1978 Cleveland Indians Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 69-90
Finished 6th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 800,584, Avg. 11,530
Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium
Manager: Jeff Torborg (69-90)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

1978 Cleveland Indians Roster
1978 Cleveland Indians Results

The Cleveland Indians of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 69 wins and 90 losses, finishing sixth in the AL's East Division.

The Indians tallied 639 runs and surrendered 694 runs. Andre Thornton walloped 33 home runs for Cleveland, while Gary Alexander swatted 20 or more also. Andre Thornton accounted for 105 RBI. Duane Kuiper led all regular hitters by hitting .283. Rick Waits topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.20 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Jeff Torborg coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Rick Waits	13	15	.464	3.20	34	33	1	15	2	0	230.3	206	97	82	16	86	0	97	2	0	10	957
Mike Paxton	12	11	.522	3.86	33	27	4	5	2	1	191.0	179	89	82	13	63	5	96	8	3	3	807
Jim Kern	10	10	.500	3.08	58	0	43	0	0	13	99.3	77	36	34	4	58	7	95	3	0	5	423
Rick Wise	9	19	.321	4.34	33	31	1	9	1	0	211.7	226	116	102	22	59	3	106	3	0	1	903
David Clyde	8	11	.421	4.28	28	25	1	5	0	0	153.3	166	80	73	4	60	3	83	3	1	11	670
Don Hood	5	6	.455	4.48	36	19	4	1	0	0	154.7	166	82	77	13	77	5	73	1	0	10	689
Sid Monge	4	3	.571	2.76	48	2	22	0	0	6	84.7	71	36	26	4	51	6	54	0	2	5	374
Dan Spillner	3	1	.750	3.67	36	0	23	0	0	3	56.3	54	26	23	2	21	3	48	1	0	1	241
Wayne Garland	2	3	.400	7.89	6	6	0	0	0	0	29.7	43	27	26	6	16	1	13	1	0	1	144
Paul Reuschel	2	4	.333	3.11	18	6	6	1	0	0	89.7	95	33	31	5	22	1	24	2	1	1	381
Dave Freisleben	1	4	.200	7.11	12	10	0	0	0	0	44.3	52	37	35	4	31	1	19	2	0	4	212
Rick Kreuger	0	0		3.86	6	0	2	0	0	0	9.3	6	4	4	1	3	0	7	0	0	1	38
Al Fitzmorris	0	1	.000	6.28	7	0	4	0	0	0	14.3	19	10	10	3	7	2	5	1	0	2	65
Dennis Kinney	0	2	.000	4.42	18	0	12	0	0	5	38.7	37	21	19	3	14	1	19	1	0	1	164
Totals	69	90	.434	3.99	373	159	123	36	5	28	1407.3	1397	694	624	100	568	38	739	28	7	56	6068

