1979 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 89-73
Finished 2nd in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,900,312, Avg. 24,876
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Bill Virdon (89-73)
Location: Houston, Texas

1979 Houston Astros Roster
1979 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1979 season with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses, finishing second in the NL's West Division.

The Astros scored 583 runs, worst in the league, and allowed 582 runs. Jose Cruz recorded 72 runs batted in and topped all regular hitters by hitting .289. Joe Niekro led the squad with 21 wins, while J. R. Richard added 15 or more wins, too J. R. Richard recorded a 2.71 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon 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
Joe Niekro	21	11	.656	3.00	38	38	0	11	5	0	263.7	221	102	88	17	107	1	119	7	0	19	1095
J. R. Richard	18	13	.581	2.71	38	38	0	19	4	0	292.3	220	98	88	13	98	5	313	3	1	19	1175
Joaquin Andujar	12	12	.500	3.43	46	23	9	8	0	4	194.0	168	86	74	7	88	6	77	2	0	5	825
Ken Forsch	11	6	.647	3.04	26	24	1	10	2	0	177.7	155	67	60	14	35	2	58	0	1	0	700
Joe Sambito	8	7	.533	1.77	63	0	51	0	0	22	91.3	80	20	18	8	23	4	83	4	0	0	375
Rick Williams	4	7	.364	3.26	31	16	3	2	2	0	121.3	122	45	44	6	30	1	37	2	1	0	508
Bert Roberge	3	0	1.000	1.69	26	0	12	0	0	4	32.0	20	6	6	0	17	0	13	0	0	2	120
Randy Niemann	3	2	.600	3.76	26	7	4	3	2	1	67.0	68	32	28	1	22	3	24	1	2	0	287
Frank Riccelli	2	2	.500	4.09	11	2	3	0	0	0	22.0	22	11	10	0	18	0	20	0	0	2	103
Vern Ruhle	2	6	.250	4.07	13	10	0	2	2	0	66.3	64	33	30	9	8	0	33	2	0	2	269
George Throop	1	0	1.000	3.22	14	0	2	0	0	0	22.3	23	10	8	4	11	0	15	1	0	1	100
Pete Ladd	1	1	.500	2.92	10	0	4	0	0	0	12.3	8	5	4	1	8	0	6	2	0	2	56
Frank LaCorte	1	2	.333	5.00	12	3	3	0	0	0	27.0	21	16	15	3	10	1	24	0	0	1	114
Bo McLaughlin	1	2	.333	5.51	12	0	3	0	0	0	16.3	22	15	10	2	4	0	12	0	0	1	76
Tom Dixon	1	2	.333	6.66	19	1	6	0	0	0	25.7	39	23	19	2	15	1	9	0	0	0	130
Mike Mendoza	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Bobby Sprowl	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	14
Gordie Pladson	0	0		4.50	4	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	9	2	2	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	22
Gary Wilson	0	0		12.27	6	0	3	0	0	0	7.3	15	11	10	2	6	0	6	0	0	1	42
Totals	89	73	.549	3.20	399	162	107	55	17	31	1447.7	1278	582	514	90	504	24	854	24	5	55	6014

