1981 TEXAS RANGERS

| Level: MLB

Location: Arlington,TX
Team Record: 57-48 .543
Result: th in American League - West Division
Manager(s): Don Zimmer
General Manager: Eddie Robinson
Stadium: Arlington Stadium
Attendance: 850,076
Playoffs: Did not qualify

Texas Rangers affiliate history

Oldest Player: Fergie Jenkins (37)
Youngest Player: Bob Johnson (21)
Longest Tenure: Jim Sundberg (8)
Top Hitter: Al Oliver (21)
Top Pitcher: Rick Honeycutt (15)
Top Draft Pick: Ron Darling (#9)

Roster Continuity: 63.92%

American League Standings

West	W	L	Pct	GB
Oakland	64	45	.587	--
Texas	57	48	.543	5.0
Chi White Sox	54	52	.509	8.5
KC Royals	50	53	.485	11.0
California	51	59	.464	13.5
Seattle	44	65	.404	20.0
Minnesota	41	68	.376	23.0

BATTING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Batting Orders

Defensive Lineups

Feats

Splits Analysis

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
0	Al Oliver	of-1b	21	34	UDFA: 1964	MLB	102	421	53	130	29	1	4	55	3	0	24	28	2	10	0	1	17	.309	.348	.411	759	173	448	309	64	5.6	.323
1	Bump Wills	2b	64	28	1975-1-6	MLB	102	410	51	103	13	2	2	41	12	9	32	49	1	2	6	5	8	.251	.304	.307	611	126	454	335	39	3.2	.277
17	Mickey Rivers	of	28	32	1969-1-8	MLB	99	399	62	114	21	2	3	26	9	5	24	31	1	2	3	1	3	.286	.327	.371	698	148	428	297	55	5.0	.303
25	Buddy Bell	3b	25	29	1969-16-373	MLB	97	360	44	106	16	1	10	64	3	3	42	30	3	10	0	10	6	.294	.364	.428	792	154	415	273	64	6.3	.291
10	Jim Sundberg	c	43	30	1973-1-2	MLB	102	339	42	94	17	2	3	28	2	5	50	48	1	6	3	3	5	.277	.369	.366	735	124	396	261	51	5.3	.313
18	Pat Putnam	1b	-	27	1975-1-22	MLB	95	297	33	79	17	2	8	35	4	2	17	38	0	3	1	2	4	.266	.304	.418	721	124	317	227	42	5.0	.281
7,16	Leon Roberts	of	87	30	1972-10-236	MLB	72	233	26	65	17	2	4	31	3	4	25	38	1	2	2	5	8	.279	.345	.421	765	98	266	187	36	5.1	.311
5	Billy Sample	of	67	26	1976-10-228	MLB	66	230	36	65	16	0	3	25	4	1	17	21	7	1	3	3	3	.283	.346	.391	738	90	260	175	37	5.7	.297
14	Mario Mendoza	ss	61	30	-	MLB	88	229	18	53	6	1	0	22	2	1	7	25	1	0	14	3	9	.231	.254	.266	521	61	254	203	13	1.7	.256
6	Johnny Grubb	of	-	32	1971-1-23	MLB	67	199	26	46	9	1	3	26	0	3	23	25	2	0	1	1	6	.231	.316	.332	647	66	226	164	22	3.6	.250
13	Bill Stein	3b-2b	-	34	1969-4-90	MLB	53	115	21	38	6	0	2	22	1	2	7	15	0	3	1	3	5	.330	.360	.435	795	50	126	88	17	5.4	.356
30	Mark Wagner	ss	-	27	1972-19-452	MLB	50	85	15	22	4	1	1	14	1	1	8	13	0	0	2	0	2	.259	.323	.365	687	31	95	68	10	4.2	.296
16	Tom Poquette	of	-	29	1970-4-80	MLB	30	64	2	10	1	0	0	7	0	1	5	1	1	0	0	1	3	.156	.225	.172	397	11	71	59	1	0.5	.156
9	John Ellis	1b-c	-	32	UDFA: 1967	MLB	23	58	2	8	3	0	1	7	0	1	5	10	1	1	0	0	3	.138	.219	.241	460	14	64	54	1	0.6	.149
27	Bob Jones	of	-	31	1967-36-664	MLB	10	34	4	9	1	0	3	7	0	1	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	.265	.286	.559	845	19	35	26	6	5.8	.250
3	Wayne Tolleson	ss-2b	-	25	1978-8-202	MLB	14	24	6	4	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.200	.167	367	4	25	20	0	0.3	.211
8	Bob Johnson	p	-	21	UDFA: 1978	MLB	6	18	2	5	0	0	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.278	.316	.611	927	11	19	14	3	6.5	.231
15	Rick Lisi	of	-	25	1974-13-288	MLB	9	16	6	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.312	.450	.312	762	5	20	12	3	6.2	.312
21	Dan Duran	of	-	27	1973-30-646	MLB	13	16	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.294	.250	544	4	17	13	1	1.9	.267
20	Larry Cox	c	-	33	UDFA: 1966	MLB	5	13	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	.231	.231	.308	538	4	13	10	1	1.9	.333
4	Nelson Norman	ss	-	23	UDFA: 1975	MLB	7	13	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	.231	.267	.308	574	4	15	11	1	3.3	.250
20	Donald Werner	p	-	28	1971-5-118	MLB	2	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	500	2	8	7	0	-0.2	.333
Totals: (22 players)							105	3581	452	968	178	15	49	418	46	41	295	396	21	40	36	39	84	.270	.326	.369	695	1323	3972	2813	467	4.5	.289

