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1978 American League Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
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Central Team W L WPct GB Minnesota 93 67 .581 -- Tampa Bay 83 77 .519 10 Cleveland (A) 81 79 .506 12 Baltimore 62 98 .388 31	East Team W L WPct GB Boston (A) 79 81 .494 -- New York (A) 73 87 .456 6 Indianapolis 69 91 .431 10 Detroit 63 97 .394 16	West Team W L WPct GB Seattle 102 58 .638 -- Kansas City 97 63 .606 5 Toronto 82 78 .513 20 Oakland 70 90 .438 32

Post-Season Results
World Championship (4-1)	San Diego Padres over Seattle Mariners
AL League Series (4-3)	Seattle Mariners over Minnesota Twins
AL Divisional Series (4-1)	Seattle Mariners over Boston (A) Red Sox
AL Divisional Series (4-3)	Minnesota Twins over Kansas City Royals

League Batting Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
KCR	5.2	835	160	5630	1507	276	22	172	627	887	.268	.341	.416	.757
SEM	5.1	810	160	5477	1531	217	56	117	578	749	.280	.348	.404	.752
TOR	5.0	801	160	5503	1540	247	40	115	546	576	.280	.345	.402	.747
TAM	5.0	798	160	5565	1494	237	35	138	585	796	.268	.338	.398	.736
MIN	4.8	769	160	5629	1569	314	43	88	476	679	.279	.335	.397	.732
NYA	4.8	766	160	5648	1556	266	31	153	447	564	.275	.329	.415	.743
DET	4.6	733	160	5594	1404	272	42	151	550	711	.251	.318	.396	.714
CLE	4.4	704	160	5632	1495	263	39	104	487	617	.265	.324	.381	.705
BOS	4.4	704	160	5671	1485	308	49	86	510	649	.262	.323	.379	.702
OAK	3.9	622	160	5442	1349	184	44	76	480	805	.248	.309	.340	.649
IND	3.6	574	160	5581	1347	191	29	94	458	832	.241	.299	.336	.635
BAL	3.4	547	160	5435	1312	198	30	99	505	777	.241	.306	.344	.649
Totals	4.5	8663	1920	66807	17589	2973	460	1393	6249	8642	.263	.326	.384	.710
Average		722	160	5567	1466	248	38	116	521	720

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
SEM	3.8	611	160	3.50	1430.0	1335	8.3	513	3.2	781	4.9	29
KCR	4.2	678	160	3.79	1463.3	1452	9.1	347	2.2	792	5.0	31
BOS	4.2	679	160	3.90	1459.7	1383	8.6	628	3.9	772	4.8	28
MIN	4.3	693	160	3.92	1443.0	1478	9.2	588	3.7	778	4.9	28
IND	4.4	703	160	3.95	1458.0	1539	9.6	458	2.9	551	3.4	14
CLE	4.4	705	160	3.95	1451.7	1378	8.6	546	3.4	792	5.0	26
TAM	4.5	723	160	4.08	1435.3	1476	9.2	494	3.1	683	4.3	24
NYA	4.7	751	160	4.27	1440.3	1465	9.2	598	3.7	842	5.3	27
OAK	4.7	757	160	4.23	1417.0	1465	9.2	608	3.8	727	4.5	21
TOR	4.9	777	160	4.51	1418.3	1404	8.8	702	4.4	769	4.8	17
BAL	4.9	789	160	4.64	1424.7	1576	9.9	580	3.6	647	4.0	23
DET	5.2	833	160	4.78	1449.3	1535	9.6	487	3.0	617	3.9	22
Totals	4.5	8699	1920	4.12	17290.6	17486	9.1	6549	3.4	8751	4.6	290
Average		725	160		1441	1457		546		729		24

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
SEM	100	60	2	6	12	6	2	3	4	1.02	1.03	2,386,181		Peter Fletcher
KCR	95	65	2	4	13	1	0	1	15	1.00	1.11	2,217,345		Ricky Sanford
TAM	87	73	-4	3	13	2	1	2	10	0.98	1.07	2,251,456		Chris Kelsey II
TOR	82	78	0	3	17	0	0	1	9	0.98	0.89	1,181,787		Chuck Glidden
MIN	88	72	5	2	12	7	6	2	12	1.05	0.95	1,949,912		Gene Mauch
OAK	66	94	4	2	14	1	3	0	12	1.02	0.90	1,587,883		Marwan Najdawi
BAL	54	106	8	1	8	0	0	0	6	0.98	1.00	1,662,090		Matt Ida II
BOS	83	77	-4	1	11	0	0	1	3	0.96	0.96	1,917,433		Brian Rodgers
CLE	80	80	1	1	19	0	0	2	7	0.99	1.01	1,968,693		Jason Morton
IND	65	95	4	1	5	0	0	0	18	1.12	1.18	1,957,733
NYA	81	79	-8	1	11	0	1	0	5	0.98	1.00	2,256,511		Jason Spiegel
DET	71	89	-8	0	13	0	3	1	22	1.10	1.05	835,418		Pie Traynor

