1972 Denver Bears Statistics
Team Record: 61-79
Finished 3rd in the AA's West Division
Manager: Del Wilber (61-79)
Affiliation: Texas Rangers
Location: Denver, Colorado
Ballpark: Mile High Stadium
Attendance: 128,568, Avg. 1,837
The Denver Bears of the American Association ended the 1972 season with a record of 61 wins and 79 losses, finishing third in the league's West Division.
The Bears scored 591 runs and conceded 697 runs, most in the circuit. Jeff Burroughs led Denver with 24 home runs and accounted for 59 RBI. Gerry Janeski topped the squad with 11 wins, while Rick Henninger registered a 2.87 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.
Players from the 1972 Denver Bears who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Hal King, Jackie Brown, Chuck Harrison, Gerry Janeski, Cisco Carlos, Bob Jones, Jeff Burroughs, Rich Hand, Bill Madlock, Steve Foucault, Jim Miles, Cotton Nash, Rick Henninger, Mike Thompson, Dick Nen, Ron Law, Ron Pruitt, Jim Mason, Dave Moates, Bill Fahey, Ted Ford, Jim Kremmel, Pete Mackanin, Chuck Machemehl, Don Castle, Don Stanhouse, Garland Shifflett, Rick Stelmaszek, Ken Suarez, Dick Kelley, Norm McRae, Tom Ragland, Lenny Randle, Jim Driscoll and Jan Dukes.
Del Wilber served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
| Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerry Janeski | 11 | 10 | .524 | 4.79 | 29 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 156.0 | 178 | 96 | 83 | 18 | 30 | 1 | 62 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Rick Henninger | 9 | 8 | .529 | 2.87 | 28 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 160.0 | 134 | 56 | 51 | 7 | 44 | 2 | 123 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Cisco Carlos | 7 | 8 | .467 | 3.88 | 31 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 109.0 | 119 | 57 | 47 | 10 | 43 | 4 | 74 | 9 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Mike Thompson | 6 | 8 | .429 | 4.10 | 20 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 112.0 | 96 | 59 | 51 | 7 | 64 | 1 | 88 | 5 | 0 | 12 | ||
| Jackie Brown | 6 | 17 | .261 | 5.51 | 32 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 165.0 | 212 | 120 | 101 | 14 | 60 | 1 | 128 | 3 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Garland Shifflett | 5 | 4 | .556 | 4.70 | 51 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 88.0 | 102 | 54 | 46 | 9 | 29 | 4 | 55 | 6 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Steve Foucault | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2.79 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 42.0 | 33 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jim Kremmel | 3 | 5 | .375 | 4.71 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65.0 | 69 | 39 | 34 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 60 | 6 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Ron Law | 3 | 9 | .250 | 5.02 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 61.0 | 64 | 37 | 34 | 6 | 28 | 1 | 49 | 6 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Don Stanhouse | 2 | 2 | .500 | 3.86 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 35.0 | 28 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Jim Miles | 2 | 2 | .500 | 7.31 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64.0 | 80 | 55 | 52 | 5 | 40 | 5 | 45 | 7 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Rich Hand | 1 | 1 | .500 | 3.46 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Norm McRae | 1 | 1 | .500 | 4.88 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24.0 | 27 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Jan Dukes | 1 | 1 | .500 | 5.19 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59.0 | 75 | 40 | 34 | 4 | 19 | 2 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Dick Kelley | 1 | 1 | .500 | 5.79 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Chuck Machemehl | 12 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cotton Nash | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Don Castle | 0 | 0 | 5.14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 61 | 79 | .436 | 4.53 | 365 | 140 | 0 | 31 | 6 | 24 | 1175.0 | 1252 | 687 | 592 | 85 | 472 | 28 | 841 | 50 | 2 | 47 | 0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Jones | 118 | 381 | 345 | 46 | 99 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 46 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 77 | .287 | .340 | .409 | .748 | 141 | 2 | 4 | 3 | ||
