1976 Atlanta Braves Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 70-92
Finished 6th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 818,179, Avg. 11,520
Ballpark: Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
Manager: Dave Bristol (70-92)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia

1976 Atlanta Braves Roster
1976 Atlanta Braves Results

The Atlanta Braves of the National League ended the 1976 season with a record of 70 wins and 92 losses, finishing sixth in the NL's West Division.

The Braves scored 620 runs and allowed 700 runs. Jim Wynn led Atlanta with 17 home runs and recorded 66 runs batted in. Darrel Chaney paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .252. Phil Niekro topped the team with 17 wins, while Andy Messersmith registered a 3.04 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Dave Bristol coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Phil Niekro	17	11	.607	3.29	38	37	1	10	2	0	270.7	249	116	99	18	101	7	173	8	4	14	1157
Dick Ruthven	14	17	.452	4.19	36	36	0	8	4	0	240.3	255	112	112	14	90	8	142	8	5	4	1042
Andy Messersmith	11	11	.500	3.04	29	28	1	12	3	1	207.3	166	83	70	14	74	1	135	2	0	10	847
Adrian Devine	5	6	.455	3.21	48	1	24	0	0	9	73.0	72	30	26	3	26	7	48	1	0	2	319
Elias Sosa	4	4	.500	5.35	21	0	10	0	0	3	35.3	41	26	21	3	13	2	32	1	0	1	161
Carl Morton	4	9	.308	4.17	26	24	0	1	1	0	140.3	172	79	65	6	45	4	42	5	1	2	630
Bruce Dal Canton	3	5	.375	3.56	42	1	16	0	0	1	73.3	67	41	29	6	42	8	36	2	1	8	328
Roger Moret	3	5	.375	5.00	27	12	6	1	0	1	77.3	84	44	43	7	27	2	30	1	1	6	335
Frank LaCorte	3	12	.200	4.70	19	17	0	1	0	0	105.3	97	58	55	6	53	2	79	6	1	3	465
Mike Marshall	2	1	.667	3.19	24	0	21	0	0	6	36.7	35	15	13	4	14	0	17	1	0	3	157
Max Leon	2	4	.333	2.75	30	0	15	0	0	3	36.0	32	15	11	2	15	3	16	2	0	0	156
Al Autry	1	0	1.000	5.40	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	4	3	3	2	3	0	3	0	0	0	21
Jamie Easterly	1	1	.500	4.91	4	4	0	0	0	0	22.0	23	12	12	0	13	1	11	0	0	3	96
Preston Hanna	0	0		4.50	5	0	2	0	0	0	8.0	11	5	4	0	4	0	3	0	0	0	37
Rick Camp	0	1	.000	6.35	5	1	2	0	0	0	11.3	13	9	8	0	2	0	6	0	0	0	46
Buzz Capra	0	1	.000	8.68	5	0	2	0	0	0	9.3	9	9	9	0	6	2	4	0	0	0	44
Pablo Torrealba	0	2	.000	3.57	36	0	18	0	0	2	53.0	67	25	21	0	22	7	33	3	1	2	241
Mike Beard	0	2	.000	4.28	30	0	11	0	0	1	33.7	38	18	16	1	14	3	8	0	2	2	150
Totals	70	92	.432	3.86	426	162	129	33	10	27	1438.0	1435	700	617	86	564	57	818	40	16	60	6232

