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1979 American League Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
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Central Team W L WPct GB Cleveland (A) 82 78 .513 -- Minnesota 81 79 .506 1 Tampa Bay 78 82 .488 4 Baltimore 47 113 .294 35	East Team W L WPct GB Boston (A) 91 69 .569 -- New York (A) 77 83 .481 14 Detroit 72 88 .450 19 Indianapolis 66 94 .413 25	West Team W L WPct GB Seattle 99 61 .619 -- Kansas City 88 72 .550 11 Toronto 70 90 .438 29 Oakland 52 108 .325 47

Post-Season Results
World Championship (4-0)	Seattle Mariners over Los Angeles Dodgers
AL League Series (4-3)	Seattle Mariners over Kansas City Royals
AL Divisional Series (4-0)	Seattle Mariners over Cleveland (A) Indians
AL Divisional Series (4-3)	Kansas City Royals over Boston (A) Red Sox

League Batting Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
SEM	4.8	774	160	5470	1464	191	40	107	676	789	.268	.348	.376	.724
TOR	4.8	772	160	5595	1565	263	51	101	499	643	.280	.339	.399	.738
NYA	4.6	742	160	5523	1527	242	40	109	440	623	.276	.330	.394	.724
BOS	4.6	738	160	5551	1444	244	38	133	471	620	.260	.318	.390	.708
KCR	4.5	725	160	5538	1404	229	27	148	601	929	.254	.327	.385	.711
DET	4.5	713	160	5439	1297	236	40	158	624	722	.238	.317	.384	.701
CLE	4.5	713	160	5582	1497	265	45	108	464	586	.268	.324	.390	.714
MIN	4.5	712	160	5641	1504	292	32	91	441	675	.267	.320	.378	.698
TAM	4.2	667	160	5504	1402	211	40	106	572	718	.255	.325	.365	.690
OAK	3.7	589	160	5469	1386	210	30	59	423	603	.253	.307	.335	.642
BAL	3.7	585	160	5565	1350	219	38	70	465	632	.243	.301	.333	.634
IND	3.5	555	160	5445	1276	191	28	93	457	809	.234	.294	.331	.625
Totals	4.3	8285	1920	66322	17116	2793	449	1283	6133	8349	.258	.321	.372	.693
Average		690	160	5527	1426	233	37	107	511	696

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
SEM	3.6	570	160	3.25	1448.7	1289	8.1	495	3.1	705	4.4	40
KCR	4.0	637	160	3.47	1450.0	1381	8.6	343	2.1	779	4.9	42
BOS	4.1	662	160	3.75	1440.7	1359	8.5	555	3.5	759	4.7	46
MIN	4.2	678	160	3.87	1456.7	1462	9.1	537	3.4	693	4.3	34
TAM	4.4	701	160	4.00	1443.3	1477	9.2	457	2.9	685	4.3	40
IND	4.6	731	160	4.11	1428.3	1524	9.5	497	3.1	499	3.1	37
CLE	4.6	735	160	4.00	1448.0	1411	8.8	553	3.5	792	5.0	43
NYA	4.9	782	160	4.48	1416.3	1458	9.1	563	3.5	794	5.0	41
DET	4.9	782	160	4.36	1432.7	1503	9.4	419	2.6	622	3.9	37
BAL	5.0	799	160	4.59	1437.0	1583	9.9	589	3.7	584	3.7	26
TOR	5.1	820	160	4.59	1422.7	1499	9.4	590	3.7	702	4.4	38
OAK	5.2	839	160	4.74	1421.3	1615	10.1	634	4.0	568	3.6	33
Totals	4.6	8736	1920	4.10	17245.6	17561	9.1	6232	3.2	8182	4.3	457
Average		728	160		1437	1463		519		682		38

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
SEM	102	58	-3	6	14	7	1	3	6	1.01	0.93	2,383,642		Peter Fletcher
BOS	88	72	3	4	11	0	0	1	3	1.00	1.02	2,310,609		Brian Rodgers
NYA	76	84	1	4	12	0	2	0	6	0.95	1.01	2,030,601		Jason Spiegel
CLE	78	82	4	2	18	0	0	2	5	0.99	1.00	2,151,687		Jason Morton
DET	73	87	-1	2	19	0	3	2	21	1.15	1.09	1,378,589		Pie Traynor
TAM	76	84	2	2	11	1	1	1	10	1.00	1.10	2,163,806		Logan Dederich
TOR	76	84	-6	2	15	0	0	1	8	0.99	0.98	1,153,975		Chuck Glidden
IND	60	100	6	1	5	0	1	0	13	1.09	1.15	1,792,898
MIN	84	76	-3	1	13	7	9	2	13	0.95	0.93	1,992,459		Gene Mauch
OAK	55	105	-3	1	10	0	0	1	14	1.04	0.91	1,576,950		Marwan Najdawi
BAL	58	102	-11	0	7	0	0	2	2	1.05	1.02	1,351,069		Matt Ida II
KCR	89	71	-1	0	15	1	0	1	13	1.00	1.05	2,307,167		Ricky Sanford

