Texas Rangers History - 1988 Summary

Team Results

Year	W	L	WPct	Finish	GB	Exp Rec	Diff	Avg	ERA	Playoffs	Champion	Attendance	Expenses	Revenue
1988 Texas Rangers	65	97	.401	5^th	39	68-94	-3	.253	5.06			2,098,765	$3,158,500	$3,799,790

Award Winners

Award	Players	Qty
All-Star	George Brett, Roger Clemens, Kirk Gibson, Mike Miley, Garry Templeton	5
Player of the Week	Mike Diaz (Jul 25)	1

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	Mike Diaz	28	152	580	145	15	0	33	109	83	57	4	0	5	101	0	0	.250	.319	.447	.765	1.1	83
3B	George Brett	35	104	434	125	18	9	19	73	72	35	2	1	5	36	14	3	.288	.340	.502	.843	2.9	101
1B	Eddie Williams	23	122	427	89	18	0	14	62	48	37	5	0	7	94	0	0	.208	.275	.349	.624	-1.8	50
2B	Garry Templeton	32	106	412	124	25	4	5	37	56	20	0	0	3	57	43	11	.301	.331	.417	.749	2.3	80
1B	Mike Miley	35	92	341	99	9	0	23	60	70	68	0	8	4	28	0	0	.290	.404	.519	.923	3.1	122
RF	Kirk Gibson	31	93	344	91	11	4	16	52	52	59	0	0	2	85	18	4	.265	.370	.459	.830	2.3	100
CF	Darrin Jackson	24	88	354	83	14	2	15	49	44	13	0	7	0	82	4	2	.234	.262	.412	.674	1.1	60
CF	Rudy Law	31	95	291	79	8	3	3	26	48	12	2	0	0	39	60	3	.271	.305	.351	.655	2.1	59
C	Don Slaught	29	81	276	67	10	2	9	31	28	23	4	0	0	51	2	1	.243	.310	.391	.702	0.9	69
C	Mike LaValliere	27	76	245	65	12	0	1	29	34	38	4	3	3	15	0	0	.265	.369	.327	.695	1.2	71
1B	Greg Luzinski	37	71	245	65	10	0	11	32	35	25	10	0	3	53	1	1	.265	.353	.441	.794	0.6	91
2B	Kevin Seitzer	26	57	231	77	13	3	6	30	39	21	2	0	2	30	3	2	.333	.391	.494	.884	1.6	113
SS	Dick C. Schofield	25	70	220	46	7	2	4	20	28	13	1	11	0	40	0	0	.209	.256	.314	.570	0.1	37
1B	Eddie Murray	32	53	190	47	6	0	10	31	23	24	2	0	2	27	0	0	.247	.335	.437	.772	0.6	85
3B	Willie Lozado	29	63	189	37	12	2	2	15	13	16	1	0	3	47	0	1	.196	.258	.312	.571	-1.0	38
SS	Kevin Elster	23	53	185	41	9	1	4	13	13	8	1	2	0	45	2	0	.222	.258	.346	.604	-0.4	45
RF	Greg Gross	35	43	136	35	4	1	0	7	8	22	0	2	1	10	0	0	.257	.358	.301	.660	-0.1	63
2B	Ed Putman	34	30	92	16	5	0	1	5	10	12	0	0	0	18	0	0	.174	.269	.261	.530	-0.8	30
RF	Marvell Wynne	28	30	88	19	2	0	0	6	8	7	0	3	2	12	5	4	.216	.268	.239	.507	-0.7	25
DH	Willie Aikens	33	26	85	19	4	0	4	17	8	11	0	0	1	17	0	0	.224	.309	.412	.721	-0.0	73
RF	Reid Nichols	29	21	65	11	3	0	1	4	8	2	0	1	0	8	4	0	.169	.194	.262	.456	-0.4	9
LF	Otis Nixon	29	22	33	5	1	0	0	2	5	4	0	2	1	8	5	1	.152	.237	.182	.419	-0.4	4
C	Ron Hassey	35	15	38	8	2	0	1	7	4	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	.211	.231	.342	.573	0.0	36
2B	Dale Berra	31	14	28	4	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	.143	.143	.214	.357	-0.2	-15
RF	Tony Armas	34	3	12	3	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.250	.250	.500	.750	0.0	75
RF	Bill Bean	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	-0.0	-9
1B	Rob Nelson	24	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0.0	144
-	Milt May	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.0	-100
RF	Terry Harper	32	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.0	-100
1B	Luis M. de los Santos	21	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.0	174
30 Players		29.7	1587	5547	1401	220	33	183	720	741	530	38	40	44	923	161	33	.253	.320	.403	.723	14.1	74
FL Rank				6	9	11	8	10	11	11	8	3	7	7	8	8	11	9	11	10	11	11
DBL Rank				9	10	19	11	15	15	15	11	10	13	12	17	13	23	11	13	16	15	19

