Chicago Cubs History - 1978 Summary

Team Results

Year	W	L	WPct	Finish	GB	Exp Rec	Diff	Avg	ERA	Playoffs	Champion	Attendance	Expenses	Revenue
1978 Chicago Cubs	84	78	.519	2^nd	17	90-72	-6	.266	3.58	X	X	1,881,937	$2,249,250	$2,461,341

Award Winners

Award	Players	Qty
Gold Glove	Doug Rader (2B)	1
All-Star	Ron Cey, Nino Espinosa, George Foster, Ron Hassey	4
Player of the Week	Dwayne Murphy (May 15), Bill Madlock (Aug 7), Doc Medich (Sep 11)	3

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+
1B	Bill Madlock	27	160	630	206	37	0	7	69	97	59	15	2	7	33	18	10	.327	.394	.419	.813	4.2	118
CF	Dwayne Murphy	23	155	568	136	10	5	10	59	71	82	1	16	5	124	4	10	.239	.334	.327	.661	2.3	78
3B	Ron Cey	30	155	567	156	20	4	28	111	79	78	2	0	5	104	0	2	.275	.362	.473	.835	6.8	122
2B	Doug Rader	33	156	548	135	25	4	12	58	56	64	2	0	3	120	2	1	.246	.326	.372	.698	3.8	87
RF	Joel Youngblood	26	135	549	148	26	9	11	70	86	41	5	0	5	93	6	3	.270	.323	.410	.733	4.0	95
C	Ron Hassey	25	128	450	120	19	0	7	62	50	52	2	10	5	39	3	1	.267	.342	.356	.697	3.0	87
RF	George Foster	29	103	394	105	20	2	13	62	61	40	4	0	6	83	3	3	.266	.336	.426	.762	1.4	103
SS	Enzo Hernandez	29	122	373	80	12	2	0	27	40	46	0	20	1	31	7	11	.214	.300	.257	.557	0.9	51
LF	Johnny Grubb	29	93	340	97	23	0	2	44	44	48	4	0	6	44	0	0	.285	.374	.371	.745	1.8	100
RF	Brian Asselstine	24	81	252	87	18	1	10	41	39	15	2	0	3	30	0	0	.345	.382	.544	.926	2.3	146
LF	Al Oliver	31	56	213	57	5	3	5	33	28	15	7	0	3	21	3	2	.268	.332	.390	.722	0.4	93
3B	Larvell Blanks	28	46	176	47	2	3	2	16	23	17	0	4	1	22	0	0	.267	.330	.347	.676	0.5	82
C	Wayne Nordhagen	29	41	144	32	4	2	3	15	13	8	0	0	2	27	0	0	.222	.260	.340	.600	0.3	60
LF	Merv Rettenmund	35	28	89	16	5	0	0	7	12	9	0	4	2	14	1	0	.180	.250	.236	.486	-0.4	31
3B	Ron Washington	26	42	87	15	1	1	0	8	7	3	1	0	0	20	2	1	.172	.209	.207	.416	-0.8	12
RF	Rusty Torres	29	19	45	9	1	0	2	8	9	6	0	3	0	6	1	0	.200	.294	.356	.650	-0.2	73
RF	Joe Wallis	26	17	46	8	1	0	0	1	4	6	0	1	0	8	0	0	.174	.269	.196	.465	-0.2	26
1B	Bob Beall	30	18	23	6	0	1	0	5	3	8	0	0	1	2	0	1	.261	.438	.348	.785	0.0	113
LF	Bruce Boisclair	25	5	19	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	.211	.211	.263	.474	-0.1	26
SS	Darrel Chaney	30	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.0	-100
-	Dave Skaggs	27	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0.1	438
CF	Brian Greer	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.0	-100
22 Players		27.9	1564	5517	1465	230	37	112	697	723	597	45	60	55	827	50	45	.266	.339	.382	.721	29.9	93
FL Rank				9	2	6	7	6	3	4	2	3	4	2	2	10	8	2	2	4	2	1
DBL Rank				17	4	10	10	11	6	7	4	4	4	5	5	20	18	2	2	6	3	2

