1972 New York Mets Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 83-73
Finished 3rd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 2,134,185, Avg. 29,642
Ballpark: Shea Stadium
Manager: Yogi Berra (83-73)
Location: New York, New York

1972 New York Mets Roster
1972 New York Mets Results

The New York Mets of the National League ended the 1972 season with a record of 83 wins and 73 losses, finishing third in the NL's East Division.

The Mets plated 528 runs and conceded 578 runs. John Milner paced New York with 17 home runs Cleon Jones drove in 52 runs. Tommie Agee led batters with significant playing time with a .227 average. Tom Seaver topped the squad with 21 wins, while Jon Matlack, too added 15 or more wins, too Jon Matlack recorded a 2.32 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Yogi Berra 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 Seaver	21	12	.636	2.92	35	35	0	13	3	0	262.0	215	92	85	23	77	2	249	5	0	8	1060
Jon Matlack	15	10	.600	2.32	34	32	1	8	4	0	244.0	215	79	63	14	71	14	169	2	1	7	1003
Jim McAndrew	11	8	.579	2.80	28	23	3	4	0	1	160.7	133	54	50	12	38	5	81	5	0	6	643
Jerry Koosman	11	12	.478	4.14	34	24	5	4	1	1	163.0	155	81	75	14	52	7	147	6	0	9	692
Tug McGraw	8	6	.571	1.70	54	0	47	0	0	27	106.0	71	26	20	3	40	11	92	3	0	2	419
Gary Gentry	7	10	.412	4.01	32	26	3	3	0	0	164.0	153	82	73	20	75	5	120	6	0	6	712
Danny Frisella	5	8	.385	3.34	39	0	31	0	0	9	67.3	63	31	25	8	20	5	46	0	0	6	284
Buzz Capra	3	2	.600	4.58	14	6	2	0	0	0	53.0	50	27	27	7	27	1	45	0	0	1	227
Ray Sadecki	2	1	.667	3.09	34	2	13	0	0	0	75.7	73	33	26	3	31	6	38	2	0	2	328
Tommy Moore	0	0		2.92	3	1	0	0	0	0	12.3	12	4	4	1	1	0	5	0	0	1	47
Hank Webb	0	0		4.42	6	2	1	0	0	0	18.3	18	9	9	1	9	1	15	0	0	0	79
Chuck Taylor	0	0		5.52	20	0	8	0	0	2	31.0	44	19	19	2	9	3	9	1	0	0	143
Bob Rauch	0	1	.000	5.00	19	0	7	0	0	1	27.0	27	16	15	3	21	2	23	0	0	4	126
Brent Strom	0	3	.000	6.82	11	5	3	0	0	0	30.3	34	25	23	7	15	1	20	0	1	1	134
Totals	83	73	.532	3.27	363	156	124	32	8	41	1414.7	1263	578	514	118	486	63	1059	30	2	53	5897

