1987 Atlanta Braves

69-92 • 0.429 Win% • 5th in NL W

📊 Season Record

69 Wins
92 Losses
0.429 Win %
5th Rank
747 R 829 RA
Diff -82

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⚡ Quick Stats

747 Runs Scored
829 Runs Allowed
-82 Run Diff
1,217K Attendance

📈 vs. 1987 NL Average

Batting Avg .258 1% below the 1987 league average (.260)
OBP .336 3% above the 1987 league average (.327)
SLG .342 equal to the 1987 league average (.343)
Team ERA 4.63 13% worse than the 1987 league average (4.08)
Runs Scored 747 2% above the 1987 league average (731 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumAtlanta-Fulton County Stadium
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 1,217,403
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Avg per Game 15,029

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Paul Molitor 0.353 2 Bill Schroeder 0.332 3 Robin Yount 0.312 4 Dion James 0.312 5 Greg Brock 0.299

Home Runs

1 Dale Murphy 44 2 Rob Deer 28 3 Ozzie Virgil 27 4 Dale Sveum 25 5 Robin Yount 21

RBI

1 Dale Murphy 105 2 Robin Yount 103 3 Dale Sveum 95 4 Greg Brock 85 5 Rob Deer 80
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Robin Yount 158 635 99 198 0 0 21 103 76 94 19 0.312
Dale Murphy 159 566 115 167 0 0 44 105 115 136 16 0.295
Dale Sveum 153 535 86 135 0 0 25 95 40 133 2 0.252
Gerald Perry 142 533 77 144 0 0 12 74 48 63 42 0.270
Greg Brock 141 532 81 159 0 0 13 85 57 63 5 0.299
Ken Oberkfell 135 508 59 142 0 0 3 48 48 29 3 0.280
Glenn Braggs 132 505 67 136 0 0 13 77 47 96 12 0.269
Dion James 134 494 80 154 0 0 10 61 70 63 10 0.312
Rob Deer 134 474 71 113 0 0 28 80 86 186 12 0.238
Paul Molitor 118 465 114 164 0 0 16 75 69 67 45 0.353
Glenn Hubbard 141 443 69 117 0 0 5 38 77 57 1 0.264
Ozzie Virgil 123 429 57 106 0 0 27 72 47 81 0 0.247
Ken Griffey 122 399 65 114 0 0 14 64 46 54 4 0.286
B. J. Surhoff 115 395 50 118 0 0 7 68 36 30 11 0.299
Andres Thomas 82 324 29 75 0 0 5 39 14 50 6 0.231
Juan Castillo 116 321 44 72 0 0 3 28 33 76 15 0.224
Albert Hall 92 292 54 83 0 0 3 24 38 36 33 0.284
Mike Felder 108 289 48 77 0 0 2 31 28 23 34 0.266
Ernie Riles 83 276 38 72 0 0 4 38 30 47 3 0.261
Jim Gantner 81 265 37 72 0 0 4 30 19 22 6 0.272
Cecil Cooper 63 250 25 62 0 0 6 36 17 51 1 0.248
Bill Schroeder 75 250 35 83 0 0 14 42 16 56 5 0.332
Rafael Ramirez 56 179 22 47 0 0 1 21 8 16 6 0.263
Graig Nettles 112 177 16 37 0 0 5 33 22 25 1 0.209
Ted Simmons 73 177 20 49 0 0 4 30 21 23 1 0.277
Jeff Blauser 51 165 11 40 0 0 2 15 18 34 7 0.242
Gary Roenicke 67 151 25 33 0 0 9 28 32 23 0 0.219
Rick Manning 97 114 21 26 0 0 0 13 12 18 4 0.228
Jim Paciorek 48 101 16 23 0 0 2 10 12 20 1 0.228
Steve Kiefer 28 99 17 20 0 0 5 17 7 28 0 0.202
Bruce Benedict 37 95 4 14 0 0 1 5 17 15 0 0.147
Ron Gant 21 83 9 22 0 0 2 9 1 11 4 0.265
Zane Smith 41 76 6 10 0 0 0 6 3 14 1 0.132
Rick Mahler 40 65 4 11 0 0 0 5 2 19 0 0.169
Billy Jo Robidoux 23 62 9 12 0 0 0 4 8 17 0 0.194
David Palmer 28 48 4 6 0 0 1 5 1 15 0 0.125
Paul Runge 27 47 9 10 0 0 3 8 5 10 0 0.213
Doyle Alexander 16 35 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 13 0 0.029
Charlie O'Brien 10 35 2 7 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0.200
Charlie Puleo 36 28 3 5 0 0 1 1 1 13 0 0.179
Randy O'Neal 17 19 4 2 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 0.105
Jeff Dedmon 53 16 2 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0.250
Tom Glavine 9 16 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 0.125
Brad Komminsk 7 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 1 0.067
Jim Acker 68 14 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 8 0 0.214
Pete Smith 6 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.091
Kevin Coffman 5 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0.100
Darryl Motley 6 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0.000
Steve Stanicek 4 7 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.286
Larry McWilliams 9 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.200
Paul Assenmacher 52 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.000
Gene Garber 49 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.000
Trench Davis 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Terry Bell 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Chuck Cary 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Marty Clary 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Phil Niekro 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jay Aldrich 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Len Barker 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mike Birkbeck 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Joe Boever 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Chris Bosio 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ray Burris 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mark Ciardi 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mark Clear 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Chuck Crim 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mike Fischlin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Teddy Higuera 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
John Henry Johnson 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mark Knudson 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Alex Madrid 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Paul Mirabella 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Juan Nieves 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ed Olwine 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dan Plesac 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dave Stapleton 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bill Wegman 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Steve Ziem 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Dan Plesac 2.61 2 Chuck Crim 3.67 3 Teddy Higuera 3.85 4 Jeff Dedmon 3.91 5 Zane Smith 4.09

