1979 DETROIT TIGERS

| Level: MLB

Location: Detroit,MI
Team Record: 85-76 .528
Result: 5th in American League - East Division
Manager(s): Sparky Anderson, Les Moss, Dick Tracewski
General Manager: Jim Campbell
Stadium: Tiger Stadium
Attendance: 1,630,929
Playoffs: Did not qualify

Detroit Tigers affiliate history

Oldest Player: Jack Billingham (36)
Youngest Player: Bruce Robbins (19)
Longest Tenure: John Hiller (14)
Top Hitter: Steve Kemp (19)
Top Pitcher: Jack Morris (11)
Top Draft Pick: Rick Leach (#13)

Roster Continuity: 82.85%

American League Standings

East	W	L	Pct	GB
Baltimore	102	57	.642	--
Milwaukee	95	66	.590	8.0
Boston	91	69	.569	11.5
NY Yankees	89	71	.556	13.5
Detroit	85	76	.528	18.0
Cleveland	81	80	.503	22.0
Toronto	53	109	.327	50.5

BATTING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Batting Orders

Defensive Lineups

Feats

Splits Analysis

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
8	Ron LeFlore	of	21	31	UDFA: 1973	MLB	148	600	110	180	22	10	9	57	78	14	52	95	0	2	0	2	16	.300	.355	.415	770	249	654	452	98	5.9	.343
13	Lance Parrish	c	64	23	1974-1-16	MLB	143	493	65	136	26	3	19	65	6	7	49	105	2	2	3	1	15	.276	.343	.456	800	225	548	383	76	5.4	.316
30	Jason Thompson	1b	66	24	1975-4-75	MLB	145	492	58	121	16	1	20	79	2	0	70	90	1	8	1	5	15	.246	.338	.404	742	199	569	392	70	4.9	.261
33	Steve Kemp	of	19	24	1976-1-1	MLB	134	490	88	156	26	3	26	105	5	6	68	70	2	2	2	8	13	.318	.398	.543	941	266	570	363	112	8.3	.323
3	Alan Trammell	ss	50	21	1976-2-26	MLB	142	460	68	127	11	4	6	50	17	14	43	55	0	0	12	5	6	.276	.335	.357	691	164	520	370	59	4.3	.300
27	Jerry Morales	of	97	30	UDFA: 1982	MLB	129	440	50	93	23	1	14	56	10	4	30	56	2	0	2	8	15	.211	.260	.364	624	160	482	376	44	3.2	.209
1	Lou Whitaker	2b	29	22	1975-5-99	MLB	127	423	75	121	14	8	3	42	20	10	78	66	1	2	14	4	10	.286	.395	.378	774	160	520	340	72	5.7	.330
4	Aurelio Rodriguez	3b	-	31	UDFA: 1966	MLB	106	343	27	87	18	0	5	36	0	2	11	40	1	0	5	3	9	.254	.277	.350	626	120	363	275	34	3.3	.272
24	Champ Summers	of	-	33	UDFA: 1971	MLB	90	246	47	77	12	1	20	51	7	6	40	33	3	4	0	1	4	.313	.414	.614	1028	151	290	180	65	9.8	.294
10	Rusty Staub	of-1b	92	35	UDFA: 1962	MLB	68	246	32	58	12	1	9	40	1	0	32	18	5	1	1	4	9	.236	.331	.402	733	99	288	202	38	5.1	.220
14	John Wockenfuss	c-1b	-	30	1967-42-760	MLB	87	231	27	61	9	1	15	46	2	2	18	40	2	0	1	2	9	.264	.320	.506	827	117	254	184	38	5.6	.258
35	Lynn Jones	of	-	26	1974-10-237	MLB	95	213	33	63	8	0	4	26	9	6	17	22	1	0	1	1	5	.296	.349	.390	739	83	233	163	30	5.0	.314
16	Tom Brookens	3b	-	25	1975-1-4	MLB	60	190	23	50	5	2	4	21	10	3	11	40	2	0	4	1	3	.263	.309	.374	683	71	208	151	22	4.0	.313
5	Mark Wagner	ss	-	25	1972-19-452	MLB	75	146	16	40	3	0	1	13	3	2	16	25	0	0	7	2	2	.274	.341	.315	657	46	171	119	17	3.8	.320
2	Phil Mankowski	3b	-	26	1970-9-212	MLB	42	99	11	22	4	0	0	8	0	0	10	16	0	4	1	3	3	.222	.286	.263	548	26	113	84	7	2.2	.256
21	Al Greene	of	-	24	UDFA: 1978	MLB	29	59	9	8	1	0	3	6	0	1	10	15	0	1	0	1	1	.136	.257	.305	562	18	70	54	4	1.9	.119
12	Ed Putman	c-1b	-	25	1975-1-3	MLB	21	39	4	9	3	0	2	4	0	1	4	12	0	0	0	0	1	.231	.302	.462	764	18	43	32	5	4.2	.280
23	Kirk Gibson	of-lf	-	22	1978-1-12	MLB	12	38	3	9	3	0	1	4	3	3	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	.237	.256	.395	651	15	39	32	4	3.4	.235
22	Dave Stegman	of	-	25	1976-2-34	MLB	12	31	6	6	0	0	3	5	1	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	.194	.242	.484	726	15	33	26	4	4.4	.120
9	Dave Machemer	2b	-	28	1972-4-82	MLB	19	26	8	5	1	0	0	2	0	3	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	.192	.276	.231	507	6	30	25	1	1.0	.208
25	Tim Corcoran	1b-of	-	26	UDFA: 1974	MLB	18	22	4	5	1	0	0	6	1	1	4	2	0	1	0	1	1	.227	.333	.273	606	6	27	20	2	2.8	.238
32	Rick Peters	of	-	23	1977-7-161	MLB	12	19	3	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	3	0	0	1	0	0	.263	.417	.263	680	5	25	15	3	5.1	.312
34	Dan Gonzales	of	-	25	1972-2-43	MLB	7	18	1	4	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	.222	.222	.278	500	5	18	16	1	0.9	.250
12	Milt May	c	-	28	1968-11-237	MLB	6	11	1	3	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	.273	.333	.455	788	5	12	9	2	5.0	.300
47	Jack Morris	p	-	24	1976-5-98	MLB	28	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	-	-	.000
Totals: (25 players)							161	5375	770	1446	221	35	164	729	176	86	575	814	22	28	56	52	140	.269	.339	.415	754	2229	6080	4263	806	5.1	.288

