1962 Houston Colt .45's Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 64-96
Finished 8th in the NL
Attendance: 926,686, Avg. 12,193
Ballpark: Colt Stadium
Manager: Harry Craft (64-96)
Location: Houston, Texas

1962 Houston Colt .45's Roster
1962 Houston Colt .45's Results

The Houston Colt .45's of the National League ended the 1962 season with a record of 64 wins and 96 losses, finishing eighth in the NL.

The Colt .45's scored 592 runs, worst in the league, and conceded 717 runs. Roman Mejias led Houston with 24 home runs, while Carl Warwick walloped 20 or more, too. Roman Mejias drove in 76 runs and topped all regular hitters by connecting at a .286 clip. Turk Farrell and Bob Bruce paced the squad with 10 wins each, and Turk Farrell recorded a 3.02 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Harry Craft 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
Bob Bruce	10	9	.526	4.06	32	27	0	6	0	0	175.0	164	92	79	16	82	3	135	12	1	7	765
Turk Farrell	10	20	.333	3.02	43	29	9	11	2	4	241.7	210	91	81	21	55	2	203	5	0	9	981
Jim Golden	7	11	.389	4.07	37	18	4	5	2	1	152.7	163	84	69	13	50	4	88	0	1	7	662
Ken Johnson	7	16	.304	3.84	33	31	0	5	1	0	197.0	195	100	84	18	46	1	178	7	1	6	826
Russ Kemmerer	5	3	.625	4.10	36	2	15	0	0	3	68.0	72	34	31	10	15	1	23	3	0	2	283
Don McMahon	5	5	.500	1.53	51	0	40	0	0	8	76.7	53	14	13	4	33	1	69	1	0	8	306
Hal Woodeshick	5	16	.238	4.39	31	26	3	2	1	0	139.3	161	84	68	3	54	1	82	3	1	13	630
Jim Umbricht	4	0	1.000	2.01	34	0	21	0	0	2	67.0	51	19	15	3	17	1	55	2	0	3	263
Dean Stone	3	2	.600	4.47	15	7	3	2	2	0	52.3	61	31	26	4	20	0	31	1	0	2	231
Dave Giusti	2	3	.400	5.62	22	5	5	0	0	0	73.7	82	49	46	7	30	1	43	0	0	13	327
Bobby Tiefenauer	2	4	.333	4.34	43	0	20	0	0	1	85.0	91	42	41	6	21	2	60	2	1	0	360
George Brunet	2	4	.333	4.50	17	11	3	2	0	0	54.0	62	31	27	2	21	1	36	0	0	1	238
Dick Drott	1	0	1.000	7.62	6	1	1	0	0	0	13.0	12	12	11	1	9	0	10	0	0	2	60
Bobby Shantz	1	1	.500	1.31	3	3	0	1	0	0	20.7	15	4	3	1	5	0	14	0	0	0	78
Al Cicotte	0	0		3.86	5	0	1	0	0	0	4.7	8	4	2	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	22
John Anderson	0	0		5.09	10	0	1	0	0	0	17.7	26	12	10	1	3	1	6	0	0	1	81
Red Witt	0	2	.000	7.04	8	2	2	0	0	0	15.3	20	14	12	2	9	0	10	1	0	0	73
Totals	64	96	.400	3.83	426	162	128	34	8	19	1453.7	1446	717	618	113	471	19	1047	37	5	74	6186

