1979 California Angels Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 88-74
Finished 1st in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,523,575, Avg. 31,155
Ballpark: Anaheim Stadium
Won Division
American League Championship Series - Lost to Baltimore Orioles 3-1
Manager: Jim Fregosi (88-74)
Location: Anaheim, California

1979 California Angels Roster
1979 California Angels Results

The California Angels of the American League ended the 1979 season with a record of 88 wins and 74 losses, finishing first in the AL's West Division.

The Angels scored 866 runs, most in the league. California conceded 768 runs. Don Baylor walloped 36 home runs for the team, while Willie Aikens, Dan Ford, Bobby Grich and Carney Lansford each added 20 or more also. Don Baylor drove in 139 runs. Brian Downing led hitters with significant playing time by hitting .326. Dave Frost and Nolan Ryan topped the team with 16 wins each, and Dave Frost recorded a 3.57 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Jim Fregosi coached the team. The 1979 California Angels qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Dave Frost	16	10	.615	3.57	36	33	2	12	2	1	239.3	226	108	95	17	77	4	107	5	0	5	1001
Nolan Ryan	16	14	.533	3.60	34	34	0	17	5	0	222.7	169	104	89	15	114	3	223	6	0	9	937
Mark Clear	11	5	.688	3.63	52	0	37	0	0	14	109.0	87	48	44	6	68	5	98	3	1	9	481
Jim Barr	10	12	.455	4.20	36	25	4	5	0	0	197.0	217	100	92	22	55	5	69	3	1	2	826
Don Aase	9	10	.474	4.81	37	28	4	7	1	2	185.3	200	104	99	19	77	7	96	1	0	5	817
Frank Tanana	7	5	.583	3.89	18	17	0	2	1	0	90.3	93	44	39	9	25	0	46	2	1	6	382
Dave LaRoche	7	11	.389	5.57	53	1	25	0	0	10	85.7	107	54	53	13	32	4	59	2	1	0	387
Chris Knapp	5	5	.500	5.51	20	18	1	3	0	0	98.0	109	73	60	8	35	1	36	2	0	2	440
John Montague	2	0	1.000	5.09	14	0	10	0	0	6	17.7	16	12	10	3	9	0	6	0	0	2	75
Ralph Botting	2	0	1.000	8.80	12	1	5	0	0	0	29.7	46	30	29	6	15	1	22	1	1	4	146
Dyar Miller	1	0	1.000	3.31	14	1	8	0	0	0	35.3	44	14	13	2	13	0	16	2	0	1	157
Steve Eddy	1	1	.500	4.73	7	4	3	0	0	0	32.3	36	19	17	1	20	0	7	2	0	0	152
Mike Barlow	1	1	.500	5.13	35	0	15	0	0	0	86.0	106	54	49	8	30	2	33	4	0	6	378
Bob Ferris	0	0		1.50	2	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	5	2	1	1	3	1	2	0	0	1	27
Dave Schuler	0	0		10.80	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	7
Totals	88	74	.543	4.34	371	162	116	46	9	33	1436.0	1463	768	692	131	573	33	820	33	5	53	6213

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	157	712	654	114	188	30	5	19	79	20	8	39	115	.287	.329	.436	.764	285	16	3	12	4	2
Don Baylor	162	722	628	120	186	33	3	36	139	22	12	71	51	.296	.371	.530	.901	333	10	11	0	12	6
Brian Downing	148	596	509	87	166	27	3	12	75	3	3	77	57	.326	.418	.462	.880	235	17	5	3	2	4
Dan Ford	142	628	569	100	165	26	5	21	101	8	5	40	86	.290	.333	.464	.797	264	17	3	3	13	0
Bobby Grich	153	609	534	78	157	30	5	30	101	1	0	59	84	.294	.365	.537	.903	287	14	2	12	2	10
Rod Carew	110	493	409	78	130	15	3	3	44	18	8	73	46	.318	.419	.391	.810	160	9	0	8	3	7
Rick Miller	120	488	427	60	125	15	5	2	28	5	4	50	69	.293	.367	.365	.733	156	7	1	9	1	1
Willie Aikens	116	447	379	59	106	18	0	21	81	1	3	61	79	.280	.376	.493	.869	187	10	1	0	6	8
Joe Rudi	90	361	330	35	80	11	3	11	61	0	0	24	61	.242	.294	.394	.688	130	7	1	4	2	3
Jim Anderson	96	264	234	33	58	13	1	3	23	3	2	17	31	.248	.298	.350	.648	82	6	1	9	3	0
Bert Campaneris	85	273	239	27	56	4	4	0	15	12	4	19	32	.234	.294	.285	.578	68	8	2	11	2	0
Larry Harlow	62	187	159	22	37	8	2	0	14	1	3	25	34	.233	.344	.308	.652	49	2	2	1	0	0
Tom Donohue	38	113	107	13	24	3	1	3	14	2	0	3	29	.224	.259	.355	.614	38	1	2	1	0	0
Merv Rettenmund	35	90	76	7	20	2	0	1	10	1	0	11	14	.263	.360	.329	.688	25	3	1	1	1	1
Dickie Thon	35	62	56	6	19	3	0	0	8	0	0	5	10	.339	.393	.393	.786	22	2	0	1	0	0
Bobby Clark	19	60	54	8	16	2	2	1	5	1	1	5	11	.296	.356	.463	.819	25	3	0	1	0	0
Willie Davis	43	61	56	9	14	2	1	0	2	1	0	4	7	.250	.300	.321	.621	18	2	0	1	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	22	78	68	7	10	0	0	1	8	0	0	4	14	.147	.192	.191	.383	13	2	1	0	5	0
Ralph Garr	6	24	24	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ike Hampton	4	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Humphrey	9	19	17	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.059	.111	.059	.170	1	0	0	1	0	0
Orlando Ramirez	13	15	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	6	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	1	1	0	0
John Harris	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Harper	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Barlow	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Schuler	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Barr	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Ferris	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Montague	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ralph Botting	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dyar Miller	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Knapp	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Clear	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Frost	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Eddy	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Aase	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2038	6311	5550	866	1563	242	43	164	808	100	53	589	843	.282	.351	.429	.781	2383	136	37	79	56	42

