1976 Oakland Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 87-74
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 780,593, Avg. 9,885
Ballpark: Oakland Coliseum
Manager: Chuck Tanner (87-74)
Location: Oakland, California

1976 Oakland Athletics Roster
1976 Oakland Athletics Results

The Oakland Athletics of the American League ended the 1976 season with a record of 87 wins and 74 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Athletics plated 686 runs and conceded 598 runs. Sal Bando paced Oakland with 27 home runs, while Don Baylor and Gene Tenace walloped 20 or more also. Joe Rudi recorded 94 runs batted in. Bill North led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .276. Vida Blue topped the team with 18 wins, plus Mike Torrez added 15 or more wins, too Vida Blue earned a 2.35 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Chuck Tanner 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
Vida Blue	18	13	.581	2.35	37	37	0	20	6	0	298.3	268	90	78	9	63	3	166	1	1	5	1205
Mike Torrez	16	12	.571	2.50	39	39	0	13	4	0	266.3	231	93	74	15	87	2	115	6	0	8	1094
Rollie Fingers	13	11	.542	2.47	70	0	62	0	0	20	134.7	118	40	37	3	40	10	113	7	0	2	559
Paul Mitchell	9	7	.563	4.25	26	26	0	4	1	0	142.0	169	74	67	15	30	0	67	1	1	4	615
Stan Bahnsen	8	7	.533	3.34	35	14	10	1	1	0	143.0	124	55	53	13	43	3	82	2	0	7	589
Jim Todd	7	8	.467	3.81	49	0	22	0	0	4	82.7	87	43	35	6	34	8	22	6	0	3	362
Paul Lindblad	6	5	.545	3.06	65	0	20	0	0	5	114.7	111	50	39	5	24	5	37	3	0	2	480
Dick Bosman	4	2	.667	4.10	27	15	2	0	0	0	112.0	118	54	51	13	19	1	34	1	0	2	459
Mike Norris	4	5	.444	4.78	24	19	1	1	1	0	96.0	91	53	51	10	56	2	44	2	0	4	430
Glenn Abbott	2	4	.333	5.49	19	10	4	0	0	0	62.3	87	41	38	6	16	0	27	1	0	3	283
Craig Mitchell	0	0		2.70	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13
Chris Batton	0	0		9.00	2	1	1	0	0	0	4.0	5	4	4	1	3	0	4	0	0	0	19
Totals	87	74	.540	3.26	394	161	122	39	13	29	1459.3	1412	598	528	96	415	34	711	30	2	40	6108

