1978 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 88-73
Finished 2nd in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 964,106, Avg. 13,773
Ballpark: Three Rivers Stadium
Manager: Chuck Tanner (88-73)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1978 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1978 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1978 season with a record of 88 wins and 73 losses, finishing second in the NL's East Division.

The Pirates scored 684 runs and conceded 637 runs. Dave Parker walloped 30 home runs for Pittsburgh, while Willie Stargell swatted 20 or more also. Dave Parker drove in 117 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .334 clip. Bert Blyleven and Don Robinson led the team with 14 wins each, and Kent Tekulve recorded a 2.33 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Chuck Tanner 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
Don Robinson	14	6	.700	3.47	35	32	1	9	1	1	228.3	203	98	88	20	57	4	135	3	4	9	937
Bert Blyleven	14	10	.583	3.03	34	34	0	11	4	0	243.7	217	94	82	17	66	5	182	6	2	6	1011
John Candelaria	12	11	.522	3.24	30	29	1	3	1	1	189.0	191	73	68	15	49	6	94	5	3	3	796
Jim Rooker	9	11	.450	4.24	28	28	0	1	0	0	163.3	160	94	77	13	81	4	76	3	0	1	717
Kent Tekulve	8	7	.533	2.33	91	0	65	0	0	31	135.3	115	44	35	5	55	18	77	2	0	5	573
Jim Bibby	8	7	.533	3.53	34	14	10	3	2	1	107.0	100	52	42	10	39	7	72	2	0	5	460
Grant Jackson	7	5	.583	3.26	60	0	25	0	0	5	77.3	89	32	28	5	32	9	45	1	1	2	346
Bruce Kison	6	6	.500	3.19	28	11	4	0	0	0	96.0	81	40	34	3	39	0	62	5	1	4	407
Ed Whitson	5	6	.455	3.28	43	0	14	0	0	4	74.0	66	31	27	5	37	5	64	2	0	1	318
Jerry Reuss	3	2	.600	4.90	23	12	3	3	1	0	82.7	97	48	45	5	23	1	42	3	1	3	361
Odell Jones	2	0	1.000	2.00	3	1	1	0	0	0	9.0	7	3	2	0	4	0	10	0	0	0	38
Clay Carroll	0	0		2.25	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	2	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	17
Will McEnaney	0	0		10.38	6	0	3	0	0	0	8.7	15	11	10	3	2	0	6	1	0	0	42
Dave Hamilton	0	2	.000	3.42	16	0	4	0	0	1	26.3	23	16	10	2	12	2	15	0	0	1	118
Totals	88	73	.547	3.42	433	161	131	30	9	44	1444.7	1366	637	549	103	499	61	880	33	12	40	6141

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	148	642	581	102	194	32	12	30	117	20	7	57	92	.334	.394	.585	.979	340	8	2	0	2	23
Frank Taveras	157	702	654	81	182	31	9	0	38	46	25	29	60	.278	.313	.353	.666	231	4	5	12	2	3
Phil Garner	154	609	528	66	138	25	9	10	66	27	14	66	71	.261	.345	.400	.745	211	18	5	3	7	12
Bill Robinson	136	552	499	70	123	36	2	14	80	14	11	35	105	.246	.296	.411	.707	205	7	5	2	11	8
Omar Moreno	155	621	515	95	121	15	7	2	33	71	22	81	104	.235	.339	.303	.642	156	5	3	17	5	4
Willie Stargell	122	450	390	60	115	18	2	28	97	3	2	50	93	.295	.382	.567	.949	221	8	7	0	3	10
Ed Ott	112	410	379	49	102	18	4	9	38	4	1	27	56	.269	.315	.409	.724	155	7	0	1	3	6
Rennie Stennett	106	351	333	30	81	9	2	3	35	2	1	13	22	.243	.274	.309	.584	103	9	2	1	2	6
John Milner	108	333	295	39	80	17	0	6	38	5	0	34	25	.271	.342	.390	.732	115	6	0	0	4	6
Manny Sanguillen	85	235	220	15	58	5	1	3	16	2	2	9	10	.264	.296	.336	.633	74	5	2	2	2	2
Duffy Dyer	58	199	175	7	37	8	1	0	13	2	1	18	32	.211	.294	.269	.563	47	5	3	2	1	3
Dale Berra	56	151	135	16	28	2	0	6	14	3	1	13	20	.207	.285	.356	.640	48	2	2	0	1	3
Steve Brye	66	130	115	16	27	7	0	1	9	2	1	11	10	.235	.305	.322	.626	37	2	1	2	1	1
Don Robinson	35	89	85	2	20	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	22	.235	.235	.259	.494	22	0	0	4	0	0
Mario Mendoza	57	62	55	5	12	1	0	1	3	3	1	2	9	.218	.283	.291	.574	16	0	3	2	0	1
Ken Macha	29	65	52	5	11	1	1	0	5	2	0	12	10	.212	.354	.269	.623	14	3	0	0	1	1
Bert Blyleven	37	93	85	4	11	2	0	0	11	0	0	1	35	.129	.140	.153	.292	13	0	0	7	0	0
John Candelaria	31	70	52	6	9	3	0	0	1	0	0	9	19	.173	.317	.231	.548	12	2	2	7	0	0
Jim Rooker	32	58	56	2	9	2	1	0	5	2	0	0	17	.161	.158	.232	.390	13	2	0	1	1	0
Jerry Reuss	23	27	27	1	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	.185	.185	.259	.444	7	1	0	0	0	0
Jim Fregosi	20	26	20	3	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	6	8	.200	.385	.250	.635	5	0	0	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	9	22	21	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.190	.227	.238	.465	5	0	0	0	0	0
Bruce Kison	28	29	29	2	4	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	5	.138	.138	.345	.483	10	1	0	0	0	0
Jim Bibby	34	34	31	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	9	.129	.206	.226	.432	7	0	0	0	0	0
Grant Jackson	60	12	12	0	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.417	.667	5	0	0	0	0	0
Doe Boyland	6	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Whitson	43	12	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	1	0	0
Kent Tekulve	91	22	21	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.095	.136	.095	.232	2	0	0	0	0	0
Cito Gaston	2	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Alberto Lois	3	4	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.750	1.000	3	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Nicosia	3	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Hamilton	16	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Odell Jones	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave May	5	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clay Carroll	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Will McEnaney	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Alexander	7	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2045	6038	5406	684	1390	239	54	115	631	213	90	480	874	.257	.320	.385	.705	2082	95	42	64	46	89

