Boston Americans History - 1976 Summary

Team Results

Year	W	L	WPct	Finish	GB	Exp Rec	Diff	Avg	ERA	Playoffs	Champion	Attendance	Expenses	Revenue
1976 Boston Americans	82	80	.506	3^rd	24	78-84	4	.271	4.65	X		2,858,463	$59,766,025	$0

Award Winners

Award	Players	Qty
Most Impactful Player Award	John Beckwith	1
All-Star	John Beckwith, Dennis Eckersley, Willie McGill, Zoilo Versalles	4
Pitcher of the Month	Willie McGill (May)	1
Batter of the Month	John Beckwith (Jul)	1
Player of the Week	Zoilo Versalles (May 10), John Beckwith (Jun 14), George Brett (Jul 5, Aug 2), Newt Allen (Aug 9)	5

Batting Stats

Pos	Player	Age	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	HP	SH	SF	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR	OPS+
RF	John Beckwith	28	159	606	187	39	4	40	121	111	80	10	0	4	79	3	7	.309	.396	.584	.980	4.9	138
1B	George Brett	36	141	533	148	30	3	24	79	85	41	3	0	6	54	4	6	.278	.329	.480	.810	2.3	97
SS	Zoilo Versalles	24	132	494	141	30	6	13	59	60	29	12	1	6	53	5	4	.285	.336	.449	.786	3.4	92
C	Jay Clarke	24	127	469	128	23	6	12	61	69	44	1	4	1	78	2	0	.273	.336	.424	.760	2.7	86
3B	Graig Nettles	29	125	422	112	18	0	16	58	54	33	9	0	7	74	0	0	.265	.327	.422	.749	2.6	83
CF	Dom DiMaggio	30	115	413	112	30	3	6	48	49	44	3	2	4	88	2	1	.271	.343	.402	.745	2.6	83
2B	Ben Zobrist	30	112	389	97	24	3	4	41	59	50	2	2	4	69	5	5	.249	.335	.357	.692	0.7	71
LF	Albert Belle	25	102	347	93	17	0	19	61	46	24	6	0	4	85	0	1	.268	.323	.481	.804	1.2	95
2B	Newt Allen	37	100	343	95	14	15	1	28	48	20	8	0	2	11	11	3	.277	.330	.414	.744	1.8	82
LF	Josh Hamilton	28	98	320	79	17	1	9	41	36	23	4	0	1	52	0	2	.247	.305	.391	.695	0.6	70
CF	Carl Everett	28	101	308	88	17	2	12	42	44	20	2	0	2	64	6	6	.286	.331	.471	.802	0.8	95
LF	Carl Furillo	36	87	310	92	18	3	9	50	36	11	4	0	3	33	0	0	.297	.326	.461	.788	0.8	92
3B	Carlos Correa	35	66	202	42	8	0	9	21	25	27	0	1	0	30	2	2	.208	.301	.381	.682	0.5	67
1B	Dots Miller	21	51	173	49	12	2	3	19	23	11	2	6	1	23	4	1	.283	.332	.428	.759	0.3	86
C	Buck Martinez	35	42	141	27	8	0	3	16	13	7	2	1	2	26	0	0	.191	.237	.312	.549	-0.2	34
1B	David Ortiz	34	27	74	15	3	1	4	10	9	5	2	0	0	17	0	0	.203	.272	.432	.704	-0.0	70
1B	Bob Boyd	38	17	55	21	2	1	0	2	11	6	0	0	0	2	0	1	.382	.443	.455	.897	0.3	122
P	Earl Johnson	21	5	15	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	12	0	0	.133	.133	.267	.400	-0.3	-4
P	Mike Sullivan	28	5	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-0.2	-50
P	Willie McGill	27	3	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	.143	.250	.143	.393	-0.0	0
P	Bobo Newsom	38	3	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.143	.143	.286	.429	-0.1	3
P	Charlie Sprague	25	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2	-100
P	Amos Rusie	19	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2	-100
P	Fernando Valenzuela	28	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	-0.1	396
P	Dennis Eckersley	33	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	-100
25 Players		29.6	1636	5644	1532	313	50	184	760	781	476	70	25	47	857	44	39	.271	.333	.442	.776	24.3	89
AL Rank				1	1	1	2	2	2	2	5	4	3	4	3	6	4	1	2	1	2	2
ABBA Rank				1	1	1	3	2	2	2	7	7	9	5	5	10	6	1	2	1	2	3

