1972 Baltimore Orioles Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 80-74
Finished 3rd in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 899,950, Avg. 13,043
Ballpark: Memorial Stadium
Manager: Earl Weaver (80-74)
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

1972 Baltimore Orioles Roster
1972 Baltimore Orioles Results

The Baltimore Orioles of the American League ended the 1972 season with a record of 80 wins and 74 losses, finishing third in the AL's East Division.

The Orioles allowed 430 runs, least in the league. Baltimore tallied 519 runs. Boog Powell paced the squad with 21 home runs and drove in 81 runs. Bobby Grich led all regular hitters by hitting .278. Jim Palmer topped the squad with 21 wins, while Pat Dobson and Mike Cuellar also added 15 or more victories also Jim Palmer recorded a 2.07 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Earl Weaver 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
Jim Palmer	21	10	.677	2.07	36	36	0	18	3	0	274.3	219	73	63	21	70	1	184	1	1	4	1094
Mike Cuellar	18	12	.600	2.57	35	35	0	17	4	0	248.3	197	78	71	21	71	4	132	0	0	3	989
Pat Dobson	16	18	.471	2.65	38	36	1	13	3	0	268.3	220	89	79	13	69	7	161	4	0	6	1065
Dave McNally	13	17	.433	2.95	36	36	0	12	6	0	241.0	220	85	79	15	68	15	120	2	0	1	979
Doyle Alexander	6	8	.429	2.45	35	9	16	2	2	2	106.3	78	36	29	5	30	8	49	1	1	7	423
Roric Harrison	3	4	.429	2.30	39	2	14	0	0	4	94.0	68	24	24	2	34	9	62	4	0	8	372
Eddie Watt	2	3	.400	2.17	38	0	29	0	0	7	45.7	30	12	11	2	20	6	23	2	0	5	187
Grant Jackson	1	1	.500	2.63	32	0	23	0	0	8	41.0	33	14	12	1	9	0	34	0	0	0	161
Bob Reynolds	0	0		1.86	3	0	1	0	0	0	9.7	8	2	2	0	7	2	5	0	0	0	39
Dave Leonhard	0	0		4.50	14	0	2	0	0	0	20.0	20	10	10	3	12	0	7	0	0	1	92
Mickey Scott	0	1	.000	2.74	15	0	6	0	0	0	23.0	23	7	7	2	5	0	11	1	0	0	92
Totals	80	74	.519	2.54	321	154	92	62	18	21	1371.7	1116	430	387	85	395	52	788	15	2	35	5493

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
Brooks Robinson	153	612	556	48	139	23	2	8	64	1	0	43	45	.250	.303	.342	.644	190	12	2	4	7	4
Bobby Grich	133	528	460	66	128	21	3	12	50	13	6	53	96	.278	.358	.415	.773	191	8	7	3	5	3
Boog Powell	140	539	465	53	117	20	1	21	81	4	0	65	92	.252	.346	.434	.780	202	13	4	1	4	14
Paul Blair	142	514	477	47	111	20	8	8	49	7	8	25	78	.233	.267	.358	.626	171	16	0	5	7	0
Don Buford	125	485	408	46	84	6	2	5	22	8	3	69	83	.206	.326	.267	.593	109	5	4	3	1	10
Davey Johnson	118	436	376	31	83	22	3	5	32	1	1	52	68	.221	.320	.335	.655	126	10	4	2	2	8
Don Baylor	102	363	320	33	81	13	3	11	38	24	2	29	50	.253	.330	.416	.745	133	9	9	2	3	0
Merv Rettenmund	102	346	301	40	70	10	2	6	21	6	4	41	37	.233	.325	.339	.663	102	10	0	4	0	0
Johnny Oates	85	288	253	20	66	12	1	4	21	5	7	28	31	.261	.332	.364	.696	92	5	0	5	2	8
Terry Crowley	97	283	247	30	57	10	0	11	29	0	0	32	26	.231	.319	.405	.724	100	8	1	1	2	5
Mark Belanger	113	313	285	36	53	9	1	2	16	6	3	18	53	.186	.236	.246	.482	70	3	2	4	4	1
Andy Etchebarren	71	210	188	11	38	6	1	2	21	0	2	17	43	.202	.276	.277	.553	52	5	3	0	2	2
Jim Palmer	36	106	98	12	22	3	1	0	8	0	0	2	36	.224	.240	.276	.516	27	0	0	6	0	0
Tommy Davis	26	88	82	9	21	3	0	0	6	2	0	6	18	.256	.307	.293	.600	24	3	0	0	0	0
Rich Coggins	16	43	39	5	13	4	0	0	1	0	2	1	6	.333	.350	.436	.786	17	0	0	3	0	0
Elrod Hendricks	33	98	84	6	13	4	0	0	4	0	1	12	19	.155	.258	.202	.460	17	1	0	1	1	2
Dave McNally	36	84	79	4	12	2	0	2	6	0	0	3	38	.152	.183	.253	.436	20	0	0	2	0	0
Pat Dobson	38	94	85	3	12	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	39	.141	.151	.165	.316	14	2	0	8	0	0
Mike Cuellar	35	94	87	5	11	0	0	2	7	0	0	0	38	.126	.126	.195	.322	17	1	0	7	0	0
Tom Shopay	49	45	40	3	9	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	12	.225	.311	.225	.536	9	0	0	0	0	0
Al Bumbry	9	11	11	5	4	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	.364	.364	.545	.909	6	0	0	0	0	0
Tommy Matchick	3	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Roric Harrison	39	19	17	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	9	.118	.167	.353	.520	6	0	0	1	0	0
Doyle Alexander	35	29	25	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.080	.115	.080	.195	2	1	0	3	0	0
Dave Leonhard	16	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Sergio Robles	2	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Chico Salmon	17	16	16	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.063	.063	.125	.188	2	1	0	0	0	0
Mickey Scott	15	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.667	.000	.667	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Reynolds	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grant Jackson	32	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Watt	38	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1862	5676	5028	519	1153	193	29	100	483	78	41	507	935	.229	.302	.339	.641	1704	113	36	65	40	57

