1978 Chicago White Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 71-90
Finished 5th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,491,100, Avg. 19,620
Ballpark: Comiskey Park
Manager: Bob Lemon (34-40)
Manager: Larry Doby (37-50)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1978 Chicago White Sox Roster
1978 Chicago White Sox Results

The Chicago White Sox of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 71 wins and 90 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's West Division.

The White Sox scored 634 runs and allowed 731 runs. Eric Soderholm led Chicago with 20 home runs Lamar Johnson drove in 72 runs. Ralph Garr paced batters with significant playing time by hitting .275. Steve Stone topped the squad with 12 wins, while Francisco Barrios earned a 4.05 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Bob Lemon and Larry Doby 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
Steve Stone	12	12	.500	4.37	30	30	0	6	1	0	212.0	196	110	103	19	84	1	118	3	0	2	898
Ken Kravec	11	16	.407	4.08	30	30	0	7	2	0	203.0	188	104	92	22	95	1	154	10	1	7	890
Wilbur Wood	10	10	.500	5.20	28	27	1	4	0	0	168.0	187	103	97	23	74	1	69	3	0	9	753
Francisco Barrios	9	15	.375	4.05	33	32	1	9	2	0	195.7	180	93	88	13	85	2	79	7	1	3	843
Lerrin LaGrow	6	5	.545	4.40	52	0	41	0	0	16	88.0	85	47	43	9	38	0	41	3	0	1	374
Mike Proly	5	2	.714	2.74	14	6	3	2	0	1	65.7	63	24	20	4	12	0	19	0	0	0	266
Steve Trout	3	0	1.000	4.03	4	3	1	1	0	0	22.3	19	10	10	0	11	0	11	0	0	0	97
Rich Wortham	3	2	.600	3.05	8	8	0	2	0	0	59.0	59	24	20	1	23	0	25	0	0	8	248
Ron Schueler	3	5	.375	4.30	30	7	6	0	0	0	81.7	76	50	39	10	39	2	39	7	0	4	361
Ross Baumgarten	2	2	.500	5.87	7	4	2	1	1	0	23.0	29	15	15	3	9	0	15	1	0	1	106
Jack Kucek	2	3	.400	3.29	10	5	2	3	0	1	52.0	42	23	19	5	27	2	30	0	0	1	223
Pablo Torrealba	2	4	.333	4.71	25	3	7	1	1	1	57.3	69	37	30	6	39	5	23	3	0	0	275
Rich Hinton	2	6	.250	4.02	29	4	12	2	0	1	80.7	78	38	36	5	28	2	48	2	0	1	336
Jim Willoughby	1	6	.143	3.86	59	0	47	0	0	13	93.3	95	41	40	6	19	2	36	4	0	1	376
Britt Burns	0	2	.000	12.91	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.7	14	12	11	2	3	0	3	0	0	0	41
Totals	71	90	.441	4.23	361	161	123	38	7	33	1409.3	1380	731	663	128	586	18	710	43	2	38	6087

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
Lamar Johnson	148	551	498	52	136	23	2	8	72	6	5	43	46	.273	.329	.376	.705	187	17	2	1	7	2
Ralph Garr	118	478	443	67	122	18	9	3	29	7	5	24	41	.275	.314	.377	.691	167	9	1	10	0	1
Eric Soderholm	143	510	457	57	118	17	1	20	67	2	2	39	44	.258	.318	.431	.749	197	13	4	3	7	2
Jorge Orta	117	477	420	45	115	19	2	13	53	1	2	42	39	.274	.340	.421	.762	177	9	4	4	7	3
Don Kessinger	131	480	431	35	110	18	1	1	31	2	4	36	34	.255	.312	.309	.621	133	10	0	12	1	1
Chet Lemon	105	416	357	51	107	24	6	13	55	5	9	39	46	.300	.377	.510	.887	182	11	8	8	4	2
Claudell Washington	86	333	314	33	83	16	5	6	31	5	5	12	57	.264	.290	.404	.694	127	7	1	2	4	2
Bill Nahorodny	107	380	347	29	82	11	2	8	35	1	0	23	52	.236	.285	.349	.633	121	5	2	4	4	0
Bob Molinaro	105	311	286	39	75	5	5	6	27	22	6	19	12	.262	.314	.378	.692	108	5	3	2	1	2