PITCHING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Starting Pitcher Log

Feats

Splits Analysis

Draft Picks

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO	BABIP	GB/FB
44	Danny Darwin	22	25	UDFA: 1976	MLB	9	9	3.64	22	22	6	2	0	0	146.0	115	67	59	12	57	98	1	0	1.18	7.09	0.74	3.51	6.04	0.58	.247	0.86
33	Doc Medich	16	32	1970-30-692	MLB	10	6	3.08	20	20	4	4	0	0	143.1	136	51	49	8	33	65	1	0	1.18	8.54	0.50	2.07	4.08	0.51	.274	1.35
40	Rick Honeycutt	15	27	1976-17-405	MLB	11	6	3.31	20	20	8	2	0	0	127.2	120	49	47	12	17	40	1	0	1.07	8.46	0.85	1.20	2.82	0.43	.248	2.14
31	Fergie Jenkins	63	37	UDFA: 1963	MLB	5	8	4.50	19	16	1	0	2	0	106.0	122	55	53	14	40	63	2	0	1.53	10.36	1.19	3.40	5.35	0.63	.314	1.26
32	Jon Matlack	-	31	1967-1-4	MLB	4	7	4.14	17	16	1	1	0	0	104.1	101	59	48	8	41	43	2	0	1.36	8.71	0.69	3.54	3.71	0.95	.274	1.87
49	Charlie Hough	-	33	1966-8-159	MLB	4	1	2.96	21	5	2	0	9	1	82.0	61	30	27	4	31	69	4	0	1.12	6.70	0.44	3.40	7.57	0.45	.258	1.01
11	Steve Comer	68	27	UDFA: 1976	MLB	8	2	2.56	36	1	0	0	22	6	77.1	70	25	22	1	31	22	2	0	1.31	8.15	0.12	3.61	2.56	1.41	.258	1.71
24	Dave Schmidt	-	24	1979-26-658	MLB	0	1	3.13	14	1	0	0	8	1	31.2	31	11	11	1	11	13	3	1	1.33	8.81	0.28	3.13	3.69	0.85	.283	1.55
34	Jim Kern	77	32	UDFA: 1968	MLB	1	2	2.70	23	0	0	0	15	6	30.0	21	10	9	0	22	20	1	1	1.43	6.30	0.00	6.60	6.00	1.10	.253	1.52
46	Bob Babcock	-	31	UDFA: 1968	MLB	1	1	2.20	16	0	0	0	7	0	28.2	21	7	7	2	16	18	0	0	1.29	6.59	0.63	5.02	5.65	0.89	.250	1.14
29	John Butcher	-	24	1977-1-5	MLB	1	2	1.63	5	3	1	1	1	0	27.2	18	6	5	0	8	19	0	0	0.94	5.86	0.00	2.60	6.18	0.42	.231	2.21
38	John Henry Johnson	-	24	1974-15-353	MLB	3	1	2.66	24	0	0	0	15	2	23.2	19	7	7	2	6	8	1	0	1.06	7.23	0.76	2.28	3.04	0.75	.236	0.91
53	Mark Mercer	-	27	1973-1-1	MLB	0	1	4.70	7	0	0	0	2	2	7.2	7	4	4	1	7	8	0	0	1.83	8.22	1.17	8.22	9.39	0.88	.300	1.80
12	Len Whitehouse	-	23	UDFA: 1977	MLB	0	1	16.20	2	1	0	0	0	0	3.1	8	7	6	1	2	2	0	0	3.00	21.60	2.70	5.40	5.40	1.00	.538	3.00
35	Bob Lacey	-	27	1972-10-140	MLB	0	0	9.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.00	9.00	9.00	0.00	0.00	--	--	0.50
Totals: (22 players)						57	48	3.40	105	105	23	10	82	18	940	851	389	355	49	322	488	18	2	1.34	8.14	0.64	3.08	4.67	0.66	.271

