1979 Chicago Cubs Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 80-82
Finished 5th in the NL's East Division
Attendance: 1,648,587, Avg. 21,794
Ballpark: Wrigley Field
Manager: Herman Franks (78-77)
Manager: Joey Amalfitano (2-5)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1979 Chicago Cubs Roster
1979 Chicago Cubs Results

The Chicago Cubs of the National League ended the 1979 season with a record of 80 wins and 82 losses, finishing fifth in the NL's East Division.

The Cubs plated 706 runs and conceded 707 runs. Dave Kingman walloped 48 home runs for Chicago, while Barry Foote and Jerry Martin added 20 or more as well. Dave Kingman drove in 115 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .288 average. Rick Reuschel led the team with 18 wins, and Dennis Lamp recorded a 3.50 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Herman Franks and Joey Amalfitano 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
Rick Reuschel	18	12	.600	3.62	36	36	0	5	1	0	239.0	251	104	96	16	75	8	125	10	0	5	1021
Lynn McGlothen	13	14	.481	4.12	42	29	6	6	1	2	212.0	236	103	97	27	55	8	147	3	1	1	906
Dick Tidrow	11	5	.688	2.72	63	0	27	0	0	4	102.7	86	35	31	5	42	11	68	2	0	3	425
Dennis Lamp	11	10	.524	3.50	38	32	3	6	1	0	200.3	223	96	78	14	46	9	86	5	0	1	843
Mike Krukow	9	9	.500	4.21	28	28	0	0	0	0	164.7	172	84	77	13	81	12	119	3	1	5	722
Bruce Sutter	6	6	.500	2.22	62	0	56	0	0	37	101.3	67	29	25	3	32	5	110	0	0	9	403
Ken Holtzman	6	9	.400	4.59	23	20	0	3	2	0	117.7	133	70	60	15	53	7	44	6	0	6	529
Willie Hernandez	4	4	.500	5.01	51	2	19	0	0	0	79.0	85	50	44	8	39	12	53	4	1	3	359
Donnie Moore	1	4	.200	5.18	39	1	12	0	0	1	73.0	95	46	42	8	25	7	43	2	0	3	330
Bill Caudill	1	7	.125	4.80	29	12	6	0	0	0	90.0	89	57	48	16	41	5	104	4	2	3	402
Dave Geisel	0	0		0.60	7	0	3	0	0	0	15.0	10	1	1	0	4	1	5	1	0	0	58
Ray Burris	0	0		6.23	14	0	3	0	0	0	21.7	23	17	15	0	15	1	14	1	0	0	98
Doug Capilla	0	1	.000	2.60	13	1	7	0	0	0	17.3	14	6	5	1	7	0	10	0	0	1	77
George Riley	0	1	.000	5.54	4	1	0	0	0	0	13.0	16	9	8	1	6	1	5	2	0	0	59
Totals	80	82	.494	3.90	449	162	142	20	5	44	1446.7	1500	707	627	127	521	87	933	43	5	40	6232

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
Ivan de Jesus	160	716	636	92	180	26	10	5	52	24	20	59	82	.283	.345	.379	.724	241	9	2	17	2	1
Bill Buckner	149	628	591	72	168	34	7	14	66	9	4	30	28	.284	.319	.437	.756	258	16	2	1	4	6
Dave Kingman	145	589	532	97	153	19	5	48	115	4	2	45	131	.288	.343	.613	.956	326	7	4	0	8	7
Steve Ontiveros	152	590	519	58	148	28	2	4	57	0	1	58	68	.285	.362	.370	.732	192	19	7	1	5	7
Jerry Martin	150	579	534	74	145	34	3	19	73	2	4	38	85	.272	.321	.453	.774	242	13	3	0	4	3
Barry Foote	132	469	429	47	109	26	0	16	56	5	2	34	49	.254	.316	.427	.742	183	12	5	0	1	7
Scot Thompson	128	368	346	36	100	13	5	2	29	4	3	17	37	.289	.322	.373	.694	129	8	1	1	3	1
Ted Sizemore	98	374	330	36	82	17	0	2	24	3	3	32	25	.248	.319	.318	.637	105	8	3	7	2	7
Larry Biittner	111	295	272	35	79	13	3	3	50	1	1	21	23	.290	.339	.393	.732	107	10	0	0	2	1
Mike Vail	87	195	179	28	60	8	2	7	35	0	2	14	27	.335	.379	.520	.899	93	4	0	0	2	1
Bobby Murcer	58	231	190	22	49	4	1	7	22	2	3	36	20	.258	.374	.400	.774	76	3	1	1	3	2
Steve Dillard	89	190	166	31	47	6	1	5	24	1	0	17	24	.283	.351	.422	.773	70	4	1	5	1	4
Mick Kelleher	73	160	142	14	36	4	1	0	10	2	0	7	9	.254	.296	.296	.592	42	4	2	8	1	0
Tim Blackwell	63	159	122	8	20	3	1	0	12	0	0	32	25	.164	.338	.205	.542	25	3	1	2	2	1
Ken Henderson	62	97	81	11	19	2	0	2	8	0	0	15	16	.235	.361	.333	.694	27	1	1	0	0	1
Mike Krukow	28	62	51	4	16	2	0	1	8	0	0	0	8	.314	.327	.412	.739	21	0	2	7	2	0
Lynn McGlothen	42	76	71	6	16	3	0	0	3	0	0	1	10	.225	.236	.268	.504	19	5	0	4	0	0
Rick Reuschel	38	91	79	8	13	2	1	0	6	0	1	7	26	.165	.233	.215	.448	17	0	0	5	0	0
Miguel Dilone	43	38	36	14	11	0	0	0	1	15	5	2	5	.306	.342	.306	.648	11	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Holtzman	24	45	43	2	10	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	9	.233	.267	.302	.569	13	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Macko	19	44	40	2	9	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	8	.225	.295	.250	.545	10	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Lamp	38	67	58	2	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	9	.155	.183	.172	.356	10	0	0	7	0	0
Bruce Sutter	62	15	12	0	3	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	5	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	0	0	2	0	0
Willie Hernandez	52	9	8	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.250	.250	.375	.625	3	0	0	1	0	0
Dick Tidrow	63	13	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.200	.273	.200	.473	2	0	0	2	0	0
Gene Clines	10	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	0	0	0
Sam Mejias	31	14	11	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.182	.308	.182	.490	2	0	0	1	0	0
Donnie Moore	39	13	13	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	.154	.154	.308	.462	4	0	0	0	0	0
Bruce Kimm	9	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Caudill	29	21	17	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	.059	.059	.059	.118	1	0	0	4	0	0
Steve Davis	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Burris	14	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kurt Seibert	7	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
George Riley	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Karl Pagel	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Geisel	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Capilla	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2233	6182	5550	706	1494	250	43	135	663	73	52	478	762	.269	.329	.403	.731	2235	126	35	77	42	49