PITCHING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Starting Pitcher Log

Feats

Splits Analysis

Draft Picks

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO	BABIP	GB/FB
47	Jack Morris	11	24	1976-5-98	MLB	17	7	3.28	27	27	9	1	0	0	197.2	179	76	72	19	59	113	9	1	1.20	8.15	0.87	2.69	5.15	0.52	.266	1.55
39	Milt Wilcox	56	29	1968-2-33	MLB	12	10	4.35	33	29	7	0	1	0	196.1	201	105	95	18	73	109	4	0	1.40	9.21	0.83	3.35	5.00	0.67	.293	1.20
41	Jack Billingham	-	36	UDFA: 1961	MLB	10	7	3.30	35	19	2	0	11	3	158.0	163	74	58	13	60	59	6	0	1.41	9.28	0.74	3.42	3.36	1.02	.288	1.57
29	Aurelio Lopez	29	30	UDFA: 1978	MLB	10	5	2.41	61	0	0	0	49	21	127.0	95	37	34	12	51	106	3	0	1.15	6.73	0.85	3.61	7.51	0.48	.249	0.77
40	Pat Underwood	-	22	1976-1-2	MLB	6	4	4.59	27	15	1	0	4	0	121.2	126	64	62	17	29	83	3	0	1.27	9.32	1.26	2.15	6.14	0.35	.295	0.74
46	Dan Petry	-	20	1976-4-74	MLB	6	5	3.95	15	15	2	0	0	0	98.0	90	46	43	11	33	43	3	1	1.26	8.27	1.01	3.03	3.95	0.77	.263	1.21
19	Dave Rozema	-	22	1975-4-71	MLB	4	4	3.51	16	16	4	1	0	0	97.1	101	52	38	12	30	33	2	0	1.35	9.34	1.11	2.77	3.05	0.91	.271	1.47
31	Steve Baker	-	22	1974-18-418	MLB	1	7	6.64	21	12	0	0	2	1	84.0	97	63	62	13	51	54	7	2	1.76	10.39	1.39	5.46	5.79	0.94	.322	0.77
18	John Hiller	61	36	UDFA: 1963	MLB	4	7	5.22	43	0	0	0	30	9	79.1	83	47	46	14	55	46	4	0	1.74	9.42	1.59	6.24	5.22	1.20	.284	0.82
38	Dave Tobik	-	26	1975-1-2	MLB	3	5	4.33	37	0	0	0	19	3	68.2	59	34	33	12	25	48	4	0	1.22	7.73	1.57	3.28	6.29	0.52	.241	0.61
48	Bruce Robbins	-	19	1977-14-343	MLB	3	3	3.91	10	8	0	0	0	0	46.0	45	21	20	3	21	22	4	0	1.43	8.80	0.59	4.11	4.30	0.95	.290	1.12
37	Kip Young	-	24	1976-23-529	MLB	2	2	6.39	13	7	0	0	3	0	43.2	60	32	31	11	11	22	0	0	1.63	12.37	2.27	2.27	4.53	0.50	.320	1.02
43	Mike Chris	-	21	1977-1-10	MLB	3	3	6.92	13	8	0	0	3	0	39.0	46	30	30	3	21	31	2	0	1.72	10.62	0.69	4.85	7.15	0.68	.355	1.79
42	Sheldon Burnside	-	24	UDFA: 1975	MLB	1	1	6.33	10	0	0	0	2	0	21.1	28	16	15	2	8	13	0	0	1.69	11.81	0.84	3.38	5.48	0.62	.377	0.74
32	Bruce Taylor	-	26	UDFA: 1978	MLB	1	2	4.82	10	0	0	0	8	0	18.2	16	13	10	1	7	8	0	0	1.23	7.71	0.48	3.37	3.86	0.88	.263	0.85
20	Mark Fidrych	-	24	1974-10-231	MLB	0	3	10.43	4	4	0	0	0	0	14.2	23	17	17	3	9	5	0	0	2.18	14.11	1.84	5.52	3.07	1.80	.370	1.06
36	Fernando Arroyo	-	27	1970-10-236	MLB	1	1	8.25	6	0	0	0	3	0	12.0	17	11	11	3	4	7	0	0	1.75	12.75	2.25	3.00	5.25	0.57	.350	1.14
Totals: (25 players)						85	76	4.28	161	161	25	2	136	37	1,423	1429	738	677	164	547	802	51	4	1.42	9.04	1.06	3.46	5.07	0.68	.286

