1974 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 81-81
Finished 4th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,090,728, Avg. 13,664
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Preston Gomez (81-81)
Location: Houston, Texas

1974 Houston Astros Roster
1974 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1974 season with a record of 81 wins and 81 losses, finishing fourth in the NL's West Division.

The Astros scored 653 runs and allowed 632 runs. Cesar Cedeno led Houston with 26 home runs, while Lee May and Doug Rader walloped 20 or more, too. Cesar Cedeno drove in 102 runs. Greg Gross paced batters with significant playing time by hitting .314. Tom Griffin topped the team with 14 wins, and Larry Dierker recorded a 2.90 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Preston Gomez 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
Tom Griffin	14	10	.583	3.54	34	34	0	8	3	0	211.0	202	97	83	14	89	7	110	5	3	11	918
Larry Dierker	11	10	.524	2.90	33	33	0	7	3	0	223.7	189	76	72	18	82	4	150	6	3	8	913
Don Wilson	11	13	.458	3.08	33	27	2	5	4	0	204.7	170	80	70	16	100	2	112	4	1	4	875
Dave Roberts	10	12	.455	3.40	34	30	2	8	2	1	204.0	216	83	77	6	65	2	72	3	1	2	870
Claude Osteen	9	9	.500	3.71	23	21	1	7	2	0	138.3	158	67	57	8	47	1	45	2	3	3	602
Ken Forsch	8	7	.533	2.79	70	0	40	0	0	10	103.3	98	38	32	3	37	13	48	4	1	4	435
Mike Cosgrove	7	3	.700	3.50	45	0	17	0	0	2	90.0	76	35	35	2	39	3	47	1	0	3	373
Jerry Johnson	2	1	.667	4.80	34	0	17	0	0	0	45.0	47	26	24	2	24	7	32	0	0	2	201
Jim York	2	2	.500	3.29	28	0	8	0	0	1	38.3	48	20	14	1	19	6	15	1	1	1	183
J. R. Richard	2	3	.400	4.18	15	9	0	0	0	0	64.7	58	31	30	3	36	0	42	1	1	9	278
Fred Scherman	2	5	.286	4.11	53	0	31	0	0	4	61.3	67	33	28	5	26	6	35	7	0	2	276
Ramon de los Santos	1	1	.500	2.19	12	0	5	0	0	0	12.3	11	6	3	0	9	4	7	0	0	0	57
Paul Siebert	1	1	.500	3.55	5	5	0	1	1	0	25.3	21	12	10	3	11	0	10	0	0	0	105
Mike Nagy	1	1	.500	8.53	9	0	2	0	0	0	12.7	17	13	12	3	5	0	5	1	0	1	62
Doug Konieczny	0	3	.000	7.88	6	3	1	0	0	0	16.0	18	15	14	0	12	1	8	2	1	2	77
Totals	81	81	.500	3.48	434	162	126	36	15	18	1450.7	1396	632	561	84	601	56	738	37	15	52	6225

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
Greg Gross	156	676	589	78	185	21	8	0	36	12	20	76	39	.314	.393	.377	.770	222	13	1	9	1	4
Cesar Cedeno	160	688	610	95	164	29	5	26	102	57	17	64	103	.269	.338	.461	.799	281	9	4	2	8	6
Bob Watson	150	593	524	69	156	19	4	11	67	3	4	60	61	.298	.370	.412	.782	216	14	3	1	5	9
Lee May	152	590	556	59	149	26	0	24	85	1	0	17	97	.268	.294	.444	.738	247	12	7	1	9	2
Roger Metzger	143	633	572	66	145	18	10	0	30	9	7	37	73	.253	.297	.320	.617	183	13	0	21	3	1
Doug Rader	152	601	533	61	137	27	3	17	78	7	2	60	131	.257	.334	.415	.749	221	14	4	0	4	7
Tommy Helms	137	481	452	32	126	21	1	5	50	5	4	23	27	.279	.313	.363	.675	164	13	1	1	4	7
Milt May	127	453	405	47	117	17	4	7	54	0	1	39	33	.289	.349	.402	.751	163	9	1	3	5	8
Cliff Johnson	83	210	171	26	39	4	1	10	29	0	1	33	45	.228	.357	.439	.796	75	5	3	0	3	1
Larry Milbourne	112	148	136	31	38	2	1	0	9	6	2	10	14	.279	.329	.309	.638	42	1	0	2	0	0
Johnny Edwards	50	130	117	8	26	7	1	1	10	1	1	11	12	.222	.292	.325	.617	38	1	1	0	1	3
Wilbur Howard	64	116	111	19	24	4	0	2	5	4	5	5	18	.216	.250	.306	.556	34	3	0	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	37	80	68	11	20	5	0	2	8	0	0	2	24	.294	.324	.456	.780	31	1	1	9	0	0
Dave Roberts	35	77	73	3	16	4	3	1	9	0	0	0	19	.219	.213	.397	.611	29	2	0	2	2	0
Ollie Brown	27	73	69	8	15	1	0	3	6	0	0	4	15	.217	.260	.362	.623	25	2	0	0	0	0
Bob Gallagher	102	102	87	13	15	2	0	0	3	1	0	12	23	.172	.280	.195	.475	17	1	1	2	0	1
Larry Dierker	33	83	71	2	14	3	0	0	7	0	0	1	27	.197	.208	.239	.448	17	0	0	11	0	0
Claude Osteen	23	48	46	4	13	4	0	0	3	0	0	0	10	.283	.283	.370	.652	17	0	0	2	0	0
Don Wilson	33	75	63	6	13	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	19	.206	.227	.286	.513	18	2	2	9	1	0
Mick Kelleher	19	62	57	4	9	0	0	0	2	1	1	5	10	.158	.226	.158	.384	9	1	0	0	0	0
Ray Busse	19	37	34	3	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	12	.206	.270	.235	.506	8	2	0	0	0	0
Skip Jutze	8	16	13	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.231	.267	.231	.497	3	2	0	1	1	0
J. R. Richard	15	22	21	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	9	.143	.143	.286	.429	6	2	0	1	0	0
Denis Menke	30	34	29	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	10	.103	.206	.138	.344	4	1	0	0	1	0
Dave Campbell	35	25	23	4	2	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	8	.087	.125	.130	.255	3	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Easler	15	15	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.067	.067	.067	.133	1	1	0	0	0	0
Mike Cosgrove	45	22	18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.056	.150	.056	.206	1	0	0	2	0	0
Paul Siebert	5	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Fred Scherman	53	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Konieczny	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	70	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Nagy	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Johnson	34	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim York	28	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ramon de los Santos	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2179	6120	5489	653	1441	222	41	110	603	108	65	471	864	.263	.322	.378	.700	2075	124	29	83	48	49

