1972 New York Yankees Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 79-76
Finished 4th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 966,328, Avg. 15,608
Ballpark: Yankee Stadium I
Manager: Ralph Houk (79-76)
Location: New York, New York

1972 New York Yankees Roster
1972 New York Yankees Results

The New York Yankees of the American League ended the 1972 season with a record of 79 wins and 76 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's East Division.

The Yankees plated 557 runs and conceded 527 runs. Bobby Murcer walloped 33 home runs for New York and drove in 96 runs, while leading all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .292. Fritz Peterson topped the team with 17 wins, plus Steve Kline added 15 or more wins, too Steve Kline recorded a 2.40 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Ralph Houk 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
Fritz Peterson	17	15	.531	3.24	35	35	0	12	3	0	250.3	270	98	90	17	44	5	100	5	1	7	1042
Steve Kline	16	9	.640	2.40	32	32	0	11	4	0	236.3	210	79	63	11	44	6	58	10	0	1	956
Mel Stottlemyre	14	18	.438	3.22	36	36	0	9	7	0	260.0	250	99	93	13	85	13	110	4	0	6	1088
Mike Kekich	10	13	.435	3.70	29	28	0	2	0	0	175.3	172	77	72	13	76	5	78	4	0	9	748
Sparky Lyle	9	5	.643	1.92	59	0	56	0	0	35	107.7	84	25	23	3	29	7	75	0	0	5	427
Rob Gardner	8	5	.615	3.06	20	14	3	1	0	0	97.0	91	43	33	9	28	3	58	0	0	5	408
Lindy McDaniel	3	1	.750	2.25	37	0	25	0	0	0	68.0	54	23	17	4	25	5	47	0	0	3	279
Rich Hinton	1	0	1.000	4.86	7	3	2	0	0	0	16.7	20	11	9	2	8	2	13	0	0	4	79
Fred Beene	1	3	.250	2.34	29	1	11	0	0	3	57.7	55	21	15	3	24	5	37	1	0	3	242
Doc Medich	0	0			1	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4
Steve Blateric	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	14
Jack Aker	0	0		3.00	4	0	4	0	0	0	6.0	5	2	2	0	3	0	1	1	0	1	26
Al Closter	0	0		11.57	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	2	3	3	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	12
Larry Gowell	0	1	.000	1.29	2	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	3	1	1	0	2	0	7	0	0	0	24
Wade Blasingame	0	1	.000	4.24	12	1	4	0	0	0	17.0	14	8	8	5	11	1	7	1	0	2	72
Casey Cox	0	1	.000	4.63	5	1	1	0	0	0	11.7	13	6	6	0	3	1	4	2	0	0	52
Jim Roland	0	1	.000	5.04	16	0	10	0	0	0	25.0	27	14	14	3	16	1	13	1	0	0	116
Ron Klimkowski	0	3	.000	4.02	16	2	3	0	0	1	31.3	32	15	14	3	15	7	11	1	0	1	137
Totals	79	76	.510	3.05	343	155	120	35	14	39	1373.3	1306	527	465	87	419	61	625	30	1	47	5726

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
Bobby Murcer	153	654	585	102	171	30	7	33	96	11	9	63	67	.292	.361	.537	.898	314	6	2	0	4	7
Roy White	155	666	556	76	150	29	0	10	54	23	7	99	59	.270	.384	.376	.760	209	11	5	4	2	10
Thurman Munson	140	567	511	54	143	16	3	7	46	6	7	47	58	.280	.343	.364	.707	186	13	3	4	2	5
Horace Clarke	147	613	547	65	132	20	2	3	37	18	6	56	44	.241	.315	.302	.616	165	7	4	3	3	4
Gene Michael	126	430	391	29	91	7	4	1	32	4	2	32	45	.233	.290	.279	.568	109	11	1	2	4	4
Felipe Alou	120	351	324	33	90	18	1	6	37	1	0	22	27	.278	.326	.395	.721	128	8	2	1	2	1
Ron Blomberg	107	341	299	36	80	22	1	14	49	0	2	38	26	.268	.355	.488	.843	146	4	3	0	1	4
Johnny Callison	92	300	275	28	71	10	0	9	34	3	0	18	34	.258	.299	.393	.691	108	6	0	2	5	1
Celerino Sanchez	71	269	250	18	62	8	3	0	21	0	0	12	30	.248	.292	.304	.596	76	9	4	2	1	1
Bernie Allen	84	248	220	26	50	9	0	9	22	0	1	23	42	.227	.296	.391	.686	86	4	0	1	4	4
Rusty Torres	80	219	199	15	42	7	0	3	13	0	4	18	44	.211	.280	.291	.571	58	2	1	1	0	3
John Ellis	52	144	136	13	40	5	1	5	25	0	0	8	22	.294	.333	.456	.789	62	9	0	0	0	0
Ron Swoboda	63	133	113	9	28	8	0	1	12	0	1	17	29	.248	.341	.345	.686	39	1	0	1	2	1
Rich McKinney	37	128	121	10	26	2	0	1	7	1	0	7	13	.215	.258	.256	.514	31	6	0	0	0	0
Jerry Kenney	50	136	119	16	25	2	0	0	7	3	0	16	13	.210	.304	.227	.531	27	7	0	1	0	2
Hal Lanier	60	107	103	5	22	3	0	0	6	1	2	2	13	.214	.234	.243	.476	25	3	1	0	1	0
Fritz Peterson	35	100	82	6	19	1	0	0	9	0	0	3	14	.232	.259	.244	.503	20	1	0	15	0	0
Mel Stottlemyre	37	94	80	3	16	2	1	0	7	0	0	3	18	.200	.247	.250	.497	20	2	2	9	0	0
Mike Kekich	29	65	59	3	8	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	14	.136	.136	.169	.305	10	0	0	6	0	0
Steve Kline	32	93	76	5	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	22	.092	.148	.092	.240	7	2	1	12	0	0
Charlie Spikes	14	35	34	2	5	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	13	.147	.171	.176	.348	6	0	0	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	59	24	21	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	10	.190	.227	.238	.465	5	0	0	2	0	0
Rob Gardner	20	33	28	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	16	.107	.107	.107	.214	3	0	0	5	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	37	8	7	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.286	.286	.714	1.000	5	0	0	1	0	0
Larry Gowell	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Beene	30	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Blateric	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Closter	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Roland	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Tepedino	8	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Klimkowski	16	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wade Blasingame	12	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	1	0	0
Casey Cox	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Doc Medich	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Aker	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1904	5793	5168	557	1288	202	24	103	526	71	42	491	689	.249	.316	.357	.674	1847	112	29	74	31	47