Pitching Stats

Player	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	HA	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERA+
Earl Johnson	21	38	38	14	11	0	3.40	275.7	245	118	104	21	131	127	0	6	1	1.36	.255	3.2	134
Willie McGill	27	35	35	19	7	0	3.19	270.7	238	101	96	14	108	258	0	10	3	1.28	.301	9.6	142
Bobo Newsom	38	33	27	10	15	0	5.87	204.0	233	144	133	34	82	104	0	7	0	1.54	.293	0.5	78
Charlie Sprague	25	41	27	12	7	0	4.26	177.7	181	93	84	9	98	102	0	0	0	1.57	.303	2.1	107
Mike Sullivan	28	29	12	6	6	2	4.99	124.3	127	76	69	10	65	66	2	5	1	1.54	.285	1.2	91
Dennis Eckersley	33	71	0	11	10	29	3.24	100.0	86	37	36	11	28	70	2	0	0	1.14	.258	2.0	140
Fernando Valenzuela	28	14	10	4	6	0	5.57	84.0	102	57	52	15	33	46	0	1	1	1.61	.307	0.4	82
Bartolo Colon	34	36	0	1	5	2	6.35	72.3	82	59	51	13	40	39	2	0	0	1.69	.287	-1.0	72
Matt Keough	22	8	4	1	3	0	7.86	44.7	60	39	39	4	27	21	0	0	0	1.95	.348	0.0	58
Amos Rusie	19	7	6	0	6	0	9.61	39.3	62	46	42	5	22	7	0	2	0	2.14	.354	-0.2	47
Ray Boyd	34	30	0	3	3	2	4.46	34.3	38	19	17	3	15	19	7	0	0	1.54	.310	0.4	102
Al Gettel	26	2	2	1	1	0	10.50	12.0	14	14	14	2	15	11	0	0	0	2.42	.353	-0.2	43
Bobby Ayala	37	7	0	0	0	0	10.00	9.0	14	10	10	2	6	4	0	0	0	2.22	.343	-0.2	45
Brett Myers	21	1	1	0	0	0	6.43	7.0	11	5	5	2	4	3	0	0	0	2.14	.346	-0.1	71
14 Pitchers	27.9	352	162	82	80	35	4.65	1455.0	1493	818	752	145	674	877	13	31	6	1.49	.292	17.9	108
AL Rank		2	1	3	4	3	6	4	6	6	6	1	6	4	2	5	5	6	6	3
ABBA Rank		4	1	5	8	3	12	7	10	12	12	3	12	5	3	11	11	12	11	5

Fielding Stats

Pitchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
E. Johnson	38	38	22	27	2	53	4	.925	275.7	1.60	-1.2
W. McGill	35	35	19	21	0	41	1	.976	270.7	1.33	0.3
B. Newsom	33	27	14	21	1	37	2	.946	204.0	1.54	-0.6
C. Sprague	41	27	14	20	3	35	1	.971	177.7	1.72	-0.1
M. Sullivan	28	12	10	16	3	28	2	.929	124.3	1.88	-0.6
D. Eckersley	71	0	9	12	1	22	1	.955	100.0	1.89	0.5
F. Valenzuela	14	10	2	16	2	19	1	.947	84.0	1.93	-1.0
B. Colon	36	0	7	5	0	13	1	.923	72.3	1.49	-0.1
M. Keough	8	4	1	6	0	7	0	1.000	44.7	1.41	-0.0
A. Rusie	7	6	3	4	1	9	2	.778	39.3	1.60	-1.0
R. Boyd	30	0	2	5	0	7	0	1.000	34.3	1.83	-0.0
A. Gettel	2	2	2	2	0	4	0	1.000	12.0	3.00	-0.0
B. Ayala	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	9.0	0.00	-0.0
B. Myers	1	1	1	1	0	2	0	1.000	7.0	2.57	-0.0
Totals	350	162	106	156	13	277	15	.946	1455.0	1.62	-3.8

Catchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	RTO%
J. Clarke	127	123	681	57	15	744	6	.992	1099.7	6.04	-1.0	5	28.0
B. Martinez	42	39	231	27	5	259	1	.996	355.3	6.53	1.3	3	44.2
Totals	169	162	912	84	20	1003	7	.993	1455.0	6.16	0.2	8	32.1

First Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
G. Brett	134	126	1138	99	121	1250	13	.990	1128.0	9.87	2.8
D. Miller	22	22	188	14	23	204	2	.990	186.7	9.74	-0.6
J. Beckwith	8	6	63	8	6	73	2	.973	54.7	11.69	0.8
G. Nettles	6	5	57	2	4	59	0	1.000	44.0	12.07	1.2
B. Boyd	4	3	22	3	4	26	1	.962	21.0	10.71	-0.5
D. Ortiz	8	0	21	2	3	23	0	1.000	20.7	10.02	0.6
Totals	182	162	1489	128	161	1635	18	.989	1455.0	10.00	4.3

Second Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
B. Zobrist	57	52	119	147	45	269	3	.989	462.0	5.18	-1.0
N. Allen	61	51	91	152	48	248	5	.980	452.0	4.84	1.0
Z. Versalles	44	42	86	122	36	212	4	.981	365.0	5.13	2.2
D. Miller	20	15	30	50	10	81	1	.988	134.3	5.36	-0.5
C. Correa	8	2	4	11	1	15	0	1.000	24.0	5.62	0.4
G. Brett	6	0	1	4	1	5	0	1.000	17.7	2.55	-0.0
Totals	196	162	331	486	141	830	13	.984	1455.0	5.05	2.0

