1972 Texas Rangers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 54-100
Finished 6th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 662,974, Avg. 8,897
Ballpark: Arlington Stadium
Manager: Ted Williams (54-100)
Location: Arlington, Texas

1972 Texas Rangers Roster
1972 Texas Rangers Results

The Texas Rangers of the American League ended the 1972 season with a record of 54 wins and 100 losses, finishing sixth in the AL's West Division.

The Rangers scored 461 runs and conceded 628 runs, most in the circuit. Ted Ford led Texas with 14 home runs Dick Billings drove in 58 runs and topped all regular hitters with a .254 average. Rich Hand paced the squad with 10 wins, while Mike Paul earned a 2.17 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Ted Williams 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
Rich Hand	10	14	.417	3.32	30	28	1	2	1	0	170.7	139	66	63	12	103	8	109	3	0	2	744
Mike Paul	8	9	.471	2.17	49	20	11	2	1	1	161.7	149	50	39	4	52	12	108	2	2	3	674
Dick Bosman	8	10	.444	3.63	29	29	0	1	1	0	173.3	183	87	70	11	48	6	105	6	0	2	737
Paul Lindblad	5	8	.385	2.62	66	0	33	0	0	9	99.7	95	31	29	7	29	6	51	0	0	3	410
Jim Panther	5	9	.357	4.13	58	4	20	0	0	0	93.7	101	55	43	8	46	8	44	5	0	0	422
Pete Broberg	5	12	.294	4.29	39	25	4	3	2	1	176.3	153	93	84	14	85	3	133	13	0	14	760
Bill Gogolewski	4	11	.267	4.24	36	21	6	2	1	2	150.7	136	74	71	9	58	9	95	6	0	7	640
Casey Cox	3	5	.375	4.41	35	4	12	0	0	4	65.3	73	41	32	7	26	7	27	1	0	2	296
Jim Shellenback	2	4	.333	3.47	22	6	7	0	0	1	57.0	46	24	22	6	16	0	30	2	0	0	228
Horacio Pina	2	7	.222	3.20	60	0	40	0	0	15	76.0	61	33	27	3	43	7	60	8	0	3	326
Don Stanhouse	2	9	.182	3.78	24	16	3	1	0	0	104.7	83	48	44	8	73	5	78	1	2	6	459
Steve Lawson	0	0		2.81	13	0	3	0	0	1	16.0	13	6	5	1	10	0	13	0	0	0	71
Jan Dukes	0	0		3.86	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	1	2	1	0	5	1	0	0	0	1	13
Jim Roland	0	0		8.10	5	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	7	3	3	1	2	1	4	1	0	0	20
Rich Hinton	0	1	.000	2.38	5	0	0	0	0	0	11.3	7	10	3	1	10	1	4	0	0	0	52
Gerry Janeski	0	1	.000	2.84	4	1	0	0	0	0	12.7	11	5	4	0	7	0	7	0	0	1	58
Totals	54	100	.351	3.54	478	154	143	11	6	34	1374.7	1258	628	540	92	613	74	868	48	4	44	5910

