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1972 Atlanta Braves season

Field	Value
name	Atlanta Braves
season	1972
league	National League
division	West
ballpark	Atlanta Stadium
city	Atlanta
record	70–84 (.455)
divisional_place	4th
owners	William Bartholomay
general_managers	Paul Richards, Eddie Robinson
managers	Lum Harris, Eddie Mathews
television	WSB-TV
radio	WSB
(Ernie Johnson, Milo Hamilton)

(Ernie Johnson, Milo Hamilton) |}} The 1972 Atlanta Braves season was the seventh season in Atlanta along with the 102nd season as a franchise overall.

Offseason

December 2, 1971: Hal King was traded by the Braves to the Texas Rangers for Paul Casanova.

Regular season

Notable transactions

May 11, 1972: Steve Barber was released by the Braves.
June 6, 1972: Preston Hanna was drafted by the Braves in the 1st round (11th pick) of the 1972 Major League Baseball draft.
June 15, 1972: Jim Nash and Gary Neibauer were traded by the Braves to the Philadelphia Phillies for Andre Thornton and Joe Hoerner.
June 29, 1972: Orlando Cepeda was traded by the Braves to the Oakland Athletics for Denny McLain.

Front-office and managerial turnover

The 1972 Braves' 70–84 season, following on the heels of a hopeful, 82–80 mark in , resulted in the in-season firings of both general manager Paul Richards, on the job since January 1967, and field manager Luman Harris, who was in the midst of his fifth season as the team's skipper. Richards and Harris were a management team that had worked in tandem for 15 years with the Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros before coming to the Braves.

Atlanta was 18–22 on June 1 when Richards was demoted from GM to special assignment scout; his replacement was another longtime associate, Eddie Robinson, 51, the director of the club's farm system. Harris was fired August 6, with the Braves standing at 47–57 (.452), in fourth place in the NL West Division and 16 games behind the Cincinnati Reds. His successor was another internal hire, Eddie Mathews, 40, the team's first-base coach and perennial All-Star third baseman from its glory days in Milwaukee during the 1950s.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1972 Atlanta Braves
Roster
Pitchers

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	Earl Williams	151	565	146	.258	28	87
1B	Hank Aaron	129	449	119	.265	34	77
2B	Félix Millán	125	498	128	.257	1	38
SS	Marty Perez	141	479	109	.228	1	28
3B	Darrell Evans	125	418	106	.254	19	71
LF	Rico Carty	86	271	75	.277	6	29
CF	Dusty Baker	127	446	143	.321	17	76
RF	Mike Lum	123	369	84	.228	9	38

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
Ralph Garr	134	554	180	.325	12	53
Oscar Brown	76	164	37	.226	3	16
	49	136	28	.206	2	10
Sonny Jackson	60	126	30	.238	0	8
Larvell Blanks	33	85	28	.329	1	7
Jim Breazeale	52	85	21	.247	5	17
Orlando Cepeda	28	84	25	.298	4	9
Gil Garrido	40	75	20	.267	0	7
Bob Didier	13	40	12	.300	0	5
Rod Gilbreath	18	38	9	.237	0	1
Rowland Office	2	5	2	.400	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
Phil Niekro	38	282.1	16	12	3.06	164
Ron Reed	31	213.0	11	15	3.93	111
	6	36.0	2	2	6.00	18

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
Ron Schueler	37	144.2	5	8	3.67	96
Tom Kelley	27	116.1	5	7	4.56	59
George Stone	31	111.0	6	11	5.51	63
Pat Jarvis	37	98.2	11	7	4.10	56
Jim Hardin	26	79.2	5	2	4.41	25
	23	78.1	0	5	4.60	40
Denny McLain	15	54.0	3	5	6.50	21
	11	31.1	1	1	5.46	10
Larry Jaster	5	12.1	1	1	5.11	6

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
Cecil Upshaw	42	3	5	13	3.69	23
	25	1	3	2	6.56	19
Gary Neibauer	8	0	0	0	7.27	8
Tom House	8	0	0	2	2.89	7
	5	0	0	0	5.74	6

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Hank Aaron, Outfield, Starter

Farm system

Notes

References

1972 Atlanta Braves season at Baseball Reference

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/casanpa01.shtml Paul Casanova page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/barbest01.shtml Steve Barber page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hannapr01.shtml Preston Hanna page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/t/thornan01.shtml Andre Thornton page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/cepedor01.shtml Orlando Cepeda page at Baseball Reference]
Caruso, Gary, ''The Braves Encyclopedia.'' Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995, page 330
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19720807&id=2AwsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SsgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2672,1440593 Newspaper article], [[The Associated Press]], August 7, 1972

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