1981 Boston Red Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 59-49
Finished 5th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,060,379, Avg. 20,397
Ballpark: Fenway Park II
Manager: Ralph Houk (59-49)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

1981 Boston Red Sox Roster
1981 Boston Red Sox Results

The Boston Red Sox of the American League ended the 1981 season with a record of 59 wins and 49 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's East Division.

The Red Sox topped the circuit with 519 runs. Boston allowed 481 runs. Dwight Evans paced the squad with 22 home runs, while Jim Rice walloped 20 or more as well. Dwight Evans drove in 71 runs. Carney Lansford topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .336. Mike Torrez and Bob Stanley led the squad with 10 wins each, and Mike Torrez recorded a 3.68 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Ralph Houk 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
Mike Torrez	10	3	.769	3.68	22	22	0	2	0	0	127.3	130	61	52	10	51	2	54	0	0	1	542
Bob Stanley	10	8	.556	3.83	35	1	14	0	0	0	98.7	110	46	42	3	38	4	28	6	0	1	430
Dennis Eckersley	9	8	.529	4.27	23	23	0	8	2	0	154.0	160	82	73	9	35	2	79	3	0	0	649
Mark Clear	8	3	.727	4.11	34	0	20	0	0	9	76.7	69	36	35	11	51	2	82	2	0	6	346
Bob Ojeda	6	2	.750	3.12	10	10	0	2	0	0	66.3	50	25	23	6	25	2	28	2	0	0	267
John Tudor	4	3	.571	4.58	18	11	3	2	0	1	78.7	74	44	40	11	28	1	44	3	1	1	331
Tom Burgmeier	4	5	.444	2.87	32	0	21	0	0	6	59.7	61	23	19	5	17	4	35	4	0	0	255
Frank Tanana	4	10	.286	4.01	24	23	0	5	2	0	141.3	142	70	63	17	43	4	78	4	0	2	596
Bruce Hurst	2	0	1.000	4.30	5	5	0	0	0	0	23.0	23	11	11	1	12	2	11	1	0	2	104
Luis Aponte	1	0	1.000	0.57	7	0	3	0	0	1	15.7	11	1	1	0	3	0	11	0	0	0	57
Bill Campbell	1	1	.500	3.17	30	0	23	0	0	7	48.3	45	23	17	5	20	4	37	0	0	2	208
Chuck Rainey	0	1	.000	2.70	11	2	3	0	0	0	40.0	39	21	12	2	13	1	20	0	0	1	171
Steve Crawford	0	5	.000	4.99	14	11	2	0	0	0	57.7	69	38	32	10	18	0	29	3	0	2	257
Totals	59	49	.546	3.83	265	108	89	19	4	24	987.3	983	481	420	90	354	28	536	28	1	18	4213

