1978 Toronto Blue Jays Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 59-102
Finished 7th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,562,585, Avg. 21,404
Ballpark: Exhibition Stadium
Manager: Roy Hartsfield (59-102)
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1978 Toronto Blue Jays Roster
1978 Toronto Blue Jays Results

The Toronto Blue Jays of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 59 wins and 102 losses, finishing seventh in the AL's East Division.

The Blue Jays scored 590 runs and yielded 775 runs. John Mayberry led Toronto with 22 home runs, while Rico Carty walloped 20 or more, too. John Mayberry drove in 70 runs. Roy Howell paced all regular batters by hitting .270. Jim Clancy topped the squad with 10 wins and a team-best 4.09 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Roy Hartsfield 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
Jim Clancy	10	12	.455	4.09	31	30	0	7	0	0	193.7	199	96	88	10	91	1	106	1	0	10	846
Victor Cruz	7	3	.700	1.71	32	0	23	0	0	9	47.3	28	10	9	0	35	4	51	1	0	3	199
Jesse Jefferson	7	16	.304	4.38	31	30	1	9	2	0	211.7	214	109	103	28	86	5	97	3	1	4	907
Tom Murphy	6	9	.400	3.93	50	0	35	0	0	7	94.0	87	43	41	11	37	10	36	0	0	6	396
Balor Moore	6	9	.400	4.93	37	18	5	2	0	0	144.3	165	85	79	16	54	1	75	7	2	2	635
Tom Underwood	6	14	.300	4.10	31	30	0	7	1	0	197.7	201	105	90	23	87	4	139	2	0	7	864
Don Kirkwood	4	5	.444	4.24	16	9	2	3	0	0	68.0	76	36	32	6	25	1	29	0	0	3	293
Jerry Garvin	4	12	.250	5.54	26	22	2	3	0	0	144.7	189	92	89	20	48	4	67	4	0	0	656
Dave Lemanczyk	4	14	.222	6.26	29	20	5	3	0	0	136.7	170	97	95	16	65	1	62	3	1	4	620
Mike Willis	3	7	.300	4.56	44	2	22	1	0	7	100.7	104	55	51	11	39	2	52	0	1	2	434
Joe Coleman	2	0	1.000	4.60	31	0	20	0	0	0	60.7	67	34	31	6	30	3	28	1	0	5	272
Dave Wallace	0	0		3.86	6	0	4	0	0	0	14.0	12	6	6	1	11	0	7	0	0	1	62
Mark Wiley	0	0		6.75	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.7	3	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	12
Tom Buskey	0	1	.000	3.38	8	0	6	0	0	0	13.3	14	5	5	1	5	4	7	0	0	0	59
Totals	59	102	.366	4.54	374	161	126	35	3	23	1429.3	1529	775	721	149	614	40	758	22	5	47	6255

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
Bob Bailor	154	676	621	74	164	29	7	1	52	5	6	38	21	.264	.310	.338	.649	210	8	5	9	3	1
Roy Howell	140	601	551	67	149	28	3	8	61	0	1	44	78	.270	.325	.376	.701	207	10	1	4	1	3
Rick Bosetti	136	608	568	61	147	25	5	5	42	6	10	30	65	.259	.299	.347	.645	197	5	3	5	2	0
John Mayberry	152	587	515	51	129	15	2	22	70	1	2	60	57	.250	.329	.416	.745	214	13	4	1	7	2
Dave McKay	145	537	504	59	120	20	8	7	45	4	4	20	91	.238	.268	.351	.619	177	17	1	10	2	2
Rico Carty	104	430	387	51	110	16	0	20	68	1	1	36	41	.284	.340	.481	.821	186	7	0	1	6	5
Luis Gomez	153	469	413	39	92	7	3	0	32	2	10	34	41	.223	.280	.254	.534	105	10	0	19	3	1
Alan Ashby	81	298	264	27	69	15	0	9	29	1	1	28	32	.261	.333	.420	.754	111	10	1	4	1	4
Otto Velez	91	300	248	29	66	14	2	9	38	1	3	45	41	.266	.380	.448	.828	111	8	2	3	2	1
Rick Cerone	88	310	282	25	63	8	2	3	20	0	3	23	32	.223	.284	.298	.582	84	7	1	4	0	0
Al Woods	62	239	220	19	53	12	3	3	25	1	2	11	23	.241	.278	.364	.641	80	5	1	5	2	1
Willie Upshaw	95	250	224	26	53	8	2	1	17	4	6	21	35	.237	.298	.304	.602	68	4	0	2	3	0
Tom Hutton	64	197	173	19	44	9	0	2	9	1	2	19	11	.254	.328	.341	.669	59	5	0	5	0	0
Doug Ault	54	124	104	10	25	1	1	3	7	0	0	17	14	.240	.352	.356	.708	37	6	1	2	0	1
Willie Horton	33	127	122	12	25	6	0	3	19	0	0	4	29	.205	.228	.328	.556	40	6	0	0	1	0
Tim Johnson	68	92	79	9	19	2	0	0	3	0	1	8	16	.241	.315	.266	.580	21	0	1	3	1	0
Sam Ewing	40	62	56	3	10	0	0	2	9	0	0	5	9	.179	.242	.286	.528	16	0	0	0	1	2
Garth Iorg	19	55	49	3	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	4	.163	.218	.163	.381	8	3	1	0	2	0
Butch Alberts	6	18	18	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.278	.278	.333	.611	6	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Milner	2	9	9	3	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	.444	.444	.667	1.111	6	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Woods	8	20	19	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	.158	.200	.211	.411	4	0	0	0	0	0
Ernie Whitt	2	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Kirkwood	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Buskey	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Willis	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Wiley	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Wallace	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Clancy	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Coleman	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Underwood	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Nordbrook	7	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1.000			0	0	1	0	0	0
Tom Murphy	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Balor Moore	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Victor Cruz	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Garvin	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Lemanczyk	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jesse Jefferson	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2079	6015	5430	590	1358	217	39	98	551	28	52	448	645	.250	.308	.359	.667	1947	124	23	77	37	23

