1979 Toronto Blue Jays Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 53-109
Finished 7th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,431,651, Avg. 18,593
Ballpark: Exhibition Stadium
Manager: Roy Hartsfield (53-109)
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1979 Toronto Blue Jays Roster
1979 Toronto Blue Jays Results

The Toronto Blue Jays of the American League ended the 1979 season with a record of 53 wins and 109 losses, finishing seventh in the AL's East Division.

The Blue Jays scored 613 runs and allowed 862 runs, most in the circuit. John Mayberry led Toronto with 21 home runs, while Roy Howell and Otto Velez walloped 20 or more also. John Mayberry drove in 74 runs. Alfredo Griffin paced all regular batters by hitting .287. Tom Underwood topped the team with 9 wins and a team-best 3.69 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
Tom Underwood	9	16	.360	3.69	33	32	0	12	1	0	227.0	213	113	93	23	95	3	127	9	0	11	963
Dave Stieb	8	8	.500	4.31	18	18	0	7	1	0	129.3	139	70	62	11	48	3	52	4	1	3	563
Dave Lemanczyk	8	10	.444	3.71	22	20	1	11	3	0	143.0	137	65	59	12	45	2	63	6	0	11	597
Tom Buskey	6	10	.375	3.43	44	0	40	0	0	7	78.7	74	33	30	10	25	7	44	1	0	3	329
Phil Huffman	6	18	.250	5.77	31	31	0	2	1	0	173.0	220	130	111	25	68	0	56	0	3	5	802
Balor Moore	5	7	.417	4.84	34	16	9	5	0	0	139.3	135	85	75	17	79	4	51	8	1	8	614
Butch Edge	3	4	.429	5.23	9	9	0	1	0	0	51.7	60	32	30	6	24	1	19	1	0	4	240
Dave Freisleben	2	3	.400	4.95	42	2	26	0	0	3	91.0	101	57	50	5	53	3	35	2	1	6	407
Jim Clancy	2	7	.222	5.51	12	11	0	2	0	0	63.7	65	44	39	8	31	0	33	0	0	2	278
Jesse Jefferson	2	10	.167	5.51	34	10	12	2	0	1	116.0	150	75	71	19	45	2	43	2	0	2	513
Tom Murphy	1	2	.333	5.40	10	0	5	0	0	0	18.3	23	11	11	1	8	0	6	0	0	0	82
Mark Lemongello	1	9	.100	6.29	18	10	5	2	0	0	83.0	97	64	58	14	34	8	40	3	0	2	369
Steve Luebber	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Steve Grilli	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8
Craig Kusick	0	0		4.91	1	0	1	0	0	0	3.7	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	14
Dyar Miller	0	0		10.57	10	0	5	0	0	0	15.3	27	18	18	3	5	0	7	0	0	2	75
Jerry Garvin	0	1	.000	2.78	8	1	0	0	0	0	22.7	15	9	7	2	10	0	14	2	1	0	91
Jackson Todd	0	1	.000	5.85	12	1	7	0	0	0	32.3	40	26	21	7	7	0	14	1	0	2	144
Mike Willis	0	3	.000	8.44	17	1	7	0	0	0	26.7	35	27	25	1	16	2	8	1	0	3	128
Totals	53	109	.327	4.85	357	162	118	44	6	11	1417.0	1537	862	763	165	594	35	613	40	7	64	6220

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
Alfredo Griffin	153	689	624	81	179	22	10	2	31	21	16	40	59	.287	.333	.364	.697	227	10	5	16	4	0
Rick Bosetti	162	657	619	59	161	35	2	8	65	13	12	22	70	.260	.286	.362	.648	224	17	3	6	7	0
John Mayberry	137	541	464	61	127	22	1	21	74	1	1	69	60	.274	.372	.461	.833	214	10	5	1	2	7
Roy Howell	138	563	511	60	126	28	4	15	72	1	4	42	91	.247	.310	.405	.715	207	12	6	1	3	4
Al Woods	132	488	436	57	121	24	4	5	36	6	4	40	28	.278	.337	.385	.722	168	7	1	7	4	0
Rico Carty	132	512	461	48	118	26	0	12	55	3	1	46	45	.256	.322	.390	.713	180	21	1	0	4	4
Rick Cerone	136	514	469	47	112	27	4	7	61	1	4	37	40	.239	.294	.358	.652	168	5	1	3	4	1
Bob Bailor	130	465	414	50	95	11	5	1	38	14	8	36	27	.229	.297	.287	.585	119	6	6	4	5	2
Otto Velez	99	325	274	45	79	21	0	15	48	0	1	46	45	.288	.396	.529	.925	145	8	3	2	0	2
Danny Ainge	87	331	308	26	73	7	1	2	19	1	0	12	58	.237	.269	.286	.554	88	8	2	7	2	1
Luis Gomez	59	171	163	11	39	7	0	0	11	1	0	6	17	.239	.266	.282	.548	46	7	0	2	0	0
Dave McKay	47	169	156	19	34	9	0	0	12	1	1	7	19	.218	.256	.276	.532	43	5	1	5	0	0
Joe Cannon	61	146	142	14	30	1	1	1	5	12	2	1	34	.211	.217	.254	.470	36	2	0	3	0	0
Tony Solaita	36	121	102	14	27	8	1	2	13	0	0	17	16	.265	.364	.422	.785	43	2	0	0	2	0
Tim Johnson	43	96	86	6	16	2	1	0	6	0	1	8	15	.186	.255	.233	.488	20	2	0	2	0	0
Craig Kusick	24	63	54	3	11	1	0	2	7	0	0	7	7	.204	.302	.333	.635	18	2	1	0	1	0
Bob Davis	32	101	89	6	11	2	0	1	8	0	0	6	15	.124	.188	.180	.367	16	7	1	5	0	0
Bob Robertson	15	32	29	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	9	.103	.188	.207	.394	6	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Brown	4	12	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ted Wilborn	22	14	12	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	.000	.077	.000	.077	0	0	0	1	0	0
Balor Moore	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Murphy	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Stieb	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jackson Todd	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Underwood	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Willis	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Butch Edge	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dyar Miller	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Buskey	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Freisleben	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Garvin	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Grilli	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Hernandez	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Clancy	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Phil Huffman	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Lemanczyk	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Lemongello	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Luebber	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jesse Jefferson	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2010	6010	5423	613	1362	253	34	95	562	75	56	448	663	.251	.311	.363	.673	1968	131	36	65	38	21

