1996 Texas Rangers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 90-72
Finished 1st in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,889,020, Avg. 36,113
Ballpark: The Ballpark at Arlington
Won Division
American League Division Series - Lost to New York Yankees 3-1
Manager: Johnny Oates (90-72)
Location: Arlington, Texas

1996 Texas Rangers Roster
1996 Texas Rangers Results

The Texas Rangers of the American League ended the 1996 season with a record of 90 wins and 72 losses, finishing first in the AL's West Division.

The Rangers plated 928 runs and gave up 799 runs. Juan Gonzalez walloped 47 home runs for Texas, while Mickey Tettleton, Rusty Greer, Dean Palmer, Ivan Rodriguez and Kevin Elster each added 20 or more also. Juan Gonzalez drove in 144 runs. Rusty Greer led all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .332 average. Bobby Witt and Ken Hill topped the team with 16 wins each, plus Roger Pavlik contributed 15 or more wins, too Ken Hill earned a 3.63 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Johnny Oates coached the team. The 1996 Texas Rangers qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Ken Hill	16	10	.615	3.63	35	35	0	7	3	0	250.7	250	110	101	19	95	3	170	6	4	5	1061
Bobby Witt	16	12	.571	5.41	33	32	1	2	0	0	199.7	235	129	120	28	96	3	157	2	1	4	903
Roger Pavlik	15	8	.652	5.19	34	34	0	7	0	0	201.0	216	120	116	28	81	5	127	5	0	8	877
Darren Oliver	14	6	.700	4.66	30	30	0	1	1	0	173.7	190	97	90	20	76	3	112	10	1	5	777
Kevin Gross	11	8	.579	5.22	28	19	4	1	0	0	129.3	151	78	75	19	50	2	78	4	0	4	580
John Burkett	5	2	.714	4.06	10	10	0	1	1	0	68.7	75	33	31	4	16	2	47	2	0	0	289
Dennis Cook	5	2	.714	4.09	60	0	9	0	0	0	70.3	53	34	32	2	35	7	64	7	0	0	298
Jeff Russell	3	3	.500	3.38	55	0	11	0	0	3	56.0	58	22	21	5	22	3	23	4	0	3	249
Gil Heredia	2	5	.286	5.89	44	0	21	0	0	1	73.3	91	50	48	12	14	2	43	1	0	2	320
Ed Vosberg	1	1	.500	3.27	52	0	21	0	0	8	44.0	51	17	16	4	21	4	32	0	2	1	195
Rick Helling	1	2	.333	7.52	6	2	2	0	0	0	20.3	23	17	17	7	9	0	16	0	0	1	92
Mark Brandenburg	1	3	.250	3.21	26	0	8	0	0	0	47.7	48	22	17	3	25	1	37	2	1	0	215
Danny Patterson	0	0		0.00	7	0	5	0	0	0	8.7	10	4	0	0	3	1	5	0	0	0	38
Mike Stanton	0	1	.000	3.22	22	0	9	0	0	0	22.3	20	8	8	2	4	1	14	0	0	0	88
Jose Alberro	0	1	.000	5.79	5	1	1	0	0	0	9.3	14	6	6	1	7	1	2	0	0	0	46
Matt Whiteside	0	1	.000	6.68	14	0	7	0	0	0	32.3	43	24	24	8	11	1	15	0	0	1	148
Mike Henneman	0	7	.000	5.79	49	0	45	0	0	31	42.0	41	28	27	6	17	5	34	0	0	4	182
Totals	90	72	.556	4.65	510	163	144	19	5	43	1449.3	1569	799	749	168	582	44	976	43	9	38	6358

