1972 Chicago Cubs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 85-70
Finished 2nd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,299,163, Avg. 17,556
Ballpark: Wrigley Field
Manager: Leo Durocher (46-44)
Manager: Whitey Lockman (39-26)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1972 Chicago Cubs Roster
1972 Chicago Cubs Results

The Chicago Cubs of the National League ended the 1972 season with a record of 85 wins and 70 losses, finishing second in the NL's East Division.

The Cubs scored 685 runs and conceded 567 runs. Billy Williams walloped 37 home runs for Chicago, while Jose Cardenal, Jim Hickman and Ron Santo each added 20 or more, too. Billy Williams accounted for 122 RBI and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .333 average. Fergie Jenkins led the squad with 20 wins, plus Milt Pappas, too contributed 15 or more wins, too Milt Pappas recorded a 2.77 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Leo Durocher and Whitey Lockman 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
Fergie Jenkins	20	12	.625	3.20	36	36	0	23	5	0	289.3	253	111	103	32	62	7	184	7	1	3	1176
Milt Pappas	17	7	.708	2.77	29	28	0	10	3	0	195.0	187	72	60	18	29	3	80	8	0	2	791
Bill Hands	11	8	.579	3.00	32	28	3	6	3	0	189.0	168	73	63	12	47	7	96	2	1	1	770
Burt Hooton	11	14	.440	2.80	33	31	1	9	3	0	218.3	201	78	68	13	81	7	132	1	0	8	916
Rick Reuschel	10	8	.556	2.93	21	18	1	5	4	0	129.0	127	46	42	3	29	6	87	2	2	1	527
Jack Aker	6	6	.500	2.96	48	0	39	0	0	17	67.0	65	31	22	4	23	5	36	5	0	1	289
Juan Pizarro	4	5	.444	3.94	16	7	4	1	0	1	59.3	66	28	26	7	32	5	24	1	0	2	264
Tom Phoebus	3	3	.500	3.78	37	1	10	0	0	6	83.3	76	40	35	9	45	4	59	2	0	6	362
Joe Decker	1	0	1.000	2.13	5	1	1	0	0	0	12.7	9	3	3	1	4	0	7	0	0	0	52
Steve Hamilton	1	0	1.000	4.76	22	0	12	0	0	0	17.0	24	9	9	1	8	3	13	1	0	1	84
Bill Bonham	1	1	.500	3.12	19	4	8	0	0	4	57.7	56	22	20	4	25	2	49	1	0	2	245
Larry Gura	0	0		3.65	7	0	2	0	0	0	12.3	11	5	5	3	3	1	13	0	0	1	49
Clint Compton	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	9
Phil Regan	0	1	.000	2.25	5	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	6	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	17
Dan McGinn	0	5	.000	5.89	42	2	19	0	0	4	62.7	78	46	41	5	29	6	42	4	0	4	297
Totals	85	70	.548	3.22	353	156	102	54	18	32	1398.7	1329	567	500	112	421	56	824	34	4	32	5848

