1978 Oakland Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 69-93
Finished 6th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 526,999, Avg. 7,320
Ballpark: Oakland Coliseum
Manager: Bobby Winkles (24-15)
Manager: Jack McKeon (45-78)
Location: Oakland, California

1978 Oakland Athletics Roster
1978 Oakland Athletics Results

The Oakland Athletics of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 69 wins and 93 losses, finishing sixth in the AL's West Division.

The Athletics scored 532 runs, worst in the league, and allowed 690 runs. Mitchell Page led Oakland with 17 home runs, and Dave Revering walloped 20 or more, too. Mitchell Page drove in 70 runs and topped all regular hitters by hitting .285. John Henry Johnson paced the squad with 11 wins, while Matt Keough recorded a 3.24 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bobby Winkles and Jack McKeon 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
John Henry Johnson	11	10	.524	3.39	33	30	1	7	2	0	186.0	164	81	70	18	82	6	91	0	0	5	789
Pete Broberg	10	12	.455	4.62	35	26	4	2	0	0	165.7	174	101	85	16	65	5	94	3	0	1	730
Elias Sosa	8	2	.800	2.64	68	0	44	0	0	14	109.0	106	37	32	5	44	10	61	1	3	4	459
Bob Lacey	8	9	.471	3.01	74	0	25	0	0	5	119.7	126	52	40	10	35	13	60	1	0	3	515
Matt Keough	8	15	.348	3.24	32	32	0	6	0	0	197.3	178	90	71	9	85	2	108	4	3	12	837
Rick Langford	7	13	.350	3.43	37	24	5	4	2	0	175.7	169	77	67	15	56	8	92	3	0	2	741
Steve Renko	6	12	.333	4.29	27	25	2	3	1	0	151.0	152	77	72	10	67	4	89	2	1	1	660
Alan Wirth	5	6	.455	3.43	16	14	0	2	1	0	81.3	72	39	31	6	34	0	31	3	1	4	332
Joe Coleman	3	0	1.000	1.37	10	0	6	0	0	0	19.7	12	3	3	1	5	0	4	0	0	0	72
Dave Heaverlo	3	6	.333	3.25	69	0	40	0	0	10	130.0	141	56	47	11	41	9	71	3	1	1	566
Craig Minetto	0	0		3.75	4	1	3	0	0	0	12.0	13	10	5	1	7	0	3	2	0	1	56
Steve McCatty	0	0		4.50	9	0	5	0	0	0	20.0	26	14	10	1	9	1	10	0	0	1	97
Tim Conroy	0	0		7.71	2	2	0	0	0	0	4.7	3	6	4	0	9	0	0	1	0	1	28
Mike Morgan	0	3	.000	7.30	3	3	0	1	0	0	12.3	19	12	10	1	8	0	0	0	0	0	60
Mike Norris	0	5	.000	5.51	14	5	1	1	0	0	49.0	46	35	30	2	35	1	36	3	0	1	229
Totals	69	93	.426	3.62	433	162	136	26	6	29	1433.3	1401	690	577	106	582	59	750	26	9	37	6171

