Pittsburgh Pirates History - 1978 Summary

Team Results

Year	W	L	WPct	Finish	GB	Exp Rec	Diff	Avg	ERA	Playoffs	Champion	Attendance	Expenses	Revenue
1978 Pittsburgh Pirates	98	64	.605	1^st	-	96-66	2	.275	3.36	X		2,660,147	$4,063,950	$5,492,911

Award Winners

Award	Players	Qty
Gold Glove	John Candelaria (P), John Mayberry (1B), Ozzie Smith (SS), Roy White (LF)	4
All-Star	Larvell Blanks, Pete Rose, Kent Tekulve	3
Pitcher of the Month	Don Aase (Apr)	1
Batter of the Month	John Mayberry (Aug)	1
Player of the Week	Tim Corcoran (Jun 19)	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+
1B	John Mayberry	29	159	580	142	19	3	27	96	90	101	4	0	9	90	3	1	.245	.356	.428	.783	4.2	136
C	Clint Hurdle	20	137	487	139	24	7	8	56	62	54	1	1	4	73	0	2	.285	.355	.413	.768	3.8	131
3B	Pete Rose	37	108	446	148	22	8	7	54	57	50	5	0	3	30	11	2	.332	.403	.464	.867	5.1	161
SS	Ozzie Smith	23	100	363	100	11	5	1	49	51	20	1	10	4	18	25	9	.275	.312	.342	.653	4.0	97
LF	Terry Whitfield	25	94	338	98	26	1	5	45	41	24	5	0	3	58	2	1	.290	.343	.417	.760	1.2	129
CF	Al Oliver	31	85	349	91	10	2	8	42	42	17	3	0	1	23	6	4	.261	.300	.370	.670	0.9	101
SS	Larvell Blanks	28	78	302	83	12	10	6	36	39	22	0	9	1	39	0	0	.275	.323	.440	.763	1.3	129
RF	Jeffrey Leonard	22	97	308	76	13	4	6	41	37	18	0	0	7	58	9	10	.247	.282	.373	.656	-0.7	96
2B	Dave Cash	30	75	295	78	8	8	1	34	33	22	0	0	2	13	5	5	.264	.313	.356	.669	0.5	102
2B	Rich Dauer	25	80	265	73	10	0	3	32	26	13	2	1	3	27	0	0	.275	.311	.347	.658	1.1	98
CF	Omar Moreno	25	78	262	66	7	4	1	24	32	16	1	0	2	40	37	13	.252	.295	.321	.616	0.4	86
DH	Johnny Grubb	29	56	222	53	10	0	1	17	24	19	6	0	1	17	1	1	.239	.315	.297	.612	-0.4	86
LF	Roy White	34	53	196	61	6	1	2	22	36	35	0	12	2	22	13	8	.311	.412	.383	.795	1.4	141
RF	George Foster	29	54	213	65	5	4	12	42	37	27	2	0	1	46	3	1	.305	.387	.535	.922	2.9	176
3B	Ken Oberkfell	22	49	201	55	10	2	1	19	21	20	1	6	2	13	1	0	.274	.339	.358	.697	0.8	111
RF	Tim Corcoran	25	38	134	40	9	0	3	23	24	17	1	6	1	8	1	1	.299	.379	.433	.812	0.7	145
LF	Bill Buckner	28	34	136	39	8	0	2	13	18	4	0	0	1	5	4	3	.287	.305	.390	.695	0.2	108
RF	Dave Parker	27	31	119	29	3	1	4	11	14	8	0	0	1	22	2	2	.244	.289	.387	.676	0.1	102
LF	Leon Roberts	27	33	95	27	5	1	2	14	8	10	2	0	0	11	0	0	.284	.364	.421	.786	0.5	137
1B	Bill Robinson	35	23	78	26	5	1	1	11	8	3	0	0	2	12	2	0	.333	.349	.462	.811	0.4	143
C	Fred Kendall	29	23	70	19	3	0	0	8	4	5	0	1	1	8	0	0	.271	.316	.314	.630	0.2	91
2B	Larry Wolfe	25	24	50	15	3	0	0	7	4	2	0	0	0	9	0	0	.300	.327	.360	.687	0.1	107
C	Joe Nolan	27	15	47	13	4	0	1	4	3	4	0	0	1	6	0	0	.277	.327	.426	.752	0.3	126
SS	Frank Taveras	28	55	37	6	0	0	0	5	13	4	1	3	1	6	20	9	.162	.256	.162	.418	-0.3	29
3B	Ken Reitz	27	20	38	10	1	0	0	3	5	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	.263	.300	.289	.589	-0.0	79
CF	Lee Lacy	30	13	30	5	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	0	1	6	0	0	.167	.235	.167	.402	-0.2	23
LF	Bob Bailor	26	9	14	4	1	0	1	3	8	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.286	.286	.571	.857	0.1	153
2B	Don Kessinger	35	6	12	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-0.1	1
CF	Merv Rettenmund	35	7	4	1	0	0	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.500	1.000	1.500	0.2	343
1B	Tony Solaita	31	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.500	.667	1.167	0.0	250
2B	John Flannery	21	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167	0.1	257
C	Brian Milner	18	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0.0	203
32 Players		27.4	1644	5698	1567	236	62	104	715	743	523	36	49	54	668	146	72	.275	.337	.393	.730	28.9	120
FL Rank				1	1	3	1	7	1	2	6	4	7	4	9	2	4	1	3	1	1	2
DBL Rank				1	1	5	1	15	4	5	11	7	10	8	19	6	7	1	4	1	1	3

