1981 Houston Astros Batting Statistics

1980 Season 1982 Season

Record: 61-49-0, Finished 3rd in NL_West (Schedule and Results)

First Half: 28-29, Finished 3rd

Second Half: 33-20, Finished 1st

Postseason: Lost NL Division Series (3-2) to Los Angeles Dodgers

Manager: Bill Virdon (61-49)

General Manager: Al Rosen (Hired 10/26/1980)

Farm Director: Bill Wood

Scouting Director: Lynwood Stallings

Ballpark: Astrodome

Attendance: 1,321,282 (4th of 12)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 95, Pitching - 94
One-year: Batting - 89, Pitching - 87

Pythagorean W-L: 64-46, 394 Runs, 331 Runs Allowed

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Team Batting
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Alan Ashby#	29	83	296	255	20	69	13	0	4	33	0	2	35	33	.271	.356	.369	.725	111	94	6	0	3	2	6
2	1B	César Cedeño	30	82	338	306	42	83	19	0	5	34	12	7	24	31	.271	.321	.382	.704	104	117	6	1	2	5	2
3	2B	Joe Pittman	28	52	149	135	11	38	4	2	0	7	4	4	11	16	.281	.333	.341	.674	97	46	3	0	2	1	3
4	SS	Craig Reynolds*	28	87	354	323	43	84	10	12	4	31	3	3	12	31	.260	.286	.402	.688	98	130	6	0	18	1	2
5	3B	Art Howe	34	103	406	361	43	107	22	4	3	36	1	3	41	23	.296	.365	.404	.770	124	146	8	0	1	3	7
6	LF	José Cruz*	33	107	451	409	53	109	16	5	13	55	5	7	35	49	.267	.319	.425	.745	115	174	7	0	0	7	4
7	CF	Tony Scott#	29	55	243	225	28	66	13	2	2	22	8	3	15	32	.293	.338	.396	.733	113	89	1	0	3	0	1
8	RF	Terry Puhl*	24	96	394	350	43	88	19	4	3	28	22	4	31	49	.251	.315	.354	.670	95	124	3	4	4	5	5
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	UT	Denny Walling*	27	65	189	158	23	37	6	0	5	23	2	1	28	17	.234	.346	.367	.713	108	58	4	0	1	2	1
10	SS	Kiko Garcia	27	48	150	136	9	37	6	1	0	15	2	2	10	16	.272	.324	.331	.655	91	45	2	1	2	1	3
11	2B	Phil Garner	32	31	133	113	13	27	3	1	0	6	6	2	15	11	.239	.326	.283	.609	78	32	1	0	4	1	1
12	C	Luis Pujols	25	40	128	117	5	28	3	1	1	14	1	0	10	17	.239	.297	.308	.605	76	36	4	0	0	1	3
13	RF	Gary Woods	27	54	126	110	10	23	4	1	0	12	2	1	11	22	.209	.276	.264	.540	58	29	4	0	3	2	4
14	1B	Danny Heep*	23	33	106	96	6	24	3	0	0	11	0	0	10	11	.250	.321	.281	.602	76	27	3	0	0	0	2
15	2B	Dickie Thon	23	49	105	95	13	26	6	0	0	3	6	1	9	13	.274	.337	.337	.673	96	32	3	0	1	0	1
16	2B	Rafael Landestoy#	28	35	94	74	6	11	1	1	0	4	4	1	16	9	.149	.300	.189	.489	45	14	4	0	4	0	4
17	IF	Dave Roberts	30	27	59	54	4	13	3	0	1	5	1	0	3	6	.241	.271	.352	.623	80	19	1	0	0	2	0
18	1B	Mike Ivie	28	19	45	42	2	10	3	0	0	6	0	1	2	11	.238	.267	.310	.576	67	13	0	0	0	1	0
19	1B	Harry Spilman*	26	28	36	34	5	10	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	3	.294	.333	.294	.627	84	10	0	0	0	0	0
20	UT	Jeffrey Leonard	25	7	19	18	1	3	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	4	.167	.158	.333	.491	40	6	0	0	0	1	0
21	CF	Scott Loucks	24	10	8	7	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	.571	.625	.571	1.196	250	4	0	0	0	0	0
22	OF	Tim Tolman	25	4	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-27	1	0	0	0	0	0
23	UT	Alan Knicely	26	3	7	7	2	4	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	.571	.571	1.429	2.000	467	10	0	0	0	0	0
24	1B	Dave Bergman*	28	6	6	6	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.667	.833	133	4	0	0	0	0	0
25	SS	Bert Peña	21	4	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	192	1	0	0	1	0	0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
26	P	Joe Niekro	36	24	64	51	1	9	1	0	0	6	0	0	2	10	.176	.208	.196	.404	18	10	0	0	11	0	0
27	P	Don Sutton	36	23	62	51	1	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	12	.137	.228	.137	.365	8	7	2	1	5	0	0
28	P	Nolan Ryan	34	21	60	51	3	11	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	18	.216	.286	.235	.521	53	12	1	0	4	0	0
29	P	Bob Knepper*	27	22	53	47	3	7	2	0	1	3	0	0	0	15	.149	.167	.255	.422	21	12	0	1	5	0	0
30	P	Vern Ruhle	30	20	34	24	1	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	6	11	.250	.400	.292	.692	104	7	0	0	4	0	0
31	P	Dave Smith	26	42	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.250	.250	.250	.500	46	2	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Joaquín Andújar#	28	9	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	-38	0	0	0	1	0	0
33	P	Bobby Sprowl*	25	15	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	-3	1	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Joe Sambito*	29	49	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Frank LaCorte	29	37	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	95	1	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Billy Smith	26	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Gordie Pladson	24	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	29.1	110	4156	3693	394	948	160	35	45	369	81	43	340	488	.257	.318	.356	.673	96	1313	69	8	79	35	49
		Rank in 12 NL teams				4	9	5	6	2	11		9	6	7	2	5	6	8	8		8		12		4
		Non-Pitcher Totals	28.8	110	3853	3441	385	904	155	35	44	352	81	43	321	408	.263	.324	.366	.690	100	1261	66	6	49	35	49
		Pitcher Totals	32.4	110	303	252	9	44	5	0	1	17	0	0	19	80	.175	.238	.206	.444	30	52	3	2	30	0	0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB