1978 Texas Rangers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 87-75
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,447,963, Avg. 19,306
Ballpark: Arlington Stadium
Manager: Billy Hunter (86-75)
Manager: Pat Corrales (1-0)
Location: Arlington, Texas

1978 Texas Rangers Roster
1978 Texas Rangers Results

The Texas Rangers of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Rangers scored 692 runs and allowed 632 runs. Bobby Bonds led Texas with 29 home runs, and Richie Zisk walloped 20 or more, too. Al Oliver recorded 89 runs batted in and topped all regular batters with a .324 average. Fergie Jenkins paced the team with 18 wins, while Jon Matlack added 15 or more wins, too Jon Matlack recorded a 2.27 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Billy Hunter and Pat Corrales 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
Fergie Jenkins	18	8	.692	3.04	34	30	3	16	4	0	249.0	228	92	84	21	41	2	157	3	1	2	990
Jon Matlack	15	13	.536	2.27	35	33	2	18	2	1	270.0	252	93	68	14	51	4	157	4	0	8	1097
Steve Comer	11	5	.688	2.30	30	11	14	3	2	1	117.3	107	36	30	5	37	3	65	1	0	2	479
Dock Ellis	9	7	.563	4.20	22	22	0	3	0	0	141.3	131	81	66	15	46	0	45	2	0	3	592
Doc Medich	9	8	.529	3.74	28	22	3	6	2	2	171.0	166	78	71	10	52	2	71	3	0	5	717
Doyle Alexander	9	10	.474	3.86	31	28	3	7	1	0	191.0	198	84	82	18	71	1	81	1	0	4	822
Reggie Cleveland	5	7	.417	3.09	53	0	41	0	0	12	75.7	65	33	26	5	23	6	46	3	1	1	315
Jim Umbarger	5	8	.385	4.88	32	9	11	1	0	1	97.7	116	58	53	9	36	4	60	2	0	2	433
Paul Mirabella	3	2	.600	5.79	10	4	3	0	0	1	28.0	30	18	18	2	17	0	23	0	1	0	125
Danny Darwin	1	0	1.000	4.15	3	1	2	0	0	0	8.7	11	4	4	0	1	0	8	0	0	0	36
Paul Lindblad	1	1	.500	3.63	18	0	9	0	0	2	39.7	41	16	16	2	15	7	25	2	0	2	170
Len Barker	1	5	.167	4.82	29	0	15	0	0	4	52.3	63	31	28	6	29	2	33	2	0	6	243
Roger Moret	0	1	.000	4.91	7	2	2	0	0	1	14.7	23	8	8	1	2	0	5	1	0	0	65
Totals	87	75	.537	3.42	332	162	108	54	11	25	1456.3	1431	632	554	108	421	31	776	24	3	35	6084

