1979 West Palm Beach Expos Statistics
Florida State League (FSL) - Class: A
Team Record: 79-65
Finished 2nd in the FSL's South Division
Manager: Larry Bearnarth (79-65)
Affiliation: Montreal Expos
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium
Attendance: 125,213, Avg. 1,739
1979 West Palm Beach Expos RosterTeam Record: 79-65
Finished 2nd in the FSL's South Division
Manager: Larry Bearnarth (79-65)
Affiliation: Montreal Expos
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium
Attendance: 125,213, Avg. 1,739
The West Palm Beach Expos of the Florida State League ended the 1979 season with a record of 79 wins and 65 losses, finishing second in the league's South Division.
The Expos tallied 559 runs and allowed 480 runs. David Hall paced West Palm Beach with 13 home runs and drove in 66 runs. Steve Morrison topped batters with significant playing time with a .291 average. Tommy Shimp and Kevin Mendon led the squad with 13 wins each, while Kevin Mendon recorded a 2.43 ERA, leading regular hurlers.
Tony Phillips, Joe Keener, Mike Gates, Tom Wieghaus, Jack O'Connor, Andrés Galarraga, Razor Shines and Brad Mills were all players from the 1979 West Palm Beach Expos who played in the Majors during their careers.
Larry Bearnarth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tommy Shimp | 13 | 8 | .619 | 2.59 | 27 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 188.0 | 157 | 68 | 54 | 6 | 83 | 1 | 138 | 7 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Kevin Mendon | 13 | 11 | .542 | 2.43 | 28 | 28 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 196.0 | 188 | 79 | 53 | 6 | 69 | 2 | 143 | 10 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Rick Ramos | 10 | 2 | .833 | 1.87 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 106.0 | 80 | 25 | 22 | 6 | 24 | 0 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jack O'Connor | 9 | 7 | .562 | 2.84 | 24 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 146.0 | 125 | 60 | 46 | 8 | 63 | 0 | 87 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Paul Josephson | 7 | 4 | .636 | 2.97 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 94.0 | 81 | 33 | 31 | 6 | 31 | 4 | 68 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Ronnie Caldwell | 6 | 3 | .667 | 3.50 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 72.0 | 75 | 30 | 28 | 1 | 35 | 0 | 39 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ||
| Glenn Dooner | 5 | 3 | .625 | 2.35 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 69.0 | 71 | 27 | 18 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 50 | 7 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Joseph Abone | 5 | 8 | .385 | 1.63 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 105.0 | 88 | 32 | 19 | 3 | 26 | 0 | 65 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Greg Staffon | 5 | 9 | .357 | 3.58 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 103.0 | 95 | 58 | 41 | 3 | 60 | 0 | 82 | 4 | 3 | 9 | ||
| Scott Anderson | 3 | 4 | .429 | 2.69 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 67.0 | 48 | 27 | 20 | 2 | 58 | 2 | 45 | 6 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Gary Hartsock | 2 | 2 | .500 | 3.60 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 24 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bud Yanus | 1 | 3 | .250 | 1.42 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 38.0 | 34 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Bob Weatherford | 9 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Antonio Fadhel | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Joe Keener | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mickey Torres | 0 | 0 | 7.50 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Walter Coppol | 0 | 0 | 18.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 79 | 64 | .552 | 2.61 | 273 | 144 | 0 | 63 | 16 | 10 | 1218.0 | 1075 | 471 | 353 | 48 | 502 | 14 | 859 | 48 | 18 | 43 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Morrison | 135 | 556 | 494 | 54 | 144 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 50 | 10 | 5 | 50 | 63 | .291 | .358 | .348 | .706 | 172 | 4 | 3 | 5 | ||
| Glen Franklin | 120 | 518 | 447 | 66 | 129 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 52 | 24 | 14 | 54 | 46 | .289 | .367 | .362 | .730 | 162 | 4 | 9 | 4 | ||
| David Hall | 127 | 518 | 452 | 48 | 112 | 12 | 2 | 13 | 66 | 7 | 4 | 61 | 107 | .248 | .338 | .369 | .707 | 167 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Razor Shines | 122 | 474 | 406 | 44 | 104 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 53 | 9 | 6 | 56 | 58 | .256 | .347 | .318 | .665 | 129 | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||