| Jeff Burroughs | 84 | 351 | 307 | 60 | 93 | 13 | 2 | 24 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 73 | .303 | .386 | .593 | .979 | 182 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Jim Mason | 86 | 390 | 327 | 59 | 89 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 3 | 4 | 59 | 80 | .272 | .379 | .401 | .780 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Steve Greenberg | 104 | 362 | 318 | 48 | 84 | 18 | 5 | 12 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 75 | .264 | .343 | .465 | .809 | 148 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Joe Patterson | 99 | 295 | 264 | 26 | 81 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 48 | .307 | .374 | .398 | .772 | 105 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Tom Ragland | 88 | 391 | 330 | 45 | 81 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 38 | 5 | 2 | 45 | 50 | .245 | .353 | .355 | .708 | 117 | 11 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Don Castle | 111 | 382 | 326 | 42 | 80 | 18 | 2 | 9 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 81 | .245 | .348 | .396 | .744 | 129 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Jim Driscoll | 80 | 326 | 274 | 44 | 67 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 4 | 42 | 49 | .245 | .349 | .336 | .685 | 92 | 4 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Bill Fahey | 75 | 273 | 226 | 28 | 61 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 39 | .270 | .386 | .341 | .727 | 77 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Cotton Nash | 64 | 208 | 182 | 21 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 42 | .258 | .346 | .401 | .747 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Dick Nen | 51 | 189 | 160 | 19 | 43 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 28 | .269 | .365 | .425 | .790 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Lenny Randle | 41 | 181 | 161 | 23 | 42 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 31 | .261 | .339 | .329 | .668 | 53 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ron Pruitt | 60 | 195 | 167 | 22 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 34 | .216 | .320 | .335 | .655 | 56 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Chuck Harrison | 46 | 170 | 147 | 15 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 17 | .238 | .337 | .313 | .650 | 46 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ken Suarez | 35 | 101 | 91 | 6 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | .341 | .406 | .407 | .813 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Rick Guarnera | 46 | 139 | 130 | 10 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 33 | .215 | .266 | .254 | .520 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Gary Ratliff | 76 | 156 | 127 | 17 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 46 | .189 | .340 | .307 | .647 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Pete Mackanin | 29 | 96 | 90 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 15 | .211 | .260 | .244 | .505 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hal King | 23 | 70 | 60 | 8 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 17 | .283 | .371 | .500 | .871 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Bill Madlock | 26 | 71 | 61 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | .213 | .310 | .311 | .621 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Mike Thompson | 20 | 46 | 39 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | .282 | .317 | .282 | .599 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Jackie Brown | 33 | 63 | 57 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22 | .193 | .233 | .228 | .461 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Dave Moates | 20 | 55 | 47 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | .191 | .309 | .234 | .543 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ted Ford | 9 | 39 | 36 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | .222 | .282 | .306 | .588 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jan Dukes | 35 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .385 | .333 | .718 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Ron Law | 15 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | .190 | .190 | .190 | .381 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Gerry Janeski | 29 | 61 | 54 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | .074 | .091 | .074 | .165 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Don Stanhouse | 6 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .188 | .235 | .188 | .423 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jim Kremmel | 14 | 25 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | .158 | .333 | .158 | .491 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Cisco Carlos | 31 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | .083 | .083 | .083 | .167 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Rick Henninger | 28 | 57 | 47 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 28 | .043 | .118 | .043 | .160 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Rich Hand | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Norm McRae | 6 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .393 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Garland Shifflett | 51 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .071 | .188 | .071 | .259 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Steve Foucault | 25 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dick Kelley | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Jim Miles | 46 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Totals | 1721 | 5206 | 4513 | 583 | 1135 | 189 | 32 | 94 | 529 | 30 | 34 | 585 | 1008 | .251 | .340 | .370 | .710 | 1670 | 0 | 35 | 43 | 30 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dick Nen | 1B | 49 | 383 | 39 | 3 | 49 | .993 | 8.612 | ||||
