Los Angeles Angels History - 1972 Summary

Team Results

Year	W	L	WPct	Finish	GB	Exp Rec	Diff	Avg	ERA	Playoffs	Champion	Attendance	Expenses	Revenue
1972 Los Angeles Angels	87	75	.537	3^rd	1	86-76	1	.251	3.83	X	X	2,886,267	$55,954,257	$0

Award Winners

Award	Players	Qty
Jack Roosevelt Robinson Award	Cy Blanton	1
Ozzie Award	Evan Gattis (C)	1
All-Star	Don Baylor, Lou Brock, Brian Downing, Ben Flowers, Evan Gattis, Possum Whitted	6
Pitcher of the Month	Cy Blanton (Sep)	1
Batter of the Month	Lou Brock (Jun)	1
Rookie of the Month	Possum Whitted (May, Aug), Cy Blanton (Sep)	3
Player of the Week	Possum Whitted (May 29), Rickey Henderson (Sep 4), Lou Brock (Sep 11)	3

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+
CF	Rickey Henderson	26	156	578	156	31	5	18	72	109	94	10	0	7	91	60	16	.270	.377	.434	.812	4.0	128
3B	Bip Roberts	26	148	569	152	28	5	10	54	64	52	8	4	2	84	11	8	.267	.336	.387	.723	2.5	103
RF	Brian Downing	30	135	494	134	22	1	28	87	74	57	12	0	4	54	2	0	.271	.358	.490	.848	3.2	136
SS	Luke Appling	37	132	488	124	24	2	5	40	61	56	2	1	2	39	12	1	.254	.332	.342	.674	1.5	90
LF	Lou Brock	30	125	500	150	31	11	19	89	84	26	6	0	6	108	27	14	.300	.338	.520	.858	4.3	137
1B	Don Baylor	23	135	409	88	15	1	17	61	64	37	27	1	4	77	21	2	.215	.319	.381	.700	1.2	96
1B	Possum Whitted	24	128	443	148	21	2	15	60	72	15	3	13	2	54	43	5	.334	.359	.492	.851	3.6	137
C	Evan Gattis	25	123	432	98	15	0	19	68	46	20	9	2	6	97	0	0	.227	.272	.394	.665	2.0	85
2B	Ian Kinsler	38	98	308	72	10	2	11	43	30	20	4	0	2	35	0	0	.234	.287	.386	.674	1.2	88
2B	Roberto Alomar	35	82	201	48	8	4	3	23	24	17	3	1	1	29	1	0	.239	.306	.363	.669	0.7	88
C	Scott Servais	26	60	175	38	7	0	6	27	18	8	6	0	3	30	0	0	.217	.271	.360	.631	0.2	76
RF	Jim McTamany	28	111	168	33	9	1	3	23	17	18	5	0	1	43	3	1	.196	.292	.315	.607	0.2	71
SS	Cliff Daringer	33	69	160	37	2	1	0	6	19	8	4	7	1	7	16	2	.231	.283	.256	.539	-0.1	53
1B	George H Burns	24	106	131	40	7	1	3	19	15	5	6	4	3	8	0	0	.305	.352	.443	.794	0.5	122
P	Cy Blanton	24	34	80	7	2	0	0	6	3	4	0	15	1	43	0	0	.087	.129	.113	.242	-1.4	-31
P	Jon Lester	30	30	66	8	1	0	1	6	4	1	0	16	0	25	0	0	.121	.134	.182	.316	-1.0	-12
P	Scott McGregor	26	33	63	10	2	0	0	5	7	0	1	8	0	38	0	0	.159	.172	.190	.362	-0.6	2
P	Johnny Sain	24	20	44	6	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	.136	.136	.159	.295	-0.5	-17
P	Mike Cuellar	32	34	36	4	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	6	0	19	0	0	.111	.111	.111	.222	-0.7	-37
P	Stephen Strasburg	33	33	19	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	3	0	8	0	0	.053	.182	.053	.234	-0.4	-30
P	Kyle Hendricks	25	20	20	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	6	0	0	.100	.182	.100	.282	-0.3	-18
3B	Milt Stock	26	12	17	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	.176	.222	.294	.516	-0.1	44
P	Marv Breuer	31	8	11	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	4	0	0	.273	.273	.273	.545	-0.1	54
P	Herb Goodall	20	7	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2	-100
LF	Jose Constanza	29	2	7	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-0.1	-19
P	Ben Flowers	23	69	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2	-100
P	Claude Raymond	28	6	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	0.0	173
P	Steve Rachunok	30	35	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.0	-100
P	Ray Boyd	30	30	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	-100
29 Players		28.5	1981	5436	1364	237	37	158	693	722	443	107	97	46	909	197	49	.251	.317	.395	.713	19.5	98
AL Rank				4	3	5	3	2	1	1	5	1	1	2	4	1	3	3	4	3	3	3
ABBA Rank				7	8	6	3	4	3	3	9	1	2	3	6	1	5	8	7	5	6	7