Pitching Stats

Player	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	HA	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERA+
Doc Medich	29	33	33	17	12	0	2.99	253.0	242	98	84	12	58	124	0	8	6	1.19	.275	5.7	134
Nino Espinosa	24	33	33	16	13	0	2.69	248.0	235	79	74	18	47	99	0	12	4	1.14	.263	4.2	149
Rick Reuschel	29	34	34	14	12	0	3.97	238.3	259	123	105	17	58	109	0	7	1	1.33	.295	3.8	101
Bill Bonham	29	31	22	9	8	0	4.73	165.7	178	91	87	6	75	63	0	3	1	1.53	.297	1.8	85
Dave Rozema	21	25	25	9	12	0	4.37	152.3	191	87	74	14	34	55	0	0	0	1.48	.321	1.4	92
Buddy Schultz	27	44	0	5	2	2	2.12	85.0	74	23	20	3	33	52	4	0	0	1.26	.265	1.1	189
Mike Proly	27	34	0	1	1	1	3.18	62.3	68	24	22	1	20	17	4	0	0	1.41	.300	0.5	126
Bruce Sutter	25	52	0	2	7	40	3.02	56.7	46	19	19	6	17	40	0	0	0	1.11	.250	0.8	133
Ken Frailing	30	40	0	8	4	2	3.06	47.0	48	17	16	1	21	19	5	0	0	1.47	.307	0.8	131
Tom Dixon	23	8	8	1	1	0	2.59	41.7	39	15	12	2	16	14	0	0	0	1.32	.264	0.5	155
Mike Krukow	26	7	7	1	6	0	7.55	39.3	53	35	33	6	26	24	0	0	0	2.01	.348	-0.4	53
Paul Lindblad	36	14	0	1	0	0	3.90	30.0	28	13	13	3	4	15	1	0	0	1.07	.266	0.1	103
Mike Marshall	35	8	0	0	0	0	6.28	14.3	16	10	10	0	11	10	1	0	0	1.88	.333	0.1	64
Jim Hughes	26	4	0	0	0	0	4.50	6.0	5	3	3	0	5	3	0	0	0	1.67	.263	-0.0	89
14 Pitchers	26.9	367	162	84	78	45	3.58	1439.7	1482	637	572	89	425	644	15	30	12	1.32	.287	20.3	121
FL Rank		4	1	3	8	5	3	9	7	3	3	1	1	10	4	3	1	3	6	4
DBL Rank		9	1	7	14	6	9	19	16	8	9	1	1	20	9	6	2	10	14	5

Fielding Stats

Pitchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. Medich	33	33	8	44	2	53	1	.981	253.0	1.85	0.7
N. Espinosa	33	33	8	34	0	47	5	.894	248.0	1.52	-1.3
R. Reuschel	34	34	14	50	0	65	1	.985	238.3	2.42	1.5
B. Bonham	31	22	12	28	1	40	0	1.000	165.7	2.17	1.6
D. Rozema	25	25	4	25	2	30	1	.967	152.3	1.71	0.1
B. Schultz	44	0	0	14	0	15	1	.933	85.0	1.48	0.0
M. Proly	34	0	1	13	2	14	0	1.000	62.3	2.02	0.2
B. Sutter	52	0	2	8	1	10	0	1.000	56.7	1.59	0.2
K. Frailing	40	0	2	13	0	15	0	1.000	47.0	2.87	0.5
T. Dixon	8	8	0	10	0	11	1	.909	41.7	2.16	-0.1
M. Krukow	7	7	2	3	0	5	0	1.000	39.3	1.14	-0.1
P. Lindblad	14	0	0	7	1	7	0	1.000	30.0	2.10	0.3
M. Marshall	8	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	14.3	0.63	-0.1
J. Hughes	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	1.000	6.0	3.00	0.1
Totals	366	162	53	252	9	315	10	.968	1439.7	1.91	3.6

Catchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	RTO%
R. Hassey	126	123	519	83	9	610	8	.987	1097.7	4.94	1.5	7	36.0
W. Nordhagen	39	39	176	23	2	203	4	.980	342.0	5.24	0.2	1	35.0
Totals	165	162	695	106	11	813	12	.985	1439.7	5.01	1.6	8	35.8

First Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
B. Madlock	159	158	1535	75	131	1627	17	.990	1381.7	10.49	-0.5
B. Beall	15	4	67	4	8	72	1	.986	58.0	11.02	-0.7
Totals	174	162	1602	79	139	1699	18	.989	1439.7	10.51	-1.3

Second Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. Rader	155	155	340	532	119	887	15	.983	1352.0	5.80	7.6
R. Washington	10	6	15	25	5	43	3	.930	65.7	5.48	-1.8
E. Hernandez	3	1	5	8	2	13	0	1.000	13.0	9.00	0.0
J. Youngblood	4	0	1	1	1	2	0	1.000	9.0	2.00	0.0
Totals	172	162	361	566	127	945	18	.981	1439.7	5.80	5.8

