1981 Texas Rangers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 57-48
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 850,076, Avg. 15,797
Ballpark: Arlington Stadium
Manager: Don Zimmer (57-48)
Location: Arlington, Texas

1981 Texas Rangers Roster
1981 Texas Rangers Results

The Texas Rangers of the American League ended the 1981 season with a record of 57 wins and 48 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Rangers scored 452 runs and gave up 389 runs. Buddy Bell led Texas with 10 home runs and drove in 64 runs. Al Oliver topped all regular batters with a .309 average. Rick Honeycutt paced the squad with 11 wins, while Doc Medich recorded a 3.08 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Don Zimmer 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
Rick Honeycutt	11	6	.647	3.31	20	20	0	8	2	0	127.7	120	49	47	12	17	1	40	0	0	1	509
Doc Medich	10	6	.625	3.08	20	20	0	4	4	0	143.3	136	51	49	8	33	5	65	2	0	1	585
Danny Darwin	9	9	.500	3.64	22	22	0	6	2	0	146.0	115	67	59	12	57	5	98	6	0	1	601
Steve Comer	8	2	.800	2.56	36	1	22	0	0	6	77.3	70	25	22	1	31	8	22	1	0	2	330
Fergie Jenkins	5	8	.385	4.50	19	16	2	1	0	0	106.0	122	55	53	14	40	4	63	0	0	2	467
Charlie Hough	4	1	.800	2.96	21	5	9	2	0	1	82.0	61	30	27	4	31	1	69	3	0	4	330
Jon Matlack	4	7	.364	4.14	17	16	0	1	1	0	104.3	101	59	48	8	41	1	43	1	0	2	447
John Henry Johnson	3	1	.750	2.66	24	0	15	0	0	2	23.7	19	7	7	2	6	1	8	1	0	1	94
Bob Babcock	1	1	.500	2.20	16	0	7	0	0	0	28.7	21	7	7	2	16	1	18	1	0	0	117
John Butcher	1	2	.333	1.63	5	3	1	1	1	0	27.7	18	6	5	0	8	1	19	0	0	0	106
Jim Kern	1	2	.333	2.70	23	0	15	0	0	6	30.0	21	10	9	0	22	3	20	1	1	1	131
Bob Lacey	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Dave Schmidt	0	1	.000	3.13	14	1	8	0	0	1	31.7	31	11	11	1	11	3	13	1	1	3	132
Mark Mercer	0	1	.000	4.70	7	0	2	0	0	2	7.7	7	4	4	1	7	0	8	0	0	0	36
Len Whitehouse	0	1	.000	16.20	2	1	0	0	0	0	3.3	8	7	6	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	20
Totals	57	48	.543	3.40	247	105	82	23	10	18	940.3	851	389	355	67	322	34	488	17	2	18	3909

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	102	448	421	53	130	29	1	4	55	3	0	24	28	.309	.348	.411	.759	173	17	2	0	1	10
Mickey Rivers	99	428	399	62	114	21	2	3	26	9	5	24	31	.286	.327	.371	.698	148	3	1	3	1	2
Buddy Bell	97	415	360	44	106	16	1	10	64	3	3	42	30	.294	.364	.428	.792	154	6	3	0	10	10
Bump Wills	102	454	410	51	103	13	2	2	41	12	9	32	49	.251	.304	.307	.611	126	8	1	6	5	2
Jim Sundberg	102	396	339	42	94	17	2	3	28	2	5	50	48	.277	.369	.366	.735	124	5	1	3	3	6
Pat Putnam	95	317	297	33	79	17	2	8	35	4	2	17	38	.266	.304	.418	.721	124	4	0	1	2	3
Billy Sample	66	260	230	36	65	16	0	3	25	4	1	17	21	.283	.346	.391	.738	90	3	7	3	3	1
Leon Roberts	72	266	233	26	65	17	2	4	31	3	4	25	38	.279	.345	.421	.765	98	8	1	2	5	2
Mario Mendoza	88	254	229	18	53	6	1	0	22	2	1	7	25	.231	.254	.266	.521	61	9	1	14	3	0
Johnny Grubb	67	226	199	26	46	9	1	3	26	0	3	23	25	.231	.316	.332	.647	66	6	2	1	1	0
Bill Stein	53	126	115	21	38	6	0	2	22	1	2	7	15	.330	.360	.435	.795	50	5	0	1	3	3
Mark Wagner	50	95	85	15	22	4	1	1	14	1	1	8	13	.259	.323	.365	.687	31	2	0	2	0	0
Tom Poquette	30	71	64	2	10	1	0	0	7	0	1	5	1	.156	.225	.172	.397	11	3	1	0	1	0
Bob Jones	10	35	34	4	9	1	0	3	7	0	1	1	7	.265	.286	.559	.845	19	0	0	0	0	0
John Ellis	23	64	58	2	8	3	0	1	7	0	1	5	10	.138	.219	.241	.460	14	3	1	0	0	1
Rick Lisi	9	20	16	6	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	0	.313	.450	.313	.763	5	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Johnson	6	19	18	2	5	0	0	2	4	0	0	1	3	.278	.316	.611	.927	11	1	0	0	0	0
Dan Duran	13	17	16	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.294	.250	.544	4	1	0	0	0	0
Wayne Tolleson	14	25	24	6	4	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	5	.167	.200	.167	.367	4	0	0	0	0	0
Nelson Norman	7	15	13	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.231	.267	.308	.574	4	0	0	0	1	0
Larry Cox	5	13	13	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.231	.231	.308	.538	4	0	0	0	0	0
Don Werner	2	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Schmidt	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Len Whitehouse	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Mercer	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Butcher	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Comer	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Darwin	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Honeycutt	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Hough	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fergie Jenkins	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Henry Johnson	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Kern	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Lacey	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jon Matlack	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doc Medich	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Babcock	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1359	3972	3581	452	968	178	15	49	418	46	41	295	396	.270	.326	.369	.696	1323	84	21	36	39	40

