1978 New York Mets Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 66-96
Finished 6th in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,007,328, Avg. 13,806
Ballpark: Shea Stadium
Manager: Joe Torre (66-96)
Location: New York, New York

1978 New York Mets Roster
1978 New York Mets Results

The New York Mets of the National League ended the 1978 season with a record of 66 wins and 96 losses, finishing sixth in the NL's East Division.

The Mets plated 607 runs and allowed 690 runs. Willie Montanez paced New York with 17 home runs, while Lee Mazzilli and John Stearns walloped 20 or more as well. Willie Montanez accounted for 96 RBI. Lee Mazzilli led batters with significant playing time with a .273 average. Nino Espinosa topped the squad with 11 wins, and Craig Swan recorded a 2.43 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Joe Torre 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
Nino Espinosa	11	15	.423	4.73	32	32	0	6	1	0	203.7	230	117	107	24	75	10	76	3	3	0	888
Pat Zachry	10	6	.625	3.33	21	21	0	5	2	0	138.0	120	57	51	9	60	4	78	1	2	3	579
Craig Swan	9	6	.600	2.43	29	28	0	5	1	0	207.3	164	62	56	12	58	8	125	2	0	1	819
Dale Murray	8	5	.615	3.65	53	0	38	0	0	5	86.3	85	39	35	4	36	19	37	2	1	5	373
Skip Lockwood	7	13	.350	3.57	57	0	40	0	0	15	90.7	78	36	36	10	31	5	73	0	1	3	371
Kevin Kobel	5	6	.455	2.91	32	11	12	1	0	0	108.3	95	42	35	9	30	9	51	2	0	1	442
Mardie Cornejo	4	2	.667	2.45	25	0	10	0	0	3	36.7	37	12	10	1	14	5	17	3	1	1	155
Mike Bruhert	4	11	.267	4.78	27	22	1	1	1	0	133.7	171	83	71	6	34	5	56	1	2	10	585
Tom Hausman	3	3	.500	4.70	10	10	0	0	0	0	51.7	58	28	27	6	9	1	16	1	2	0	216
Jerry Koosman	3	15	.167	3.75	38	32	6	3	0	2	235.3	221	110	98	17	84	11	160	8	1	5	986
Butch Metzger	1	3	.250	6.51	25	0	11	0	0	0	37.3	48	28	27	4	22	7	21	1	1	0	180
Dwight Bernard	1	4	.200	4.31	30	1	10	0	0	0	48.0	54	25	23	4	27	3	26	0	0	2	213
Roy Lee Jackson	0	0		9.24	4	2	0	0	0	0	12.7	21	13	13	2	6	0	6	2	0	0	61
Paul Siebert	0	2	.000	5.14	27	0	5	0	0	1	28.0	30	16	16	2	21	5	12	1	1	2	130
Juan Berenguer	0	2	.000	8.31	5	3	1	0	0	0	13.0	17	12	12	1	11	0	8	1	0	0	65
Bob Myrick	0	3	.000	3.28	17	0	7	0	0	0	24.7	18	10	9	3	13	2	13	0	0	0	102
Totals	66	96	.407	3.87	432	162	141	21	5	26	1455.3	1447	690	626	114	531	94	775	28	15	33	6165

