1972 Cleveland Indians Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 72-84
Finished 5th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 626,354, Avg. 11,689
Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium
Manager: Ken Aspromonte (72-84)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

1972 Cleveland Indians Roster
1972 Cleveland Indians Results

The Cleveland Indians of the American League ended the 1972 season with a record of 72 wins and 84 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's East Division.

The Indians scored 472 runs and gave up 519 runs. Graig Nettles led Cleveland with 17 home runs and drove in 70 runs. Chris Chambliss paced all regular hitters by hitting .292. Gaylord Perry earned 24 wins on the mound for the team and a team-best 1.92 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Ken Aspromonte 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
Gaylord Perry	24	16	.600	1.92	41	40	1	29	5	1	342.7	253	79	73	17	82	16	234	12	0	11	1345
Dick Tidrow	14	15	.483	2.77	39	34	2	10	3	0	237.3	200	83	73	21	70	13	123	6	1	3	968
Milt Wilcox	7	14	.333	3.40	32	27	2	4	2	0	156.0	145	67	59	18	72	11	90	5	1	0	669
Steve Dunning	6	4	.600	3.26	16	16	0	1	0	0	105.0	98	39	38	16	43	8	52	0	1	2	441
Phil Hennigan	5	3	.625	2.67	38	1	23	0	0	6	67.3	54	20	20	8	18	4	44	2	0	4	267
Ray Lamb	5	6	.455	3.09	34	9	3	0	0	0	107.7	101	42	37	5	29	5	64	1	1	3	447
Mike Kilkenny	4	1	.800	3.41	22	7	6	1	0	1	58.0	51	23	22	5	39	4	44	0	0	3	255
Tom Hilgendorf	3	1	.750	2.68	19	5	6	1	0	0	47.0	51	16	14	4	21	7	25	2	0	1	207
Ed Farmer	2	5	.286	4.40	46	1	28	0	0	7	61.3	51	32	30	10	27	6	33	1	0	2	257
Denny Riddleberger	1	3	.250	2.50	38	0	10	0	0	0	54.0	45	23	15	5	22	3	34	2	0	2	220
Vince Colbert	1	7	.125	4.58	22	11	2	1	1	0	74.7	74	42	38	8	38	5	36	7	0	6	330
Bill Butler	0	0		1.54	6	2	1	0	0	0	11.7	9	3	2	1	10	0	6	0	0	0	52
Lowell Palmer	0	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	11
Marcelino Lopez	0	0		5.40	4	2	0	0	0	0	8.3	8	5	5	0	10	0	1	0	0	3	40
Steve Hargan	0	3	.000	5.85	12	1	2	0	0	0	20.0	23	16	13	1	15	2	10	0	0	1	97
Steve Mingori	0	6	.000	3.95	41	0	23	0	0	10	57.0	67	28	25	4	36	8	47	2	0	2	271
Totals	72	84	.462	2.97	411	156	109	47	11	25	1410.0	1232	519	465	123	534	92	846	40	4	43	5877

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
Graig Nettles	150	623	557	65	141	28	0	17	70	2	3	57	50	.253	.325	.395	.720	220	9	4	2	3	5
Chris Chambliss	121	499	466	51	136	27	2	6	44	3	4	26	63	.292	.327	.397	.724	185	8	0	3	4	2
Jack Brohamer	136	567	527	49	123	13	2	5	35	3	2	27	46	.233	.271	.294	.565	155	8	1	9	3	0
Buddy Bell	132	505	466	49	119	21	1	9	36	5	6	34	29	.255	.310	.363	.672	169	5	3	1	1	8
Ray Fosse	134	508	457	42	110	20	1	10	41	5	1	45	46	.241	.312	.354	.666	162	18	3	1	2	15
Tommy McCraw	129	442	391	43	101	12	5	7	33	12	10	41	47	.258	.333	.368	.701	144	11	4	3	3	5
Frank Duffy	130	428	385	23	92	16	4	3	27	6	2	31	54	.239	.297	.325	.621	125	12	1	10	1	5
Del Unser	132	422	383	29	91	12	0	1	17	5	9	28	46	.238	.288	.277	.565	106	4	1	6	4	4
Alex Johnson	108	384	356	31	85	10	1	8	37	6	8	22	40	.239	.283	.340	.623	121	10	1	2	3	10
Eddie Leon	89	251	225	14	45	2	1	4	16	0	2	20	47	.200	.265	.271	.536	61	10	1	2	3	1
Roy Foster	73	169	143	19	32	4	0	4	13	0	2	21	23	.224	.325	.336	.661	48	5	2	0	3	2
John Lowenstein	68	172	151	16	32	8	1	6	21	2	4	20	43	.212	.304	.397	.701	60	1	0	1	0	0
Jerry Moses	52	157	141	9	31	3	0	4	14	0	0	11	29	.220	.290	.326	.617	46	2	3	2	0	3
Gaylord Perry	41	131	110	5	17	2	0	1	9	0	0	5	43	.155	.197	.200	.397	22	2	1	14	1	0
Ron Lolich	24	85	80	4	15	1	0	2	8	0	0	4	20	.188	.224	.275	.499	22	0	0	0	1	1
Steve Dunning	20	39	33	6	9	1	0	3	4	0	0	3	9	.273	.333	.576	.909	19	0	0	3	0	0
Milt Wilcox	32	51	45	3	9	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	12	.200	.234	.244	.478	11	1	0	4	0	0
Dick Tidrow	39	85	70	5	7	0	0	0	6	0	0	2	34	.100	.125	.100	.225	7	2	0	13	0	0
Lou Camilli	39	45	41	2	6	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	8	.146	.205	.195	.400	8	0	0	1	0	0
Vince Colbert	23	23	20	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.200	.273	.250	.523	5	1	0	1	0	0
Kurt Bevacqua	19	38	35	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	10	.114	.184	.200	.384	7	1	0	0	0	1
Jack Heidemann	10	23	20	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.150	.261	.150	.411	3	1	1	0	0	0
Fred Stanley	6	15	12	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.167	.286	.250	.536	3	1	0	1	0	0
Larry Johnson	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Farmer	46	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	1	0	0
Steve Mingori	42	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Hennigan	38	14	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.083	.214	.083	.298	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Hilgendorf	19	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	.077	.071	.077	.148	1	0	0	0	1	0
Mike Kilkenny	22	16	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	.071	.071	.071	.143	1	0	0	2	0	0
Bill Butler	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denny Riddleberger	38	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marcelino Lopez	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Lamb	34	27	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	8	.000	.192	.000	.192	0	0	0	1	0	0
Steve Hargan	12	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Adolfo Phillips	12	9	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.222	.000	.222	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lowell Palmer	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1982	5769	5207	472	1220	186	18	91	440	49	53	420	762	.234	.293	.329	.622	1715	112	26	83	33	62