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
Al Oliver	133	568	525	65	170	35	5	14	89	8	9	31	41	.324	.358	.490	.848	257	7	2	1	9	6
Jim Sundberg	149	592	518	54	144	23	6	6	58	2	5	64	70	.278	.358	.380	.739	197	18	3	3	4	6
Bump Wills	157	619	539	78	135	17	4	9	57	52	14	63	91	.250	.331	.347	.678	187	11	4	9	4	3
Richie Zisk	140	581	511	68	134	19	1	22	85	3	3	58	76	.262	.338	.432	.770	221	14	3	4	5	7
Bobby Bonds	130	555	475	85	126	15	4	29	82	37	20	69	110	.265	.356	.497	.853	236	12	2	2	7	6
Mike Hargrove	146	616	494	63	124	24	1	7	40	2	5	107	47	.251	.388	.346	.734	171	11	7	2	6	8
Juan Beniquez	127	510	473	61	123	17	3	11	50	10	12	20	59	.260	.292	.378	.670	179	10	3	10	4	1
Toby Harrah	139	547	450	56	103	17	3	12	59	31	8	83	66	.229	.349	.360	.709	162	8	2	9	3	3
Kurt Bevacqua	90	271	248	21	55	12	0	6	30	1	2	18	31	.222	.271	.343	.614	85	8	0	2	3	0
Bert Campaneris	98	319	269	30	50	5	3	1	17	22	4	20	36	.186	.245	.238	.483	64	6	2	25	3	0
John Lowenstein	77	217	176	28	39	8	3	5	21	16	3	37	29	.222	.363	.386	.749	68	2	2	2	0	2
Bobby Thompson	64	136	120	23	27	3	3	2	12	7	2	9	26	.225	.284	.350	.634	42	0	2	2	3	1
John Ellis	34	104	94	7	23	4	0	3	17	0	1	6	20	.245	.282	.383	.665	36	0	0	1	3	0
Jim Mason	55	116	105	10	20	4	0	0	3	0	0	5	17	.190	.227	.229	.456	24	2	0	6	0	0
Mike Jorgensen	96	118	97	20	19	3	0	1	9	3	1	18	10	.196	.319	.258	.577	25	3	0	2	1	1
Johnny Grubb	21	44	33	8	13	3	0	1	6	1	1	11	5	.394	.545	.576	1.121	19	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Gray	17	51	50	4	12	1	0	2	6	1	0	1	12	.240	.255	.380	.635	19	1	0	0	0	0
Nelson Norman	23	35	34	1	9	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.265	.265	.324	.588	11	1	0	1	0	0
Billy Sample	8	15	15	2	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	.467	.467	.600	1.067	9	0	0	0	0	0
Claudell Washington	12	43	42	1	7	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	12	.167	.186	.167	.353	7	1	0	0	0	0
Pat Putnam	20	49	46	4	7	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	5	.152	.188	.239	.427	11	0	0	1	0	1
Sandy Alomar	24	31	29	3	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.207	.233	.241	.475	7	0	0	1	0	0
Greg Mahlberg	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
LaRue Washington	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Umbarger	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Moret	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Mirabella	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Len Barker	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Reggie Cleveland	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Comer	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Darwin	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fergie Jenkins	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Lindblad	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jon Matlack	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doc Medich	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2096	6141	5347	692	1353	216	36	132	650	196	91	624	779	.253	.332	.381	.713	2037	115	32	83	55	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Mike Hargrove	1B	140	139	1124.7	1221	116	17	90	.987	1.699	9.550	0	0	0
Mike Jorgensen	1B	78	17	276.3	299	31	2	23	.994	1.748	4.231	0	0	0
Sandy Alomar	1B	9	4	35.3	35	4	1	4	.975	9.934	4.333	0	0	0
Pat Putnam	1B	4	1	12.0	15	1	0	1	1.000	12.000	4.000	0	0	0
Kurt Bevacqua	1B	1	1	8.0	11	0	0	1	1.000	12.375	11.000	0	0	0
Bump Wills	2B	156	148	1336.3	350	526	17	84	.981	5.900	5.615	0	0	0
Kurt Bevacqua	2B	13	9	79.0	31	29	3	4	.952	6.835	4.615	0	0	0
Sandy Alomar	2B	6	3	32.0	6	13	1	2	.950	5.344	3.167	0	0	0
LaRue Washington	2B	2	1	7.0	0	5	0	2	1.000	6.429	2.500	0	0	0
Jim Mason	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Toby Harrah	3B	91	85	771.7	54	167	8	15	.965	2.578	2.429	0	0	0
Kurt Bevacqua	3B	49	42	381.7	20	87	15	7	.877	2.523	2.184	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	3B	25	21	187.0	22	41	5	2	.926	3.032	2.520	0	0	0
Jim Mason	3B	11	11	79.0	6	13	2	2	.905	2.165	1.727	0	0	0
Nelson Norman	3B	6	2	23.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	2.348	1.000	0	0	0
Sandy Alomar	3B	3	1	14.0	3	2	0	0	1.000	3.214	1.667	0	0	0
Jim Sundberg	C	148	145	1294.7	769	91	3	14	.997	5.978	5.811	8	75	70	48.3
John Ellis	C	22	17	157.7	81	10	4	1	.958	5.195	4.136	4	9	4	30.8
Greg Mahlberg	C	1	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.000	0	0	1	100.0
Juan Beniquez	OF	126	124	1097.7	309	8	9	1	.972	2.599	2.516	0	0	0
Bobby Bonds	OF	111	111	971.3	213	13	7	5	.970	2.094	2.036	0	0	0
Al Oliver	OF	107	107	935.0	219	8	3	1	.987	2.185	2.121	0	0	0
Richie Zisk	OF	90	89	779.7	155	6	2	0	.988	1.858	1.789	0	0	0
Bobby Thompson	OF	52	32	329.7	109	1	2	0	.982	3.003	2.115	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	OF	16	6	76.3	12	1	1	0	.929	1.533	.813	0	0	0
Johnny Grubb	OF	13	6	66.0	14	2	0	1	1.000	2.182	1.231	0	0	0
Claudell Washington	OF	7	7	63.7	11	0	1	0	.917	1.555	1.571	0	0	0
Mike Jorgensen	OF	9	3	43.7	18	0	0	0	1.000	3.710	2.000	0	0	0
Billy Sample	OF	2	1	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jon Matlack	P	35	33	270.0	17	42	5	2	.922	1.967	1.686	0	0	0
Fergie Jenkins	P	34	30	249.0	29	37	1	4	.985	2.386	1.941	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	P	31	28	191.0	17	36	4	1	.930	2.497	1.710	0	0	0
Doc Medich	P	28	22	171.0	11	31	1	2	.977	2.211	1.500	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	P	22	22	141.3	11	22	2	2	.943	2.101	1.500	0	0	0
Steve Comer	P	30	11	117.3	8	20	1	0	.966	2.148	.933	0	0	0
Jim Umbarger	P	32	9	97.7	1	21	2	0	.917	2.027	.688	0	0	0
Reggie Cleveland	P	53	0	75.7	3	13	1	0	.941	1.903	.302	0	0	0
Len Barker	P	29	0	52.3	2	9	1	1	.917	1.892	.379	0	0	0
Paul Lindblad	P	18	0	39.7	0	5	0	1	1.000	1.134	.278	0	0	0
Paul Mirabella	P	10	4	28.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	.964	.300	0	0	0
Roger Moret	P	7	2	14.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.227	.286	0	0	0
Danny Darwin	P	3	1	8.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bert Campaneris	SS	89	87	728.7	151	263	20	44	.954	5.113	4.652	0	0	0
Toby Harrah	SS	49	47	413.0	75	163	3	25	.988	5.186	4.857	0	0	0
Jim Mason	SS	42	20	221.3	41	79	8	12	.938	4.880	2.857	0	0	0
Nelson Norman	SS	18	8	90.7	14	46	1	7	.984	5.956	3.333	0	0	0
Sandy Alomar	SS	2	0	2.7	1	2	0	1	1.000	1.125	1.500	0	0	0
Totals		1831	1457	13107.0	4369	1972	153	363	.976	4.354	3.463	12	84	75	47.2

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