1976 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 74-87
Finished 5th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,467,020, Avg. 19,886
Ballpark: Tiger Stadium
Manager: Ralph Houk (74-87)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1976 Detroit Tigers Roster
1976 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1976 season with a record of 74 wins and 87 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's East Division.

The Tigers tallied 609 runs and gave up 709 runs. Jason Thompson paced Detroit with 17 home runs, while Rusty Staub and Ben Oglivie walloped 20 or more also. Rusty Staub drove in 96 runs. Ron LeFlore led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .316. Mark Fidrych topped the team with 19 wins, plus Dave Roberts added 15 or more wins, too Mark Fidrych recorded a 2.34 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Ralph Houk 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
Mark Fidrych	19	9	.679	2.34	31	29	2	24	4	0	250.3	217	76	65	12	53	3	97	3	0	6	996
Dave Roberts	16	17	.485	4.00	36	36	0	18	4	0	252.0	254	122	112	16	63	4	79	4	0	3	1048
John Hiller	12	8	.600	2.38	56	1	46	1	1	13	121.0	93	37	32	7	67	9	117	2	0	6	510
Vern Ruhle	9	12	.429	3.92	32	32	0	5	1	0	199.7	227	99	87	19	59	4	88	4	0	0	865
Ray Bare	7	8	.467	4.63	30	21	5	3	2	0	134.0	157	85	69	13	51	6	59	0	0	5	594
Dave Lemanczyk	4	6	.400	5.09	20	10	5	1	0	0	81.3	86	47	46	7	34	0	51	0	0	0	355
Steve Grilli	3	1	.750	4.64	36	0	24	0	0	3	66.0	63	43	34	5	41	5	36	5	2	5	301
Joe Coleman	2	5	.286	4.86	12	12	0	1	0	0	66.7	80	44	36	1	34	0	38	5	0	6	309
Ed Glynn	1	3	.250	6.08	5	4	1	1	0	0	23.7	22	18	16	3	20	1	17	0	0	0	108
Jim Crawford	1	8	.111	4.53	32	5	11	1	0	2	109.3	115	65	55	4	43	4	68	0	0	7	478
Bill Laxton	0	5	.000	4.09	26	3	11	0	0	2	94.7	77	49	43	13	51	1	74	6	2	3	410
Frank MacCormack	0	5	.000	5.79	9	8	1	0	0	0	32.7	35	24	21	1	34	0	14	1	0	4	156
Totals	74	87	.460	3.87	325	161	106	55	12	20	1431.3	1426	709	616	101	550	37	738	30	4	45	6130

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
Rusty Staub	161	690	589	73	176	28	3	15	96	3	1	83	49	.299	.386	.433	.818	255	23	7	0	11	11
Ron LeFlore	135	603	544	93	172	23	8	4	39	58	20	51	111	.316	.376	.410	.786	223	12	2	5	1	2
Alex Johnson	125	457	429	41	115	15	2	6	45	14	10	19	49	.268	.298	.354	.653	152	15	2	1	6	1
Aurelio Rodriguez	128	514	480	40	115	13	2	8	50	0	4	19	61	.240	.267	.325	.592	156	19	1	9	5	3
Willie Horton	114	456	401	40	105	17	0	14	56	0	0	49	63	.262	.342	.409	.751	164	16	2	0	4	7
Jason Thompson	123	486	412	45	90	12	1	17	54	2	4	68	72	.218	.328	.376	.704	155	8	1	1	4	6
Ben Oglivie	115	325	305	36	87	12	3	15	47	9	4	11	44	.285	.313	.492	.804	150	11	3	2	4	3
Tom Veryzer	97	390	354	31	83	8	2	1	25	1	4	21	44	.234	.286	.277	.563	98	11	6	6	3	1
Dan Meyer	105	315	294	37	74	8	4	2	16	10	0	17	22	.252	.292	.327	.618	96	10	0	3	1	0
Bill Freehan	71	255	237	22	64	10	1	5	27	0	0	12	27	.270	.303	.384	.687	91	4	1	1	4	0
Mickey Stanley	84	229	214	34	55	17	1	4	29	2	0	14	19	.257	.301	.402	.703	86	7	0	0	1	1
Chuck Scrivener	80	244	222	28	49	7	1	2	16	1	0	19	34	.221	.282	.288	.570	64	2	0	3	0	0
Pedro Garcia	77	245	227	21	45	10	2	3	20	2	3	9	40	.198	.239	.300	.538	68	3	4	2	3	0
Bruce Kimm	63	174	152	13	40	8	0	1	6	4	3	15	20	.263	.329	.336	.665	51	2	0	7	0	0
John Wockenfuss	60	163	144	18	32	7	2	3	10	0	3	17	14	.222	.309	.361	.670	52	3	1	1	0	0
Mark Wagner	39	124	115	9	30	2	3	0	12	0	2	6	18	.261	.298	.330	.628	38	1	0	3	0	0
Gary Sutherland	42	125	117	10	24	5	2	0	6	0	1	7	12	.205	.248	.282	.530	33	5	0	0	1	0
Phil Mankowski	24	90	85	9	23	2	1	1	4	0	0	4	8	.271	.300	.353	.653	30	3	0	0	1	0
Marv Lane	18	55	48	3	9	1	0	0	5	0	0	6	11	.188	.273	.208	.481	10	1	0	0	1	0
Milt May	6	25	25	2	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.280	.280	.320	.600	8	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Manuel	54	49	43	4	6	1	0	0	2	1	0	3	9	.140	.213	.163	.376	7	1	1	2	0	0
Frank MacCormack	9	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Hiller	56	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Coleman	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Crawford	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Fidrych	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Glynn	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Grilli	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Laxton	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Lemanczyk	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Bare	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2046	6018	5441	609	1401	207	38	101	566	107	59	450	730	.257	.315	.365	.680	1987	157	31	46	50	35