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
Carney Lansford	102	438	399	61	134	23	3	4	52	15	10	34	28	.336	.389	.439	.828	175	6	2	1	2	3
Jim Rice	108	495	451	51	128	18	1	17	62	2	2	34	76	.284	.333	.441	.775	199	14	3	0	7	3
Dwight Evans	108	504	412	84	122	19	4	22	71	3	2	85	85	.296	.415	.522	.937	215	8	1	3	3	1
Jerry Remy	88	410	358	55	110	9	1	0	31	9	2	36	30	.307	.368	.338	.706	121	6	0	13	3	2
Dave Stapleton	93	382	355	45	101	17	1	10	42	0	4	21	22	.285	.325	.423	.747	150	11	1	3	2	1
Rick Miller	97	351	316	38	92	17	2	2	33	3	5	28	36	.291	.349	.377	.725	119	7	1	4	2	1
Carl Yastrzemski	91	390	338	36	83	14	1	7	53	0	1	49	28	.246	.338	.355	.693	120	10	0	0	3	4
Tony Perez	84	336	306	35	77	11	3	9	39	0	0	27	66	.252	.310	.395	.705	121	9	0	0	3	0
Rich Gedman	62	219	205	22	59	15	0	5	26	0	0	9	31	.288	.317	.434	.751	89	9	1	1	3	1
Glenn Hoffman	78	261	242	28	56	10	0	1	20	0	1	12	25	.231	.271	.285	.556	69	7	1	6	0	0
Gary Allenson	47	164	139	23	31	8	0	5	25	0	0	23	33	.223	.335	.388	.724	54	6	1	0	1	0
Joe Rudi	49	135	122	14	22	3	0	6	24	0	0	8	29	.180	.239	.352	.591	43	2	2	1	2	1
Dave Schmidt	15	49	42	6	10	1	0	2	3	0	0	7	17	.238	.347	.405	.752	17	1	0	0	0	0
Reid Nichols	39	55	48	13	9	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	6	.188	.216	.229	.445	11	0	0	4	1	0
Garry Hancock	26	47	45	4	7	3	0	0	3	0	0	2	4	.156	.191	.222	.414	10	2	0	0	0	1
Chico Walker	6	18	17	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	2	1	2	.353	.389	.353	.742	6	0	0	0	0	0
Julio Valdez	17	25	23	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	2	.217	.208	.217	.426	5	0	0	1	1	0
Tom Poquette	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Stanley	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Aponte	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Torrez	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Tudor	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bruce Hurst	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Burgmeier	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Campbell	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Rainey	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Clear	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Crawford	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Eckersley	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Lickert	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Ojeda	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1379	4281	3820	519	1052	168	17	90	492	32	31	378	520	.275	.340	.399	.739	1524	98	13	37	33	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Tony Perez	1B	56	55	505.0	519	37	4	63	.993	9.909	9.929	0	0	0
Carl Yastrzemski	1B	39	37	336.3	353	34	3	26	.992	1.356	9.923	0	0	0
Dave Stapleton	1B	12	11	102.0	126	4	1	10	.992	11.471	1.833	0	0	0
Joe Rudi	1B	5	5	44.0	47	1	0	2	1.000	9.818	9.600	0	0	0
Jerry Remy	2B	87	87	776.3	162	272	7	58	.984	5.031	4.989	0	0	0
Dave Stapleton	2B	23	18	176.0	61	58	4	19	.967	6.085	5.174	0	0	0
Chico Walker	2B	5	3	35.0	4	10	0	1	1.000	3.600	2.800	0	0	0
Carney Lansford	3B	86	85	770.0	70	180	13	17	.951	2.922	2.907	0	0	0
Dave Stapleton	3B	25	23	200.3	21	49	4	3	.946	3.145	2.800	0	0	0
Reid Nichols	3B	1	0	10.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.900	1.000	0	0	0
Glenn Hoffman	3B	1	0	7.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000	0	0	0
Rich Gedman	C	59	56	498.3	275	30	3	1	.990	5.508	5.169	3	49	22	31.0
Gary Allenson	C	47	41	379.7	235	18	8	3	.969	5.997	5.383	4	37	10	21.3
Dave Schmidt	C	15	11	108.3	53	4	0	0	1.000	4.735	3.800	2	7	3	30.0
John Lickert	C	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Jim Rice	OF	108	108	981.3	237	9	3	0	.988	2.256	2.278	0	0	0
Dwight Evans	OF	108	108	978.3	259	9	2	1	.993	2.465	2.481	0	0	0
Rick Miller	OF	95	89	811.3	219	5	3	0	.987	2.485	2.358	0	0	0
Reid Nichols	OF	27	14	136.0	35	3	0	1	1.000	2.515	1.407	0	0	0
Garry Hancock	OF	8	5	49.0	11	2	0	0	1.000	2.388	1.625	0	0	0
Tom Poquette	OF	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Joe Rudi	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dennis Eckersley	P	23	23	154.0	12	19	1	1	.969	1.812	1.348	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	P	24	23	141.3	9	25	1	2	.971	2.165	1.417	0	0	0
Mike Torrez	P	22	22	127.3	12	13	3	2	.893	1.767	1.136	0	0	0
Bob Stanley	P	35	1	98.7	10	29	2	6	.951	3.557	1.114	0	0	0
John Tudor	P	18	11	78.7	2	17	0	1	1.000	2.174	1.056	0	0	0
Mark Clear	P	34	0	76.7	5	4	0	0	1.000	1.057	.265	0	0	0
Bob Ojeda	P	10	10	66.3	3	10	1	1	.929	1.764	1.300	0	0	0
Tom Burgmeier	P	32	0	59.7	7	13	0	3	1.000	3.017	.625	0	0	0
Steve Crawford	P	14	11	57.7	8	8	0	1	1.000	2.497	1.143	0	0	0
Bill Campbell	P	30	0	48.3	4	7	1	0	.917	2.048	.367	0	0	0
Chuck Rainey	P	11	2	40.0	5	9	2	0	.875	3.150	1.273	0	0	0
Bruce Hurst	P	5	5	23.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	.783	.400	0	0	0
Luis Aponte	P	7	0	15.7	1	6	0	0	1.000	4.021	1.000	0	0	0
Glenn Hoffman	SS	78	72	628.0	131	233	15	52	.960	5.217	4.667	0	0	0
Dave Stapleton	SS	33	32	287.0	52	93	8	18	.948	4.547	4.394	0	0	0
Julio Valdez	SS	17	4	72.3	12	30	2	3	.955	5.226	2.471	0	0	0
Totals		1204	972	8886.0	2962	1245	91	295	.979	4.261	3.494	9	93	35	27.3

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