1977 Cleveland Indians Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 71-90
Finished 5th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 900,365, Avg. 12,823
Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium
Manager: Frank Robinson (26-31)
Manager: Jeff Torborg (45-59)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

1977 Cleveland Indians Roster
1977 Cleveland Indians Results

The Cleveland Indians of the American League ended the 1977 season with a record of 71 wins and 90 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's East Division.

The Indians plated 676 runs and gave up 739 runs. Andre Thornton paced Cleveland with 28 home runs, and Rico Carty walloped 20 or more, too. Rico Carty drove in 80 runs. Buddy Bell led batters with significant playing time by hitting .292. Dennis Eckersley topped the team with 14 wins and a team-best 3.53 earned run average, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Frank Robinson and Jeff Torborg 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
Dennis Eckersley	14	13	.519	3.53	33	33	0	12	3	0	247.3	214	100	97	31	54	11	191	7	0	3	1006
Wayne Garland	13	19	.406	3.60	38	38	0	21	1	0	282.7	281	130	113	23	88	8	118	2	1	12	1184
Jim Bibby	12	13	.480	3.57	37	30	5	9	2	2	206.7	197	100	82	17	73	2	141	4	4	12	876
Rick Waits	9	7	.563	3.99	37	16	9	1	0	2	135.3	132	67	60	8	64	7	62	1	0	0	581
Jim Kern	8	10	.444	3.42	60	0	46	0	0	18	92.0	85	39	35	3	47	8	91	6	0	4	393
Al Fitzmorris	6	10	.375	5.41	29	21	1	1	0	0	133.0	164	87	80	12	53	4	54	1	1	4	601
Pat Dobson	3	12	.200	6.14	33	17	4	0	0	1	133.3	155	94	91	23	65	7	81	1	2	3	595
Don Hood	2	1	.667	3.00	41	5	7	1	0	0	105.0	87	42	35	3	49	7	62	4	0	1	448
Dave LaRoche	2	2	.500	5.30	13	0	11	0	0	4	18.7	15	13	11	3	7	1	18	0	0	1	75
Cardell Camper	1	0	1.000	3.86	3	1	1	0	0	0	9.3	7	4	4	0	4	1	9	0	0	1	40
Sid Monge	1	2	.333	6.23	33	0	15	0	0	3	39.0	47	31	27	6	27	4	25	0	0	2	186
Tom Buskey	0	0		5.29	21	0	9	0	0	0	34.0	45	24	20	6	8	1	15	1	0	1	157
Bill Laxton	0	0		5.40	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	2	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	9
Larry Andersen	0	1	.000	3.14	11	0	7	0	0	0	14.3	10	7	5	1	9	3	8	0	0	1	62
Totals	71	90	.441	4.10	391	161	116	45	6	30	1452.3	1441	739	661	136	550	64	876	27	8	47	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
Duane Kuiper	148	679	610	62	169	15	8	1	50	11	11	37	55	.277	.324	.333	.656	203	9	7	21	4	1
Buddy Bell	129	538	479	64	140	23	4	11	64	1	8	45	63	.292	.351	.426	.777	204	14	1	8	5	5
Paul Dade	134	508	461	65	134	15	3	3	45	16	8	32	58	.291	.333	.356	.689	164	12	2	4	9	4
Rico Carty	127	521	461	50	129	23	1	15	80	1	2	56	51	.280	.355	.432	.787	199	17	0	0	4	6
Bruce Bochte	112	444	392	52	119	19	1	5	43	3	2	40	38	.304	.364	.395	.759	155	17	0	7	5	3
Jim Norris	133	517	440	59	119	23	6	2	37	26	17	64	57	.270	.360	.364	.724	160	10	0	9	4	4
Andre Thornton	131	517	433	77	114	20	5	28	70	3	4	70	82	.263	.378	.527	.904	228	9	11	1	2	1
Larvell Blanks	105	351	322	43	92	10	4	6	38	3	0	19	37	.286	.324	.398	.721	128	7	1	5	4	1
Fred Kendall	103	346	317	18	79	13	1	3	39	0	1	16	27	.249	.283	.325	.608	103	8	1	7	5	1
Frank Duffy	122	369	334	30	67	13	2	4	31	8	3	21	47	.201	.247	.287	.535	96	8	0	13	1	0
Ron Pruitt	78	253	219	29	63	10	2	2	32	2	3	28	22	.288	.369	.379	.748	83	10	2	1	3	0
Ray Fosse	78	257	238	25	63	7	1	6	27	0	5	7	26	.265	.293	.378	.671	90	5	3	8	1	2
Rick Manning	68	283	252	33	57	7	3	5	18	9	5	21	35	.226	.282	.337	.619	85	4	0	6	4	0
John Lowenstein	81	172	149	24	36	6	1	4	12	1	8	21	29	.242	.335	.376	.711	56	6	0	2	0	1
Bill Melton	50	154	133	17	32	11	0	0	14	1	3	17	21	.241	.331	.323	.654	43	9	2	0	2	0
Johnny Grubb	34	113	93	8	28	3	3	2	14	0	3	19	18	.301	.425	.462	.887	43	3	1	0	0	2
Charlie Spikes	32	109	95	13	22	2	0	3	11	0	2	11	17	.232	.321	.347	.668	33	4	2	0	1	0
Dave Oliver	7	29	22	2	7	0	1	0	3	0	0	4	0	.318	.444	.409	.854	9	0	1	2	0	0
Alfredo Griffin	14	44	41	5	6	1	0	0	3	2	2	3	5	.146	.205	.171	.375	7	1	0	0	0	0
