1979 Chicago White Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 73-87
Finished 5th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,280,702, Avg. 17,544
Ballpark: Comiskey Park
Manager: Don Kessinger (46-60)
Manager: Tony LaRussa (27-27)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1979 Chicago White Sox Roster
1979 Chicago White Sox Results

The Chicago White Sox of the American League ended the 1979 season with a record of 73 wins and 87 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's West Division.

The White Sox scored 730 runs and conceded 748 runs. Chet Lemon led Chicago with 17 home runs and drove in 86 runs, while leading hitters with significant playing time by hitting .318. Ken Kravec topped the team with 15 wins, and Ross Baumgarten registered a 3.54 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Don Kessinger and Tony LaRussa 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
Ken Kravec	15	13	.536	3.74	36	35	1	10	3	1	250.0	208	115	104	20	111	3	132	14	1	3	1041
Rich Wortham	14	14	.500	4.90	34	33	0	5	0	0	204.0	195	126	111	21	100	3	119	3	3	14	889
Ross Baumgarten	13	8	.619	3.54	28	28	0	4	3	0	190.7	175	82	75	18	83	1	72	1	1	6	818
Steve Trout	11	8	.579	3.89	34	18	12	6	2	4	155.0	165	77	67	10	59	5	76	5	0	1	677
Francisco Barrios	8	3	.727	3.61	15	15	0	2	0	0	94.7	88	49	38	9	33	1	28	5	1	0	406
Ed Farmer	3	7	.300	2.43	42	3	30	0	0	14	81.3	66	36	22	2	34	8	48	1	0	6	347
Mike Proly	3	8	.273	3.87	38	6	24	0	0	9	88.3	89	43	38	6	40	7	32	1	0	5	387
Richard Dotson	2	0	1.000	3.70	5	5	0	1	1	0	24.3	28	13	10	0	6	0	13	0	0	0	107
Randy Scarbery	2	8	.200	4.62	45	5	15	0	0	4	101.3	102	56	52	9	34	3	45	3	0	6	436
Rich Hinton	1	2	.333	6.05	16	2	8	0	0	2	41.7	57	30	28	4	8	1	27	2	0	0	188
Fred Howard	1	5	.167	3.57	28	6	10	0	0	0	68.0	73	34	27	5	32	2	36	1	0	0	302
Jack Kucek	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	0	4	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	6
LaMarr Hoyt	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Pablo Torrealba	0	0		1.59	3	0	2	0	0	0	5.7	5	1	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	24
Gil Rondon	0	0		3.72	4	0	0	0	0	0	9.7	11	5	4	2	6	0	3	0	0	2	46
Britt Burns	0	0		5.40	6	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	10	5	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	26
Wayne Nordhagen	0	0		9.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	2	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	8
Mark Esser	0	0		16.20	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	2	3	3	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	11
Dewey Robinson	0	1	.000	6.28	11	0	7	0	0	0	14.3	11	12	10	1	9	2	5	0	0	0	61
Ron Schueler	0	1	.000	7.32	8	1	5	0	0	0	19.7	19	16	16	3	13	1	6	2	0	1	90
Lerrin LaGrow	0	3	.000	9.17	11	2	4	0	0	1	17.7	27	21	18	2	16	1	9	1	0	2	95
Guy Hoffman	0	5	.000	5.34	24	0	9	0	0	2	30.3	30	18	18	0	23	5	18	1	1	3	142
Totals	73	86	.459	4.13	395	159	131	28	9	37	1409.0	1365	748	647	114	618	43	675	40	7	50	6117

