Английская Википедия:1978 Atlanta Braves season

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox baseball team season The 1978 Atlanta Braves season was the 108th season for the franchise and their 13th in Atlanta.

Offseason

• December 8, 1977: Willie Montañez was traded by the Braves to the New York Mets as part of a four-team trade. Adrian Devine, Tommy Boggs, and Eddie Miller were traded by the Texas Rangers to the Braves. The Rangers sent Bert Blyleven to the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Mets sent John Milner to the Pirates. The Rangers sent Tom Grieve and a player to be named later to the Mets. The Pirates sent Al Oliver and Nelson Norman to the Rangers, and the Mets sent Jon Matlack to the Rangers. The Rangers completed the trade by sending Ken Henderson to the Mets on March 15, 1978.
• March 30, 1978: Buzz Capra was released by the Atlanta Braves.

Managerial turnover: Bobby Cox begins his first term

In May 1977, owner Ted Turner had stunned baseball when—in the midst of a 16-game losing streak—he furloughed manager Dave Bristol, sent him on a ten-day scouting trip, and took the reins of the team himself; on May 11, he donned uniform #27 and skippered the Braves to their 17th straight loss. National League president Chub Feeney and Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn then stepped in and forbade the owner from managing his own ballclub, citing MLB rules that apparently took effect after Connie Mack retired as owner-manager of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1950. Veteran coach Vern Benson ran the Braves the following night (and broke the losing skein), and then Bristol was rehired for the balance of the season.

However, that chaotic season was followed by one of the most important events in Braves' history: the hiring of Bobby Cox, briefly a Braves' farm system player, as manager for 1978. Cox was then a 36-year-old, relatively unknown former third baseman who had spent the previous ten seasons in the New York Yankees' organization, including six years (1971–1976) as a highly successful minor league manager and one season as the first-base coach on the Yankees' 1977 world championship team. Cox would spend four seasons, 1978–1981, during this first term in the Braves' dugout. While his first two years produced frustrating, last-place seasons in the National League West, by Cox' third year, Шаблон:Baseball year, the Braves posted a winning (81–80) mark and rose to fourth place in their division. Attendance began to climb, with the team exceeding the one-million mark at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium for the first time since 1971. But the strike-shortened Шаблон:Baseball year season was a major disappointment; the Braves fell to 50–56, and Cox was fired. He went 266–323 (.452) during his inaugural tenure.

His successor, former New York Mets skipper Joe Torre, would lead the Braves to the Шаблон:Baseball year National League West Division championship. Cox would land with the Toronto Blue Jays as their 1982 manager. The Jays were then a five-year-old expansion team that had never escaped the basement of the American League East Division, nor won more than 67 games in a season. By Cox' second season, the Blue Jays broke the .500 mark, and by his fourth, in Шаблон:Baseball year, they would win 99 games and the AL East title. Meanwhile, the Braves' front office was in flux and owner Turner was seeking a strong hand to take over the team's baseball operations as general manager. He lured Cox back to Atlanta with a multi-year contract. And, although the team struggled desperately on the field in the late 1980s, general manager Cox was assembling a base of talent that, when he returned to the dugout to manage the Braves for his second term, on June 23, 1990, would ignite a series of first-place divisional teams (for 15 out of 16 straight seasons) and five National League pennant winners (as well as the 1995 World Series title) that would earn Cox a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame by his 2010 retirement.

Regular season

• May 1, 1978: In a game versus the New York Mets, Braves manager Bobby Cox was ejected from a game for the first time in his career. Cox would go on to set the record for most ejections by a manager.
• June 16, 1978: Bob Horner, freshly signed by the Braves off the Arizona State University campus, hits a home run off the Pittsburgh Pirates' Bert Blyleven in his first professional game. Horner would go on to hit 23 home runs, leading all National League third basemen, and win the National League Rookie of the Year award.

Notable transactions

• May 16, 1978: Jim Bouton was signed as a free agent by the Braves.
• September 22, 1978: Cito Gaston was purchased from the Braves by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Шаблон:Sortname	92	289	70	.242	6	34
1B	Шаблон:Sortname	151	530	120	.226	23	79
2B	Шаблон:Sortname	140	529	137	.259	2	35
SS	Шаблон:Sortname	89	245	55	.224	3	20
3B	Шаблон:Sortname	89	323	86	.266	23	63
LF	Шаблон:Sortname	153	488	147	.301	23	77
CF	Шаблон:Sortname	146	404	101	.250	9	40
RF	Шаблон:Sortname	129	474	135	.285	18	62

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Rod Gilbreath	116	326	80	.245	3	31
Barry Bonnell	117	304	73	.240	1	16
Joe Nolan	95	213	49	.230	4	22
Bob Beall	108	185	45	.243	1	16
Шаблон:Sortname	44	163	42	.258	2	13
Pat Rockett	55	142	20	.141	0	4
Шаблон:Sortname	60	118	27	.229	1	9
Шаблон:Sortname	39	103	28	.272	2	13
Bruce Benedict	22	52	13	.250	0	1
Шаблон:Sortname	18	46	13	.283	0	2
Шаблон:Sortname	6	21	3	.143	0	2
Larry Whisenton	6	16	3	.188	0	2
Jerry Maddox	7	14	3	.214	0	1
Tom Paciorek	5	9	3	.333	0	0
Шаблон:Sortname	1	4	0	.000	0	0
Rob Belloir	2	1	1	1.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Шаблон:Sortname	44	334.1	19	18	2.88	248
Шаблон:Sortname	29	140.1	7	13	5.13	90
Шаблон:Sortname	15	99.1	9	3	2.81	42
Dick Ruthven	13	81.0	2	6	4.11	45
Шаблон:Sortname	5	29.0	1	3	4.97	10

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Mickey Mahler	34	134.2	4	11	4.68	92
Eddie Solomon	37	106.0	4	6	4.08	64
Шаблон:Sortname	31	65.1	5	4	5.92	26
Шаблон:Sortname	16	59.0	2	8	6.71	21
Frank LaCorte	2	14.2	0	1	3.68	7

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Шаблон:Sortname	43	4	4	22	2.53	61
Шаблон:Sortname	53	4	4	1	4.80	45
Craig Skok	43	3	2	2	4.35	28
Шаблон:Sortname	42	2	4	0	3.75	23
Шаблон:Sortname	37	3	6	1	5.65	42
Шаблон:Sortname	5	0	0	0	6.35	1
Duane Theiss	3	0	0	0	1.42	3
Шаблон:Sortname	3	0	0	0	0.00	0

Farm system

Шаблон:MLB Farm SystemLEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Richmond, Greenwood

Awards and honors

League leaders

• Phil Niekro, National League leader, Losses

References

• Шаблон:Cite book
• 1978 Atlanta Braves season at Baseball Reference
• Atlanta Braves on Baseball Almanac