1978 California Angels Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 87-75
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,755,386, Avg. 22,797
Ballpark: Anaheim Stadium
Manager: Dave Garcia (25-20)
Manager: Jim Fregosi (62-55)
Location: Anaheim, California

1978 California Angels Roster
1978 California Angels Results

The California Angels of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Angels scored 691 runs and yielded 666 runs. Don Baylor walloped 34 home runs for California, while Joe Rudi swatted 20 or more as well. Don Baylor drove in 99 runs. Lyman Bostock led all regular hitters by hitting .296. Frank Tanana topped the team with 18 wins, and Paul Hartzell recorded a 3.44 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Dave Garcia and Jim Fregosi 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
Frank Tanana	18	12	.600	3.65	33	33	0	10	4	0	239.0	239	108	97	26	60	7	137	9	8	5	1014
Chris Knapp	14	8	.636	4.21	30	29	1	6	0	0	188.3	178	94	88	25	67	6	126	2	0	3	797
Don Aase	11	8	.579	4.03	29	29	0	6	1	0	178.7	185	88	80	14	80	4	93	2	0	3	773
Dave LaRoche	10	9	.526	2.82	59	0	46	0	0	25	95.7	73	35	30	7	48	11	70	2	0	0	403
Nolan Ryan	10	13	.435	3.72	31	31	0	14	3	0	234.7	183	106	97	12	148	7	260	3	2	13	1008
Dyar Miller	6	2	.750	2.66	41	0	20	0	0	1	84.7	85	29	25	3	41	3	34	5	1	1	374
Paul Hartzell	6	10	.375	3.44	54	12	28	5	0	6	157.0	168	67	60	8	41	9	55	5	1	5	659
Dave Frost	5	4	.556	2.58	11	10	0	2	1	0	80.3	71	24	23	6	24	3	30	2	0	3	330
Tom Griffin	3	4	.429	4.02	24	4	9	0	0	0	56.0	63	39	25	8	31	2	35	1	0	2	269
Ken Brett	3	5	.375	4.95	31	10	7	1	1	1	100.0	100	60	55	12	42	5	43	1	2	1	428
Al Fitzmorris	1	0	1.000	1.71	9	2	6	0	0	0	31.7	26	9	6	2	14	3	8	0	0	0	128
Mike Barlow	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8
John Caneira	0	0		7.04	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.7	8	6	6	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	32
Totals	87	75	.537	3.67	355	162	118	44	10	33	1455.7	1382	666	593	125	599	60	892	32	14	36	6223

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
Lyman Bostock	147	637	568	74	168	24	4	5	71	15	12	59	36	.296	.362	.379	.740	215	26	2	4	4	8
Don Baylor	158	677	591	103	151	26	0	34	99	22	9	56	71	.255	.332	.472	.804	279	15	18	0	12	9
Carney Lansford	121	500	453	63	133	23	2	8	52	20	9	31	67	.294	.339	.406	.746	184	4	4	5	7	2
Joe Rudi	133	536	497	58	127	27	1	17	79	2	1	28	82	.256	.295	.416	.711	207	10	2	3	6	4
Rick Miller	132	547	475	66	125	25	4	1	37	3	13	54	70	.263	.341	.339	.680	161	14	4	10	4	1
Bobby Grich	144	591	487	68	122	16	2	6	42	4	3	75	83	.251	.357	.329	.685	160	6	7	19	3	1
Dave Chalk	135	527	470	42	119	12	0	1	34	5	8	38	34	.253	.318	.285	.603	134	9	7	11	1	0
Ron Jackson	105	418	387	49	115	18	6	6	57	2	3	16	31	.297	.337	.421	.758	163	9	9	2	4	1
Brian Downing	133	476	412	42	105	15	0	7	46	3	2	52	47	.255	.345	.342	.688	141	14	6	4	2	2
Ken Landreaux	93	283	260	37	58	7	5	5	23	7	3	20	20	.223	.284	.346	.630	90	5	2	1	0	4
Ron Fairly	91	268	235	23	51	5	0	10	40	0	1	25	31	.217	.289	.366	.655	86	7	1	2	5	2
Merv Rettenmund	50	142	108	16	29	5	1	1	14	0	3	30	13	.269	.433	.361	.794	39	3	2	1	1	0
Terry Humphrey	53	127	114	11	25	4	1	1	9	0	1	6	12	.219	.264	.298	.562	34	2	2	2	3	0
Rance Mulliniks	50	130	119	6	22	3	1	1	6	2	0	8	23	.185	.238	.252	.491	30	3	1	0	2	0
Tony Solaita	60	110	94	10	21	3	0	1	14	0	0	16	25	.223	.336	.287	.624	27	2	0	0	0	3
Jim Anderson	48	127	108	6	21	7	0	0	7	0	0	11	16	.194	.267	.259	.526	28	5	0	7	1	1
Danny Goodwin	24	69	58	9	16	5	0	2	10	0	0	10	13	.276	.377	.466	.842	27	1	0	0	1	0
Dave Machemer	10	25	22	6	6	1	0	1	2	0	1	2	1	.273	.333	.455	.788	10	0	0	1	0	0
Ike Hampton	19	16	14	2	3	0	1	1	4	1	0	2	7	.214	.313	.571	.884	8	0	0	0	0	0
Dyar Miller	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Aase	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Knapp	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Hartzell	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Frost	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Caneira	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Brett	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Barlow	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2061	6206	5472	691	1417	226	28	108	646	86	69	539	682	.259	.330	.370	.700	2023	135	67	72	56	38