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
Billy Williams	150	650	574	95	191	34	6	37	122	3	1	62	59	.333	.398	.606	1.005	348	14	6	0	8	20
Don Kessinger	149	660	577	77	158	20	6	1	39	8	7	67	44	.274	.351	.334	.685	193	11	2	13	1	8
Jose Cardenal	143	593	533	96	155	24	6	17	70	25	14	55	58	.291	.356	.454	.810	242	15	1	1	3	3
Ron Santo	133	547	464	68	140	25	5	17	74	1	4	69	75	.302	.391	.487	.878	226	13	4	2	8	5
Glenn Beckert	120	510	474	51	128	22	2	3	43	2	1	23	17	.270	.304	.344	.648	163	16	2	7	4	1
Rick Monday	138	520	434	68	108	22	5	11	42	12	9	78	102	.249	.362	.399	.760	173	4	1	3	4	8
Jim Hickman	115	425	368	65	100	15	2	17	64	3	1	52	64	.272	.364	.462	.826	170	7	2	2	1	3
Randy Hundley	114	387	357	23	78	12	0	5	30	1	0	22	62	.218	.261	.294	.555	105	15	0	4	4	10
Joe Pepitone	66	233	214	23	56	5	0	8	21	1	2	13	22	.262	.309	.397	.706	85	4	3	0	3	4
Carmen Fanzone	86	264	222	26	50	11	0	8	42	2	3	35	45	.225	.333	.383	.716	85	7	3	0	4	6
Ken Rudolph	42	116	106	10	25	1	1	2	9	1	2	6	14	.236	.283	.321	.604	34	4	1	3	0	0
Paul Popovich	58	142	129	8	25	3	2	1	11	0	1	12	8	.194	.261	.271	.532	35	4	0	0	1	2
Bill North	66	142	127	22	23	2	3	0	4	6	0	13	33	.181	.262	.244	.507	31	2	1	1	0	1
Fergie Jenkins	36	117	109	8	20	1	1	1	8	0	0	5	34	.183	.219	.239	.458	26	1	0	3	0	0
Milt Pappas	29	76	68	5	13	1	0	1	8	0	0	2	33	.191	.236	.250	.486	17	0	2	4	0	0
J. C. Martin	25	57	50	3	12	3	0	0	7	1	0	5	9	.240	.304	.300	.604	15	3	0	1	1	1
Gene Hiser	32	53	46	2	9	0	0	0	4	1	0	6	8	.196	.288	.196	.484	9	1	0	1	0	0
Burt Hooton	33	81	72	4	9	1	0	1	6	0	0	4	37	.125	.171	.181	.352	13	0	0	5	0	0
Tommy Davis	15	28	26	3	7	1	0	0	6	0	1	2	3	.269	.321	.308	.629	8	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Bourque	11	29	27	3	7	1	0	0	5	0	0	2	2	.259	.310	.296	.607	8	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Reuschel	21	52	44	3	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	15	.136	.174	.159	.333	7	1	0	6	0	0
Elrod Hendricks	17	56	43	7	5	1	0	2	6	0	1	13	8	.116	.321	.279	.600	12	1	0	0	0	6
Bill Bonham	19	19	14	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.286	.375	.286	.661	4	0	0	3	0	0
Pete LaCock	5	7	6	3	3	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	1	.500	.429	.500	.929	3	0	0	0	1	0
Dave Rosello	5	15	12	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	3	2	.250	.400	.500	.900	6	0	0	0	0	0
Juan Pizarro	16	22	21	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.143	.182	.143	.325	3	0	0	0	0	0
Dan McGinn	43	8	8	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750	4	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Phoebus	38	16	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	0	1	0	0
Art Shamsky	15	19	16	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	3	.125	.263	.125	.388	2	0	0	0	0	0
Al Montreuil	5	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	1	0	0	0	0
Bill Hands	32	66	57	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	30	.018	.097	.018	.114	1	2	0	4	0	0
Frank Fernandez	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Ward	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Tyrone	13	8	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Aker	48	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Coggins	6	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Hamilton	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Decker	5	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Larry Gura	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clint Compton	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Regan	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1888	5950	5247	685	1346	206	40	133	634	69	47	565	815	.257	.330	.387	.717	2031	126	28	67	43	78

