1971 Boston Red Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 85-77
Finished 3rd in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,678,732, Avg. 21,855
Ballpark: Fenway Park II
Manager: Eddie Kasko (85-77)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

1971 Boston Red Sox Roster
1971 Boston Red Sox Results

The Boston Red Sox of the American League ended the 1971 season with a record of 85 wins and 77 losses, finishing third in the AL's East Division.

The Red Sox scored 691 runs and conceded 667 runs. Reggie Smith walloped 30 home runs for Boston, while Rico Petrocelli, George Scott and Carl Yastrzemski each swatted 20 or more, too. Reggie Smith drove in 96 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .283. Sonny Siebert led the team with 16 wins and a team-best 2.91 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	WP	BF
Sonny Siebert	16	10	.615	2.91	32	32	0	12	4	0	235.3	220	84	76	20	60	5	131	3	4	975
Gary Peters	14	11	.560	4.37	34	32	1	9	1	1	214.0	241	111	104	25	70	3	100	6	2	927
Ray Culp	14	16	.467	3.60	35	35	0	12	3	0	242.3	236	108	97	21	67	4	151	5	7	1024
Jim Lonborg	10	7	.588	4.13	27	26	1	5	1	0	167.7	167	86	77	15	67	6	100	14	3	736
Bill Lee	9	2	.818	2.74	47	3	13	0	0	2	102.0	102	35	31	7	46	7	74	1	1	451
Sparky Lyle	6	4	.600	2.75	50	0	36	0	0	16	52.3	41	16	16	5	23	2	37	0	4	209
Bobby Bolin	5	3	.625	4.26	52	0	20	0	0	6	69.7	74	34	33	7	24	4	51	0	3	304
Roger Moret	4	3	.571	2.92	13	7	2	4	1	0	71.0	50	24	23	5	40	4	47	2	1	291
John Curtis	2	2	.500	3.12	5	3	1	1	0	0	26.0	30	9	9	3	6	1	19	0	0	110
Ken Tatum	2	4	.333	4.19	36	1	22	0	0	9	53.7	50	27	25	3	25	7	21	8	3	235
Mike Garman	1	1	.500	3.86	3	3	0	0	0	0	18.7	15	8	8	3	9	1	6	1	1	80
Mike Nagy	1	3	.250	6.63	12	7	2	0	0	0	38.0	46	29	28	4	20	1	9	0	1	170
Luis Tiant	1	7	.125	4.85	21	10	4	1	0	0	72.3	73	42	39	8	32	1	59	1	4	321
Cal Koonce	0	1	.000	5.57	13	1	6	0	0	0	21.0	22	16	13	3	11	0	9	0	0	91
Ken Brett	0	3	.000	5.34	29	2	10	0	0	1	59.0	57	38	35	7	35	6	57	1	3	264
Totals	85	77	.525	3.83	409	162	118	44	10	35	1443.0	1424	667	614	136	535	52	871	42	37	6188

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
Reggie Smith	159	692	618	85	175	33	2	30	96	11	3	63	82	.283	.352	.489	.840	302	15	5	1	5	4
George Scott	146	590	537	72	141	16	4	24	78	0	3	41	102	.263	.317	.441	.758	237	23	5	0	7	5
Rico Petrocelli	158	661	553	82	139	24	4	28	89	2	0	91	108	.251	.354	.461	.815	255	20	2	6	9	5
Carl Yastrzemski	148	620	508	75	129	21	2	15	70	8	7	106	60	.254	.381	.392	.772	199	14	1	0	5	12
Doug Griffin	125	526	483	51	118	23	2	3	27	11	5	31	45	.244	.291	.319	.610	154	12	2	7	3	3
Luis Aparicio	125	541	491	56	114	23	0	4	45	6	4	35	43	.232	.284	.303	.587	149	7	2	9	4	0
Billy Conigliaro	101	380	351	42	92	26	1	11	33	3	2	25	68	.262	.310	.436	.745	153	9	0	2	2	4
John Kennedy	74	296	272	41	75	12	5	5	22	1	1	14	42	.276	.320	.412	.731	112	4	4	5	1	0
Duane Josephson	91	331	306	38	75	14	1	10	39	2	0	22	35	.245	.294	.395	.689	121	18	0	1	2	4
Joe Lahoud	107	301	256	39	55	9	3	14	32	2	2	40	45	.215	.330	.438	.768	112	4	4	1	0	3
Bob Montgomery	67	229	205	19	49	11	2	2	24	1	0	16	43	.239	.300	.341	.641	70	6	3	2	3	4
Gary Peters	53	107	96	7	26	4	0	3	19	0	1	3	20	.271	.294	.406	.700	39	1	1	5	2	0
Phil Gagliano	47	81	68	11	22	5	0	0	13	0	0	11	5	.324	.413	.397	.810	27	1	0	1	1	0
Sonny Siebert	32	90	79	10	21	3	0	6	15	0	0	1	20	.266	.289	.532	.821	42	2	2	7	1	0
Juan Beniquez	16	63	57	8	17	2	0	0	4	3	1	3	4	.298	.333	.333	.667	19	3	0	3	0	0
Carlton Fisk	14	49	48	7	15	2	1	2	6	0	0	1	10	.313	.327	.521	.847	25	1	0	0	0	0
Cecil Cooper	14	49	42	9	13	4	1	0	3	1	0	5	4	.310	.388	.452	.840	19	0	1	0	1	1
Rick Miller	15	42	33	9	11	5	0	1	7	0	2	8	8	.333	.452	.576	1.028	19	0	0	0	1	0
Mike Fiore	51	75	62	9	11	2	0	1	6	0	3	12	14	.177	.311	.258	.569	16	1	0	1	0	1
Ben Oglivie	14	38	38	2	10	3	0	0	4	0	0	0	5	.263	.263	.342	.605	13	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Lonborg	27	59	53	2	9	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	19	.170	.228	.170	.398	9	2	0	2	0	0
Ray Culp	35	91	68	5	8	0	0	0	5	0	0	6	40	.118	.189	.118	.307	8	1	0	17	0	0
Don Pavletich	14	32	27	5	7	1	0	1	3	0	0	5	5	.259	.375	.407	.782	11	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Lee	47	27	23	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.217	.250	.217	.467	5	0	0	3	0	0
Sparky Lyle	50	4	3	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	3	0	0	1	0	0
Ken Tatum	36	12	10	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	4	.300	.417	.600	1.017	6	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Bolin	52	12	12	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	3	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Tiant	21	19	19	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.158	.158	.211	.368	4	1	0	0	0	0
Mike Garman	3	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	0	0	0
Buddy Hunter	8	11	9	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.222	.364	.333	.697	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Brett	29	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	1	0	0
Roger Moret	13	25	23	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	7	.087	.160	.087	.247	2	0	0	0	0	0
John Curtis	5	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Nagy	12	12	12	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.083	.083	.167	.250	2	1	0	0	0	0
George Thomas	9	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.077	.143	.077	.220	1	0	0	0	0	0
Cal Koonce	13	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1931	6107	5401	691	1360	246	28	161	650	51	34	552	871	.252	.322	.397	.719	2145	146	32	75	47	46

