1987 Toronto Blue Jays Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 96-66
Finished 2nd in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 2,778,429, Avg. 34,302
Ballpark: Exhibition Stadium
Manager: Jimy Williams (96-66)
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1987 Toronto Blue Jays Roster
1987 Toronto Blue Jays Results

The Toronto Blue Jays of the American League ended the 1987 season with a record of 96 wins and 66 losses, finishing second in the AL's East Division.

The Blue Jays paced the league with just 655 runs allowed. Toronto scored 845 runs. George Bell walloped 47 home runs for the team, while Fred McGriff, Lloyd Moseby, Willie Upshaw, Jesse Barfield and Ernie Whitt each added 20 or more, too. George Bell drove in 134 runs. Tony Fernandez topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .322. Jimmy Key led the team with 17 wins, plus Jim Clancy, too contributed 15 or more wins, too Jimmy Key earned a 2.76 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Jimy Williams 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
Jimmy Key	17	8	.680	2.76	36	36	0	8	1	0	261.0	210	93	80	24	66	6	161	2	5	8	1033
Jim Clancy	15	11	.577	3.54	37	37	0	5	1	0	241.3	234	103	95	24	80	5	180	1	1	12	1008
Dave Stieb	13	9	.591	4.09	33	31	1	3	1	0	185.0	164	92	84	16	87	4	115	7	0	4	789
Jeff Musselman	12	5	.706	4.15	68	1	14	0	0	3	89.0	75	43	41	7	54	12	54	3	3	5	381
John Cerutti	11	4	.733	4.40	44	21	6	2	0	0	151.3	144	75	74	30	59	5	92	1	1	5	638
Mark Eichhorn	10	6	.625	3.17	89	0	27	0	0	4	127.7	110	47	45	14	52	13	96	6	1	3	540
Jose Nunez	5	2	.714	5.01	37	9	13	0	0	0	97.0	91	57	54	12	58	8	99	0	1	3	427
David Wells	4	3	.571	3.99	18	2	6	0	0	1	29.3	37	14	13	0	12	0	32	0	0	4	132
Mike Flanagan	3	2	.600	2.37	7	7	0	0	0	0	49.3	46	15	13	3	15	3	43	0	0	2	209
Joe Johnson	3	5	.375	5.13	14	14	0	0	0	0	66.7	77	44	38	10	18	0	27	2	0	3	289
Gary Lavelle	2	3	.400	5.53	23	0	9	0	0	1	27.7	36	20	17	2	19	4	17	0	1	1	138
Duane Ward	1	0	1.000	6.94	12	1	4	0	0	0	11.7	14	9	9	0	12	2	10	0	0	0	57
Don Gordon	0	0		4.09	5	0	2	0	0	0	11.0	8	5	5	2	3	0	3	0	0	0	43
Phil Niekro	0	2	.000	8.25	3	3	0	0	0	0	12.0	15	11	11	4	7	0	7	0	1	1	56
Tom Henke	0	6	.000	2.49	72	0	62	0	0	34	94.0	62	27	26	10	25	3	128	0	0	5	363
Totals	96	66	.593	3.74	498	162	144	18	3	43	1454.0	1323	655	605	158	567	65	1064	22	14	56	6103