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Stargell	1B	112	104	920.0	875	57	6	76	.994	9.117	8.321	0	0	0
Manny Sanguillen	1B	40	38	322.3	355	15	0	26	1.000	1.331	9.250	0	0	0
John Milner	1B	28	16	164.3	169	13	3	15	.984	9.968	6.500	0	0	0
Bill Robinson	1B	3	1	18.0	14	2	0	1	1.000	8.000	5.333	0	0	0
Jim Fregosi	1B	2	2	12.0	13	1	0	1	1.000	1.500	7.000	0	0	0
Doe Boyland	1B	1	0	8.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	8.000	0	0	0
Phil Garner	2B	81	75	676.0	190	213	10	50	.976	5.365	4.975	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	2B	80	79	654.7	164	208	11	40	.971	5.114	4.650	0	0	0
Mario Mendoza	2B	21	4	84.7	17	31	1	3	.980	5.102	2.286	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	2B	4	3	29.0	6	6	1	0	.923	3.724	3.000	0	0	0
Jim Fregosi	2B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Phil Garner	3B	81	77	678.0	67	172	18	12	.930	3.173	2.951	0	0	0
Dale Berra	3B	55	35	360.3	28	80	11	11	.908	2.698	1.964	0	0	0
Bill Robinson	3B	29	24	166.3	19	41	5	5	.923	3.246	2.069	0	0	0
Ken Macha	3B	21	15	132.0	11	21	1	3	.970	2.182	1.524	0	0	0
Mario Mendoza	3B	18	0	39.0	4	16	3	1	.870	4.615	1.111	0	0	0
Rennie Stennett	3B	6	6	38.0	3	7	2	0	.833	2.368	1.667	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	3B	3	2	17.0	1	0	1	0	.500	.529	.333	0	0	0
Jim Fregosi	3B	5	2	14.0	1	3	2	0	.667	2.571	.800	0	0	0
Ed Ott	C	97	92	838.0	537	42	15	7	.975	6.218	5.969	10	67	26	28.0
Duffy Dyer	C	55	54	471.0	326	22	3	3	.991	6.650	6.327	2	54	18	25.0
Manny Sanguillen	C	18	14	126.7	83	5	0	0	1.000	6.253	4.889	1	15	2	11.8
Steve Nicosia	C	1	1	9.0	8	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	9.000	0	2	1	33.3
Dave Parker	OF	147	147	1303.7	302	12	13	3	.960	2.168	2.136	0	0	0
Omar Moreno	OF	152	137	1269.7	409	9	7	2	.984	2.963	2.750	0	0	0
Bill Robinson	OF	127	105	977.0	235	8	3	2	.988	2.238	1.913	0	0	0
John Milner	OF	69	66	477.7	118	1	0	0	1.000	2.242	1.725	0	0	0
Steve Brye	OF	47	23	260.0	57	2	1	0	.983	2.042	1.255	0	0	0
Ed Ott	OF	4	4	32.0	10	1	1	0	.917	3.094	2.750	0	0	0
Alberto Lois	OF	2	1	10.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0
Cito Gaston	OF	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bert Blyleven	P	34	34	243.7	11	41	1	4	.981	1.921	1.529	0	0	0
Don Robinson	P	35	32	228.3	10	32	1	1	.977	1.655	1.200	0	0	0
John Candelaria	P	30	29	189.0	4	25	0	0	1.000	1.381	.967	0	0	0
Jim Rooker	P	28	28	163.3	14	24	0	5	1.000	2.094	1.357	0	0	0
Kent Tekulve	P	91	0	135.3	8	38	4	1	.920	3.059	.505	0	0	0
Jim Bibby	P	34	14	107.0	3	20	2	0	.920	1.935	.676	0	0	0
Bruce Kison	P	28	11	96.0	11	14	0	1	1.000	2.344	.893	0	0	0
Jerry Reuss	P	23	12	82.7	4	10	0	4	1.000	1.524	.609	0	0	0
Grant Jackson	P	60	0	77.3	2	14	1	0	.941	1.862	.267	0	0	0
Ed Whitson	P	43	0	74.0	3	8	1	0	.917	1.338	.256	0	0	0
Dave Hamilton	P	16	0	26.3	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.367	.250	0	0	0
Odell Jones	P	3	1	9.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	.333	0	0	0
Will McEnaney	P	6	0	8.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.077	.333	0	0	0
Clay Carroll	P	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Frank Taveras	SS	157	157	1368.3	216	448	38	80	.946	4.367	4.229	0	0	0
Mario Mendoza	SS	14	2	55.0	7	14	1	0	.955	3.436	1.500	0	0	0
Dale Berra	SS	2	2	17.0	3	4	0	0	1.000	3.706	3.500	0	0	0
Phil Garner	SS	4	0	4.3	1	4	0	1	1.000	1.385	1.250	0	0	0
Totals		1921	1449	13002.0	4334	1691	167	358	.973	4.171	3.136	13	138	47	25.4

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