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1987 American League Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
Click Division Name for Divisional History Chart
Central Team W L WPct GB Baltimore 99 61 .619 -- Tampa Bay 90 70 .563 9 Cleveland (A) 73 87 .456 26 Minnesota 56 104 .350 43	East Team W L WPct GB Boston (A) 87 73 .544 -- Indianapolis 85 75 .531 2 Detroit 77 83 .481 10 New York (A) 76 84 .475 11	West Team W L WPct GB Kansas City 86 74 .538 -- Toronto 80 80 .500 6 Oakland 74 86 .463 12 Seattle 69 91 .431 17

Post-Season Results
World Championship (4-3)	Boston (A) Red Sox over San Diego Padres
AL League Series (4-2)	Boston (A) Red Sox over Baltimore Orioles
AL Divisional Series (4-1)	Boston (A) Red Sox over Tampa Bay Devil Rays
AL Divisional Series (4-3)	Baltimore Orioles over Kansas City Royals

League Batting Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
BAL	5.4	871	160	5577	1606	316	39	142	586	880	.288	.356	.435	.791
TAM	5.0	800	160	5638	1572	320	33	134	529	914	.279	.341	.419	.759
IND	5.0	800	160	5576	1475	343	35	148	522	709	.265	.327	.418	.746
KCR	4.9	783	160	5618	1553	269	38	180	550	875	.276	.341	.434	.775
BOS	4.8	767	160	5500	1430	369	37	150	508	926	.260	.323	.422	.745
NYA	4.7	752	160	5459	1409	297	37	130	508	816	.258	.321	.398	.719
TOR	4.5	726	160	5570	1446	288	27	115	590	913	.260	.331	.383	.713
DET	4.5	724	160	5450	1365	314	34	141	487	840	.250	.312	.398	.710
CLE	4.4	696	160	5613	1552	302	29	96	400	850	.277	.325	.392	.717
OAK	4.2	666	160	5530	1439	266	42	81	483	816	.260	.320	.367	.687
SEM	3.6	583	160	5335	1219	241	30	144	512	941	.228	.296	.366	.662
MIN	3.4	542	160	5530	1364	299	21	83	395	941	.247	.297	.353	.650
Totals	4.5	8710	1920	66396	17430	3624	402	1544	6070	10421	.263	.324	.399	.723
Average		726	160	5533	1452	302	34	129	506	868

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
SEM	4.2	678	160	3.87	1426.7	1325	8.3	540	3.4	995	6.2	44
BAL	4.3	687	160	3.93	1426.0	1394	8.7	467	2.9	1005	6.3	55
KCR	4.4	697	160	3.97	1446.7	1523	9.5	412	2.6	741	4.6	48
BOS	4.5	712	160	3.99	1429.0	1442	9.0	461	2.9	868	5.4	54
DET	4.5	724	160	4.28	1424.0	1421	8.9	583	3.6	800	5.0	40
TAM	4.5	726	160	4.20	1435.3	1534	9.6	430	2.7	780	4.9	51
TOR	4.5	727	160	4.08	1448.7	1456	9.1	488	3.1	946	5.9	37
OAK	4.6	742	160	4.35	1424.0	1354	8.5	699	4.4	929	5.8	41
CLE	4.8	761	160	4.39	1416.7	1464	9.2	511	3.2	853	5.3	45
IND	4.8	767	160	4.47	1428.7	1559	9.7	500	3.1	644	4.0	45
NYA	4.9	788	160	4.66	1416.7	1443	9.0	540	3.4	906	5.7	38
MIN	5.1	823	160	4.71	1421.0	1539	9.6	553	3.5	891	5.6	35
Totals	4.6	8832	1920	4.24	17143.3	17454	9.1	6184	3.2	10358	5.4	533
Average		736	160		1429	1454		515		863		44

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
BAL	97	63	2	8	15	1	1	1	2	0.94	0.82	2,271,567		Matt Ida II
TAM	87	73	3	5	12	0	2	2	12	1.05	0.91	2,228,440		Alex Baxter
CLE	73	87	0	4	10	0	0	2	5	1.05	1.08	2,149,945		Rocco McGillicutti
KCR	88	72	-2	3	11	7	0	0	12	1.00	1.20	2,388,583		Ricky Sanford
BOS	85	75	2	2	11	0	2	1	5	0.94	0.90	2,232,689		Brian Rodgers
IND	83	77	2	2	13	0	0	3	26	1.08	1.21	2,326,333
TOR	80	80	0	1	6	0	0	1	1	0.89	0.76	1,431,576		Chuck Glidden
DET	80	80	-3	0	10	1	0	2	9	1.08	1.16	1,315,730		Pie Traynor
MIN	51	109	5	0	7	1	0	0	2	1.02	0.88	1,067,965		Chris Kelsey
NYA	77	83	-1	0	6	0	0	0	4	1.04	1.10	1,380,595		Jason Spiegel
OAK	72	88	2	0	10	1	0	0	8	0.97	0.85	1,967,722		Marwan Najdawi
SEM	69	91	0	0	5	0	0	0	6	1.02	1.03	2,048,748		Peter Fletcher

