1973 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 82-80
Finished 4th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,394,004, Avg. 17,425
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Leo Durocher (82-80)
Location: Houston, Texas

1973 Houston Astros Roster
1973 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1973 season with a record of 82 wins and 80 losses, finishing fourth in the NL's West Division.

The Astros scored 681 runs and allowed 672 runs. Lee May led Houston with 28 home runs, while Doug Rader, Bob Watson, Jim Wynn and Cesar Cedeno each walloped 20 or more as well. Lee May recorded 105 runs batted in. Cesar Cedeno paced batters with significant playing time by hitting .320. Dave Roberts topped the team with 17 wins, plus Jerry Reuss added 15 or more wins, too Dave Roberts recorded a 2.85 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Leo Durocher 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
Dave Roberts	17	11	.607	2.85	39	36	0	12	6	0	249.3	264	92	79	15	62	8	119	2	0	3	1054
Jerry Reuss	16	13	.552	3.74	41	40	1	12	3	0	279.3	271	123	116	17	117	6	177	3	1	10	1198
Don Wilson	11	16	.407	3.20	37	32	4	10	3	2	239.3	187	94	85	21	92	6	149	7	1	7	988
Ken Forsch	9	12	.429	4.20	46	26	9	5	0	4	201.3	197	101	94	18	74	7	149	4	1	5	861
J. R. Richard	6	2	.750	4.00	16	10	2	2	1	0	72.0	54	37	32	2	38	0	75	1	1	3	297
Jim Ray	6	4	.600	4.43	42	0	15	0	0	6	69.0	65	37	34	5	38	8	25	3	0	2	306
Tom Griffin	4	6	.400	4.15	25	12	5	4	0	0	99.7	83	51	46	10	46	6	69	2	0	5	418
Jim York	3	4	.429	4.42	41	0	27	0	0	6	53.0	65	26	26	4	20	5	22	1	0	3	240
Fred Gladding	2	0	1.000	4.50	16	0	8	0	0	1	16.0	18	8	8	4	4	1	9	0	0	0	67
Juan Pizarro	2	2	.500	6.56	15	1	3	0	0	0	23.3	28	17	17	1	11	3	10	1	0	1	109
Cecil Upshaw	2	3	.400	4.46	35	0	17	0	0	1	38.3	38	21	19	3	15	4	21	1	0	3	166
Jim Crawford	2	4	.333	4.50	48	0	20	0	0	6	70.0	69	41	35	7	33	8	56	2	1	7	314
Mike Cosgrove	1	1	.500	1.80	13	0	2	0	0	0	10.0	11	2	2	1	8	2	2	0	0	1	49
Larry Dierker	1	1	.500	4.33	14	3	4	0	0	0	27.0	27	14	13	3	13	0	18	2	0	2	120
Doug Konieczny	0	1	.000	5.54	2	2	0	0	0	0	13.0	12	8	8	0	4	0	6	0	0	0	49
Totals	82	80	.506	3.78	430	162	117	45	13	26	1460.7	1389	672	614	111	575	64	907	29	5	52	6236

