1978 San Diego Padres Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 84-78
Finished 4th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,670,107, Avg. 21,402
Ballpark: Jack Murphy Stadium
Manager: Roger Craig (84-78)
Location: San Diego, California

1978 San Diego Padres Roster
1978 San Diego Padres Results

The San Diego Padres of the National League ended the 1978 season with a record of 84 wins and 78 losses, finishing fourth in the NL's West Division.

The Padres scored 591 runs, worst in the league, and conceded 598 runs. Dave Winfield led San Diego with 24 home runs, while Gene Tenace walloped 20 or more, too. Dave Winfield drove in 97 runs. Gene Richards and Dave Winfield paced hitters with significant playing time by hitting .308. Gaylord Perry topped the squad with 21 wins and a team-best 2.73 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Roger Craig 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
Gaylord Perry	21	6	.778	2.73	37	37	0	5	2	0	260.7	241	96	79	9	66	8	154	2	3	4	1055
Randy Jones	13	14	.481	2.88	37	36	0	7	2	0	253.0	263	104	81	6	64	20	71	0	2	4	1058
Eric Rasmussen	12	10	.545	4.06	27	24	0	3	2	0	146.3	154	72	66	16	43	6	59	1	4	1	613
Bob Owchinko	10	13	.435	3.56	36	33	1	4	1	0	202.3	198	87	80	14	78	12	94	1	3	1	851
Bob Shirley	8	11	.421	3.69	50	20	10	2	0	5	166.0	164	75	68	10	61	11	102	3	1	3	708
Rollie Fingers	6	13	.316	2.52	67	0	62	0	0	37	107.3	84	33	30	4	29	12	72	1	0	2	434
Mark Lee	5	1	.833	3.28	56	0	21	0	0	2	85.0	74	34	31	2	36	13	31	2	4	3	357
John D'Acquisto	4	3	.571	2.13	45	3	24	0	0	10	93.0	60	24	22	2	56	2	104	1	1	5	390
Mickey Lolich	2	1	.667	1.56	20	2	7	0	0	1	34.7	30	6	6	0	11	3	13	1	1	2	140
Dan Spillner	1	0	1.000	4.56	17	0	4	0	0	0	25.7	32	15	13	2	7	1	16	0	0	0	110
Mark Wiley	1	0	1.000	5.87	4	1	1	0	0	0	7.7	11	6	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	35
Dave Wehrmeister	1	0	1.000	6.14	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.3	8	5	5	1	5	1	2	0	0	0	35
Juan Eichelberger	0	0		10.80	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	4	4	4	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	17
Dennis Kinney	0	1	.000	6.43	7	0	4	0	0	0	7.0	6	5	5	3	4	0	2	0	0	0	31
Steve Mura	0	2	.000	11.74	5	2	2	0	0	0	7.7	15	10	10	1	5	0	5	0	0	1	40
Dave Freisleben	0	3	.000	6.08	12	4	2	0	0	0	26.7	41	22	18	3	15	3	16	0	0	2	131
Totals	84	78	.519	3.28	427	162	141	21	7	55	1433.7	1385	598	523	74	483	92	744	12	20	28	6005