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Rod Carew	1B	103	102	889.3	804	55	10	101	.988	8.693	8.340	0	0	0
Willie Aikens	1B	55	55	492.7	462	31	2	49	.996	9.006	8.964	0	0	0
Joe Rudi	1B	5	4	34.0	33	2	0	3	1.000	9.265	7.000	0	0	0
Ike Hampton	1B	2	1	11.0	10	2	0	0	1.000	9.818	6.000	0	0	0
John Harris	1B	1	0	5.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	6.000	0	0	0
Don Baylor	1B	1	0	4.0	5	0	0	1	1.000	11.250	5.000	0	0	0
Bobby Grich	2B	153	151	1297.0	340	438	13	111	.984	5.399	5.085	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	2B	24	10	125.0	34	38	6	12	.923	5.184	3.000	0	0	0
Jim Anderson	2B	6	1	14.0	5	8	0	2	1.000	8.357	2.167	0	0	0
Carney Lansford	3B	157	157	1372.0	135	263	7	29	.983	2.611	2.535	0	0	0
Jim Anderson	3B	10	5	63.0	4	8	0	0	1.000	1.714	1.200	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	3B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Brian Downing	C	129	127	1091.7	669	35	11	5	.985	5.804	5.457	6	101	34	25.2
Tom Donohue	C	38	28	275.3	136	16	3	4	.981	4.969	4.000	5	24	14	36.8
Terry Humphrey	C	9	6	57.3	55	3	1	1	.983	9.105	6.444	0	9	3	25.0
Jim Anderson	C	3	1	11.7	6	0	0	0	1.000	4.629	2.000	1	4	0	0.0
Dan Ford	OF	141	141	1216.0	332	10	8	2	.977	2.531	2.426	0	0	0
Rick Miller	OF	117	108	952.3	349	3	4	1	.989	3.327	3.009	0	0	0
Don Baylor	OF	97	97	829.7	198	3	5	0	.976	2.180	2.072	0	0	0
Joe Rudi	OF	80	78	692.3	174	5	2	2	.989	2.327	2.238	0	0	0
Larry Harlow	OF	58	40	400.7	115	4	3	1	.975	2.673	2.052	0	0	0
Bobby Clark	OF	19	13	128.0	41	4	1	0	.978	3.164	2.368	0	0	0
Merv Rettenmund	OF	9	6	54.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	.667	0	0	0
Willie Davis	OF	7	3	35.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.057	1.143	0	0	0
Dave Frost	P	36	33	239.3	8	34	2	2	.955	1.579	1.167	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	P	34	34	222.7	8	29	4	1	.902	1.496	1.088	0	0	0
Jim Barr	P	36	25	197.0	6	41	0	5	1.000	2.147	1.306	0	0	0
Don Aase	P	37	28	185.3	8	17	2	3	.926	1.214	.676	0	0	0
Mark Clear	P	52	0	109.0	4	10	2	0	.875	1.156	.269	0	0	0
Chris Knapp	P	20	18	98.0	8	14	1	1	.957	2.020	1.100	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	P	18	17	90.3	3	12	1	1	.938	1.494	.833	0	0	0
Mike Barlow	P	35	0	86.0	4	11	0	2	1.000	1.570	.429	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	P	53	1	85.7	4	17	0	0	1.000	2.206	.396	0	0	0
Dyar Miller	P	14	1	35.3	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.019	.286	0	0	0
Steve Eddy	P	7	4	32.3	5	7	2	0	.857	3.340	1.714	0	0	0
Ralph Botting	P	12	1	29.7	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.517	.417	0	0	0
John Montague	P	14	0	17.7	1	0	1	0	.500	.509	.071	0	0	0
Bob Ferris	P	2	0	6.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Dave Schuler	P	1	0	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bert Campaneris	SS	82	71	612.3	136	220	16	69	.957	5.232	4.341	0	0	0
Jim Anderson	SS	82	63	564.3	126	189	17	42	.949	5.024	3.841	0	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	SS	22	19	178.0	46	43	4	13	.957	4.500	4.045	0	0	0
Orlando Ramirez	SS	10	7	57.0	7	20	5	3	.844	4.263	2.700	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	SS	8	2	24.3	3	8	2	1	.846	4.068	1.375	0	0	0
Totals		1800	1458	12924.0	4308	1608	135	467	.978	4.120	3.287	12	138	51	27.0