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
Bob Watson	158	666	573	97	179	24	3	16	94	1	4	85	73	.312	.403	.449	.852	257	18	4	1	3	8
Cesar Cedeno	139	576	525	86	168	35	2	25	70	56	15	41	79	.320	.376	.537	.913	282	19	7	1	2	7
Tommy Helms	146	584	543	44	156	28	2	4	61	1	1	32	21	.287	.325	.368	.694	200	11	0	6	3	12
Lee May	148	590	545	65	147	24	3	28	105	1	1	34	122	.270	.310	.479	.789	261	13	2	0	9	10
Doug Rader	154	632	574	79	146	26	0	21	89	4	3	46	97	.254	.310	.409	.719	235	10	3	3	6	6
Roger Metzger	154	637	580	67	145	11	14	1	35	10	4	39	70	.250	.299	.322	.622	187	10	3	12	3	0
Jim Wynn	139	581	481	90	106	14	5	20	55	14	11	91	102	.220	.347	.395	.742	190	11	4	1	4	9
Skip Jutze	90	306	278	18	62	6	0	0	18	0	1	19	37	.223	.273	.245	.518	68	14	1	6	2	5
Johnny Edwards	79	276	250	24	61	10	2	5	27	1	0	19	23	.244	.301	.360	.661	90	4	2	4	1	7
Tommie Agee	83	221	204	30	48	5	2	8	15	2	5	16	55	.235	.294	.397	.691	81	4	1	0	0	1
Bob Gallagher	71	153	148	16	39	3	1	2	10	0	1	3	27	.264	.275	.338	.612	50	1	0	0	2	1
Gary Sutherland	16	58	54	8	14	5	0	0	3	0	0	3	5	.259	.298	.352	.650	19	2	0	1	0	0
Don Wilson	37	86	79	4	14	4	0	0	5	0	0	1	32	.177	.188	.228	.415	18	1	0	6	0	0
Jesus Alou	28	58	55	7	13	2	0	1	8	0	0	1	6	.236	.276	.327	.603	18	3	2	0	0	1
Jimmy Stewart	61	81	68	6	13	0	0	0	3	0	0	9	12	.191	.295	.191	.486	13	1	1	3	0	1
Jerry Reuss	42	109	95	7	13	3	0	0	8	0	0	4	45	.137	.170	.168	.338	16	1	0	9	1	0
Dave Roberts	41	97	85	3	11	2	0	0	5	0	0	0	25	.129	.129	.153	.282	13	3	0	12	0	0
Greg Gross	14	43	39	5	9	2	1	0	1	2	1	4	4	.231	.302	.333	.636	13	2	0	0	0	0
Larry Howard	20	54	48	3	8	3	0	0	4	0	0	5	12	.167	.245	.229	.474	11	1	0	1	0	2
Cliff Johnson	7	22	20	6	6	2	0	2	6	0	0	1	7	.300	.364	.700	1.064	14	0	1	0	0	0
Hector Torres	38	77	66	3	6	1	0	0	2	0	1	7	13	.091	.189	.106	.295	7	4	1	3	0	0
J. R. Richard	16	29	28	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	.179	.179	.179	.357	5	0	0	1	0	0
Rafael Batista	12	16	15	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	6	.267	.313	.267	.579	4	0	0	0	0	1
Dave Campbell	9	15	15	1	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.267	.267	.400	.667	6	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	46	69	62	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	26	.065	.094	.081	.174	5	0	0	5	0	0
Jim Ray	42	15	13	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	1	0	2	0	0
Jim Crawford	48	14	13	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.231	.286	.308	.593	4	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	25	33	28	1	3	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	9	.107	.138	.286	.424	8	1	1	4	0	0
Ray Busse	15	18	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.059	.111	.059	.170	1	0	0	0	0	0
Otis Thornton	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cecil Upshaw	35	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Easler	6	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.000	.222	.000	.222	0	0	0	0	0	1
Juan Pizarro	15	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	1	0	0
Norm Miller	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Konieczny	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	14	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim York	41	7	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Cosgrove	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Gladding	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2025	6153	5532	681	1391	216	35	134	634	92	48	469	962	.251	.312	.376	.688	2079	135	33	83	36	72

