1969 Houston Astros Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 81-81
Finished 5th in the NL's West Division
Attendance: 1,442,995, Avg. 18,037
Ballpark: Astrodome
Manager: Harry Walker (81-81)
Location: Houston, Texas

1969 Houston Astros Roster
1969 Houston Astros Results

The Houston Astros of the National League ended the 1969 season with a record of 81 wins and 81 losses, finishing fifth in the NL's West Division.

The Astros plated 676 runs and conceded 668 runs. Jim Wynn walloped 33 home runs for Houston, while Joe Morgan swatted 20 or more, too. Denis Menke drove in 90 runs. Denis Menke and Jim Wynn paced hitters with significant playing time by hitting .269. Larry Dierker topped the squad with 20 wins, plus Don Wilson, too added 15 or more wins, too Larry Dierker recorded a 2.33 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Harry Walker 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
Larry Dierker	20	13	.606	2.33	39	37	0	20	4	0	305.3	240	97	79	18	72	6	232	1	0	9	1207
Don Wilson	16	12	.571	4.00	34	34	0	13	1	0	225.0	210	119	100	16	97	8	235	9	3	16	979
Denny Lemaster	13	17	.433	3.16	38	37	1	11	1	1	244.7	232	97	86	20	72	8	173	1	1	8	1029
Tom Griffin	11	10	.524	3.54	31	31	0	6	3	0	188.3	156	80	74	19	93	4	200	7	4	6	810
Jim Ray	8	2	.800	3.91	40	13	4	0	0	0	115.0	105	55	50	11	48	4	115	2	0	4	489
Jack Billingham	6	7	.462	4.25	52	4	22	1	0	2	82.7	92	45	39	12	29	11	71	5	0	2	358
Fred Gladding	4	8	.333	4.21	57	0	43	0	0	29	72.7	83	39	34	2	27	6	40	1	1	1	319
Dooley Womack	2	1	.667	3.51	30	0	6	0	0	0	51.3	49	21	20	1	20	5	32	3	0	7	217
Skip Guinn	1	2	.333	6.67	28	0	11	0	0	0	27.0	34	22	20	3	21	2	33	1	0	2	136
Bill Henry	0	0		0.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	2	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	20
Ron Willis	0	0		0.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	11
Scipio Spinks	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	8
Bob Watkins	0	0		5.17	5	0	2	0	0	0	15.7	13	9	9	1	13	0	11	0	0	3	68
Marty Martinez	0	0		13.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.7	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Danny Coombs	0	1	.000	6.75	8	0	4	0	0	0	8.0	12	6	6	0	2	1	3	1	0	0	36
Dan Schneider	0	1	.000	13.50	6	0	1	0	0	0	7.3	16	12	11	2	5	2	3	0	0	0	43
Jim Bouton	0	2	.000	4.11	16	1	7	1	0	1	30.7	32	16	14	1	12	1	32	2	0	4	135
Wade Blasingame	0	5	.000	5.37	26	5	4	0	0	1	52.0	66	47	31	4	33	7	33	2	0	9	258
Totals	81	81	.500	3.60	418	162	110	52	9	34	1435.7	1347	668	574	111	547	65	1221	35	9	73	6126

