Oakland A’s: Best 10 Season At Center Field
By Tej Kamaraju
4. Dwayne Murphy, 1982
| Year ▾ | Age | G | PA | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 27 | 151 | 660 | 84 | 129 | 15 | 1 | 27 | 94 | 26 | 8 | 94 | 122 | .238 | .349 | .418 | .767 | 116 |
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Generated 2/20/2014.
Murphy won his third straight Gold Glove and established new career highs in home runs and RBI even as Oakland stumbled to fifth place after winning the AL West in 1981.
He led the American League with a 26.5 Power-Speed number and was 10th with a 5.9 WAR (ninth among position players). Defensively, he led AL center fielders with 11 Total Zone Runs and a 3.16 Range Factor per game.
Murphy was fifth in the AL with 94 walks, sixth with 122 strikeouts and seventh with 12 sacrifice hits and eight sacrifice flies. Defensively, he led AL center fielders with 451 putouts and 14 assists.
He led AL center fielders with 26 stolen bases, was second among AL center fielders with 27 homers and 94 RBI and third with 84 runs and a .349 on-base percentage.