1980 MLB Season in Review - The Baseball Cube

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A high-level summary of the 1980 Major League Baseball Season. The page includes standings, team totals and leaderboards. There is a lot more information on the season in various sub-sections such as the player register, team pages and boxscore-related pages.

Season Information

Season

1980

World Series Champions

Philadelphia Phillies

Runner Up

Kansas City Royals

Most Valuable Players

AL: George Brett NL: Mike Schmidt

Cy Young Winners

AL: Steve Stone NL: Steve Carlton

Rookies of the Year

AL: Joe Charboneau NL: Steve Howe

Managers of the Year

AL: NL:

#1 Draft Pick

Darryl Strawberry (New York Mets)

All-Star Game

Los Angeles,California

Teams

Players

916

Attendance

43,014,136

Payroll

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1980 Major League Baseball Standings

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Grid Filters		Playoff Team
American League East
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	1	New York Yankees	T - S - R - L	162	103	59	.636	--	820	662	158	Lost ALCS (Royals)	2,627,417	3	Gene Michael	Dick Howser	Yankee Stadium I
2	2	2	Baltimore Orioles	T - S - R - L	162	100	62	.617	3.0	805	640	165	dnq	1,797,438	11	Hank Peters	Earl Weaver	Memorial Stadium
3	4	9	Milwaukee Brewers	T - S - R - L	162	86	76	.531	17.0	811	682	129	dnq	1,857,408	10	Harry Dalton	George Bamberger, Buck Rodgers	County Stadium
4	5	10	Boston Red Sox	T - S - R - L	160	83	77	.519	19.0	757	767	-10	dnq	1,956,092	9	Haywood Sullivan	Don Zimmer, Johnny Pesky	Fenway Park
5	6	11	Detroit Tigers	T - S - R - L	162	84	78	.519	19.0	830	757	73	dnq	1,785,293	12	Jim Campbell	Sparky Anderson	Tiger Stadium
6	8	15	Cleveland Indians	T - S - R - L	160	79	81	.494	23.0	738	807	-69	dnq	1,033,827	23	Phil Seghi	Dave Garcia	Cleveland Stadium
7	12	22	Toronto Blue Jays	T - S - R - L	162	67	95	.414	36.0	624	762	-138	dnq	1,400,327	14	Pat Gillick	Bobby Mattick	Exhibition Stadium
American League West
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	3	3	Kansas City Royals	T - S - R - L	162	97	65	.599	--	809	694	115	Lost World Series (Phillies)	2,288,714	5	Joe Burke	Jim Frey	Royals Stadium
2	7	13	Oakland Athletics	T - S - R - L	162	83	79	.512	14.0	686	642	44	dnq	842,259	24	Charlie Finley	Billy Martin	Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
3	9	16	Minnesota Twins	T - S - R - L	161	77	84	.478	19.5	670	724	-54	dnq	769,206	26	Calvin Griffith	Gene Mauch, Johnny Goryl	Metropolitan Stadium
4	10	17	Texas Rangers	T - S - R - L	161	76	85	.472	20.5	756	752	4	dnq	1,198,175	18	Eddie Robinson	Pat Corrales	Arlington Stadium
5	11	21	Chicago White Sox	T - S - R - L	160	70	90	.438	26.0	587	722	-135	dnq	1,200,365	17	Roland Hemond	Tony La Russa	Comiskey Park
6	13	24	California Angels	T - S - R - L	160	65	95	.406	31.0	698	797	-99	dnq	2,297,327	4	Buzzie Bavasi	Jim Fregosi	Anaheim Stadium
7	14	26	Seattle Mariners	T - S - R - L	162	59	103	.364	38.0	610	793	-183	dnq	836,204	25	Lou Gorman	Darrell Johnson, Maury Wills	The Kingdome
National League East
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	3	6	Philadelphia Phillies	T - S - R - L	162	91	71	.562	--	728	639	89	Won World Series (Royals)	2,651,650	2	Paul Owens	Dallas Green	Veterans Stadium
2	4	7	Montreal Expos	T - S - R - L	162	90	72	.556	1.0	694	629	65	dnq	2,208,175	7	John McHale	Dick Williams	Olympic Stadium
3	6	12	Pittsburgh Pirates	T - S - R - L	162	83	79	.512	8.0	666	646	20	dnq	1,646,757	13	Hardy Peterson	Chuck Tanner	Three Rivers Stadium
4	9	19	St. Louis Cardinals	T - S - R - L	162	74	88	.457	17.0	738	710	28	dnq	1,385,147	15	John Claiborne	Whitey Herzog, Ken Boyer, Red Schoendienst, Jack Krol	Busch Stadium II
5	11	23	New York Mets	T - S - R - L	162	67	95	.414	24.0	611	702	-91	dnq	1,192,073	19	Frank Cashen	Joe Torre	Shea Stadium
6	12	25	Chicago Cubs	T - S - R - L	162	64	98	.395	27.0	614	728	-114	dnq	1,206,776	16	Bob Kennedy	Preston Gomez, Joey Amalfitano	Wrigley Field
National League West
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	4	Houston Astros	T - S - R - L	163	93	70	.571	--	637	589	48	Lost NLCS (Phillies)	2,278,217	6	Tal Smith	Bill Virdon	Astrodome
2	2	5	Los Angeles Dodgers	T - S - R - L	163	92	71	.564	1.0	663	591	72	dnq	3,249,287	1	Al Campanis	Tom Lasorda	Dodger Stadium
3	5	8	Cincinnati Reds	T - S - R - L	162	89	73	.549	3.5	707	670	37	dnq	2,022,450	8	Dick Wagner	John McNamara	Riverfront Stadium
4	7	14	Atlanta Braves	T - S - R - L	161	81	80	.503	11.0	630	660	-30	dnq	1,048,411	22	John Mullen	Bobby Cox	Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
5	8	18	San Francisco Giants	T - S - R - L	161	75	86	.466	17.0	573	634	-61	dnq	1,096,115	21	Spec Richardson	Dave Bristol	Candlestick Park
6	10	20	San Diego Padres	T - S - R - L	162	73	89	.451	19.5	591	654	-63	dnq	1,139,026	20	Bob Fontaine	Jerry Coleman	Jack Murphy Stadium
26 record(s)

Glossary:
Rank If team context, indicates Divisional Rank LgRank Rank within a League. For MLB, refers to AL or NL MLBRank Rank in all of Major League Baseball for the season Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. G Games Played (or Pitched) W Wins (Pitcher or Team) L Losses (Pitcher or Team) WPct Winning Percentage (W/(W+L)) GBL Games behind leader. ((Team A Wins-Team B Wins) + (Team A Losses-Team B Losses))/2 RF Runs For RA Runs Against Diff Run Differential. RF-RA Playoffs Playoff participation description. Attendance Number of people paying for tickets for games Att Rank Attendance rank within the league Ballpark Team or School's ballpark for the season

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