1968 Cleveland Indians Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 86-75
Finished 3rd in the AL
Attendance: 857,994, Avg. 11,737
Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium
Manager: Al Dark (86-75)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

1968 Cleveland Indians Roster
1968 Cleveland Indians Results

The Cleveland Indians of the American League ended the 1968 season with a record of 86 wins and 75 losses, finishing third in the AL.

The Indians plated 516 runs and surrendered 504 runs. Tony Horton paced Cleveland with 14 home runs and drove in 59 runs. Jose Cardenal led all regular hitters by hitting .257. Luis Tiant topped the squad with 21 wins, while Sam McDowell added 15 or more wins, too Luis Tiant recorded a 1.60 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Al Dark 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
Luis Tiant	21	9	.700	1.60	34	32	0	19	9	0	258.3	152	53	46	16	73	4	264	4	0	3	987
Sam McDowell	15	14	.517	1.81	38	37	0	11	3	0	269.0	181	78	54	13	110	9	283	10	1	7	1098
Stan Williams	13	11	.542	2.50	44	24	16	6	2	9	194.3	163	64	54	14	51	7	147	10	0	1	796
Sonny Siebert	12	10	.545	2.97	31	30	0	8	4	0	206.0	145	76	68	12	88	10	146	8	0	7	844
Steve Hargan	8	15	.348	4.15	32	27	3	4	2	0	158.3	139	81	73	11	81	8	78	5	0	4	677
Vicente Romo	5	3	.625	1.62	40	1	29	0	0	12	83.3	43	15	15	5	32	6	54	2	0	4	321
Mike Paul	5	8	.385	3.93	36	7	13	0	0	3	91.7	72	42	40	11	35	5	87	5	1	0	383
Eddie Fisher	4	2	.667	2.85	54	0	24	0	0	4	94.7	87	36	30	8	17	3	42	2	0	6	380
Hal Kurtz	1	0	1.000	5.21	28	0	12	0	0	1	38.0	37	24	22	2	15	6	16	5	0	4	169
Billy Rohr	1	0	1.000	6.87	17	0	7	0	0	1	18.3	18	16	14	5	10	2	5	0	0	1	81
Horacio Pina	1	1	.500	1.72	12	3	3	0	0	2	31.3	24	7	6	0	15	1	24	1	0	0	128
Willie Smith	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	17
Rob Gardner	0	0		6.75	5	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	5	3	2	0	2	0	6	0	0	0	15
Darrell Sutherland	0	0		8.10	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	6	3	3	0	4	1	2	0	0	3	20
Mike Hedlund	0	0		10.80	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	6	2	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	14
Tommy Gramly	0	1	.000	2.70	3	0	3	0	0	0	3.3	3	1	1	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	15
Steve Bailey	0	1	.000	3.60	2	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	4	3	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	21
Totals	86	75	.534	2.66	384	162	114	48	20	32	1464.3	1087	504	432	98	540	64	1157	53	2	42	5966

