1972 California Angels Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 75-80
Finished 5th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 744,190, Avg. 9,419
Ballpark: Anaheim Stadium
Manager: Del Rice (75-80)
Location: Anaheim, California

1972 California Angels Roster
1972 California Angels Results

The California Angels of the American League ended the 1972 season with a record of 75 wins and 80 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's West Division.

The Angels scored 454 runs, worst in the league, and surrendered 533 runs. Bob Oliver led California with 19 home runs and drove in 70 runs. Vada Pinson paced all regular batters by hitting .275. Nolan Ryan topped the team with 19 wins, while Clyde Wright added 15 or more wins, too Nolan Ryan recorded a 2.28 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Del Rice 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
Nolan Ryan	19	16	.543	2.28	39	39	0	20	9	0	284.0	166	80	72	14	157	4	329	10	0	18	1154
Clyde Wright	18	11	.621	2.98	35	35	0	15	2	0	251.0	229	101	83	14	80	6	87	4	0	4	1029
Rudy May	12	11	.522	2.94	35	30	3	10	3	1	205.3	162	79	67	15	82	6	169	0	0	3	849
Andy Messersmith	8	11	.421	2.81	25	21	4	10	3	2	169.7	125	56	53	5	68	8	142	2	1	2	690
Steve Barber	4	4	.500	2.02	34	3	17	0	0	2	58.0	37	16	13	4	30	11	34	1	0	1	236
Eddie Fisher	4	5	.444	3.76	43	1	28	0	0	4	81.3	73	35	34	6	31	3	32	0	0	0	337
Rickey Clark	4	9	.308	4.51	26	15	2	2	0	1	109.7	105	59	55	10	55	2	61	2	0	7	478
Lloyd Allen	3	7	.300	3.48	42	6	22	0	0	5	85.3	76	38	33	7	55	5	53	3	0	8	382
Dave Sells	2	0	1.000	2.81	10	0	5	0	0	0	16.0	11	6	5	0	5	1	2	0	0	1	62
Don Rose	1	4	.200	4.22	16	4	3	0	0	0	42.7	49	25	20	9	19	5	39	0	1	0	194
Paul Doyle	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	2	0	0	0	3	0	4	0	1	0	12
Mel Queen	0	0		4.35	17	0	8	0	0	0	31.0	31	17	15	2	19	1	19	3	0	1	143
Dick Lange	0	0		4.70	2	1	0	0	0	0	7.7	7	4	4	0	2	0	8	0	0	1	32
Tom Murphy	0	0		5.40	6	0	1	0	0	0	10.0	13	6	6	0	8	1	2	0	0	1	48
Tom Dukes	0	1	.000	1.64	7	0	3	0	0	1	11.0	11	3	2	1	0	0	8	1	0	1	43
Alan Foster	0	1	.000	4.97	8	0	1	0	0	0	12.7	12	8	7	3	6	0	11	2	0	1	58
Totals	75	80	.484	3.06	347	155	98	57	17	16	1377.7	1109	533	469	90	620	53	1000	28	3	49	5747

