1978 Chicago Cubs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 79-83
Finished 3rd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,525,311, Avg. 20,324
Ballpark: Wrigley Field
Manager: Herman Franks (79-83)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1978 Chicago Cubs Roster
1978 Chicago Cubs Results

The Chicago Cubs of the National League ended the 1978 season with a record of 79 wins and 83 losses, finishing third in the NL's East Division.

The Cubs scored 664 runs and surrendered 724 runs. Dave Kingman led Chicago with 28 home runs and drove in 79 runs. Bill Buckner paced all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .323 average. Rick Reuschel topped the team with 14 wins, while Dennis Lamp recorded a 3.30 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Herman Franks 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
Rick Reuschel	14	15	.483	3.41	35	35	0	9	1	0	242.7	235	98	92	16	54	8	115	5	1	13	1007
Mike Krukow	9	3	.750	3.90	27	20	3	3	1	0	138.3	125	62	60	11	53	4	81	5	0	1	582
Donnie Moore	9	7	.563	4.12	71	1	24	0	0	4	102.7	117	55	47	7	31	11	50	2	2	7	450
Willie Hernandez	8	2	.800	3.77	54	0	21	0	0	3	59.7	57	26	25	6	35	7	38	1	0	3	264
Bruce Sutter	8	10	.444	3.19	64	0	47	0	0	27	98.7	82	44	35	10	34	7	106	1	1	8	414
Ray Burris	7	13	.350	4.75	40	32	3	4	1	1	199.0	210	112	105	15	79	11	94	10	3	6	870
Dennis Lamp	7	15	.318	3.30	37	36	0	6	3	0	223.7	221	96	82	16	56	8	73	4	2	2	928
Dave Roberts	6	8	.429	5.25	35	20	6	2	1	1	142.3	159	87	83	17	56	15	54	3	0	4	627
Lynn McGlothen	5	3	.625	3.04	49	1	14	0	0	0	80.0	77	33	27	7	39	5	60	0	0	0	343
Paul Reuschel	2	0	1.000	5.14	16	0	6	0	0	0	28.0	29	16	16	4	13	3	13	1	0	1	122
Woodie Fryman	2	4	.333	5.17	13	9	0	0	0	0	55.7	64	37	32	6	37	5	28	0	2	3	255
Dave Geisel	1	0	1.000	4.24	18	1	4	0	0	0	23.3	27	12	11	0	11	4	15	0	0	1	109
Manny Seoane	1	0	1.000	5.40	7	1	1	0	0	0	8.3	11	6	5	0	6	2	5	0	1	1	43
Ken Holtzman	0	3	.000	6.11	23	6	9	0	0	2	53.0	61	40	36	10	35	3	36	1	0	3	250
Totals	79	83	.488	4.06	489	162	138	24	7	38	1455.3	1475	724	656	125	539	93	768	33	12	53	6264