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
Jose Cardenal	157	629	583	78	150	21	7	7	44	40	18	39	74	.257	.305	.353	.658	206	3	2	2	3	3
Tony Horton	133	517	477	57	119	29	3	14	59	3	1	34	56	.249	.302	.411	.713	196	8	3	1	2	5
Larry Brown	154	553	495	43	116	18	3	6	35	1	1	43	46	.234	.300	.319	.619	158	12	5	6	4	10
Max Alvis	131	503	452	38	101	17	3	8	37	5	5	41	91	.223	.292	.327	.619	148	11	4	3	3	5
Joe Azcue	115	389	357	23	100	10	0	4	42	1	1	28	33	.280	.331	.342	.672	122	9	0	2	2	5
Duke Sims	122	429	361	48	90	21	0	11	44	1	3	62	68	.249	.366	.399	.765	144	8	5	0	1	11
Lee Maye	109	316	299	20	84	13	2	4	26	0	0	15	24	.281	.316	.378	.694	113	4	1	0	1	0
Russ Snyder	68	246	217	30	61	8	2	2	23	1	1	25	21	.281	.354	.364	.718	79	5	0	3	1	0
Vern Fuller	97	278	244	14	59	8	2	0	18	2	2	24	49	.242	.316	.291	.607	71	5	4	3	3	2
Chico Salmon	103	297	276	24	59	8	1	3	12	7	7	12	30	.214	.253	.283	.536	78	5	3	5	1	0
Lou Johnson	65	218	202	25	52	11	1	5	23	6	1	9	24	.257	.298	.396	.694	80	4	4	0	3	2
Tommy Harper	130	266	235	26	51	15	2	6	26	11	7	26	56	.217	.295	.374	.670	88	3	1	2	2	2
Dave Nelson	88	216	189	26	44	4	5	0	19	23	7	17	35	.233	.295	.307	.602	58	1	1	6	3	0
Vic Davalillo	51	186	180	15	43	2	3	2	13	8	6	3	19	.239	.254	.317	.571	57	2	1	1	1	0
Jimmie Hall	53	121	111	4	22	4	0	1	8	1	0	10	19	.198	.264	.261	.526	29	2	0	0	0	3
Billy Harris	38	103	94	10	20	5	1	0	3	2	0	8	22	.213	.275	.287	.562	27	4	0	1	0	0
Sam McDowell	38	96	85	5	13	0	0	0	6	0	0	3	35	.153	.189	.153	.342	13	1	1	6	1	0
Richie Scheinblum	19	64	55	3	12	5	0	0	5	0	0	5	8	.218	.281	.309	.590	17	2	1	0	3	0
Sonny Siebert	33	78	70	2	11	3	0	0	6	0	0	1	23	.157	.192	.200	.392	14	1	2	5	0	0
Leon Wagner	38	55	49	5	9	4	0	0	6	0	0	6	6	.184	.273	.265	.538	13	2	0	0	0	0
Steve Hargan	32	53	51	3	9	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	15	.176	.192	.216	.408	11	1	0	1	0	0
Jose Vidal	37	56	54	5	9	0	0	2	5	3	0	2	15	.167	.196	.278	.474	15	0	0	0	0	0
Stan Williams	44	64	56	3	9	1	0	0	5	0	0	4	30	.161	.217	.179	.395	10	0	0	4	0	0
Luis Tiant	34	98	87	4	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	14	.080	.080	.092	.172	8	1	0	11	0	0
Willie Smith	33	47	42	1	6	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	14	.143	.213	.190	.403	8	1	1	0	1	2
Mike Paul	36	26	24	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	13	.167	.200	.167	.367	4	0	0	1	0	0
Vicente Romo	40	18	14	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	2	0	0	4	0	0
Lou Klimchock	11	17	15	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	.133	.176	.133	.310	2	0	0	0	1	1
Russ Nagelson	5	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.333	.600	.333	.933	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Suarez	17	11	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	1	0	0	0	0
Hal Kurtz	30	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Leon	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Rohr	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Fisher	54	13	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.077	.000	.077	0	0	0	0	0	0
Horacio Pina	12	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Lou Piniella	6	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	1	0
Rob Gardner	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tommy Gramly	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Darrell Sutherland	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Fosse	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Hedlund	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Bailey	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2174	5988	5416	516	1266	210	36	75	476	115	61	427	858	.234	.293	.327	.620	1773	96	39	69	37	51

