1968 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 72-90
Finished 10th in the NL
Attendance: 1,312,887, Avg. 16,379
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Grady Hatton (23-38)
Manager: Harry Walker (49-52)
Location: Houston, Texas

1968 Houston Astros Roster
1968 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1968 season with a record of 72 wins and 90 losses, finishing tenth in the NL.

The Astros scored 510 runs and conceded 588 runs. Jim Wynn led Houston with 26 home runs Rusty Staub drove in 72 runs and topped all regular batters by hitting .291. Don Wilson paced the squad with 13 wins, while Mike Cuellar recorded a 2.74 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Grady Hatton and Harry Walker 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
Don Wilson	13	16	.448	3.28	33	30	3	9	3	0	208.7	187	85	76	9	70	5	175	4	1	9	884
Larry Dierker	12	15	.444	3.31	32	32	0	10	1	0	233.7	206	95	86	14	89	12	161	8	0	20	981
Dave Giusti	11	14	.440	3.19	37	34	1	12	2	1	251.0	226	95	89	15	67	7	186	4	2	11	1031
Denny Lemaster	10	15	.400	2.81	33	32	0	7	2	0	224.0	231	79	70	11	72	11	146	4	2	7	965
Mike Cuellar	8	11	.421	2.74	28	24	3	11	2	1	170.7	152	60	52	8	45	7	133	1	0	2	700
Danny Coombs	4	3	.571	3.28	40	2	16	0	0	2	46.7	52	21	17	0	17	4	29	1	0	5	207
John Buzhardt	4	4	.500	3.12	39	4	15	0	0	5	83.7	73	35	29	0	35	13	37	4	0	7	356
Steve Shea	4	4	.500	3.38	30	0	21	0	0	6	34.7	27	14	13	0	11	0	15	3	0	2	139
Tom Dukes	2	2	.500	4.27	43	0	19	0	0	4	52.7	62	31	25	3	28	12	37	2	1	4	251
Jim Ray	2	3	.400	2.68	41	2	14	1	0	1	80.7	65	26	24	5	25	8	71	1	1	1	333
Pat House	1	1	.500	7.71	18	0	8	0	0	0	16.3	21	15	14	0	6	3	6	2	0	0	75
Wade Blasingame	1	2	.333	4.75	22	2	7	0	0	1	36.0	45	21	19	3	10	1	22	0	0	3	160
Hal Gilson	0	0		7.36	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.7	7	4	3	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	19
Fred Gladding	0	0		14.54	7	0	4	0	0	2	4.3	8	7	7	0	3	1	2	1	0	3	24
Totals	72	90	.444	3.26	405	162	112	50	10	23	1446.7	1362	588	524	68	479	85	1021	36	7	74	6125