Pitching Stats

Player	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	HA	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERA+
John Candelaria	24	33	33	13	13	0	3.74	257.3	251	109	107	31	74	176	0	10	3	1.26	.280	3.4	95
Jerry Reuss	29	32	32	20	9	0	2.92	250.0	233	90	81	15	59	133	0	9	2	1.17	.273	5.6	122
Don Aase	23	32	32	15	10	0	3.42	242.0	229	105	92	15	81	111	0	4	1	1.28	.266	3.9	104
Reggie Cleveland	30	22	22	8	4	0	3.73	142.3	136	62	59	13	39	57	0	1	0	1.23	.262	1.5	95
Mike Bruhert	27	17	17	9	4	0	2.63	126.7	103	40	37	9	27	43	0	3	0	1.03	.226	2.0	135
Rick Langford	26	15	15	6	6	0	4.93	100.3	111	61	55	16	22	57	0	2	0	1.33	.290	0.7	72
Kent Tekulve	31	63	0	4	4	44	2.25	68.0	66	19	17	1	26	27	2	0	0	1.35	.293	1.6	158
Larry Demery	25	28	0	4	2	2	2.03	62.0	40	16	14	0	25	27	0	0	0	1.05	.216	0.9	175
Bob Stanley	23	38	0	14	3	3	2.06	56.7	50	14	13	1	18	19	1	0	0	1.20	.265	1.3	173
Al Holland	25	34	0	3	0	0	2.60	55.3	45	19	16	2	22	43	4	0	0	1.21	.274	1.1	137
Bob Shirley	24	6	6	1	3	0	5.01	41.3	54	26	23	1	14	21	0	0	0	1.65	.349	1.0	71
John Sutton	25	20	0	0	2	1	3.62	37.3	38	21	15	4	12	14	0	0	0	1.34	.264	-0.2	99
Ray Burris	27	5	5	1	3	0	5.61	33.7	42	24	21	4	10	18	0	0	0	1.54	.322	0.2	63
Mike Beard	28	4	0	0	1	0	0.00	1.0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.00	.600	0.0	0
14 Pitchers	26.1	349	162	98	64	50	3.36	1474.0	1401	607	550	112	429	746	7	29	6	1.24	.271	23.1	113
FL Rank		8	1	2	9	4	2	1	2	2	2	7	2	5	10	4	4	2	2	3
DBL Rank		17	1	2	19	4	5	2	6	4	5	12	2	12	20	7	9	2	6	4