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
Ivan de Jesus	160	712	619	104	172	24	7	3	35	41	12	74	78	.278	.356	.354	.710	219	12	2	15	2	5
Bill Buckner	117	470	446	47	144	26	1	5	74	7	5	18	17	.323	.345	.419	.765	187	16	0	1	5	5
Manny Trillo	152	615	552	53	144	17	5	4	55	0	7	50	67	.261	.320	.332	.652	183	10	2	3	8	3
Bobby Murcer	146	585	499	66	140	22	6	9	64	14	5	80	57	.281	.376	.403	.779	201	12	0	0	6	15
Dave Kingman	119	448	395	65	105	17	4	28	79	3	4	39	111	.266	.336	.542	.878	214	3	6	2	6	8
Greg Gross	124	390	347	34	92	12	7	1	39	3	1	33	19	.265	.323	.349	.672	121	6	0	3	7	5
Larry Biittner	120	374	343	32	88	15	1	4	50	0	1	23	37	.257	.300	.341	.641	117	8	1	1	6	4
Steve Ontiveros	82	316	276	34	67	14	4	1	22	0	2	34	33	.243	.321	.333	.654	92	4	0	1	5	3
Rodney Scott	78	280	227	41	64	5	1	0	15	27	10	43	41	.282	.403	.313	.716	71	4	3	7	0	0
Dave Rader	116	348	305	29	62	13	3	3	36	1	1	34	26	.203	.281	.295	.576	90	13	1	3	5	7
Mike Vail	74	185	180	15	60	6	2	4	33	0	1	3	24	.333	.341	.456	.796	82	6	0	0	2	0
Gene Clines	109	254	229	31	59	10	2	0	17	4	3	21	28	.258	.321	.319	.640	73	5	1	2	1	1
Jerry White	59	162	136	22	37	6	0	1	10	4	3	23	16	.272	.373	.338	.711	46	3	0	1	2	1
Larry Cox	59	133	121	10	34	5	0	2	18	0	0	12	16	.281	.346	.372	.718	45	4	0	0	0	0
Mick Kelleher	68	106	95	8	24	1	0	0	6	4	1	7	11	.253	.304	.263	.567	25	5	0	4	0	0
Tim Blackwell	49	132	103	8	23	3	0	0	7	0	0	23	17	.223	.367	.252	.620	26	4	1	4	1	1
Hector Cruz	30	80	76	8	18	5	0	2	9	0	0	3	6	.237	.266	.382	.647	29	4	0	1	0	1
Dave Roberts	37	57	52	4	17	3	0	2	7	0	0	2	7	.327	.352	.500	.852	26	2	0	3	0	0
Joe Wallis	28	60	55	7	17	2	1	1	6	0	2	5	13	.309	.367	.436	.803	24	0	0	0	0	1
Scot Thompson	19	39	36	7	15	3	0	0	2	0	0	2	4	.417	.447	.500	.947	18	0	0	1	0	0
Davey Johnson	24	56	49	5	15	1	1	2	6	0	0	5	9	.306	.393	.490	.883	24	1	2	0	0	0
Dennis Lamp	37	76	73	1	15	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	17	.205	.205	.233	.438	17	1	0	3	0	0
Mike Krukow	27	51	45	4	11	5	0	0	3	0	0	2	13	.244	.271	.356	.626	16	0	0	3	1	0
Rick Reuschel	35	89	73	5	10	2	0	0	4	1	0	4	23	.137	.190	.164	.354	12	0	1	10	1	0
Ray Burris	41	70	61	3	7	1	2	0	2	0	0	2	13	.115	.143	.197	.340	12	1	0	7	0	0
Ed Putman	17	29	25	2	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	6	.200	.310	.200	.510	5	0	0	0	0	0
Donnie Moore	71	18	15	2	4	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	6	.267	.353	.333	.686	5	0	0	1	0	0
Lynn McGlothen	49	14	13	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.231	.286	.308	.593	4	1	0	0	0	0
Rudy Meoli	47	35	29	10	3	0	1	0	2	1	0	6	4	.103	.257	.172	.430	5	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Holtzman	23	12	10	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.200	.273	.300	.573	3	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Sember	9	4	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Gordon	4	9	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.200	.556	.200	.756	1	0	1	0	0	1
Bruce Sutter	64	19	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.077	.200	.077	.277	1	0	0	4	0	0
Woodie Fryman	13	20	16	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.063	.059	.125	.184	2	0	0	3	1	0
Dave Geisel	18	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Karl Pagel	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Willie Hernandez	55	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Reuschel	16	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manny Seoane	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2305	6258	5532	664	1461	224	48	72	612	110	58	562	746	.264	.331	.361	.692	1997	125	21	84	59	61