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
Dick Billings	133	508	469	41	119	15	1	5	58	1	5	29	77	.254	.296	.322	.618	151	13	2	2	6	5
Dave Nelson	145	580	499	68	113	16	3	2	28	51	17	67	81	.226	.324	.283	.607	141	4	5	9	0	3
Ted Ford	129	481	429	43	101	19	1	14	50	4	3	37	80	.235	.297	.382	.680	164	6	3	7	5	2
Larry Biittner	137	422	382	34	99	18	1	3	31	1	3	29	37	.259	.313	.335	.648	128	7	2	6	3	5
Toby Harrah	116	419	374	47	97	14	3	1	31	16	7	34	31	.259	.316	.321	.637	120	3	0	5	6	1
Elliott Maddox	98	349	294	40	74	7	2	0	10	20	10	49	53	.252	.361	.289	.650	85	7	2	3	1	4
Joe Lovitto	117	373	330	23	74	9	1	1	19	13	11	37	54	.224	.306	.267	.573	88	8	2	4	0	2
Frank Howard	95	331	287	28	70	9	0	9	31	1	0	42	55	.244	.341	.369	.711	106	16	1	0	1	8
Lenny Randle	74	267	249	23	48	13	0	2	21	4	5	13	51	.193	.235	.269	.504	67	8	1	3	1	2
Don Mincher	61	243	191	23	45	10	0	6	39	2	1	46	23	.236	.384	.382	.766	73	2	2	1	3	1
Tom Grieve	64	158	142	12	29	2	1	3	11	1	3	11	39	.204	.271	.296	.567	42	1	2	3	0	1
Jim Mason	46	159	147	10	29	3	0	0	10	0	0	9	39	.197	.247	.218	.465	32	3	1	1	1	0
Ted Kubiak	46	130	116	5	26	3	0	0	7	0	1	12	12	.224	.300	.250	.550	29	4	1	0	1	3
Vic Harris	61	198	186	8	26	5	1	0	10	7	3	12	39	.140	.192	.177	.369	33	0	0	0	0	1
Dalton Jones	72	166	151	14	24	2	0	4	19	1	0	10	31	.159	.207	.252	.459	38	2	0	2	3	1
Hal King	50	150	122	12	22	5	0	4	12	0	0	25	35	.180	.333	.320	.653	39	3	3	0	0	1
Bill Fahey	39	133	119	8	20	2	0	1	10	4	0	12	23	.168	.250	.210	.460	25	3	1	1	0	0
Jeff Burroughs	22	70	65	4	12	1	0	1	3	0	2	5	22	.185	.243	.246	.489	16	2	0	0	0	0
Tom Ragland	25	64	58	3	10	2	0	0	2	0	1	5	11	.172	.238	.207	.445	12	1	0	1	0	0
Mike Paul	49	52	48	2	8	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	19	.167	.184	.229	.413	11	0	0	3	0	0
Rich Hand	30	58	52	2	8	2	1	0	3	0	0	1	13	.154	.200	.231	.431	12	0	2	3	0	0
Marty Martinez	26	44	41	3	6	1	1	0	3	0	1	2	8	.146	.182	.220	.401	9	1	0	0	1	0
Ken Suarez	25	36	33	2	5	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	4	.152	.167	.182	.348	6	1	0	0	2	0
Bill Gogolewski	36	44	40	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	16	.125	.167	.125	.292	5	1	0	2	0	0
Dick Bosman	29	67	53	1	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	19	.094	.111	.113	.224	6	1	0	13	0	0
Don Stanhouse	26	35	31	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	10	.129	.182	.161	.343	5	2	0	2	0	0
Pete Broberg	39	57	51	1	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	24	.078	.096	.118	.214	6	0	0	5	0	0
Paul Lindblad	66	17	15	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	3	0	0	2	0	0
Steve Lawson	13	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	5	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.500	2.000	3	0	0	0	0	0
Horacio Pina	60	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	2	0	0
Jim Panther	58	12	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.125	.222	.125	.347	1	0	0	3	0	0
Casey Cox	35	12	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.111	.333	.111	.444	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Shellenback	22	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	0	0	1	0	0
Gerry Janeski	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Driscoll	15	20	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	1	0	0	0	1
Jim Roland	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jan Dukes	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2076	5680	5029	461	1092	166	17	56	424	126	73	503	926	.217	.290	.290	.581	1460	100	30	84	34	41