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	682	591	54	172	37	1	6	72	2	0	73	57	.291	.373	.387	.761	229	11	7	7	4	24
Jim Wynn	156	646	542	85	146	23	5	26	67	11	17	90	131	.269	.376	.474	.850	257	6	5	5	4	9
Denis Menke	150	621	542	56	135	23	6	6	56	5	8	64	81	.249	.334	.347	.681	188	6	6	7	2	6
Hector Torres	128	496	466	44	104	11	1	1	24	2	3	18	64	.223	.252	.258	.510	120	10	0	12	0	2
Bob Aspromonte	124	457	409	25	92	9	2	1	46	1	0	35	57	.225	.285	.264	.549	108	15	2	5	6	9
Doug Rader	98	371	333	42	89	16	4	6	43	2	2	31	51	.267	.328	.393	.721	131	8	1	2	4	3
John Bateman	111	383	350	28	87	19	0	4	33	1	1	23	46	.249	.297	.337	.635	118	16	3	3	4	16
Norm Miller	79	294	257	35	61	18	2	6	28	6	5	22	48	.237	.304	.393	.697	101	4	5	5	5	1
Ron Davis	52	236	217	22	46	10	1	1	12	0	4	13	48	.212	.268	.281	.549	61	1	4	1	1	0
Julio Gotay	75	171	165	9	41	3	0	1	11	1	2	4	21	.248	.271	.285	.555	47	6	1	1	0	0
Lee Thomas	90	221	201	14	39	4	0	1	11	2	1	14	22	.194	.249	.229	.478	46	6	1	4	1	4
Dick Simpson	59	202	177	25	33	7	2	3	11	4	4	20	61	.186	.282	.299	.582	53	2	4	0	1	2
Bob Watson	45	155	140	13	32	7	0	2	8	1	0	13	32	.229	.297	.321	.618	45	6	1	0	1	1
Jose Herrera	27	109	100	9	24	5	0	0	7	0	2	4	12	.240	.269	.290	.559	29	1	0	5	0	0
Dave Adlesh	40	112	104	3	19	1	1	0	4	0	0	5	27	.183	.227	.212	.439	22	1	1	2	0	2
Don Wilson	34	78	70	7	15	2	0	1	6	0	0	1	16	.214	.236	.286	.522	20	2	1	6	0	0
Dave Giusti	38	90	82	4	15	1	0	0	9	0	0	1	17	.183	.212	.195	.407	16	1	2	5	0	0
Leon McFadden	16	54	47	2	13	1	0	0	1	1	0	6	10	.277	.358	.298	.656	14	0	0	1	0	2
Ron Brand	43	94	81	7	13	2	0	0	4	1	1	9	11	.160	.261	.185	.446	15	1	2	2	0	0
Mike Cuellar	28	61	57	3	11	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	25	.193	.207	.263	.470	15	0	1	3	0	0
Nate Colbert	20	56	53	5	8	1	0	0	4	1	1	1	23	.151	.164	.170	.333	9	2	0	1	1	0
Hal King	27	62	55	4	8	2	1	0	2	0	0	7	16	.145	.242	.218	.460	12	1	0	0	0	0
Ivan Murrell	32	60	59	3	6	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	17	.102	.117	.153	.269	9	2	0	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	10	27	20	6	5	0	1	0	0	3	0	7	4	.250	.444	.350	.794	7	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	33	84	73	2	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	35	.068	.093	.082	.176	6	2	0	9	0	0
Danny Coombs	40	10	10	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.400	.400	.400	.800	4	0	0	0	0	0
John Buzhardt	39	18	16	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.250	.294	.250	.544	4	1	0	1	0	0
Byron Browne	10	17	13	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	6	.231	.412	.231	.643	3	1	0	0	0	0
Denny Lemaster	33	80	65	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	20	.031	.113	.031	.143	2	1	0	9	0	0
Jim Ray	42	16	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.067	.067	.067	.133	1	1	0	1	0	0
Wade Blasingame	22	8	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.000	.375	.000	.375	0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Walton	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Tom Dukes	43	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Shea	30	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Mayberry	4	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	1	0	0	0
Pat House	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Hal Gilson	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Gladding	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1969	5994	5336	510	1233	205	28	66	473	44	51	479	988	.231	.298	.317	.616	1692	115	48	97	34	81

