St. Louis Cardinals

Vern Rapp	Manager	1st season	0-0	.000
Oscar Kerr	Bench Coach
Sonny Ruberto	Hitting Coach
Claude Osteen	Pitching Coach

Busch Stadium (49,676 / Artificial Turf)

	LFL	LF	LC	CF	RC	RF	RFL
Distances Walls	330 11	358 11	386 11	414 11	386 11	358 11	330 11

1976 All-Stars:

RF Bake McBride

Key Offseason Transactions:

Traded Willie Crawford, Vic Harris and John Curtis to SF for John D'Acquisto, Mike Caldwell and Dave Rader. Traded Mike Wallace to TEX for John Sutton. Sold Luis Alvarado to DET. Released Lee Richard. Traded Bill Greif, Angel Torres and Sam Mejias to MON for Steve Dunning, Pat Scanlon and Tony Scott. Traded Joe Ferguson and Bob Detherage to HOU for Larry Dierker and Jerry DaVanon. Selected Roger Freed from MON in draft. Lost Mike Proly to MIN in draft. Traded Lynn McGlothen to SF for Ken Reitz. Traded Mark Covert to CUB for Buddy Schultz. Traded Lerrin LaGrow to CWS for Clay Carroll. Released Tom Walker. Traded Doug Clarey to NYM for Benny Ayala. Sold Ken Rudolph to SF.

Starting Pitching: C-

Pos

Name

Age

Exp

Grd

W

L

S

IP

BB

K

ERA

AVG

SP SP SP SP SP

Eric Rasmussen Bob Forsch John Denny Pete Falcone John Urrea

25 27 24 23 22

2 3 3 2 0

C- D B+ C- D+

6 8 11 12 0

12 10 9 16 0

0 0 0 0 0

150.1 194.0 207.0 212.0 0.0

54 71 74 93 0

76 76 74 138 0

3.53 3.94 2.52 3.23 0.00

.244 .274 .244 .217 .000

Bullpen: D+

Pos

Name

Age

Exp

Grd

W

L

S

IP

BB

K

ERA

AVG

MR MR MR MR MR MR

John Sutton Buddy Schultz Eddie Solomon Doug Capilla Clay Carroll Larry Dierker

24 26 26 25 35 30

0 2 4 1 13 13

B- C F F A D-

0 1 1 1 4 13

0 1 1 0 4 14

0 2 0 0 6 0

0.0 23.2 37.0 8.1 77.1 187.2

0 9 16 4 24 72

0 15 19 5 38 112

0.00 6.08 4.86 5.40 2.56 3.69

.000 .349 .296 .242 .237 .242

Closer: C+

Pos

Name

Age

Exp

Grd

W

L

S

IP

BB

K

ERA

AVG

CL

Al Hrabosky

27

7

C+

8

6

13

95.1

39

73

3.30

.251

Infield: C

Pos

Name

Age

Exp

Grd

AB

H

R

HR

RBI

AVG

SB

OBP

C 1B 2B 3B SS

Ted Simmons Keith Hernandez Mike Tyson Ken Reitz Garry Templeton

27 23 27 25 21

9 3 5 5 1

A- C C- F+ A+

546 374 245 577 213

159 108 70 154 62

60 54 26 40 32

5 7 3 5 1

75 46 28 66 17

.291 .289 .286 .267 .291

0 4 3 5 11

.371 .376 .326 .293 .314

Outfield: C

Pos

Name

Age

Exp

Grd

AB

H

R

HR

RBI

AVG

SB

OBP

LF CF RF

Lou Brock Jerry Mumphrey Bake McBride

37 24 28

16 3 4

B- F+ B+

498 384 272

150 99 91

73 51 40

4 1 3

67 26 24

.301 .258 .335

56 22 10

.344 .322 .386

Bench: D-

Pos

Name

Age

Exp

Grd

AB

H

R

HR

RBI

AVG

SB

OBP

C 1B 2B LF RF

Dave Rader Roger Freed Jerry Davanon Jim Dwyer Mike Anderson

28 30 31 27 25

6 5 7 4 6

D F B+ F F

255 15 107 105 199

67 3 31 19 58

25 0 19 9 17

1 0 1 0 1

22 1 20 5 12

.263 .200 .290 .181 .291

2 0 0 0 1

.332 .200 .408 .269 .371

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