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Lee May	1B	145	143	1186.3	1253	88	8	116	.994	1.173	9.248	0	0	0
Cliff Johnson	1B	21	16	146.7	147	9	1	13	.994	9.573	7.429	0	0	0
Bob Watson	1B	35	2	85.7	96	5	0	7	1.000	1.611	2.886	0	0	0
Denis Menke	1B	12	1	16.0	18	1	0	4	1.000	1.688	1.583	0	0	0
Bob Gallagher	1B	4	0	8.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	1B	6	0	8.0	12	0	0	1	1.000	13.500	2.000	0	0	0
Tommy Helms	2B	133	130	1050.7	308	360	10	99	.985	5.722	5.023	0	0	0
Larry Milbourne	2B	87	29	359.0	92	131	6	23	.974	5.591	2.563	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	2B	9	2	27.0	8	9	2	4	.895	5.667	1.889	0	0	0
Denis Menke	2B	3	1	14.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	3.214	1.667	0	0	0
Doug Rader	3B	152	152	1343.7	128	347	17	28	.965	3.182	3.125	0	0	0
Ray Busse	3B	8	6	57.0	2	17	3	1	.864	3.000	2.375	0	0	0
Denis Menke	3B	7	3	39.0	2	16	0	1	1.000	4.154	2.571	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	3B	2	1	11.0	0	8	0	0	1.000	6.545	4.000	0	0	0
Milt May	C	116	109	955.3	525	63	4	10	.993	5.539	5.069	9	70	41	36.9
Johnny Edwards	C	32	27	240.7	157	16	2	3	.989	6.470	5.406	1	27	6	18.2
Cliff Johnson	C	28	22	210.7	123	9	3	4	.978	5.639	4.714	3	23	6	20.7
Skip Jutze	C	7	4	44.0	16	2	0	0	1.000	3.682	2.571	0	3	3	50.0
Cesar Cedeno	OF	157	157	1385.7	446	11	3	4	.993	2.968	2.911	0	0	0
Greg Gross	OF	151	145	1310.7	296	15	2	4	.994	2.136	2.060	0	0	0
Bob Watson	OF	140	139	1061.0	202	7	4	2	.981	1.773	1.493	0	0	0
Wilbur Howard	OF	50	23	268.3	65	3	0	1	1.000	2.281	1.360	0	0	0
Bob Gallagher	OF	62	5	182.0	44	0	1	0	.978	2.176	.710	0	0	0
Ollie Brown	OF	20	17	132.3	39	0	0	0	1.000	2.652	1.950	0	0	0
Larry Milbourne	OF	4	0	11.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.818	.250	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	P	33	33	223.7	10	34	1	1	.978	1.770	1.333	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	P	34	34	211.0	19	35	8	2	.871	2.303	1.588	0	0	0
Don Wilson	P	33	27	204.7	11	21	5	1	.865	1.407	.970	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	P	34	30	204.0	15	43	3	5	.951	2.559	1.706	0	0	0
Claude Osteen	P	23	21	138.3	8	23	1	1	.969	2.017	1.348	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	P	70	0	103.3	9	14	2	1	.920	2.003	.329	0	0	0
Mike Cosgrove	P	45	0	90.0	1	13	1	2	.933	1.400	.311	0	0	0
J. R. Richard	P	15	9	64.7	5	5	0	0	1.000	1.392	.667	0	0	0
Fred Scherman	P	53	0	61.3	6	7	1	0	.929	1.908	.245	0	0	0
Jerry Johnson	P	34	0	45.0	3	6	2	2	.818	1.800	.265	0	0	0
Jim York	P	28	0	38.3	4	6	0	0	1.000	2.348	.357	0	0	0
Paul Siebert	P	5	5	25.3	1	9	0	0	1.000	3.553	2.000	0	0	0
Doug Konieczny	P	6	3	16.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.688	.500	0	0	0
Mike Nagy	P	9	0	12.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.421	.222	0	0	0
Ramon de los Santos	P	12	0	12.3	1	1	0	1	1.000	1.459	.167	0	0	0
Roger Metzger	SS	143	143	1261.7	238	451	17	85	.976	4.915	4.818	0	0	0
Mick Kelleher	SS	18	16	139.0	23	62	5	10	.944	5.504	4.722	0	0	0
Larry Milbourne	SS	8	3	42.7	9	17	1	1	.963	5.484	3.250	0	0	0
Denis Menke	SS	2	0	7.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.455	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1997	1458	13056.0	4352	1875	113	437	.982	4.293	3.118	13	123	56	31.3

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