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1979 National League Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
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Central Team W L WPct GB Washington 95 65 .594 -- Pittsburgh 81 79 .506 14 Cleveland (N) 66 94 .413 29 Philadelphia 64 96 .400 31	East Team W L WPct GB Montreal 105 55 .656 -- New York (N) 101 59 .631 4 Boston (N) 91 69 .569 14 Miami 59 101 .369 46	West Team W L WPct GB Los Angeles 99 61 .619 -- San Diego 97 63 .606 2 Colorado 87 73 .544 12 Milwaukee 72 88 .450 27

Post-Season Results
World Championship (4-0)	Seattle Mariners over Los Angeles Dodgers
NL League Series (4-1)	Los Angeles Dodgers over Montreal Expos
NL Divisional Series (4-3)	Los Angeles Dodgers over New York (N) Giants
NL Divisional Series (4-1)	Montreal Expos over Washington Nationals

League Batting Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
MON	5.3	849	160	5648	1589	249	40	146	518	625	.281	.342	.417	.759
SDP	5.3	846	160	5546	1508	210	34	153	682	732	.272	.352	.405	.756
NYG	5.1	815	160	5509	1487	258	32	145	624	718	.270	.344	.407	.752
LAD	5.0	795	160	5650	1528	221	32	128	567	706	.270	.337	.389	.726
WAS	4.7	747	160	5690	1555	264	57	88	530	666	.273	.335	.386	.721
BSN	4.7	746	160	5493	1456	265	41	176	485	758	.265	.325	.424	.749
PIT	4.5	720	160	5608	1559	275	38	125	458	592	.278	.333	.407	.740
COL	4.3	691	160	5519	1371	249	33	138	572	743	.248	.319	.381	.699
MIL	4.2	677	160	5470	1409	228	48	116	452	712	.258	.314	.380	.695
PHN	4.0	632	160	5419	1369	249	54	75	460	595	.253	.311	.360	.671
MIA	3.9	625	160	5629	1349	251	39	124	436	835	.240	.294	.364	.658
CLN	3.7	599	160	5432	1258	199	19	125	561	824	.232	.304	.344	.648
Totals	4.6	8742	1920	66613	17438	2918	467	1539	6345	8506	.262	.326	.389	.715
Average		728	160	5551	1453	243	39	128	529	709

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
LAD	4.0	640	160	3.63	1453.7	1449	9.1	487	3.0	732	4.6	39
SDP	4.0	641	160	3.57	1439.3	1478	9.2	510	3.2	545	3.4	38
COL	4.1	650	160	3.73	1451.0	1341	8.4	526	3.3	805	5.0	43
WAS	4.1	656	160	3.64	1456.3	1360	8.5	462	2.9	831	5.2	49
MON	4.2	666	160	3.73	1441.0	1310	8.2	602	3.8	862	5.4	48
PIT	4.2	674	160	3.81	1437.3	1420	8.9	406	2.5	694	4.3	39
BSN	4.3	680	160	3.97	1409.3	1412	8.8	488	3.1	785	4.9	39
NYG	4.3	682	160	3.79	1443.7	1423	8.9	536	3.4	697	4.4	50
MIL	4.5	713	160	3.85	1416.7	1402	8.8	540	3.4	626	3.9	38
CLN	4.5	725	160	4.15	1432.3	1447	9.0	567	3.5	728	4.6	26
PHN	4.8	771	160	4.46	1429.3	1475	9.2	623	3.9	627	3.9	40
MIA	5.0	793	160	4.38	1457.7	1476	9.2	499	3.1	741	4.6	27
Totals	4.3	8291	1920	3.89	17267.6	16993	8.9	6246	3.3	8673	4.5	476
Average		691	160		1439	1416		520		723		40

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
MON	97	63	8	6	11	7	1	1	6	0.99	1.01	2,327,062		Jason Spiegel II
SDP	100	60	-3	5	13	0	0	1	28	0.90	0.74	2,326,103		Jamie D'Agostini
LAD	96	64	3	4	10	0	1	1	10	0.87	0.86	2,303,882		Ty Kubick
BSN	87	73	4	2	15	4	0	1	13	0.99	1.14	2,369,672		Ben Thompson
COL	84	76	3	2	12	1	2	0	16	1.01	0.74	2,248,059		Chris Kelsey
NYG	93	67	8	2	17	0	5	1	14	0.98	1.12	1,874,739		Matt Ida
WAS	89	71	6	2	17	0	2	1	17	1.01	0.98	2,031,235		Jay Zorn
PHN	66	94	-2	1	5	2	0	1	5	1.02	0.91	954,297		Cory Einhorn II
PIT	85	75	-4	1	14	0	0	1	9	0.95	1.07	2,050,536		Alex Baxter
CLN	66	94	0	0	10	0	3	3	15	1.04	1.00	2,141,842		Ricky Sanford II
MIA	63	97	-4	0	10	0	1	0	4	1.00	1.29	1,439,427		Carlos Gonzalez
MIL	76	84	-4	0	7	0	0	0	12	1.04	0.94	1,545,318		Fletch Lives

