Texas Rangers History - 1983 Summary

Team Results

Year	W	L	WPct	Finish	GB	Exp Rec	Diff	Avg	ERA	Playoffs	Champion	Attendance	Expenses	Revenue
1983 Texas Rangers	70	92	.432	4^th	28	74-88	-4	.247	4.50			1,839,108	$3,158,500	$3,799,790

Award Winners

Award	Players	Qty
Gold Glove	Hiromitsu Ochiai (1B), Brett Butler (LF), Jesse Barfield (RF)	3
All-Star	Len Barker, Wade Boggs, Brett Butler, Hiromitsu Ochiai, Bob Ojeda, Ken Phelps	6
Pitcher of the Month	Bob Ojeda (Apr, Jul)	2
Batter of the Month	Ken Phelps (Sep)	1
Player of the Week	Dwight Evans (Apr 25), Ken Phelps (May 9), Charlie Lea (May 16), Brett Butler (Sep 19)	4

Batting Stats

Pos	Player	Age	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	HP	SH	SF	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR	OPS+
LF	Brett Butler	26	155	626	197	17	18	5	51	95	71	0	1	6	63	26	12	.315	.381	.423	.805	5.1	127
1B	Hiromitsu Ochiai	29	159	617	159	39	0	39	117	90	62	18	0	6	96	1	2	.258	.340	.511	.851	4.6	136
1B	Ken Phelps	28	162	594	136	14	2	42	118	77	99	7	0	3	154	0	0	.229	.344	.471	.816	2.6	128
3B	Wade Boggs	25	150	532	174	33	4	9	65	86	87	2	1	5	29	0	0	.327	.420	.455	.875	6.3	148
RF	Jesse Barfield	23	142	532	109	17	5	22	61	56	32	7	0	4	186	11	2	.205	.257	.380	.637	0.9	77
2B	Tim Wallach	25	140	532	117	14	3	20	68	58	24	7	1	3	79	1	0	.220	.261	.370	.632	-1.3	76
SS	Roger Metzger	35	84	276	64	10	5	1	29	33	20	0	6	3	37	0	0	.232	.281	.315	.596	0.1	68
C	Joe Ferguson	36	76	239	49	12	0	4	18	36	48	1	0	1	52	1	0	.205	.339	.305	.645	1.2	85
C	John Stearns	31	69	256	58	14	0	6	23	30	20	3	0	2	45	0	0	.227	.288	.352	.640	0.8	80
CF	Ken Landreaux	28	62	223	64	9	6	5	28	29	19	1	0	4	21	2	2	.287	.340	.448	.789	1.1	121
2B	Alex Taveras	27	72	217	43	6	0	1	9	17	7	0	6	1	35	4	1	.198	.222	.240	.462	-1.0	31
CF	Marshall Edwards	30	39	157	35	4	1	1	6	16	2	0	2	1	24	8	3	.223	.231	.280	.512	-1.3	44
2B	Rob Picciolo	30	47	141	30	2	2	2	17	10	1	0	4	1	25	0	1	.213	.217	.298	.515	-0.7	44
CF	Cesar Geronimo	35	35	118	22	3	0	0	7	11	4	1	0	3	12	1	0	.186	.214	.212	.426	-1.7	21
CF	Ellis Valentine	28	33	112	30	9	1	7	26	17	3	0	0	0	15	1	1	.268	.287	.554	.841	0.4	130
LF	Gene Locklear	33	32	95	20	1	0	1	5	9	9	0	1	1	22	0	0	.211	.276	.253	.529	-0.6	51
CF	Dwight Evans	31	27	84	22	6	0	6	12	16	12	1	0	1	16	1	0	.262	.357	.548	.905	0.6	151
SS	Jim Anderson	26	25	87	23	3	0	2	11	7	2	0	3	1	13	0	0	.264	.278	.368	.646	0.0	81
C	Steve Yeager	34	26	87	16	3	1	2	5	9	2	2	0	0	17	0	0	.184	.220	.310	.530	-0.1	48
LF	Bob Detherage	28	9	20	4	2	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	0	5	0	0	.200	.333	.300	.633	-0.0	81
2B	Tim Teufel	24	4	15	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-0.1	14
CF	Gary Woods	28	7	13	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-0.1	-56
C	Don McCormack	27	4	6	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.667	.833	0.0	119
LF	Rod Allen	23	3	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-0.1	14
24 Players		28.1	1562	5584	1378	218	48	176	678	706	528	50	25	46	955	57	24	.247	.315	.398	.713	16.8	100
FL Rank				8	9	10	5	4	9	9	2	2	9	6	3	10	10	9	6	7	7	8
DBL Rank				9	16	19	6	7	13	13	6	2	18	12	4	19	19	18	11	11	10	17

