1982 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 77-85
Finished 5th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,558,555, Avg. 19,505
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Bill Virdon (49-62)
Manager: Bob Lillis (28-23)
Location: Houston, Texas

1982 Houston Astros Roster
1982 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1982 season with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses, finishing fifth in the NL's West Division.

The Astros tallied 569 runs and allowed 620 runs. Phil Garner paced Houston with 13 home runs and drove in 83 runs. Ray Knight led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .294. Joe Niekro topped the team with 17 wins, while Nolan Ryan added 15 or more wins, too Joe Niekro recorded a 2.47 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon and Bob Lillis 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	17	12	.586	2.47	35	35	0	16	5	0	270.0	224	79	74	12	64	1	130	5	0	19	1067
Nolan Ryan	16	12	.571	3.16	35	35	0	10	3	0	250.3	196	100	88	20	109	3	245	8	2	18	1050
Don Sutton	13	8	.619	3.00	27	27	0	4	0	0	195.0	169	75	65	10	46	2	139	1	1	3	784
Vern Ruhle	9	13	.409	3.93	31	21	3	3	2	1	149.0	169	81	65	12	24	4	56	4	1	0	625
Mike LaCoss	6	6	.500	2.90	41	8	11	0	0	0	115.0	107	41	37	3	54	6	51	4	1	5	488
Dave Smith	5	4	.556	3.84	49	1	29	0	0	11	63.3	69	30	27	4	31	4	28	0	4	2	286
Bob Knepper	5	15	.250	4.45	33	29	1	4	0	1	180.0	193	100	89	14	60	4	108	3	0	8	770
Frank DiPino	2	2	.500	6.04	6	6	0	0	0	0	28.3	32	20	19	1	11	1	25	0	0	0	122
Randy Moffitt	2	4	.333	3.02	30	0	19	0	0	3	41.7	36	15	14	3	13	3	20	5	0	0	179
Bert Roberge	1	2	.333	4.21	22	0	13	0	0	3	25.7	29	12	12	0	6	3	18	0	1	0	110
Frank LaCorte	1	5	.167	4.48	55	0	29	0	0	7	76.3	71	44	38	5	46	5	51	0	1	4	345
Joe Sambito	0	0		0.71	9	0	7	0	0	4	12.7	7	2	1	0	2	2	7	0	0	0	47
Mark Ross	0	0		1.50	4	0	2	0	0	0	6.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	21
Gordie Pladson	0	0		54.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.3	10	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	16
George Cappuzzello	0	1	.000	2.79	17	0	6	0	0	0	19.3	16	6	6	2	7	1	13	3	0	1	81
Danny Boone	0	1	.000	3.55	10	0	4	0	0	1	12.7	7	6	5	1	4	1	4	0	0	1	47
Totals	77	85	.475	3.42	406	162	125	37	10	31	1446.7	1338	620	549	87	479	40	899	33	11	61	6038

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
Ray Knight	158	676	609	72	179	36	6	6	70	2	5	48	58	.294	.344	.402	.746	245	16	5	1	13	9
Phil Garner	155	638	588	65	161	33	8	13	83	24	13	40	92	.274	.320	.423	.743	249	11	3	0	7	4
Jose Cruz	155	640	570	62	157	27	2	9	68	21	11	60	67	.275	.342	.377	.719	215	11	1	3	6	12
Dickie Thon	136	540	496	73	137	31	10	3	36	37	8	37	48	.276	.327	.397	.724	197	4	1	5	1	2
Terry Puhl	145	567	507	64	133	17	9	8	50	17	9	51	49	.262	.331	.379	.710	192	6	2	5	2	2
Tony Scott	132	483	460	43	110	16	3	1	29	18	4	15	56	.239	.263	.293	.556	135	11	1	3	4	4
Alan Ashby	100	372	339	40	87	14	2	12	49	2	0	27	53	.257	.311	.416	.727	141	7	1	2	3	4
Art Howe	110	414	365	29	87	15	1	5	38	2	0	41	45	.238	.315	.326	.641	119	10	1	4	3	15
Danny Heep	85	222	198	16	47	14	1	4	22	0	2	21	31	.237	.311	.379	.690	75	5	1	0	2	3
Luis Pujols	65	191	176	8	35	6	2	4	15	0	3	10	40	.199	.242	.324	.566	57	4	0	5	0	2
Craig Reynolds	54	134	118	16	30	2	3	1	7	3	1	11	9	.254	.321	.347	.668	41	1	1	3	1	3
Denny Walling	85	170	146	22	30	4	1	1	14	4	2	23	19	.205	.312	.267	.579	39	6	0	0	1	3
Bill Doran	26	102	97	11	27	3	0	0	6	5	0	4	11	.278	.304	.309	.613	30	0	0	0	1	0
Alan Knicely	59	149	133	10	25	2	0	2	12	0	1	14	30	.188	.270	.248	.518	33	4	1	1	0	3
Harry Spilman	38	66	61	7	17	2	0	3	11	0	0	5	10	.279	.333	.459	.792	28	1	0	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	34	80	76	5	16	5	0	1	5	1	0	3	15	.211	.241	.316	.556	24	2	0	1	0	1
Scott Loucks	44	52	49	6	11	2	0	0	3	4	1	3	17	.224	.269	.265	.535	13	1	0	0	0	0
Don Sutton	27	74	68	3	11	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	25	.162	.186	.162	.347	11	0	0	4	0	0
Nolan Ryan	35	94	83	5	10	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	37	.120	.170	.120	.291	10	1	0	6	0	0
Joe Niekro	35	98	89	2	8	2	0	0	5	0	0	1	30	.090	.099	.112	.211	10	1	0	7	1	0
Mike LaCoss	41	28	24	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.250	.280	.292	.572	7	0	0	3	0	0
Tim Tolman	15	30	26	4	5	2	0	1	3	0	0	4	3	.192	.300	.385	.685	10	1	0	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	31	51	41	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	27	.098	.196	.098	.293	4	0	1	5	0	0
Bob Knepper	33	62	52	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	25	.058	.125	.077	.202	4	0	0	6	0	0
Mike Ivie	7	7	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.429	.333	.762	2	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Pittman	15	11	10	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.300	.500	3	0	0	1	0	0
Larry Ray	5	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.167	.143	.167	.310	1	0	0	0	1	0
Kevin Bass	12	24	24	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.042	.042	.042	.083	1	1	0	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	55	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Randy Moffitt	30	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Dave Smith	49	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Boone	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bert Roberge	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank DiPino	6	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
George Cappuzzello	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gordie Pladson	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Ross	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2042	6008	5440	569	1342	236	48	74	533	140	61	435	830	.247	.302	.349	.651	1896	104	19	68	46	67