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
MON	315	178.58	88.74	47.65	6.40	4.27	6.25	5.11	8.51	17.12
NYG	303	170.37	92.87	39.71	4.72	3.93	6.26	6.40	6.68	11.74
LAD	297	166.73	92.86	37.37	10.53	2.39	7.26	5.88	5.47	5.86
SDP	291	169.77	83.94	37.25	7.69	1.87	7.91	5.50	6.16	8.12
WAS	285	138.57	101.97	44.42	7.34	2.95	8.95	4.91	7.17	13.11
BSN	273	147.54	85.08	40.34	4.07	6.79	9.40	3.62	9.34	7.13
COL	261	115.53	97.05	48.38	13.33	2.62	6.71	5.83	7.81	12.09
PIT	243	124.54	82.45	35.97	5.12	2.69	2.04	4.30	12.78	9.05
MIL	216	104.19	75.80	35.97	4.54	0.00	5.74	5.39	5.59	14.71
CLN	198	81.30	76.46	40.21	7.89	2.06	7.33	1.71	6.00	15.23
PHN	192	94.13	60.16	37.67	5.86	3.94	4.82	3.74	4.98	14.34
MIA	177	85.94	59.99	31.03	7.01	2.77	3.59	4.40	5.69	7.58

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger:	Bobby Bonds	MON	.333, 46 HR, 126 RBI
Platinum Arm:	J.R. Richard	COL	18-9, 2.64, 259.3 IP, 194 K
Bronze Rookie:	Dave Wehrmeister	CLN	8-16, 3.64, 230.0 IP, 137 K
Gold Glove Winners
P	Dick Baney	BSN	1.000, 28 PO, 46 A, 0 E
C	Johnny Bench	COL	.997, 663 PO, 62 A, 2 E 40.2% (39-97) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Steve Kemp	NYG	.996, 1676 PO, 119 A, 7 E
2B	Jerry Terrell	SDP	.985, 313 PO, 635 A, 14 E
3B	Fernando Gonzalez	MIL	.964, 88 PO, 338 A, 16 E
SS	Tom Matchick	SDP	.968, 214 PO, 624 A, 28 E
LF	Ruppert Jones	CLN	.996, 264 PO, 12 A, 1 E
CF	Terry Puhl	PHN	.997, 362 PO, 13 A, 1 E
RF	Randy Elliott	WAS	.993, 299 PO, 6 A, 2 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

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

Batting Average Hargrove SDP .350 Bonds MON .333 Griffey Sr. SDP .327 Madlock LAD .326 White NYG .319	On-Base Pct Adams SDP .428 Bonds MON .423 Brooks MON .421 Hargrove SDP .419 White NYG .394	Slugging Pct Bonds MON .638 Schmidt SDP .538 Burroughs NYG .537 Murphy PHN .519 Madlock LAD .509	OPS Bonds MON 1.061 Schmidt SDP .930 Burroughs NYG .902 Madlock LAD .885 Hargrove SDP .883
XR Bonds MON 146.1 Schmidt SDP 115.2 Adams SDP 113.9 Burroughs NYG 106.6 Madlock LAD 100.3	Games Parker MON 158 Adams SDP 156 Blefary CLN 156 Ford PIT 156 Oglivie BSN 156	At-Bats White NYG 624 Spencer CLN 608 Adams CLN 604 Money PIT 603 Hebner MON 600	Runs Bonds MON 127 Schmidt SDP 117 Adams SDP 114 White NYG 104 Madlock LAD 100
Hits White NYG 199 Bonds MON 197 Elliott WAS 188 Madlock LAD 188 Griffey Sr. SDP 187	Total Bases Bonds MON 377 Burroughs NYG 316 Schmidt SDP 309 Evans BSN 299 Madlock LAD 293	Singles White NYG 161 Hebner MON 141 Elliott WAS 140 Griffey Sr. SDP 139 Madlock LAD 135	Doubles McRae MON 42 Murphy PHN 38 Baker LAD 37 Buckner MIA 36 Valentine PIT 36
Triples Thomas WAS 14 Oliver PIT 12 Walling PHN 11 Harrah PHN 10 Bonds MON 9	Homeruns Bonds MON 46 Evans BSN 40 Schmidt SDP 40 Burroughs NYG 37 Murphy PHN 30	RBIs Bonds MON 126 McRae MON 124 Murphy PHN 111 Kemp NYG 110 Griffey Sr. SDP 109	Stolen Bases Lintz NYG 66 Richards MIL 64 Bonds MON 46 Law PHN 43 Allen COL 32
Caught Stealing Richards MIL 26 Lintz NYG 23 Bonds MON 17 Law PHN 16 Remy PHN 16	Walks Adams SDP 131 Brooks MON 117 Schmidt SDP 108 Blefary CLN 102 Ferguson COL 101	Strikeouts Solaita LAD 134 Blefary CLN 125 Schmidt SDP 116 Grich BSN 112 Allen COL 107

