1979 Houston Astros
89 - 73
1978 / 1980 (Organization)
2nd place in the NL West (1.5 GB)
Home Record:
Away Record: 		52 - 29 (.642)
37 - 44 (.457)		 +8.3 wins
-0.3 wins
   
Scored/Expected: 583 / 617 ( -34 )
Allowed/Expected: 582 / 620 ( +38 )
Pyth Record: 81 - 81 (+8)
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Astrodome
Attendance: 1,900,312 Avg Att: 23,461 (1.08)
Att Rank: 5 / 12 Lg Avg: 21,811
       
Park Factor: 0.91    
HR Factor: 0.78 R/L HR: 0.75 / 0.82
Notes:


1979 Houston Astros
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com


Left Field
31.9
4.6
2.9
0.9
37.3
0.4
0.3
0.1
22.0
0.0
-0.2
0.2
20.7
0.2
0.2
0.0

Center Field
23.0
3.5
2.4
0.8


Right Field
23.8
2.0
1.4
0.1
25.2
1.5
1.3
0.0
Shortstop
26.5
2.6
1.6
1.9
27.5
-0.2
-0.1
-0.0
Second Base
32.5
1.7
0.9
1.0
26.1
1.9
1.5
0.7
26.5
0.1
0.1
0.2
Third Base
29.7
-0.3
1.0
-1.4
First Base
28.4
2.0
1.4
-0.0
33.2
0.3
0.1
-0.0
26.1
0.1
0.2
-0.1
Manager
W-L
48.1
89-73
.549
2.2
Catcher
28.0
-1.0
-0.9
0.5
24.2
-0.3
-0.2
0.2
23.6
-0.7
-0.1
-0.4
24.9
-0.2
-0.2
-0.0
24.1
-0.1
-0.1
0.0
Starting Pitcher
IP
29.3
292.3
5.4
5.6
-0.2
34.7
263.7
3.2
3.5
-0.3
26.5
194.0
1.0
1.0
0.0
32.8
177.7
2.8
2.6
0.1
26.6
121.3
2.1
1.7
0.4
23.6
67.0
-0.1
-0.1
-0.0
28.4
66.3
0.1
0.2
-0.1
27.7
27.0
-0.3
-0.3
-0.0
Swingman
IP
26.4
22.0
0.2
0.1
0.1
Relief Pitcher
IP
27.0
91.3
3.5
3.2
0.3
24.7
32.0
1.0
1.0
-0.0
24.2
25.7
-0.9
-0.9
0.1
28.6
22.3
0.0
0.0
-0.0
25.7
16.3
-0.9
-0.9
-0.0
23.0
12.3
0.1
0.1
-0.0
24.6
7.3
-0.5
-0.5
0.0
22.9
4.0
-0.0
-0.0
0.0
23.2
4.0
0.2
0.2
0.0
23.6
1.0
0.0
0.0
-0.0
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Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James