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
Willie Montanez	103	442	420	52	135	14	0	9	64	0	4	21	32	.321	.353	.419	.772	176	16	0	0	1	6
Jerry Royster	149	605	533	65	132	13	1	5	45	24	13	52	53	.248	.313	.304	.617	162	11	1	14	5	4
Darrel Chaney	153	564	496	42	125	20	8	1	50	5	7	54	92	.252	.324	.331	.654	164	9	1	8	5	7
Ken Henderson	133	505	435	52	114	19	0	13	61	5	7	62	68	.262	.352	.395	.747	172	12	1	2	5	7
Rowland Office	99	407	359	51	101	17	1	4	34	2	8	37	49	.281	.348	.368	.716	132	4	2	5	4	3
Rod Gilbreath	116	452	383	57	96	11	8	1	32	7	7	42	36	.251	.329	.329	.658	126	9	4	20	3	1
Tom Paciorek	111	350	324	39	94	10	4	4	36	2	3	19	57	.290	.333	.383	.716	124	8	3	2	2	2
Jim Wynn	148	584	449	75	93	19	1	17	66	16	6	127	111	.207	.377	.367	.744	165	7	0	0	8	1
Lee Lacy	50	190	180	25	49	4	2	3	20	2	2	6	12	.272	.299	.367	.666	66	5	1	3	0	1
Dave May	105	243	214	27	46	5	3	3	23	5	1	26	31	.215	.300	.308	.609	66	4	1	0	2	3
Vic Correll	69	224	200	26	45	6	2	5	16	0	1	21	37	.225	.302	.350	.652	70	7	1	2	0	5
Biff Pocoroba	54	196	174	16	42	7	0	0	14	1	0	19	12	.241	.313	.282	.594	49	8	0	1	2	2
Cito Gaston	69	147	134	15	39	4	0	4	25	1	0	13	21	.291	.354	.410	.764	55	6	0	0	0	1
Earl Williams	61	208	184	18	39	3	0	9	26	0	0	19	33	.212	.286	.375	.661	69	8	1	2	2	2
Marty Perez	31	109	96	12	24	4	0	1	6	0	0	8	9	.250	.305	.323	.628	31	6	0	4	1	0
Darrell Evans	44	169	139	11	24	0	0	1	10	3	0	30	33	.173	.320	.194	.514	27	3	0	0	0	0
Phil Niekro	38	105	94	5	18	3	0	1	12	0	1	0	8	.191	.198	.255	.453	24	3	1	9	1	0
Dale Murphy	19	72	65	3	17	6	0	0	9	0	0	7	9	.262	.333	.354	.687	23	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Ruthven	37	89	76	6	13	1	0	0	5	0	1	3	21	.171	.213	.184	.397	14	1	1	9	0	0
Rob Belloir	30	69	60	5	12	2	0	0	4	0	0	5	7	.200	.262	.233	.495	14	0	0	4	0	1
Andy Messersmith	29	77	67	3	12	1	0	0	10	0	0	4	19	.179	.225	.194	.419	13	1	0	6	0	0
Carl Morton	27	54	45	2	8	0	0	0	6	1	0	2	15	.178	.204	.178	.382	8	0	0	5	2	0
Junior Moore	20	32	26	1	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	4	.269	.387	.308	.695	8	0	1	1	0	0
Brian Asselstine	11	36	33	2	7	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	2	.212	.229	.303	.532	10	0	0	1	1	0
Craig Robinson	15	23	17	4	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	2	.235	.391	.235	.627	4	0	0	0	1	0
Roger Moret	27	26	23	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.130	.125	.130	.255	3	0	0	2	1	0
Frank LaCorte	21	36	33	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	15	.091	.091	.091	.182	3	0	0	3	0	0
Bruce Dal Canton	42	11	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	1	0	0
Pat Rockett	4	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Marshall	24	8	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	0	0	1	0	0
Elias Sosa	21	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jamie Easterly	4	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Varney	5	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	1	0	0	0	0
Preston Hanna	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Beard	30	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pablo Torrealba	36	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Adrian Devine	48	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Rick Camp	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Crowley	7	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	1	0
Mike Eden	5	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Max Leon	30	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Autry	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Buzz Capra	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2041	6107	5345	620	1309	170	30	82	586	74	61	589	811	.245	.320	.334	.653	1785	131	19	107	47	46