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
BAL	297	166.38	89.45	41.13	5.64	2.66	7.29	3.19	10.96	11.39
TAM	270	133.65	96.89	39.42	10.24	3.02	7.60	3.54	7.13	7.91
BOS	261	134.86	89.47	36.63	7.62	2.38	7.27	3.34	6.64	9.39
KCR	258	123.10	95.36	39.51	8.84	2.96	6.69	6.00	5.38	9.66
IND	255	129.83	86.75	38.39	8.52	2.25	7.18	3.20	6.62	10.62
TOR	240	122.00	77.20	40.76	6.58	3.55	6.91	5.10	8.38	10.24
DET	231	99.70	88.18	43.07	8.69	3.49	4.22	4.10	7.15	15.44
NYA	228	118.30	72.40	37.26	5.59	3.87	3.84	5.69	5.28	13.00
OAK	222	99.54	74.06	48.36	8.75	2.72	7.40	6.93	5.25	17.32
CLE	219	99.35	78.99	40.62	5.41	3.06	6.43	6.30	9.02	10.42
SEM	207	63.00	97.61	46.36	8.80	1.47	7.77	3.91	8.08	16.34
MIN	168	56.71	74.58	36.67	5.08	3.49	2.14	6.91	6.36	12.70

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger:	Jack Clark	KCR	.294, 55 HR, 115 RBI
Platinum Arm:	Ken Dayley	BOS	20-9, 2.79, 209.7 IP, 161 K
Bronze Rookie:	Kevin Brown	DET	14-7, 3.00, 234.0 IP, 136 K
Gold Glove Winners
P	Bob Welch	CLE	1.000, 17 PO, 45 A, 0 E
C	Marc Hill	SEM	.986, 835 PO, 67 A, 13 E 40.4% (46-114) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Eddie Murray	IND	.992, 1736 PO, 128 A, 15 E
2B	Paul Molitor	IND	.981, 333 PO, 656 A, 19 E
3B	Wally Backman	NYA	.958, 88 PO, 302 A, 17 E
SS	Brian Giles	TAM	.985, 190 PO, 535 A, 11 E
LF	Jose Oquendo	NYA	.975, 227 PO, 6 A, 6 E
CF	Paul Householder	BAL	1.000, 364 PO, 3 A, 0 E
RF	Cory Snyder	DET	.995, 365 PO, 4 A, 2 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

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

Batting Average Woods CLE .338 Marshall TAM .333 Molitor IND .331 Cooper CLE .329 Briggs BAL .328*	On-Base Pct Clark KCR .425 Householder BAL .403 O'Malley TAM .389 Mazzilli SEM .386 Oberkfell IND .383	Slugging Pct Clark KCR .715 Murray IND .548 Horner BAL .538 Thon BOS .534 Marshall TAM .516	OPS Clark KCR 1.139 Horner BAL .917 Thon BOS .892 Marshall TAM .888 Murray IND .886
XR Clark KCR 125.5 Horner BAL 108.7 Murray IND 107.1 Smith BAL 106.4 Molitor IND 106.0	Games Raines OAK 157 Brown DET 156 Hernandez TAM 156 Horner BAL 156 McGriff NYA 156	At-Bats Molitor IND 644 Smith BAL 642 Whitaker SEM 615 Kemp KCR 610 Ford KCR 609	Runs Smith BAL 118 Oberkfell IND 113 Clark KCR 108 Horner BAL 106 O'Malley TAM 104
Hits Molitor IND 213 Smith BAL 200 Cooper CLE 199 Armas BAL 191 Reynolds TAM 188	Total Bases Murray IND 332 Clark KCR 328 Molitor IND 321 Horner BAL 309 Smith BAL 306	Singles Cooper CLE 155 Molitor IND 146 Woods CLE 145 Dilone KCR 142 Reynolds TAM 140	Doubles Slaught BOS 59 Thon BOS 53 Horner BAL 48 Oberkfell IND 46 Hernandez TAM 45
Triples Smith BAL 10 Dilone KCR 9 Garcia KCR 9 Raines OAK 9 Orsulak NYA 8	Homeruns Clark KCR 55 Murray IND 42 Parrish IND 38 Snyder DET 36 Kittle NYA 34	RBIs Horner BAL 126 Murray IND 123 Thon BOS 118 Clark KCR 115 Marshall TAM 108	Stolen Bases Raines OAK 68 Smith BAL 65 Dilone KCR 59 Hall TOR 58 Cangelosi TOR 54
Caught Stealing Dilone KCR 40 Smith BAL 34 Raines OAK 23 Richards DET 18 Hall TOR 17	Walks Clark KCR 103 Oberkfell IND 95 Horner BAL 86 O'Malley TAM 85 Householder BAL 80	Strikeouts Snyder DET 162 Ford KCR 150 Kittle NYA 150 Bell SEM 142 Canseco SEM 140

