1979 Oakland Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 54-108
Finished 7th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 306,763, Avg. 3,984
Ballpark: Oakland Coliseum
Manager: Jim Marshall (54-108)
Location: Oakland, California

1979 Oakland Athletics Roster
1979 Oakland Athletics Results

The Oakland Athletics of the American League ended the 1979 season with a record of 54 wins and 108 losses, finishing seventh in the AL's West Division.

The Athletics scored 573 runs, worst in the league, and allowed 860 runs. Jeff Newman led Oakland with 22 home runs, while Dave Revering walloped 20 or more, too. Dave Revering drove in 77 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .288. Rick Langford paced the squad with 12 wins, and Steve McCatty recorded a 4.22 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Jim Marshall 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 Langford	12	16	.429	4.28	34	29	0	14	1	0	218.7	233	114	104	22	57	6	101	4	1	16	934
Steve McCatty	11	12	.478	4.22	31	23	4	8	0	0	185.7	207	106	87	17	80	8	87	10	0	2	841
Brian Kingman	8	7	.533	4.31	18	17	1	5	1	0	112.7	113	59	54	10	33	1	58	3	0	10	481
Mike Norris	5	8	.385	4.80	29	18	3	3	0	0	146.3	146	87	78	11	94	9	96	9	1	10	669
Dave Heaverlo	4	11	.267	4.20	62	0	42	0	0	9	85.7	97	42	40	7	42	18	40	4	1	0	392
Dave Hamilton	3	4	.429	3.70	40	7	16	1	0	5	82.7	80	42	34	5	43	2	52	1	0	2	361
Jim Todd	2	5	.286	6.56	51	0	21	0	0	2	81.0	108	66	59	12	51	10	26	2	0	5	391
John Henry Johnson	2	8	.200	4.36	14	13	0	1	0	0	84.7	89	45	41	13	36	0	50	1	0	1	372
Mike Morgan	2	10	.167	5.94	13	13	0	2	0	0	77.3	102	57	51	7	50	0	17	3	0	7	368
Matt Keough	2	17	.105	5.04	30	28	2	7	1	0	176.7	220	115	99	18	78	2	95	7	0	13	800
Alan Wirth	1	0	1.000	6.00	5	1	0	0	0	0	12.0	14	8	8	2	8	0	7	1	0	0	58
Craig Minetto	1	5	.167	5.55	36	13	12	0	0	0	118.3	131	85	73	16	58	3	64	3	1	2	539
Bob Lacey	1	5	.167	5.85	42	0	20	0	0	4	47.7	66	34	31	7	24	8	33	1	0	4	230
Totals	54	108	.333	4.78	405	162	121	41	3	20	1429.3	1606	860	759	147	654	67	726	49	4	72	6436

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
Dave Revering	125	513	472	63	136	25	5	19	77	1	4	34	65	.288	.334	.483	.817	228	6	1	1	5	5
Jeff Newman	143	552	516	53	119	17	2	22	71	2	1	27	88	.231	.267	.399	.666	206	17	1	2	6	2
Mitchell Page	133	539	478	51	118	11	2	9	42	17	16	52	93	.247	.323	.335	.657	160	9	3	3	3	5
Dwayne Murphy	121	489	388	57	99	10	4	11	40	15	11	84	80	.255	.387	.387	.773	150	10	1	13	3	6
Wayne Gross	138	521	442	54	99	19	1	14	50	4	3	72	62	.224	.332	.367	.699	162	8	1	3	3	9
Rickey Henderson	89	398	351	49	96	13	3	1	26	33	11	34	39	.274	.338	.336	.675	118	4	2	8	3	0
Mike Edwards	122	422	400	35	93	12	2	1	23	10	6	15	37	.233	.263	.280	.543	112	11	2	4	1	0
Rob Picciolo	115	363	348	37	88	16	2	2	27	2	1	3	45	.253	.261	.328	.589	114	9	1	11	0	1
Jim Essian	98	352	313	34	76	16	0	8	40	0	1	25	29	.243	.295	.371	.666	116	12	2	3	9	1
Tony Armas	80	297	278	29	69	9	3	11	34	1	0	16	67	.248	.290	.421	.710	117	6	1	0	2	2
Mike Heath	74	286	258	19	66	8	0	3	27	1	0	17	18	.256	.304	.322	.626	83	14	3	3	5	1
Dave Chalk	66	250	212	15	47	6	0	2	13	2	1	29	14	.222	.317	.278	.595	59	6	1	7	1	0
Larry Murray	105	261	226	25	42	11	2	2	20	6	6	28	34	.186	.275	.279	.553	63	2	0	6	1	1
Mario Guerrero	46	177	166	12	38	5	0	0	18	0	1	6	7	.229	.253	.259	.512	43	5	0	3	2	0
Glenn Burke	23	94	89	4	19	2	1	0	4	3	1	4	10	.213	.247	.258	.506	23	3	0	1	0	1
Derek Bryant	39	120	106	8	19	2	1	0	13	0	0	10	10	.179	.246	.217	.463	23	4	0	2	2	1
Miguel Dilone	30	99	91	15	17	1	2	1	6	6	5	6	7	.187	.237	.275	.512	25	2	0	2	0	0
Mickey Klutts	24	80	73	3	14	2	1	1	4	0	1	7	20	.192	.263	.288	.550	21	1	0	0	0	0
Joe Wallis	23	91	78	6	11	2	0	1	3	1	0	10	18	.141	.247	.205	.452	16	1	1	2	0	1
Milt Ramirez	28	66	62	4	10	1	1	0	3	0	0	3	8	.161	.200	.210	.410	13	1	0	1	0	0
Dave Heaverlo	62	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Lacey	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Todd	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Hamilton	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Henry Johnson	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Norris	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Keough	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Kingman	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Morgan	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Minetto	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve McCatty	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Langford	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Alan Wirth	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2027	5971	5348	573	1276	188	32	108	541	104	69	482	751	.239	.302	.346	.648	1852	131	20	75	46	36