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Jim Hickman	1B	77	69	628.0	670	70	6	61	.992	1.605	9.610	0	0	0
Joe Pepitone	1B	66	54	482.0	552	31	2	51	.997	1.886	8.833	0	0	0
Carmen Fanzone	1B	21	17	150.0	187	5	1	12	.995	11.520	9.143	0	0	0
Pat Bourque	1B	7	6	56.0	57	6	0	8	1.000	1.125	9.000	0	0	0
Billy Williams	1B	5	5	43.0	42	4	0	5	1.000	9.628	9.200	0	0	0
Art Shamsky	1B	4	2	21.0	30	1	0	1	1.000	13.286	7.750	0	0	0
Tommy Davis	1B	3	3	18.0	27	1	0	0	1.000	14.000	9.333	0	0	0
Glenn Beckert	2B	118	117	1018.0	256	396	16	71	.976	5.764	5.525	0	0	0
Paul Popovich	2B	36	22	225.0	59	98	3	22	.981	6.280	4.361	0	0	0
Carmen Fanzone	2B	13	12	104.0	26	43	0	2	1.000	5.971	5.308	0	0	0
Al Montreuil	2B	5	3	31.0	8	8	0	1	1.000	4.645	3.200	0	0	0
Ron Santo	2B	3	2	21.0	9	8	1	4	.944	7.286	5.667	0	0	0
Ron Santo	3B	129	128	1116.0	108	274	21	19	.948	3.081	2.961	0	0	0
Carmen Fanzone	3B	36	28	281.0	29	67	8	7	.923	3.075	2.667	0	0	0
Paul Popovich	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Randy Hundley	C	113	99	893.0	569	53	3	7	.995	6.269	5.504	6	59	26	30.6
Ken Rudolph	C	41	32	284.0	178	23	7	2	.966	6.370	4.902	4	13	15	53.6
Elrod Hendricks	C	16	13	118.0	83	7	2	1	.978	6.864	5.625	2	9	4	30.8
J. C. Martin	C	17	12	101.0	60	4	2	1	.970	5.703	3.765	0	14	1	6.7
Frank Fernandez	C	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Billy Williams	OF	144	142	1255.0	233	9	4	0	.984	1.735	1.681	0	0	0
Jose Cardenal	OF	137	135	1199.0	223	11	7	1	.971	1.756	1.708	0	0	0
Rick Monday	OF	134	123	1107.0	268	6	1	2	.996	2.228	2.045	0	0	0
Bill North	OF	48	26	273.0	61	3	3	1	.955	2.110	1.333	0	0	0
Jim Hickman	OF	27	27	202.0	38	0	0	0	1.000	1.693	1.407	0	0	0
Gene Hiser	OF	15	9	99.0	21	2	0	1	1.000	2.091	1.533	0	0	0
Jim Tyrone	OF	4	1	15.0	6	1	0	0	1.000	4.200	1.750	0	0	0
Tommy Davis	OF	2	2	15.0	4	0	1	0	.800	2.400	2.000	0	0	0
Pete LaCock	OF	3	1	14.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.667	0	0	0
Ron Santo	OF	1	1	9.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Carmen Fanzone	OF	1	1	8.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.125	1.000	0	0	0
Fergie Jenkins	P	36	36	289.0	28	50	2	2	.975	2.429	2.167	0	0	0
Burt Hooton	P	33	31	218.0	13	35	1	2	.980	1.982	1.455	0	0	0
Milt Pappas	P	29	28	195.0	20	27	0	2	1.000	2.169	1.621	0	0	0
Bill Hands	P	32	28	189.0	12	21	5	1	.868	1.571	1.031	0	0	0
Rick Reuschel	P	21	18	129.0	9	15	1	1	.960	1.674	1.143	0	0	0
Tom Phoebus	P	37	1	83.0	6	13	0	2	1.000	2.060	.514	0	0	0
Jack Aker	P	48	0	67.0	2	18	1	3	.952	2.687	.417	0	0	0
Dan McGinn	P	42	2	63.0	2	6	1	0	.889	1.143	.190	0	0	0
Juan Pizarro	P	16	7	59.0	2	15	0	1	1.000	2.593	1.063	0	0	0
Bill Bonham	P	19	4	58.0	3	9	0	0	1.000	1.862	.632	0	0	0
Steve Hamilton	P	22	0	17.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.059	.091	0	0	0
Joe Decker	P	5	1	13.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.692	.200	0	0	0
Larry Gura	P	7	0	12.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.250	.429	0	0	0
Phil Regan	P	5	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Clint Compton	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	SS	146	145	1290.0	259	504	28	90	.965	5.323	5.226	0	0	0
Paul Popovich	SS	8	8	69.0	18	29	1	8	.979	6.130	5.875	0	0	0
Dave Rosello	SS	5	3	35.0	11	11	4	4	.846	5.657	4.400	0	0	0
Ron Santo	SS	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Carmen Fanzone	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1742	1404	12586.0	4196	1889	132	396	.979	4.351	3.493	12	95	46	32.6

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