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
SEM	297	124.26	116.74	55.96	12.11	2.98	5.52	7.63	12.06	15.68
BOS	273	122.33	102.58	48.05	10.67	2.38	5.31	5.76	9.65	14.29
KCR	264	110.40	105.79	47.78	5.85	3.00	8.55	5.24	9.57	15.57
CLE	246	116.34	88.36	41.27	5.81	3.92	6.62	3.97	6.39	14.58
MIN	243	108.57	91.85	42.53	8.09	3.11	7.35	7.52	5.12	11.36
TAM	234	97.30	95.13	41.53	9.11	2.56	11.20	4.49	1.60	12.59
NYA	231	132.41	68.14	30.40	6.30	2.72	5.42	2.11	4.77	9.09
DET	216	94.75	80.68	40.53	2.95	2.69	8.09	2.53	8.36	15.92
TOR	210	124.97	54.98	30.01	8.77	2.86	1.69	4.53	4.58	7.60
IND	198	55.09	97.17	45.69	6.75	4.85	5.95	3.93	9.83	14.41
OAK	156	65.95	55.51	34.50	8.10	1.97	5.87	4.59	7.43	6.54
BAL	141	51.57	57.32	32.06	6.22	2.72	5.48	3.71	6.53	7.42

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger:	Johnny Briggs	SEM	.315, 24 HR, 104 RBI
Platinum Arm:	Steve Carlton	MIN	12-4, 2.29, 185.0 IP, 95 K
Bronze Rookie:	Lonnie Smith	BAL	.296, 8 HR, 47 RBI
Gold Glove Winners
P	Frank Bertaina	OAK	1.000, 17 PO, 37 A, 0 E
C	Milt May	SEM	.993, 632 PO, 63 A, 5 E 42.0% (42-100) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Keith Hernandez	DET	.994, 1721 PO, 132 A, 12 E
2B	Duane Kuiper	OAK	.981, 355 PO, 626 A, 19 E
3B	Buddy Bell	CLE	.970, 99 PO, 322 A, 13 E
SS	Roy Smalley	DET	.967, 215 PO, 603 A, 28 E
LF	Lee Mazzilli	DET	1.000, 305 PO, 9 A, 0 E
CF	Leroy Stanton	IND	1.000, 410 PO, 16 A, 0 E
RF	Johnny Briggs	SEM	1.000, 362 PO, 8 A, 0 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

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

Batting Average Parrish BOS .316 Dilone TOR .316 Briggs SEM .315 Bostock CLE .307* Maddox SEM .307	On-Base Pct Briggs SEM .437 North SEM .393 Morgan SEM .387 Page TOR .380 Wynegar TOR .376*	Slugging Pct Parrish BOS .572 Briggs SEM .505 Page TOR .487 Clark MIN .484 Washington TOR .482*	OPS Briggs SEM .942 Parrish BOS .936 Page TOR .867 Clark MIN .846 Morgan SEM .828
XR Briggs SEM 116.5 Parrish BOS 109.2 Morgan SEM 100.3 Clark MIN 96.8 North SEM 91.5	Games Nelson SEM 158 Harmon MIN 156 Hendrick NYA 156 Luzinski KCR 156 Baylor NYA 155	At-Bats Dilone TOR 675 Harris MIN 627 Powell KCR 618 Maddox SEM 612 Cedeno CLE 609	Runs Parrish BOS 104 North SEM 102 Morgan SEM 99 Briggs SEM 94 Dilone TOR 91
Hits Dilone TOR 213 Maddox SEM 188 Parrish BOS 187 North SEM 183 Powell KCR 183	Total Bases Parrish BOS 338 Maddox SEM 293 Briggs SEM 278 Hendrick NYA 267 Clark MIN 264	Singles Dilone TOR 177 North SEM 166 Powell KCR 149 Kuiper OAK 147 Richard NYA 141	Doubles Harris MIN 40 Knight MIN 39 Washington TOR 38 Parrish BOS 37 Carbo CLE 35
Triples Brett BOS 10 Morgan SEM 10 Wills   10 Cedeno CLE 9 Monday DET 9	Homeruns Parrish BOS 36 Clark MIN 31 Hendrick NYA 29 Monday DET 28 Jackson   25	RBIs Clark MIN 115 Parrish BOS 111 Milner NYA 106 Hendrick NYA 105 Briggs SEM 104	Stolen Bases North SEM 101 Dilone TOR 63 Cedeno CLE 52 Scott SEM 52 Wills   50
Caught Stealing North SEM 55 Cedeno CLE 38 Dilone TOR 34 Leflore TOR 23 Mazzilli DET 20	Walks Briggs SEM 121 Carbo CLE 94 Sudakis KCR 93 North SEM 92 Clark MIN 91	Strikeouts Rettenmund IND 135 Jackson   133 Rader KCR 128 Lis KCR 127 Lezcano KCR 113