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ron Blomberg	1B	95	90	715.0	813	32	13	88	.985	1.636	8.895	0	0	0
Felipe Alou	1B	95	58	594.0	648	54	7	69	.990	1.636	7.389	0	0	0
John Ellis	1B	8	7	61.0	63	1	1	4	.985	9.443	8.000	0	0	0
Ron Swoboda	1B	2	0	4.0	5	0	0	1	1.000	11.250	2.500	0	0	0
Horace Clarke	2B	143	134	1195.0	347	399	11	104	.985	5.618	5.217	0	0	0
Bernie Allen	2B	20	18	154.0	50	47	2	17	.980	5.669	4.850	0	0	0
Hal Lanier	2B	3	3	24.0	7	8	0	1	1.000	5.625	5.000	0	0	0
Celerino Sanchez	3B	68	68	582.0	47	167	14	13	.939	3.309	3.147	0	0	0
Bernie Allen	3B	44	39	324.0	25	85	7	9	.940	3.056	2.500	0	0	0
Rich McKinney	3B	33	32	256.0	17	71	8	5	.917	3.094	2.667	0	0	0
Hal Lanier	3B	47	16	208.0	15	56	2	7	.973	3.072	1.511	0	0	0
Jerry Kenney	3B	1	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Thurman Munson	C	132	132	1160.0	575	71	15	11	.977	5.012	4.894	9	32	29	47.5
John Ellis	C	25	23	213.0	127	11	5	1	.965	5.831	5.520	1	10	5	33.3
Roy White	OF	155	155	1370.0	323	8	2	1	.994	2.174	2.135	0	0	0
Bobby Murcer	OF	151	150	1328.0	382	11	3	1	.992	2.663	2.603	0	0	0
Johnny Callison	OF	74	69	582.0	127	4	1	1	.992	2.026	1.770	0	0	0
Rusty Torres	OF	62	44	436.0	86	4	2	0	.978	1.858	1.452	0	0	0
Ron Swoboda	OF	35	26	236.0	56	2	1	1	.983	2.212	1.657	0	0	0
Felipe Alou	OF	15	12	102.0	21	0	0	0	1.000	1.853	1.400	0	0	0
Charlie Spikes	OF	9	9	65.0	14	1	0	1	1.000	2.077	1.667	0	0	0
Mel Stottlemyre	P	36	36	260.0	19	52	0	7	1.000	2.458	1.972	0	0	0
Fritz Peterson	P	35	35	250.0	13	44	1	6	.983	2.052	1.629	0	0	0
Steve Kline	P	32	32	236.0	20	50	7	3	.909	2.669	2.188	0	0	0
Mike Kekich	P	29	28	175.0	4	26	0	3	1.000	1.543	1.034	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	P	59	0	108.0	4	11	0	0	1.000	1.250	.254	0	0	0
Rob Gardner	P	20	14	97.0	2	13	0	1	1.000	1.392	.750	0	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	P	37	0	68.0	5	14	1	2	.950	2.515	.514	0	0	0
Fred Beene	P	29	1	58.0	8	6	1	1	.933	2.172	.483	0	0	0
Ron Klimkowski	P	16	2	31.0	0	6	1	1	.857	1.742	.375	0	0	0
Jim Roland	P	16	0	25.0	1	3	0	1	1.000	1.440	.250	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	P	7	3	17.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.059	.286	0	0	0
Wade Blasingame	P	12	1	17.0	6	5	0	0	1.000	5.824	.917	0	0	0
Casey Cox	P	5	1	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.200	0	0	0
Larry Gowell	P	2	1	7.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.286	.500	0	0	0
Jack Aker	P	4	0	6.0	3	2	0	1	1.000	7.500	1.250	0	0	0
Steve Blateric	P	1	0	4.0	0	1	0	1	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Al Closter	P	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Doc Medich	P	1	1	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Gene Michael	SS	121	116	1005.0	218	437	21	89	.969	5.866	5.413	0	0	0
Jerry Kenney	SS	45	33	315.0	57	131	6	30	.969	5.371	4.178	0	0	0
Hal Lanier	SS	9	6	54.0	10	23	2	5	.943	5.500	3.667	0	0	0
Totals		1735	1395	12360.0	4120	1860	134	486	.978	4.354	3.447	10	42	34	44.7

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