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Bill Buckner	1B	105	104	899.0	1075	83	6	85	.995	11.593	11.029	0	0	0
Larry Biittner	1B	62	50	484.0	554	52	8	53	.987	11.269	9.774	0	0	0
Dave Kingman	1B	6	6	46.0	56	2	2	4	.967	11.348	9.667	0	0	0
Scot Thompson	1B	2	1	10.0	8	1	0	1	1.000	8.100	4.500	0	0	0
Steve Ontiveros	1B	1	1	9.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	7.000	7.000	0	0	0
Ed Putman	1B	3	0	7.3	9	0	1	0	.900	11.045	3.000	0	0	0
Manny Trillo	2B	149	147	1290.3	354	505	19	99	.978	5.991	5.765	0	0	0
Mick Kelleher	2B	17	10	107.0	33	48	0	6	1.000	6.813	4.765	0	0	0
Rodney Scott	2B	6	4	42.0	16	10	1	1	.963	5.571	4.333	0	0	0
Rudy Meoli	2B	6	1	16.0	4	5	1	0	.900	5.063	1.500	0	0	0
Steve Ontiveros	3B	77	75	676.3	57	194	9	16	.965	3.340	3.260	0	0	0
Rodney Scott	3B	59	49	425.7	43	101	11	15	.929	3.045	2.441	0	0	0
Mick Kelleher	3B	37	12	135.7	11	41	0	3	1.000	3.450	1.405	0	0	0
Davey Johnson	3B	12	12	87.0	4	22	5	1	.839	2.690	2.167	0	0	0
Hector Cruz	3B	7	7	58.0	2	14	0	0	1.000	2.483	2.286	0	0	0
Ed Putman	3B	8	5	44.7	6	13	1	1	.950	3.828	2.375	0	0	0
Rudy Meoli	3B	5	2	18.0	2	9	0	0	1.000	5.500	2.200	0	0	0
Mike Sember	3B	7	0	9.7	0	2	1	0	.667	1.862	.286	0	0	0
Mike Vail	3B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dave Rader	C	114	83	775.3	412	51	11	7	.977	5.374	4.061	6	60	41	40.6
Larry Cox	C	58	40	331.7	178	26	7	3	.967	5.536	3.517	2	27	15	35.7
Tim Blackwell	C	49	38	326.3	213	20	3	3	.987	6.426	4.755	0	29	6	17.1
Mike Gordon	C	4	1	18.0	14	0	0	0	1.000	7.000	3.500	0	2	0	0.0
Ed Putman	C	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	1	0	0
Bobby Murcer	OF	138	133	1179.3	225	8	5	0	.979	1.778	1.688	0	0	0
Dave Kingman	OF	100	100	823.3	170	8	4	2	.978	1.946	1.780	0	0	0
Greg Gross	OF	111	76	744.3	182	6	4	1	.979	2.273	1.694	0	0	0
Gene Clines	OF	66	47	414.3	84	6	2	0	.978	1.955	1.364	0	0	0
Jerry White	OF	54	34	336.3	102	4	2	1	.981	2.836	1.963	0	0	0
Mike Vail	OF	45	34	300.0	50	1	1	0	.981	1.530	1.133	0	0	0
Larry Biittner	OF	29	25	219.7	47	1	1	0	.980	1.967	1.655	0	0	0
Joe Wallis	OF	25	11	135.7	36	1	0	0	1.000	2.455	1.480	0	0	0
Hector Cruz	OF	14	13	105.0	30	0	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.143	0	0	0
Rodney Scott	OF	10	9	69.0	14	1	1	0	.938	1.957	1.500	0	0	0
Scot Thompson	OF	5	4	39.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.385	1.200	0	0	0
Rick Reuschel	P	35	35	242.7	24	44	2	1	.971	2.522	1.943	0	0	0
Dennis Lamp	P	37	36	223.7	18	51	1	1	.986	2.776	1.865	0	0	0
Ray Burris	P	40	32	199.0	23	38	4	2	.938	2.759	1.525	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	P	35	20	142.3	8	29	0	2	1.000	2.340	1.057	0	0	0
Mike Krukow	P	27	20	138.3	9	19	0	1	1.000	1.822	1.037	0	0	0
Donnie Moore	P	71	1	102.7	10	16	2	0	.929	2.279	.366	0	0	0
Bruce Sutter	P	64	0	98.7	12	9	0	0	1.000	1.916	.328	0	0	0
Lynn McGlothen	P	49	1	80.0	1	5	1	1	.857	.675	.122	0	0	0
Willie Hernandez	P	54	0	59.7	2	12	0	0	1.000	2.112	.259	0	0	0
Woodie Fryman	P	13	9	55.7	5	13	0	2	1.000	2.910	1.385	0	0	0
Ken Holtzman	P	23	6	53.0	3	5	0	1	1.000	1.358	.348	0	0	0
Paul Reuschel	P	16	0	28.0	1	4	0	1	1.000	1.607	.313	0	0	0
Dave Geisel	P	18	1	23.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.157	.167	0	0	0
Manny Seoane	P	7	1	8.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ivan de Jesus	SS	160	158	1393.3	232	558	27	96	.967	5.103	4.938	0	0	0
Mick Kelleher	SS	10	2	36.0	8	11	0	1	1.000	4.750	1.900	0	0	0
Rodney Scott	SS	6	2	24.0	4	7	1	1	.917	4.125	1.833	0	0	0
Mike Sember	SS	1	0	2.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		2060	1458	13098.0	4366	2059	144	413	.978	4.415	3.119	9	118	62	34.4

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