Fielding Stats

Pitchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Candelaria	33	33	13	38	2	53	2	.962	257.3	1.78	1.8
J. Reuss	32	32	15	36	0	52	1	.981	250.0	1.84	0.1
D. Aase	32	32	8	39	0	50	3	.940	242.0	1.75	0.4
R. Cleveland	22	22	11	14	0	25	0	1.000	142.3	1.58	0.0
M. Bruhert	17	17	9	25	0	36	2	.944	126.7	2.42	0.5
R. Langford	15	15	4	22	0	27	1	.963	100.3	2.33	-0.1
K. Tekulve	61	0	2	10	0	12	0	1.000	68.0	1.59	0.2
L. Demery	28	0	3	9	0	12	0	1.000	62.0	1.74	0.1
B. Stanley	38	0	3	8	0	11	0	1.000	56.7	1.75	0.2
A. Holland	34	0	3	9	0	14	2	.857	55.3	1.95	-0.3
B. Shirley	6	6	1	5	0	7	1	.857	41.3	1.31	-0.4
J. Sutton	20	0	2	7	0	10	1	.900	37.3	2.17	-0.3
R. Burris	5	5	4	5	0	10	1	.900	33.7	2.41	-0.1
M. Beard	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	345	162	78	227	2	319	14	.956	1474.0	1.86	2.0

Catchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	RTO%
C. Hurdle	133	131	613	95	9	718	10	.986	1171.0	5.44	0.6	13	37.5
F. Kendall	23	18	98	16	3	115	1	.991	182.0	5.64	-0.1	5	50.0
J. Nolan	14	13	69	6	1	76	1	.987	120.0	5.62	-1.0	1	10.0
B. Milner	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0	0	0.0
Totals	171	162	780	117	13	909	12	.987	1474.0	5.48	-0.5	19	37.6

First Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Mayberry	159	159	1522	96	112	1629	11	.993	1413.0	10.31	9.5
K. Reitz	3	2	14	1	1	15	0	1.000	21.0	6.43	0.2
B. Robinson	3	1	15	0	5	15	0	1.000	15.0	9.00	-0.1
T. Solaita	4	0	16	0	1	17	1	.941	11.0	13.09	-0.4
C. Hurdle	4	0	7	1	0	9	1	.889	9.0	8.00	-0.5
B. Buckner	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	1.000	2.0	9.00	0.0
T. Corcoran	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	2.0	9.00	0.0
B. Bailor	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	1.0	18.00	-0.1
Totals	177	162	1580	98	120	1691	13	.992	1474.0	10.25	8.6

Second Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. Cash	74	74	157	228	47	397	12	.970	664.0	5.22	-2.7
R. Dauer	80	76	152	203	54	358	3	.992	654.3	4.88	3.5
L. Wolfe	20	8	27	26	8	54	1	.981	94.7	5.04	-0.6
K. Reitz	11	3	14	15	6	29	0	1.000	38.0	6.87	0.1
D. Kessinger	2	1	1	6	1	7	0	1.000	12.0	5.25	0.2
L. Lacy	2	0	3	1	0	4	0	1.000	3.0	12.00	0.1
J. Flannery	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	3.0	3.00	0.0
P. Rose	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	2.0	4.50	-0.0
F. Taveras	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	2.0	4.50	0.0
L. Blanks	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	194	162	357	479	116	852	16	.981	1474.0	5.10	0.6

Third Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
P. Rose	107	103	41	214	18	262	7	.973	942.0	2.44	0.9
K. Oberkfell	49	49	23	103	8	129	3	.977	434.0	2.61	1.2
K. Reitz	7	5	1	19	2	21	1	.952	46.0	3.91	-0.1
L. Wolfe	4	3	2	6	1	8	0	1.000	34.0	2.12	0.2
D. Kessinger	2	1	0	3	0	4	1	.750	9.0	3.00	-0.5
L. Blanks	2	0	0	2	1	2	0	1.000	5.0	3.60	0.0
D. Cash	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	1.000	2.0	4.50	0.0
B. Robinson	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1.000	2.0	9.00	0.0
Totals	173	161	67	350	31	429	12	.972	1474.0	2.55	1.8