Pitching Stats

Player	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	HA	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERA+
Jim Clancy	27	30	30	9	16	0	3.94	203.3	191	104	89	28	64	114	0	3	0	1.25	.255	2.2	106
Bob Ojeda	25	30	30	14	7	0	3.06	200.0	185	71	68	19	52	123	0	1	0	1.19	.268	4.1	136
Bruce Robbins	23	30	30	13	11	0	3.88	197.0	202	93	85	29	34	111	0	1	0	1.20	.272	2.8	107
Charlie Lea	26	20	20	5	12	0	4.69	134.3	138	77	70	22	45	79	0	4	2	1.36	.274	0.8	89
Mike Flanagan	31	18	18	9	6	0	4.72	127.7	130	71	67	17	46	85	0	4	1	1.38	.285	1.6	88
Goose Gossage	31	55	0	1	3	3	4.84	106.0	98	58	57	13	50	78	4	0	0	1.40	.268	0.0	86
Norm Churchill	25	11	11	1	6	0	7.04	61.3	60	51	48	14	55	32	0	0	0	1.88	.243	-1.4	59
Mike Paxton	29	10	10	3	5	0	8.47	56.3	70	53	53	7	40	18	0	2	1	1.95	.310	-0.4	49
Bob Sykes	28	30	0	2	5	1	6.67	55.3	51	41	41	12	61	37	2	0	0	2.02	.248	-1.9	62
Brad Lesley	24	40	0	0	4	2	3.37	50.7	41	19	19	5	15	42	6	0	0	1.11	.267	0.9	123
Lary Sorensen	27	7	7	2	4	0	5.84	44.7	57	30	29	7	8	7	0	1	0	1.46	.296	0.1	71
Len Barker	27	42	0	3	6	24	3.51	41.0	35	17	16	2	13	42	0	0	0	1.17	.300	1.8	118
Fred Holdsworth	31	23	0	0	1	2	3.20	39.3	36	14	14	4	13	29	3	0	0	1.25	.283	0.4	130
Dave LaRoche	35	29	0	2	2	9	2.80	35.3	30	11	11	3	13	41	2	0	0	1.22	.297	1.2	148
Tommy Boggs	27	5	5	2	2	0	8.89	26.3	26	27	26	9	21	7	0	0	0	1.78	.195	-0.9	47
Bob L. Gibson	26	16	0	2	0	0	3.91	23.0	24	16	10	3	18	17	1	0	0	1.83	.269	-0.2	106
Dave Hamilton	35	9	0	0	0	0	4.00	18.0	15	8	8	1	9	13	0	0	0	1.33	.259	0.2	104
Roger Weaver	28	6	0	1	2	0	7.00	9.0	13	7	7	3	7	8	1	0	0	2.22	.385	-0.4	59
Randy Miller	30	4	0	0	0	0	3.24	8.3	4	5	3	2	2	3	0	0	0	.72	.083	-0.1	128
Mike Mason	24	1	1	1	0	0	2.57	7.0	5	2	2	2	0	5	0	0	0	.71	.167	0.0	162
Catfish Hunter	37	1	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.7	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.55	.167	0.1	0
Cesar Geronimo	35	1	0	0	0	0	13.50	0.7	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.50	.000	-0.1	31
22 Pitchers	27.1	418	162	70	92	41	4.50	1448.3	1414	776	724	203	566	892	19	16	4	1.37	.269	10.9	100
FL Rank		3	1	9	2	8	7	7	4	7	7	10	10	4	4	9	7	7	3	9
DBL Rank		4	1	18	3	13	17	12	8	17	17	20	18	7	6	18	11	15	7	19