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ron Jackson	1B	75	71	616.3	580	56	4	50	.994	9.287	8.480	0	0	0
Ron Fairly	1B	78	58	545.3	482	31	1	47	.998	8.466	6.577	0	0	0
Don Baylor	1B	17	17	141.0	118	9	4	6	.969	8.106	7.471	0	0	0
Joe Rudi	1B	10	8	82.0	61	6	0	8	1.000	7.354	6.700	0	0	0
Tony Solaita	1B	11	8	70.0	85	7	0	7	1.000	11.829	8.364	0	0	0
Ike Hampton	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Bobby Grich	2B	144	141	1238.0	325	419	13	77	.983	5.409	5.167	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	2B	29	19	190.3	39	69	3	12	.973	5.107	3.724	0	0	0
Dave Machemer	2B	5	2	26.3	3	7	0	0	1.000	3.418	2.000	0	0	0
Terry Humphrey	2B	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jim Anderson	2B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Carney Lansford	3B	117	115	1021.0	93	182	17	18	.942	2.424	2.350	0	0	0
Ron Jackson	3B	31	26	240.7	25	32	3	6	.950	2.132	1.839	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	3B	22	18	169.7	9	33	1	4	.977	2.228	1.909	0	0	0
Dave Machemer	3B	3	3	24.0	1	4	2	0	.714	1.875	1.667	0	0	0
Terry Humphrey	3B	1	0	0.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	27.000	1.000	0	0	0
Brian Downing	C	128	121	1072.0	681	82	5	6	.993	6.406	5.961	2	112	65	36.7
Terry Humphrey	C	52	41	356.0	252	21	6	5	.978	6.902	5.250	2	38	14	26.9
Ike Hampton	C	13	0	27.7	18	1	2	0	.905	6.181	1.462	1	4	1	20.0
Lyman Bostock	OF	146	143	1273.7	366	7	4	2	.989	2.636	2.555	0	0	0
Rick Miller	OF	129	120	1105.7	353	9	4	5	.989	2.947	2.806	0	0	0
Joe Rudi	OF	111	109	947.0	231	4	2	1	.992	2.233	2.117	0	0	0
Ken Landreaux	OF	83	57	560.7	138	6	2	0	.986	2.312	1.735	0	0	0
Don Baylor	OF	39	39	327.0	76	0	2	0	.974	2.092	1.949	0	0	0
Merv Rettenmund	OF	22	17	144.0	30	0	1	0	.968	1.875	1.364	0	0	0
Ron Jackson	OF	1	1	9.0	1	0	1	0	.500	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	P	33	33	239.0	8	25	0	2	1.000	1.243	1.000	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	P	31	31	234.7	13	33	8	3	.852	1.764	1.484	0	0	0
Chris Knapp	P	30	29	188.3	4	20	4	1	.857	1.147	.800	0	0	0
Don Aase	P	29	29	178.7	16	26	3	2	.933	2.116	1.448	0	0	0
Paul Hartzell	P	54	12	157.0	15	27	0	2	1.000	2.408	.778	0	0	0
Ken Brett	P	31	10	100.0	12	20	2	4	.941	2.880	1.032	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	P	59	0	95.7	2	14	0	0	1.000	1.505	.271	0	0	0
Dyar Miller	P	41	0	84.7	6	4	1	0	.909	1.063	.244	0	0	0
Dave Frost	P	11	10	80.3	5	19	1	0	.960	2.689	2.182	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	P	24	4	56.0	3	12	2	0	.882	2.411	.625	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	P	9	2	31.7	3	4	1	0	.875	1.989	.778	0	0	0
John Caneira	P	2	2	7.7	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Barlow	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	SS	97	92	781.3	168	237	19	46	.955	4.665	4.175	0	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	SS	47	35	330.7	68	93	8	22	.953	4.382	3.426	0	0	0
Jim Anderson	SS	47	34	329.7	72	99	8	21	.955	4.668	3.638	0	0	0
Dave Machemer	SS	1	1	9.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	3.000	0	0	0
Carney Lansford	SS	2	0	5.0	1	4	1	0	.833	9.000	2.500	0	0	0
Totals		1819	1458	13101.0	4367	1624	136	357	.978	4.116	3.294	5	154	80	34.2

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