Shortstops
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
O. Smith	100	100	146	380	62	535	9	.983	905.0	5.23	25.3
L. Blanks	57	57	85	146	24	235	4	.983	484.0	4.30	-2.1
F. Taveras	18	4	14	32	4	51	5	.902	75.3	5.50	-1.3
B. Bailor	2	1	2	1	0	3	0	1.000	5.7	4.76	0.2
D. Cash	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	2.0	0.00	-0.5
D. Kessinger	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	2.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	180	162	247	559	90	824	18	.978	1474.0	4.92	21.6

Left Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
R. White	53	53	131	4	2	136	1	.993	482.0	2.52	2.0
B. Buckner	34	34	85	0	0	85	0	1.000	302.0	2.53	-0.6
J. Leonard	34	34	71	2	1	73	0	1.000	297.0	2.21	-2.8
T. Whitfield	25	25	58	1	0	61	2	.967	227.0	2.34	0.1
L. Roberts	13	10	19	0	0	20	1	.950	99.0	1.73	-0.5
O. Moreno	9	5	16	0	0	19	3	.842	49.0	2.94	0.3
B. Bailor	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	15.0	0.60	-0.5
M. Rettenmund	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	3.0	3.00	0.0
Totals	174	162	382	7	3	396	7	.982	1474.0	2.38	-1.9

Center Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
A. Oliver	84	83	258	4	1	264	2	.992	745.7	3.16	-1.1
O. Moreno	66	66	216	7	3	225	2	.991	574.7	3.49	-1.1
L. Lacy	12	8	28	0	0	29	1	.966	79.3	3.18	-0.3
T. Corcoran	2	2	3	0	0	4	1	.750	18.0	1.50	-1.2
J. Leonard	4	1	3	1	1	4	0	1.000	16.3	2.20	-0.9
G. Foster	5	0	4	0	0	4	0	1.000	15.0	2.40	-0.5
T. Whitfield	3	1	4	0	0	4	0	1.000	11.0	3.27	-0.4
B. Bailor	2	1	3	0	0	3	0	1.000	10.0	2.70	-0.3
M. Rettenmund	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	4.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	181	162	519	12	5	537	6	.989	1474.0	3.24	-5.7

Right Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
G. Foster	54	54	145	3	1	149	1	.993	470.0	2.83	4.7
J. Leonard	45	37	86	5	0	91	0	1.000	355.0	2.31	-0.3
T. Corcoran	35	34	86	4	0	91	1	.989	301.0	2.69	0.5
D. Parker	31	31	68	2	0	73	3	.959	272.0	2.32	0.1
T. Whitfield	4	4	12	0	0	13	1	.923	35.0	3.09	0.5
L. Roberts	4	2	9	0	0	9	0	1.000	22.0	3.68	1.1
O. Moreno	3	0	5	0	0	5	0	1.000	8.0	5.62	0.2
B. Robinson	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	5.0	1.80	-0.3
C. Hurdle	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	3.0	0.00	0.0
M. Rettenmund	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	3.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	180	162	412	14	1	432	6	.986	1474.0	2.60	6.5

Team Leaders

Batting Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Batting Average	Pete Rose	.332
On-Base Percentage	Pete Rose	.403
Slugging Percentage	Pete Rose	.464
OPS	Pete Rose	.867
Games	John Mayberry	159
At-Bats	John Mayberry	580
Runs	John Mayberry	90
Hits	Pete Rose	148
Doubles	Terry Whitfield	26
Triples	Larvell Blanks	10
Home Runs	John Mayberry	27
Runs Batted In	John Mayberry	96
Stolen Bases	Omar Moreno	37
Caught Stealing	Omar Moreno	13
Walks	John Mayberry	101
Strikeouts	John Mayberry	90