Wayne Nordhagen	68	216	206	28	62	16	0	5	35	0	1	5	18	.301	.310	.451	.762	93	6	0	0	5	0
Thad Bosley	66	236	219	25	59	5	1	2	13	12	11	13	32	.269	.308	.329	.636	72	4	0	2	2	1
Greg Pryor	82	239	222	27	58	11	0	2	15	3	1	11	18	.261	.298	.338	.636	75	4	1	4	1	0
Mike Squires	46	171	150	25	42	9	2	0	19	4	4	16	21	.280	.343	.367	.710	55	1	0	2	3	0
Mike Colbern	48	146	141	11	38	5	1	2	20	0	1	1	36	.270	.281	.362	.643	51	1	2	0	2	0
Ron Blomberg	61	169	156	16	36	7	0	5	22	0	0	11	17	.231	.280	.372	.652	58	1	0	1	1	2
Bobby Bonds	26	102	90	8	25	4	0	2	8	6	2	10	10	.278	.347	.389	.735	35	2	0	1	1	1
Alan Bannister	49	119	107	16	24	3	2	0	8	3	3	11	12	.224	.303	.290	.592	31	2	1	0	0	1
Harry Chappas	20	88	75	11	20	1	0	0	6	1	2	6	11	.267	.318	.280	.598	21	0	1	3	3	0
Junior Moore	24	71	65	8	19	0	1	0	4	1	1	6	7	.292	.352	.323	.675	21	4	0	0	0	0
Henry Cruz	53	89	77	13	17	2	1	2	10	0	1	8	11	.221	.292	.351	.643	27	2	1	0	3	0
Jim Breazeale	25	81	72	8	15	3	0	3	13	0	0	8	10	.208	.284	.375	.659	27	2	0	0	1	0
Rusty Torres	16	51	44	7	14	3	0	3	6	0	1	6	7	.318	.400	.591	.991	26	0	0	1	0	0
Kevin Bell	54	76	68	9	13	0	0	2	5	1	0	5	19	.191	.257	.279	.536	19	3	1	2	0	0
Marv Foley	11	38	34	3	12	0	0	0	6	0	1	4	6	.353	.421	.353	.774	12	1	0	0	0	0
Tom Spencer	29	67	65	3	12	1	0	0	4	0	1	2	9	.185	.209	.200	.409	13	1	0	0	0	0
Joe Gates	8	30	24	6	6	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	6	.250	.379	.250	.629	6	1	1	1	0	0
Mike Eden	10	21	17	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.118	.286	.118	.403	2	1	0	0	0	0
Larry Johnson	3	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.125	.222	.125	.347	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Willoughby	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Francisco Barrios	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Trout	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Kucek	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pablo Torrealba	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Wilbur Wood	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Stone	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ross Baumgarten	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Schueler	31	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Britt Burns	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Proly	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Kravec	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Wortham	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2121	5955	5393	634	1423	221	41	106	595	83	68	409	625	.264	.317	.379	.696	2044	122	33	63	57	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Lamar Johnson	1B	108	93	838.0	887	71	8	74	.992	1.289	8.870	0	0	0
Mike Squires	1B	45	41	360.3	361	20	1	29	.997	9.516	8.467	0	0	0
Jim Breazeale	1B	19	19	138.0	124	3	1	10	.992	8.283	6.684	0	0	0
Ron Blomberg	1B	7	7	59.0	70	3	1	2	.986	11.136	1.429	0	0	0
Bill Nahorodny	1B	4	1	14.0	23	2	0	0	1.000	16.071	6.250	0	0	0
Jorge Orta	2B	114	114	974.3	275	290	9	62	.984	5.219	4.956	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	2B	35	30	277.0	54	90	5	16	.966	4.679	4.114	0	0	0
