1983 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 85-77
Finished 3rd in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,351,962, Avg. 16,703
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Bob Lillis (85-77)
Location: Houston, Texas

1983 Houston Astros Roster
1983 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1983 season with a record of 85 wins and 77 losses, finishing third in the NL's West Division.

The Astros scored 643 runs and yielded 646 runs. Dickie Thon led Houston with 20 home runs Jose Cruz recorded 92 runs batted in and topped all regular hitters by hitting .318. Joe Niekro paced the team with 15 wins, while Nolan Ryan recorded a 2.98 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

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	15	14	.517	3.48	38	38	0	9	1	0	263.7	238	115	102	15	101	5	152	3	1	14	1113
Nolan Ryan	14	9	.609	2.98	29	29	0	5	2	0	196.3	134	74	65	9	101	3	183	4	1	5	804
Mike Scott	10	6	.625	3.72	24	24	0	2	2	0	145.0	143	67	60	8	46	0	73	5	4	4	612
Mike Madden	9	5	.643	3.14	28	13	7	0	0	0	94.7	76	37	33	4	45	3	44	1	3	2	387
Vern Ruhle	8	5	.615	3.69	41	9	11	0	0	3	114.7	107	49	47	13	36	7	43	3	0	1	480
Bill Dawley	6	6	.500	2.82	48	0	37	0	0	14	79.7	51	26	25	9	22	4	60	1	0	1	304
Bob Knepper	6	13	.316	3.19	35	29	2	4	3	0	203.0	202	93	72	12	71	3	125	4	2	3	867
Mike LaCoss	5	7	.417	4.43	38	17	6	2	0	1	138.0	142	81	68	10	56	11	53	2	1	9	590
Frank LaCorte	4	4	.500	5.06	37	0	19	0	0	3	53.3	35	32	30	8	28	3	48	2	0	5	220
Dave Smith	3	1	.750	3.10	42	0	24	0	0	6	72.7	72	32	25	2	36	4	41	0	1	1	323
Frank DiPino	3	4	.429	2.65	53	0	32	0	0	20	71.3	52	21	21	2	20	5	67	1	0	3	279
Jeff Heathcock	2	1	.667	3.21	6	3	2	0	0	1	28.0	19	14	10	1	4	0	12	1	1	0	111
Julio Solano	0	2	.000	6.00	4	0	0	0	0	0	6.0	5	5	4	1	4	1	3	0	0	1	27
Totals	85	77	.525	3.45	423	162	140	22	8	48	1466.3	1276	646	562	94	570	49	904	27	14	49	6117

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
Jose Cruz	160	664	594	85	189	28	8	14	92	30	16	65	86	.318	.385	.463	.848	275	4	1	1	3	10
Dickie Thon	154	686	619	81	177	28	9	20	79	34	16	54	73	.286	.341	.457	.798	283	12	2	3	8	10
Ray Knight	145	567	507	43	154	36	4	9	70	0	3	42	62	.304	.355	.444	.798	225	17	4	3	11	9
Bill Doran	154	629	535	70	145	12	7	8	39	12	12	86	67	.271	.371	.364	.736	195	6	0	7	1	11
Terry Puhl	137	512	465	66	136	25	7	8	44	24	11	36	48	.292	.343	.428	.771	199	4	2	5	4	2
Phil Garner	154	644	567	76	135	24	2	14	79	18	12	63	84	.238	.317	.362	.678	205	4	5	3	6	8
Omar Moreno	97	429	405	48	98	12	11	0	25	30	13	22	72	.242	.282	.326	.608	132	2	1	0	1	3
Alan Ashby	87	311	275	31	63	18	1	8	34	0	0	31	38	.229	.303	.389	.692	107	12	0	1	4	4
Jerry Mumphrey	44	167	143	17	48	10	2	1	17	5	0	22	23	.336	.425	.455	.880	65	1	1	0	1	3
Kevin Bass	88	206	195	25	46	7	3	2	18	2	2	6	27	.236	.257	.333	.591	65	2	0	4	1	1
Tony Scott	80	202	186	20	42	6	1	2	17	5	4	11	39	.226	.264	.301	.565	56	0	0	1	4	0
Denny Walling	100	152	135	24	40	5	3	3	19	2	2	15	16	.296	.364	.444	.809	60	1	0	1	1	1
Craig Reynolds	65	104	98	10	21	3	0	1	6	0	1	6	10	.214	.260	.276	.535	27	0	0	0	0	1
George Bjorkman	29	93	75	8	17	4	0	2	14	0	0	16	29	.227	.370	.360	.730	27	1	1	1	0	4
Luis Pujols	40	97	87	4	17	2	0	0	12	0	0	5	14	.195	.234	.218	.452	19	4	0	3	2	2
Harry Spilman	42	85	78	7	13	3	0	1	9	0	0	5	12	.167	.212	.244	.455	19	2	0	0	2	0
John Mizerock	33	100	85	8	13	4	1	1	10	0	0	12	15	.153	.263	.259	.521	22	2	1	1	1	2
Bob Knepper	35	74	66	5	12	2	1	1	5	0	0	2	25	.182	.200	.288	.488	19	0	0	4	2	0
Tim Tolman	43	63	56	4	11	4	0	2	10	0	1	6	9	.196	.270	.375	.645	21	1	0	0	1	0
Mike Scott	24	57	48	2	8	2	0	0	4	0	0	1	17	.167	.184	.208	.392	10	0	0	8	0	0
Joe Niekro	38	98	85	1	8	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	22	.094	.105	.118	.222	10	1	1	12	0	0
Nolan Ryan	29	75	69	3	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	29	.072	.099	.072	.171	5	0	0	4	0	0
Scott Loucks	7	15	14	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	4	.214	.267	.214	.481	3	0	0	0	0	0
Mike LaCoss	38	40	35	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	12	.086	.111	.086	.197	3	0	0	4	0	0
Bill Dawley	48	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	41	26	19	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	11	.105	.227	.105	.333	2	0	0	4	0	0
Frank LaCorte	37	7	5	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.200	.167	.400	.567	2	0	0	1	1	0
Frank DiPino	53	7	6	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.167	.286	.333	.619	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bert Pena	4	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.125	.300	.125	.425	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Madden	28	29	22	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	12	.045	.087	.045	.132	1	0	0	6	0	0
Dave Smith	42	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jeff Heathcock	6	9	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Julio Solano	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2086	6173	5502	643	1412	239	60	97	615	164	95	517	869	.257	.320	.375	.695	2062	76	19	81	54	71