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Boog Powell	1B	133	128	1113.0	1116	70	15	111	.988	9.590	8.917	0	0	0
Bobby Grich	1B	16	10	99.0	97	9	0	8	1.000	9.636	6.625	0	0	0
Terry Crowley	1B	15	5	69.0	75	6	0	6	1.000	1.565	5.400	0	0	0
Don Baylor	1B	9	8	64.0	54	2	1	5	.982	7.875	6.222	0	0	0
Tommy Davis	1B	3	2	16.0	20	4	0	0	1.000	13.500	8.000	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	1B	1	1	9.0	7	0	0	1	1.000	7.000	7.000	0	0	0
Chico Salmon	1B	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	1	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Davey Johnson	2B	116	111	996.0	286	307	6	81	.990	5.358	5.112	0	0	0
Bobby Grich	2B	45	43	376.0	95	113	3	27	.986	4.979	4.622	0	0	0
Brooks Robinson	3B	152	149	1323.0	129	333	11	27	.977	3.143	3.039	0	0	0
Tommy Matchick	3B	3	2	21.0	2	4	1	0	.857	2.571	2.000	0	0	0
Bobby Grich	3B	8	2	20.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	.900	.250	0	0	0
Chico Salmon	3B	1	1	7.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000	0	0	0
Johnny Oates	C	82	69	633.0	391	31	2	4	.995	6.000	5.146	4	24	18	42.9
Andy Etchebarren	C	70	57	503.0	334	22	3	2	.992	6.370	5.086	1	13	16	55.2
Elrod Hendricks	C	28	27	226.0	130	15	2	3	.986	5.774	5.179	1	7	10	58.8
Sergio Robles	C	1	1	9.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0	0	0
Paul Blair	OF	139	113	1084.0	337	10	3	1	.991	2.881	2.496	0	0	0
Don Buford	OF	105	101	903.0	173	6	2	1	.989	1.784	1.705	0	0	0
Merv Rettenmund	OF	98	80	712.0	174	6	2	2	.989	2.275	1.837	0	0	0
Don Baylor	OF	84	72	669.0	152	2	4	0	.975	2.072	1.833	0	0	0
Terry Crowley	OF	68	64	486.0	95	2	1	1	.990	1.796	1.426	0	0	0
Tommy Davis	OF	18	18	140.0	31	0	0	0	1.000	1.993	1.722	0	0	0
Rich Coggins	OF	13	10	86.0	39	1	0	1	1.000	4.186	3.077	0	0	0
Tom Shopay	OF	3	2	19.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.895	1.333	0	0	0
Al Bumbry	OF	2	2	15.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.400	2.000	0	0	0
Jim Palmer	P	36	36	274.0	14	37	3	4	.944	1.675	1.417	0	0	0
Pat Dobson	P	38	36	268.0	15	33	2	2	.960	1.612	1.263	0	0	0
Mike Cuellar	P	35	35	248.0	10	43	5	5	.914	1.923	1.514	0	0	0
Dave McNally	P	36	36	241.0	9	43	3	5	.945	1.942	1.444	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	P	35	9	106.0	14	23	2	1	.949	3.142	1.057	0	0	0
Roric Harrison	P	39	2	94.0	8	10	0	0	1.000	1.723	.462	0	0	0
Eddie Watt	P	38	0	46.0	2	7	0	0	1.000	1.761	.237	0	0	0
Grant Jackson	P	32	0	41.0	1	6	0	1	1.000	1.537	.219	0	0	0
Mickey Scott	P	15	0	23.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	1.565	.267	0	0	0
Dave Leonhard	P	14	0	20.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.250	.357	0	0	0
Bob Reynolds	P	3	0	10.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.900	.333	0	0	0
Mark Belanger	SS	105	86	768.0	180	285	12	53	.975	5.449	4.429	0	0	0
Bobby Grich	SS	81	68	603.0	106	215	17	46	.950	4.791	3.963	0	0	0
Totals		1722	1386	12342.0	4113	1653	100	399	.983	4.205	3.348	6	44	44	50.0

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