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Richard COL 2.64 Reuschel LAD 2.72 Rautzhan NYG 2.91 Garman LAD 2.95 Laroche COL 3.01	Wins Tanana MON 21 Lee   20 Baney BSN 19 Riccelli MON 19 Rodriguez NYG 19	Losses Kravec PHN 22 Sutton BSN 18 Burns MIA 16 Geisel MIL 16 Gullickson MIA 16	Winning Pct Tanana MON .778 Reuschel LAD .773 Slaton NYG .727 Rautzhan NYG .722 Rodriguez NYG .704
Saves Clear MON 40 Davis WAS 38 Wallace PHN 38 Zepp COL 36 Boswell BSN 34	Games Pitched Landis CLN 84 Clyde MIL 82 Whitson PHN 75 Quisenberry SDP 74 Pagan LAD 73	Games Started Eckersley PIT 36 Baney BSN 35 Demola MIA 35 Johnson WAS 35 Lee   35	Complete Games Johnson WAS 13 Underwood MON 13 Reuss NYG 12 Foster SDP 11 Demola MIA 10
Shutouts Baney BSN 4 Blyleven BSN 4 Kline WAS 3 Lauzerique LAD 3 Montefusco PIT 3	Innings Pitched Reuss NYG 272.3 Demola MIA 271.0 Johnson WAS 271.0 Rodriguez NYG 270.7 Lee   266.7	Hits Allowed Lee   309 Reuss NYG 295 Foster SDP 268 Reuschel LAD 260 Demola MIA 254	Homeruns Allowed Demola MIA 36 Kravec PHN 33 Sutton BSN 33 Tanana MON 29 McClure PHN 27
Strikeouts Johnson WAS 214 Richard COL 194 Sutton BSN 191 Demola MIA 184 Laroche COL 177	Walks Allowed Kern SDP 128 Kravec PHN 124 Riccelli MON 123 Rodriguez NYG 122 Martinez LAD 112	Walks per 9IP Baney BSN 0.9 Lauzerique LAD 1.0 Demola MIA 1.0 Arroyo PIT 1.1 Lee   1.1	Hits per 9IP Riccelli MON 6.7 Laroche COL 6.7 Richard COL 7.0 Rodriguez NYG 7.3 Johnson WAS 7.5
Strikeouts per 9IP Sutton BSN 7.4 Moore CLN 7.2 Johnson WAS 7.1 Martinez LAD 7.1 Laroche COL 6.7	WHiP Demola MIA 1.05 Laroche COL 1.05 Baney BSN 1.08 Lauzerique LAD 1.16 Arroyo PIT 1.16	OAVG Laroche COL .206 Riccelli MON .207 Richard COL .214 Rodriguez NYG .222 Johnson WAS .222	OOBP Demola MIA .269 Laroche COL .271 Baney BSN .276 Norris MIL .288 Eckersley PIT .289
OSLG McGlothen MIL .294 Richard COL .299 Rautzhan NYG .300 Rodriguez NYG .310 Kern SDP .321	OOPS Richard COL .588 Rautzhan NYG .594 Laroche COL .613 Rodriguez NYG .620 Garman LAD .621

League All-Stars
Mike Adams	Dusty Baker	Sal Bando
Joe Beckwith	Johnny Bench	Bobby Bonds
Jeff Burroughs	Mark Clear	Dennis Eckersley
Alan Foster	Ken Griffey Sr.	Mike Hargrove
Richie Hebner	Steve Kline	Lee Lacy
Dennis Lamp	Bill Madlock	Hal McRae
Dale Murphy	Rick Reuschel	Mike Schmidt
George Scott	Frank Tanana	Tom Underwood
Bill Zepp

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	John Hiller	CLN	$ 15,500,000
2.	Gene Tenace	SDP	$ 11,000,000
3.	Bill Butler	MON	$ 10,000,000
4.	Bobby Bonds	MON	$ 9,500,000
5.	Steve Kline	WAS	$ 9,000,000
6.	Rusty Staub	COL	$ 8,610,000
7.	Carlos May	LAD	$ 8,100,000
8.	Dick Allen	COL	$ 7,750,000
9.	Curt Blefary	CLN	$ 7,250,000
10.	Jerry Reuss	NYG	$ 7,200,000
11.	Bill Lee	BSN	$ 7,000,000
12.	Richie Hebner	MON	$ 6,860,000
13.	Mike Garman	LAD	$ 6,500,000
14.	Johnny Bench	COL	$ 6,400,000
	Bobby Brooks	MON	$ 6,400,000
16.	Mike Schmidt	SDP	$ 6,171,429
17.	Ken Henderson	NYG	$ 6,069,069
18.	John Denny	WAS	$ 6,042,857
19.	Rick Reuschel	LAD	$ 6,040,000
20.	J.R. Richard	COL	$ 6,000,000
21.	George Lauzerique	LAD	$ 5,500,000
	Charlie Williams	MIL	$ 5,500,000
	Jim Spencer	CLN	$ 5,500,000
24.	Willie Crawford	BSN	$ 5,400,000
25.	Ron Blomberg	MON	$ 5,200,000

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