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Chris Chambliss	1B	119	117	1057.0	1109	56	8	109	.993	9.920	9.790	0	0	0
Tommy McCraw	1B	38	35	311.0	345	26	3	29	.992	1.736	9.763	0	0	0
Ray Fosse	1B	3	2	21.0	27	1	0	3	1.000	12.000	9.333	0	0	0
Jerry Moses	1B	3	2	18.0	19	1	1	1	.952	1.000	6.667	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	1B	2	0	3.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	15.000	2.500	0	0	0
Jack Brohamer	2B	132	130	1163.0	285	393	16	87	.977	5.247	5.136	0	0	0
Eddie Leon	2B	36	26	244.0	51	84	1	17	.993	4.980	3.750	0	0	0
Lou Camilli	2B	2	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Fred Stanley	2B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	3B	150	150	1351.0	114	338	21	27	.956	3.011	3.013	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	3B	6	5	49.0	10	13	0	2	1.000	4.224	3.833	0	0	0
Kurt Bevacqua	3B	1	1	8.0	2	5	0	1	1.000	7.875	7.000	0	0	0
Jack Brohamer	3B	1	0	2.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Ray Fosse	C	124	121	1086.0	713	70	12	9	.985	6.489	6.315	12	53	31	36.9
Jerry Moses	C	39	35	320.0	201	16	4	7	.982	6.103	5.564	4	13	12	48.0
Larry Johnson	C	1	0	4.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	4.000	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	OF	123	115	1034.0	274	10	3	4	.990	2.472	2.309	0	0	0
Del Unser	OF	119	91	878.0	248	10	3	1	.989	2.645	2.168	0	0	0
Alex Johnson	OF	95	95	751.0	145	4	7	1	.955	1.786	1.568	0	0	0
Tommy McCraw	OF	84	67	643.0	159	2	0	0	1.000	2.253	1.917	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	OF	58	36	373.0	77	7	0	3	1.000	2.027	1.448	0	0	0
Roy Foster	OF	45	36	282.0	54	2	2	0	.966	1.787	1.244	0	0	0
Ron Lolich	OF	22	21	183.0	39	1	0	0	1.000	1.967	1.818	0	0	0
Kurt Bevacqua	OF	11	7	63.0	9	0	1	0	.900	1.286	.818	0	0	0
Adolfo Phillips	OF	10	0	24.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	2.625	.700	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gaylord Perry	P	41	40	343.0	18	61	2	7	.975	2.073	1.927	0	0	0
Dick Tidrow	P	39	34	237.0	10	23	1	0	.971	1.253	.846	0	0	0
Milt Wilcox	P	32	27	156.0	9	14	5	1	.821	1.327	.719	0	0	0
Ray Lamb	P	34	9	108.0	2	13	1	0	.938	1.250	.441	0	0	0
Steve Dunning	P	16	16	105.0	2	16	2	0	.900	1.543	1.125	0	0	0
Vince Colbert	P	22	11	75.0	1	15	0	2	1.000	1.920	.727	0	0	0
Phil Hennigan	P	38	1	67.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	.806	.158	0	0	0
Ed Farmer	P	46	1	61.0	4	12	1	0	.941	2.361	.348	0	0	0
Mike Kilkenny	P	22	7	58.0	4	10	0	2	1.000	2.172	.636	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	P	41	0	57.0	4	11	1	0	.938	2.368	.366	0	0	0
Denny Riddleberger	P	38	0	54.0	0	9	0	0	1.000	1.500	.237	0	0	0
Tom Hilgendorf	P	19	5	47.0	2	10	1	0	.923	2.298	.632	0	0	0
Steve Hargan	P	12	1	20.0	3	5	0	2	1.000	3.600	.667	0	0	0
Bill Butler	P	6	2	12.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.750	.167	0	0	0
Marcelino Lopez	P	4	2	8.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.125	.250	0	0	0
Lowell Palmer	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Frank Duffy	SS	126	117	1031.0	197	360	13	75	.977	4.862	4.421	0	0	0
Eddie Leon	SS	35	28	257.0	52	95	5	22	.967	5.148	4.200	0	0	0
Jack Heidemann	SS	10	6	60.0	10	17	1	3	.964	4.050	2.700	0	0	0
Lou Camilli	SS	8	3	32.0	5	9	0	2	1.000	3.938	1.750	0	0	0
Fred Stanley	SS	5	2	30.0	5	6	1	0	.917	3.300	2.200	0	0	0
Totals		1821	1404	12693.0	4227	1736	116	417	.981	4.228	3.275	16	66	43	39.4

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