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
Chet Lemon	148	632	556	79	177	44	2	17	86	7	11	56	68	.318	.391	.496	.887	276	15	13	3	4	6
Lamar Johnson	133	526	479	60	148	29	1	12	74	8	2	41	56	.309	.363	.449	.812	215	23	2	0	4	1
Alan Bannister	136	560	506	71	144	28	8	2	55	22	6	43	40	.285	.342	.383	.725	194	9	3	4	4	1
Claudell Washington	131	508	471	79	132	33	5	13	66	19	11	28	93	.280	.322	.454	.776	214	10	3	2	4	7
Greg Pryor	143	525	476	60	131	23	3	3	34	3	4	35	41	.275	.324	.355	.679	169	16	2	7	5	1
Ralph Garr	102	329	307	34	86	10	2	9	39	2	4	17	19	.280	.318	.414	.732	127	5	1	2	2	0
Jorge Orta	113	377	325	49	85	18	3	11	46	1	5	44	33	.262	.348	.437	.785	142	6	1	3	4	2
Mike Squires	122	326	295	44	78	10	1	2	22	15	5	22	9	.264	.318	.325	.643	96	10	2	5	2	3
Jim Morrison	67	269	240	38	66	14	0	14	35	11	3	15	48	.275	.324	.508	.833	122	2	4	7	3	0
Wayne Nordhagen	78	207	193	20	54	15	0	7	25	0	0	13	22	.280	.324	.466	.790	90	9	0	0	1	2
Junior Moore	88	217	201	24	53	6	2	1	23	0	2	12	20	.264	.300	.328	.628	66	8	0	0	4	0
Eric Soderholm	56	231	210	31	53	8	2	6	34	0	1	19	19	.252	.313	.395	.708	83	9	0	1	1	1
Milt May	65	221	202	23	51	13	0	7	28	0	0	14	27	.252	.306	.421	.727	85	3	2	2	1	1
Kevin Bell	70	219	200	20	49	8	1	4	22	2	4	15	43	.245	.296	.355	.651	71	3	0	3	1	0
Bill Nahorodny	65	199	179	20	46	10	0	6	29	0	1	18	23	.257	.322	.413	.735	74	5	0	0	2	1
Rusty Torres	90	203	170	26	43	5	0	8	24	0	0	23	37	.253	.349	.424	.772	72	4	2	8	0	1
Thad Bosley	36	86	77	13	24	1	1	1	8	4	1	9	14	.312	.384	.390	.773	30	1	0	0	0	0
Marv Foley	34	110	97	6	24	3	0	2	10	0	0	7	5	.247	.292	.340	.633	33	4	0	4	2	1
Don Kessinger	56	124	110	14	22	6	0	1	7	1	0	10	12	.200	.264	.282	.546	31	5	0	3	1	1
Mike Colbern	32	91	83	5	20	5	1	0	8	0	0	4	25	.241	.276	.325	.601	27	1	0	4	0	0
Harry Chappas	26	65	59	9	17	1	0	1	4	1	1	5	5	.288	.354	.356	.710	21	2	1	0	0	0
Rusty Kuntz	5	13	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.091	.231	.091	.322	1	1	0	0	0	0
Joe Gates	16	18	16	5	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	2	3	.063	.167	.188	.354	3	0	0	0	0	0
Dewey Robinson	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Wortham	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gil Rondon	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Randy Scarbery	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Proly	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pablo Torrealba	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Trout	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Schueler	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
LaMarr Hoyt	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ross Baumgarten	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Richard Dotson	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Esser	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Farmer	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Guy Hoffman	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Howard	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Kravec	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Kucek	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Britt Burns	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Francisco Barrios	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2205	6056	5463	730	1505	290	33	127	680	97	62	454	668	.275	.333	.410	.743	2242	151	36	58	45	29