| Tom Wieghaus | 121 | 435 | 382 | 41 | 83 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 0 | 2 | 44 | 44 | .217 | .298 | .272 | .571 | 104 | 1 | 6 | 2 | ||
| Mike Gates | 78 | 333 | 289 | 44 | 82 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 31 | .284 | .352 | .336 | .687 | 97 | 2 | 9 | 3 | ||
| Brad Mills | 78 | 323 | 258 | 43 | 70 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 58 | 20 | .271 | .402 | .384 | .786 | 99 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Frank Wren | 74 | 286 | 252 | 30 | 65 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 13 | 1 | 24 | 50 | .258 | .324 | .325 | .649 | 82 | 2 | 5 | 3 | ||
| Grayling Tobias | 49 | 182 | 155 | 21 | 48 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 16 | .310 | .388 | .368 | .755 | 57 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||
| Jerome Whitfield | 54 | 209 | 195 | 19 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 52 | .241 | .280 | .349 | .629 | 68 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Tony Phillips | 60 | 247 | 203 | 30 | 47 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 36 | 26 | .232 | .343 | .266 | .609 | 54 | 0 | 5 | 3 | ||
| Julio Perez | 59 | 209 | 184 | 13 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 7 | .245 | .312 | .261 | .573 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Jerry George | 43 | 162 | 128 | 20 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 26 | .297 | .418 | .375 | .793 | 48 | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||
| Steven Michael | 41 | 176 | 160 | 17 | 38 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 17 | .238 | .295 | .312 | .607 | 50 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Jim Auten | 56 | 209 | 181 | 16 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 25 | .188 | .282 | .215 | .497 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||
| David Perez | 38 | 107 | 95 | 12 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 21 | .221 | .302 | .295 | .597 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| James Atkinson | 29 | 90 | 74 | 11 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 20 | .230 | .352 | .243 | .596 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Charles Fick | 31 | 80 | 67 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | .209 | .329 | .239 | .568 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Melvin Taylor | 19 | 72 | 58 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 13 | .190 | .347 | .241 | .589 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Pedro Gavillan | 18 | 51 | 45 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | .156 | .240 | .200 | .440 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Steven Roeder | 15 | 28 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | .217 | .308 | .217 | .525 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Nick Belmonte | 5 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .267 | .250 | .400 | .650 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| George Keen | 7 | 21 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Andrés Galarraga | 7 | 27 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | .130 | .231 | .130 | .361 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Scott Anderson | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .667 | .500 | 1.167 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Tommy Shimp | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Greg Staffon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jack O'Connor | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Joseph Abone | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Kevin Mendon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Paul Josephson | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ronnie Caldwell | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bud Yanus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Totals | 1400 | 5348 | 4620 | 559 | 1173 | 146 | 19 | 41 | 492 | 109 | 65 | 580 | 687 | .254 | .339 | .320 | .659 | 1480 | 0 | 36 | 70 | 42 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Razor Shines | 1B | 106 | 860 | 53 | 16 | 73 | .983 | 8.613 | ||||
| Jerome Whitfield | 1B | 34 | 273 | 21 | 5 | 32 | .983 | 8.647 | ||||
| Pedro Gavillan | 1B | 4 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 4 | .931 | 6.750 | ||||
