1979 Minnesota Twins Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 82-80
Finished 4th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,070,621, Avg. 14,275
Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium
Manager: Gene Mauch (82-80)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota

1979 Minnesota Twins Roster
1979 Minnesota Twins Results

The Minnesota Twins of the American League ended the 1979 season with a record of 82 wins and 80 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's West Division.

The Twins scored 764 runs and yielded 725 runs. Roy Smalley led Minnesota with 24 home runs, while Ken Landreaux walloped 20 or more, too. Roy Smalley drove in 95 runs. Ken Landreaux paced all regular hitters by hitting .305. Jerry Koosman topped the squad with 20 wins, and Mike Marshall recorded a 2.65 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Gene Mauch 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
Jerry Koosman	20	13	.606	3.38	37	36	0	10	2	0	263.7	268	108	99	19	83	4	157	3	1	2	1101
Dave Goltz	14	13	.519	4.16	36	35	1	12	1	0	250.7	282	124	116	22	69	3	132	1	0	5	1061
Geoff Zahn	13	7	.650	3.57	26	24	1	4	0	0	169.0	181	74	67	13	41	1	58	0	0	1	702
Mike Marshall	10	15	.400	2.65	90	1	84	0	0	32	142.7	132	47	42	8	48	2	81	4	1	8	586
Pete Redfern	7	3	.700	3.49	40	6	13	0	0	1	108.3	106	45	42	8	35	0	85	1	1	5	455
Paul Hartzell	6	10	.375	5.36	28	26	0	4	0	0	163.0	193	102	97	18	44	4	44	4	0	1	704
Mike Bacsik	4	2	.667	4.39	31	0	13	0	0	0	65.7	61	39	32	6	29	4	33	0	0	2	283
Darrell Jackson	4	4	.500	4.28	24	8	7	1	0	0	69.3	89	36	33	5	26	0	43	1	0	10	311
Roger Erickson	3	10	.231	5.63	24	21	1	0	0	0	123.0	154	86	77	17	48	1	47	1	4	4	556
Gary Serum	1	3	.250	6.61	20	5	7	0	0	0	64.0	93	47	47	10	20	2	31	0	0	1	287
Terry Felton	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Ken Brett	0	0		4.97	9	0	1	0	0	0	12.7	16	7	7	1	6	0	3	0	0	0	58
Kevin Stanfield	0	0		6.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Jeff Holly	0	0		7.11	6	0	2	0	0	0	6.3	10	7	5	0	3	0	5	0	0	0	31
Paul Thormodsgard	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	3	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Totals	82	80	.506	4.16	376	162	131	31	3	33	1444.3	1590	725	667	128	452	21	721	15	7	39	6157