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Lee May	1B	144	144	1239.3	1220	78	9	112	.993	9.426	9.014	0	0	0
Bob Watson	1B	26	12	150.0	150	2	2	7	.987	9.120	5.846	0	0	0
Cliff Johnson	1B	5	5	43.0	47	2	0	7	1.000	1.256	9.800	0	0	0
Rafael Batista	1B	8	1	25.7	26	1	0	1	1.000	9.468	3.375	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	1B	2	0	1.7	1	0	0	1	1.000	5.400	.500	0	0	0
Bob Gallagher	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Tommy Helms	2B	145	145	1293.0	325	438	9	104	.988	5.311	5.262	0	0	0
Gary Sutherland	2B	14	13	117.0	37	31	2	11	.971	5.231	4.857	0	0	0
Hector Torres	2B	13	4	48.7	14	13	1	3	.964	4.993	2.077	0	0	0
Jimmy Stewart	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Doug Rader	3B	152	152	1357.7	134	296	25	24	.945	2.850	2.829	0	0	0
Jimmy Stewart	3B	8	6	60.0	3	17	0	2	1.000	3.000	2.500	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	3B	5	3	31.0	2	12	0	1	1.000	4.065	2.800	0	0	0
Ray Busse	3B	3	1	12.0	1	3	0	1	1.000	3.000	1.333	0	0	0
Skip Jutze	C	86	78	697.7	450	31	8	4	.984	6.205	5.593	11	41	20	32.8
Johnny Edwards	C	76	69	611.7	435	22	5	3	.989	6.724	6.013	2	48	16	25.0
Larry Howard	C	20	13	127.0	79	7	1	0	.989	6.094	4.300	0	7	6	46.2
Bob Watson	C	3	2	19.0	12	1	1	0	.929	6.158	4.333	2	5	1	16.7
Otis Thornton	C	2	0	5.3	4	0	0	1	1.000	6.750	2.000	0	1	0	0.0
Bob Watson	OF	142	142	1184.3	271	8	9	0	.969	2.120	1.965	0	0	0
Cesar Cedeno	OF	136	135	1174.7	357	10	7	2	.981	2.812	2.699	0	0	0
Jim Wynn	OF	133	127	1147.0	270	9	4	1	.986	2.189	2.098	0	0	0
Tommie Agee	OF	67	40	430.0	114	2	2	2	.983	2.428	1.731	0	0	0
Bob Gallagher	OF	42	24	263.0	77	1	0	0	1.000	2.669	1.857	0	0	0
Jesus Alou	OF	14	7	82.0	16	0	1	0	.941	1.756	1.143	0	0	0
Greg Gross	OF	9	9	78.0	13	2	0	0	1.000	1.731	1.667	0	0	0
Mike Easler	OF	2	2	17.0	1	0	1	0	.500	.529	.500	0	0	0
Jimmy Stewart	OF	3	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.667	0	0	0
Norm Miller	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dave Campbell	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jerry Reuss	P	41	40	279.3	4	37	3	2	.932	1.321	1.000	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	P	39	36	249.3	9	39	1	1	.980	1.733	1.231	0	0	0
Don Wilson	P	37	32	239.0	15	25	4	3	.909	1.506	1.081	0	0	0
Ken Forsch	P	46	26	201.0	15	16	0	1	1.000	1.388	.674	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	P	25	12	100.0	7	14	0	0	1.000	1.890	.840	0	0	0
J. R. Richard	P	16	10	71.7	5	3	1	0	.889	1.005	.500	0	0	0
Jim Crawford	P	48	0	70.3	3	14	1	0	.944	2.175	.354	0	0	0
Jim Ray	P	42	0	69.0	4	9	0	0	1.000	1.696	.310	0	0	0
Jim York	P	41	0	53.3	1	12	2	0	.867	2.194	.317	0	0	0
Cecil Upshaw	P	35	0	38.3	3	9	0	0	1.000	2.817	.343	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	P	14	3	27.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.000	.214	0	0	0
Juan Pizarro	P	15	1	23.3	1	7	1	0	.889	3.086	.533	0	0	0
Fred Gladding	P	16	0	15.7	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.298	.250	0	0	0
Doug Konieczny	P	2	2	13.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.385	1.000	0	0	0
Mike Cosgrove	P	13	0	10.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Roger Metzger	SS	149	146	1306.7	231	429	12	83	.982	4.546	4.430	0	0	0
Hector Torres	SS	22	15	137.0	18	62	4	7	.952	5.255	3.636	0	0	0
Ray Busse	SS	5	1	16.0	2	7	0	1	1.000	5.063	1.800	0	0	0
Gary Sutherland	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1871	1458	13146.0	4382	1676	116	385	.981	4.147	3.238	15	102	43	29.7

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