1987 Atlanta Braves Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 69-92
Finished 5th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,217,402, Avg. 15,218
Ballpark: Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
Manager: Chuck Tanner (69-92)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia

1987 Atlanta Braves Roster
1987 Atlanta Braves Results

The Atlanta Braves of the National League ended the 1987 season with a record of 69 wins and 92 losses, finishing fifth in the NL's West Division.

The Braves plated 747 runs and gave up 829 runs, most in the league. Dale Murphy walloped 44 home runs for Atlanta, while Ozzie Virgil swatted 20 or more, too. Dale Murphy drove in 105 runs. Dion James led all regular batters by hitting .312. Zane Smith topped the team with 15 wins and a team-best 4.09 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Chuck Tanner 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
Zane Smith	15	10	.600	4.09	36	36	0	9	3	0	242.0	245	130	110	19	91	6	130	5	1	5	1035
Gene Garber	8	10	.444	4.41	49	0	43	0	0	10	69.3	87	39	34	7	28	10	48	1	0	4	320
David Palmer	8	11	.421	4.90	28	28	0	0	0	0	152.3	169	94	83	17	64	4	111	7	0	5	687
Rick Mahler	8	13	.381	4.98	39	28	1	3	1	0	197.0	212	118	109	24	85	8	95	2	2	5	849
Charlie Puleo	6	8	.429	4.23	35	16	2	1	0	0	123.3	122	63	58	11	40	0	99	3	1	0	524
Doyle Alexander	5	10	.333	4.13	16	16	0	3	0	0	117.7	115	57	54	21	27	5	64	2	0	2	481
Randy O'Neal	4	2	.667	5.61	16	10	2	0	0	0	61.0	79	41	38	12	24	3	33	2	0	9	279
Jim Acker	4	9	.308	4.16	68	0	41	0	0	14	114.7	109	57	53	11	51	4	68	4	0	1	491
Jeff Dedmon	3	4	.429	3.91	53	3	14	0	0	4	89.7	82	46	39	8	42	1	40	1	1	2	384
Kevin Coffman	2	3	.400	4.62	5	5	0	0	0	0	25.3	31	14	13	2	22	0	14	3	1	1	126
Tom Glavine	2	4	.333	5.54	9	9	0	0	0	0	50.3	55	34	31	5	33	4	20	3	1	1	238
Joe Boever	1	0	1.000	7.36	14	0	10	0	0	0	18.3	29	15	15	4	12	1	18	0	0	1	93
Chuck Cary	1	1	.500	3.78	13	0	6	0	0	1	16.7	17	7	7	3	4	3	15	1	0	1	70
Paul Assenmacher	1	1	.500	5.10	52	0	10	0	0	2	54.7	58	41	31	8	24	4	39	1	0	0	251
Pete Smith	1	2	.333	4.83	6	6	0	0	0	0	31.7	39	21	17	3	14	0	11	0	1	3	143
Phil Niekro	0	0		15.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	6	5	5	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	20
Ed Olwine	0	1	.000	5.01	27	0	9	0	0	1	23.3	25	16	13	4	8	1	12	1	0	1	104
Larry McWilliams	0	1	.000	5.75	9	2	4	0	0	0	20.3	25	15	13	2	7	1	13	2	0	1	95
Marty Clary	0	1	.000	6.14	7	1	2	0	0	0	14.7	20	13	10	2	4	0	7	1	0	0	68
Steve Ziem	0	1	.000	7.71	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	4	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	12
Totals	69	92	.429	4.63	485	161	145	16	4	32	1427.7	1529	829	735	163	587	55	837	39	9	42	6270