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Bill Buckner	1B	140	140	1217.0	1258	124	7	118	.995	1.220	9.871	0	0	0
Larry Biittner	1B	32	22	221.7	236	20	2	24	.992	1.394	8.000	0	0	0
Steve Ontiveros	1B	1	0	8.0	7	1	0	1	1.000	9.000	8.000	0	0	0
Ted Sizemore	2B	96	96	808.7	230	312	15	68	.973	6.032	5.646	0	0	0
Steve Dillard	2B	60	40	388.3	111	132	3	31	.988	5.632	4.050	0	0	0
Mick Kelleher	2B	29	19	180.7	52	84	3	16	.978	6.775	4.690	0	0	0
Steve Macko	2B	10	7	65.0	18	21	0	4	1.000	5.400	3.900	0	0	0
Kurt Seibert	2B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Steve Davis	2B	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Steve Ontiveros	3B	142	140	1213.3	98	268	23	27	.941	2.715	2.577	0	0	0
Mick Kelleher	3B	32	18	172.7	17	40	2	4	.966	2.971	1.781	0	0	0
Steve Macko	3B	4	3	26.0	3	12	0	0	1.000	5.192	3.750	0	0	0
Steve Dillard	3B	9	0	22.0	3	6	1	1	.900	3.682	1.000	0	0	0
Steve Davis	3B	1	1	10.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.800	2.000	0	0	0
Mike Vail	3B	2	0	2.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.375	.500	0	0	0
Barry Foote	C	129	120	1030.3	713	63	17	9	.979	6.778	6.016	3	79	48	37.8
Tim Blackwell	C	63	40	385.0	245	28	7	3	.975	6.382	4.333	4	40	18	31.0
Bruce Kimm	C	9	2	31.3	30	1	1	0	.969	8.904	3.444	1	4	1	20.0
Jerry Martin	OF	144	135	1195.0	297	11	6	4	.981	2.320	2.139	0	0	0
Dave Kingman	OF	139	139	1166.3	240	11	12	3	.954	1.937	1.806	0	0	0
Scot Thompson	OF	100	74	700.0	161	7	5	3	.971	2.160	1.680	0	0	0
Bobby Murcer	OF	54	53	454.7	110	4	0	0	1.000	2.257	2.111	0	0	0
Larry Biittner	OF	44	36	299.7	46	3	4	0	.925	1.472	1.114	0	0	0
Mike Vail	OF	39	35	287.7	51	3	2	0	.964	1.689	1.385	0	0	0
Ken Henderson	OF	23	7	102.3	19	0	1	0	.950	1.671	.826	0	0	0
Miguel Dilone	OF	22	7	94.3	27	0	0	0	1.000	2.576	1.227	0	0	0
Sam Mejias	OF	23	0	40.0	7	0	1	0	.875	1.575	.304	0	0	0
Rick Reuschel	P	36	36	239.0	27	49	3	9	.962	2.862	2.111	0	0	0
Lynn McGlothen	P	42	29	212.0	15	15	0	0	1.000	1.274	.714	0	0	0
Dennis Lamp	P	38	32	200.3	17	45	3	3	.954	2.785	1.632	0	0	0
Mike Krukow	P	28	28	164.7	11	12	0	3	1.000	1.257	.821	0	0	0
Ken Holtzman	P	23	20	117.7	8	11	1	0	.950	1.453	.826	0	0	0
Dick Tidrow	P	63	0	102.7	7	20	0	1	1.000	2.367	.429	0	0	0
Bruce Sutter	P	62	0	101.3	9	15	3	0	.889	2.132	.387	0	0	0
Bill Caudill	P	29	12	90.0	5	11	0	1	1.000	1.600	.552	0	0	0
Willie Hernandez	P	51	2	79.0	4	11	1	0	.938	1.709	.294	0	0	0
Donnie Moore	P	39	1	73.0	6	15	2	0	.913	2.589	.538	0	0	0
Ray Burris	P	14	0	21.7	3	4	0	0	1.000	2.908	.500	0	0	0
Doug Capilla	P	13	1	17.3	0	5	1	0	.833	2.596	.385	0	0	0
Dave Geisel	P	7	0	15.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.200	.286	0	0	0
George Riley	P	4	1	13.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.769	1.000	0	0	0
Ivan de Jesus	SS	160	156	1383.7	235	507	32	97	.959	4.826	4.638	0	0	0
Mick Kelleher	SS	14	6	63.0	9	24	1	4	.971	4.714	2.357	0	0	0
Totals		1973	1458	13020.0	4340	1902	159	434	.975	4.315	3.164	8	123	67	35.3

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