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
Terry Puhl	157	672	600	87	172	22	4	8	49	30	22	58	46	.287	.352	.377	.729	226	7	4	8	2	8
Enos Cabell	155	630	603	60	164	30	5	6	67	37	18	21	68	.272	.299	.368	.668	222	18	3	2	1	7
Jose Cruz	157	636	558	73	161	33	7	9	72	36	14	72	66	.289	.367	.421	.788	235	5	0	1	5	16
Craig Reynolds	146	616	555	63	147	20	9	0	39	12	6	21	49	.265	.292	.333	.625	185	2	2	34	4	0
Cesar Cedeno	132	549	470	57	123	27	4	6	54	30	13	64	52	.262	.348	.374	.722	176	15	3	3	9	8
Jeffrey Leonard	134	467	411	47	119	15	5	0	47	23	10	46	68	.290	.360	.350	.710	144	11	2	3	5	7
Art Howe	118	398	355	32	88	15	2	6	33	3	1	36	37	.248	.316	.352	.668	125	7	1	2	4	5
Rafael Landestoy	129	319	282	33	76	9	6	0	30	13	4	29	24	.270	.338	.344	.682	97	1	1	5	2	5
Alan Ashby	108	370	336	25	68	15	2	2	35	0	0	26	70	.202	.262	.277	.538	93	8	2	3	3	10
Denny Walling	82	165	147	21	48	8	4	3	31	3	2	17	21	.327	.394	.497	.891	73	2	0	0	1	2
Julio Gonzalez	68	195	181	16	45	5	2	0	10	2	1	5	14	.249	.280	.298	.579	54	4	3	6	0	0
Bob Watson	49	182	163	15	39	4	0	3	18	0	0	16	23	.239	.304	.319	.623	52	3	0	1	2	1
Bruce Bochy	56	143	129	11	28	4	0	1	6	0	0	13	25	.217	.294	.271	.565	35	5	1	0	0	4
Luis Pujols	26	78	75	7	17	2	1	0	8	0	0	2	14	.227	.247	.280	.527	21	3	0	1	0	0
J. R. Richard	38	108	95	6	12	1	1	2	6	0	1	1	24	.126	.134	.221	.355	21	4	0	11	1	0
Jesus Alou	42	49	43	3	11	4	0	0	10	0	0	6	7	.256	.347	.349	.696	15	4	0	0	0	1
Joe Niekro	38	99	83	1	10	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	21	.120	.140	.145	.284	12	0	0	13	1	0
Jimmy Sexton	52	50	43	8	9	0	0	0	1	1	3	7	7	.209	.320	.209	.529	9	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Williams	31	36	31	2	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	18	.258	.324	.290	.614	9	0	0	2	0	0
Ken Forsch	26	68	58	4	8	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	22	.138	.194	.155	.349	9	1	0	6	0	0
Dave Bergman	13	15	15	4	6	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.400	.400	.600	1.000	9	0	0	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	46	65	57	3	5	1	0	2	7	0	0	2	32	.088	.117	.211	.327	12	0	0	5	1	0
Tom Wiedenbauer	4	6	6	0	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.667	.667	.833	1.500	5	0	0	0	0	0
Reggie Baldwin	14	20	20	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.250	.450	5	2	0	0	0	0
Frank Riccelli	11	6	6	1	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.833	3	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	63	12	7	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	0	.286	.583	.429	1.012	3	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Heep	14	17	14	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.143	.176	.143	.319	2	0	0	0	2	1
Randy Niemann	26	17	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.133	.188	.133	.321	2	1	0	1	0	0
Tom Dixon	19	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	13	22	19	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	.053	.100	.105	.205	2	0	0	2	0	0
George Throop	14	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bert Roberge	26	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alan Knicely	7	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	2	0	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	12	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Ladd	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bo McLaughlin	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Sprowl	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gordie Pladson	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Mendoza	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Wilson	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2063	6029	5394	583	1382	224	52	49	542	190	95	461	745	.256	.315	.344	.659	1857	105	22	109	43	75