Third Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
R. Cey	115	111	71	222	30	300	7	.977	977.7	2.70	5.6
L. Blanks	42	42	25	75	6	102	2	.980	360.0	2.50	-0.6
R. Washington	12	8	4	11	0	16	1	.938	87.0	1.55	-0.3
B. Madlock	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	1.000	9.0	2.00	0.1
B. Beall	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	6.0	0.00	-0.6
Totals	171	162	100	310	36	421	11	.974	1439.7	2.56	4.1

Shortstops
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
E. Hernandez	117	116	195	400	79	612	17	.972	1014.0	5.28	11.5
R. Cey	41	41	68	134	24	209	7	.967	358.0	5.08	1.5
R. Washington	18	5	7	22	4	32	3	.906	61.7	4.23	-1.2
D. Chaney	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	4.0	2.25	0.0
J. Grubb	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	.500	2.0	4.50	-0.5
Totals	179	162	272	556	107	856	28	.967	1439.7	5.18	11.3

Left Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Grubb	88	85	181	3	1	188	4	.979	754.7	2.19	-2.2
J. Youngblood	45	44	126	2	1	131	3	.977	388.0	2.97	9.0
M. Rettenmund	21	20	50	1	0	52	1	.981	176.3	2.60	0.7
A. Oliver	8	8	13	1	0	14	0	1.000	68.0	1.85	-1.2
R. Torres	4	4	3	0	0	4	1	.750	36.0	0.75	-2.2
B. Asselstine	3	1	4	0	0	4	0	1.000	13.7	2.63	0.2
B. Boisclair	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	2.0	4.50	0.0
W. Nordhagen	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	171	162	378	7	2	394	9	.977	1439.7	2.41	4.4

Center Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. Murphy	155	155	483	19	4	503	1	.998	1359.3	3.32	6.9
B. Asselstine	4	4	18	1	1	19	0	1.000	38.0	4.50	-0.1
R. Torres	6	2	3	1	0	4	0	1.000	29.3	1.23	-0.4
J. Wallis	1	1	3	1	0	4	0	1.000	11.0	3.27	-0.0
B. Greer	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	2.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	167	162	507	22	5	530	1	.998	1439.7	3.31	6.4

Right Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Youngblood	90	90	206	4	0	219	9	.959	785.0	2.41	5.8
B. Asselstine	57	53	108	5	1	119	6	.950	479.7	2.12	-5.5
J. Wallis	9	9	15	2	0	18	1	.944	72.3	2.12	0.2
R. Torres	8	5	10	0	0	10	0	1.000	54.7	1.65	-0.2
J. Grubb	5	2	9	0	0	9	0	1.000	23.0	3.52	0.4
G. Foster	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	16.0	0.56	-0.2
M. Rettenmund	1	1	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	9.0	2.00	-0.0
Totals	172	162	351	11	1	378	16	.958	1439.7	2.26	0.6

Team Leaders

Batting Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Batting Average	Bill Madlock	.327
On-Base Percentage	Bill Madlock	.394
Slugging Percentage	Ron Cey	.473
OPS	Ron Cey	.835
Games	Bill Madlock	160
At-Bats	Bill Madlock	630
Runs	Bill Madlock	97
Hits	Bill Madlock	206
Doubles	Bill Madlock	37
Triples	Joel Youngblood	9
Home Runs	Ron Cey	28
Runs Batted In	Ron Cey	111
Stolen Bases	Bill Madlock	18
Caught Stealing	Enzo Hernandez	11
Walks	Dwayne Murphy	82
Strikeouts	Dwayne Murphy	124

Pitching Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Wins	Doc Medich	17
Losses	Nino Espinosa	13
Saves	Bruce Sutter	40
Games	Bruce Sutter	52
Games Started	Rick Reuschel	34
Complete Games	Nino Espinosa	12
Shutouts	Doc Medich	6
Innings Pitched	Doc Medich	253.0
Hits Allowed	Rick Reuschel	259
Home Runs Allowed	Nino Espinosa	18
Strikeouts	Doc Medich	124
Walks Allowed	Bill Bonham	75
Earned Run Average	Nino Espinosa	2.69
Walks + Hits per IP	Nino Espinosa	1.14
BABIP	Nino Espinosa	.263

Trades
Date	Sent		Recieved
July 2nd	LF Merv Rettenmund	to the Pittsburgh Pirates for	RF Puchy Delgado
July 31st	RF George Foster LF Johnny Grubb	to the Pittsburgh Pirates for	LF Al Oliver 3B Larvell Blanks
December 1st	P Mike Krukow	to the New York Mets for	RF Reggie Smith