1972 Boston Red Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 85-70
Finished 2nd in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,434,336, Avg. 19,124
Ballpark: Fenway Park II
Manager: Eddie Kasko (85-70)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

1972 Boston Red Sox Roster
1972 Boston Red Sox Results

The Boston Red Sox of the American League ended the 1972 season with a record of 85 wins and 70 losses, finishing second in the AL's East Division.

The Red Sox led the league with 640 runs, ignited by 124 home runs. Boston allowed 620 runs. Carlton Fisk paced the team with 22 home runs, while Rico Petrocelli and Reggie Smith walloped 20 or more, too. Rico Petrocelli accounted for 75 RBI. Carlton Fisk topped all regular hitters by hitting .293. Marty Pattin paced the squad with 17 wins, plus Luis Tiant, too added 15 or more wins, too Luis Tiant recorded a 1.91 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Eddie Kasko 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
Marty Pattin	17	13	.567	3.24	38	35	2	13	4	0	253.0	232	102	91	19	65	3	168	9	1	4	1046
Luis Tiant	15	6	.714	1.91	43	19	12	12	6	3	179.0	128	45	38	7	65	5	123	0	0	0	713
Sonny Siebert	12	12	.500	3.80	32	30	0	7	3	0	196.3	204	105	83	17	59	4	123	7	0	4	852
John Curtis	11	8	.579	3.73	26	21	2	8	3	0	154.3	161	69	64	8	50	6	106	0	0	6	652
Lynn McGlothen	8	7	.533	3.41	22	22	0	4	1	0	145.0	135	66	55	9	59	1	112	7	0	4	620
Bill Lee	7	4	.636	3.20	47	0	16	0	0	5	84.3	75	31	30	5	32	8	43	1	0	4	346
Ray Culp	5	8	.385	4.46	16	16	0	4	1	0	105.0	104	60	52	8	53	3	52	3	1	2	467
Don Newhauser	4	2	.667	2.43	31	0	17	0	0	4	37.0	30	11	10	2	25	5	27	2	0	1	164
Gary Peters	3	3	.500	4.32	33	4	17	0	0	1	85.3	91	48	41	10	38	8	67	3	0	1	378
Bob Veale	2	0	1.000	0.00	6	0	3	0	0	2	8.0	2	0	0	0	3	0	10	0	0	0	27
Lew Krausse	1	3	.250	6.38	24	7	8	0	0	1	60.7	74	48	43	9	28	2	35	3	0	2	280
Roger Moret	0	0		3.60	3	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	5	3	2	0	6	0	4	0	0	0	25
Stan Williams	0	0		6.23	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	5	3	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	18
Mike Nagy	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	10
Bobby Bolin	0	1	.000	2.93	21	0	14	0	0	5	30.7	24	11	10	3	11	1	27	1	0	0	128
Mike Garman	0	1	.000	10.80	3	1	1	0	0	0	3.3	4	4	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	16
Ken Tatum	0	2	.000	3.07	22	0	14	0	0	4	29.3	32	12	10	3	15	3	15	2	0	2	133
Totals	85	70	.548	3.50	371	155	107	48	18	25	1382.7	1309	620	538	101	512	49	918	39	2	32	5875