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Tony Horton	1B	128	124	1105.3	972	63	8	80	.992	8.427	8.086	0	0	0	0
Duke Sims	1B	31	28	254.3	191	19	6	16	.972	7.431	6.774	0	0	0	0
Chico Salmon	1B	11	5	45.0	28	2	1	3	.968	6.000	2.727	0	0	0	0
Willie Smith	1B	7	4	43.3	51	2	0	5	1.000	11.008	7.571	0	0	0	0
Jose Vidal	1B	1	1	9.0	6	2	0	0	1.000	8.000	8.000	0	0	0	0
Russ Snyder	1B	1	0	6.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	7.105	5.000	0	0	0	0
Lou Klimchock	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Mike Paul	1B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0	0
Lee Maye	1B	1	0	0.0	0	0	1	0	.000		.000	0	0	0	0
Vern Fuller	2B	73	51	500.3	112	129	3	24	.988	4.335	3.301	0	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	2B	59	53	452.0	115	114	3	26	.987	4.560	3.881	0	0	0	0
Chico Salmon	2B	45	37	339.0	76	92	5	18	.971	4.460	3.733	0	0	0	0
Billy Harris	2B	27	21	165.0	35	61	3	9	.970	5.236	3.556	0	0	0	0
Tommy Harper	2B	2	0	5.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.500	0	0	0	0
Lou Klimchock	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ken Suarez	2B	1	0	0.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Max Alvis	3B	128	123	1104.3	114	202	13	18	.960	2.575	2.469	0	0	0	0
Vern Fuller	3B	23	19	175.0	21	21	3	1	.933	2.160	1.826	0	0	0	0
Chico Salmon	3B	18	10	105.3	13	20	1	2	.971	2.820	1.833	0	0	0	0
Billy Harris	3B	10	7	58.0	4	9	1	2	.929	2.017	1.300	0	0	0	0
Lou Klimchock	3B	4	3	21.3	0	2	2	0	.500	.844	.500	0	0	0	0
Ken Suarez	3B	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joe Azcue	C	97	90	797.7	699	50	3	11	.996	8.451	7.722	9	24	24	23	48.9
Duke Sims	C	84	71	638.3	523	41	10	7	.983	7.952	6.714	13	17	37	21	36.2
Ken Suarez	C	12	1	26.3	22	1	0	0	1.000	7.861	1.917	0	1	0	0
Ray Fosse	C	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jose Cardenal	OF	153	142	1310.3	367	12	10	7	.974	2.603	2.477	0	0	0	0
Tommy Harper	OF	115	54	629.3	121	0	2	0	.984	1.730	1.052	0	0	0	0
Lee Maye	OF	80	74	560.3	123	4	2	0	.984	2.040	1.588	0	0	0	0
Lou Johnson	OF	57	49	447.7	87	5	1	1	.989	1.850	1.614	0	0	0	0
Russ Snyder	OF	54	52	440.0	106	4	1	3	.991	2.250	2.037	0	0	0	0
Vic Davalillo	OF	49	46	413.7	84	4	3	1	.967	1.915	1.796	0	0	0	0
Jimmie Hall	OF	29	24	198.0	57	1	1	1	.983	2.636	2.000	0	0	0	0
Richie Scheinblum	OF	16	14	129.0	34	0	0	0	1.000	2.372	2.125	0	0	0	0
Jose Vidal	OF	26	10	112.3	16	0	0	0	1.000	1.282	.615	0	0	0	0
Leon Wagner	OF	10	10	58.3	3	0	3	0	.500	.463	.300	0	0	0	0
Chico Salmon	OF	13	6	56.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	1.768	.846	0	0	0	0
Duke Sims	OF	4	3	23.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	3.130	2.000	0	0	0	0
Willie Smith	OF	1	1	8.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.125	1.000	0	0	0	0
Lou Piniella	OF	2	1	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	.500	0	0	0	0
Ken Suarez	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Sam McDowell	P	38	37	269.0	10	30	4	7	.909	1.338	1.053	0	0	0	0
Luis Tiant	P	34	32	258.3	15	19	1	2	.971	1.185	1.000	0	0	0	0
Sonny Siebert	P	31	30	205.7	18	33	4	2	.927	2.232	1.645	0	0	0	0
Stan Williams	P	44	24	194.3	7	27	1	2	.971	1.575	.773	0	0	0	0
Steve Hargan	P	32	27	158.3	14	16	3	1	.909	1.705	.938	0	0	0	0
Eddie Fisher	P	54	0	95.0	9	18	0	1	1.000	2.558	.500	0	0	0	0
Mike Paul	P	36	7	91.7	3	9	1	0	.923	1.178	.333	0	0	0	0
Vicente Romo	P	40	1	83.3	6	11	0	1	1.000	1.836	.425	0	0	0	0
Hal Kurtz	P	28	0	38.0	0	5	1	1	.833	1.184	.179	0	0	0	0
Horacio Pina	P	12	3	31.3	1	4	0	1	1.000	1.436	.417	0	0	0	0
Billy Rohr	P	17	0	18.3	1	4	1	0	.833	2.455	.294	0	0	0	0
Willie Smith	P	2	0	5.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	3.600	1.000	0	0	0	0
Steve Bailey	P	2	1	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Darrell Sutherland	P	3	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Tommy Gramly	P	3	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Rob Gardner	P	5	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Mike Hedlund	P	3	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	.333	0	0	0	0
Larry Brown	SS	154	150	1300.0	255	371	22	70	.966	4.334	4.065	0	0	0	0
Chico Salmon	SS	15	11	113.3	24	31	1	6	.982	4.368	3.667	0	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	SS	14	1	30.0	9	13	1	1	.957	6.600	1.571	0	0	0	0
Eddie Leon	SS	6	0	13.0	3	5	0	3	1.000	5.538	1.333	0	0	0	0
Billy Harris	SS	1	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.000	0	0	0	0
Vern Fuller	SS	4	0	4.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1956	1458	13179.0	4385	1461	127	334	.979	3.992	2.989	22	42	61	44	41.9

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