1978 Indianapolis Indians Statistics

American Association (AA) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 78-57
Finished 1st in the AA's East Division
Manager: Roy Majtyka (78-57)
Affiliation: Cincinnati Reds
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Ballpark: Owen J. Bush Stadium
Attendance: 165,014, Avg. 2,445

1978 Indianapolis Indians Roster

Playoffs - Omaha Royals 4 games, Indianapolis Indians 1

The Indianapolis Indians of the American Association ended the 1978 season with a record of 78 wins and 57 losses, finishing first in the league's East Division.

The Indians scored 735 runs and allowed 661 runs. Champ Summers walloped 34 home runs for Indianapolis, while Arturo DeFreites swatted 15 or more also. Champ Summers drove in 124 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .368 average. Dave Moore and Dan Dumoulin led the squad with 12 wins each, and Mike LaCoss recorded a 3.46 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Members of the 1978 Indianapolis Indians who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Mike Armstrong, Don Werner, Frank Pastore, Doug Capilla, Ángel Torres, Arturo DeFreites, Mike LaCoss, Champ Summers, Mario Soto, Paul Moskau, George Cappuzzello, Lynn Jones, Ed Armbrister, Vic Correll, Rafael Santo Domingo, Charlie Leibrandt, Doug Corbett, Ron Oester, Larry Rothschild, Dan Dumoulin, Mike Grace and Harry Spilman.

Roy Majtyka served as manager.

Click on column headings to sort.

Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Dan Dumoulin	12	6	.667	4.17	32	16		4	2	3	123.0	118	74	57	10	68	1	79	0	0	10
Dave Moore	12	7	.632	4.82	29	22		4	2	1	140.0	135	82	75	17	87	6	75	2	3	4
Mike LaCoss	11	5	.688	3.46	19	19		10	3	0	130.0	129	62	50	6	49	2	67	2	0	5
Doug Capilla	10	6	.625	5.45	22	22		3	0	0	132.0	131	91	80	13	93	1	87	4	3	11
Mario Soto	9	12	.429	5.01	26	24		6	0	0	160.0	129	102	89	27	95	3	121	6	6	5
Ángel Torres	8	6	.571	4.89	50	6		1	0	1	105.0	104	62	57	9	63	1	63	1	0	7
Larry Rothschild	4	0	1.000	2.20	8	6		2	0	0	45.0	31	15	11	2	19	3	38	4	0	2
Doug Corbett	4	4	.500	1.99	38	0		0	0	12	68.0	54	22	15	3	17	4	46	1	0	3
George Cappuzzello	3	1	.750	3.05	40	2		0	0	7	56.0	45	25	19	3	39	2	57	3	0	7
Charlie Leibrandt	2	1	.667	2.79	4	4		1	1	0	29.0	20	9	9	3	12	0	12	0	0	1
Paul Moskau	1	1	.500	3.12	4	4		0	0	0	26.0	21	14	9	1	15	0	27	0	0	1
Mike Armstrong	1	2	.333	6.65	16	1		0	0	1	23.0	26	18	17	3	17	2	17	0	0	5
Raul Ferreyra	1	3	.250	5.16	45	0		0	0	3	68.0	97	47	39	5	22	8	26	0	0	0
Larry Payne	0	1	.000	7.88	7	6		0	0	0	24.0	19	23	21	4	25	0	15	3	0	2
Frank Pastore	0	2	.000	6.75	4	3		0	0	1	12.0	24	15	9	1	5	1	8	0	0	0
Totals	78	57	.578	4.39	344	135	0	31	8	29	1141.0	1083	661	557	107	626	34	738	26	12	63	0

