1976 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 92-70
Finished 2nd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,025,945, Avg. 14,054
Ballpark: Three Rivers Stadium
Manager: Danny Murtaugh (92-70)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1976 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1976 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1976 season with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses, finishing second in the NL's East Division.

The Pirates plated 708 runs and allowed 630 runs. Richie Zisk and Bill Robinson paced Pittsburgh with 21 home runs apiece., while Willie Stargell walloped 20 or more also. Dave Parker drove in 90 runs. Al Oliver topped all regular batters by connecting at a .323 clip. John Candelaria led the team with 16 wins, plus Jim Rooker added 15 or more wins, too Bruce Kison recorded a 3.08 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Danny Murtaugh 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
John Candelaria	16	7	.696	3.15	32	31	1	11	4	1	220.0	173	87	77	22	60	5	138	2	0	0	881
Jim Rooker	15	8	.652	3.35	30	29	1	10	1	1	198.7	201	83	74	12	72	5	92	2	1	7	851
Bruce Kison	14	9	.609	3.08	31	29	1	6	1	1	193.0	180	83	66	10	52	4	98	3	0	4	800
Jerry Reuss	14	9	.609	3.53	31	29	2	11	3	2	209.3	209	98	82	16	51	10	108	2	0	7	880
Larry Demery	10	7	.588	3.17	36	15	7	4	1	2	145.0	123	56	51	8	58	8	72	2	1	0	604
Doc Medich	8	11	.421	3.51	29	26	1	3	0	0	179.3	193	80	70	10	48	9	86	2	2	3	759
Kent Tekulve	5	3	.625	2.45	64	0	33	0	0	9	102.7	91	30	28	3	25	7	68	0	0	0	409
Dave Giusti	5	4	.556	4.32	40	0	22	0	0	6	58.3	59	31	28	5	27	9	24	0	0	0	257
Bob Moose	3	9	.250	3.70	53	2	26	0	0	10	87.7	100	44	36	4	32	7	38	4	0	3	388
Ramon Hernandez	2	2	.500	3.56	37	0	17	0	0	3	43.0	42	17	17	3	16	5	17	1	1	2	184
Doug Bair	0	0		5.68	4	0	1	0	0	0	6.3	4	4	4	0	5	1	4	0	0	0	28
Rick Langford	0	1	.000	6.26	12	1	5	0	0	0	23.0	27	17	16	2	14	0	17	0	1	0	105
Totals	92	70	.568	3.37	399	162	117	45	10	35	1466.3	1402	630	549	95	460	70	762	18	6	26	6146

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
Dave Parker	138	573	537	82	168	28	10	13	90	19	7	30	80	.313	.349	.475	.824	255	16	2	0	4	6
Richie Zisk	155	641	581	91	168	35	2	21	89	1	0	52	96	.289	.343	.465	.808	270	20	0	0	8	3
Rennie Stennett	157	682	654	59	168	31	9	2	60	18	6	19	32	.257	.277	.341	.618	223	15	1	4	4	2
Al Oliver	121	481	443	62	143	22	5	12	61	6	2	26	29	.323	.363	.476	.839	211	13	5	1	6	7
Frank Taveras	144	573	519	76	134	8	6	0	24	58	11	44	79	.258	.321	.297	.618	154	11	4	6	0	1
Bill Robinson	122	416	393	55	119	22	3	21	64	2	4	16	73	.303	.329	.534	.864	210	14	1	3	3	1
Manny Sanguillen	114	426	389	52	113	16	6	2	36	2	4	28	18	.290	.338	.378	.716	147	14	2	3	4	14
Willie Stargell	117	487	428	54	110	20	3	20	65	2	0	50	101	.257	.339	.458	.797	196	4	5	0	4	6
Richie Hebner	132	493	434	60	108	21	3	8	51	1	3	47	39	.249	.325	.366	.692	159	5	4	4	4	2
Duffy Dyer	69	220	184	12	41	8	0	3	9	0	0	29	35	.223	.336	.315	.652	58	3	3	3	1	10
Ed Kirkpatrick	83	163	146	14	34	9	0	0	16	1	0	14	15	.233	.294	.295	.589	43	3	0	0	3	2
Omar Moreno	48	141	122	24	33	4	1	2	12	15	5	16	24	.270	.357	.369	.726	45	0	1	1	1	0
Bob Robertson	61	147	129	10	28	5	1	2	25	0	1	16	23	.217	.299	.318	.617	41	1	0	0	2	0
Tommy Helms	62	102	87	10	24	5	1	1	13	0	0	10	5	.276	.350	.391	.741	34	0	1	2	2	0
Mario Mendoza	50	97	92	6	17	5	0	0	12	0	1	4	15	.185	.216	.239	.456	22	3	0	0	1	1
Jerry Reuss	31	78	66	7	16	1	1	0	8	0	0	9	22	.242	.333	.288	.621	19	0	0	3	0	0
Jim Rooker	33	81	74	9	16	2	1	1	6	0	0	1	31	.216	.224	.311	.534	23	1	0	5	1	0
John Candelaria	32	88	76	5	14	2	1	0	5	0	0	7	17	.184	.253	.237	.490	18	4	0	5	0	0
Ed Ott	27	43	39	2	12	2	0	0	5	0	0	3	5	.308	.349	.359	.708	14	0	0	0	1	1
Bruce Kison	31	72	59	4	12	2	2	0	3	0	0	5	20	.203	.266	.305	.571	18	1	0	8	0	0
Larry Demery	40	47	40	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	16	.125	.163	.125	.288	5	0	0	4	1	0
Doc Medich	29	64	52	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	21	.096	.161	.096	.257	5	2	0	8	0	0
Miguel Dilone	16	17	17	7	4	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	.235	.235	.235	.471	4	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Moose	53	12	12	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.667	.917	8	1	0	0	0	0
Tony Armas	4	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	7	4	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	1.000	1.250	4	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Langford	12	5	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.400	.600	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ramon Hernandez	37	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	40	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kent Tekulve	64	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Doug Bair	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2033	6177	5604	708	1499	249	56	110	660	130	45	433	807	.267	.321	.391	.711	2190	131	29	61	50	56