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
Sandy Alomar	155	666	610	65	146	20	3	1	25	20	12	47	55	.239	.292	.287	.579	175	8	0	6	3	5
Bob Oliver	134	544	509	47	137	20	4	19	70	4	3	27	97	.269	.307	.436	.743	222	15	3	0	5	8
Vada Pinson	136	527	484	56	133	24	2	7	49	17	6	30	54	.275	.321	.376	.697	182	7	5	4	4	12
Ken McMullen	137	523	472	36	127	18	1	9	34	1	2	48	59	.269	.335	.369	.704	174	12	0	1	2	2
Leo Cardenas	150	602	551	25	123	11	2	6	42	1	2	35	73	.223	.272	.283	.555	156	15	2	13	1	4
Ken Berry	119	459	409	41	118	15	3	5	39	5	3	35	47	.289	.347	.377	.723	154	4	2	12	1	2
Leroy Stanton	127	432	402	44	101	15	3	12	39	2	3	22	100	.251	.295	.393	.688	158	16	4	2	2	4
Jim Spencer	82	225	212	13	47	5	0	1	14	0	1	12	25	.222	.262	.259	.522	55	8	0	0	1	1
John Stephenson	66	161	146	14	40	3	1	2	17	0	0	11	8	.274	.342	.349	.691	51	7	4	0	0	5
Art Kusnyer	64	197	179	13	37	2	1	2	13	0	0	16	33	.207	.276	.263	.538	47	2	1	1	0	3
Andy Kosco	49	151	142	15	34	4	2	6	13	1	0	5	23	.239	.267	.423	.689	60	5	1	1	2	1
Mickey Rivers	58	176	159	18	34	6	2	0	7	4	3	8	26	.214	.256	.277	.533	44	3	1	8	0	1
Jeff Torborg	59	168	153	5	32	3	0	0	8	0	0	14	21	.209	.280	.229	.509	35	6	1	0	0	4
Clyde Wright	35	93	83	7	18	6	0	2	13	0	0	4	25	.217	.253	.361	.614	30	3	0	6	0	0
Winston Llenas	44	69	64	3	17	3	0	0	7	0	0	3	8	.266	.290	.313	.602	20	4	0	0	2	0
Billy Parker	36	91	80	11	17	2	0	2	8	0	2	9	17	.213	.286	.313	.598	25	3	0	0	2	0
Jack Hiatt	22	50	45	4	13	0	1	1	5	0	0	5	11	.289	.360	.400	.760	18	1	0	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	39	99	96	4	13	5	1	0	3	1	0	2	48	.135	.153	.208	.361	20	0	0	1	0	0
Doug Howard	11	40	38	4	10	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	3	.263	.300	.289	.589	11	2	1	0	0	0
Andy Messersmith	26	58	53	2	10	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	13	.189	.232	.245	.477	13	0	0	2	0	0
Chris Coletta	14	31	30	5	9	1	0	1	7	0	0	1	4	.300	.323	.433	.756	13	1	0	0	0	0
Syd O'Brien	36	45	39	10	7	2	0	1	1	0	0	6	10	.179	.289	.308	.597	12	1	0	0	0	0
Rudy May	35	67	62	3	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	29	.113	.154	.129	.283	8	1	0	2	0	0
Curt Motton	42	44	39	6	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	12	.154	.250	.179	.429	7	1	0	0	0	0
Rickey Clark	27	33	31	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	.097	.125	.097	.222	3	0	0	1	0	0
Don Rose	16	12	10	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	.200	.273	.500	.773	5	0	0	1	0	0
Tom Silverio	13	12	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Lloyd Allen	42	20	17	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.118	.118	.118	.235	2	0	0	3	0	0
Eddie Fisher	43	17	17	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.118	.118	.118	.235	2	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Repoz	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Barber	34	12	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	.143	.400	.143	.543	1	0	0	2	0	0
Joe Azcue	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Lange	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Queen	17	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Murphy	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Cowan	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Sells	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Alan Foster	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Dukes	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Doyle	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1912	5639	5165	454	1249	171	26	78	420	57	37	358	850	.242	.293	.330	.623	1706	125	25	66	25	52