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
Steve Henderson	157	654	587	83	156	30	9	10	65	13	7	60	109	.266	.333	.399	.732	234	24	2	0	5	3
Willie Montanez	159	679	609	66	156	32	0	17	96	9	4	60	92	.256	.320	.392	.712	239	13	1	0	9	19
Lee Mazzilli	148	619	542	78	148	28	5	16	61	20	13	69	82	.273	.353	.432	.785	234	7	1	2	5	6
John Stearns	143	563	477	65	126	24	1	15	73	25	13	70	57	.264	.364	.413	.777	197	11	8	2	6	4
Doug Flynn	156	572	532	37	126	12	8	0	36	3	5	30	50	.237	.277	.289	.567	154	14	1	6	3	10
Tim Foli	113	443	413	37	106	21	1	1	27	2	5	14	30	.257	.283	.320	.603	132	10	2	12	2	1
Lenny Randle	132	508	437	53	102	16	8	2	35	14	11	64	57	.233	.330	.320	.650	140	7	1	2	4	7
Elliott Maddox	119	469	389	43	100	18	2	2	39	2	11	71	38	.257	.370	.329	.699	128	8	2	2	5	1
Joel Youngblood	113	287	266	40	67	12	8	7	30	4	0	16	39	.252	.294	.436	.730	116	4	1	1	3	1
Bruce Boisclair	107	244	214	24	48	7	1	4	15	3	3	23	43	.224	.293	.322	.616	69	4	0	2	5	3
Bobby Valentine	69	188	160	17	43	7	0	1	18	1	1	19	18	.269	.346	.331	.677	53	7	1	6	2	1
Ron Hodges	47	115	102	4	26	4	1	0	7	1	2	10	11	.255	.322	.314	.635	32	4	1	0	2	0
Tom Grieve	54	110	101	5	21	3	0	2	8	0	1	9	23	.208	.273	.297	.570	30	3	0	0	0	0
Dan Norman	19	67	64	7	17	0	1	4	10	1	0	2	14	.266	.284	.484	.768	31	0	0	0	1	0
Ed Kranepool	66	93	81	7	17	2	0	3	19	0	0	8	12	.210	.280	.346	.625	28	4	1	0	3	2
Nino Espinosa	32	75	67	6	14	3	0	0	4	0	0	1	28	.209	.221	.254	.474	17	0	0	7	0	0
Craig Swan	29	76	65	2	10	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	15	.154	.191	.154	.345	10	1	0	8	0	0
Gil Flores	11	33	29	8	8	0	1	0	1	1	0	3	5	.276	.344	.345	.689	10	0	0	1	0	0
Sergio Ferrer	37	40	33	8	7	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	7	.212	.316	.273	.589	9	2	1	2	0	0
Jerry Koosman	38	75	70	1	6	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	27	.086	.086	.129	.214	9	0	0	5	0	0
Ken Henderson	7	26	22	2	5	2	0	1	4	0	1	4	4	.227	.346	.455	.801	10	0	0	0	0	1
Kevin Kobel	32	30	25	3	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	8	.160	.192	.200	.392	5	0	0	4	0	0
Alex Trevino	6	13	12	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	1	0	0	0	0
Tom Hausman	10	19	17	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	.176	.222	.235	.458	4	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Bruhert	27	41	40	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	.075	.075	.075	.150	3	0	0	1	0	0
Pat Zachry	21	52	43	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	19	.070	.149	.070	.219	3	2	0	5	0	0
Roy Lee Jackson	4	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Butch Benton	4	5	4	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.500	.600	.500	1.100	2	0	1	0	0	0
Skip Lockwood	57	13	11	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	.182	.182	.545	.727	6	0	0	2	0	0
Dwight Bernard	30	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Siebert	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Myrick	17	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Juan Berenguer	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dale Murray	53	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	0	0	0
Butch Metzger	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mardie Cornejo	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2099	6132	5433	607	1332	227	47	86	561	100	77	549	829	.245	.314	.352	.666	1911	126	24	71	55	59