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Dave Revering	1B	104	104	901.3	828	80	13	77	.986	9.067	8.731	0	0	0
Jeff Newman	1B	46	42	373.7	350	30	7	29	.982	9.153	8.261	0	0	0
Wayne Gross	1B	18	12	118.3	129	14	1	8	.993	1.876	7.944	0	0	0
Jim Essian	1B	4	4	36.0	35	2	0	4	1.000	9.250	9.250	0	0	0
Mike Edwards	2B	113	106	935.0	244	314	22	54	.962	5.371	4.938	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	2B	37	35	296.7	77	93	2	22	.988	5.157	4.595	0	0	0
Milt Ramirez	2B	11	8	80.0	14	19	1	5	.971	3.713	3.000	0	0	0
Mickey Klutts	2B	8	7	59.0	19	15	1	3	.971	5.186	4.250	0	0	0
Rob Picciolo	2B	6	6	52.7	11	16	0	4	1.000	4.614	4.500	0	0	0
Larry Murray	2B	3	0	6.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.667	0	0	0
Wayne Gross	3B	120	116	999.7	120	211	20	19	.943	2.980	2.758	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	3B	16	13	125.3	15	25	3	1	.930	2.872	2.500	0	0	0
Jim Essian	3B	10	10	80.0	15	20	1	2	.972	3.938	3.500	0	0	0
Mickey Klutts	3B	6	6	55.0	7	14	2	0	.913	3.436	3.500	0	0	0
Mike Heath	3B	7	6	52.0	1	14	0	0	1.000	2.596	2.143	0	0	0
Jeff Newman	3B	7	6	51.0	2	12	1	2	.933	2.471	2.000	0	0	0
Milt Ramirez	3B	12	3	46.3	4	8	1	0	.923	2.331	1.000	0	0	0
Rob Picciolo	3B	4	2	20.0	1	7	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0
Jeff Newman	C	81	79	680.0	378	53	10	7	.977	5.704	5.321	4	41	36	46.8
Jim Essian	C	70	66	584.3	348	57	8	5	.981	6.238	5.786	7	62	39	38.6
Mike Heath	C	22	17	165.0	80	13	3	0	.969	5.073	4.227	4	14	11	44.0
Dwayne Murphy	OF	118	117	1011.7	322	10	4	0	.988	2.954	2.814	0	0	0
Rickey Henderson	OF	88	89	768.7	215	5	6	0	.973	2.576	2.500	0	0	0
Tony Armas	OF	80	78	669.3	194	7	5	2	.976	2.703	2.513	0	0	0
Larry Murray	OF	90	58	578.3	173	7	7	2	.963	2.801	2.000	0	0	0
Mike Heath	OF	46	43	351.0	86	5	2	2	.978	2.333	1.978	0	0	0
Derek Bryant	OF	33	27	247.0	55	2	0	0	1.000	2.077	1.727	0	0	0
Glenn Burke	OF	23	23	202.0	46	2	0	0	1.000	2.139	2.087	0	0	0
Miguel Dilone	OF	25	22	200.0	47	0	2	0	.959	2.115	1.880	0	0	0
Joe Wallis	OF	23	21	188.0	41	1	0	0	1.000	2.011	1.826	0	0	0
Mitchell Page	OF	4	4	33.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.636	1.500	0	0	0
Jim Essian	OF	4	3	23.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.783	.500	0	0	0
Wayne Gross	OF	2	1	11.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.455	1.500	0	0	0
Rob Picciolo	OF	1	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rick Langford	P	34	29	218.7	26	36	0	3	1.000	2.552	1.824	0	0	0
Steve McCatty	P	31	23	185.7	12	20	3	3	.914	1.551	1.032	0	0	0
Matt Keough	P	30	28	176.7	23	28	3	5	.944	2.598	1.700	0	0	0
Mike Norris	P	29	18	146.3	6	17	1	0	.958	1.415	.793	0	0	0
Craig Minetto	P	36	13	118.3	4	10	0	0	1.000	1.065	.389	0	0	0
Brian Kingman	P	18	17	112.7	8	8	2	0	.889	1.278	.889	0	0	0
Dave Heaverlo	P	62	0	85.7	9	13	2	1	.917	2.311	.355	0	0	0
John Henry Johnson	P	14	13	84.7	4	7	0	2	1.000	1.169	.786	0	0	0
Dave Hamilton	P	40	7	82.7	3	15	0	0	1.000	1.960	.450	0	0	0
Jim Todd	P	51	0	81.0	5	14	0	2	1.000	2.111	.373	0	0	0
Mike Morgan	P	13	13	77.3	9	15	1	0	.960	2.793	1.846	0	0	0
Bob Lacey	P	42	0	47.7	3	7	0	0	1.000	1.888	.238	0	0	0
Alan Wirth	P	5	1	12.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.250	.600	0	0	0
Rob Picciolo	SS	105	93	841.7	191	265	17	51	.964	4.876	4.343	0	0	0
Mario Guerrero	SS	43	43	367.3	68	129	10	33	.952	4.827	4.581	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	SS	16	13	117.0	30	33	6	8	.913	4.846	3.938	0	0	0
Mickey Klutts	SS	10	9	56.3	9	21	4	3	.882	4.793	3.000	0	0	0
Milt Ramirez	SS	8	4	40.0	7	16	3	0	.885	5.175	2.875	0	0	0
Mike Edwards	SS	3	0	7.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	7.714	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		1832	1458	12864.0	4288	1718	174	359	.972	4.202	3.278	15	117	86	42.4

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