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Dayley BOS 2.79 Denny TAM 2.80 Demola BAL 2.89 Sarmiento TOR 2.91 Brown DET 3.00	Wins Demola BAL 21 Dayley BOS 20 Denny TAM 20 Boggs BAL 16 Deleon TOR 15	Losses Maccormack CLE 20 Saberhagen TOR 19 Bannister SEM 16 Crews MIN 16 Wilkinson MIN 16	Winning Pct Demola BAL .808 Denny TAM .769 Dayley BOS .690 Howell BAL .684 Brown DET .667
Saves Farr BAL 46 Niedenfuer BOS 41 Reardon KCR 36 Rucker TAM 34 Zachry CLE 34	Games Pitched Halicki IND 87 Harvey SEM 86 Sanderson KCR 83 Gerhardt IND 78 Orosco BAL 78	Games Started Denny TAM 37 Franco KCR 36 McCullers SEM 36 Palmer CLE 36 Boggs BAL 35	Complete Games Burkett IND 6 Saberhagen TOR 5 Wegman DET 5 Comer KCR 4 Hurst TOR 4
Shutouts Burkett IND 2 Hoyt TAM 2 Hurst TOR 2 Wegman DET 2 Beattie IND 1	Innings Pitched Denny TAM 244.3 Demola BAL 243.0 Saberhagen TOR 236.0 Jackson KCR 234.3 Brown DET 234.0	Hits Allowed Hershiser BOS 253 Saberhagen TOR 249 Tewksbury NYA 249 Jackson KCR 245 Comer KCR 241	Homeruns Allowed Saberhagen TOR 28 Fulgham DET 27 Bannister SEM 26 Beard OAK 26 Guzman OAK 26
Strikeouts Demola BAL 206 Palmer CLE 178 Beard OAK 168 Fernandez NYA 168 Denny TAM 167	Walks Allowed Eichelberger OAK 110 Deleon TOR 96 Sutcliffe OAK 96 Wilkins OAK 96 Guzman OAK 89	Walks per 9IP Eckersley BOS 1.0 Tewksbury NYA 1.2 Maccormack CLE 1.3 Sorensen IND 1.4 Saberhagen TOR 1.5	Hits per 9IP Myers NYA 6.6 Beard OAK 6.7 Dayley BOS 7.4 Caudill SEM 7.5 Demola BAL 7.5
Strikeouts per 9IP Beard OAK 8.0 Palmer CLE 7.7 Demola BAL 7.6 Caudill SEM 7.5 Fernandez NYA 7.4	WHiP Demola BAL 1.04 Eckersley BOS 1.06 Beard OAK 1.07 Myers NYA 1.09 Boggs BAL 1.11	OAVG Beard OAK .204 Myers NYA .205 Caudill SEM .224 Dayley BOS .224 Demola BAL .225	OOBP Demola BAL .266 Eckersley BOS .269 Beard OAK .272 Myers NYA .275 Boggs BAL .280
OSLG Denny TAM .311 Wilkins OAK .321 Dayley BOS .327 Brown DET .341 Mitchell MIN .344	OOPS Demola BAL .612 Dayley BOS .620 Myers NYA .621 Eckersley BOS .623 Denny TAM .623

League All-Stars
Tony Armas	Jack Clark	Cecil Cooper
Ken Dayley	Don Demola	John Denny
Steve Farr	Kiko Garcia	Mike Griffin
Bob Horner	Paul Householder	Jay Howell
Danny Jackson	Ken Landreaux	Bill Landrum
Mike Marshall	Paul Molitor	Ken Oberkfell
Tom O'Malley	R.J. Reynolds	Doug Sisk
Don Slaught	Lonnie Smith	Steve Swisher
Pat Zachry

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	Jack Clark	KCR	$ 27,000,110
2.	Lou Whitaker	SEM	$ 18,000,000
3.	Larry Parrish	IND	$ 15,500,000
4.	Lee Mazzilli	SEM	$ 12,200,000
5.	John Denny	TAM	$ 12,000,010
6.	Eddie Murray	IND	$ 9,000,000
7.	Dennis Eckersley	BOS	$ 8,500,000
8.	Mike Griffin	TAM	$ 8,250,000
9.	Ken Landreaux	TOR	$ 8,000,000
10.	Ken Oberkfell	IND	$ 7,610,000
11.	Ken Dayley	BOS	$ 7,542,857
12.	Greg Gross	IND	$ 7,410,000
13.	Bob Horner	BAL	$ 7,200,000
14.	Dickie Thon	BOS	$ 6,690,000
15.	Chet Lemon	BOS	$ 6,400,000
16.	Joey McLaughlin	IND	$ 6,292,857
17.	Jack Perconte	DET	$ 6,250,000
18.	Tony Armas	BAL	$ 6,100,111
19.	Bart Johnson	CLE	$ 6,100,000
20.	La Marr Hoyt	TAM	$ 5,750,000
	Dan Ford	KCR	$ 5,750,000
22.	Paul Molitor	IND	$ 5,650,000
23.	Keith Hernandez	TAM	$ 5,500,000
24.	Jim Sundberg	TOR	$ 5,000,000
	Dave Stapleton	IND	$ 5,000,000
	Biff Pocoroba	BAL	$ 5,000,000

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