Third Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
G. Nettles	83	76	51	164	14	218	3	.986	689.3	2.81	3.8
C. Correa	49	43	32	105	7	142	5	.965	379.0	3.25	1.0
N. Allen	30	28	10	44	3	56	2	.964	243.0	2.00	0.4
J. Beckwith	17	14	12	19	1	35	4	.886	126.0	2.21	-1.4
B. Zobrist	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	1.000	9.0	1.00	-0.5
G. Brett	4	0	0	2	0	2	0	1.000	4.7	3.86	0.0
Z. Versalles	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	4.0	2.25	0.0
Totals	188	162	106	335	26	455	14	.969	1455.0	2.73	3.3

Shortstops
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
Z. Versalles	90	85	121	265	66	395	9	.977	763.0	4.55	2.4
G. Nettles	37	34	61	103	31	168	4	.976	301.0	4.90	1.3
B. Zobrist	23	21	31	62	11	95	2	.979	198.7	4.21	-0.1
C. Correa	13	12	13	37	10	50	0	1.000	102.0	4.41	-0.1
N. Allen	13	10	15	26	7	41	0	1.000	90.3	4.08	0.5
Totals	176	162	241	493	125	749	15	.980	1455.0	4.54	3.9

Left Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Hamilton	84	74	192	2	0	197	3	.985	666.3	2.62	4.1
A. Belle	41	37	75	1	0	78	2	.974	335.3	2.04	-1.0
C. Furillo	42	37	76	0	0	77	1	.987	332.3	2.06	-4.0
B. Zobrist	15	14	26	1	0	27	0	1.000	121.0	2.01	-0.3
Totals	182	162	369	4	0	379	6	.984	1455.0	2.31	-1.3

Center Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. DiMaggio	115	115	332	10	6	348	6	.983	1026.7	3.00	8.4
C. Everett	39	37	101	2	1	108	5	.954	340.7	2.72	-5.5
B. Zobrist	6	5	9	1	0	10	0	1.000	43.7	2.06	-0.1
J. Hamilton	3	3	5	0	0	5	0	1.000	27.0	1.67	-0.1
C. Furillo	2	2	4	1	0	6	1	.833	17.0	2.65	-0.0
Totals	165	162	451	14	7	477	12	.975	1455.0	2.88	2.7

Right Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Beckwith	68	68	134	8	1	144	2	.986	573.3	2.23	-11.3
C. Everett	53	31	79	2	0	82	1	.988	326.0	2.24	-0.2
C. Furillo	33	30	72	3	1	75	0	1.000	274.0	2.46	0.6
A. Belle	28	27	51	3	1	56	2	.964	223.7	2.17	-0.7
B. Zobrist	8	5	19	0	0	19	0	1.000	49.0	3.49	0.5
J. Hamilton	1	1	5	0	0	5	0	1.000	9.0	5.00	-0.1
Totals	191	162	360	16	3	381	5	.987	1455.0	2.33	-11.1

Team Leaders

Batting Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Batting Average	John Beckwith	.309
On-Base Percentage	John Beckwith	.396
Slugging Percentage	John Beckwith	.584
OPS	John Beckwith	.980
Games	John Beckwith	159
At-Bats	John Beckwith	606
Runs	John Beckwith	111
Hits	John Beckwith	187
Doubles	John Beckwith	39
Triples	Newt Allen	15
Home Runs	John Beckwith	40
Runs Batted In	John Beckwith	121
Stolen Bases	Newt Allen	11
Caught Stealing	John Beckwith	7
Walks	John Beckwith	80
Strikeouts	Dom DiMaggio	88

Pitching Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Wins	Willie McGill	19
Losses	Bobo Newsom	15
Saves	Dennis Eckersley	29
Games	Dennis Eckersley	71
Games Started	Earl Johnson	38
Complete Games	Willie McGill	10
Shutouts	Willie McGill	3
Innings Pitched	Earl Johnson	275.7
Hits Allowed	Earl Johnson	245
Home Runs Allowed	Bobo Newsom	34
Strikeouts	Willie McGill	258
Walks Allowed	Earl Johnson	131
Earned Run Average	Willie McGill	3.19
Walks + Hits per IP	Willie McGill	1.28
BABIP	Earl Johnson	.255

Trades
Date	Sent		Recieved
December 1st	3B Graig Nettles	to the Houston Eagles for	P Webster McDonald
December 1st	P Matt Keough 2B Bobby Richardson CF Carl Everett 1st Round Draft Pick	to the Detroit Stars for	P Patsy Flaherty 1st Round Draft Pick 3rd Round Draft Pick