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Pat Putnam	1B	94	76	696.0	769	64	6	65	.993	1.772	8.862	0	0	0
John Ellis	1B	18	13	117.0	140	8	1	16	.993	11.385	8.222	0	0	0
Bill Stein	1B	20	15	116.3	146	10	0	9	1.000	12.069	7.800	0	0	0
Bob Johnson	1B	1	1	9.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	9.000	0	0	0
Al Oliver	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Dan Duran	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Bump Wills	2B	101	101	894.3	268	326	10	70	.983	5.978	5.881	0	0	0
Mark Wagner	2B	4	4	37.0	13	15	1	5	.966	6.811	7.000	0	0	0
Bill Stein	2B	3	0	9.0	2	3	0	1	1.000	5.000	1.667	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	3B	96	96	835.7	66	281	14	18	.961	3.737	3.615	0	0	0
Bill Stein	3B	7	5	50.0	4	12	1	0	.941	2.880	2.286	0	0	0
Wayne Tolleson	3B	6	4	47.7	5	8	0	0	1.000	2.455	2.167	0	0	0
Mark Wagner	3B	2	0	7.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	7.714	3.000	0	0	0
Jim Sundberg	C	98	97	863.3	464	52	2	9	.996	5.379	5.265	8	41	38	48.1
Larry Cox	C	5	5	43.0	33	2	0	0	1.000	7.326	7.000	2	7	0	0.0
Bob Johnson	C	5	3	34.0	22	0	0	0	1.000	5.824	4.400	0	2	0	0.0
Mickey Rivers	OF	97	94	832.3	225	12	1	3	.996	2.563	2.443	0	0	0
Leon Roberts	OF	71	63	581.7	130	2	1	0	.992	2.042	1.859	0	0	0
Billy Sample	OF	64	63	558.0	132	4	1	1	.993	2.194	2.125	0	0	0
Johnny Grubb	OF	58	56	479.0	95	2	1	0	.990	1.823	1.672	0	0	0
Tom Poquette	OF	18	15	132.0	26	0	1	0	.963	1.773	1.444	0	0	0
Bob Jones	OF	10	9	79.0	20	4	0	0	1.000	2.734	2.400	0	0	0
Bill Stein	OF	8	6	54.0	13	1	1	0	.933	2.333	1.750	0	0	0
Rick Lisi	OF	8	3	45.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.125	0	0	0
Dan Duran	OF	7	3	36.0	6	1	0	0	1.000	1.750	1.000	0	0	0
Pat Putnam	OF	3	2	13.0	2	0	1	0	.667	1.385	.667	0	0	0
Jim Sundberg	OF	2	1	11.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.818	.500	0	0	0
Danny Darwin	P	22	22	146.0	8	16	2	3	.923	1.479	1.091	0	0	0
Doc Medich	P	20	20	143.3	15	26	1	1	.976	2.574	2.050	0	0	0
Rick Honeycutt	P	20	20	127.7	3	30	3	1	.917	2.326	1.650	0	0	0
Fergie Jenkins	P	19	16	106.0	10	22	0	3	1.000	2.717	1.684	0	0	0
Jon Matlack	P	17	16	104.3	2	20	2	0	.917	1.898	1.294	0	0	0
Charlie Hough	P	21	5	82.0	2	8	0	1	1.000	1.098	.476	0	0	0
Steve Comer	P	36	1	77.3	5	18	1	2	.958	2.677	.639	0	0	0
Dave Schmidt	P	14	1	31.7	1	6	0	0	1.000	1.989	.500	0	0	0
Jim Kern	P	23	0	30.0	3	3	1	0	.857	1.800	.261	0	0	0
Bob Babcock	P	16	0	28.7	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.884	.375	0	0	0
John Butcher	P	5	3	27.7	3	5	0	0	1.000	2.602	1.600	0	0	0
John Henry Johnson	P	24	0	23.7	1	7	0	1	1.000	3.042	.333	0	0	0
Mark Mercer	P	7	0	7.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.348	.286	0	0	0
Len Whitehouse	P	2	1	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bob Lacey	P	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Mario Mendoza	SS	88	83	687.7	114	270	12	47	.970	5.026	4.364	0	0	0
Mark Wagner	SS	43	18	205.7	39	68	4	13	.964	4.682	2.488	0	0	0
Nelson Norman	SS	5	4	38.0	5	21	1	5	.963	6.158	5.200	0	0	0
Wayne Tolleson	SS	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bill Stein	SS	1	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	SS	1	0	2.0	1	3	0	1	1.000	18.000	4.000	0	0	0
Totals		1195	945	8463.0	2821	1340	69	275	.984	4.425	3.482	10	50	38	43.2

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