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
Denis Menke	154	657	553	72	149	25	5	10	90	2	7	87	87	.269	.369	.387	.756	214	13	4	7	6	12
Doug Rader	155	641	569	62	140	25	3	11	83	1	5	62	103	.246	.325	.359	.684	204	17	6	1	3	7
Curt Blefary	155	632	542	66	137	26	7	12	67	8	7	77	79	.253	.347	.393	.740	213	8	4	4	5	10
Jim Wynn	149	653	495	113	133	17	1	33	87	23	7	148	142	.269	.436	.507	.943	251	5	3	2	5	14
Joe Morgan	147	657	535	94	126	18	5	15	43	49	14	110	74	.236	.365	.372	.737	199	5	1	7	4	1
Johnny Edwards	151	559	496	52	115	20	6	6	50	2	1	53	69	.232	.306	.333	.639	165	17	2	4	4	12
Jesus Alou	115	476	452	49	112	19	4	5	34	4	6	15	30	.248	.276	.341	.617	154	13	4	2	3	6
Norm Miller	119	467	409	58	108	21	4	4	50	4	4	47	77	.264	.348	.364	.712	149	6	7	1	3	3
Marty Martinez	78	213	198	14	61	5	4	0	15	0	0	10	21	.308	.340	.374	.713	74	5	0	4	1	1
Sandy Valdespino	41	137	119	17	29	4	0	0	12	2	2	15	19	.244	.326	.277	.603	33	1	0	2	1	0
Gary Geiger	93	156	125	19	28	4	1	0	16	2	1	24	34	.224	.351	.272	.623	34	1	1	5	1	2
Julio Gotay	46	88	81	7	21	5	0	0	9	2	1	7	13	.259	.318	.321	.639	26	4	0	0	0	1
Tommy Davis	24	88	79	2	19	3	0	1	9	1	1	8	9	.241	.318	.316	.635	25	2	1	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	39	127	118	7	17	2	0	1	7	0	0	2	38	.144	.158	.186	.345	22	3	0	7	0	0
Denny Lemaster	38	100	88	3	15	3	0	1	7	0	0	6	26	.170	.223	.239	.462	21	1	0	6	0	0
Leon McFadden	44	81	74	3	13	2	0	0	3	1	2	4	9	.176	.218	.203	.421	15	2	0	3	0	0
Bob Watson	20	48	40	3	11	3	0	0	3	0	0	6	5	.275	.396	.350	.746	14	0	2	0	0	0
Don Bryant	31	65	59	2	11	1	0	1	6	0	0	4	13	.186	.250	.254	.504	15	1	1	1	0	1
Hector Torres	34	72	69	5	11	1	0	1	8	0	0	2	12	.159	.183	.217	.400	15	3	0	1	0	0
Tom Griffin	31	73	62	6	9	1	0	2	8	0	0	5	35	.145	.203	.258	.461	16	1	0	4	2	0
Don Wilson	34	92	81	7	8	2	0	0	5	0	0	3	36	.099	.167	.123	.290	10	0	4	2	2	0
Keith Lampard	9	12	12	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.500	.750	6	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Ray	40	30	26	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	9	.115	.148	.115	.264	3	1	1	3	0	0
Cesar Geronimo	28	8	8	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.375	.625	3	0	0	0	0	0
Dooley Womack	30	7	6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	1	0	0
Fred Gladding	57	10	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Billingham	52	18	14	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	.071	.235	.071	.307	1	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Watkins	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Coombs	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Schneider	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Skip Guinn	28	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wade Blasingame	27	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Mayberry	5	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Bouton	16	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scipio Spinks	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Willis	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Henry	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2016	6196	5348	676	1284	208	40	104	618	101	58	699	972	.240	.330	.352	.683	1884	109	41	68	40	70