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Stargell	1B	111	110	987.7	1037	53	13	76	.988	9.933	9.820	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	1B	29	28	250.3	257	17	1	28	.996	9.851	9.448	0	0	0
Ed Kirkpatrick	1B	25	18	186.7	190	15	2	15	.990	9.884	8.200	0	0	0
Al Oliver	1B	3	3	23.7	26	0	0	5	1.000	9.887	8.667	0	0	0
Bill Robinson	1B	3	3	18.0	22	0	0	4	1.000	11.000	7.333	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	2B	157	156	1395.3	430	502	18	111	.981	6.011	5.936	0	0	0
Tommy Helms	2B	11	6	69.0	22	19	0	4	1.000	5.348	3.727	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mario Mendoza	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Richie Hebner	3B	126	116	1053.3	87	236	16	16	.953	2.760	2.563	0	0	0
Bill Robinson	3B	37	35	296.3	24	46	7	5	.909	2.126	1.892	0	0	0
Tommy Helms	3B	22	10	106.7	8	27	3	4	.921	2.953	1.591	0	0	0
Ed Kirkpatrick	3B	1	1	7.0	0	1	2	0	.333	1.286	1.000	0	0	0
Mario Mendoza	3B	2	0	3.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0
Manny Sanguillen	C	111	104	928.7	518	52	13	7	.978	5.524	5.135	8	60	38	38.8
Duffy Dyer	C	58	53	484.0	279	37	2	4	.994	5.876	5.448	4	31	24	43.6
Ed Ott	C	8	5	53.7	20	6	0	1	1.000	4.360	3.250	1	3	4	57.1
Richie Zisk	OF	152	152	1322.3	300	11	4	2	.987	2.117	2.046	0	0	0
Dave Parker	OF	134	134	1196.3	294	12	14	0	.956	2.302	2.284	0	0	0
Al Oliver	OF	106	105	935.7	301	4	5	0	.984	2.934	2.877	0	0	0
Bill Robinson	OF	78	57	570.3	140	7	1	2	.993	2.320	1.885	0	0	0
Omar Moreno	OF	42	28	276.0	93	3	4	1	.960	3.130	2.286	0	0	0
Ed Kirkpatrick	OF	9	6	61.3	15	1	0	0	1.000	2.348	1.778	0	0	0
Miguel Dilone	OF	3	3	27.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	3.667	3.667	0	0	0
Tony Armas	OF	2	1	10.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	1.500	0	0	0
John Candelaria	P	32	31	220.0	3	31	0	2	1.000	1.391	1.063	0	0	0
Jerry Reuss	P	31	29	209.3	8	26	2	2	.944	1.462	1.097	0	0	0
Jim Rooker	P	30	29	198.7	8	29	2	1	.949	1.676	1.233	0	0	0
Bruce Kison	P	31	29	193.0	16	31	2	2	.959	2.192	1.516	0	0	0
Doc Medich	P	29	26	179.3	6	36	2	2	.955	2.108	1.448	0	0	0
Larry Demery	P	36	15	145.0	9	21	2	2	.938	1.862	.833	0	0	0
Kent Tekulve	P	64	0	102.7	6	24	1	0	.968	2.630	.469	0	0	0
Bob Moose	P	53	2	87.7	3	14	2	0	.895	1.745	.321	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	P	40	0	58.3	4	11	1	0	.938	2.314	.375	0	0	0
Ramon Hernandez	P	37	0	43.0	0	6	2	1	.750	1.256	.162	0	0	0
Rick Langford	P	12	1	23.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	2.348	.500	0	0	0
Doug Bair	P	4	0	6.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.421	.250	0	0	0
Frank Taveras	SS	141	137	1180.3	210	481	35	74	.952	5.269	4.901	0	0	0
Mario Mendoza	SS	45	24	256.0	42	103	5	19	.967	5.098	3.222	0	0	0
Craig Reynolds	SS	4	1	15.0	2	6	1	1	.889	4.800	2.000	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	SS	4	0	14.0	2	4	1	0	.857	3.857	1.500	0	0	0
Tommy Helms	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1826	1458	13197.0	4399	1878	163	392	.975	4.281	3.438	13	94	66	41.3

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