| Julio Perez | 1B | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 2.000 | ||||
| Steve Morrison | 1B | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 7.000 | ||||
| Andrés Galarraga | 1B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 3.000 | ||||
| Mike Gates | 2B | 55 | 107 | 163 | 11 | 30 | .961 | 4.909 | ||||
| Tony Phillips | 2B | 40 | 89 | 111 | 11 | 20 | .948 | 5.000 | ||||
| David Perez | 2B | 26 | 67 | 59 | 10 | 21 | .926 | 4.846 | ||||
| Steve Morrison | 2B | 25 | 48 | 57 | 2 | 11 | .981 | 4.200 | ||||
| Julio Perez | 2B | 5 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 3.400 | ||||
| Brad Mills | 3B | 70 | 66 | 110 | 9 | 11 | .951 | 2.514 | ||||
| Steve Morrison | 3B | 63 | 30 | 121 | 22 | 9 | .873 | 2.397 | ||||
| Julio Perez | 3B | 7 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 1 | .957 | 3.143 | ||||
| Steven Roeder | 3B | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 2.333 | ||||
| Glen Franklin | 3B | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .750 | 1.000 | ||||
| David Perez | 3B | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.000 | ||||
| Tom Wieghaus | C | 116 | 742 | 95 | 11 | 10 | .987 | 7.216 | 8 | |||
| Charles Fick | C | 29 | 135 | 20 | 5 | 1 | .969 | 5.345 | 5 | |||
| Pedro Gavillan | C | 12 | 61 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 5.667 | 0 | |||
| George Keen | C | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 0 | |||
| David Hall | OF | 121 | 251 | 16 | 6 | 5 | .978 | 2.207 | ||||
| Frank Wren | OF | 68 | 92 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .970 | 1.426 | ||||
| Jim Auten | OF | 56 | 94 | 5 | 4 | 1 | .961 | 1.768 | ||||
| Grayling Tobias | OF | 49 | 103 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .991 | 2.143 | ||||
| Steve Morrison | OF | 47 | 78 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .976 | 1.702 | ||||
| Steven Michael | OF | 41 | 105 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.610 | ||||
| Jerry George | OF | 25 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .973 | 1.440 | ||||
| James Atkinson | OF | 17 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.294 | ||||
| Jerome Whitfield | OF | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Melvin Taylor | OF | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.500 | ||||
| Razor Shines | OF | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.833 | ||||
| George Keen | OF | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.333 | ||||
| Steven Roeder | OF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .000 | ||||
| Charles Fick | OF | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .500 | ||||
| Glenn Dooner | P | 39 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | .824 | .359 | ||||
| Paul Josephson | P | 31 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 1.000 | .645 | ||||
| Kevin Mendon | P | 28 | 9 | 32 | 3 | 3 | .932 | 1.464 | ||||
| Tommy Shimp | P | 27 | 12 | 28 | 2 | 0 | .952 | 1.481 | ||||
| Jack O'Connor | P | 24 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 3 | .885 | .958 | ||||
| Greg Staffon | P | 21 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 2 | .875 | 1.000 | ||||
| Scott Anderson | P | 17 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .950 | 1.118 | ||||
| Bud Yanus | P | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .900 | .562 | ||||
| Joseph Abone | P | 16 | 9 | 23 | 2 | 2 | .941 | 2.000 | ||||
| Rick Ramos | P | 13 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.385 | ||||
| Gary Hartsock | P | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .167 | ||||
| Ronnie Caldwell | P | 12 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 1.333 | ||||
| Bob Weatherford | P | 9 | .000 | |||||||||
| Mickey Torres | P | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .250 | ||||
| Joe Keener | P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .500 | ||||
| Antonio Fadhel | P | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Walter Coppol | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Glen Franklin | SS | 88 | 157 | 209 | 38 | 47 | .906 | 4.159 | ||||
| Mike Gates | SS | 22 | 24 | 65 | 9 | 12 | .908 | 4.045 | ||||
| Tony Phillips | SS | 19 | 31 | 45 | 10 | 11 | .884 | 4.000 | ||||
| Julio Perez | SS | 19 | 36 | 57 | 1 | 7 | .989 | 4.895 | ||||
| David Perez | SS | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | .824 | 2.800 | ||||
| Totals | 1487 | 3690 | 1467 | 203 | 342 | .962 | 3.468 | 13 | 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.
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