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
SEM	306	144.55	111.97	49.44	5.02	2.66	5.83	6.21	13.27	16.46
KCR	291	148.38	99.96	42.63	3.51	2.05	8.07	4.76	10.31	13.93
MIN	279	132.04	102.37	44.55	9.65	3.05	7.42	7.09	6.86	10.49
TAM	249	135.06	75.72	38.18	2.98	2.02	6.00	5.72	8.08	13.39
TOR	246	146.72	63.69	35.55	6.86	3.71	4.92	2.98	3.74	13.35
CLE	243	109.63	88.21	45.11	4.53	3.01	6.46	6.68	8.15	16.30
BOS	237	104.45	88.90	43.62	9.49	1.92	6.75	3.93	7.61	13.92
NYA	219	117.31	69.58	32.07	3.40	4.00	6.42	3.00	5.48	9.77
OAK	210	89.36	77.86	42.73	13.34	4.38	7.19	6.17	3.04	8.63
IND	207	55.15	106.76	45.05	11.87	3.69	6.00	3.85	9.36	10.28
DET	189	95.39	61.47	32.10	6.43	2.06	5.26	3.73	4.26	10.38
BAL	186	70.22	76.54	39.20	10.19	2.99	7.13	4.21	7.97	6.71

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger:	Johnny Briggs	SEM	.326, 30 HR, 127 RBI
Platinum Arm:	Bill Campbell	SEM	20-7, 2.95, 280.7 IP, 127 K
Bronze Rookie:	Frank Maccormack	CLE	17-12, 3.71, 242.3 IP, 100 K
Gold Glove Winners
P	Bob Shirley	DET	.986, 17 PO, 51 A, 1 E
C	Jose Morales	OAK	.995, 510 PO, 62 A, 3 E 51.0% (49-96) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Keith Hernandez	DET	.991, 1727 PO, 128 A, 16 E
2B	Alan Bannister	BAL	.977, 284 PO, 536 A, 19 E
3B	Pete Mackanin	IND	.961, 99 PO, 390 A, 20 E
SS	Ken Oberkfell	IND	.982, 253 PO, 631 A, 16 E
LF	Mitchell Page	TOR	.994, 297 PO, 16 A, 2 E
CF	Jerry Mumphrey	MIN	.990, 394 PO, 6 A, 4 E
RF	Larry Hisle	TAM	.991, 306 PO, 8 A, 3 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

(*) indicates hit-less at-bats added to meet minimum plate appearances requirement.

Batting Average Montanez SEM .350 Cabell NYA .340 Briggs SEM .326 Cedeno   .320 Powell KCR .318	On-Base Pct Briggs SEM .416 Page TOR .410 North SEM .409 Mayberry KCR .394 Montanez SEM .387	Slugging Pct Milner NYA .562 Briggs SEM .546 Montanez SEM .538 Otis DET .535 Page TOR .533	OPS Briggs SEM .963 Page TOR .943 Milner NYA .938 Montanez SEM .925 Powell KCR .895
XR Briggs SEM 122.8 Page TOR 118.7 Milner NYA 117.0 Powell KCR 113.6 Otis DET 106.2	Games Bannister BAL 158 Mazzilli DET 156 Mitchell BAL 156 Mumphrey MIN 156 Wynn BAL 156	At-Bats Powell KCR 623 Cabell NYA 617 Maddox SEM 604 Otis DET 604 Mayberry KCR 603	Runs North SEM 118 Briggs SEM 116 Morgan SEM 111 Powell KCR 108 Wills TAM 106
Hits Cabell NYA 210 Powell KCR 198 Montanez SEM 192 Cedeno   190 North SEM 188	Total Bases Milner NYA 330 Otis DET 323 Powell KCR 320 Briggs SEM 312 Page TOR 299	Singles Cabell NYA 165 North SEM 161 Dilone TOR 140 Hisle TAM 139 Cedeno   136	Doubles Brett BOS 56 Hernandez DET 51 Harris MIN 44 Maddox SEM 43 Mumphrey MIN 42
Triples Brett BOS 14 Cedeno   14 Morgan SEM 10 Monday   9 Norris OAK 9	Homeruns Milner NYA 40 Otis DET 36 Briggs SEM 30 Murcer DET 30 Hendrick NYA 29	RBIs Otis DET 131 Briggs SEM 127 Milner NYA 126 Montanez SEM 121 Page TOR 115	Stolen Bases North SEM 120 Dilone TOR 60 Cedeno   56 Lopes SEM 53 Wills TAM 49
Caught Stealing North SEM 46 Dilone TOR 38 Andrews DET 26 Lopes SEM 24 Wills TAM 23	Walks Clark MIN 101 Mayberry KCR 97 Page TOR 95 Briggs SEM 94 Jackson TAM 94	Strikeouts Jackson TAM 124 Mitchell BAL 121 Parrish BOS 115 Sudakis KCR 114 Wynn BAL 114