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Montanez	1B	103	103	911.3	986	56	15	87	.986	1.290	1.117	0	0	0
Darrell Evans	1B	36	34	298.7	285	23	2	25	.994	9.281	8.556	0	0	0
Earl Williams	1B	17	14	122.0	120	8	0	9	1.000	9.443	7.529	0	0	0
Tom Paciorek	1B	12	9	88.0	101	6	0	8	1.000	1.943	8.917	0	0	0
Cito Gaston	1B	2	2	18.0	16	1	0	2	1.000	8.500	8.500	0	0	0
Rod Gilbreath	2B	104	100	865.7	239	311	14	76	.975	5.718	5.288	0	0	0
Lee Lacy	2B	44	40	355.7	88	101	6	25	.969	4.783	4.295	0	0	0
Marty Perez	2B	18	14	127.3	38	44	2	10	.976	5.796	4.556	0	0	0
Rob Belloir	2B	5	4	42.0	13	9	1	3	.957	4.714	4.400	0	0	0
Craig Robinson	2B	5	3	29.0	9	11	1	1	.952	6.207	4.000	0	0	0
Mike Eden	2B	2	1	11.0	2	5	0	1	1.000	5.727	3.500	0	0	0
Darrel Chaney	2B	1	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Junior Moore	2B	1	0	3.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	8.100	3.000	0	0	0
Jerry Royster	3B	148	143	1244.7	156	306	18	35	.963	3.341	3.122	0	0	0
Rob Belloir	3B	10	8	68.0	3	15	1	0	.947	2.382	1.800	0	0	0
Rod Gilbreath	3B	7	3	39.7	6	3	3	1	.750	2.042	1.286	0	0	0
Darrell Evans	3B	7	4	37.0	5	10	1	1	.938	3.649	2.143	0	0	0
Junior Moore	3B	6	3	30.7	5	8	1	1	.929	3.815	2.167	0	0	0
Marty Perez	3B	2	1	7.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.571	1.000	0	0	0
Tom Paciorek	3B	1	0	3.3	0	1	1	0	.500	2.700	1.000	0	0	0
Craig Robinson	3B	1	0	3.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0
Lee Lacy	3B	1	0	3.0	0	1	1	0	.500	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Darrel Chaney	3B	1	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000	0	0	0
Vic Correll	C	65	58	518.7	319	36	7	1	.981	6.160	5.462	11	55	22	28.6
Biff Pocoroba	C	54	51	440.0	273	39	7	5	.978	6.382	5.778	10	31	16	34.0
Earl Williams	C	38	34	307.3	178	10	1	0	.995	5.505	4.947	5	26	3	10.3
Dale Murphy	C	19	17	155.0	100	13	3	0	.974	6.561	5.947	9	21	9	30.0
Pete Varney	C	5	2	17.0	9	3	0	1	1.000	6.353	2.400	3	5	1	16.7
Jim Wynn	OF	138	130	1142.0	287	17	9	2	.971	2.396	2.203	0	0	0
Ken Henderson	OF	122	116	1039.0	219	3	3	0	.987	1.923	1.820	0	0	0
Rowland Office	OF	92	89	768.7	204	3	3	2	.986	2.424	2.250	0	0	0
Tom Paciorek	OF	84	69	615.3	115	3	2	0	.983	1.726	1.405	0	0	0
Dave May	OF	60	47	425.3	98	5	3	1	.972	2.179	1.717	0	0	0
Cito Gaston	OF	28	23	214.7	42	1	1	0	.977	1.803	1.536	0	0	0
Brian Asselstine	OF	9	9	76.0	19	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.111	0	0	0
Lee Lacy	OF	5	3	28.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.200	0	0	0
Junior Moore	OF	1	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000	0	0	0
Phil Niekro	P	38	37	270.7	19	41	2	2	.968	1.995	1.579	0	0	0
Dick Ruthven	P	36	36	240.3	18	44	1	2	.984	2.322	1.722	0	0	0
Andy Messersmith	P	29	28	207.3	14	33	5	2	.904	2.040	1.621	0	0	0
Carl Morton	P	26	24	140.3	18	26	1	1	.978	2.822	1.692	0	0	0
Frank LaCorte	P	19	17	105.3	5	14	3	0	.864	1.623	1.000	0	0	0
Roger Moret	P	27	12	77.3	0	13	0	1	1.000	1.513	.481	0	0	0
Bruce Dal Canton	P	42	1	73.3	4	17	2	0	.913	2.577	.500	0	0	0
Adrian Devine	P	48	1	73.0	3	8	1	0	.917	1.356	.229	0	0	0
Pablo Torrealba	P	36	0	53.0	1	13	0	2	1.000	2.377	.389	0	0	0
Mike Marshall	P	24	0	36.7	3	7	0	1	1.000	2.455	.417	0	0	0
Max Leon	P	30	0	36.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.000	.133	0	0	0
Elias Sosa	P	21	0	35.3	0	4	1	0	.800	1.019	.190	0	0	0
Mike Beard	P	30	0	33.7	3	9	0	1	1.000	3.208	.400	0	0	0
Jamie Easterly	P	4	4	22.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	2.045	1.250	0	0	0
Rick Camp	P	5	1	11.3	3	5	1	0	.889	6.353	1.600	0	0	0
Buzz Capra	P	5	0	9.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.893	.600	0	0	0
Preston Hanna	P	5	0	8.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.125	.200	0	0	0
Al Autry	P	1	1	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Darrel Chaney	SS	151	147	1264.0	243	466	37	88	.950	5.048	4.695	0	0	0
Marty Perez	SS	17	7	86.3	22	25	2	6	.959	4.900	2.765	0	0	0
Rob Belloir	SS	12	6	58.7	9	17	2	5	.929	3.989	2.167	0	0	0
Jerry Royster	SS	2	1	12.0	2	4	1	0	.857	4.500	3.000	0	0	0
Craig Robinson	SS	2	1	9.0	1	3	2	0	.667	4.000	2.000	0	0	0
Pat Rockett	SS	2	0	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500	0	0	0
Rod Gilbreath	SS	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1867	1458	12942.0	4314	1820	167	408	.973	4.266	3.285	38	138	51	27.0

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