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Major League Baseball

Record: 74-88 .457.... 5th in National League West
Stadium: Astrodome
Playoffs: Did not Qualify
Attendance: 1,126,145

Top Draft Pick: Rod Boxberger (#11) AA
Manager - Bill Virdon

Affiliates - AAA Charleston Charlies AA Columbus Astros A+ Daytona Astros Rk Gulf Coast Astros

Team Leaders

HR: Watson [14]
RBI: Cruz [83]
2B: Cruz [34]
SB: Cruz [37]
W: Richard [18]
SV: Sambito [11]
SO: Richard [303]

Oldest Player: Jesus Alou [36]
Youngest Player: Terry Puhl [21]
Longest Tenure: Bob Watson [13]

Major League Debuts

Batters: Reggie Baldwin (May 25) Bruce Bochy (Jul 19) Keith Drumright (Sep 1) Jim Obradovich (Sep 12)
Pitchers: Rick Williams (Jun 12)

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Pitching Statistics

	Player Name	Age	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BK	H9	HR9	BB9	K9	WHIP
ST	J.R. Richard	28	18	11	3.11	36	36	16	3	0	0	275.1	192	104	95	12	141	303	16	3	6.3	0.4	4.6	9.9	1.21
ST	Mark Lemongello	22	9	14	3.94	33	30	9	1	2	1	210.1	204	100	92	20	66	77	4	3	8.7	0.9	2.8	3.3	1.28
ST	Joe Niekro	33	14	14	3.86	35	29	10	1	2	0	202.2	190	97	87	13	73	97	9	0	8.4	0.6	3.2	4.3	1.30
ST	Tom Dixon	23	7	11	3.99	30	19	3	2	4	1	140.0	140	70	62	8	40	66	0	2	9.0	0.5	2.6	4.2	1.29
ST	Floyd Bannister	23	3	9	4.81	28	16	2	2	3	0	110.1	120	59	59	13	63	94	7	2	9.8	1.1	5.1	7.7	1.66
CL	Joe Sambito	26	4	9	3.07	62	0	0	0	45	11	88.0	85	32	30	5	32	96	1	0	8.7	0.5	3.3	9.8	1.33
CL	Ken Forsch	31	10	6	2.70	52	6	4	2	28	7	133.1	136	44	40	2	37	71	2	0	9.2	0.1	2.5	4.8	1.30
RP	Joaquin Andujar	25	5	7	3.42	35	13	2	0	11	1	110.2	88	45	42	3	58	55	3	5	7.2	0.2	4.7	4.5	1.32
	Rick Williams	25	1	2	4.67	17	1	0	0	5	0	34.2	43	19	18	2	10	17	0	1	11.2	0.5	2.6	4.4	1.53
	Vern Ruhle	27	3	3	2.12	13	10	2	2	1	0	68.0	57	17	16	0	20	27	1	1	7.5	0.0	2.6	3.6	1.13
	Bo McLaughlin	24	0	1	5.02	12	1	0	0	5	2	23.1	30	17	13	2	16	10	3	1	11.6	0.8	6.2	3.9	1.97
	Oscar Zamora	33	0	0	7.20	10	0	0	0	1	0	15.0	20	12	12	2	7	6	0	1	12.0	1.2	4.2	3.6	1.80
	Gene Pentz	25	0	0	6.00	10	0	0	0	2	0	15.0	12	13	10	1	13	8	1	0	7.2	0.6	7.8	4.8	1.67
	Dan Warthen	25	0	1	4.22	5	1	0	0	3	0	10.2	10	5	5	3	2	2	0	2	8.4	2.5	1.7	1.7	1.13
	Frank Riccelli	25	0	0	0.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3.0	0.0	0.0	3.0	0.33
Pitching Totals:			74	88	3.63	380	162	48	13	114	23	1,440.3	1328	634	581	86	578	930	47	21	8.3	0.5	3.6	5.8	1.32