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
Tommie Agee	114	483	422	52	96	23	0	13	47	8	9	53	92	.227	.317	.374	.692	158	18	4	1	3	6
Cleon Jones	106	415	375	39	92	15	1	5	52	1	6	30	83	.245	.305	.331	.636	124	10	4	2	4	4
Bud Harrelson	115	490	418	54	90	10	4	1	24	12	4	58	57	.215	.313	.266	.578	111	6	3	7	4	4
Ed Kranepool	122	368	327	28	88	15	1	8	34	1	0	34	35	.269	.336	.394	.731	129	11	1	2	4	13
John Milner	117	423	362	52	86	12	2	17	38	2	1	51	74	.238	.340	.423	.762	153	8	5	5	0	1
Jim Fregosi	101	382	340	31	79	15	4	5	32	0	1	38	71	.232	.311	.344	.655	117	6	1	2	1	2
Duffy Dyer	94	363	325	33	75	17	3	8	36	0	1	28	71	.231	.299	.375	.675	122	8	5	2	3	9
Ken Boswell	100	400	355	35	75	9	1	9	33	2	2	32	35	.211	.274	.318	.592	113	15	0	9	4	1
Ted Martinez	103	347	330	22	74	5	5	1	19	7	4	12	49	.224	.254	.279	.532	92	10	1	4	0	2
Rusty Staub	66	278	239	32	70	11	0	9	38	0	1	31	13	.293	.372	.452	.824	108	5	2	1	5	7
Wayne Garrett	111	377	298	41	69	13	3	2	29	3	2	70	58	.232	.374	.315	.689	94	5	0	5	4	3
Willie Mays	69	242	195	27	52	9	1	8	19	1	5	43	43	.267	.402	.446	.848	87	5	1	3	0	5
Jerry Grote	64	241	205	15	43	5	1	3	21	1	0	26	27	.210	.304	.288	.592	59	5	3	4	3	8
Dave Marshall	72	180	156	21	39	5	0	4	11	3	3	22	28	.250	.346	.359	.705	56	4	1	1	0	1
Jim Beauchamp	58	131	120	10	29	1	0	5	19	0	0	7	33	.242	.282	.375	.657	45	2	1	0	3	1
Dave Schneck	37	134	123	7	23	3	2	3	10	0	1	10	26	.187	.254	.317	.571	39	2	1	0	0	2
Lute Barnes	24	79	72	5	17	2	2	0	6	0	1	6	4	.236	.291	.319	.611	23	2	0	0	1	1
Tom Seaver	36	100	89	5	13	3	1	3	4	0	0	5	41	.146	.191	.303	.495	27	1	0	6	0	0
Jon Matlack	34	93	78	6	10	1	0	0	2	0	0	10	44	.128	.227	.141	.368	11	1	0	5	0	0
Bill Sudakis	18	56	49	3	7	0	0	1	7	0	0	6	14	.143	.236	.204	.440	10	1	0	1	0	0
Don Hahn	17	41	37	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	12	.162	.244	.162	.406	6	1	0	0	0	0
Gary Gentry	32	55	48	2	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	28	.104	.173	.125	.298	6	0	0	3	0	0
Jerry Koosman	34	56	47	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	18	.085	.085	.085	.170	4	1	0	9	0	0
Buzz Capra	14	15	12	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	3	.250	.400	.250	.650	3	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Frisella	39	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Sadecki	34	14	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	0	0	1	0	0
Tug McGraw	54	24	20	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.100	.182	.100	.282	2	0	0	2	0	0
Jim McAndrew	28	57	43	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	14	.047	.128	.047	.174	2	0	1	10	0	0
Tommy Moore	3	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Rauch	19	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Nolan	4	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brent Strom	11	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Chuck Taylor	20	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hank Webb	6	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1876	5883	5135	528	1154	175	31	105	490	41	41	589	990	.225	.307	.332	.639	1706	127	34	86	39	70