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Rusty Staub	1B	147	146	1303.7	1313	93	11	100	.992	9.706	9.565	0	0	0	0
Nate Colbert	1B	5	5	45.0	43	0	1	2	.977	8.600	8.600	0	0	0	0
Doug Rader	1B	5	5	40.0	47	3	3	4	.943	11.250	1.000	0	0	0	0
Denis Menke	1B	5	2	21.0	29	1	0	2	1.000	12.857	6.000	0	0	0	0
John Mayberry	1B	2	2	16.7	25	0	0	1	1.000	13.500	12.500	0	0	0	0
Lee Thomas	1B	2	2	14.0	13	3	0	3	1.000	1.286	8.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Aspromonte	1B	1	0	6.7	6	1	0	0	1.000	9.450	7.000	0	0	0	0
Denis Menke	2B	119	115	1001.0	269	285	10	47	.982	4.981	4.655	0	0	0	0
Julio Gotay	2B	48	35	341.7	116	103	4	28	.982	5.769	4.563	0	0	0	0
Jose Herrera	2B	7	7	59.3	15	19	3	4	.919	5.157	4.857	0	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	2B	5	5	43.0	9	6	2	2	.882	3.140	3.000	0	0	0	0
Hector Torres	2B	1	0	2.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Doug Rader	3B	86	85	751.7	83	168	19	14	.930	3.005	2.919	0	0	0	0
Bob Aspromonte	3B	75	74	665.7	67	148	6	8	.973	2.907	2.867	0	0	0	0
Denis Menke	3B	4	3	28.0	3	6	0	1	1.000	2.893	2.250	0	0	0	0
Ron Brand	3B	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Julio Gotay	3B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
John Bateman	C	108	105	881.0	690	49	11	6	.985	7.549	6.843	9	37	42	11	20.8
Dave Adlesh	C	36	29	263.3	193	11	2	0	.990	6.972	5.667	3	10	19	6	24.0
Ron Brand	C	29	18	190.0	153	14	0	3	1.000	7.911	5.759	0	5	10	3	23.1
Hal King	C	19	10	112.7	83	8	3	0	.968	7.269	4.789	3	10	13	2	13.3
Jim Wynn	OF	153	152	1350.0	298	20	4	8	.988	2.120	2.078	0	0	0	0
Norm Miller	OF	74	65	595.7	131	1	4	1	.971	1.994	1.784	0	0	0	0
Ron Davis	OF	52	52	477.3	131	4	4	0	.971	2.545	2.596	0	0	0	0
Dick Simpson	OF	49	47	421.0	63	2	2	1	.970	1.390	1.327	0	0	0	0
Lee Thomas	OF	48	41	383.3	67	5	2	0	.973	1.690	1.500	0	0	0	0
Bob Watson	OF	40	38	337.3	46	0	6	0	.885	1.227	1.150	0	0	0	0
Bob Aspromonte	OF	36	36	307.3	43	5	4	1	.923	1.406	1.333	0	0	0	0
Jose Herrera	OF	17	16	136.7	22	1	1	0	.958	1.515	1.353	0	0	0	0
Rusty Staub	OF	15	14	125.3	23	1	2	0	.923	1.723	1.600	0	0	0	0
Ivan Murrell	OF	15	13	101.0	24	3	2	2	.931	2.406	1.800	0	0	0	0
Nate Colbert	OF	11	9	82.0	19	1	1	0	.952	2.195	1.818	0	0	0	0
Byron Browne	OF	2	2	18.0	7	1	0	1	1.000	4.000	4.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	OF	1	1	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Brand	OF	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	P	37	34	251.0	20	51	2	3	.973	2.546	1.919	0	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	P	32	32	233.7	13	28	1	2	.976	1.579	1.281	0	0	0	0
Denny Lemaster	P	33	32	224.0	7	27	4	1	.895	1.366	1.030	0	0	0	0
Don Wilson	P	33	30	208.7	16	22	4	0	.905	1.639	1.152	0	0	0	0
Mike Cuellar	P	28	24	170.7	13	24	4	1	.902	1.951	1.321	0	0	0	0
John Buzhardt	P	39	4	83.7	8	17	0	1	1.000	2.689	.641	0	0	0	0
Jim Ray	P	41	2	81.0	2	9	1	0	.917	1.222	.268	0	0	0	0
Tom Dukes	P	43	0	52.7	1	11	1	0	.923	2.051	.279	0	0	0	0
Danny Coombs	P	40	2	46.7	2	11	1	1	.929	2.507	.325	0	0	0	0
Wade Blasingame	P	22	2	36.0	1	10	0	1	1.000	2.750	.500	0	0	0	0
Steve Shea	P	30	0	34.7	2	9	0	1	1.000	2.856	.367	0	0	0	0
Pat House	P	18	0	16.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.653	.167	0	0	0	0
Fred Gladding	P	7	0	4.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.077	.143	0	0	0	0
Hal Gilson	P	2	0	3.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	4.909	1.000	0	0	0	0
Hector Torres	SS	127	119	1054.0	159	391	24	55	.958	4.696	4.331	0	0	0	0
Denis Menke	SS	35	29	264.0	45	92	5	21	.965	4.670	3.914	0	0	0	0
Leon McFadden	SS	16	14	127.0	16	44	2	3	.968	4.252	3.750	0	0	0	0
Bob Aspromonte	SS	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1804	1458	13023.0	4341	1714	156	329	.975	4.185	3.356	15	62	84	22	20.8

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