1980 Cleveland Indians season

1980 Cleveland Indians
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Steve O'Neill
General manager(s)Phil Seghi
Manager(s)Jeff Torborg, Dave Garcia
Local televisionWUAB
Local radioWWWE
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Offseason

Regular season

"Super Joe" Charboneau made his debut with the Indians in 1980, splitting time between left field and designated hitter. His 23 home runs led the team and he captured the city's imagination with his hard hitting and his eccentricities. His tendency to dye his hair unnatural colors, open beer bottles with his eye socket, and drink beer with a straw through his nose, and other stories that emerged about how he did his own dental work and fixed a broken nose with a pair of pliers and a few shots of Jack Daniel's whiskey, stood out in 1980. By mid-season, Charboneau was the subject of a song--"Go Joe Charboneau"—that reached #3 on the local charts.

He finished the season with 87 runs batted in and a .289 batting average while winning the American League Rookie of the Year award—all in spite of being stabbed with a ball-point pen by a crazed fan as he waited for the team bus on March 8. The pen penetrated an inch and hit a rib, but Charboneau played his first regular-season game just over a month later, on April 11. He missed the final six weeks of the season with a pelvis injury. He would never play another full season in the majors after 1980.

Season standings
AL East W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 10359 0.636 — 53–28 50–31
Baltimore Orioles 10062 0.617 3 50–31 50–31
Milwaukee Brewers 8676 0.531 17 40–42 46–34
Boston Red Sox 8377 0.519 19 36–45 47–32
Detroit Tigers 8478 0.519 19 43–38 41–40
Cleveland Indians 7981 0.494 23 44–35 35–46
Toronto Blue Jays 6795 0.414 36 35–46 32–49

Record vs. opponents
1980 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —8–510–26–66–710–36–67–610–27–67–56–66–611–2
Boston 5–8—9–36–47–68–55–76–76–63–109–37–55–77–6
California 2–103–9—3–104–65–75–86–67–62–103–1011–211–23–9
Chicago 6–64–610–3—5–72–105–85–75–85–76–76–76–7–25–7
Cleveland 7–66–76–47–5—3–105–73–109–35–86–68–46–68–5
Detroit 3–105–87–510–210–3—2–107–66–65–86–610–2–14–89–4
Kansas City 6–67–58–58–57–510–2—6–65–88–46–77–610–39–3
Milwaukee 6–77–66–67–510–36–76–6—7–55–87–59–35–75–8
Minnesota 2–106–66–78–53–96–68–55–7—4–86–77–69–37–5
New York 6–710–310–27–58–58–54–88–58–4—8–49–37–510–3
Oakland 5–73–910–37–66–66–67–65–77–64–8—8–57–68–4
Seattle 6–65–72–117–64–82–10–16–73–96–73–95–8—4–96–6
Texas 6–67–52–117–6–26–68–43–107–53–95–76–79–4—7–5
Toronto 2–116–79–37–55–84–93–98–55–73–104–86–65–7—

Notable transactions

Roster
1980 Cleveland Indians
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG SB
Gary Alexander 76 178 22 40 7 1 5 31 .225 0
Dell Alston 52 54 11 12 1 2 0 9 .222 2
Alan Bannister 81 262 41 86 17 4 1 32 .328 9
Jack Brohamer 53 142 13 32 5 1 1 15 .225 0
Joe Charboneau 131 453 76 131 17 2 23 87 .289 2
Bo Díaz 76 207 15 47 11 2 3 32 .227 1
Miguel Dilone 132 528 82 180 30 9 0 40 .341 61
Jerry Dybzinski 114 248 32 57 11 1 1 23 .230 4
Gary Gray 28 54 4 8 1 0 2 4 .148 0
Mike Hargrove 160 589 86 179 22 2 11 85 .304 4
Toby Harrah 160 561 100 150 22 4 11 72 .267 17
Ron Hassey 130 390 43 124 18 4 8 65 .318 0
Cliff Johnson 54 174 25 40 3 1 6 28 .230 0
Duane Kuiper 42 149 10 42 5 0 0 9 .282 0
Rick Manning 140 471 55 110 17 4 3 52 .234 12
Andrés Mora 9 18 0 2 0 0 0 0 .111 0
Jorge Orta 129 481 78 140 18 3 10 64 .291 6
Ron Pruitt 23 36 1 11 1 0 0 4 .306 0
Dave Rosello 71 117 16 29 3 0 2 12 .248 0
Tom Veryzer 109 358 28 97 12 0 2 28 .271 0
Totals 160 5470 738 1517 221 40 89 692 .277 118

Pitching
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP R ER BB K
Len Barker 19 12 4.17 36 36 0 246.1 127 114 92 187
Don Collins 0 0 7.50 4 0 0 6.0 5 5 7 0
Victor Cruz 6 7 3.45 55 0 12 86.0 36 33 27 88
John Denny 8 6 4.39 16 16 0 108.2 54 53 47 59
Wayne Garland 6 9 4.61 25 20 0 150.1 85 77 48 55
Ross Grimsley 4 5 6.75 14 11 0 74.2 63 56 24 18
Sid Monge 3 5 3.53 67 0 14 94.1 39 37 40 61
Bob Owchinko 2 9 5.27 29 14 0 114.1 71 67 47 66
Mike Paxton 0 0 12.91 4 0 0 7.2 11 11 6 6
Dan Spillner 16 11 5.28 34 30 0 194.1 122 114 74 100
Mike Stanton 1 3 5.46 51 0 5 85.2 58 52 44 74
Rick Waits 13 14 4.45 33 33 0 224.1 118 111 82 109
Sandy Wihtol 1 0 3.57 17 0 1 35.1 18 14 14 20
Totals 79 81 4.68 160 160 32 1428.0 807 743 552 843

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Tacoma Tigers Pacific Coast League Gene Dusan
AA Chattanooga Lookouts Southern League Woody Smith
A Waterloo Indians Midwest League Cal Emery
A-Short Season Batavia Trojans New York–Penn League Rick Colzie

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Waterloo[7]

Notes
  1. Paul Reuschel page at Baseball Reference
  2. Gary Gray page at Baseball Reference
  3. Bob Owchinko page at Baseball-Reference
  4. Kelly Gruber page at Baseball Reference
  5. Doug Drabek page at Baseball Reference
  6. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jeffcmi01.shtml
  7. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

References
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