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ray Knight	1B	143	141	1182.7	1285	73	9	131	.993	1.334	9.497	0	0	0
Denny Walling	1B	42	5	124.0	115	8	1	12	.992	8.927	2.929	0	0	0
Harry Spilman	1B	19	11	110.3	124	7	0	5	1.000	1.686	6.895	0	0	0
Tim Tolman	1B	7	5	49.3	53	2	0	6	1.000	1.034	7.857	0	0	0
Bill Doran	2B	153	151	1339.0	347	461	17	109	.979	5.431	5.281	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	2B	26	11	127.3	25	40	3	7	.956	4.594	2.500	0	0	0
Phil Garner	3B	154	153	1352.7	100	311	24	22	.945	2.735	2.669	0	0	0
Denny Walling	3B	13	9	79.7	8	21	3	1	.906	3.276	2.231	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	3B	15	0	34.0	2	6	0	2	1.000	2.118	.533	0	0	0
Alan Ashby	C	85	78	696.7	435	56	13	2	.974	6.343	5.776	9	85	29	25.4
Luis Pujols	C	39	28	260.0	180	20	6	0	.971	6.923	5.128	11	43	3	6.5
John Mizerock	C	33	30	258.0	154	24	6	5	.967	6.209	5.394	11	26	14	35.0
George Bjorkman	C	29	25	225.3	136	16	1	0	.993	6.071	5.241	4	24	8	25.0
Harry Spilman	C	6	1	26.3	14	1	0	0	1.000	5.127	2.500	0	4	0	0.0
Jose Cruz	OF	160	158	1417.3	322	9	7	1	.979	2.102	2.069	0	0	0
Terry Puhl	OF	124	111	993.7	220	4	2	1	.991	2.029	1.806	0	0	0
Omar Moreno	OF	97	94	826.7	251	8	6	3	.977	2.820	2.670	0	0	0
Tony Scott	OF	61	34	357.3	89	2	0	1	1.000	2.292	1.492	0	0	0
Jerry Mumphrey	OF	43	43	354.7	103	1	1	0	.990	2.639	2.419	0	0	0
Kevin Bass	OF	52	34	335.3	68	1	4	1	.945	1.852	1.327	0	0	0
Denny Walling	OF	13	7	66.0	11	0	2	0	.846	1.500	.846	0	0	0
Scott Loucks	OF	6	3	32.0	12	1	0	0	1.000	3.656	2.167	0	0	0
Tim Tolman	OF	3	2	15.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.200	.667	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	38	38	263.7	9	36	4	0	.918	1.536	1.184	0	0	0
Bob Knepper	P	35	29	203.0	2	40	3	4	.933	1.862	1.200	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	P	29	29	196.3	4	28	2	0	.941	1.467	1.103	0	0	0
Mike Scott	P	24	24	145.0	20	20	2	0	.952	2.483	1.667	0	0	0
Mike LaCoss	P	38	17	138.0	6	27	0	1	1.000	2.152	.868	0	0	0
Vern Ruhle	P	41	9	114.7	12	19	0	0	1.000	2.433	.756	0	0	0
Mike Madden	P	28	13	94.7	7	15	1	4	.957	2.092	.786	0	0	0
Bill Dawley	P	48	0	79.7	2	5	0	1	1.000	.791	.146	0	0	0
Dave Smith	P	42	0	72.7	3	4	2	0	.778	.867	.167	0	0	0
Frank DiPino	P	53	0	71.3	5	11	0	1	1.000	2.019	.302	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	P	37	0	53.3	1	6	0	0	1.000	1.181	.189	0	0	0
Jeff Heathcock	P	6	3	28.0	3	4	0	1	1.000	2.250	1.167	0	0	0
Julio Solano	P	4	0	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.250	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	SS	154	154	1382.3	258	533	28	114	.966	5.150	5.136	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	SS	8	5	56.0	10	11	0	6	1.000	3.375	2.625	0	0	0
Bert Pena	SS	4	3	28.0	1	7	0	2	1.000	2.571	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		1913	1458	13197.0	4399	1839	147	443	.977	4.254	3.261	35	182	54	22.9

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