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
Dale Murphy	159	693	566	115	167	27	1	44	105	16	6	115	136	.295	.417	.580	.997	328	11	7	0	5	29
Dion James	134	574	494	80	154	37	6	10	61	10	8	70	63	.312	.397	.472	.869	233	8	2	5	3	2
Gerald Perry	142	590	533	77	144	35	2	12	74	42	16	48	63	.270	.329	.411	.740	219	18	1	3	5	1
Ken Oberkfell	135	566	508	59	142	29	2	3	48	3	3	48	29	.280	.342	.362	.704	184	13	2	5	3	5
Glenn Hubbard	141	533	443	69	117	33	2	5	38	1	1	77	57	.264	.378	.381	.760	169	11	6	4	3	17
Ken Griffey	122	451	399	65	114	24	1	14	64	4	7	46	54	.286	.358	.456	.814	182	12	1	1	4	11
Ozzie Virgil	123	486	429	57	106	13	1	27	72	0	1	47	81	.247	.331	.471	.801	202	18	7	2	1	4
Albert Hall	92	337	292	54	83	20	4	3	24	33	10	38	36	.284	.369	.411	.780	120	5	2	4	1	3
Andres Thomas	82	343	324	29	75	11	0	5	39	6	5	14	50	.231	.268	.312	.579	101	7	2	3	0	0
Ted Simmons	73	200	177	20	49	8	0	4	30	1	1	21	23	.277	.350	.390	.740	69	4	0	0	2	5
Rafael Ramirez	56	194	179	22	47	12	0	1	21	6	3	8	16	.263	.300	.346	.646	62	3	2	4	1	0
Jeff Blauser	51	187	165	11	40	6	3	2	15	7	3	18	34	.242	.328	.352	.679	58	4	3	1	0	1
Graig Nettles	112	201	177	16	37	8	1	5	33	1	0	22	25	.209	.294	.350	.644	62	6	0	0	2	4
Gary Roenicke	67	187	151	25	33	8	0	9	28	0	0	32	23	.219	.353	.450	.803	68	4	1	0	3	0
Ron Gant	21	86	83	9	22	4	0	2	9	4	2	1	11	.265	.271	.386	.656	32	3	0	1	1	0
Bruce Benedict	37	114	95	4	14	1	0	1	5	0	1	17	15	.147	.277	.189	.466	18	2	0	2	0	0
Rick Mahler	40	74	65	4	11	4	0	0	5	0	0	2	19	.169	.194	.231	.425	15	1	0	7	0	0
Paul Runge	27	54	47	9	10	1	0	3	8	0	1	5	10	.213	.288	.426	.714	20	1	0	2	0	0
Zane Smith	41	94	76	6	10	1	1	0	6	1	0	3	14	.132	.175	.171	.346	13	0	1	14	0	0
David Palmer	28	57	48	4	6	1	0	1	5	0	0	1	15	.125	.143	.208	.351	10	1	0	8	0	0
Charlie Puleo	36	35	28	3	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	13	.179	.207	.286	.493	8	1	0	6	0	0
Jeff Dedmon	53	20	16	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.250	.294	.313	.607	5	0	0	3	0	0
Jim Acker	68	15	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.214	.267	.214	.481	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Glavine	9	17	16	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.125	.176	.125	.301	2	0	0	0	0	0
Randy O'Neal	17	21	19	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.105	.150	.105	.255	2	0	0	1	0	0
Larry McWilliams	9	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Coffman	5	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Smith	6	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	1	0	0
Doyle Alexander	16	42	35	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	13	.029	.056	.029	.084	1	0	1	6	0	0
Terry Bell	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Assenmacher	52	7	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	2	0	0
Chuck Cary	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marty Clary	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Darryl Motley	6	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trench Davis	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Garber	49	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Niekro	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Boever	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Fischlin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Olwine	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Steve Ziem	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2081	6227	5428	747	1401	284	24	152	696	135	68	641	834	.258	.339	.403	.742	2189	133	38	86	34	82