Pitching Stats

Player	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	HA	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERA+
Cy Blanton	24	34	34	20	7	0	2.47	255.3	213	81	70	15	84	193	0	10	2	1.16	.272	6.1	155
Jon Lester	30	30	30	13	8	0	3.57	214.0	227	94	85	21	51	129	0	6	1	1.30	.297	3.5	107
Scott McGregor	26	33	28	12	11	0	3.94	196.7	221	91	86	29	42	111	1	2	0	1.34	.298	1.4	97
Johnny Sain	24	20	20	6	8	0	3.86	140.0	131	63	60	16	50	88	0	1	0	1.29	.280	1.0	99
Mike Cuellar	32	34	14	4	5	1	4.03	131.7	138	68	59	15	31	88	0	1	1	1.28	.294	1.6	95
Ben Flowers	23	69	0	13	7	24	2.50	101.0	83	31	28	14	25	103	1	0	0	1.07	.266	1.6	153
Stephen Strasburg	33	33	10	4	5	0	5.16	90.7	93	57	52	20	44	76	1	0	0	1.51	.284	-1.0	74
Kyle Hendricks	25	20	11	2	9	1	5.96	77.0	95	52	51	12	26	52	0	0	0	1.57	.328	0.3	64
Junichi Tazawa	24	57	0	8	4	5	3.90	67.0	70	32	29	1	18	44	10	0	0	1.31	.332	1.3	98
Marv Breuer	31	8	8	1	3	0	5.66	49.3	56	33	31	7	22	31	0	1	0	1.58	.312	0.1	67
Steve Rachunok	30	35	0	0	2	0	5.48	47.7	56	34	29	3	26	27	1	0	0	1.72	.329	-0.0	70
Ray Boyd	30	30	1	3	3	3	3.58	37.7	40	15	15	0	27	22	2	0	0	1.78	.333	0.3	106
Herb Goodall	20	7	6	0	3	0	4.88	31.3	37	19	17	2	21	16	0	0	0	1.85	.330	0.0	78
Claude Raymond	28	6	0	1	0	0	5.00	9.0	9	5	5	2	0	6	0	0	0	1.00	.250	-0.0	76
14 Pitchers	27.0	416	162	87	75	34	3.83	1448.3	1469	675	617	157	467	986	16	21	4	1.34	.295	16.1	107
AL Rank		1	1	2	4	1	4	4	5	4	4	5	2	3	2	6	6	6	5	5
ABBA Rank		1	1	4	8	2	7	8	9	7	7	6	5	4	2	12	12	10	10	10

Fielding Stats

Pitchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
C. Blanton	34	34	14	35	1	51	2	.961	255.3	1.73	-0.2
J. Lester	30	30	14	27	4	42	1	.976	214.0	1.72	0.8
S. McGregor	33	28	10	29	3	40	1	.975	196.7	1.78	1.3
J. Sain	20	20	9	25	1	36	2	.944	140.0	2.19	1.4
M. Cuellar	34	14	9	15	1	25	1	.960	131.7	1.64	-0.7
B. Flowers	68	0	6	3	0	11	2	.818	101.0	0.80	-0.7
S. Strasburg	33	10	5	11	0	17	1	.941	90.7	1.59	-1.1
K. Hendricks	20	11	2	7	0	9	0	1.000	77.0	1.05	-0.1
J. Tazawa	57	0	5	5	0	10	0	1.000	67.0	1.34	-0.1
M. Breuer	8	8	3	8	0	11	0	1.000	49.3	2.01	-0.0
S. Rachunok	34	0	2	6	1	11	3	.727	47.7	1.51	-0.1
R. Boyd	29	1	4	5	2	10	1	.900	37.7	2.15	-0.6
H. Goodall	7	6	4	4	1	8	0	1.000	31.3	2.30	0.5
C. Raymond	6	0	1	1	0	2	0	1.000	9.0	2.00	-0.0
Totals	413	162	88	181	14	283	14	.951	1448.3	1.67	0.4

Catchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	RTO%
E. Gattis	118	118	724	67	10	797	6	.992	1039.3	6.85	2.9	7	36.8
S. Servais	55	44	297	27	4	329	5	.985	408.0	7.15	-1.2	6	38.5
B. Downing	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	1.0	18.00	0.0	0	0.0
Totals	174	162	1023	94	14	1128	11	.990	1448.3	6.94	1.7	13	37.3

First Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. Baylor	76	73	583	33	52	617	1	.998	618.0	8.97	0.4
P. Whitted	71	67	541	47	54	592	4	.993	576.7	9.18	-3.9
G. Burns	62	21	217	18	33	238	3	.987	244.3	8.66	-1.8
C. Daringer	6	0	9	1	0	10	0	1.000	9.3	9.64	0.0
Totals	215	161	1350	99	139	1457	8	.995	1448.3	9.00	-5.4

Second Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
I. Kinsler	86	81	171	232	65	403	0	1.000	715.0	5.07	2.6
R. Alomar	48	44	94	123	34	219	2	.991	383.7	5.09	-0.0
P. Whitted	47	37	88	102	26	196	6	.969	342.0	5.00	-2.0
L. Appling	3	0	3	2	0	5	0	1.000	6.3	7.11	-0.0
C. Daringer	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.3	0.00	0.0
Totals	185	162	356	459	125	823	8	.990	1448.3	5.06	0.6

Third Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
B. Roberts	144	144	107	262	26	388	19	.951	1265.3	2.62	-4.8
R. Alomar	14	13	6	35	8	42	1	.976	108.7	3.40	-0.3
C. Daringer	10	3	1	5	0	8	2	.750	36.7	1.47	-1.1
M. Stock	3	2	0	7	0	7	0	1.000	20.0	3.15	0.1
P. Whitted	8	0	0	4	1	4	0	1.000	16.0	2.25	0.0
I. Kinsler	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	1.7	5.40	0.6
Totals	180	162	114	314	35	450	22	.951	1448.3	2.66	-5.5

Shortstops
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
L. Appling	128	126	173	331	82	537	33	.939	1103.0	4.11	-9.5
C. Daringer	48	36	41	88	18	133	4	.970	328.0	3.54	-1.1
M. Stock	4	0	4	1	1	5	0	1.000	9.0	5.00	-0.0
B. Roberts	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	1.000	7.3	2.45	-0.0
P. Whitted	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.0	9.00	0.0
Totals	184	162	219	422	101	678	37	.945	1448.3	3.98	-10.7

Left Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
L. Brock	125	125	270	8	2	283	5	.982	1107.7	2.26	2.1
D. Baylor	33	28	71	1	0	72	0	1.000	256.0	2.53	-2.9
J. McTamany	8	7	23	0	0	23	0	1.000	67.3	3.07	0.6
R. Henderson	1	1	3	0	0	4	1	.750	9.0	3.00	-0.8
J. Constanza	1	1	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	8.3	2.16	-0.0
Totals	168	162	369	9	2	384	6	.984	1448.3	2.35	-1.1

Center Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
R. Henderson	155	155	403	19	5	431	9	.979	1316.3	2.89	-19.3
J. McTamany	47	6	40	2	0	42	0	1.000	118.3	3.19	1.6
J. Constanza	1	1	8	0	0	8	0	1.000	8.0	9.00	-0.1
D. Baylor	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	5.7	0.00	0.0
Totals	204	162	451	21	5	481	9	.981	1448.3	2.93	-17.9

Right Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
B. Downing	135	135	303	10	3	317	4	.987	1197.3	2.35	-7.4
J. McTamany	30	26	56	5	0	61	0	1.000	226.3	2.43	0.5
D. Baylor	7	1	6	0	0	6	0	1.000	20.7	2.61	-0.1
B. Roberts	2	0	3	0	0	3	0	1.000	4.0	6.75	0.7
Totals	174	162	368	15	3	387	4	.990	1448.3	2.38	-6.3

Team Leaders

Batting Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Batting Average	Lou Brock	.300
On-Base Percentage	Rickey Henderson	.377
Slugging Percentage	Lou Brock	.520
OPS	Lou Brock	.858
Games	Rickey Henderson	156
At-Bats	Rickey Henderson	578
Runs	Rickey Henderson	109
Hits	Rickey Henderson	156
Doubles	Rickey Henderson, Lou Brock	31
Triples	Lou Brock	11
Home Runs	Brian Downing	28
Runs Batted In	Lou Brock	89
Stolen Bases	Rickey Henderson	60
Caught Stealing	Rickey Henderson	16
Walks	Rickey Henderson	94
Strikeouts	Lou Brock	108

Pitching Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Wins	Cy Blanton	20
Losses	Scott McGregor	11
Saves	Ben Flowers	24
Games	Ben Flowers	69
Games Started	Cy Blanton	34
Complete Games	Cy Blanton	10
Shutouts	Cy Blanton	2
Innings Pitched	Cy Blanton	255.3
Hits Allowed	Jon Lester	227
Home Runs Allowed	Scott McGregor	29
Strikeouts	Cy Blanton	193
Walks Allowed	Cy Blanton	84
Earned Run Average	Cy Blanton	2.47
Walks + Hits per IP	Cy Blanton	1.16
BABIP	Cy Blanton	.272

Trades
Date	Sent		Recieved
July 31st		to the Birmingham Black Barons for	P Ray Herbert LF Ben Oglivie