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Curt Blefary	1B	152	149	1322.7	1235	103	17	117	.987	9.104	8.803	0	0	0	0
Denis Menke	1B	9	7	62.0	52	9	1	3	.984	8.855	6.778	0	0	0	0
Bob Watson	1B	5	5	37.0	34	3	0	4	1.000	9.000	7.400	0	0	0	0
Doug Rader	1B	4	1	14.0	14	0	1	2	.933	9.000	3.500	0	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	2B	132	131	1138.0	303	328	18	79	.972	4.990	4.780	0	0	0	0
Denis Menke	2B	23	20	172.3	42	47	2	9	.978	4.648	3.870	0	0	0	0
Julio Gotay	2B	16	11	119.0	34	41	1	12	.987	5.672	4.688	0	0	0	0
Marty Martinez	2B	1	0	6.3	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.842	2.000	0	0	0	0
Doug Rader	3B	154	153	1341.3	126	307	25	34	.945	2.905	2.812	0	0	0	0
Marty Martinez	3B	15	8	84.3	7	23	3	2	.909	3.202	2.000	0	0	0	0
Denis Menke	3B	1	1	9.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000	0	0	0	0
Julio Gotay	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Johnny Edwards	C	151	140	1241.7	1135	79	7	9	.994	8.799	8.040	10	63	53	49	48.0
Don Bryant	C	28	18	157.0	141	7	1	2	.993	8.484	5.286	3	6	12	1	7.7
Marty Martinez	C	7	4	35.0	24	3	3	0	.900	6.943	3.857	1	4	1	3	75.0
Bob Watson	C	1	0	2.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	22.500	5.000	1	0	0	0
Jim Wynn	OF	149	148	1292.7	318	9	5	3	.985	2.277	2.195	0	0	0	0
Jesus Alou	OF	112	108	946.0	173	8	14	1	.928	1.722	1.616	0	0	0	0
Norm Miller	OF	114	105	937.7	172	7	3	3	.984	1.718	1.570	0	0	0	0
Gary Geiger	OF	65	25	301.3	57	3	2	0	.968	1.792	.923	0	0	0	0
Sandy Valdespino	OF	29	28	227.0	37	3	1	0	.976	1.586	1.379	0	0	0	0
Tommy Davis	OF	21	20	169.3	27	1	0	0	1.000	1.488	1.333	0	0	0	0
Marty Martinez	OF	21	21	148.7	21	1	0	0	1.000	1.332	1.048	0	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	OF	14	13	113.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	.956	.857	0	0	0	0
Leon McFadden	OF	17	11	99.3	17	0	1	0	.944	1.540	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Watson	OF	6	5	43.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.465	1.167	0	0	0	0
Cesar Geronimo	OF	9	0	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.111	0	0	0	0
Keith Lampard	OF	1	1	9.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000	0	0	0	0
Curt Blefary	OF	1	1	8.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.375	3.000	0	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	P	39	37	305.3	14	42	3	5	.949	1.651	1.436	0	0	0	0
Denny Lemaster	P	38	37	244.7	12	33	0	1	1.000	1.655	1.184	0	0	0	0
Don Wilson	P	34	34	225.0	19	25	3	0	.936	1.760	1.294	0	0	0	0
Tom Griffin	P	31	31	188.3	8	16	2	1	.923	1.147	.774	0	0	0	0
Jim Ray	P	40	13	115.0	5	11	0	0	1.000	1.252	.400	0	0	0	0
Jack Billingham	P	52	4	82.7	3	12	1	1	.938	1.633	.288	0	0	0	0
Fred Gladding	P	57	0	72.7	5	12	0	0	1.000	2.106	.298	0	0	0	0
Wade Blasingame	P	26	5	52.0	5	9	3	0	.824	2.423	.538	0	0	0	0
Dooley Womack	P	30	0	51.3	7	17	1	0	.960	4.208	.800	0	0	0	0
Jim Bouton	P	16	1	30.7	2	5	0	0	1.000	2.054	.438	0	0	0	0
Skip Guinn	P	28	0	27.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.333	.143	0	0	0	0
Bob Watkins	P	5	0	15.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.574	.200	0	0	0	0
Danny Coombs	P	8	0	8.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Dan Schneider	P	6	0	7.3	0	3	1	0	.750	3.682	.500	0	0	0	0
Bill Henry	P	3	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Willis	P	3	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Scipio Spinks	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Marty Martinez	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Denis Menke	SS	131	126	1115.3	161	356	24	63	.956	4.172	3.947	0	0	0	0
Hector Torres	SS	22	14	144.7	30	38	4	7	.944	4.230	3.091	0	0	0	0
Marty Martinez	SS	17	16	122.0	23	39	5	5	.925	4.574	3.647	0	0	0	0
Leon McFadden	SS	8	6	53.7	8	17	1	0	.962	4.193	3.125	0	0	0	0
Totals		1855	1458	12921.0	4307	1624	153	363	.975	4.131	3.197	15	73	66	53	44.5

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