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
Ken Landreaux	151	623	564	81	172	27	5	15	83	10	3	37	57	.305	.347	.450	.798	254	13	4	10	8	4
Roy Smalley	162	729	621	94	168	28	3	24	95	2	3	80	80	.271	.353	.441	.794	274	9	4	15	9	8
Ron Jackson	159	653	583	85	158	40	5	14	68	3	1	51	59	.271	.337	.429	.766	250	14	9	6	4	5
Butch Wynegar	149	595	504	74	136	20	0	7	57	2	2	74	36	.270	.363	.351	.714	177	13	2	11	4	5
Rob Wilfong	140	485	419	71	131	22	6	9	59	11	4	29	54	.313	.352	.458	.810	192	2	2	25	10	3
John Castino	148	445	393	49	112	13	8	5	52	5	2	27	72	.285	.331	.397	.728	156	9	1	22	2	0
Hosken Powell	104	380	338	49	99	17	3	2	36	5	1	33	25	.293	.360	.379	.739	128	9	3	5	1	1
Glenn Adams	119	361	326	34	98	13	1	8	50	2	2	25	27	.301	.350	.420	.770	137	3	3	1	6	0
Bombo Rivera	112	294	263	37	74	13	5	2	31	5	5	17	40	.281	.324	.392	.715	103	6	0	13	1	0
Mike Cubbage	94	291	243	26	67	10	1	2	23	1	8	39	26	.276	.371	.350	.720	85	2	0	5	4	2
Willie Norwood	96	294	270	32	67	13	3	6	30	9	5	20	51	.248	.299	.385	.684	104	8	0	3	1	2
Dave Edwards	96	257	229	42	57	8	0	8	35	6	3	24	45	.249	.323	.389	.711	89	5	1	3	0	1
Jose Morales	92	214	191	21	51	5	1	2	27	0	0	14	27	.267	.319	.335	.654	64	10	2	4	3	5
Bob Randall	80	227	199	25	49	7	0	0	14	2	2	15	17	.246	.299	.281	.580	56	2	0	13	0	0
Danny Goodwin	58	172	159	22	46	8	5	5	27	0	0	11	23	.289	.335	.497	.832	79	5	0	2	0	1
Rick Sofield	35	107	93	8	28	5	0	0	12	2	3	12	27	.301	.381	.355	.736	33	2	0	2	0	0
Glenn Borgmann	31	84	70	4	14	3	0	0	8	1	0	12	11	.200	.317	.243	.560	17	3	0	2	0	0
Craig Kusick	24	57	54	8	13	4	0	3	6	0	0	3	11	.241	.281	.481	.762	26	1	0	0	0	0
Gary Ward	10	17	14	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	3	.286	.412	.286	.697	4	0	0	0	0	0
Jesus Vega	4	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Graham	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Bacsik	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Stanfield	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Brett	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Serum	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Thormodsgard	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pete Redfern	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Goltz	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Hartzell	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Holly	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Darrell Jackson	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Erickson	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Koosman	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Marshall	90	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Felton	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Geoff Zahn	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2244	6296	5544	764	1544	256	46	112	714	66	45	526	693	.278	.341	.402	.743	2228	116	31	142	53	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ron Jackson	1B	157	152	1346.3	1447	137	9	175	.994	1.589	1.089	0	0	0
Danny Goodwin	1B	8	6	46.0	40	2	0	5	1.000	8.217	5.250	0	0	0
Craig Kusick	1B	8	3	38.0	46	3	0	6	1.000	11.605	6.125	0	0	0
Roy Smalley	1B	1	1	7.0	9	0	0	2	1.000	11.571	9.000	0	0	0
Jose Morales	1B	1	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.000	0	0	0
Mike Cubbage	1B	1	0	3.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	12.000	4.000	0	0	0
Rob Wilfong	2B	133	115	1001.0	287	379	14	92	.979	5.988	5.008	0	0	0
Bob Randall	2B	71	47	442.0	130	166	5	48	.983	6.027	4.169	0	0	0
Mike Cubbage	2B	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
John Castino	3B	143	106	1010.0	85	277	14	31	.963	3.226	2.531	0	0	0
Mike Cubbage	3B	63	55	420.0	34	94	10	9	.928	2.743	2.032	0	0	0
Bob Randall	3B	7	0	7.3	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.682	.429	0	0	0
Ron Jackson	3B	1	1	7.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	5.143	4.000	0	0	0
Butch Wynegar	C	146	139	1240.7	653	65	6	10	.992	5.208	4.918	5	57	64	52.9
Glenn Borgmann	C	31	23	203.7	129	11	1	0	.993	6.187	4.516	0	20	7	25.9
Ken Landreaux	OF	147	139	1246.3	292	10	6	1	.981	2.181	2.054	0	0	0
Hosken Powell	OF	93	81	719.3	165	6	4	3	.977	2.139	1.839	0	0	0
Bombo Rivera	OF	105	59	616.3	169	12	2	0	.989	2.643	1.724	0	0	0
Dave Edwards	OF	86	60	588.3	165	7	3	0	.983	2.631	2.000	0	0	0
Willie Norwood	OF	71	64	550.0	147	4	4	0	.974	2.471	2.127	0	0	0
Glenn Adams	OF	53	49	341.3	66	2	3	0	.958	1.793	1.283	0	0	0
Rick Sofield	OF	35	32	243.0	61	1	3	1	.954	2.296	1.771	0	0	0
Gary Ward	OF	5	2	24.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.600	0	0	0
Rob Wilfong	OF	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ron Jackson	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bob Randall	OF	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jerry Koosman	P	37	36	263.7	10	50	5	6	.923	2.048	1.622	0	0	0
Dave Goltz	P	36	35	250.7	16	34	2	3	.962	1.795	1.389	0	0	0
Geoff Zahn	P	26	24	169.0	8	37	4	2	.918	2.396	1.731	0	0	0
Paul Hartzell	P	28	26	163.0	14	30	3	1	.936	2.429	1.571	0	0	0
Mike Marshall	P	90	1	142.7	11	31	1	4	.977	2.650	.467	0	0	0
Roger Erickson	P	24	21	123.0	9	17	2	1	.929	1.902	1.083	0	0	0
Pete Redfern	P	40	6	108.3	7	9	1	2	.941	1.329	.400	0	0	0
Darrell Jackson	P	24	8	69.3	3	13	1	2	.941	2.077	.667	0	0	0
Mike Bacsik	P	31	0	65.7	4	9	0	0	1.000	1.782	.419	0	0	0
Gary Serum	P	20	5	64.0	5	10	1	0	.938	2.109	.750	0	0	0
Ken Brett	P	9	0	12.7	3	3	0	0	1.000	4.263	.667	0	0	0
Jeff Holly	P	6	0	6.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.421	.167	0	0	0
Kevin Stanfield	P	3	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.333	0	0	0
Terry Felton	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Paul Thormodsgard	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Roy Smalley	SS	161	160	1412.3	296	572	29	144	.968	5.531	5.391	0	0	0
John Castino	SS	5	2	29.0	6	9	1	3	.938	4.655	3.000	0	0	0
Bob Randall	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ron Jackson	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1916	1458	12999.0	4333	2007	134	551	.979	4.390	3.309	5	77	71	48.0

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