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ed Kranepool	1B	108	83	790.0	705	48	3	65	.996	8.578	6.972	0	0	0
Jim Beauchamp	1B	35	26	212.0	180	9	4	16	.979	8.024	5.400	0	0	0
Cleon Jones	1B	20	20	174.0	174	12	4	9	.979	9.621	9.300	0	0	0
John Milner	1B	10	10	85.0	73	6	0	9	1.000	8.365	7.900	0	0	0
Willie Mays	1B	11	9	84.0	75	2	1	3	.987	8.250	7.000	0	0	0
Bill Sudakis	1B	7	7	59.0	51	7	2	3	.967	8.847	8.286	0	0	0
Jim Fregosi	1B	3	1	11.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	6.545	2.667	0	0	0
Ken Boswell	2B	94	89	804.0	208	183	4	53	.990	4.377	4.160	0	0	0
Ted Martinez	2B	47	36	337.0	81	77	1	9	.994	4.220	3.362	0	0	0
Wayne Garrett	2B	22	18	157.0	48	38	5	6	.945	4.930	3.909	0	0	0
Lute Barnes	2B	14	13	116.0	35	35	3	11	.959	5.431	5.000	0	0	0
Jim Fregosi	3B	85	84	742.0	71	144	15	9	.935	2.608	2.529	0	0	0
Wayne Garrett	3B	82	70	646.0	66	150	9	13	.960	3.009	2.634	0	0	0
Jerry Grote	3B	3	1	15.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.200	.667	0	0	0
Ted Martinez	3B	2	1	12.0	0	6	0	0	1.000	4.500	3.000	0	0	0
Duffy Dyer	C	91	91	815.0	690	61	5	12	.993	8.293	8.253	3	39	40	50.6
Jerry Grote	C	59	58	530.0	405	42	1	5	.998	7.591	7.576	2	18	20	52.6
Bill Sudakis	C	5	5	48.0	37	1	0	0	1.000	7.125	7.600	0	2	0	0.0
Joe Nolan	C	3	2	22.0	12	3	1	0	.938	6.136	5.000	2	1	1	50.0
Tommie Agee	OF	109	108	958.0	273	6	11	1	.962	2.621	2.560	0	0	0
John Milner	OF	91	84	754.0	160	7	6	0	.965	1.993	1.835	0	0	0
Cleon Jones	OF	84	78	705.0	136	8	2	1	.986	1.838	1.714	0	0	0
Rusty Staub	OF	65	65	583.0	108	4	2	2	.982	1.729	1.723	0	0	0
Willie Mays	OF	49	44	382.0	109	3	3	1	.974	2.639	2.286	0	0	0
Dave Marshall	OF	42	33	315.0	70	0	2	0	.972	2.000	1.667	0	0	0
Dave Schneck	OF	33	30	281.0	63	1	1	0	.985	2.050	1.939	0	0	0
Ted Martinez	OF	15	13	129.0	32	1	1	0	.971	2.302	2.200	0	0	0
Don Hahn	OF	10	8	80.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	.900	.800	0	0	0
Jim Beauchamp	OF	5	3	33.0	8	0	1	0	.889	2.182	1.600	0	0	0
Ed Kranepool	OF	1	1	9.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jerry Grote	OF	1	1	9.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Duffy Dyer	OF	1	0	6.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Tom Seaver	P	35	35	262.0	17	40	3	3	.950	1.958	1.629	0	0	0
Jon Matlack	P	34	32	244.0	8	33	1	1	.976	1.512	1.206	0	0	0
Gary Gentry	P	32	26	164.0	15	27	0	1	1.000	2.305	1.313	0	0	0
Jerry Koosman	P	34	24	163.0	4	23	1	1	.964	1.491	.794	0	0	0
Jim McAndrew	P	28	23	161.0	16	16	1	0	.970	1.789	1.143	0	0	0
Tug McGraw	P	54	0	106.0	6	13	0	0	1.000	1.613	.352	0	0	0
Ray Sadecki	P	34	2	76.0	1	8	2	0	.818	1.066	.265	0	0	0
Danny Frisella	P	39	0	67.0	5	15	1	0	.952	2.687	.513	0	0	0
Buzz Capra	P	14	6	53.0	5	10	0	2	1.000	2.547	1.071	0	0	0
Chuck Taylor	P	20	0	31.0	4	9	0	2	1.000	3.774	.650	0	0	0
Brent Strom	P	11	5	30.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	.600	.182	0	0	0
Bob Rauch	P	19	0	27.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	2.000	.316	0	0	0
Hank Webb	P	6	2	18.0	3	4	0	0	1.000	3.500	1.167	0	0	0
Tommy Moore	P	3	1	12.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Bud Harrelson	SS	115	113	1000.0	191	334	16	51	.970	4.725	4.565	0	0	0
Ted Martinez	SS	42	33	324.0	62	110	3	21	.983	4.778	4.095	0	0	0
Jim Fregosi	SS	6	5	46.0	13	17	0	6	1.000	5.870	5.000	0	0	0
Lute Barnes	SS	6	5	44.0	5	15	0	2	1.000	4.091	3.333	0	0	0
Totals		1739	1404	12731.0	4244	1539	116	318	.980	4.088	3.325	7	60	61	50.4

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