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
Champ Summers	132	559	462	98	170	25	5	34	124	11	9	81	57	.368	.465	.665	1.130	307		9	0	7
Lynn Jones	126	532	482	81	158	28	4	9	62	20	9	39	42	.328	.386	.459	.845	221		8	1	2
Arturo DeFreites	131	517	468	98	153	31	5	32	101	3	3	36	98	.327	.373	.620	.993	290		4	0	9
Harry Spilman	133	566	488	95	144	26	4	13	79	2	0	68	57	.295	.383	.445	.828	217		5	0	5
Ron Oester	135	555	514	78	133	21	4	7	49	11	9	29	84	.259	.300	.356	.656	183		3	5	4
Ed Armbrister	117	485	431	67	119	23	6	8	53	32	13	33	102	.276	.337	.413	.750	178		9	7	5
John Valle	103	351	314	41	82	17	2	10	48	6	2	32	67	.261	.326	.424	.749	133		0	1	4
Mike Grace	108	343	308	35	73	4	6	5	35	12	5	28	65	.237	.303	.338	.641	104		3	0	4
Tommy Mutz	76	271	229	37	59	9	1	10	42	3	0	40	33	.258	.369	.437	.806	100		1	0	1
Randy Davidson	59	184	155	29	45	6	0	1	16	1	1	17	9	.290	.354	.348	.703	54		0	9	3
Rafael Santo Domingo	49	149	136	23	36	4	2	2	15	4	1	10	25	.265	.315	.368	.683	50		0	3	0
Don Werner	40	140	125	14	30	6	1	3	22	1	0	13	30	.240	.314	.376	.690	47		1	0	1
Vic Correll	33	114	104	15	27	2	0	6	19	1	0	8	14	.260	.319	.452	.771	47		1	1	0
Jeff Sovern	30	53	50	2	8	0	0	1	6	0	0	3	7	.160	.208	.220	.428	11		0	0	0
Dave Moore	29	38	28	5	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	10	.250	.290	.250	.540	7		0	7	1
Dan Dumoulin	32	32	27	5	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	5	.222	.344	.222	.566	6		0	0	0
Ángel Torres	51	17	15	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.333	.375	.333	.708	5		0	1	0
Mike LaCoss	19	26	22	1	5	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	7	.227	.320	.227	.547	5		0	1	0
Mario Soto	26	41	33	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	12	.152	.194	.152	.346	5		1	5	1
Doug Capilla	22	39	33	5	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	13	.152	.263	.152	.415	5		0	1	0
Doug Corbett	38	14	11	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.273	.273	.273	.545	3		0	3	0
Paul Moskau	4	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.222	.222	.222	.444	2		0	1	0
Mike Armstrong	16	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1		0	0	0
Larry Rothschild	8	15	7	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	3	.143	.333	.143	.476	1		0	6	0
Charlie Leibrandt	4	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	1	0
George Cappuzzello	40	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	1	0
Raul Ferreyra	45	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.400	.000	.400	0		0	1	0
Frank Pastore	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0		0	0	0
Totals	1610	5072	4466	735	1277	202	40	141	690	107	52	459	753	.286	.355	.444	.799	1982	0	45	55	47	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Arturo DeFreites	1B	92	756	57	13	77	.984	8.837
Harry Spilman	1B	33	194	10	3	17	.986	6.182
John Valle	1B	21	162	14	1	18	.994	8.381
Champ Summers	1B	6	41	3	2	3	.957	7.333
Jeff Sovern	1B	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Mike Grace	2B	67	123	168	11	37	.964	4.343
Randy Davidson	2B	53	97	129	6	22	.974	4.264
Rafael Santo Domingo	2B	35	48	70	19	20	.861	3.371
Jeff Sovern	2B	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Lynn Jones	2B	1	1	3	0	0	1.000	4.000
Vic Correll	2B	1	0	1	1	1	.500	1.000
Harry Spilman	3B	114	68	174	20	15	.924	2.123
Mike Grace	3B	38	23	65	4	4	.957	2.316
Jeff Sovern	3B	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Tommy Mutz	C	67	384	35	7	4	.984	6.254	9
Don Werner	C	37	202	24	7	1	.970	6.108	5
Vic Correll	C	30	163	18	3	2	.984	6.033	3
Jeff Sovern	C	15	44	6	0	1	1.000	3.333	2
Champ Summers	OF	124	220	5	7	0	.970	1.815
Lynn Jones	OF	124	245	11	3	3	.988	2.065
Ed Armbrister	OF	103	139	7	10	1	.936	1.417
John Valle	OF	57	92	3	2	1	.979	1.667
Arturo DeFreites	OF	6	7	0	1	0	.875	1.167
Tommy Mutz	OF	1	2	1	0	1	1.000	3.000
Ángel Torres	P	50	9	13	3	1	.880	.440
Raul Ferreyra	P	45	1	11	0	0	1.000	.267
George Cappuzzello	P	40	2	13	0	1	1.000	.375
Doug Corbett	P	38	5	15	0	0	1.000	.526
Dan Dumoulin	P	32	4	13	2	1	.895	.531
Dave Moore	P	29	4	22	3	3	.897	.897
Mario Soto	P	26	9	16	1	2	.962	.962
Doug Capilla	P	22	4	26	3	4	.909	1.364
Mike LaCoss	P	19	16	39	3	3	.948	2.895
Mike Armstrong	P	16	1	2	0	0	1.000	.188
Larry Rothschild	P	8	2	3	0	0	1.000	.625
Larry Payne	P	7	1	9	0	1	1.000	1.429
Frank Pastore	P	4	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.250
Paul Moskau	P	4	2	4	1	1	.857	1.500
Charlie Leibrandt	P	4	3	7	0	1	1.000	2.500
Ron Oester	SS	133	300	428	32	102	.958	5.474
Randy Davidson	SS	1	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000
Totals		1508	3378	1433	168	348	.966	3.190	19	0	0

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.