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Bob Oliver	1B	127	124	1101.0	1079	54	7	93	.994	9.262	8.921	0	0	0
Jim Spencer	1B	35	30	266.0	267	22	3	25	.990	9.778	8.257	0	0	0
Doug Howard	1B	1	1	9.0	10	0	0	3	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Vada Pinson	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Syd O'Brien	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Sandy Alomar	2B	154	150	1309.0	350	388	17	92	.977	5.074	4.792	0	0	0
Billy Parker	2B	9	5	51.0	9	18	0	5	1.000	4.765	3.000	0	0	0
Syd O'Brien	2B	3	0	13.0	3	3	0	1	1.000	4.154	2.000	0	0	0
Winston Llenas	2B	2	0	5.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.600	1.000	0	0	0
Ken McMullen	3B	137	133	1150.0	89	267	11	26	.970	2.786	2.599	0	0	0
Billy Parker	3B	21	12	123.0	16	23	2	3	.951	2.854	1.857	0	0	0
Winston Llenas	3B	10	7	65.0	4	15	1	2	.950	2.631	1.900	0	0	0
Syd O'Brien	3B	8	2	32.0	0	8	1	1	.889	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Doug Howard	3B	1	1	8.0	0	1	1	0	.500	1.125	1.000	0	0	0
Art Kusnyer	C	63	54	479.0	362	33	10	3	.975	7.422	6.270	12	36	15	29.4
Jeff Torborg	C	58	54	452.0	383	28	1	5	.998	8.184	7.086	2	35	17	32.7
John Stephenson	C	56	37	346.0	273	12	2	2	.993	7.413	5.089	6	27	9	25.0
Jack Hiatt	C	17	10	99.0	48	4	0	0	1.000	4.727	3.059	1	4	3	42.9
Joe Azcue	C	2	0	2.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Vada Pinson	OF	134	122	1096.0	205	11	2	3	.991	1.774	1.612	0	0	0
Leroy Stanton	OF	124	107	985.0	225	6	4	2	.983	2.111	1.863	0	0	0
Ken Berry	OF	116	107	961.0	272	13	0	5	1.000	2.669	2.457	0	0	0
Mickey Rivers	OF	48	38	353.0	105	0	2	0	.981	2.677	2.188	0	0	0
Andy Kosco	OF	36	34	283.0	62	2	1	0	.985	2.035	1.778	0	0	0
Jim Spencer	OF	24	21	162.0	22	1	0	0	1.000	1.278	.958	0	0	0
Bob Oliver	OF	8	8	65.0	12	0	2	0	.857	1.662	1.500	0	0	0
Doug Howard	OF	8	8	64.0	8	2	0	0	1.000	1.406	1.250	0	0	0
Curt Motton	OF	9	7	58.0	15	0	0	0	1.000	2.328	1.667	0	0	0
Chris Coletta	OF	7	6	43.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	.628	.429	0	0	0
Billy Parker	OF	5	4	37.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	.973	.800	0	0	0
Winston Llenas	OF	2	2	14.0	2	0	1	0	.667	1.286	1.000	0	0	0
Tom Silverio	OF	4	1	13.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.692	.250	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	P	39	39	284.0	7	28	6	2	.854	1.109	.897	0	0	0
Clyde Wright	P	35	35	251.0	8	61	6	4	.920	2.474	1.971	0	0	0
Rudy May	P	35	30	205.0	2	24	5	2	.839	1.141	.743	0	0	0
Andy Messersmith	P	25	21	170.0	9	24	0	0	1.000	1.747	1.320	0	0	0
Rickey Clark	P	26	15	110.0	7	20	1	1	.964	2.209	1.038	0	0	0
Lloyd Allen	P	42	6	85.0	3	10	0	2	1.000	1.376	.310	0	0	0
Eddie Fisher	P	43	1	81.0	5	12	2	1	.895	1.889	.395	0	0	0
Steve Barber	P	34	3	58.0	1	7	2	0	.800	1.241	.235	0	0	0
Don Rose	P	16	4	43.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.256	.375	0	0	0
Mel Queen	P	17	0	31.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.452	.294	0	0	0
Dave Sells	P	10	0	16.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	3.375	.600	0	0	0
Alan Foster	P	8	0	13.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	2.769	.500	0	0	0
Tom Dukes	P	7	0	11.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Tom Murphy	P	6	0	10.0	0	5	0	0	1.000	4.500	.833	0	0	0
Dick Lange	P	2	1	8.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Paul Doyle	P	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Leo Cardenas	SS	150	149	1315.0	241	471	22	82	.970	4.873	4.747	0	0	0
Sandy Alomar	SS	4	3	30.0	3	6	0	1	1.000	2.700	2.250	0	0	0
Syd O'Brien	SS	4	3	28.0	1	9	1	0	.909	3.214	2.500	0	0	0
Billy Parker	SS	1	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		1737	1395	12401.0	4132	1607	114	366	.981	4.165	3.304	21	102	44	30.1

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