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Lamar Johnson	1B	94	90	718.0	748	63	11	62	.987	1.166	8.628	0	0	0
Mike Squires	1B	110	69	688.0	741	60	4	62	.995	1.478	7.282	0	0	0
Alan Bannister	1B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Alan Bannister	2B	65	63	551.0	150	160	12	32	.963	5.064	4.769	0	0	0
Jim Morrison	2B	48	41	381.3	104	120	4	33	.982	5.287	4.667	0	0	0
Jorge Orta	2B	41	34	279.0	57	75	3	17	.978	4.258	3.220	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	2B	25	16	147.7	42	48	1	13	.989	5.485	3.600	0	0	0
Joe Gates	2B	8	4	40.0	12	16	1	3	.966	6.300	3.500	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	2B	1	1	7.0	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.286	8.000	0	0	0
Junior Moore	2B	2	0	3.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0
Kevin Bell	3B	68	59	528.7	51	153	17	11	.923	3.473	3.000	0	0	0
Eric Soderholm	3B	56	55	477.0	55	154	3	12	.986	3.943	3.732	0	0	0
Jim Morrison	3B	29	21	182.0	17	65	5	5	.943	4.055	2.828	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	3B	22	13	123.7	15	37	4	2	.929	3.784	2.364	0	0	0
Alan Bannister	3B	12	11	94.7	10	24	6	4	.850	3.232	2.833	0	0	0
Joe Gates	3B	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Milt May	C	65	59	507.0	277	27	6	1	.981	5.396	4.677	7	36	22	37.9
Bill Nahorodny	C	60	43	401.7	223	25	7	3	.973	5.557	4.133	6	48	19	28.4
Marv Foley	C	33	29	252.0	128	11	1	1	.993	4.964	4.212	2	25	10	28.6
Mike Colbern	C	32	26	226.0	121	12	4	4	.971	5.296	4.156	1	22	15	40.5
Wayne Nordhagen	C	5	2	22.3	9	0	3	0	.750	3.627	1.800	1	4	0	0.0
Chet Lemon	OF	147	147	1281.3	411	10	10	2	.977	2.957	2.864	0	0	0
Claudell Washington	OF	122	113	991.0	256	7	7	3	.974	2.388	2.156	0	0	0
Rusty Torres	OF	85	37	457.3	117	4	3	0	.976	2.381	1.424	0	0	0
Ralph Garr	OF	67	63	450.0	94	3	5	1	.951	1.940	1.448	0	0	0
Alan Bannister	OF	47	45	398.7	88	3	3	0	.968	2.054	1.936	0	0	0
Junior Moore	OF	61	42	376.3	83	3	3	0	.966	2.057	1.410	0	0	0
Thad Bosley	OF	28	16	160.3	57	2	2	1	.967	3.312	2.107	0	0	0
Wayne Nordhagen	OF	12	10	81.0	19	4	0	0	1.000	2.556	1.917	0	0	0
Rusty Kuntz	OF	5	4	26.0	12	1	0	1	1.000	4.500	2.600	0	0	0
Mike Squires	OF	1	0	5.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	3.000	0	0	0
Ken Kravec	P	36	35	250.0	8	35	1	1	.977	1.548	1.194	0	0	0
Rich Wortham	P	34	33	204.0	7	27	5	0	.872	1.500	1.000	0	0	0
Ross Baumgarten	P	28	28	190.7	14	28	1	1	.977	1.983	1.500	0	0	0
Steve Trout	P	34	18	155.0	6	33	3	2	.929	2.265	1.147	0	0	0
Randy Scarbery	P	45	5	101.3	5	17	2	1	.917	1.954	.489	0	0	0
Francisco Barrios	P	15	15	94.7	10	8	3	2	.857	1.711	1.200	0	0	0
Mike Proly	P	38	6	88.3	5	17	1	2	.957	2.242	.579	0	0	0
Ed Farmer	P	42	3	81.3	7	11	0	1	1.000	1.992	.429	0	0	0
Fred Howard	P	28	6	68.0	7	4	0	0	1.000	1.456	.393	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	P	16	2	41.7	4	8	1	0	.923	2.592	.750	0	0	0
Guy Hoffman	P	24	0	30.3	1	5	0	1	1.000	1.780	.250	0	0	0
Richard Dotson	P	5	5	24.3	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.849	1.000	0	0	0
Ron Schueler	P	8	1	19.7	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.373	.375	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	P	11	2	17.7	0	3	1	0	.750	1.528	.273	0	0	0
Dewey Robinson	P	11	0	14.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.628	.091	0	0	0
Gil Rondon	P	4	0	9.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.931	.250	0	0	0
Pablo Torrealba	P	3	0	5.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.588	.333	0	0	0
Britt Burns	P	6	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
LaMarr Hoyt	P	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Wayne Nordhagen	P	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mark Esser	P	2	0	1.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jack Kucek	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	SS	119	107	925.7	161	362	21	54	.961	5.085	4.395	0	0	0
Don Kessinger	SS	54	36	324.3	57	103	2	17	.988	4.440	2.963	0	0	0
Harry Chappas	SS	23	16	155.0	28	63	7	13	.929	5.284	3.957	0	0	0
Kevin Bell	SS	2	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500	0	0	0
Totals		1947	1431	12681.0	4227	1831	173	369	.972	4.300	3.111	17	135	66	32.8

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