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Frank Howard	1B	66	55	473.0	440	27	9	39	.981	8.886	7.076	0	0	0
Don Mincher	1B	59	57	467.0	467	44	3	45	.994	9.848	8.661	0	0	0
Larry Biittner	1B	65	42	414.0	410	36	4	36	.991	9.696	6.862	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	1B	7	0	14.0	17	0	0	0	1.000	1.929	2.429	0	0	0
Jeff Burroughs	1B	1	0	6.0	6	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	6.000	0	0	0
Dick Billings	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Lenny Randle	2B	65	57	535.0	151	166	16	38	.952	5.333	4.877	0	0	0
Vic Harris	2B	58	53	467.0	110	132	10	29	.960	4.664	4.172	0	0	0
Ted Kubiak	2B	25	20	173.0	55	49	1	12	.990	5.410	4.160	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	2B	17	12	98.0	26	32	2	8	.967	5.327	3.412	0	0	0
Tom Ragland	2B	13	11	89.0	25	29	1	5	.982	5.461	4.154	0	0	0
Jim Driscoll	2B	4	1	12.0	5	4	1	2	.900	6.750	2.250	0	0	0
Marty Martinez	2B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	3B	119	113	1006.0	107	222	19	25	.945	2.943	2.765	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	3B	23	20	175.0	15	31	1	3	.979	2.366	2.000	0	0	0
Jim Mason	3B	10	10	81.0	6	13	2	0	.905	2.111	1.900	0	0	0
Dick Billings	3B	5	5	43.0	3	14	3	0	.850	3.558	3.400	0	0	0
Marty Martinez	3B	4	3	27.0	2	7	2	1	.818	3.000	2.250	0	0	0
Tom Ragland	3B	5	2	24.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.800	0	0	0
Jim Driscoll	3B	2	0	11.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	4.091	2.500	0	0	0
Ted Kubiak	3B	1	1	8.0	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.125	1.000	0	0	0
Dick Billings	C	92	78	699.0	478	45	10	13	.981	6.734	5.685	12	43	29	40.3
Bill Fahey	C	39	36	317.0	236	26	2	4	.992	7.438	6.718	1	20	16	44.4
Hal King	C	38	34	291.0	181	16	6	3	.970	6.093	5.184	1	13	8	38.1
Ken Suarez	C	17	6	67.0	53	2	2	0	.965	7.388	3.235	0	1	3	75.0
Ted Ford	OF	119	114	993.0	242	11	6	2	.977	2.293	2.126	0	0	0
Joe Lovitto	OF	103	90	806.0	233	7	6	2	.976	2.680	2.330	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	OF	94	80	731.0	199	7	2	4	.990	2.536	2.191	0	0	0
Larry Biittner	OF	65	56	482.0	93	5	4	1	.961	1.830	1.508	0	0	0
Tom Grieve	OF	49	35	318.0	60	6	1	0	.985	1.868	1.347	0	0	0
Dick Billings	OF	41	35	314.0	66	5	3	0	.959	2.035	1.732	0	0	0
Frank Howard	OF	21	21	167.0	25	0	1	0	.962	1.347	1.190	0	0	0
Jeff Burroughs	OF	19	13	149.0	27	2	2	0	.935	1.752	1.526	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	OF	15	16	140.0	24	0	3	0	.889	1.543	1.600	0	0	0
Lenny Randle	OF	2	2	17.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.647	2.500	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	OF	2	0	8.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Pete Broberg	P	39	25	176.0	16	27	1	2	.977	2.199	1.103	0	0	0
Dick Bosman	P	29	29	173.0	17	28	1	3	.978	2.341	1.552	0	0	0
Rich Hand	P	30	28	171.0	10	25	3	2	.921	1.842	1.167	0	0	0
Mike Paul	P	49	20	162.0	7	19	0	3	1.000	1.444	.531	0	0	0
Bill Gogolewski	P	36	21	151.0	7	21	0	2	1.000	1.669	.778	0	0	0
Don Stanhouse	P	24	16	105.0	8	23	2	1	.939	2.657	1.292	0	0	0
Paul Lindblad	P	66	0	100.0	0	15	0	1	1.000	1.350	.227	0	0	0
Jim Panther	P	58	4	94.0	5	17	1	0	.957	2.106	.379	0	0	0
Horacio Pina	P	60	0	76.0	5	22	2	4	.931	3.197	.450	0	0	0
Casey Cox	P	35	4	65.0	4	11	0	0	1.000	2.077	.429	0	0	0
Jim Shellenback	P	22	6	57.0	4	5	0	0	1.000	1.421	.409	0	0	0
Steve Lawson	P	13	0	16.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.125	.154	0	0	0
Gerry Janeski	P	4	1	13.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.769	1.000	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	P	5	0	11.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.455	.600	0	0	0
Jim Roland	P	5	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jan Dukes	P	3	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.333	0	0	0
Toby Harrah	SS	106	104	906.0	166	308	20	64	.960	4.709	4.472	0	0	0
Jim Mason	SS	32	32	276.0	52	93	8	14	.948	4.728	4.531	0	0	0
Ted Kubiak	SS	15	9	103.0	21	27	1	4	.980	4.194	3.200	0	0	0
Marty Martinez	SS	5	4	34.0	10	7	1	1	.944	4.500	3.400	0	0	0
Lenny Randle	SS	4	2	26.0	5	11	4	1	.800	5.538	4.000	0	0	0
Tom Ragland	SS	3	2	21.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	2.571	2.000	0	0	0
Vic Harris	SS	1	1	9.0	3	3	0	1	1.000	6.000	6.000	0	0	0
Totals		1911	1386	12374.0	4116	1618	166	378	.972	4.171	3.001	14	77	56	42.1

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