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
John Mayberry	1B	135	129	1129.7	1192	74	6	129	.995	1.086	9.378	0	0	0
Craig Kusick	1B	20	18	143.0	163	15	4	14	.978	11.203	8.900	0	0	0
Bob Robertson	1B	9	5	51.0	54	7	0	6	1.000	1.765	6.778	0	0	0
Tony Solaita	1B	6	4	37.0	39	4	0	8	1.000	1.459	7.167	0	0	0
Otto Velez	1B	6	4	31.0	29	2	0	2	1.000	9.000	5.167	0	0	0
Tim Johnson	1B	7	2	25.3	27	2	0	2	1.000	1.303	4.143	0	0	0
Danny Ainge	2B	86	86	737.7	198	261	11	67	.977	5.600	5.337	0	0	0
Dave McKay	2B	46	45	390.7	119	148	7	37	.974	6.151	5.804	0	0	0
Tim Johnson	2B	25	19	172.0	62	52	5	21	.958	5.965	4.560	0	0	0
Luis Gomez	2B	20	12	116.7	29	38	2	10	.971	5.169	3.350	0	0	0
Roy Howell	3B	133	131	1128.3	108	290	20	28	.952	3.175	2.992	0	0	0
Luis Gomez	3B	22	21	185.3	21	37	0	9	1.000	2.817	2.636	0	0	0
Bob Bailor	3B	9	7	59.7	7	16	0	0	1.000	3.469	2.556	0	0	0
Tim Johnson	3B	9	3	37.3	2	16	2	1	.900	4.339	2.000	0	0	0
Dave McKay	3B	2	0	6.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.842	1.000	0	0	0
Rick Cerone	C	136	133	1168.7	560	68	13	10	.980	4.836	4.618	6	69	47	40.5
Bob Davis	C	32	29	248.3	114	11	2	1	.984	4.530	3.906	2	16	9	36.0
Rick Bosetti	OF	162	162	1386.0	466	18	13	4	.974	3.143	2.988	0	0	0
Al Woods	OF	127	122	1059.3	251	10	9	2	.967	2.217	2.055	0	0	0
Bob Bailor	OF	118	100	894.7	210	16	3	2	.987	2.273	1.915	0	0	0
Otto Velez	OF	73	64	523.7	130	3	4	1	.971	2.286	1.822	0	0	0
Joe Cannon	OF	50	33	321.0	81	5	0	1	1.000	2.411	1.720	0	0	0
Ted Wilborn	OF	7	2	36.3	7	0	1	0	.875	1.734	1.000	0	0	0
Bobby Brown	OF	4	3	30.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.400	2.000	0	0	0
Tom Underwood	P	33	32	227.0	6	36	5	2	.894	1.665	1.273	0	0	0
Phil Huffman	P	31	31	173.0	7	30	0	0	1.000	1.925	1.194	0	0	0
Dave Lemanczyk	P	22	20	143.0	12	20	2	2	.941	2.014	1.455	0	0	0
Balor Moore	P	34	16	139.3	4	22	4	1	.867	1.679	.765	0	0	0
Dave Stieb	P	18	18	129.3	12	31	1	1	.977	2.992	2.389	0	0	0
Jesse Jefferson	P	34	10	116.0	10	22	4	1	.889	2.483	.941	0	0	0
Dave Freisleben	P	42	2	91.0	3	13	1	1	.941	1.582	.381	0	0	0
Mark Lemongello	P	18	10	83.0	8	15	2	0	.920	2.494	1.278	0	0	0
Tom Buskey	P	44	0	78.7	5	19	1	1	.960	2.746	.545	0	0	0
Jim Clancy	P	12	11	63.7	1	11	0	0	1.000	1.696	1.000	0	0	0
Butch Edge	P	9	9	51.7	1	7	0	0	1.000	1.394	.889	0	0	0
Jackson Todd	P	12	1	32.3	6	3	0	0	1.000	2.505	.750	0	0	0
Mike Willis	P	17	1	26.7	1	5	0	0	1.000	2.025	.353	0	0	0
Jerry Garvin	P	8	1	22.7	1	1	0	1	1.000	.794	.250	0	0	0
Tom Murphy	P	10	0	18.3	3	5	0	1	1.000	3.927	.800	0	0	0
Dyar Miller	P	10	0	15.3	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.761	.300	0	0	0
Craig Kusick	P	1	0	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Steve Grilli	P	1	0	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Steve Luebber	P	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Alfredo Griffin	SS	153	153	1320.3	272	501	36	124	.956	5.269	5.052	0	0	0
Luis Gomez	SS	15	9	96.7	20	41	1	6	.984	5.679	4.067	0	0	0
Totals		1769	1458	12753.0	4251	1878	159	496	.975	4.325	3.465	8	85	56	39.7

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