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Jason Thompson	1B	117	117	1039.3	1157	88	8	104	.994	1.781	1.641	0	0	0
Dan Meyer	1B	19	19	168.0	168	10	1	15	.994	9.536	9.368	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	1B	17	14	132.0	117	9	1	10	.992	8.591	7.412	0	0	0
Ben Oglivie	1B	9	9	75.0	98	1	1	13	.990	11.880	11.000	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	1B	2	2	17.0	16	6	0	2	1.000	11.647	11.000	0	0	0
Pedro Garcia	2B	77	73	623.0	168	219	17	53	.958	5.591	5.026	0	0	0
Gary Sutherland	2B	42	37	320.7	73	117	3	31	.984	5.333	4.524	0	0	0
Chuck Scrivener	2B	43	38	320.0	86	120	5	22	.976	5.794	4.791	0	0	0
Jerry Manuel	2B	47	13	162.7	36	57	8	8	.921	5.145	1.979	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	2B	2	0	5.0	3	2	1	1	.833	9.000	2.500	0	0	0
Aurelio Rodriguez	3B	128	128	1138.0	120	280	9	21	.978	3.163	3.125	0	0	0
Phil Mankowski	3B	23	22	189.0	20	47	2	8	.971	3.190	2.913	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	3B	11	10	86.3	7	32	1	3	.975	4.066	3.545	0	0	0
Chuck Scrivener	3B	5	1	18.0	3	9	1	1	.923	6.000	2.400	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	C	61	60	516.7	312	28	6	2	.983	5.923	5.574	2	57	16	21.9
Bruce Kimm	C	61	52	456.0	256	33	9	5	.970	5.704	4.738	3	40	32	44.4
John Wockenfuss	C	59	43	405.0	221	19	15	5	.941	5.333	4.068	2	39	19	32.8
Milt May	C	6	6	53.7	33	5	0	0	1.000	6.373	6.333	0	4	4	50.0
Ron LeFlore	OF	132	132	1159.7	381	14	11	1	.973	3.066	2.992	0	0	0
Rusty Staub	OF	126	125	1112.3	218	8	7	3	.970	1.829	1.794	0	0	0
Alex Johnson	OF	90	89	763.0	159	7	8	1	.954	1.958	1.844	0	0	0
Ben Oglivie	OF	64	58	522.0	136	7	2	0	.986	2.466	2.234	0	0	0
Dan Meyer	OF	47	45	398.3	76	4	1	1	.988	1.808	1.702	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	OF	38	24	235.7	60	2	2	0	.969	2.368	1.632	0	0	0
Marv Lane	OF	15	10	103.0	23	1	1	0	.960	2.097	1.600	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	P	36	36	252.0	6	53	4	6	.937	2.107	1.639	0	0	0
Mark Fidrych	P	31	29	250.3	19	59	0	4	1.000	2.804	2.516	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	P	32	32	199.7	14	28	0	1	1.000	1.893	1.313	0	0	0
Ray Bare	P	30	21	134.0	6	25	0	2	1.000	2.082	1.033	0	0	0
John Hiller	P	56	1	121.0	2	13	1	0	.938	1.116	.268	0	0	0
Jim Crawford	P	32	5	109.3	1	40	1	2	.976	3.375	1.281	0	0	0
Bill Laxton	P	26	3	94.7	4	5	2	0	.818	.856	.346	0	0	0
Dave Lemanczyk	P	20	10	81.3	8	14	2	0	.917	2.434	1.100	0	0	0
Joe Coleman	P	12	12	66.7	2	19	3	2	.875	2.835	1.750	0	0	0
Steve Grilli	P	36	0	66.0	5	18	1	1	.958	3.136	.639	0	0	0
Frank MacCormack	P	9	8	32.7	4	3	0	0	1.000	1.929	.778	0	0	0
Ed Glynn	P	5	4	23.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.380	.200	0	0	0
Tom Veryzer	SS	97	94	837.7	164	313	17	53	.966	5.125	4.918	0	0	0
Mark Wagner	SS	39	38	319.3	60	135	11	25	.947	5.496	5.000	0	0	0
Chuck Scrivener	SS	37	28	255.3	48	101	6	24	.961	5.252	4.027	0	0	0
Jerry Manuel	SS	4	1	14.0	4	7	0	0	1.000	7.071	2.750	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	SS	3	0	5.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.600	.667	0	0	0
Totals		1746	1449	12882.0	4294	1961	168	430	.974	4.370	3.582	7	140	71	33.6

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