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Montanez	1B	158	158	1417.7	1350	104	8	138	.995	9.231	9.203	0	0	0
Ed Kranepool	1B	3	3	27.0	27	4	0	3	1.000	1.333	1.333	0	0	0
Tom Grieve	1B	2	1	8.3	9	2	0	1	1.000	11.880	5.500	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	1B	1	0	1.3	1	0	1	0	.500	6.750	1.000	0	0	0
Bruce Boisclair	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Doug Flynn	2B	128	106	928.7	249	299	8	70	.986	5.311	4.281	0	0	0
Bobby Valentine	2B	45	33	278.3	76	92	4	13	.977	5.432	3.733	0	0	0
Joel Youngblood	2B	39	23	233.0	67	72	3	19	.979	5.369	3.564	0	0	0
Sergio Ferrer	2B	3	0	9.0	4	4	0	2	1.000	8.000	2.667	0	0	0
Lenny Randle	2B	5	0	6.3	3	0	0	0	1.000	4.263	.600	0	0	0
Lenny Randle	3B	124	108	994.0	108	215	11	21	.967	2.925	2.605	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	3B	43	38	329.0	40	72	6	5	.949	3.064	2.605	0	0	0
Joel Youngblood	3B	9	9	63.0	5	16	2	1	.913	3.000	2.333	0	0	0
Bobby Valentine	3B	9	7	59.0	2	17	2	0	.905	2.898	2.111	0	0	0
Alex Trevino	3B	1	0	7.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000	0	0	0
Sergio Ferrer	3B	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
John Stearns	3B	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
John Stearns	C	141	134	1202.3	711	84	12	7	.985	5.951	5.638	8	86	52	37.7
Ron Hodges	C	30	25	226.0	145	20	3	5	.982	6.571	5.500	8	25	14	35.9
Alex Trevino	C	5	3	20.0	12	3	0	0	1.000	6.750	3.000	0	0	3	100.0
Butch Benton	C	1	0	7.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	5.143	4.000	0	0	0
Steve Henderson	OF	155	151	1332.3	315	18	11	3	.968	2.249	2.148	0	0	0
Lee Mazzilli	OF	144	138	1246.7	386	8	5	3	.987	2.844	2.736	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	OF	79	66	567.3	155	8	2	3	.988	2.586	2.063	0	0	0
Bruce Boisclair	OF	69	44	438.7	114	3	2	0	.983	2.400	1.696	0	0	0
Joel Youngblood	OF	50	29	297.3	86	8	1	1	.989	2.845	1.880	0	0	0
Tom Grieve	OF	26	20	159.0	43	3	1	0	.979	2.604	1.769	0	0	0
Dan Norman	OF	18	17	147.7	33	1	0	0	1.000	2.072	1.889	0	0	0
Gil Flores	OF	8	8	60.3	17	0	1	0	.944	2.536	2.125	0	0	0
Ken Henderson	OF	7	7	59.0	15	0	0	0	1.000	2.288	2.143	0	0	0
Ed Kranepool	OF	12	6	57.7	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.405	.750	0	0	0
Jerry Koosman	P	38	32	235.3	4	48	6	4	.897	1.989	1.368	0	0	0
Craig Swan	P	29	28	207.3	17	30	2	5	.959	2.040	1.621	0	0	0
Nino Espinosa	P	32	32	203.7	10	47	1	2	.983	2.519	1.781	0	0	0
Pat Zachry	P	21	21	138.0	9	24	2	4	.943	2.152	1.571	0	0	0
Mike Bruhert	P	27	22	133.7	11	22	5	1	.868	2.222	1.222	0	0	0
Kevin Kobel	P	32	11	108.3	4	16	2	1	.909	1.662	.625	0	0	0
Skip Lockwood	P	57	0	90.7	4	5	1	1	.900	.893	.158	0	0	0
Dale Murray	P	53	0	86.3	6	22	1	1	.966	2.919	.528	0	0	0
Tom Hausman	P	10	10	51.7	6	8	1	0	.933	2.439	1.400	0	0	0
Dwight Bernard	P	30	1	48.0	2	7	0	2	1.000	1.688	.300	0	0	0
Butch Metzger	P	25	0	37.3	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.205	.200	0	0	0
Mardie Cornejo	P	25	0	36.7	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.473	.240	0	0	0
Paul Siebert	P	27	0	28.0	3	5	0	0	1.000	2.571	.296	0	0	0
Bob Myrick	P	17	0	24.7	1	5	0	1	1.000	2.189	.353	0	0	0
Juan Berenguer	P	5	3	13.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.385	.400	0	0	0
Roy Lee Jackson	P	4	2	12.7	1	4	1	1	.833	3.553	1.250	0	0	0
Tim Foli	SS	112	105	915.0	190	314	18	78	.966	4.957	4.500	0	0	0
Doug Flynn	SS	60	50	430.0	83	127	7	21	.968	4.395	3.500	0	0	0
Sergio Ferrer	SS	29	7	109.3	22	44	2	7	.971	5.433	2.276	0	0	0
Joel Youngblood	SS	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		1953	1458	13098.0	4366	1792	132	424	.979	4.231	3.153	16	111	69	38.3

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