Pitching Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Wins	Jerry Reuss	20
Losses	John Candelaria	13
Saves	Kent Tekulve	44
Games	Kent Tekulve	63
Games Started	John Candelaria	33
Complete Games	John Candelaria	10
Shutouts	John Candelaria	3
Innings Pitched	John Candelaria	257.3
Hits Allowed	John Candelaria	251
Home Runs Allowed	John Candelaria	31
Strikeouts	John Candelaria	176
Walks Allowed	Don Aase	81
Earned Run Average	Jerry Reuss	2.92
Walks + Hits per IP	Jerry Reuss	1.17
BABIP	Don Aase	.266

Trades
Date	Sent		Recieved
January 1st	P Dave LaRoche	to the New York Mets for	P Bob Stanley
February 18th	3B Larry Parrish RF Gary Roenicke	to the Cincinnati Reds for	SS Larvell Blanks RF Jeffrey Leonard
March 20th	RF Gary Woods	to the Texas Rangers for	P Chris Knapp
March 20th	C Ed Ott 1B Karl Pagel LF Bombo Rivera	to the St. Louis Cardinals for	P Santo Alcala
April 1st		to the Kansas City Royals for	LF Terry Whitfield
April 1st	P Dan O'Brien	to the Philadelphia Phillies for	RF Tim Corcoran
April 1st	P Santo Alcala	to the Oakland Athletics for	1B Arturo DeFreites
April 28th	P Ray Burris	to the San Francisco Giants for	P Pat Darcy
May 8th	RF Dave Parker P Sammy Stewart	to the New York Mets for	RF Dusty Baker
May 13th		to the St. Louis Cardinals for	LF Bill Buckner
May 28th	P Bob Welch 3B Ken Oberkfell	to the Montreal Expos for	3B Pete Rose P Reggie Cleveland
June 22nd	RF Dusty Baker	to the Boston Red Sox for
June 27th	2B Dave Cash P Rick Langford P Pat Darcy P Dennis Kinney	to the Los Angeles Dodgers for	2B Rich Dauer P Doug Rau P Mike Bruhert
July 2nd		to the Kansas City Royals for	1B Bill Robinson
July 2nd	RF Puchy Delgado	to the Chicago Cubs for	CF Merv Rettenmund
July 7th	LF Leon Roberts	to the Los Angeles Dodgers for	C Joe Nolan
July 12th	P Doug Bair	to the Baltimore Orioles for	CF Lee Lacy
July 18th	C Fred Kendall	to the Boston Red Sox for	2B Larry Wolfe
July 18th	P Dwight Bernard	to the San Francisco Giants for	C Rick Sweet
July 31st	CF Al Oliver SS Larvell Blanks	to the Chicago Cubs for	RF George Foster DH Johnny Grubb
July 31st	LF Bill Buckner 3B Ken Reitz	to the Los Angeles Dodgers for	LF Roy White
December 1st	P Jerry Reuss LF Terry Whitfield	to the San Francisco Giants for	P Larry McWilliams RF Bobby Murcer
December 1st	P John Candelaria	to the St. Louis Cardinals for	P Steve Comer
December 1st	1B John Mayberry	to the St. Louis Cardinals for	2B Ray Knight
December 1st	RF Bobby Murcer	to the Cincinnati Reds for
December 1st	3B Pete Rose RF George Foster P Bob Shirley CF Omar Moreno P Larry Demery	to the Los Angeles Dodgers for	3B Rance Mulliniks CF Ken Landreaux P Fred Norman 3B Richie Hebner CF Amos Otis
December 1st		to the Los Angeles Dodgers for	RF Bobby Bonds
December 1st	CF Amos Otis	to the Milwaukee Brewers for
December 14th		to the St. Louis Cardinals for	P Jim Burton
December 14th	LF Roy White	to the Boston Red Sox for	CF Andre Dawson LF Gene Locklear
December 15th	2B Rich Dauer P Steve Comer CF Eddie Miller	to the California Angels for	2B Jerry Remy P Andy Messersmith
December 15th	P Andy Messersmith	to the Los Angeles Dodgers for
December 15th	P Fred Norman	to the Milwaukee Brewers for
December 15th	SS Frank Taveras	to the St. Louis Cardinals for	P Rick Honeycutt