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
Bill North	154	675	590	91	163	20	5	2	31	75	29	73	95	.276	.356	.337	.693	199	8	2	6	4	3
Don Baylor	157	685	595	85	147	25	1	15	68	52	12	58	72	.247	.329	.368	.697	219	11	20	1	11	4
Phil Garner	159	603	555	54	145	29	12	8	74	35	13	36	71	.261	.307	.400	.707	222	11	2	6	4	1
Bert Campaneris	149	631	536	67	137	14	1	1	52	54	12	63	80	.256	.331	.291	.622	156	4	3	18	11	0
Joe Rudi	130	557	500	54	135	32	3	13	94	6	1	41	71	.270	.323	.424	.747	212	14	3	3	10	10
Sal Bando	158	640	550	75	132	18	2	27	84	20	6	76	74	.240	.335	.427	.762	235	7	4	7	3	1
Claudell Washington	134	530	490	65	126	20	6	5	53	37	20	30	90	.257	.302	.353	.655	173	13	3	3	4	1
Gene Tenace	128	508	417	64	104	19	1	22	66	5	4	81	91	.249	.373	.458	.831	191	7	4	1	5	2
Billy Williams	120	413	351	36	74	12	0	11	41	4	2	58	44	.211	.320	.339	.659	119	4	0	1	3	15
Ken McMullen	98	211	186	20	41	6	2	5	23	1	1	22	33	.220	.305	.355	.660	66	4	1	1	1	3
Larry Haney	88	196	177	12	40	2	0	0	10	0	1	13	26	.226	.280	.237	.517	42	5	1	3	2	0
Jeff Newman	43	86	77	5	15	4	0	0	4	0	0	4	12	.195	.235	.247	.481	19	0	0	5	0	0
Tommy Sandt	41	75	67	6	14	1	0	0	3	0	0	7	9	.209	.284	.224	.508	15	1	0	1	0	0
Ron Fairly	15	55	46	9	11	1	0	3	10	0	0	9	12	.239	.364	.457	.820	21	1	0	0	0	3
Tim Hosley	37	63	55	4	9	2	0	1	4	0	0	8	12	.164	.270	.255	.524	14	1	0	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	29	52	45	1	8	0	0	0	4	1	2	4	4	.178	.275	.178	.452	8	0	2	1	0	0
Willie McCovey	11	27	24	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	.208	.296	.208	.505	5	0	0	0	0	1
Wayne Gross	10	20	18	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	.222	.300	.222	.522	4	0	0	0	0	0
Denny Walling	3	11	11	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.273	.273	.273	.545	3	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Holt	4	8	7	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.286	.375	.571	.946	4	0	0	0	0	0
Angel Mangual	8	12	12	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	.167	.167	.250	.417	3	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Woods	6	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Alexander	61	30	30	16	1	0	0	0	0	20	7	0	5	.033	.033	.033	.067	1	0	0	0	0	0
Nate Colbert	2	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	1
Larry Lintz	68	4	1	21	0	0	0	0	0	31	11	2	0	.000	.667	.000	.667	0	0	0	1	0	0
Stan Bahnsen	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Batton	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Vida Blue	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Bosman	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Torrez	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Todd	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Mitchell	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rollie Fingers	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Hopkins	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Lindblad	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Norris	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Mitchell	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Glenn Abbott	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2210	6106	5353	686	1319	208	33	113	625	341	123	592	818	.246	.323	.361	.684	1932	91	45	58	58	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Gene Tenace	1B	70	62	563.0	577	31	3	47	.995	9.719	8.686	0	0	0
Don Baylor	1B	69	62	559.3	629	44	9	40	.987	1.829	9.754	0	0	0
Ken McMullen	1B	26	20	176.3	204	8	0	19	1.000	1.820	8.154	0	0	0
Ron Fairly	1B	15	14	129.0	121	10	0	10	1.000	9.140	8.733	0	0	0
Wayne Gross	1B	3	3	23.0	27	1	1	2	.966	1.957	9.333	0	0	0
Joe Rudi	1B	2	0	8.7	12	1	0	2	1.000	13.500	6.500	0	0	0
Phil Garner	2B	159	159	1415.3	378	465	22	91	.975	5.361	5.302	0	0	0
Tommy Sandt	2B	9	2	34.7	7	11	0	1	1.000	4.673	2.000	0	0	0
Larry Lintz	2B	5	0	9.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.000	.800	0	0	0
Ken McMullen	2B	1	0	0.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	27.000	1.000	0	0	0
Sal Bando	3B	155	155	1330.3	125	304	17	26	.962	2.902	2.768	0	0	0
Ken McMullen	3B	35	6	125.0	10	30	2	1	.952	2.880	1.143	0	0	0
Tommy Sandt	3B	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Larry Haney	C	87	66	548.0	290	45	9	2	.974	5.502	3.851	5	56	27	32.5
Gene Tenace	C	65	61	522.7	263	25	5	3	.983	4.959	4.431	4	42	17	28.8
Jeff Newman	C	43	26	240.0	140	18	3	1	.981	5.925	3.674	0	12	15	55.6
Tim Hosley	C	37	8	148.7	79	13	3	0	.968	5.570	2.486	2	16	4	20.0
Bill North	OF	144	142	1240.3	397	8	9	1	.978	2.939	2.813	0	0	0
Joe Rudi	OF	126	126	1101.0	258	6	3	2	.989	2.158	2.095	0	0	0
Claudell Washington	OF	126	122	1100.3	276	10	11	2	.963	2.339	2.270	0	0	0
Don Baylor	OF	76	72	640.0	152	1	3	0	.981	2.152	2.013	0	0	0
Cesar Tovar	OF	20	8	103.0	23	0	1	0	.958	2.010	1.150	0	0	0
Matt Alexander	OF	23	4	76.7	23	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	1.000	0	0	0
Ken McMullen	OF	5	3	32.7	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.204	1.600	0	0	0
Angel Mangual	OF	7	2	27.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	1.667	.714	0	0	0
Denny Walling	OF	3	2	25.0	8	0	1	0	.889	2.880	2.667	0	0	0
Gary Woods	OF	4	1	16.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	3.938	1.750	0	0	0
Wayne Gross	OF	2	1	10.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	1.500	0	0	0
Larry Lintz	OF	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Billy Williams	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Vida Blue	P	37	37	298.3	3	34	1	2	.974	1.116	1.000	0	0	0
Mike Torrez	P	39	39	266.3	19	37	6	4	.903	1.892	1.436	0	0	0
Stan Bahnsen	P	35	14	143.0	13	23	1	0	.973	2.266	1.029	0	0	0
Paul Mitchell	P	26	26	142.0	7	17	0	0	1.000	1.521	.923	0	0	0
Rollie Fingers	P	70	0	134.7	4	26	1	2	.968	2.005	.429	0	0	0
Paul Lindblad	P	65	0	114.7	9	21	1	1	.968	2.355	.462	0	0	0
Dick Bosman	P	27	15	112.0	9	19	1	2	.966	2.250	1.037	0	0	0
Mike Norris	P	24	19	96.0	11	29	2	1	.952	3.750	1.667	0	0	0
Jim Todd	P	49	0	82.7	7	22	2	1	.935	3.157	.592	0	0	0
Glenn Abbott	P	19	10	62.3	3	12	0	0	1.000	2.166	.789	0	0	0
Chris Batton	P	2	1	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Craig Mitchell	P	1	0	3.3	0	1	1	0	.500	2.700	1.000	0	0	0
Bert Campaneris	SS	149	147	1292.3	231	490	23	66	.969	5.021	4.839	0	0	0
Tommy Sandt	SS	29	14	156.3	37	49	3	10	.966	4.951	2.966	0	0	0
Sal Bando	SS	5	0	10.7	2	6	0	1	1.000	6.750	1.600	0	0	0
Totals		1900	1449	13134.0	4378	1821	144	340	.977	4.248	3.263	11	126	63	33.3

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