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
John Mayberry	1B	139	133	1164.3	1143	52	8	120	.993	9.237	8.597	0	0	0
Doug Ault	1B	25	21	163.7	178	10	4	13	.979	1.338	7.520	0	0	0
Willie Upshaw	1B	10	5	58.0	50	2	2	4	.963	8.069	5.200	0	0	0
Tom Hutton	1B	9	1	32.3	38	2	1	3	.976	11.134	4.444	0	0	0
Otto Velez	1B	1	1	11.0	11	2	0	0	1.000	1.636	13.000	0	0	0
Dave McKay	2B	140	137	1213.3	310	408	12	96	.984	5.326	5.129	0	0	0
Garth Iorg	2B	18	17	137.0	34	51	3	14	.966	5.584	4.722	0	0	0
Tim Johnson	2B	13	7	79.0	14	37	0	10	1.000	5.810	3.923	0	0	0
Roy Howell	3B	131	131	1166.3	109	306	22	27	.950	3.202	3.168	0	0	0
Bob Bailor	3B	28	28	247.0	25	64	3	8	.967	3.243	3.179	0	0	0
Dave McKay	3B	2	2	16.0	0	5	0	0	1.000	2.813	2.500	0	0	0
Rick Cerone	C	84	78	712.0	426	44	4	7	.992	5.941	5.595	8	49	33	40.2
Alan Ashby	C	81	80	694.7	399	38	6	6	.986	5.662	5.395	7	50	32	39.0
Brian Milner	C	2	2	14.7	4	0	1	0	.800	2.455	2.000	1	2	0	0.0
Ernie Whitt	C	1	1	8.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	8.000	0	0	1	100.0
Rick Bosetti	OF	135	135	1187.7	417	17	6	1	.986	3.289	3.215	0	0	0
Bob Bailor	OF	125	123	1086.3	303	15	12	7	.964	2.635	2.544	0	0	0
Otto Velez	OF	74	58	562.0	150	10	3	4	.982	2.562	2.162	0	0	0
Al Woods	OF	60	59	528.0	131	2	3	0	.978	2.267	2.217	0	0	0
Tom Hutton	OF	55	48	394.0	85	2	0	0	1.000	1.987	1.582	0	0	0
Willie Upshaw	OF	52	43	390.0	81	2	5	1	.943	1.915	1.596	0	0	0
Doug Ault	OF	7	5	43.0	12	0	2	0	.857	2.512	1.714	0	0	0
Gary Woods	OF	6	5	42.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000	0	0	0
Roy Howell	OF	5	5	41.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.537	1.400	0	0	0
Sam Ewing	OF	3	2	14.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.571	1.333	0	0	0
Jesse Jefferson	P	31	30	211.7	15	31	3	3	.939	1.956	1.484	0	0	0
Tom Underwood	P	31	30	197.7	5	19	5	0	.828	1.093	.774	0	0	0
Jim Clancy	P	31	30	193.7	14	30	2	3	.957	2.045	1.419	0	0	0
Jerry Garvin	P	26	22	144.7	9	28	0	1	1.000	2.302	1.423	0	0	0
Balor Moore	P	37	18	144.3	4	29	3	2	.917	2.058	.892	0	0	0
Dave Lemanczyk	P	29	20	136.7	2	22	2	1	.923	1.580	.828	0	0	0
Mike Willis	P	44	2	100.7	4	18	1	0	.957	1.967	.500	0	0	0
Tom Murphy	P	50	0	94.0	4	24	0	1	1.000	2.681	.560	0	0	0
Don Kirkwood	P	16	9	68.0	4	12	0	0	1.000	2.118	1.000	0	0	0
Joe Coleman	P	31	0	60.7	3	5	0	0	1.000	1.187	.258	0	0	0
Victor Cruz	P	32	0	47.3	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.141	.188	0	0	0
Dave Wallace	P	6	0	14.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.286	.333	0	0	0
Tom Buskey	P	8	0	13.3	0	5	0	0	1.000	3.375	.625	0	0	0
Mark Wiley	P	2	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Luis Gomez	SS	153	149	1236.7	247	400	16	97	.976	4.709	4.229	0	0	0
Tim Johnson	SS	49	12	163.7	23	55	2	7	.975	4.289	1.592	0	0	0
Bob Bailor	SS	4	0	13.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.769	1.000	0	0	0
Tim Nordbrook	SS	7	0	12.0	1	5	0	1	1.000	4.500	.857	0	0	0
Dave McKay	SS	3	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.333	0	0	0
Totals		1796	1449	12864.0	4288	1763	131	437	.979	4.233	3.369	16	101	66	39.5

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