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Lance Parrish	C	142		707	79	9	10	.989	0.00
John Wockenfuss	C	20		109	8	2	0	.983	0.00
Ed Putman	C	16		40	4	0	0	1.000	0.00
Milt May	C	5		19	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Jason Thompson	1B	140		1176	91	8	135	.994	0.00
John Wockenfuss	1B	31		205	18	1	22	.996	0.00
Tim Corcoran	1B	5		35	1	0	2	1.000	0.00
Ed Putman	1B	5		35	3	1	5	.974	0.00
Champ Summers	1B	4		23	1	0	1	1.000	0.00
Aurelio Rodriguez	1B	1		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Lou Whitaker	2B	126		280	369	9	103	.986	0.00
Mark Wagner	2B	29		57	63	5	10	.960	0.00
Tom Brookens	2B	19		37	42	3	10	.963	0.00
Dave Machemer	2B	11		15	20	1	6	.972	0.00
Rick Peters	2B	2		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Aurelio Rodriguez	3B	106		72	211	13	23	.956	0.00
Tom Brookens	3B	42		39	99	8	11	.945	0.00
Phil Mankowski	3B	36		22	56	3	6	.963	0.00
Rick Peters	3B	3		0	0	2	0	.000	0.00
Mark Wagner	3B	2		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Alan Trammell	SS	142		245	388	26	99	.961	0.00
Mark Wagner	SS	41		31	83	3	18	.974	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Steve Kemp	OF	120		229	12	6	2	.976	0.00
Jerry Morales	OF	119		206	6	3	2	.986	0.00
Ron LeFlore	OF	113		293	6	3	3	.990	0.00
Lynn Jones	OF	84		142	3	3	1	.980	0.00
Champ Summers	OF	69		87	3	1	0	.989	0.00
Dave Stegman	OF	12		35	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Kirk Gibson	OF	10		15	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Tim Corcoran	OF	9		10	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Al Greene	OF	6		14	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
John Wockenfuss	OF	6		4	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Dan Gonzales	OF	3		3	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Dave Machemer	OF	1		3	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Rick Peters	OF	1		3	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Aurelio Lopez	P	61	127	9	15	1	1	.960	1.70
John Hiller	P	43	79	4	10	0	0	1.000	1.59
Dave Tobik	P	37	68	5	5	0	1	1.000	1.32
Jack Billingham	P	35	158	6	21	2	3	.931	1.54
Milt Wilcox	P	33	196	10	41	0	7	1.000	2.34
Jack Morris	P	27	197	14	23	2	3	.949	1.69
Pat Underwood	P	27	121	1	15	1	0	.941	1.19
Steve Baker	P	21	84	3	8	0	1	1.000	1.18
Dave Rozema	P	16	97	7	17	1	1	.960	2.22
Dan Petry	P	15	98	9	11	2	0	.909	1.84
Mike Chris	P	13	39	1	8	0	0	1.000	2.08
Kip Young	P	13	43	3	10	0	0	1.000	2.71
Sheldon Burnside	P	10	21	0	4	0	1	1.000	1.71
Bruce Robbins	P	10	46	1	5	0	1	1.000	1.17
Bruce Taylor	P	10	18	2	3	1	1	.833	2.47
Fernando Arroyo	P	6	12	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.25
Mark Fidrych	P	4	14	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.90
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Rusty Staub	DH	66						.000	0.00
Ron LeFlore	DH	34						.000	0.00
John Wockenfuss	DH	18						.000	0.00
Al Greene	DH	15						.000	0.00
Steve Kemp	DH	11						.000	0.00
Champ Summers	DH	10						.000	0.00
Jerry Morales	DH	7						.000	0.00
Lynn Jones	DH	6						.000	0.00
Rick Peters	DH	3						.000	0.00
Tim Corcoran	DH	2						.000	0.00
Jason Thompson	DH	2						.000	0.00
Tom Brookens	DH	1						.000	0.00
Dan Gonzales	DH	1						.000	0.00
Dave Machemer	DH	1						.000	0.00
Phil Mankowski	DH	1						.000	0.00
Jack Morris	DH	1						.000	0.00
Mark Wagner	DH	1						.000	0.00

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