Joe Gates	2B	8	8	70.0	9	26	1	4	.972	4.500	4.375	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	2B	9	7	63.0	12	14	0	2	1.000	3.714	2.889	0	0	0
Mike Eden	2B	4	1	16.0	5	3	0	2	1.000	4.500	2.000	0	0	0
Alan Bannister	2B	2	1	9.0	3	2	1	0	.833	5.000	2.500	0	0	0
Eric Soderholm	2B	1	0	0.0	0	4	0	0	1.000		4.000	0	0	0
Eric Soderholm	3B	128	127	1022.3	128	245	14	17	.964	3.284	2.914	0	0	0
Kevin Bell	3B	52	16	212.0	23	64	5	6	.946	3.693	1.673	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	3B	20	13	138.0	12	48	2	6	.968	3.913	3.000	0	0	0
Junior Moore	3B	6	5	37.0	4	8	2	0	.857	2.919	2.000	0	0	0
Bill Nahorodny	C	104	100	865.3	486	53	11	6	.980	5.606	5.183	5	79	31	28.2
Mike Colbern	C	47	39	350.0	203	19	7	1	.969	5.709	4.723	1	27	16	37.2
Wayne Nordhagen	C	12	12	104.0	41	10	3	1	.944	4.413	4.250	7	7	8	53.3
Marv Foley	C	10	9	79.0	41	4	3	0	.938	5.127	4.500	0	13	3	18.8
Larry Johnson	C	2	1	11.0	5	1	1	0	.857	4.909	3.000	0	3	2	40.0
Ralph Garr	OF	109	106	881.0	205	5	9	2	.959	2.145	1.927	0	0	0
Chet Lemon	OF	95	94	778.7	284	8	5	2	.983	3.375	3.074	0	0	0
Claudell Washington	OF	82	77	683.0	159	6	7	0	.959	2.174	2.012	0	0	0
Thad Bosley	OF	64	55	478.0	155	3	4	0	.975	2.975	2.469	0	0	0
Bob Molinaro	OF	62	46	415.7	88	2	0	0	1.000	1.949	1.452	0	0	0
Wayne Nordhagen	OF	36	29	247.3	46	2	3	1	.941	1.747	1.333	0	0	0
Henry Cruz	OF	40	16	196.0	55	4	0	2	1.000	2.709	1.475	0	0	0
Bobby Bonds	OF	22	22	185.7	40	3	2	1	.956	2.084	1.955	0	0	0
Tom Spencer	OF	27	15	152.7	52	2	0	0	1.000	3.183	2.000	0	0	0
Rusty Torres	OF	14	11	105.0	27	0	1	0	.964	2.314	1.929	0	0	0
Alan Bannister	OF	15	9	77.0	22	0	0	0	1.000	2.571	1.467	0	0	0
Junior Moore	OF	5	3	28.0	8	1	0	0	1.000	2.893	1.800	0	0	0
Steve Stone	P	30	30	212.0	12	28	4	1	.909	1.698	1.333	0	0	0
Ken Kravec	P	30	30	203.0	7	25	3	1	.914	1.419	1.067	0	0	0
Francisco Barrios	P	33	32	195.7	19	38	0	0	1.000	2.622	1.727	0	0	0
Wilbur Wood	P	28	27	168.0	2	40	0	1	1.000	2.250	1.500	0	0	0
Jim Willoughby	P	59	0	93.3	11	19	1	3	.968	2.893	.508	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	P	52	0	88.0	4	20	1	3	.960	2.455	.462	0	0	0
Ron Schueler	P	30	7	81.7	5	13	1	1	.947	1.984	.600	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	P	29	4	80.7	3	8	1	0	.917	1.227	.379	0	0	0
Mike Proly	P	14	6	65.7	1	10	1	0	.917	1.508	.786	0	0	0
Rich Wortham	P	8	8	59.0	0	9	0	0	1.000	1.373	1.125	0	0	0
Pablo Torrealba	P	25	3	57.3	2	4	1	0	.857	.942	.240	0	0	0
Jack Kucek	P	10	5	52.0	4	5	0	0	1.000	1.558	.900	0	0	0
Ross Baumgarten	P	7	4	23.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	.783	.286	0	0	0
Steve Trout	P	4	3	22.3	0	3	0	1	1.000	1.209	.750	0	0	0
Britt Burns	P	2	2	7.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.348	1.000	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	SS	123	117	996.3	171	321	13	60	.974	4.444	4.000	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	SS	28	18	171.0	34	64	4	9	.961	5.158	3.500	0	0	0
Harry Chappas	SS	20	19	170.0	28	64	0	8	1.000	4.871	4.600	0	0	0
Alan Bannister	SS	8	4	41.0	9	14	1	3	.958	5.049	2.875	0	0	0
Mike Eden	SS	5	3	31.0	9	10	2	3	.905	5.516	3.800	0	0	0
Totals		1853	1449	12684.0	4228	1715	139	340	.977	4.217	3.207	13	129	60	31.7

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