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
Mitchell Page	147	579	516	62	147	25	7	17	70	23	19	53	95	.285	.355	.459	.814	237	7	4	4	2	6
Dave Revering	152	553	521	49	141	21	3	16	46	0	1	26	55	.271	.303	.415	.718	216	12	0	2	4	5
Mario Guerrero	143	546	505	27	139	18	4	3	38	0	5	15	35	.275	.302	.345	.647	174	13	6	17	3	2
Mike Edwards	142	446	414	48	113	16	2	1	23	27	21	16	32	.273	.303	.329	.632	136	7	2	14	0	0
Taylor Duncan	104	348	319	25	82	15	2	2	37	1	2	19	38	.257	.296	.335	.632	107	5	0	7	3	0
Joe Wallis	85	311	279	28	66	16	1	6	26	1	4	26	42	.237	.300	.366	.665	102	2	0	4	2	1
Jeff Newman	105	291	268	25	64	7	1	9	32	0	3	18	40	.239	.288	.373	.661	100	4	1	3	1	2
Jim Essian	126	340	278	21	62	9	1	3	26	2	1	44	22	.223	.326	.295	.621	82	12	0	15	3	1
Miguel Dilone	135	292	258	34	59	8	0	1	14	50	23	23	30	.229	.294	.271	.566	70	2	1	10	0	0
Wayne Gross	118	335	285	18	57	10	2	7	23	0	2	40	63	.200	.308	.323	.631	92	3	5	4	1	2
Tony Armas	91	258	239	17	51	6	1	2	13	1	2	10	62	.213	.250	.272	.522	65	5	2	6	1	2
Glenn Burke	78	217	200	19	47	6	1	1	14	15	8	10	26	.235	.270	.290	.560	58	7	0	6	1	1
Rico Carty	41	163	141	19	39	5	1	11	31	0	0	21	16	.277	.368	.560	.928	79	8	0	0	1	2
Dell Alston	58	188	173	17	36	2	0	1	10	11	10	10	21	.208	.250	.237	.487	41	1	0	4	1	0
Gary Alexander	58	199	174	18	36	6	1	10	22	0	3	22	66	.207	.298	.425	.723	74	9	1	1	1	2
Willie Horton	32	112	102	11	32	8	0	3	19	0	1	9	15	.314	.369	.480	.850	49	1	0	1	0	2
Gary Thomasson	47	171	154	17	31	4	1	5	16	4	1	15	44	.201	.272	.338	.610	52	3	0	2	0	2
Bruce Robinson	28	88	84	5	21	3	1	0	8	0	0	3	8	.250	.276	.310	.585	26	2	0	1	0	0
Rob Picciolo	78	98	93	16	21	1	0	2	7	1	1	2	13	.226	.242	.301	.543	28	2	0	3	0	0
Steve Staggs	47	97	78	10	19	2	2	0	0	2	3	19	17	.244	.392	.321	.712	25	0	0	0	0	0
Bill North	24	65	52	5	11	4	0	0	5	3	2	9	13	.212	.344	.288	.632	15	1	2	1	1	2
Dwayne Murphy	60	62	52	15	10	2	0	0	5	0	1	7	14	.192	.279	.231	.509	12	0	0	1	2	0
Tim Hosley	13	25	23	1	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	6	.304	.360	.391	.751	9	0	1	0	0	0
Tito Fuentes	13	45	43	5	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	6	.140	.159	.163	.322	7	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Adams	15	22	15	5	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	7	2	.200	.455	.267	.721	4	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Budaska	4	5	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.250	.400	.500	.900	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Tabb	12	11	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	.111	.273	.111	.384	1	0	0	0	0	1
Scott Meyer	8	9	9	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.222	.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Murray	11	15	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.083	.267	.083	.350	1	0	0	0	0	0
Darrell Woodard	33	10	9	10	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	1	1	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marty Perez	16	13	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Norris	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Alan Wirth	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Broberg	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Coleman	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Keough	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve McCatty	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Elias Sosa	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Conroy	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Minetto	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Renko	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Morgan	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Langford	40	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Heaverlo	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Henry Johnson	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Lacey	74	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2463	5914	5321	532	1304	200	31	100	492	144	117	433	800	.245	.303	.351	.654	1866	106	25	108	27	33