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Buddy Bell	142	606	556	71	157	27	8	6	62	1	3	39	43	.282	.328	.392	.720	218	24	0	9	2	1
Duane Kuiper	149	589	547	52	155	18	6	0	43	4	9	19	35	.283	.311	.338	.649	185	11	4	16	3	1
Rick Manning	148	616	566	65	149	27	3	3	50	12	12	38	62	.263	.309	.337	.647	191	10	1	8	3	1
Andre Thornton	145	617	508	97	133	22	4	33	105	4	7	93	72	.262	.377	.516	.893	262	17	6	2	8	4
Tom Veryzer	130	458	421	48	114	18	4	1	32	1	2	13	36	.271	.298	.340	.638	143	7	5	15	4	0
Johnny Grubb	113	449	378	54	100	16	6	14	61	5	1	59	60	.265	.365	.450	.815	170	5	2	8	2	5
Jim Norris	113	365	315	41	89	14	5	2	27	12	7	42	20	.283	.364	.378	.742	119	6	0	5	3	4
Paul Dade	93	349	307	37	78	12	1	3	20	12	9	34	45	.254	.331	.329	.660	101	3	2	5	1	1
Gary Alexander	90	364	324	39	76	14	3	17	62	0	2	35	100	.235	.308	.454	.761	147	2	1	0	4	3
Ted Cox	82	253	227	14	53	7	0	1	19	0	1	16	30	.233	.286	.278	.563	63	4	1	8	1	1
Bernie Carbo	60	197	174	21	50	8	0	4	16	1	0	20	31	.287	.362	.402	.765	70	6	1	1	1	1
Larvell Blanks	70	212	193	19	49	10	0	2	20	0	0	10	16	.254	.285	.337	.622	65	7	0	5	4	0
Ron Pruitt	71	205	187	17	44	6	1	6	17	2	1	16	20	.235	.296	.374	.670	70	3	0	2	0	3
Willie Horton	50	186	169	15	42	7	0	5	22	3	0	15	25	.249	.314	.379	.692	64	7	1	1	0	4
Bo Diaz	44	133	127	12	30	4	0	2	11	0	0	4	17	.236	.260	.315	.575	40	2	0	2	0	0
Wayne Cage	36	108	98	11	24	6	1	4	13	1	2	9	28	.245	.308	.449	.757	44	2	0	1	0	0
Horace Speed	70	124	106	13	24	4	1	0	4	2	4	14	31	.226	.320	.283	.603	30	5	1	2	1	1
Ron Hassey	25	83	74	5	15	0	0	2	9	2	0	5	7	.203	.256	.284	.540	21	1	1	1	2	0
Mike Vail	14	37	34	2	8	2	1	0	2	1	1	1	9	.235	.250	.353	.603	12	0	0	1	1	1
Dan Briggs	15	53	49	4	8	0	1	1	1	0	0	4	9	.163	.226	.265	.492	13	2	0	0	0	0
Alfredo Griffin	5	6	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.500	.667	.750	1.417	3	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Kern	58	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Kreuger	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Waits	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
David Clyde	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Freisleben	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Spillner	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Wayne Garland	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Reuschel	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Hood	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Paxton	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Sid Monge	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Kinney	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Lintz	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Wise	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2043	6011	5365	639	1400	223	45	106	596	64	63	488	698	.261	.323	.379	.702	2031	124	26	92	40	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Andre Thornton	1B	145	144	1248.3	1327	106	7	106	.995	1.331	9.883	0	0	0
Wayne Cage	1B	11	8	77.7	73	8	1	10	.988	9.386	7.364	0	0	0
Jim Norris	1B	6	4	43.7	43	2	0	4	1.000	9.275	7.500	0	0	0
Ted Cox	1B	7	3	37.7	40	2	0	2	1.000	1.035	6.000	0	0	0
Duane Kuiper	2B	149	149	1305.3	341	408	16	91	.979	5.164	5.027	0	0	0
Larvell Blanks	2B	17	10	102.0	25	31	0	3	1.000	4.941	3.294	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	3B	139	139	1210.7	125	355	15	30	.970	3.568	3.453	0	0	0
Ted Cox	3B	20	18	171.0	15	36	3	3	.944	2.684	2.550	0	0	0
Larvell Blanks	3B	3	2	22.7	2	6	0	0	1.000	3.176	2.667	0	0	0
Ron Pruitt	3B	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gary Alexander	C	66	62	535.0	305	34	6	3	.983	5.703	5.136	6	45	27	37.5
Bo Diaz	C	44	39	343.0	183	18	6	4	.971	5.274	4.568	5	23	14	37.8
Ron Pruitt	C	48	35	329.3	170	15	3	4	.984	5.056	3.854	1	45	10	18.2
Ron Hassey	C	24	23	200.0	130	15	1	1	.993	6.525	6.042	3	16	8	33.3
Rick Manning	OF	144	139	1225.0	377	7	2	1	.995	2.821	2.667	0	0	0
Johnny Grubb	OF	110	100	904.0	199	14	6	4	.973	2.121	1.936	0	0	0
Paul Dade	OF	81	74	636.0	171	6	7	2	.962	2.505	2.185	0	0	0
Jim Norris	OF	78	66	580.7	153	6	2	2	.988	2.464	2.038	0	0	0
Horace Speed	OF	61	27	318.7	85	1	2	0	.977	2.429	1.410	0	0	0
Ted Cox	OF	38	33	248.7	45	3	1	1	.980	1.737	1.263	0	0	0
Dan Briggs	OF	15	15	130.0	38	1	0	1	1.000	2.700	2.600	0	0	0
Ron Pruitt	OF	16	13	108.0	29	0	1	0	.967	2.417	1.813	0	0	0
Mike Vail	OF	9	7	53.0	18	0	0	0	1.000	3.057	2.000	0	0	0
Bernie Carbo	OF	4	3	18.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500	.250	0	0	0
Rick Waits	P	34	33	230.3	19	49	1	1	.986	2.657	2.000	0	0	0
Rick Wise	P	33	31	211.7	15	29	2	2	.957	1.871	1.333	0	0	0
Mike Paxton	P	33	27	191.0	17	20	1	2	.974	1.743	1.121	0	0	0
Don Hood	P	36	19	154.7	6	26	1	2	.970	1.862	.889	0	0	0
David Clyde	P	28	25	153.3	9	18	1	0	.964	1.585	.964	0	0	0
Jim Kern	P	58	0	99.3	4	16	0	0	1.000	1.812	.345	0	0	0
Paul Reuschel	P	18	6	89.7	6	16	0	3	1.000	2.208	1.222	0	0	0
Sid Monge	P	48	2	84.7	4	11	2	1	.882	1.594	.313	0	0	0
Dan Spillner	P	36	0	56.3	0	4	0	0	1.000	.639	.111	0	0	0
Dave Freisleben	P	12	10	44.3	4	4	0	0	1.000	1.624	.667	0	0	0
Dennis Kinney	P	18	0	38.7	4	4	1	1	.889	1.862	.444	0	0	0
Wayne Garland	P	6	6	29.7	1	5	0	1	1.000	1.820	1.000	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	P	7	0	14.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.256	.286	0	0	0
Rick Kreuger	P	6	0	9.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.929	.333	0	0	0
Tom Veryzer	SS	129	121	1082.3	177	375	21	58	.963	4.590	4.279	0	0	0
Larvell Blanks	SS	43	36	308.0	56	107	13	22	.926	4.763	3.791	0	0	0
Alfredo Griffin	SS	2	2	16.0	4	7	1	5	.917	6.188	5.500	0	0	0
Ted Cox	SS	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1785	1431	12666.0	4222	1769	123	370	.980	4.257	3.356	15	129	59	31.4

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