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
Roman Mejias	146	610	566	82	162	12	3	24	76	12	4	30	83	.286	.326	.445	.771	252	13	6	3	5	1
Bob Aspromonte	149	596	534	59	142	18	4	11	59	4	5	46	54	.266	.332	.376	.708	201	10	8	5	3	4
Norm Larker	147	590	506	58	133	19	5	9	63	1	1	70	47	.263	.358	.374	.732	189	10	7	4	3	7
Carl Warwick	130	525	477	63	124	17	1	16	60	2	3	38	77	.260	.312	.400	.712	191	8	0	5	5	1
Al Spangler	129	499	418	51	119	10	9	5	35	7	6	70	46	.285	.389	.388	.777	162	1	3	6	2	6
Bob Lillis	129	491	457	38	114	12	4	1	30	7	3	28	23	.249	.292	.300	.591	137	10	0	4	2	1
Joey Amalfitano	117	434	380	44	90	12	5	1	27	4	4	45	43	.237	.317	.303	.620	115	13	1	5	3	5
Hal Smith	109	376	345	32	81	14	0	12	35	0	0	24	55	.235	.286	.380	.666	131	13	2	2	3	1
Jim Pendleton	117	347	321	30	79	12	2	8	36	0	0	14	57	.246	.279	.371	.650	119	6	2	7	3	2
Merritt Ranew	71	239	218	26	51	6	8	4	24	2	2	14	43	.234	.287	.390	.677	85	2	3	2	2	5
Billy Goodman	82	174	161	12	41	4	1	0	10	0	0	12	11	.255	.306	.292	.598	47	6	0	1	0	2
J C Hartman	51	153	148	11	33	5	0	0	5	1	1	4	16	.223	.248	.257	.505	38	4	1	0	0	0
Johnny Temple	31	107	95	14	25	4	0	0	12	1	0	7	11	.263	.311	.305	.616	29	2	0	4	1	0
Pidge Browne	65	114	100	8	21	4	2	1	10	0	0	13	9	.210	.298	.320	.618	32	8	0	0	1	0
Jim Campbell	27	92	86	6	19	4	0	3	6	0	0	6	23	.221	.272	.372	.644	32	3	0	0	0	0
Al Heist	27	76	72	4	16	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	9	.222	.263	.236	.499	17	5	1	0	0	0
Turk Farrell	43	82	78	3	14	1	0	2	3	0	0	0	28	.179	.190	.269	.459	21	1	1	3	0	0
Dave Roberts	16	63	53	3	13	3	0	1	10	0	0	8	8	.245	.349	.358	.708	19	0	1	0	1	0
Don Buddin	40	100	80	10	13	4	1	2	10	0	0	17	17	.163	.316	.313	.629	25	4	1	2	0	2
Jim Golden	43	59	54	7	12	2	2	0	8	0	0	1	6	.222	.250	.333	.583	18	1	1	3	0	0
Bob Bruce	32	68	55	8	11	1	0	0	7	0	0	12	14	.200	.343	.218	.561	12	2	0	1	0	0
Dave Giusti	26	27	24	3	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	7	.292	.346	.333	.679	8	1	0	1	0	0
Bob Cerv	19	33	31	2	7	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	10	.226	.273	.419	.692	13	2	0	0	0	0
Dick Gernert	10	29	24	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	7	.208	.345	.208	.553	5	0	0	0	0	0
Don Taussig	16	27	25	1	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	11	.200	.259	.320	.579	8	1	0	0	0	0
John Weekly	13	33	26	3	5	1	0	2	2	0	0	7	4	.192	.364	.462	.825	12	0	0	0	0	0
Dean Stone	15	20	16	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.250	.294	.250	.544	4	0	0	3	0	0
Ken Johnson	33	62	52	1	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	24	.077	.094	.096	.190	5	2	0	9	0	0
George Williams	5	8	8	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.375	.375	.500	.875	4	0	0	0	0	0
Russ Kemmerer	36	10	9	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.333	.400	.333	.733	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Davis	6	15	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	7	.214	.267	.214	.481	3	1	0	0	0	0
Hal Woodeshick	31	43	37	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	15	.081	.150	.081	.231	3	1	0	3	0	0
Jim Busby	15	13	11	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	3	.182	.308	.182	.490	2	0	0	0	0	0
Red Witt	8	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Umbricht	34	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	1	0	0
Bobby Tiefenauer	43	10	9	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.111	.200	.222	.422	2	0	0	0	0	0
Don McMahon	51	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	1	0	0	0	0
Ernie Fazio	12	14	12	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	.083	.214	.083	.298	1	0	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	17	19	17	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.059	.111	.059	.170	1	0	0	1	0	0
John Anderson	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Drott	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bobby Shantz	7	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Cicotte	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2119	6198	5558	592	1370	170	47	105	549	42	30	493	806	.246	.310	.351	.661	1949	132	38	75	34	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Norm Larker	1B	135	130	1144.3	1148	103	11	103	.991	9.839	9.267	0	0	0	0
Pidge Browne	1B	26	17	155.3	155	15	3	11	.983	9.850	6.538	0	0	0	0