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Dave Revering	1B	138	135	1135.3	1013	110	13	98	.989	8.902	8.138	0	0	0
Jeff Newman	1B	36	19	186.3	177	14	4	17	.979	9.225	5.306	0	0	0
Wayne Gross	1B	15	3	46.0	48	0	2	3	.960	9.391	3.200	0	0	0
Jim Essian	1B	3	3	23.0	20	1	0	2	1.000	8.217	7.000	0	0	0
Gary Thomasson	1B	5	2	19.0	22	3	1	0	.962	11.842	5.000	0	0	0
Dell Alston	1B	9	0	17.7	20	0	0	2	1.000	1.189	2.222	0	0	0
Jerry Tabb	1B	2	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.500	0	0	0
Glenn Burke	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Gary Alexander	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Edwards	2B	133	118	984.3	228	309	20	71	.964	4.910	4.038	0	0	0
Steve Staggs	2B	40	18	199.3	56	65	3	10	.976	5.463	3.025	0	0	0
Tito Fuentes	2B	13	9	83.0	17	17	2	4	.944	3.687	2.615	0	0	0
Rob Picciolo	2B	19	10	75.7	20	25	2	2	.957	5.352	2.368	0	0	0
Taylor Duncan	2B	11	2	35.0	9	8	0	2	1.000	4.371	1.545	0	0	0
Darrell Woodard	2B	14	1	34.0	13	14	1	3	.964	7.147	1.929	0	0	0
Mike Adams	2B	6	1	19.0	7	4	0	2	1.000	5.211	1.833	0	0	0
Jim Essian	2B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Marty Perez	2B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Wayne Gross	3B	106	80	731.3	72	150	20	22	.917	2.732	2.094	0	0	0
Taylor Duncan	3B	84	79	619.0	63	119	9	4	.953	2.646	2.167	0	0	0
Marty Perez	3B	11	1	39.0	2	9	0	1	1.000	2.538	1.000	0	0	0
Rob Picciolo	3B	13	0	19.0	3	2	0	0	1.000	2.368	.385	0	0	0
Steve Staggs	3B	2	2	13.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.077	1.500	0	0	0
Miguel Dilone	3B	3	0	5.0	1	1	2	0	.500	3.600	.667	0	0	0
Mike Adams	3B	3	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	.667	0	0	0
Darrell Woodard	3B	1	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Jim Essian	C	119	84	778.3	431	78	10	12	.981	5.886	4.277	3	60	51	45.9
Jeff Newman	C	61	47	401.0	222	27	8	3	.969	5.589	4.082	4	30	14	31.8
Bruce Robinson	C	28	25	199.0	150	16	6	2	.965	7.508	5.929	2	15	13	46.4
Tim Hosley	C	6	5	37.0	22	3	1	0	.962	6.081	4.167	0	4	2	33.3
Scott Meyer	C	7	1	17.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	5.824	1.571	1	1	0	0.0
Gary Alexander	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mitchell Page	OF	114	113	865.0	211	4	6	0	.973	2.237	1.886	0	0	0
Miguel Dilone	OF	99	71	648.3	195	3	3	1	.985	2.749	2.000	0	0	0
Joe Wallis	OF	80	73	626.0	187	7	4	5	.980	2.789	2.425	0	0	0
Tony Armas	OF	85	62	601.3	214	3	2	0	.991	3.248	2.553	0	0	0
Glenn Burke	OF	67	53	484.0	152	1	2	0	.987	2.845	2.284	0	0	0
Gary Thomasson	OF	44	42	369.0	89	4	3	0	.969	2.268	2.114	0	0	0
Dell Alston	OF	50	43	362.7	86	0	4	0	.956	2.134	1.720	0	0	0
Dwayne Murphy	OF	45	7	149.0	49	1	0	1	1.000	3.020	1.111	0	0	0
Bill North	OF	17	13	113.0	31	1	0	0	1.000	2.549	1.882	0	0	0
Gary Alexander	OF	6	6	40.0	16	0	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.667	0	0	0
Larry Murray	OF	6	2	28.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.000	0	0	0
Mark Budaska	OF	2	1	10.0	1	0	1	0	.500	.900	.500	0	0	0
Willie Horton	OF	1	0	3.7	1	0	2	0	.333	2.455	1.000	0	0	0
Matt Keough	P	32	32	197.3	21	31	2	2	.963	2.372	1.625	0	0	0
John Henry Johnson	P	33	30	186.0	8	16	4	0	.857	1.161	.727	0	0	0
Rick Langford	P	37	24	175.7	27	23	0	2	1.000	2.562	1.351	0	0	0
Pete Broberg	P	35	26	165.7	8	28	0	1	1.000	1.956	1.029	0	0	0
Steve Renko	P	27	25	151.0	5	22	1	3	.964	1.609	1.000	0	0	0
Dave Heaverlo	P	69	0	130.0	9	30	0	3	1.000	2.700	.565	0	0	0
Bob Lacey	P	74	0	119.7	8	27	3	1	.921	2.632	.473	0	0	0
Elias Sosa	P	68	0	109.0	9	15	0	1	1.000	1.982	.353	0	0	0
Alan Wirth	P	16	14	81.3	2	9	0	2	1.000	1.217	.688	0	0	0
Mike Norris	P	14	5	49.0	5	5	2	0	.833	1.837	.714	0	0	0
Steve McCatty	P	9	0	20.0	2	1	1	0	.750	1.350	.333	0	0	0
Joe Coleman	P	10	0	19.7	2	4	0	0	1.000	2.746	.600	0	0	0
Mike Morgan	P	3	3	12.3	1	4	0	1	1.000	3.649	1.667	0	0	0
Craig Minetto	P	4	1	12.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.750	0	0	0
Tim Conroy	P	2	2	4.7	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Mario Guerrero	SS	142	137	1170.0	258	330	26	67	.958	4.523	4.141	0	0	0
Rob Picciolo	SS	41	22	221.3	51	63	5	17	.958	4.636	2.780	0	0	0
Mike Edwards	SS	9	0	29.0	5	9	2	1	.875	4.345	1.556	0	0	0
Marty Perez	SS	3	0	6.0	1	3	1	0	.800	6.000	1.333	0	0	0
Steve Staggs	SS	2	0	5.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.500	0	0	0
Taylor Duncan	SS	1	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		2140	1452	12900.0	4300	1626	179	368	.971	4.134	2.769	10	110	80	42.1

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