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
Ivan Rodriguez	153	685	639	116	192	47	3	19	86	5	0	38	55	.300	.342	.473	.814	302	15	4	0	4	7
Darryl Hamilton	148	696	627	94	184	29	4	6	51	15	5	54	66	.293	.348	.381	.730	239	15	2	7	6	4
Rusty Greer	139	617	542	96	180	41	6	18	100	9	0	62	86	.332	.397	.530	.927	287	9	3	0	10	4
Juan Gonzalez	134	592	541	89	170	33	2	47	144	2	0	45	82	.314	.368	.643	1.011	348	10	3	0	3	12
Dean Palmer	154	652	582	98	163	26	2	38	107	2	0	59	145	.280	.348	.527	.876	307	15	5	0	6	4
Mark McLemore	147	611	517	84	150	23	4	5	46	27	10	87	69	.290	.389	.379	.768	196	16	0	2	5	5
Kevin Elster	157	596	515	79	130	32	2	24	99	4	1	52	138	.252	.317	.462	.779	238	8	2	16	11	1
Will Clark	117	512	436	69	124	25	1	13	72	2	1	64	67	.284	.377	.436	.813	190	10	5	0	7	5
Mickey Tettleton	143	599	491	78	121	26	1	24	83	2	1	95	137	.246	.366	.450	.816	221	12	3	1	9	8
Warren Newson	91	273	235	34	60	14	1	10	31	3	0	37	82	.255	.355	.451	.806	106	3	0	0	1	1
Damon Buford	90	162	145	30	41	9	0	6	20	8	5	15	34	.283	.348	.469	.817	68	3	0	1	1	0
Dave Valle	42	95	86	14	26	6	1	3	17	0	0	9	17	.302	.368	.500	.868	43	3	0	0	0	0
Kurt Stillwell	46	89	77	12	21	4	0	1	4	0	0	10	11	.273	.364	.364	.727	28	1	1	1	0	0
Rene Gonzales	51	104	92	19	20	4	0	2	5	0	0	10	11	.217	.288	.326	.615	30	3	0	0	2	0
Lee Stevens	27	86	78	6	18	2	3	3	12	0	0	6	22	.231	.291	.449	.739	35	2	1	0	1	0
Lou Frazier	30	60	50	5	13	2	1	0	5	4	2	8	10	.260	.373	.340	.713	17	2	1	1	0	0
Craig Worthington	13	27	19	2	3	0	0	1	4	0	0	6	3	.158	.333	.316	.649	6	1	0	0	2	0
Benji Gil	5	7	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	.400	.500	.400	.900	2	0	0	1	0	0
Luis Ortiz	3	7	7	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	1.000	1.286	7	0	0	0	0	0
Rikkert Faneyte	8	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	2	0	0
Jack Voigt	5	9	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Brown	3	8	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.000	.375	.000	.375	0	0	1	0	1	0
Jeff Russell	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Whiteside	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Stanton	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Vosberg	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Witt	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Pavlik	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Brandenburg	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Burkett	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Cook	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Gross	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Helling	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Henneman	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gil Heredia	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Hill	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Darren Oliver	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Patterson	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Alberro	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2216	6494	5702	928	1622	323	32	221	890	83	26	660	1041	.284	.358	.469	.827	2672	128	31	32	69	51