Fielding Stats

Pitchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Clancy	30	30	15	29	1	44	0	1.000	203.3	1.95	-0.8
B. Ojeda	30	30	10	21	1	32	1	.969	200.0	1.40	-1.1
B. Robbins	30	30	5	35	2	41	1	.976	197.0	1.83	-0.7
C. Lea	20	20	6	13	0	19	0	1.000	134.3	1.27	-0.5
M. Flanagan	18	18	5	19	1	24	0	1.000	127.7	1.69	-2.1
G. Gossage	53	0	7	13	0	20	0	1.000	106.0	1.70	-0.7
N. Churchill	11	11	1	7	1	8	0	1.000	61.3	1.17	0.1
M. Paxton	10	10	2	10	0	13	1	.923	56.3	1.92	-0.0
B. Sykes	28	0	2	9	0	11	0	1.000	55.3	1.79	-0.1
B. Lesley	40	0	2	4	0	6	0	1.000	50.7	1.07	-0.5
L. Sorensen	7	7	5	5	0	11	1	.909	44.7	2.01	-0.8
L. Barker	42	0	0	5	0	5	0	1.000	41.0	1.10	-0.1
F. Holdsworth	23	0	2	3	0	5	0	1.000	39.3	1.14	-0.2
D. LaRoche	29	0	4	5	0	10	1	.900	35.3	2.29	0.2
T. Boggs	5	5	1	2	0	3	0	1.000	26.3	1.03	-0.3
B. Gibson	16	0	2	3	0	6	1	.833	23.0	1.96	-0.5
D. Hamilton	9	0	0	3	0	3	0	1.000	18.0	1.50	-0.0
R. Weaver	6	0	0	3	0	3	0	1.000	9.0	3.00	0.2
R. Miller	4	0	2	0	0	3	1	.667	8.3	2.16	-0.5
M. Mason	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	7.0	1.29	-0.0
C. Hunter	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	3.7	2.45	-0.2
C. Geronimo	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.7	0.00	-0.0
Totals	414	162	71	191	6	269	7	.974	1448.3	1.63	-8.6

Catchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	RTO%
J. Ferguson	72	71	424	38	1	467	5	.989	632.3	6.58	-1.7	8	22.8
J. Stearns	68	68	390	45	2	438	3	.993	613.3	6.38	1.3	2	26.0
S. Yeager	24	23	114	18	2	136	4	.971	199.7	5.95	0.6	0	24.0
D. McCormack	1	0	4	0	0	4	0	1.000	3.0	12.00	0.0	0	0.0
Totals	165	162	932	101	5	1045	12	.989	1448.3	6.42	0.2	10	24.2

First Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
H. Ochiai	141	141	1213	74	69	1292	5	.996	1245.3	9.30	5.4
K. Phelps	21	21	166	5	10	172	1	.994	189.0	8.14	0.1
R. Picciolo	4	0	8	1	2	9	0	1.000	10.0	8.10	0.0
D. McCormack	2	0	5	0	0	5	0	1.000	3.0	15.00	0.0
J. Barfield	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	1.0	18.00	0.0
Totals	169	162	1394	80	81	1480	6	.996	1448.3	9.16	5.6

Second Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
T. Wallach	82	79	153	206	38	370	11	.970	704.7	4.59	-3.6
A. Taveras	43	35	59	101	19	163	3	.982	319.3	4.51	0.0
R. Picciolo	30	26	58	81	12	140	1	.993	228.3	5.48	1.6
H. Ochiai	18	18	39	33	4	72	0	1.000	160.0	4.05	-0.1
T. Teufel	4	4	9	8	1	17	0	1.000	36.0	4.25	-0.0
Totals	177	162	318	429	74	762	15	.980	1448.3	4.64	-2.1

Third Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
W. Boggs	141	136	84	255	16	346	7	.980	1215.0	2.51	5.9
A. Taveras	21	21	11	35	6	47	1	.979	173.7	2.38	1.9
R. Picciolo	5	5	2	13	1	15	0	1.000	44.0	3.07	0.3
T. Wallach	6	0	2	3	0	5	0	1.000	13.7	3.29	0.1
H. Ochiai	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	2.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	175	162	99	306	23	413	8	.981	1448.3	2.52	8.3

Shortstops
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
R. Metzger	83	81	108	238	29	354	8	.977	711.7	4.38	1.6
T. Wallach	53	53	61	119	12	189	9	.952	460.7	3.52	-14.6
J. Anderson	25	24	23	77	10	102	2	.980	208.3	4.32	0.5
R. Picciolo	8	3	7	13	4	21	1	.952	41.0	4.39	-1.6
A. Taveras	9	1	7	12	2	19	0	1.000	26.7	6.41	0.5
Totals	178	162	206	459	57	685	20	.971	1448.3	4.13	-13.5

Left Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
B. Butler	134	132	303	11	0	315	1	.997	1168.0	2.42	9.7
G. Locklear	27	25	53	1	1	55	1	.982	222.7	2.18	-1.4
B. Detherage	5	2	6	0	0	6	0	1.000	26.7	2.02	-0.4
E. Valentine	3	1	5	0	0	5	0	1.000	13.0	3.46	0.4
D. Evans	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	11.0	0.82	-0.3
R. Metzger	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	4.0	4.50	0.1
R. Allen	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	2.0	0.00	-0.2
G. Woods	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	174	162	370	12	1	384	2	.995	1448.3	2.37	7.8