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
Tommy Harper	144	641	556	92	141	29	2	14	49	25	7	67	104	.254	.341	.388	.730	216	4	9	5	4	1
Carlton Fisk	131	514	457	74	134	28	9	22	61	5	2	52	83	.293	.370	.538	.909	246	11	4	1	0	6
Reggie Smith	131	543	467	75	126	25	4	21	74	15	4	68	63	.270	.365	.475	.840	222	8	4	0	4	12
Rico Petrocelli	147	607	521	62	125	15	2	15	75	0	1	78	91	.240	.339	.363	.702	189	8	2	2	4	9
Doug Griffin	129	535	470	43	122	12	1	2	35	9	2	45	48	.260	.325	.302	.627	142	7	2	15	3	6
Carl Yastrzemski	125	535	455	70	120	18	2	12	68	5	4	67	44	.264	.357	.391	.748	178	13	4	0	9	3
Luis Aparicio	110	474	436	47	112	26	3	3	39	3	3	26	28	.257	.299	.351	.649	153	8	2	5	5	0
Danny Cater	92	342	317	32	75	17	1	8	39	0	1	15	33	.237	.270	.372	.642	118	16	2	1	7	2
Ben Oglivie	94	273	253	27	61	10	2	8	30	1	1	18	61	.241	.293	.391	.684	99	4	1	0	1	2
John Kennedy	71	237	212	22	52	11	1	2	22	0	1	18	40	.245	.311	.335	.646	71	3	3	2	2	4
Juan Beniquez	33	108	99	10	24	4	1	1	8	2	0	7	11	.242	.287	.333	.620	33	2	0	0	2	0
Bob Montgomery	24	81	77	7	22	1	0	2	7	0	0	3	17	.286	.309	.377	.685	29	1	0	0	1	0
Duane Josephson	26	88	82	11	22	4	1	1	7	0	2	4	11	.268	.310	.378	.688	31	5	1	1	0	0
Phil Gagliano	52	94	82	9	21	4	1	0	10	1	0	10	13	.256	.333	.329	.663	27	1	0	1	1	0
Rick Miller	89	111	98	13	21	4	1	3	15	0	2	11	27	.214	.291	.367	.658	36	1	0	1	1	0
Sonny Siebert	33	80	72	11	17	4	0	1	9	0	0	5	21	.236	.304	.333	.637	24	5	2	1	0	0
Dwight Evans	18	64	57	2	15	3	1	1	6	0	0	7	13	.263	.344	.404	.747	23	2	0	0	0	0
Bob Burda	45	84	73	4	12	1	0	2	9	0	0	8	11	.164	.241	.260	.501	19	3	0	1	2	3
Marty Pattin	38	94	86	4	12	3	0	2	9	0	0	1	27	.140	.149	.244	.394	21	2	0	7	0	0
Andy Kosco	17	50	47	5	10	2	1	3	6	0	0	2	9	.213	.260	.489	.749	23	4	1	0	0	0
Lynn McGlothen	22	58	53	6	10	3	0	0	4	0	0	1	14	.189	.200	.245	.445	13	1	0	3	1	0
Ray Culp	16	38	33	3	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	15	.212	.235	.212	.447	7	0	0	4	0	0
Gary Peters	33	32	30	2	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.200	.219	.267	.485	8	1	0	0	1	0
Luis Tiant	43	61	56	3	6	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	18	.107	.138	.125	.263	7	1	0	3	0	0
John Curtis	27	58	53	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	23	.094	.127	.094	.222	5	0	0	3	0	0
Cecil Cooper	12	19	17	0	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	5	.235	.316	.294	.610	5	0	0	0	0	1
Bill Lee	47	16	16	3	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	7	.188	.188	.500	.688	8	0	0	0	0	0
Vic Correll	1	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Lew Krausse	24	16	16	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.125	.125	.188	.313	3	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Gallagher	7	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Newhauser	31	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Tatum	22	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Moret	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Veale	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Bolin	21	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Garman	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Nagy	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Stan Williams	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1871	5871	5208	640	1289	229	34	124	594	66	30	522	858	.248	.318	.376	.694	1958	111	37	56	48	49