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
George Bell	156	665	610	111	188	32	4	47	134	5	1	39	75	.308	.352	.605	.957	369	17	7	0	9	9
Tony Fernandez	146	642	578	90	186	29	8	5	67	32	12	51	48	.322	.379	.426	.805	246	14	5	4	4	3
Lloyd Moseby	155	670	592	106	167	27	4	26	96	39	7	70	124	.282	.358	.473	.831	280	11	2	3	3	4
Jesse Barfield	159	654	590	89	155	25	3	28	84	3	5	58	141	.263	.331	.458	.788	270	13	3	1	2	7
Willie Upshaw	150	577	512	68	125	22	4	15	58	10	11	58	78	.244	.324	.391	.715	200	7	3	3	1	4
Ernie Whitt	135	494	446	57	120	24	1	19	75	0	1	44	50	.269	.334	.455	.789	203	17	1	0	3	4
Rance Mulliniks	124	372	332	37	103	28	1	11	44	1	1	34	55	.310	.371	.500	.871	166	10	0	3	3	1
Kelly Gruber	138	368	341	50	80	14	3	12	36	12	2	17	70	.235	.283	.399	.682	136	11	7	1	2	2
Fred McGriff	107	356	295	58	73	16	0	20	43	3	2	60	104	.247	.376	.505	.881	149	3	1	0	0	4
Garth Iorg	122	342	310	35	65	11	0	4	30	2	2	21	52	.210	.262	.284	.546	88	8	2	6	3	0
Rick Leach	98	224	195	26	55	13	1	3	25	0	1	25	25	.282	.371	.405	.776	79	3	3	0	1	2
Cecil Fielder	82	197	175	30	47	7	1	14	32	0	1	20	48	.269	.345	.560	.905	98	6	1	0	1	2
Nelson Liriano	37	176	158	29	38	6	2	2	10	13	2	16	22	.241	.310	.342	.652	54	3	0	2	0	2
Manuel Lee	56	129	121	14	31	2	3	1	11	2	0	6	13	.256	.289	.347	.636	42	1	0	1	1	0
Juan Beniquez	39	88	81	6	23	5	1	5	21	0	0	5	13	.284	.330	.556	.885	45	3	1	0	1	0
Charlie Moore	51	125	107	15	23	10	1	1	7	0	0	13	12	.215	.306	.355	.661	38	2	1	4	0	0
Mike Sharperson	32	105	96	4	20	4	1	0	9	2	1	7	15	.208	.269	.271	.540	26	2	1	1	0	0
Rob Ducey	34	57	48	12	9	1	0	1	6	2	0	8	10	.188	.298	.271	.569	13	0	0	0	1	0
Jeff DeWillis	13	28	25	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	12	.120	.185	.280	.465	7	0	0	1	0	0
Lou Thornton	12	3	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167	1	1	0	0	0	1
Greg Myers	7	9	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	2	0	0	0	0
Matt Stark	5	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	2	0	0	0	0
Dave Stieb	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Duane Ward	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
David Wells	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Nunez	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Niekro	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Musselman	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Flanagan	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Henke	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Alexis Infante	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Johnson	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jimmy Key	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Lavelle	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Clancy	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Cerutti	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Eichhorn	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Gordon	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2359	6293	5635	845	1514	277	38	215	790	126	50	555	970	.269	.336	.446	.782	2512	136	38	30	35	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Upshaw	1B	146	135	1234.0	1169	127	9	114	.993	9.452	8.877	0	0	0
Fred McGriff	1B	14	12	104.0	108	7	2	5	.983	9.952	8.214	0	0	0
Cecil Fielder	1B	16	15	102.0	98	6	0	12	1.000	9.176	6.500	0	0	0
Rick Leach	1B	5	0	9.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.200	0	0	0
Juan Beniquez	1B	2	0	5.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	12.600	3.500	0	0	0
Garth Iorg	2B	91	75	670.3	139	195	6	33	.982	4.484	3.670	0	0	0
Nelson Liriano	2B	37	36	335.0	83	107	1	28	.995	5.104	5.135	0	0	0
Mike Sharperson	2B	32	30	251.0	64	69	4	16	.971	4.769	4.156	0	0	0
Manuel Lee	2B	27	20	176.7	51	61	4	16	.966	5.706	4.148	0	0	0
Kelly Gruber	2B	7	1	19.0	3	4	0	1	1.000	3.316	1.000	0	0	0
George Bell	2B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Kelly Gruber	3B	119	74	723.3	52	168	12	11	.948	2.737	1.849	0	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	3B	96	79	610.7	29	137	13	14	.927	2.447	1.729	0	0	0
Garth Iorg	3B	28	9	114.0	10	26	1	3	.973	2.842	1.286	0	0	0
George Bell	3B	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Cecil Fielder	3B	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ernie Whitt	C	131	113	1032.7	803	55	5	10	.994	7.478	6.550	8	83	46	35.7
Charlie Moore	C	44	34	286.0	236	10	4	0	.984	7.741	5.591	4	30	7	18.9
Jeff DeWillis	C	13	10	81.0	49	5	2	1	.964	6.000	4.154	0	4	5	55.6
Matt Stark	C	5	3	29.0	25	1	0	0	1.000	8.069	5.200	1	6	1	14.3
Greg Myers	C	7	2	25.3	24	1	0	0	1.000	8.882	3.571	0	0	0
Jesse Barfield	OF	158	146	1338.3	341	17	3	4	.992	2.407	2.266	0	0	0
Lloyd Moseby	OF	153	148	1311.0	294	7	6	1	.980	2.066	1.967	0	0	0
George Bell	OF	148	147	1267.0	248	14	11	1	.960	1.861	1.770	0	0	0
Rick Leach	OF	43	29	243.0	51	1	1	0	.981	1.926	1.209	0	0	0
Rob Ducey	OF	28	10	129.3	31	0	0	0	1.000	2.157	1.107	0	0	0
Juan Beniquez	OF	7	5	51.3	7	0	1	0	.875	1.227	1.000	0	0	0
Charlie Moore	OF	5	1	13.0	1	1	1	0	.667	1.385	.400	0	0	0
Lou Thornton	OF	4	0	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Kelly Gruber	OF	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Jimmy Key	P	36	36	261.0	17	44	3	5	.953	2.103	1.694	0	0	0
Jim Clancy	P	37	37	241.3	25	36	2	4	.968	2.275	1.649	0	0	0
Dave Stieb	P	33	31	185.0	24	25	2	2	.961	2.384	1.485	0	0	0
John Cerutti	P	44	21	151.3	5	15	1	1	.952	1.189	.455	0	0	0
Mark Eichhorn	P	89	0	127.7	2	30	1	2	.970	2.256	.360	0	0	0
Jose Nunez	P	37	9	97.0	5	7	0	1	1.000	1.113	.324	0	0	0
Tom Henke	P	72	0	94.0	9	12	0	1	1.000	2.011	.292	0	0	0
Jeff Musselman	P	68	1	89.0	9	15	0	2	1.000	2.427	.353	0	0	0
Joe Johnson	P	14	14	66.7	7	8	0	0	1.000	2.025	1.071	0	0	0
Mike Flanagan	P	7	7	49.3	3	4	0	1	1.000	1.277	1.000	0	0	0
David Wells	P	18	2	29.3	2	4	0	1	1.000	1.841	.333	0	0	0
Gary Lavelle	P	23	0	27.7	4	5	0	0	1.000	2.928	.391	0	0	0
Phil Niekro	P	3	3	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.333	0	0	0
Duane Ward	P	12	1	11.7	2	2	0	0	1.000	3.086	.333	0	0	0
Don Gordon	P	5	0	11.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.818	.200	0	0	0
Tony Fernandez	SS	146	142	1210.3	270	396	14	88	.979	4.952	4.562	0	0	0
Manuel Lee	SS	26	12	139.7	26	49	1	10	.987	4.833	2.885	0	0	0
Kelly Gruber	SS	21	8	103.0	20	28	1	7	.980	4.194	2.286	0	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		2064	1458	13086.0	4362	1700	111	395	.982	4.169	2.937	13	123	59	32.4

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