Wins

1 Teddy Higuera 18 2 Zane Smith 15 3 Juan Nieves 14 4 Bill Wegman 12 5 Chris Bosio 11

Strikeouts

1 Teddy Higuera 240 2 Juan Nieves 163 3 Chris Bosio 150 4 Zane Smith 130 5 David Palmer 111
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Teddy Higuera 18 10 3.85 35 35 0 261.2 87 240
Zane Smith 15 10 4.09 36 36 0 242.0 91 130
Bill Wegman 12 11 4.24 34 33 0 225.0 53 102
Rick Mahler 8 13 4.98 39 28 0 197.0 85 95
Juan Nieves 14 8 4.88 34 33 0 195.2 100 163
Chris Bosio 11 8 5.24 46 19 2 170.0 50 150
David Palmer 8 11 4.90 28 28 0 152.1 64 111
Chuck Crim 6 8 3.67 53 5 12 130.0 39 56
Charlie Puleo 6 8 4.23 35 16 0 123.1 40 99
Doyle Alexander 5 10 4.13 16 16 0 117.2 27 64
Jim Acker 4 9 4.16 68 0 14 114.2 51 68
Jeff Dedmon 3 4 3.91 53 3 4 89.2 42 40
Dan Plesac 5 6 2.61 57 0 23 79.1 23 89
Mark Clear 8 5 4.48 58 1 6 78.1 55 81
Gene Garber 8 10 4.41 49 0 10 69.1 28 48
Mark Knudson 4 4 5.37 15 8 0 62.0 14 26
Randy O'Neal 4 2 5.61 16 10 0 61.0 24 33
Jay Aldrich 3 1 4.94 31 0 0 58.1 13 22
Paul Assenmacher 1 1 5.10 52 0 2 54.2 24 39
Tom Glavine 2 4 5.54 9 9 0 50.1 33 20
Mike Birkbeck 1 4 6.20 10 10 0 45.0 19 25
Len Barker 2 1 5.36 11 11 0 43.2 17 22
Pete Smith 1 2 4.83 6 6 0 31.2 14 11
Paul Mirabella 2 1 4.91 29 0 2 29.1 16 14
John Henry Johnson 0 1 9.57 10 2 0 26.1 18 18
Kevin Coffman 2 3 4.62 5 5 0 25.1 22 14
Ed Olwine 0 1 5.01 27 0 1 23.1 8 12
Ray Burris 2 2 5.87 10 2 0 23.0 12 8
Larry McWilliams 0 1 5.75 9 2 0 20.1 7 13
Joe Boever 1 0 7.36 14 0 0 18.1 12 18
Chuck Cary 1 1 3.78 13 0 1 16.2 4 15
Mark Ciardi 1 1 9.37 4 3 0 16.1 9 8
Marty Clary 0 1 6.14 7 1 0 14.2 4 7
Dave Stapleton 2 0 1.84 4 0 0 14.2 3 14
Alex Madrid 0 0 15.19 3 0 0 5.1 1 1
Phil Niekro 0 0 15.00 1 1 0 3.0 6 0
Steve Ziem 0 1 7.71 2 0 0 2.1 1 0

👥 Roster (78)

Jim Acker Jay Aldrich Doyle Alexander Paul Assenmacher Len Barker Terry Bell Bruce Benedict Mike Birkbeck Jeff Blauser Joe Boever Chris Bosio Glenn Braggs +66 more

78 players

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