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
George Scott	1B	143	143	1270.0	1256	75	11	122	.992	9.432	9.308	0	0	0
Cecil Cooper	1B	11	11	97.0	82	3	1	6	.988	7.887	7.727	0	0	0
Mike Fiore	1B	12	8	76.0	74	5	0	8	1.000	9.355	6.583	0	0	0
Doug Griffin	2B	124	124	1093.0	311	344	9	90	.986	5.393	5.282	0	0	0
John Kennedy	2B	37	31	277.0	71	76	4	16	.974	4.776	3.973	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	2B	7	4	43.0	10	12	0	2	1.000	4.605	3.143	0	0	0
Buddy Hunter	2B	6	3	30.0	5	9	0	1	1.000	4.200	2.333	0	0	0
Rico Petrocelli	3B	156	156	1386.0	118	334	11	37	.976	2.935	2.897	0	0	0
John Kennedy	3B	5	5	42.0	2	13	0	1	1.000	3.214	3.000	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	3B	4	1	15.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.800	.750	0	0	0
Duane Josephson	C	87	86	735.0	491	32	6	5	.989	6.404	6.011	7	38	13	25.5
Bob Montgomery	C	66	60	542.0	361	15	4	3	.989	6.244	5.697	7	30	12	28.6
Carlton Fisk	C	14	12	115.0	72	6	2	1	.975	6.104	5.571	1	4	5	55.6
Don Pavletich	C	8	4	50.0	35	1	1	1	.973	6.480	4.500	3	6	1	14.3
Reggie Smith	OF	159	159	1393.0	386	15	14	2	.966	2.591	2.522	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	OF	146	144	1257.0	281	16	2	4	.993	2.126	2.034	0	0	0
Billy Conigliaro	OF	100	92	837.0	232	5	4	2	.983	2.548	2.370	0	0	0
Joe Lahoud	OF	69	64	578.0	139	4	1	3	.993	2.227	2.072	0	0	0
Rick Miller	OF	14	10	93.0	30	1	1	0	.969	3.000	2.214	0	0	0
Ben Oglivie	OF	11	7	80.0	22	1	1	1	.958	2.588	2.091	0	0	0
Phil Gagliano	OF	11	9	66.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0
George Thomas	OF	5	1	25.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.720	.400	0	0	0
Ray Culp	P	35	35	242.0	8	32	3	1	.930	1.488	1.143	0	0	0
Sonny Siebert	P	32	32	235.0	15	42	4	0	.934	2.183	1.781	0	0	0
Gary Peters	P	34	32	214.0	13	27	2	2	.952	1.682	1.176	0	0	0
Jim Lonborg	P	27	26	168.0	15	28	1	3	.977	2.304	1.593	0	0	0
Bill Lee	P	47	3	102.0	2	19	1	0	.955	1.853	.447	0	0	0
Luis Tiant	P	21	10	72.0	5	9	1	0	.933	1.750	.667	0	0	0
Roger Moret	P	13	7	71.0	1	11	0	1	1.000	1.521	.923	0	0	0
Bobby Bolin	P	52	0	70.0	2	7	1	1	.900	1.157	.173	0	0	0
Ken Brett	P	29	2	59.0	0	8	0	0	1.000	1.220	.276	0	0	0
Ken Tatum	P	36	1	54.0	2	11	0	2	1.000	2.167	.361	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	P	50	0	52.0	2	10	0	1	1.000	2.077	.240	0	0	0
Mike Nagy	P	12	7	38.0	3	5	0	1	1.000	1.895	.667	0	0	0
John Curtis	P	5	3	26.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.346	.200	0	0	0
Cal Koonce	P	13	1	21.0	5	4	0	1	1.000	3.857	.692	0	0	0
Mike Garman	P	3	3	19.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Luis Aparicio	SS	121	121	1057.0	194	338	16	56	.971	4.530	4.397	0	0	0
John Kennedy	SS	33	27	260.0	41	74	9	18	.927	3.981	3.485	0	0	0
Juan Beniquez	SS	15	14	126.0	24	27	6	5	.895	3.643	3.400	0	0	0
Totals		1773	1458	12986.0	4324	1622	116	397	.981	4.121	3.354	18	78	31	28.4

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