Center Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
K. Landreaux	61	61	225	0	0	227	2	.991	548.3	3.69	-1.2
M. Edwards	39	39	126	3	1	132	3	.977	338.3	3.43	-7.6
C. Geronimo	34	32	73	2	0	76	1	.987	281.0	2.40	-9.3
D. Evans	22	20	62	7	1	72	3	.958	172.0	3.61	-3.5
E. Valentine	5	5	15	0	0	17	2	.882	45.7	2.96	-2.4
G. Woods	4	4	20	0	0	20	0	1.000	36.0	5.00	1.3
B. Butler	6	0	7	1	0	8	0	1.000	18.0	4.00	0.1
B. Detherage	1	1	3	0	0	3	0	1.000	9.0	3.00	-0.1
Totals	172	162	531	13	2	555	11	.980	1448.3	3.38	-22.7

Right Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Barfield	137	136	363	13	3	380	4	.989	1211.7	2.79	11.0
B. Butler	22	22	49	0	0	49	0	1.000	189.7	2.33	0.3
B. Detherage	3	2	3	0	0	3	0	1.000	19.0	1.42	0.0
E. Valentine	4	1	4	0	0	4	0	1.000	13.0	2.77	0.6
D. Evans	1	1	3	0	0	3	0	1.000	9.0	3.00	0.2
G. Woods	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	4.0	2.25	0.0
R. Allen	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	2.0	4.50	0.0
Totals	170	162	424	13	3	441	4	.991	1448.3	2.72	12.2

Team Leaders

Batting Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Batting Average	Wade Boggs	.327
On-Base Percentage	Wade Boggs	.420
Slugging Percentage	Hiromitsu Ochiai	.511
OPS	Wade Boggs	.875
Games	Ken Phelps	162
At-Bats	Brett Butler	626
Runs	Brett Butler	95
Hits	Brett Butler	197
Doubles	Hiromitsu Ochiai	39
Triples	Brett Butler	18
Home Runs	Ken Phelps	42
Runs Batted In	Ken Phelps	118
Stolen Bases	Brett Butler	26
Caught Stealing	Brett Butler	12
Walks	Ken Phelps	99
Strikeouts	Jesse Barfield	186

Pitching Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Wins	Bob Ojeda	14
Losses	Jim Clancy	16
Saves	Len Barker	24
Games	Goose Gossage	55
Games Started	Jim Clancy, Bob Ojeda, Bruce Robbins	30
Complete Games	Charlie Lea, Mike Flanagan	4
Shutouts	Charlie Lea	2
Innings Pitched	Jim Clancy	203.3
Hits Allowed	Bruce Robbins	202
Home Runs Allowed	Bruce Robbins	29
Strikeouts	Bob Ojeda	123
Walks Allowed	Jim Clancy	64
Earned Run Average	Bob Ojeda	3.06
Walks + Hits per IP	Bob Ojeda	1.19
BABIP	Jim Clancy	.255

Trades
Date	Sent		Recieved
January 1st	3B Mike Miley	to the Detroit Tigers for	LF Brett Butler 2B Tim Teufel
January 1st	C Ron Hassey	to the Toronto Blue Jays for	C Mike R. Fitzgerald
April 14th	CF Bob Bailor	to the Houston Astros for
June 8th		to the Montreal Expos for	P Lary Sorensen
June 13th	CF Ken Landreaux	to the Toronto Blue Jays for	CF Nick Capra
June 13th		to the Houston Astros for	LF Otis Nixon
July 8th	CF Dwight Evans CF Ellis Valentine	to the Montreal Expos for	P Jerry Don Gleaton
July 23rd	P Lary Sorensen	to the Milwaukee Brewers for	P Catfish Hunter
July 23rd	P Fred Holdsworth P Mike Flanagan	to the Kansas City Royals for	RF Lonnie Smith
July 27th	P Catfish Hunter	to the Chicago Cubs for
July 27th	C John Stearns	to the New York Mets for	C Steve Yeager
July 31st	P Charlie Lea	to the Pittsburgh Pirates for	P Mike Mason
December 12th	P Jerry Don Gleaton	to the Pittsburgh Pirates for
December 12th	3B Wade Boggs	to the Kansas City Royals for
December 12th	P John Stuper	to the New York Yankees for	LF Chet Lemon
December 12th		to the St. Louis Cardinals for	LF Hal McRae