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
Dave Winfield	158	649	587	88	181	30	5	24	97	21	9	55	81	.308	.367	.499	.866	293	13	2	0	5	20
Gene Richards	154	629	555	90	171	26	12	4	45	37	17	64	80	.308	.381	.420	.801	233	9	4	2	4	7
Ozzie Smith	159	668	590	69	152	17	6	1	46	40	12	47	43	.258	.311	.312	.623	184	11	0	28	3	0
Oscar Gamble	126	437	375	46	103	15	3	7	47	1	2	51	45	.275	.366	.387	.753	145	2	6	0	5	11
Bill Almon	138	442	405	39	102	19	2	0	21	17	5	33	74	.252	.308	.309	.616	125	6	0	3	1	10
Gene Tenace	142	515	401	60	90	18	4	16	61	6	5	101	98	.224	.392	.409	.801	164	5	11	0	2	8
Fernando Gonzalez	101	350	320	27	80	10	2	2	29	4	4	18	32	.250	.286	.313	.598	100	4	0	7	5	3
Derrel Thomas	128	401	352	36	80	10	2	3	26	11	6	35	37	.227	.301	.293	.594	103	2	3	9	2	3
Jerry Turner	106	250	225	28	63	9	1	8	37	6	4	21	32	.280	.348	.436	.784	98	4	3	0	1	5
Broderick Perkins	62	227	217	14	52	14	1	2	33	4	0	5	29	.240	.253	.341	.594	74	5	0	2	3	2
Rick Sweet	88	259	226	15	50	8	0	1	11	1	4	27	22	.221	.306	.270	.576	61	4	1	4	1	7
Tucker Ashford	75	174	155	11	38	11	0	3	26	1	0	14	31	.245	.301	.374	.675	58	3	0	1	4	1
George Hendrick	36	123	111	9	27	4	0	3	8	1	1	12	16	.243	.317	.360	.677	40	2	0	0	0	0
Barry Evans	24	95	90	7	24	1	1	0	4	0	0	4	10	.267	.295	.300	.595	27	0	0	0	1	1
Don Reynolds	57	102	87	8	22	2	0	0	10	1	0	15	14	.253	.363	.276	.639	24	0	0	0	0	2
Dave Roberts	54	112	97	7	21	4	1	1	7	0	0	12	25	.216	.309	.309	.618	30	2	1	2	0	6
Randy Jones	38	91	82	6	15	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	32	.183	.200	.195	.395	16	1	0	6	1	0
Mike Champion	32	59	53	3	12	0	2	0	4	0	0	5	13	.226	.293	.302	.595	16	1	0	1	0	0
Chuck Baker	44	66	58	8	12	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	15	.207	.233	.224	.457	13	1	0	6	0	0
Bob Owchinko	36	71	63	3	11	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	26	.175	.200	.206	.406	13	0	0	6	0	0
Bob Davis	19	42	40	3	8	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	5	.200	.220	.225	.445	9	3	0	1	0	1
Gaylord Perry	37	102	87	5	8	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	31	.092	.112	.115	.227	10	1	0	13	0	0
Jim Wilhelm	10	22	19	2	7	2	0	0	4	1	0	0	2	.368	.381	.474	.855	9	0	1	1	1	0
Eric Rasmussen	27	54	46	0	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.152	.152	.152	.304	7	0	0	8	0	0
Bob Shirley	50	51	40	4	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	16	.125	.205	.125	.330	5	0	0	7	0	0
John D'Acquisto	45	23	21	1	4	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	8	.190	.261	.238	.499	5	0	0	0	0	0
Rollie Fingers	67	14	12	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	2	0	0
Tony Castillo	5	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Beswick	17	21	20	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.050	.095	.050	.145	1	2	0	0	0	0
Mark Wiley	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mickey Lolich	20	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Freisleben	12	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Dennis Kinney	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Lee	56	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Steve Mura	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Juan Eichelberger	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Spillner	17	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	1	0	0
Dave Wehrmeister	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	2163	6081	5360	591	1349	208	42	75	542	152	70	536	848	.252	.321	.348	.669	1866	81	32	114	39	87