Pitching Stats

Player	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	HA	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERA+
Bob Kipper	23	32	32	9	13	0	4.91	201.7	208	124	110	50	83	139	0	1	0	1.44	.262	-0.9	105
Juan Nieves	23	41	20	7	9	1	4.42	177.0	152	96	87	43	65	193	1	1	1	1.23	.249	0.7	116
Mark Langston	27	36	24	6	14	0	6.02	173.3	165	122	116	31	98	175	0	2	0	1.52	.289	1.1	85
Roger Clemens	25	19	19	9	8	0	2.36	152.7	111	44	40	9	37	134	0	9	2	.97	.249	5.5	218
Kevin Gross	27	22	22	6	11	0	4.97	141.3	139	83	78	22	37	112	0	3	0	1.25	.279	2.2	104
Bob Ojeda	30	17	17	7	6	0	3.47	124.3	115	57	48	8	48	75	0	5	1	1.31	.274	2.8	148
Brian Fisher	26	29	14	2	8	1	6.18	94.7	116	71	65	15	51	78	0	0	0	1.76	.342	0.6	83
Michael Jackson	23	35	0	4	3	3	3.81	56.7	51	27	24	6	39	48	3	0	0	1.59	.290	0.0	135
Mike Boddicker	30	15	7	1	7	0	9.38	48.0	61	53	50	12	37	34	0	0	0	2.04	.314	-0.9	55
Larry Andersen	35	25	0	2	4	1	3.32	40.7	39	16	15	6	16	30	2	0	0	1.35	.280	0.2	155
Luis DeLeon	29	17	0	0	1	1	9.25	36.0	55	37	37	9	10	16	0	0	0	1.81	.343	-0.6	56
Paul Moskau	34	14	3	0	3	0	11.66	29.3	45	42	38	11	20	26	0	0	0	2.22	.347	-0.9	44
Tim Burke	29	20	0	3	2	0	5.83	29.3	36	20	19	3	11	10	0	0	0	1.60	.311	-0.1	88
Frank Tanana	34	4	4	1	2	0	4.12	24.0	25	20	11	2	14	26	0	0	0	1.62	.311	0.5	125
Dave Leiper	26	18	0	1	2	2	3.80	23.7	29	10	10	1	9	19	2	0	0	1.61	.354	0.6	135
Dwayne Henry	26	17	0	0	0	0	7.04	23.0	24	18	18	1	32	23	0	0	0	2.43	.354	-0.3	73
Jeff Calhoun	30	24	0	6	2	13	3.54	20.3	18	9	8	3	4	18	0	0	0	1.08	.278	0.6	145
Gary Beare	35	13	0	0	2	1	8.44	16.0	25	16	15	3	7	16	0	0	0	2.00	.440	0.0	61
Drew Hall	25	5	0	1	0	0	6.43	7.0	5	6	5	2	5	11	1	0	0	1.43	.231	-0.1	80
Larry Pashnick	32	1	0	0	0	0	0.00	6.0	2	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	.67	.118	0.1	0
Reid Nichols	29	1	0	0	0	0	3.86	2.3	3	1	1	0	3	3	0	0	0	2.57	.429	-0.0	133
Mike Warren	27	1	0	0	0	0	13.50	2.0	1	3	3	0	5	3	0	0	0	3.00	.250	-0.1	38
Ron Hassey	35	1	0	0	0	0	37.80	1.7	4	7	7	1	5	1	0	0	0	5.40	.429	-0.2	14
Ed Putman	34	1	0	0	0	0	0.00	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.00	.000	0.0	0
24 Pitchers	26.6	408	162	65	97	23	5.06	1432.0	1429	882	805	238	638	1192	9	21	4	1.44	.287	10.8	116
FL Rank		9	1	11	2	12	10	11	6	9	9	11	9	1	11	4	2	8	7	9
DBL Rank		12	1	19	6	24	21	22	16	20	20	22	20	3	23	12	9	19	17	18