Sid Monge	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Laxton	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Kern	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Bibby	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Buskey	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Cardell Camper	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Dobson	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Eckersley	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Wayne Garland	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Andersen	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Hood	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Waits	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2080	6204	5491	676	1476	221	46	100	631	87	87	531	688	.269	.334	.380	.714	2089	153	34	94	54	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Andre Thornton	1B	117	114	1021.7	1026	71	6	97	.995	9.664	9.376	0	0	0
Bruce Bochte	1B	36	34	294.7	277	21	3	17	.990	9.102	8.278	0	0	0
Bill Melton	1B	15	11	108.0	134	8	0	10	1.000	11.833	9.467	0	0	0
Rico Carty	1B	2	2	16.0	20	3	0	4	1.000	12.938	11.500	0	0	0
Jim Norris	1B	3	0	7.0	6	0	0	1	1.000	7.714	2.000	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	1B	1	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Ray Fosse	1B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Duane Kuiper	2B	148	148	1322.0	334	449	12	104	.985	5.331	5.291	0	0	0
Larvell Blanks	2B	12	7	70.3	15	23	0	3	1.000	4.863	3.167	0	0	0
Dave Oliver	2B	7	6	57.0	20	17	2	7	.949	5.842	5.286	0	0	0
Paul Dade	2B	1	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	3B	118	115	1017.3	111	253	15	23	.960	3.220	3.085	0	0	0
Paul Dade	3B	26	20	190.3	23	41	5	1	.928	3.026	2.462	0	0	0
Larvell Blanks	3B	18	16	149.7	11	42	3	3	.946	3.187	2.944	0	0	0
Bill Melton	3B	13	10	94.0	8	20	2	1	.933	2.681	2.154	0	0	0
Ron Pruitt	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Fred Kendall	C	102	93	832.0	506	35	5	5	.991	5.852	5.304	4	90	28	23.7
Ray Fosse	C	77	67	603.3	426	48	8	4	.983	7.071	6.156	4	67	35	34.3
Ron Pruitt	C	4	1	17.0	9	4	0	0	1.000	6.882	3.250	0	1	1	50.0
Jim Norris	OF	124	115	1033.0	320	9	6	1	.982	2.866	2.653	0	0	0
Paul Dade	OF	99	88	785.3	167	10	2	2	.989	2.028	1.788	0	0	0
Bruce Bochte	OF	76	73	647.7	161	7	6	1	.966	2.335	2.211	0	0	0
Rick Manning	OF	68	62	574.7	191	2	2	0	.990	3.023	2.838	0	0	0
Ron Pruitt	OF	69	56	526.7	104	2	3	0	.972	1.811	1.536	0	0	0
John Lowenstein	OF	39	28	265.3	62	1	0	0	1.000	2.137	1.615	0	0	0
Johnny Grubb	OF	28	26	220.0	47	2	0	0	1.000	2.005	1.750	0	0	0
Charlie Spikes	OF	27	24	207.0	34	1	1	1	.972	1.522	1.296	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	OF	11	11	97.3	23	0	1	0	.958	2.127	2.091	0	0	0
Wayne Garland	P	38	38	282.7	24	42	3	3	.957	2.101	1.737	0	0	0
Dennis Eckersley	P	33	33	247.3	6	22	2	1	.933	1.019	.848	0	0	0
Jim Bibby	P	37	30	206.7	14	21	5	0	.875	1.524	.946	0	0	0
Rick Waits	P	37	16	135.3	4	24	2	1	.933	1.862	.757	0	0	0
Pat Dobson	P	33	17	133.3	9	22	2	0	.939	2.093	.939	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	P	29	21	133.0	7	22	1	1	.967	1.962	1.000	0	0	0
Don Hood	P	41	5	105.0	4	10	2	1	.875	1.200	.341	0	0	0
Jim Kern	P	60	0	92.0	5	13	3	2	.857	1.761	.300	0	0	0
Sid Monge	P	33	0	39.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	.923	.121	0	0	0
Tom Buskey	P	21	0	34.0	4	3	0	0	1.000	1.853	.333	0	0	0
Dave LaRoche	P	13	0	18.7	1	1	0	1	1.000	.964	.154	0	0	0
Larry Andersen	P	11	0	14.3	3	6	2	1	.818	5.651	.818	0	0	0
Cardell Camper	P	3	1	9.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bill Laxton	P	2	0	1.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	.500	0	0	0
Frank Duffy	SS	121	104	930.3	145	301	15	62	.967	4.315	3.686	0	0	0
Larvell Blanks	SS	66	45	418.0	74	116	8	21	.960	4.091	2.879	0	0	0
Alfredo Griffin	SS	13	12	104.0	17	30	3	6	.940	4.067	3.615	0	0	0
Totals		1834	1449	13071.0	4357	1706	130	385	.979	4.175	3.306	8	158	64	28.8

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