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Campbell SEM 2.95 Sorensen IND 3.01 Torrez SEM 3.09 McLain TAM 3.21 Selma TAM 3.23	Wins Campbell SEM 20 Johnson SEM 20 Narum KCR 18 Nolan KCR 18 Torrez SEM 18	Losses Perzanowski BAL 23 Stanton OAK 20 Coleman BAL 18 Matlack IND 18 Slaton IND 18	Winning Pct Nolan KCR .750 Campbell SEM .741 Otten TOR .688 Barker MIN .682 Moeller KCR .680
Saves Narum KCR 22 Sutter BOS 22 Schneider MIN 17 Glynn SEM 16 Bair OAK 12	Games Pitched Narum KCR 88 Sutter BOS 75 Hrabosky SEM 71 Schneider MIN 71 Glynn SEM 61	Games Started Campbell SEM 37 Slaton IND 37 Johnson SEM 36 McQueen CLE 36 Murakami NYA 36	Complete Games Johnson SEM 19 Sorensen IND 18 Burris OAK 16 Goltz TAM 16 Matlack IND 16
Shutouts Campbell SEM 4 Johnson SEM 4 Sorensen IND 4 Gogolewski OAK 3 Matlack IND 3	Innings Pitched Johnson SEM 285.3 Moeller KCR 282.7 Slaton IND 282.7 Campbell SEM 280.7 Goltz TAM 269.3	Hits Allowed Slaton IND 304 Perzanowski BAL 293 Drago MIN 290 Moeller KCR 288 Goltz TAM 282	Homeruns Allowed Nolan KCR 39 Coleman BAL 31 Hausman DET 30 McQueen CLE 30 Fingers TAM 29
Strikeouts Johnson SEM 189 Murakami NYA 172 Moeller KCR 168 Coleman BAL 164 Nolan KCR 163	Walks Allowed Ryan BOS 134 Stanhouse BOS 130 Koosman TOR 127 Odom TOR 123 Stephenson CLE 121	Walks per 9IP McLain TAM 0.7 Nolan KCR 0.8 Moeller KCR 1.0 Hausman DET 1.5 Gelnar DET 1.5	Hits per 9IP Ryan BOS 7.1 Frisella BOS 7.6 McQueen CLE 7.8 Shirley DET 7.9 Gossage NYA 7.9
Strikeouts per 9IP Littell TOR 8.0 Ryan BOS 6.9 Stoneman TOR 6.8 Frisella BOS 6.3 Gossage NYA 6.1	WHiP Nolan KCR 1.11 Moeller KCR 1.13 Sorensen IND 1.13 Murakami NYA 1.15 Gelnar DET 1.18	OAVG Ryan BOS .222 Frisella BOS .230 McQueen CLE .231 Gossage NYA .234 Shirley DET .235	OOBP Nolan KCR .276 Moeller KCR .282 Murakami NYA .286 Sorensen IND .288 McLain TAM .289
OSLG Torrez SEM .313 Campbell SEM .316 Ruthven BOS .345 Sorensen IND .346 Gardner NYA .346	OOPS Campbell SEM .626 Torrez SEM .631 Sorensen IND .633 Ruthven BOS .645 Murakami NYA .649

League All-Stars
Ken Boswell	Johnny Briggs	Enos Cabell
Bill Gogolewski	Dave Goltz	Billy Harris
Bart Johnson	Frank Maccormack	Garry Maddox
Joe Moeller	Willie Montanez	Jose Morales
Joe Morgan	Gary Nolan	Billy North
Jim Otten	Mitchell Page	Boog Powell
Dave Rosello	Dan Schneider	Lary Sorensen
Bill Sudakis	Bruce Sutter	Ernie Whitt
Bump Wills

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	John Hiller	MIN	$ 15,500,000
2.	Billy North	SEM	$ 15,000,000
3.	Richie Zisk	BOS	$ 14,150,000
4.	Joe Moeller	KCR	$ 13,777,780
5.	Johnny Briggs	SEM	$ 13,680,000
6.	Danny Frisella	BOS	$ 12,815,000
7.	John Gelnar	DET	$ 12,000,000
	Amos Otis	DET	$ 12,000,000
9.	Bernie Carbo	CLE	$ 10,000,000
10.	Joe Coleman	BAL	$ 9,500,000
11.	Joe Morgan	SEM	$ 9,000,000
12.	Rollie Fingers	TAM	$ 8,500,000
	Dean Chance	DET	$ 8,500,000
14.	Boog Powell	KCR	$ 8,210,000
15.	Dick Drago	MIN	$ 8,090,000
16.	Ken Singleton	BOS	$ 8,015,000
17.	Masanori Murakami	NYA	$ 8,000,000
	Cesar Cedeno	CLE	$ 8,000,000
19.	Reggie Jackson	TAM	$ 7,500,000
20.	Gary Nolan	KCR	$ 7,300,000
21.	Jim York	MIN	$ 7,000,000
22.	Tim Hosley	NYA	$ 6,000,000
23.	Jerry Stephenson	CLE	$ 5,500,000
	Bob Watson	CLE	$ 5,500,000
25.	Willie Crawford	BAL	$ 5,400,000
	Reggie Smith	TAM	$ 5,400,000

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