246	3.368	32	166	59	26.2

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