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1979 Chicago White Sox

73-87 • 0.456 Win% • 5th in AL W

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📊 Season Record

73 Wins

87 Losses

0.456 Win %

5th Rank

730 R 748 RA

Diff -18

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⚡ Quick Stats

730 Runs Scored

748 Runs Allowed

-18 Run Diff

1,280K Attendance

📈 vs. 1979 AL Average

Batting Avg .275 2% above the 1979 league average (.269)

OBP .331 1% below the 1979 league average (.333)

SLG .345 1% below the 1979 league average (.348)

Team ERA 4.10 3% better than the 1979 league average (4.22)

Runs Scored 730 3% below the 1979 league average (752 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumComiskey Park

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Home Games 79

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Total Attendance 1,280,702

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Avg per Game 16,211

⚾ Batting Leaders

Player	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Chet Lemon	148	556	79	177	17	86	56	68	7	0.318
Alan Bannister	136	506	71	144	2	55	43	40	22	0.285
Lamar Johnson	133	479	60	148	12	74	41	56	8	0.309
Greg Pryor	143	476	60	131	3	34	35	41	3	0.275
Claudell Washington	131	471	79	132	13	66	28	93	19	0.280
Jorge Orta	113	325	49	85	11	46	44	33	1	0.262
Ralph Garr	102	307	34	86	9	39	17	19	2	0.280
Mike Squires	122	295	44	78	2	22	22	9	15	0.264
Jim Morrison	67	240	38	66	14	35	15	48	11	0.275
Eric Soderholm	56	210	31	53	6	34	19	19	0	0.252
Milt May	65	202	23	51	7	28	14	27	0	0.252
Junior Moore	88	201	24	53	1	23	12	20	0	0.264
Kevin Bell	70	200	20	49	4	22	15	43	2	0.245
Wayne Nordhagen	78	193	20	54	7	25	13	22	0	0.280
Bill Nahorodny	65	179	20	46	6	29	18	23	0	0.257
Rusty Torres	90	170	26	43	8	24	23	37	0	0.253
Don Kessinger	56	110	14	22	1	7	10	12	1	0.200
Marv Foley	34	97	6	24	2	10	7	5	0	0.247
Mike Colbern	32	83	5	20	0	8	4	25	0	0.241
Thad Bosley	36	77	13	24	1	8	9	14	4	0.312
Harry Chappas	26	59	9	17	1	4	5	5	1	0.288
Joe Gates	16	16	5	1	0	1	2	3	1	0.062
Rusty Kuntz	5	11	0	1	0	0	2	6	0	0.091
Francisco Barrios	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Ross Baumgarten	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Britt Burns	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Richard Dotson	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Mark Esser	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Ed Farmer	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Rich Hinton	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Guy Hoffman	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Fred Howard	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
LaMarr Hoyt	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Ken Kravec	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Jack Kucek	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Lerrin LaGrow	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Mike Proly	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Dewey Robinson	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Gil Rondon	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Randy Scarbery	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Ron Schueler	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Pablo Torrealba	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Steve Trout	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
Rich Wortham	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Ed Farmer 2.43 2 Ross Baumgarten 3.54 3 Fred Howard 3.57 4 Francisco Barrios 3.61 5 Ken Kravec 3.74

Wins

1 Ken Kravec 15 2 Rich Wortham 14 3 Ross Baumgarten 13 4 Steve Trout 11 5 Francisco Barrios 8

Strikeouts

1 Ken Kravec 132 2 Rich Wortham 119 3 Steve Trout 76 4 Ross Baumgarten 72 5 Ed Farmer 48

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	BB	SO
Ken Kravec	15	13	3.74	36	35	1	250.0	111	132
Rich Wortham	14	14	4.90	34	33	0	204.0	100	119
Ross Baumgarten	13	8	3.54	28	28	0	190.2	83	72
Steve Trout	11	8	3.89	34	18	4	155.0	59	76
Randy Scarbery	2	8	4.62	45	5	4	101.1	34	45
Francisco Barrios	8	3	3.61	15	15	0	94.2	33	28
Mike Proly	3	8	3.87	38	6	9	88.1	40	32
Ed Farmer	3	7	2.43	42	3	14	81.1	34	48
Fred Howard	1	5	3.57	28	6	0	68.0	32	36
Rich Hinton	1	2	6.05	16	2	2	41.2	8	27
Guy Hoffman	0	5	5.34	24	0	2	30.1	23	18
Richard Dotson	2	0	3.70	5	5	0	24.1	6	13
Ron Schueler	0	1	7.32	8	1	0	19.2	13	6
Lerrin LaGrow	0	3	9.17	11	2	1	17.2	16	9
Dewey Robinson	0	1	6.28	11	0	0	14.1	9	5
Gil Rondon	0	0	3.72	4	0	0	9.2	6	3
Pablo Torrealba	0	0	1.59	3	0	0	5.2	2	1
Britt Burns	0	0	5.40	6	0	0	5.0	1	2
LaMarr Hoyt	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	3.0	0	0
Wayne Nordhagen	0	0	9.00	2	0	0	2.0	1	2
Mark Esser	0	0	16.20	2	0	0	1.2	4	1
Jack Kucek	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	0.2	3	0

👥 Roster (44)

Alan Bannister Francisco Barrios Ross Baumgarten Kevin Bell Thad Bosley Britt Burns Harry Chappas Mike Colbern Richard Dotson Mark Esser Ed Farmer Marv Foley +32 more

44 players