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Danny Cater	1B	90	83	728.0	656	61	5	65	.993	8.864	7.967	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	1B	42	42	371.0	357	33	4	34	.990	9.461	9.286	0	0	0
Duane Josephson	1B	16	15	136.0	137	9	3	8	.980	9.662	9.125	0	0	0
Bob Burda	1B	15	13	125.0	122	7	1	13	.992	9.288	8.600	0	0	0
Cecil Cooper	1B	3	2	21.0	19	0	0	2	1.000	8.143	6.333	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	1B	2	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.500	0	0	0
Doug Griffin	2B	129	129	1145.0	321	331	15	81	.978	5.125	5.054	0	0	0
John Kennedy	2B	32	25	210.0	62	66	5	21	.962	5.486	4.000	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	2B	4	1	28.0	5	9	0	0	1.000	4.500	3.500	0	0	0
Rico Petrocelli	3B	146	146	1273.0	146	278	13	38	.970	2.998	2.904	0	0	0
John Kennedy	3B	11	7	86.0	4	10	3	0	.824	1.465	1.273	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	3B	5	2	23.0	1	3	1	0	.800	1.565	.800	0	0	0
Carlton Fisk	C	131	129	1143.0	846	72	15	10	.984	7.228	7.008	8	56	36	39.1
Bob Montgomery	C	22	19	185.0	120	10	2	2	.985	6.324	5.909	2	9	3	25.0
Duane Josephson	C	6	6	46.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	3.522	3.000	0	1	1	50.0
Vic Correll	C	1	1	9.0	9	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Tommy Harper	OF	144	144	1182.0	321	4	5	4	.985	2.475	2.257	0	0	0
Reggie Smith	OF	129	128	1115.0	247	8	5	2	.981	2.058	1.977	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	OF	83	82	710.0	141	10	4	1	.974	1.914	1.819	0	0	0
Ben Oglivie	OF	65	58	530.0	98	5	2	2	.981	1.749	1.585	0	0	0
Rick Miller	OF	75	15	286.0	80	7	3	0	.967	2.738	1.160	0	0	0
Dwight Evans	OF	17	16	145.0	25	3	0	0	1.000	1.738	1.647	0	0	0
Andy Kosco	OF	12	11	101.0	19	1	0	0	1.000	1.782	1.667	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	OF	12	11	73.0	22	3	1	0	.962	3.082	2.083	0	0	0
Bob Burda	OF	1	0	6.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.000	0	0	0
Marty Pattin	P	38	35	253.0	19	38	1	2	.983	2.028	1.500	0	0	0
Sonny Siebert	P	32	30	196.0	24	30	2	2	.964	2.480	1.688	0	0	0
Luis Tiant	P	43	19	179.0	7	24	1	1	.969	1.559	.721	0	0	0
John Curtis	P	26	21	154.0	4	23	2	4	.931	1.578	1.038	0	0	0
Lynn McGlothen	P	22	22	145.0	17	31	0	2	1.000	2.979	2.182	0	0	0
Ray Culp	P	16	16	105.0	12	14	0	1	1.000	2.229	1.625	0	0	0
Gary Peters	P	33	4	85.0	3	10	0	0	1.000	1.376	.394	0	0	0
Bill Lee	P	47	0	84.0	6	24	0	2	1.000	3.214	.638	0	0	0
Lew Krausse	P	24	7	61.0	5	11	0	0	1.000	2.361	.667	0	0	0
Don Newhauser	P	31	0	37.0	0	6	0	0	1.000	1.459	.194	0	0	0
Bobby Bolin	P	21	0	31.0	1	4	1	0	.833	1.452	.238	0	0	0
Ken Tatum	P	22	0	29.0	1	4	1	0	.833	1.552	.227	0	0	0
Bob Veale	P	6	0	8.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	.333	0	0	0
Roger Moret	P	3	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Stan Williams	P	3	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.333	0	0	0
Mike Garman	P	3	1	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Nagy	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Luis Aparicio	SS	109	109	936.0	183	304	16	54	.968	4.683	4.468	0	0	0
Juan Beniquez	SS	27	24	227.0	38	88	14	19	.900	4.996	4.667	0	0	0
John Kennedy	SS	27	22	220.0	44	65	5	13	.956	4.459	4.037	0	0	0
Totals		1727	1395	12443.0	4145	1610	130	383	.978	4.163	3.332	10	66	40	37.7

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