Fielding Stats

Pitchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
B. Kipper	32	32	11	25	1	39	3	.923	201.7	1.61	-2.7
J. Nieves	41	20	4	23	0	27	0	1.000	177.0	1.37	-1.1
M. Langston	36	24	9	14	0	27	4	.852	173.3	1.19	-2.3
R. Clemens	19	19	7	15	0	22	0	1.000	152.7	1.30	-0.5
K. Gross	22	22	7	16	0	23	0	1.000	141.3	1.46	-0.7
B. Ojeda	17	17	5	16	0	23	2	.913	124.3	1.52	-0.5
B. Fisher	29	14	6	15	1	23	2	.913	94.7	2.00	-1.2
M. Jackson	35	0	4	3	1	10	3	.700	56.7	1.11	-0.9
M. Boddicker	15	7	1	14	0	15	0	1.000	48.0	2.81	0.1
L. Andersen	25	0	2	13	1	17	2	.882	40.7	3.32	-0.4
L. DeLeon	17	0	3	8	0	11	0	1.000	36.0	2.75	-0.0
T. Burke	19	0	0	6	0	6	0	1.000	29.3	1.84	-0.2
P. Moskau	13	3	1	8	0	9	0	1.000	29.3	2.76	0.1
F. Tanana	4	4	0	2	1	2	0	1.000	24.0	0.75	-0.4
D. Leiper	17	0	1	3	0	4	0	1.000	23.7	1.52	-0.6
D. Henry	17	0	1	3	0	4	0	1.000	23.0	1.57	-0.2
J. Calhoun	24	0	0	2	0	2	0	1.000	20.3	0.89	-0.1
G. Beare	12	0	0	4	0	4	0	1.000	16.0	2.25	-0.0
D. Hall	5	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	7.0	1.29	-0.0
L. Pashnick	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1.000	6.0	3.00	0.0
R. Nichols	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	2.3	0.00	-0.0
M. Warren	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	2.0	0.00	-0.0
R. Hassey	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.7	0.00	-0.0
E. Putman	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	-0.0
Totals	404	162	62	193	5	271	16	.941	1432.0	1.60	-11.9

Catchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	RTO%
M. LaValliere	74	74	551	51	6	609	7	.989	651.0	8.32	-0.1	6	23.6
D. Slaught	75	73	552	55	7	616	9	.985	647.0	8.44	0.8	11	31.5
R. Hassey	8	8	78	0	0	78	0	1.000	72.0	9.75	0.0	0	0.0
E. Putman	7	7	49	2	0	51	0	1.000	62.0	7.40	-0.3	1	16.7
Totals	164	162	1230	108	13	1354	16	.988	1432.0	8.41	0.4	18	26.3

First Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
M. Miley	61	61	460	22	28	485	3	.994	513.7	8.45	0.5
E. Murray	53	53	371	25	24	398	2	.995	456.7	7.80	3.0
E. Williams	46	46	367	17	24	388	4	.990	405.0	8.53	-3.3
W. Lozado	7	1	21	0	2	21	0	1.000	22.0	8.59	0.1
D. Slaught	5	0	9	1	1	10	0	1.000	10.3	8.71	0.0
E. Putman	2	1	7	1	0	8	0	1.000	9.0	8.00	0.0
G. Luzinski	2	0	3	0	1	3	0	1.000	6.3	4.26	0.0
R. Hassey	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	4.0	4.50	0.0
R. Nelson	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	2.0	9.00	0.0
L. de los Santos	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	2.0	4.50	0.0
M. Diaz	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	1.0	18.00	0.0
Totals	183	162	1245	66	80	1320	9	.993	1432.0	8.24	0.4