Dick Gernert	1B	9	7	61.7	62	2	0	9	1.000	9.341	7.111	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	1B	8	5	53.0	54	1	2	5	.965	9.340	6.875	0	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	1B	6	2	29.0	29	1	0	1	1.000	9.310	5.000	0	0	0	0
Hal Smith	1B	2	1	10.0	10	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	5.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Goodman	1B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joey Amalfitano	2B	110	99	890.0	230	268	17	72	.967	5.036	4.527	0	0	0	0
Bob Lillis	2B	33	23	206.0	46	71	2	14	.983	5.112	3.545	0	0	0	0
Johnny Temple	2B	26	24	189.7	37	59	6	6	.941	4.555	3.692	0	0	0	0
Billy Goodman	2B	31	15	147.0	25	45	2	6	.972	4.286	2.258	0	0	0	0
George Williams	2B	3	0	13.0	1	5	0	1	1.000	4.154	2.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Aspromonte	2B	1	1	8.0	5	1	0	1	1.000	6.750	6.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Aspromonte	3B	142	139	1193.0	150	233	13	21	.967	2.889	2.697	0	0	0	0
Billy Goodman	3B	17	10	99.0	11	22	7	2	.825	3.000	1.941	0	0	0	0
Bob Lillis	3B	9	7	62.0	8	17	0	4	1.000	3.629	2.778	0	0	0	0
Don Buddin	3B	9	3	41.0	6	11	3	1	.850	3.732	1.889	0	0	0	0
Hal Smith	3B	6	2	25.0	0	7	1	0	.875	2.520	1.167	0	0	0	0
Joey Amalfitano	3B	5	1	21.7	1	2	1	0	.750	1.246	.600	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	3B	3	0	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.333	0	0	0	0
Johnny Temple	3B	1	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hal Smith	C	92	86	772.0	570	65	9	9	.986	7.403	6.902	6	41	59	24	28.9
Merritt Ranew	C	58	51	473.7	357	35	8	1	.980	7.448	6.759	14	24	43	12	21.8
Jim Campbell	C	25	25	207.0	174	20	6	1	.970	8.435	7.760	5	8	17	8	32.0
Jim Busby	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Roman Mejias	OF	142	137	1217.0	217	10	13	2	.946	1.679	1.599	0	0	0	0
Carl Warwick	OF	128	121	1077.7	262	12	4	1	.986	2.288	2.141	0	0	0	0
Al Spangler	OF	121	109	960.3	183	7	8	2	.960	1.781	1.570	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	OF	90	67	636.0	126	4	5	0	.963	1.840	1.444	0	0	0	0
Al Heist	OF	23	19	156.3	36	1	1	0	.974	2.130	1.609	0	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	OF	12	9	81.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	1.500	0	0	0	0
John Weekly	OF	7	5	57.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.263	1.143	0	0	0	0
Bob Cerv	OF	6	5	44.0	4	1	1	0	.833	1.023	.833	0	0	0	0
Norm Larker	OF	6	5	36.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.250	.833	0	0	0	0
Don Taussig	OF	4	3	35.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.500	0	0	0	0
Ron Davis	OF	5	4	34.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.382	1.800	0	0	0	0
Jim Busby	OF	10	2	26.7	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.350	.400	0	0	0	0
Turk Farrell	P	43	29	241.7	10	28	2	1	.950	1.415	.884	0	0	0	0
Ken Johnson	P	33	31	196.7	9	37	4	1	.920	2.105	1.394	0	0	0	0
Bob Bruce	P	32	27	175.0	14	26	1	2	.976	2.057	1.250	0	0	0	0
Jim Golden	P	37	18	153.0	10	29	2	1	.951	2.294	1.054	0	0	0	0
Hal Woodeshick	P	31	26	139.3	7	26	3	0	.917	2.132	1.065	0	0	0	0
Bobby Tiefenauer	P	43	0	85.0	6	6	2	0	.857	1.271	.279	0	0	0	0
Don McMahon	P	51	0	76.7	4	11	0	0	1.000	1.761	.294	0	0	0	0
Dave Giusti	P	22	5	73.7	8	13	1	2	.955	2.566	.955	0	0	0	0
Russ Kemmerer	P	36	2	68.0	6	12	0	1	1.000	2.382	.500	0	0	0	0
Jim Umbricht	P	34	0	67.0	1	14	0	0	1.000	2.015	.441	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	P	17	11	54.0	4	12	2	2	.889	2.667	.941	0	0	0	0
Dean Stone	P	15	7	52.3	3	10	1	0	.929	2.236	.867	0	0	0	0
Bobby Shantz	P	3	3	20.7	1	13	0	1	1.000	6.097	4.667	0	0	0	0
John Anderson	P	10	0	17.7	1	6	0	0	1.000	3.566	.700	0	0	0	0
Red Witt	P	8	2	15.3	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.348	.500	0	0	0	0
Dick Drott	P	6	1	13.0	1	1	1	0	.667	1.385	.333	0	0	0	0
Al Cicotte	P	5	0	4.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.929	.200	0	0	0	0
Bob Lillis	SS	99	89	790.0	169	290	13	54	.972	5.229	4.636	0	0	0	0
J C Hartman	SS	48	42	358.0	87	121	6	31	.972	5.229	4.333	0	0	0	0
Don Buddin	SS	27	22	193.7	38	62	5	13	.952	4.647	3.704	0	0	0	0
Bob Aspromonte	SS	11	6	72.0	13	23	2	3	.947	4.500	3.273	0	0	0	0
Ernie Fazio	SS	10	3	37.0	5	13	5	1	.783	4.378	1.800	0	0	0	0
Jim Pendleton	SS	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1936	1458	13083.0	4361	1774	173	387	.973	4.220	3.169	25	73	119	44	27.0

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