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ray Knight	1B	96	93	829.7	945	55	10	76	.990	1.848	1.417	0	0	0
Art Howe	1B	35	34	289.7	291	21	1	34	.997	9.694	8.914	0	0	0
Danny Heep	1B	16	14	123.3	130	4	1	9	.993	9.778	8.375	0	0	0
Denny Walling	1B	20	10	112.3	129	8	1	8	.993	1.976	6.850	0	0	0
Harry Spilman	1B	11	10	82.7	86	5	1	5	.989	9.907	8.273	0	0	0
Tim Tolman	1B	1	1	9.0	10	1	0	2	1.000	11.000	11.000	0	0	0
Phil Garner	2B	136	136	1213.7	273	429	14	90	.980	5.206	5.162	0	0	0
Bill Doran	2B	26	26	230.3	41	78	3	17	.975	4.650	4.577	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	2B	1	0	0.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	27.000	2.000	0	0	0
Art Howe	3B	72	72	631.3	53	153	6	13	.972	2.937	2.861	0	0	0
Ray Knight	3B	67	65	564.3	57	131	7	18	.964	2.998	2.806	0	0	0
Phil Garner	3B	18	17	150.7	12	35	3	4	.940	2.808	2.611	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	3B	8	6	57.3	6	13	2	2	.905	2.983	2.375	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	3B	7	1	26.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	2.077	.857	0	0	0
Joe Pittman	3B	3	0	6.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.667	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	3B	2	0	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	.500	0	0	0
Alan Knicely	3B	1	1	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Alan Ashby	C	95	90	795.7	530	55	14	5	.977	6.617	6.158	10	108	26	19.4
Luis Pujols	C	64	56	488.0	295	39	3	3	.991	6.160	5.219	20	55	24	30.4
Alan Knicely	C	23	16	163.0	112	15	3	2	.977	7.012	5.522	2	14	7	33.3
Jose Cruz	OF	155	153	1357.3	340	9	13	3	.964	2.314	2.252	0	0	0
Terry Puhl	OF	138	127	1146.0	257	4	3	3	.989	2.050	1.891	0	0	0
Tony Scott	OF	129	115	1013.7	262	7	5	0	.982	2.388	2.085	0	0	0
Danny Heep	OF	39	37	291.7	62	2	0	1	1.000	1.975	1.641	0	0	0
Denny Walling	OF	32	18	182.7	38	3	0	0	1.000	2.020	1.281	0	0	0
Scott Loucks	OF	37	8	130.7	41	3	1	1	.978	3.031	1.189	0	0	0
Alan Knicely	OF	16	15	110.0	16	0	1	0	.941	1.309	1.000	0	0	0
Kevin Bass	OF	7	7	60.0	11	0	1	0	.917	1.650	1.571	0	0	0
Tim Tolman	OF	5	5	41.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.537	1.400	0	0	0
Larry Ray	OF	1	1	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	1.000	0	0	0
Joe Pittman	OF	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	35	35	270.0	22	42	3	2	.955	2.133	1.829	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	P	35	35	250.3	9	33	2	1	.955	1.510	1.200	0	0	0
Don Sutton	P	27	27	195.0	16	20	1	2	.973	1.662	1.333	0	0	0
Bob Knepper	P	33	29	180.0	8	32	1	3	.976	2.000	1.212	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	P	31	21	149.0	9	23	2	1	.941	1.933	1.032	0	0	0
Mike LaCoss	P	41	8	115.0	7	16	3	3	.885	1.800	.561	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	P	55	0	76.3	2	4	2	0	.750	.707	.109	0	0	0
Dave Smith	P	49	1	63.3	3	7	2	2	.833	1.421	.204	0	0	0
Randy Moffitt	P	30	0	41.7	3	2	0	0	1.000	1.080	.167	0	0	0
Frank DiPino	P	6	6	28.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	.635	.333	0	0	0
Bert Roberge	P	22	0	25.7	2	4	0	0	1.000	2.104	.273	0	0	0
George Cappuzzello	P	17	0	19.3	1	4	0	1	1.000	2.328	.294	0	0	0
Joe Sambito	P	9	0	12.7	0	4	1	1	.800	2.842	.444	0	0	0
Danny Boone	P	10	0	12.7	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.132	.300	0	0	0
Mark Ross	P	4	0	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.250	0	0	0
Gordie Pladson	P	2	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	SS	119	114	1018.3	177	399	15	80	.975	5.091	4.840	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	SS	35	31	276.7	43	94	6	15	.958	4.457	3.914	0	0	0
Kiko Garcia	SS	21	17	151.7	28	60	5	13	.946	5.222	4.190	0	0	0
Totals		1844	1458	13020.0	4340	1827	136	420	.978	4.263	3.344	32	177	57	24.4

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