Second Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
G. Templeton	106	104	203	248	53	458	7	.985	918.3	4.42	1.5
K. Seitzer	38	37	74	88	14	164	2	.988	325.3	4.48	-2.4
E. Putman	15	15	29	27	7	56	0	1.000	129.0	3.91	-4.4
D. Berra	6	2	2	2	0	4	0	1.000	22.0	1.64	0.1
W. Lozado	5	2	5	4	2	9	0	1.000	21.3	3.80	-0.2
D. Schofield	2	2	1	5	1	6	0	1.000	16.0	3.38	0.4
Totals	172	162	314	374	77	697	9	.987	1432.0	4.32	-5.2

Third Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
G. Brett	104	103	48	190	19	258	20	.922	912.3	2.35	-3.8
W. Lozado	49	47	19	70	5	94	5	.947	412.3	1.94	-2.7
E. Putman	7	4	4	7	0	13	2	.846	39.3	2.52	-0.6
K. Seitzer	4	3	1	4	0	5	0	1.000	26.0	1.73	0.1
D. Berra	3	2	2	3	0	5	0	1.000	17.0	2.65	0.1
D. Schofield	2	2	2	5	1	7	0	1.000	17.0	3.71	0.1
K. Elster	1	1	0	3	0	4	1	.750	8.0	3.38	-0.4
Totals	170	162	76	282	25	386	28	.927	1432.0	2.25	-7.2

Shortstops
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. Schofield	66	63	77	167	20	248	4	.984	548.0	4.01	4.6
K. Elster	53	52	65	110	18	179	4	.978	455.3	3.46	-2.1
M. Miley	30	30	41	88	12	137	8	.942	269.3	4.31	-1.1
K. Seitzer	16	16	22	25	3	51	4	.922	137.0	3.09	-5.5
D. Berra	7	1	2	10	1	13	1	.923	20.0	5.40	0.9
D. Slaught	1	0	2	0	0	3	1	.667	2.3	7.71	-0.4
Totals	173	162	209	400	54	631	22	.965	1432.0	3.83	-3.7

Left Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
M. Diaz	152	152	281	0	0	285	4	.986	1315.0	1.92	-7.6
M. Wynne	9	4	10	1	0	12	1	.917	40.0	2.48	-0.0
E. Williams	4	3	8	0	0	8	0	1.000	28.0	2.57	0.5
O. Nixon	6	2	7	0	0	7	0	1.000	23.7	2.66	-0.5
K. Gibson	9	0	3	0	0	4	1	.750	13.3	2.03	-0.3
R. Nichols	1	1	4	0	0	4	0	1.000	8.0	4.50	0.1
W. Lozado	2	0	3	0	0	3	0	1.000	4.0	6.75	-0.1
Totals	183	162	316	1	0	323	6	.981	1432.0	1.99	-7.9

Center Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. Jackson	88	88	275	8	5	287	4	.986	774.3	3.29	7.3
R. Law	70	68	223	7	2	235	5	.979	595.7	3.48	6.9
M. Wynne	6	2	7	0	0	7	0	1.000	23.0	2.74	-0.3
O. Nixon	3	2	7	0	0	7	0	1.000	20.0	3.15	0.0
R. Nichols	3	2	9	0	0	9	0	1.000	19.0	4.26	0.2
Totals	170	162	521	15	7	545	9	.983	1432.0	3.37	14.1