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Will Clark	1B	117	116	994.7	956	73	4	90	.996	9.311	8.795	0	0	0
Mickey Tettleton	1B	23	23	182.0	161	11	4	14	.977	8.505	7.478	0	0	0
Lee Stevens	1B	18	15	146.0	152	14	1	21	.994	1.233	9.222	0	0	0
Rene Gonzales	1B	23	9	102.7	88	6	1	11	.989	8.240	4.087	0	0	0
Craig Worthington	1B	6	0	14.0	16	4	0	1	1.000	12.857	3.333	0	0	0
Dave Valle	1B	5	0	6.0	5	0	0	1	1.000	7.500	1.000	0	0	0
Kurt Stillwell	1B	1	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	3.000	0	0	0
Rusty Greer	1B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Mark McLemore	2B	147	145	1279.3	313	473	12	115	.985	5.529	5.347	0	0	0
Kurt Stillwell	2B	21	13	126.0	24	29	2	4	.964	3.786	2.524	0	0	0
Rene Gonzales	2B	5	5	42.0	2	18	0	1	1.000	4.286	4.000	0	0	0
Lou Frazier	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Dean Palmer	3B	154	153	1321.3	105	221	16	17	.953	2.220	2.117	0	0	0
Rene Gonzales	3B	15	4	63.0	7	16	0	3	1.000	3.286	1.533	0	0	0
Craig Worthington	3B	7	6	51.0	2	9	1	1	.917	1.941	1.571	0	0	0
Kurt Stillwell	3B	6	0	11.0	0	1	0	1	1.000	.818	.167	0	0	0
Jack Voigt	3B	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Ivan Rodriguez	C	146	141	1223.3	850	81	10	11	.989	6.849	6.377	10	46	48	51.1
Dave Valle	C	35	21	212.0	145	13	1	2	.994	6.708	4.514	0	16	7	30.4
Kevin Brown	C	2	1	14.0	11	1	0	0	1.000	7.714	6.000	0	0	1	100.0
Darryl Hamilton	OF	147	145	1266.3	387	2	0	0	1.000	2.765	2.646	0	0	0
Rusty Greer	OF	137	136	1196.3	304	6	5	0	.984	2.332	2.263	0	0	0
Juan Gonzalez	OF	102	102	856.0	163	6	2	0	.988	1.777	1.657	0	0	0
Warren Newson	OF	66	52	468.0	122	5	1	2	.992	2.442	1.924	0	0	0
Damon Buford	OF	80	34	380.3	93	3	0	0	1.000	2.272	1.200	0	0	0
Lou Frazier	OF	15	12	108.7	31	3	1	0	.971	2.816	2.267	0	0	0
Lee Stevens	OF	5	5	35.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000	0	0	0
Rikkert Faneyte	OF	6	2	21.3	11	0	0	0	1.000	4.641	1.833	0	0	0
Jack Voigt	OF	3	1	14.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	3.214	1.667	0	0	0
Mark McLemore	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rene Gonzales	OF	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Ken Hill	P	35	35	250.7	22	37	1	5	.983	2.118	1.686	0	0	0
Roger Pavlik	P	34	34	201.0	9	14	2	1	.920	1.030	.676	0	0	0
Bobby Witt	P	33	32	199.7	10	28	1	3	.974	1.713	1.152	0	0	0
Darren Oliver	P	30	30	173.7	4	23	1	3	.964	1.399	.900	0	0	0
Kevin Gross	P	28	19	129.3	11	19	2	1	.938	2.088	1.071	0	0	0
Gil Heredia	P	44	0	73.3	7	7	0	0	1.000	1.718	.318	0	0	0
Dennis Cook	P	60	0	70.3	4	5	0	0	1.000	1.152	.150	0	0	0
John Burkett	P	10	10	68.7	7	4	0	0	1.000	1.442	1.100	0	0	0
Jeff Russell	P	55	0	56.0	1	8	0	0	1.000	1.446	.164	0	0	0
Mark Brandenburg	P	26	0	47.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	.566	.115	0	0	0
Ed Vosberg	P	52	0	44.0	1	11	0	0	1.000	2.455	.231	0	0	0
Mike Henneman	P	49	0	42.0	1	6	1	0	.875	1.500	.143	0	0	0
Matt Whiteside	P	14	0	32.3	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.392	.357	0	0	0
Mike Stanton	P	22	0	22.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rick Helling	P	6	2	20.3	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.328	.500	0	0	0
Jose Alberro	P	5	1	9.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.893	.600	0	0	0
Danny Patterson	P	7	0	8.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.077	.286	0	0	0
Kevin Elster	SS	157	155	1355.0	285	441	14	103	.981	4.822	4.624	0	0	0
Rene Gonzales	SS	10	4	47.0	12	21	1	5	.971	6.319	3.300	0	0	0
Kurt Stillwell	SS	9	2	27.3	3	9	1	0	.923	3.951	1.333	0	0	0
Benji Gil	SS	5	2	20.0	5	7	1	0	.923	5.400	2.400	0	0	0
Totals		1988	1467	13044.0	4348	1647	87	416	.986	4.136	3.016	10	62	56	47.5