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Cesar Cedeno	1B	91	90	789.7	832	33	17	79	.981	9.859	9.505	0	0	0
Bob Watson	1B	44	44	357.3	371	33	3	23	.993	1.175	9.182	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	1B	51	24	259.7	287	21	1	20	.997	1.675	6.039	0	0	0
Art Howe	1B	3	2	18.0	15	3	0	3	1.000	9.000	6.000	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	1B	4	1	13.0	8	0	0	1	1.000	5.538	2.000	0	0	0
Reggie Baldwin	1B	1	1	8.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	8.000	0	0	0
Jesus Alou	1B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	2B	114	68	698.7	166	234	12	53	.971	5.153	3.509	0	0	0
Art Howe	2B	68	67	504.3	126	188	3	33	.991	5.603	4.618	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	2B	32	27	243.0	59	89	2	16	.987	5.481	4.625	0	0	0
Jimmy Sexton	2B	2	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	.500	0	0	0
Enos Cabell	3B	132	130	1084.0	109	178	13	11	.957	2.383	2.174	0	0	0
Art Howe	3B	59	30	325.7	47	70	4	6	.967	3.233	1.983	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	3B	9	2	28.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	1.607	.556	0	0	0
Jimmy Sexton	3B	4	0	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.250	0	0	0
Alan Knicely	3B	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Alan Ashby	C	105	104	891.7	548	57	8	5	.987	6.107	5.762	9	71	31	30.4
Bruce Bochy	C	55	36	354.0	198	29	7	4	.970	5.771	4.127	4	36	18	33.3
Luis Pujols	C	26	22	189.0	136	6	1	0	.993	6.762	5.462	5	20	1	4.8
Reggie Baldwin	C	3	0	8.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.000	0	0	0
Alan Knicely	C	3	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.600	.667	0	0	0
Jose Cruz	OF	156	156	1356.7	320	7	14	0	.959	2.169	2.096	0	0	0
Terry Puhl	OF	152	149	1334.7	352	7	0	3	1.000	2.421	2.362	0	0	0
Jeffrey Leonard	OF	123	107	989.0	227	6	10	1	.959	2.120	1.894	0	0	0
Cesar Cedeno	OF	40	39	336.0	116	2	0	0	1.000	3.161	2.950	0	0	0
Denny Walling	OF	42	32	283.7	65	2	1	0	.985	2.126	1.595	0	0	0
Jesus Alou	OF	6	1	18.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Tom Wiedenbauer	OF	3	1	13.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.077	1.000	0	0	0
Danny Heep	OF	2	1	12.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	5.250	3.500	0	0	0
J. R. Richard	P	38	38	292.3	14	32	5	0	.902	1.416	1.211	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	38	38	263.7	14	39	0	4	1.000	1.809	1.395	0	0	0
Joaquin Andujar	P	46	23	194.0	16	50	5	2	.930	3.062	1.435	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	P	26	24	177.7	10	37	1	5	.979	2.381	1.808	0	0	0
Rick Williams	P	31	16	121.3	3	23	1	2	.963	1.929	.839	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	P	63	0	91.3	5	14	2	2	.905	1.872	.302	0	0	0
Randy Niemann	P	26	7	67.0	1	7	0	0	1.000	1.075	.308	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	P	13	10	66.3	3	5	0	0	1.000	1.085	.615	0	0	0
Bert Roberge	P	26	0	32.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.688	.231	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	P	12	3	27.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333	.083	0	0	0
Tom Dixon	P	19	1	25.7	3	6	0	1	1.000	3.156	.474	0	0	0
George Throop	P	14	0	22.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.209	.214	0	0	0
Frank Riccelli	P	11	2	22.0	0	6	0	0	1.000	2.455	.545	0	0	0
Bo McLaughlin	P	12	0	16.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.653	.250	0	0	0
Pete Ladd	P	10	0	12.3	3	2	0	0	1.000	3.649	.500	0	0	0
Gary Wilson	P	6	0	7.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bobby Sprowl	P	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gordie Pladson	P	4	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Mendoza	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	SS	143	140	1235.3	208	428	23	88	.965	4.634	4.448	0	0	0
Julio Gonzalez	SS	21	15	138.3	31	54	3	11	.966	5.530	4.048	0	0	0
Jimmy Sexton	SS	11	6	61.0	10	23	2	6	.943	4.869	3.000	0	0	0
Rafael Landestoy	SS	3	1	13.0	2	3	0	1	1.000	3.462	1.667	0	0	0
Totals		1909	1458	13029.0	4343	1707	138	381	.978	4.179	3.169	18	127	50	28.2

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