Right Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
K. Gibson	91	91	185	13	5	202	4	.980	790.0	2.26	-2.1
G. Gross	41	40	78	4	0	83	1	.988	348.0	2.12	-1.1
M. Wynne	14	14	23	3	0	26	0	1.000	118.0	1.98	0.1
R. Nichols	15	12	23	2	0	25	0	1.000	109.7	2.05	0.1
T. Armas	3	3	6	0	0	6	0	1.000	27.0	2.00	0.1
R. Law	13	0	4	1	0	5	0	1.000	19.3	2.33	-0.0
O. Nixon	2	2	3	0	0	3	0	1.000	16.0	1.69	-0.8
T. Harper	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	2.0	4.50	0.0
B. Bean	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0
M. Diaz	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	182	162	323	23	5	351	5	.986	1432.0	2.17	-3.7

Team Leaders

Batting Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Batting Average	Mike Diaz	.250
On-Base Percentage	Mike Diaz	.319
Slugging Percentage	Mike Diaz	.447
OPS	Mike Diaz	.765
Games	Mike Diaz	152
At-Bats	Mike Diaz	580
Runs	Mike Diaz	83
Hits	Mike Diaz	145
Doubles	Garry Templeton	25
Triples	George Brett	9
Home Runs	Mike Diaz	33
Runs Batted In	Mike Diaz	109
Stolen Bases	Rudy Law	60
Caught Stealing	Garry Templeton	11
Walks	Mike Miley	68
Strikeouts	Mike Diaz	101

Pitching Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Wins	Bob Kipper, Roger Clemens	9
Losses	Mark Langston	14
Saves	Jeff Calhoun	13
Games	Juan Nieves	41
Games Started	Bob Kipper	32
Complete Games	Roger Clemens	9
Shutouts	Roger Clemens	2
Innings Pitched	Bob Kipper	201.7
Hits Allowed	Bob Kipper	208
Home Runs Allowed	Bob Kipper	50
Strikeouts	Juan Nieves	193
Walks Allowed	Mark Langston	98
Earned Run Average	Juan Nieves	4.42
Walks + Hits per IP	Juan Nieves	1.23
BABIP	Juan Nieves	.249

Trades
Date	Sent		Recieved
February 21st	P Mark Thurmond	to the St. Louis Cardinals for
February 29th		to the Pittsburgh Pirates for	3B Willie Lozado
June 6th	2B Dale Berra	to the Houston Astros for	DH Willie Aikens 1B Greg Luzinski
June 26th	LF Otis Nixon	to the Pittsburgh Pirates for
July 6th	DH Willie Aikens C Mike LaValliere CF Darrin Jackson	to the Pittsburgh Pirates for	C Mike Scioscia P Trevor Wilson 1B Luis M. de los Santos
July 6th	C Mike Scioscia	to the Chicago Cubs for	P Luis DeLeon P Paul Gibson C Ron Hassey
July 6th	P Bob Ojeda	to the New York Yankees for	- Milt May P Paul Moskau 2B Ed Putman P Frank Tanana
July 13th	RF Kirk Gibson	to the Los Angeles Dodgers for	P Gary Beare LF Denny Walling
July 13th	P Roger Clemens P Trevor Wilson	to the Montreal Expos for
July 13th	P Jeff Calhoun	to the Toronto Blue Jays for	P Drew Hall RF Greg Gross RF Tony Armas
July 13th	1B Mike Miley	to the Washington Senators for	2B Kevin Seitzer CF Garry Maddox RF Marvell Wynne
July 25th	P Larry Andersen	to the Washington Senators for	P Charlie Nail
July 25th	SS Dick C. Schofield	to the Toronto Blue Jays for	CF Brian Greer
July 30th	3B George Brett 2B Garry Templeton	to the Pittsburgh Pirates for	1B Eddie Murray
July 30th	P Tim Burke P Kevin Gross	to the Washington Senators for	RF Tom Brunansky
July 30th	P Drew Hall	to the Detroit Tigers for	RF Bill Bean
July 30th	P Frank Tanana	to the New York Yankees for
December 25th	C Don Slaught	to the Pittsburgh Pirates for	C Tom Nieto
December 25th		to the Pittsburgh Pirates for	P Bret Saberhagen