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
John Burkett	ALDS2	1	0	1.000	2.00	1	1	0	1	9.0	10	2	2	0	1	0	7	0	0	38
Ed Vosberg	ALDS2	0	0			1	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Mike Henneman	ALDS2	0	0		0.00	3	0	2	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	6
Dennis Cook	ALDS2	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	1.3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
Danny Patterson	ALDS2	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Jeff Russell	ALDS2	0	0		3.00	2	0	0	0	3.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	11
Ken Hill	ALDS2	0	0		4.50	1	1	0	0	6.0	5	3	3	1	3	0	1	1	0	27
Bobby Witt	ALDS2	0	0		8.10	1	1	0	0	3.3	4	3	3	0	2	0	3	0	1	16
Mike Stanton	ALDS2	0	1	.000	2.70	3	0	1	0	3.3	2	2	1	1	3	0	3	0	0	13
Darren Oliver	ALDS2	0	1	.000	3.38	1	1	0	0	8.0	6	3	3	1	2	0	3	1	0	29
Roger Pavlik	ALDS2	0	1	.000	6.75	1	0	0	0	2.7	4	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	12
Totals		1	3	.250	3.55	17	4	3	1	38.0	37	16	15	4	13	1	20	2	1	160

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	IBB
Juan Gonzalez	ALDS2	4	19	16	5	7	0	5	9	0	0	3	2	.438	.526	1.375	1.901	22	0	0	1
Ivan Rodriguez	ALDS2	4	19	16	1	6	1	0	2	0	0	2	3	.375	.444	.438	.882	7	0	1	0
Kevin Elster	ALDS2	4	15	12	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	3	2	.333	.467	.500	.967	6	0	0	0
Dean Palmer	ALDS2	4	19	19	3	4	1	1	2	0	0	0	5	.211	.211	.421	.632	8	0	0	0
Darryl Hamilton	ALDS2	4	20	19	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.158	.158	.158	.316	3	0	1	0
Mark McLemore	ALDS2	4	17	15	1	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	4	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	2	0
Will Clark	ALDS2	4	19	16	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.125	.263	.125	.388	2	1	0	1
Rusty Greer	ALDS2	4	19	16	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.125	.263	.125	.388	2	1	0	0
Mickey Tettleton	ALDS2	4	17	12	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	7	.083	.353	.083	.436	1	0	0	0
Warren Newson	ALDS2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Damon Buford	ALDS2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
John Burkett	ALDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dennis Cook	ALDS2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Rene Gonzales	ALDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Mike Henneman	ALDS2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Ken Hill	ALDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Darren Oliver	ALDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Danny Patterson	ALDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Roger Pavlik	ALDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Jeff Russell	ALDS2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Mike Stanton	ALDS2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Ed Vosberg	ALDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Bobby Witt	ALDS2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		58	166	142	16	31	4	6	16	1	1	20	30	.218	.315	.373	.688	53	2	4	2

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Will Clark	ALDS2	1B	4	4	38.0	36	5	0	5	1.000	9.711	1.250
Mark McLemore	ALDS2	2B	4	4	38.0	8	17	0	2	1.000	5.921	6.250
Dean Palmer	ALDS2	3B	4	4	38.0	3	9	1	0	.923	2.842	3.000
Ivan Rodriguez	ALDS2	C	4	4	38.0	21	3	0	1	1.000	5.684	6.000
Darryl Hamilton	ALDS2	CF	4	4	38.0	16	1	0	1	1.000	4.026	4.250
Rusty Greer	ALDS2	LF	4	4	38.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	2.842	3.000
John Burkett	ALDS2	P	1	1	9.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000
Darren Oliver	ALDS2	P	1	1	8.0	0	3	0	2	1.000	3.375	3.000
Ken Hill	ALDS2	P	1	1	6.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	3.000
Bobby Witt	ALDS2	P	1	1	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Mike Stanton	ALDS2	P	3	0	3.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.700	.333
Jeff Russell	ALDS2	P	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Roger Pavlik	ALDS2	P	1	0	2.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.000
Dennis Cook	ALDS2	P	2	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Mike Henneman	ALDS2	P	3	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Danny Patterson	ALDS2	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Ed Vosberg	ALDS2	P	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000
Juan Gonzalez	ALDS2	RF	4	4	38.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.895	2.000
Kevin Elster	ALDS2	SS	4	4	37.0	7	7	1	4	.933	3.405	3.500
Rene Gonzales	ALDS2	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Totals			50	36	342.0	114	48	2	15	.988	4.263	3.240

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