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Don Aase	ALCS	1	0	1.000	1.80	2	0	2	5.0	4	1	1	0	2	1	6	0	0	20
Mike Barlow	ALCS	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Nolan Ryan	ALCS	0	0		1.29	1	1	0	7.0	4	3	1	0	3	0	8	0	1	27
Frank Tanana	ALCS	0	0		3.60	1	1	0	5.0	6	2	2	0	2	0	3	1	0	23
Mark Clear	ALCS	0	0		4.76	1	0	0	5.7	4	3	3	1	2	0	3	0	1	23
Dave LaRoche	ALCS	0	0		6.75	1	0	0	1.3	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	6
Chris Knapp	ALCS	0	1	.000	7.71	1	1	0	2.3	5	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	13
John Montague	ALCS	0	1	.000	9.00	2	0	1	4.0	4	4	4	2	2	1	2	0	0	17
Dave Frost	ALCS	0	1	.000	18.69	2	1	0	4.3	8	10	9	0	5	1	1	0	1	24
Totals		1	3	.250	5.80	12	4	4	35.7	37	26	23	3	18	3	24	1	3	156

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SF	IBB
Rod Carew	ALCS	4	17	17	4	7	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	.412	.412	.588	1.000	10	0	0	0
Dan Ford	ALCS	4	17	17	2	5	1	2	4	0	0	0	0	.294	.294	.706	1.000	12	1	0	0
Carney Lansford	ALCS	4	18	17	2	5	0	0	3	1	0	1	2	.294	.333	.294	.627	5	1	0	0
Rick Miller	ALCS	4	16	16	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	4	0	0	0
Brian Downing	ALCS	4	17	15	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.200	.235	.200	.435	3	0	1	0
Don Baylor	ALCS	4	17	16	2	3	0	1	2	0	0	1	2	.188	.235	.375	.610	6	0	0	1
Bobby Grich	ALCS	4	15	13	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	.154	.200	.231	.431	3	0	1	0
Willie Davis	ALCS	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0
Larry Harlow	ALCS	3	9	8	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	.125	.222	.250	.472	2	0	0	0
Jim Anderson	ALCS	4	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	2	0	0
Bobby Clark	ALCS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Merv Rettenmund	ALCS	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Don Aase	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Mike Barlow	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Bert Campaneris	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Mark Clear	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dave Frost	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Chris Knapp	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
John Montague	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Nolan Ryan	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Frank Tanana	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dickie Thon	ALCS	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		54	146	137	15	32	7	3	14	2	1	7	13	.234	.267	.350	.617	48	4	2	1

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Rod Carew	ALCS	1B	4	4	35.7	34	1	0	6	1.000	8.832	8.750
Bobby Grich	ALCS	2B	4	4	35.7	4	12	1	4	.941	4.037	4.000
Carney Lansford	ALCS	3B	4	4	35.7	4	8	0	3	1.000	3.028	3.000
Brian Downing	ALCS	C	4	4	35.7	27	0	0	1	1.000	6.813	6.750
Rick Miller	ALCS	CF	4	4	35.7	14	2	0	2	1.000	4.037	4.000
Larry Harlow	ALCS	LF	2	2	18.7	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.893	3.000
Don Baylor	ALCS	LF	1	1	9.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000
Bobby Clark	ALCS	LF	1	1	8.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	4.000
Nolan Ryan	ALCS	P	1	1	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Mark Clear	ALCS	P	1	0	5.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Frank Tanana	ALCS	P	1	1	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Don Aase	ALCS	P	2	0	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500
Dave Frost	ALCS	P	2	1	4.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
John Montague	ALCS	P	2	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
Chris Knapp	ALCS	P	1	1	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dave LaRoche	ALCS	P	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Mike Barlow	ALCS	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dan Ford	ALCS	RF	4	4	35.7	6	0	1	0	.857	1.514	1.500
Jim Anderson	ALCS	SS	4	4	34.0	4	10	0	2	1.000	3.706	3.500
Dickie Thon	ALCS	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bert Campaneris	ALCS	SS	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Totals			46	36	321.0	107	36	2	18	.986	4.009	3.109

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