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Gene Tenace	1B	80	67	589.7	668	37	5	61	.993	1.760	8.813	0	0	0
Broderick Perkins	1B	59	52	461.0	538	41	4	56	.993	11.304	9.814	0	0	0
Gene Richards	1B	26	22	195.0	211	12	9	23	.961	1.292	8.577	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	1B	14	12	88.0	113	6	2	9	.983	12.170	8.500	0	0	0
Tucker Ashford	1B	14	7	65.0	60	3	1	11	.984	8.723	4.500	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	1B	8	1	25.0	15	1	0	0	1.000	5.760	2.000	0	0	0
Dave Winfield	1B	2	1	10.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	7.200	4.000	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	2B	94	86	756.7	190	256	8	68	.982	5.305	4.745	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	2B	40	36	278.3	90	98	6	25	.969	6.079	4.700	0	0	0
Mike Champion	2B	20	12	117.0	24	44	5	12	.932	5.231	3.400	0	0	0
Tucker Ashford	2B	18	13	116.7	33	32	2	9	.970	5.014	3.611	0	0	0
Chuck Baker	2B	24	9	111.3	37	42	4	11	.952	6.386	3.292	0	0	0
Bill Almon	2B	7	6	53.7	21	11	1	2	.970	5.366	4.571	0	0	0
Bill Almon	3B	114	99	882.7	72	221	21	20	.933	2.988	2.570	0	0	0
Barry Evans	3B	24	23	202.0	13	59	4	4	.947	3.208	3.000	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	3B	26	25	186.3	22	59	3	4	.964	3.912	3.115	0	0	0
Tucker Ashford	3B	32	15	152.3	15	18	3	2	.917	1.950	1.031	0	0	0
Mike Champion	3B	4	0	8.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.080	.250	0	0	0
Gene Tenace	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rick Sweet	C	76	63	566.7	337	33	6	3	.984	5.876	4.868	8	30	26	46.4
Gene Tenace	C	71	56	490.0	276	42	3	7	.991	5.841	4.479	4	42	23	35.4
Dave Roberts	C	41	30	251.7	135	13	3	0	.980	5.293	3.610	3	18	9	33.3
Bob Davis	C	16	10	99.3	43	5	2	0	.960	4.349	3.000	0	11	5	31.3
Tony Castillo	C	5	3	26.0	16	3	1	0	.950	6.577	3.800	1	1	2	66.7
Dave Winfield	OF	154	151	1327.7	321	7	7	1	.979	2.223	2.130	0	0	0
Gene Richards	OF	124	114	989.3	210	8	8	0	.965	1.983	1.758	0	0	0
Oscar Gamble	OF	107	106	809.3	172	12	4	3	.979	2.046	1.720	0	0	0
Jerry Turner	OF	58	46	413.0	91	5	3	0	.970	2.092	1.655	0	0	0
Derrel Thomas	OF	77	19	293.3	103	5	1	1	.991	3.314	1.403	0	0	0
George Hendrick	OF	33	28	255.7	72	1	1	0	.986	2.570	2.212	0	0	0
Don Reynolds	OF	25	15	128.7	22	2	2	0	.923	1.679	.960	0	0	0
Jim Wilhelm	OF	10	5	51.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.588	.900	0	0	0
Jim Beswick	OF	6	2	31.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.323	1.333	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	OF	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gaylord Perry	P	37	37	260.7	13	40	2	6	.964	1.830	1.432	0	0	0
Randy Jones	P	37	36	253.0	15	51	4	5	.943	2.348	1.784	0	0	0
Bob Owchinko	P	36	33	202.3	6	30	0	3	1.000	1.601	1.000	0	0	0
Bob Shirley	P	50	20	166.0	6	35	0	1	1.000	2.223	.820	0	0	0
Eric Rasmussen	P	27	24	146.3	11	28	1	1	.975	2.399	1.444	0	0	0
Rollie Fingers	P	67	0	107.3	14	12	1	1	.963	2.180	.388	0	0	0
John D'Acquisto	P	45	3	93.0	3	6	0	0	1.000	.871	.200	0	0	0
Mark Lee	P	56	0	85.0	5	22	1	0	.964	2.859	.482	0	0	0
Mickey Lolich	P	20	2	34.7	1	6	0	0	1.000	1.817	.350	0	0	0
Dave Freisleben	P	12	4	26.7	3	4	2	0	.778	2.363	.583	0	0	0
Dan Spillner	P	17	0	25.7	1	2	0	1	1.000	1.052	.176	0	0	0
Mark Wiley	P	4	1	7.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.174	.250	0	0	0
Steve Mura	P	5	2	7.7	0	1	2	0	.333	1.174	.200	0	0	0
Dave Wehrmeister	P	4	0	7.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dennis Kinney	P	7	0	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Juan Eichelberger	P	3	0	3.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	.333	0	0	0
Ozzie Smith	SS	159	154	1327.0	264	548	25	98	.970	5.507	5.107	0	0	0
Bill Almon	SS	15	4	54.7	9	23	1	4	.970	5.268	2.133	0	0	0
Chuck Baker	SS	12	4	52.0	5	28	2	5	.943	5.712	2.750	0	0	0
Totals		2025	1458	12903.0	4301	1915	160	457	.975	4.336	3.070	16	102	65	38.9

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