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Gerald Perry	1B	136	125	1116.7	1288	72	14	118	.990	1.961	1.000	0	0	0
Ted Simmons	1B	28	23	198.7	216	23	4	24	.984	1.827	8.536	0	0	0
Gary Roenicke	1B	9	6	49.0	50	7	0	8	1.000	1.469	6.333	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	1B	6	5	43.3	49	10	0	7	1.000	12.254	9.833	0	0	0
Ken Griffey	1B	3	2	20.0	24	1	1	2	.962	11.250	8.333	0	0	0
Glenn Hubbard	2B	139	136	1186.0	284	478	11	114	.986	5.782	5.482	0	0	0
Ron Gant	2B	20	19	166.0	45	59	3	17	.972	5.639	5.200	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	2B	11	5	65.7	13	17	0	3	1.000	4.112	2.727	0	0	0
Paul Runge	2B	2	1	10.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	5.400	3.000	0	0	0
Ken Oberkfell	3B	126	120	1038.3	76	248	7	20	.979	2.808	2.571	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	3B	40	20	220.7	12	46	3	6	.951	2.366	1.450	0	0	0
Rafael Ramirez	3B	12	11	88.7	7	11	1	3	.947	1.827	1.500	0	0	0
Paul Runge	3B	10	9	70.0	9	15	2	3	.923	3.086	2.400	0	0	0
Ted Simmons	3B	2	1	10.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0
Ozzie Virgil	C	122	119	1046.7	654	74	8	12	.989	6.260	5.967	8	133	42	24.0
Bruce Benedict	C	35	28	256.0	165	21	2	3	.989	6.539	5.314	1	36	10	21.7
Ted Simmons	C	15	14	125.0	64	10	1	1	.987	5.328	4.933	2	16	5	23.8
Dale Murphy	OF	159	159	1406.7	325	14	8	1	.977	2.169	2.132	0	0	0
Dion James	OF	126	118	1060.0	262	4	1	1	.996	2.258	2.111	0	0	0
Ken Griffey	OF	107	97	882.0	181	7	1	1	.995	1.918	1.757	0	0	0
Albert Hall	OF	69	65	570.7	148	5	3	1	.981	2.413	2.217	0	0	0
Gary Roenicke	OF	44	37	301.3	60	0	2	0	.968	1.792	1.364	0	0	0
Gerald Perry	OF	7	6	53.3	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.519	1.286	0	0	0
Darryl Motley	OF	2	1	9.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	1.000	0	0	0
Zane Smith	P	36	36	242.0	15	43	0	4	1.000	2.157	1.611	0	0	0
Rick Mahler	P	39	28	197.0	13	42	1	2	.982	2.513	1.410	0	0	0
David Palmer	P	28	28	152.3	9	25	1	2	.971	2.009	1.214	0	0	0
Charlie Puleo	P	35	16	123.3	6	10	0	0	1.000	1.168	.457	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	P	16	16	117.7	6	10	0	1	1.000	1.224	1.000	0	0	0
Jim Acker	P	68	0	114.7	6	23	0	2	1.000	2.276	.426	0	0	0
Jeff Dedmon	P	53	3	89.7	10	17	0	1	1.000	2.710	.509	0	0	0
Gene Garber	P	49	0	69.3	4	19	1	2	.958	2.986	.469	0	0	0
Randy O'Neal	P	16	10	61.0	4	15	0	1	1.000	2.803	1.188	0	0	0
Paul Assenmacher	P	52	0	54.7	2	3	0	0	1.000	.823	.096	0	0	0
Tom Glavine	P	9	9	50.3	1	13	1	0	.933	2.503	1.556	0	0	0
Pete Smith	P	6	6	31.7	1	2	1	0	.750	.853	.500	0	0	0
Kevin Coffman	P	5	5	25.3	1	9	0	1	1.000	3.553	2.000	0	0	0
Ed Olwine	P	27	0	23.3	0	3	1	0	.750	1.157	.111	0	0	0
Larry McWilliams	P	9	2	20.3	1	3	0	1	1.000	1.770	.444	0	0	0
Joe Boever	P	14	0	18.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	.982	.143	0	0	0
Chuck Cary	P	13	0	16.7	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.160	.308	0	0	0
Marty Clary	P	7	1	14.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.227	.286	0	0	0
Phil Niekro	P	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Steve Ziem	P	2	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Andres Thomas	SS	81	80	703.3	128	276	20	56	.953	5.170	4.988	0	0	0
Jeff Blauser	SS	50	50	422.0	65	166	9	28	.963	4.927	4.620	0	0	0
Rafael Ramirez	SS	38	29	273.3	59	99	9	30	.946	5.202	4.158	0	0	0
Paul Runge	SS	9	2	29.0	4	8	0	1	1.000	3.724	1.333	0	0	0
Totals		1893	1449	12849.0	4283	1921	116	478	.982	4.346	3.277	11	185	57	23.6

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