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Jim Sundberg	C	98		464	52	2	9	.996	0.00
Larry Cox	C	5		33	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Bob Johnson	C	5		22	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Pat Putnam	1B	94		769	64	6	65	.993	0.00
Bill Stein	1B	20		146	10	0	9	1.000	0.00
John Ellis	1B	18		140	8	1	16	.993	0.00
Dan Duran	1B	1		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Bob Johnson	1B	1		9	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Al Oliver	1B	1		2	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Bump Wills	2B	101		268	326	10	70	.983	0.00
Mark Wagner	2B	4		13	15	1	5	.966	0.00
Bill Stein	2B	3		2	3	0	1	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Buddy Bell	3B	96		66	281	14	18	.961	0.00
Bill Stein	3B	7		4	12	1	0	.941	0.00
Wayne Tolleson	3B	6		5	8	0	0	1.000	0.00
Mark Wagner	3B	2		2	4	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Mario Mendoza	SS	88		114	270	12	47	.970	0.00
Mark Wagner	SS	43		39	68	4	13	.964	0.00
Nelson Norman	SS	5		5	21	1	5	.963	0.00
Wayne Tolleson	SS	2		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Buddy Bell	SS	1		1	3	0	1	1.000	0.00
Bill Stein	SS	1		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Mickey Rivers	OF	97		225	12	1	3	.996	0.00
Leon Roberts	OF	71		130	2	1	0	.992	0.00
Billy Sample	OF	64		132	4	1	1	.993	0.00
Johnny Grubb	OF	58		95	2	1	0	.990	0.00
Tom Poquette	OF	18		26	0	1	0	.963	0.00
Bob Jones	OF	10		20	4	0	0	1.000	0.00
Rick Lisi	OF	8		9	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Bill Stein	OF	8		13	1	1	0	.933	0.00
Dan Duran	OF	7		6	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Pat Putnam	OF	3		2	0	1	0	.667	0.00
Jim Sundberg	OF	2		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Steve Comer	P	36	77	5	18	1	2	.958	2.68
John Henry Johnson	P	24	23	1	7	0	1	1.000	3.10
Jim Kern	P	23	30	3	3	1	0	.857	1.80
Danny Darwin	P	22	146	8	16	2	3	.923	1.48
Charlie Hough	P	21	82	2	8	0	1	1.000	1.10
Rick Honeycutt	P	20	127	3	30	3	1	.917	2.33
Doc Medich	P	20	143	15	26	1	1	.976	2.58
Fergie Jenkins	P	19	106	10	22	0	3	1.000	2.72
Jon Matlack	P	17	104	2	20	2	0	.917	1.90
Bob Babcock	P	16	28	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.91
Dave Schmidt	P	14	31	1	6	0	0	1.000	2.02
Mark Mercer	P	7	7	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.50
John Butcher	P	5	27	3	5	0	0	1.000	2.65
Len Whitehouse	P	2	3	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Bob Lacey	P	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Al Oliver	DH	101						.000	0.00
Donald Werner	DH	2						.000	0.00
John Ellis	DH	1						.000	0.00
Bump Wills	DH	1						.000	0.00

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