| Chuck Harrison | 1B | 40 | 359 | 24 | 1 | 30 | .997 | 9.575 | ||||
| Cotton Nash | 1B | 38 | 272 | 25 | 3 | 44 | .990 | 7.816 | ||||
| Don Castle | 1B | 20 | 140 | 14 | 1 | 14 | .994 | 7.700 | ||||
| Steve Greenberg | 1B | 12 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1.000 | 8.333 | ||||
| Tom Ragland | 2B | 87 | 206 | 271 | 14 | 66 | .971 | 5.483 | ||||
| Lenny Randle | 2B | 30 | 55 | 111 | 9 | 21 | .949 | 5.533 | ||||
| Pete Mackanin | 2B | 16 | 38 | 46 | 6 | 16 | .933 | 5.250 | ||||
| Jim Driscoll | 2B | 12 | 31 | 33 | 2 | 10 | .970 | 5.333 | ||||
| Bill Madlock | 2B | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 2.333 | ||||
| Gary Ratliff | 2B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.000 | ||||
| Steve Greenberg | 3B | 67 | 47 | 127 | 12 | 16 | .935 | 2.597 | ||||
| Jim Driscoll | 3B | 36 | 24 | 56 | 9 | 4 | .899 | 2.222 | ||||
| Rick Guarnera | 3B | 24 | 21 | 51 | 4 | 5 | .947 | 3.000 | ||||
| Bill Madlock | 3B | 16 | 7 | 26 | 2 | 1 | .943 | 2.062 | ||||
| Pete Mackanin | 3B | 5 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | .917 | 2.200 | ||||
| Bill Fahey | C | 68 | 421 | 43 | 6 | 6 | .987 | 6.824 | 2 | |||
| Ken Suarez | C | 31 | 182 | 20 | 2 | 2 | .990 | 6.516 | 1 | |||
| Hal King | C | 17 | 107 | 6 | 5 | 2 | .958 | 6.647 | 2 | |||
| Ron Pruitt | C | 13 | 61 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .957 | 5.154 | 2 | |||
| Bob Jones | OF | 113 | 159 | 6 | 4 | 2 | .976 | 1.460 | ||||
| Jeff Burroughs | OF | 84 | 118 | 5 | 5 | 1 | .961 | 1.464 | ||||
| Don Castle | OF | 78 | 90 | 8 | 3 | 1 | .970 | 1.256 | ||||
| Joe Patterson | OF | 70 | 85 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .956 | 1.243 | ||||
| Gary Ratliff | OF | 65 | 68 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .945 | 1.062 | ||||
| Ron Pruitt | OF | 41 | 56 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .984 | 1.463 | ||||
| Dave Moates | OF | 18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.111 | ||||
| Steve Greenberg | OF | 18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.111 | ||||
| Cotton Nash | OF | 15 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .867 | ||||
| Ted Ford | OF | 9 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.222 | ||||
| Lenny Randle | OF | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | ||||
| Garland Shifflett | P | 51 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .947 | .353 | ||||
| Jim Miles | P | 46 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .778 | .152 | ||||
| Jan Dukes | P | 34 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .933 | .412 | ||||
| Jackie Brown | P | 32 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .975 | 1.219 | ||||
| Cisco Carlos | P | 31 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 1 | .941 | .516 | ||||
| Gerry Janeski | P | 29 | 16 | 42 | 1 | 2 | .983 | 2.000 | ||||
| Rick Henninger | P | 28 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Steve Foucault | P | 25 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | .818 | .360 | ||||
| Mike Thompson | P | 20 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .950 | .950 | ||||
| Ron Law | P | 15 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | .938 | 1.000 | ||||
| Jim Kremmel | P | 14 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .947 | 1.286 | ||||
| Chuck Machemehl | P | 12 | .000 | |||||||||
| Dick Kelley | P | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .222 | ||||
| Norm McRae | P | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.500 | ||||
| Don Stanhouse | P | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .833 | 1.000 | ||||
| Don Castle | P | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .600 | ||||
| Rich Hand | P | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Cotton Nash | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Jim Mason | SS | 86 | 148 | 302 | 27 | 51 | .943 | 5.233 | ||||
| Jim Driscoll | SS | 30 | 62 | 100 | 4 | 30 | .976 | 5.400 | ||||
| Lenny Randle | SS | 11 | 17 | 38 | 4 | 14 | .932 | 5.000 | ||||
| Rick Guarnera | SS | 10 | 15 | 38 | 3 | 8 | .946 | 5.300 | ||||
| Pete Mackanin | SS | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | .842 | 3.200 | ||||
| Tom Ragland | SS | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 5.000 | ||||
| Totals | 1605 | 3449 | 1605 | 158 | 416 | .970 | 3.149 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.
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