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Carlton   2.29 Torrez SEM 2.56 McQueen CLE 2.60 Hausman DET 2.98 Corbin KCR 3.02	Wins Lavelle BOS 21 Campbell SEM 20 Soto BOS 17 Coleman TOR 16 Hausman DET 16	Losses Matlack IND 20 Burris OAK 19 Fingers TAM 19 Maccormack CLE 19 Soto BOS 19	Winning Pct Lavelle BOS .840 Carlton   .750 Hausman DET .727 Campbell SEM .690 Johnson SEM .667
Saves Sutter BOS 39 Gerhardt IND 33 Camp TOR 32 Stanton OAK 30 Holdsworth CLE 24	Games Pitched Narum KCR 90 Hrabosky SEM 84 Norman MIN 73 Sutter BOS 70 Tekulve BOS 69	Games Started Campbell SEM 36 Fingers TAM 36 Soto BOS 36 Coleman TOR 35 Drago MIN 35	Complete Games Soto BOS 16 Torrez SEM 15 Slayback NYA 13 Sorensen IND 11 Matlack IND 10
Shutouts Slayback NYA 6 Torrez SEM 5 Campbell SEM 4 Ruthven BOS 4 Soto BOS 4	Innings Pitched Soto BOS 271.0 Sorensen IND 265.7 Nolan KCR 264.7 Campbell SEM 263.7 Matlack IND 263.7	Hits Allowed Sorensen IND 301 Burris OAK 272 Fingers TAM 264 Matlack IND 264 Beattie IND 261	Homeruns Allowed Nolan KCR 33 Coleman TOR 32 Matlack IND 32 Fingers TAM 30 Gelnar DET 27
Strikeouts Nolan KCR 173 Murakami NYA 168 McQueen CLE 153 Soto BOS 153 Coleman TOR 151	Walks Allowed Soto BOS 116 Stephenson CLE 114 Perzanowski   110 Beattie IND 106 Bonham NYA 105	Walks per 9IP Nolan KCR 1.0 McLain TAM 1.3 Gelnar DET 1.5 Hoyt TAM 1.6 Hausman DET 1.7	Hits per 9IP McQueen CLE 7.0 Torrez SEM 7.0 Hausman DET 7.3 Campbell SEM 7.5 Moeller KCR 7.6
Strikeouts per 9IP Murakami NYA 7.2 Nolan KCR 5.9 Lavelle BOS 5.8 Selma TAM 5.8 Fingers TAM 5.6	WHiP Hausman DET 0.99 McQueen CLE 1.03 Moeller KCR 1.04 Nolan KCR 1.07 Gelnar DET 1.07	OAVG McQueen CLE .212 Torrez SEM .213 Hausman DET .222 Moeller KCR .223 Campbell SEM .225	OOBP Hausman DET .262 Moeller KCR .264 McQueen CLE .265 Nolan KCR .269 Torrez SEM .273
OSLG Torrez SEM .251 Carlton   .303 McQueen CLE .316 Campbell SEM .322 Slayback NYA .322	OOPS Torrez SEM .524 McQueen CLE .580 Carlton   .585 Hausman DET .601 Slayback NYA .607

League All-Stars
Don Baylor	Johnny Briggs	Bill Campbell
Jack Clark	Miguel Dilone	Wayne Gross
Tom Hausman	George Hendrick	Kevin Kobel
Gary Lavelle	Garry Maddox	Milt May
Paul Molitor	Joe Morgan	Billy North
Jorge Orta	Larry Parrish	Lee Richard
Dick Selma	Bill Slayback	Mario Soto
Mike Stanton	Bruce Sutter	Ron Tompkins
Butch Wynegar

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	Billy North	SEM	$ 15,000,000
	Gary Nolan	KCR	$ 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.	Rich Gossage	NYA	$ 12,000,000
	Amos Otis	DET	$ 12,000,000
	John Gelnar	DET	$ 12,000,000
10.	Steve Carlton	MIN	$ 11,600,000
11.	Bernie Carbo	CLE	$ 10,000,000
12.	Joe Morgan	SEM	$ 9,000,000
	John Milner	NYA	$ 9,000,000
14.	Rick Monday	DET	$ 8,500,000
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	KCR	$ 7,500,000
20.	Mike Marshall	BAL	$ 7,250,000
21.	Jim York	MIN	$ 7,000,000
22.	Rollie Fingers	TAM	$ 6,700,000
23.	Pedro Borbon	DET	$ 6,500,000
24.	John Mayberry	TAM	$ 6,400,000
25.	Joe Coleman	TOR	$ 6,000,000
	Tim Hosley	NYA	$ 6,000,000

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