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Major League Baseball

Record: 73-87 .456.... 5th in American League West
Stadium: Comiskey Park
Playoffs: Did not Qualify
Attendance: 1,280,702

Top Draft Pick: Steve Buechele (#9) MLB
Manager - Don Kessinger, Tony LaRussa

Affiliates - AAA Iowa Oaks AA Knoxville Sox A Appleton Foxes

Team Leaders

HR: Lemon [17]
RBI: Lemon [86]
2B: Lemon [44]
SB: Bannister [22]
W: Kravec [15]
SV: Farmer [14]
SO: Kravec [132]

Oldest Player: Don Kessinger [36]
Youngest Player: Britt Burns [20]
Longest Tenure: Jorge Orta [8]

Major League Debuts

Batters: Rusty Kuntz (Sep 1)
Pitchers: Richard Dotson (Sep 4) Mark Esser (Apr 22) Guy Hoffman (Jul 4) Fred Howard (May 26) LaMarr Hoyt (Sep 14) Dewey Robinson (Apr 6) Randy Scarbery (Apr 16)

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Batting Statistics

Pos	Player Name	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
C	Milt May	28	65	202	23	51	13	0	7	28	0	0	14	27	2	1	2	1	3	.252	.306	.421	727
1B	Mike Squires	27	122	295	44	78	10	1	2	22	15	5	22	9	2	3	5	2	10	.264	.318	.325	643
2B	Alan Bannister	27	136	506	71	144	28	8	2	55	22	6	43	40	3	1	4	4	9	.285	.342	.383	725
3B	Kevin Bell	23	70	200	20	49	8	1	4	22	2	4	15	43	0	0	3	1	3	.245	.296	.355	651
SS	Greg Pryor	29	143	476	60	131	23	3	3	34	3	4	35	41	2	1	7	5	16	.275	.324	.355	679
OF	Chet Lemon	24	148	556	79	177	44	2	17	86	7	11	56	68	13	6	3	4	15	.318	.391	.496	887
OF	Claudell Washington	24	131	471	79	132	33	5	13	66	19	11	28	93	3	7	2	4	10	.280	.322	.454	776
OF	Rusty Torres	30	90	170	26	43	5	0	8	24	0	0	23	37	2	1	8	0	4	.253	.349	.424	773
DH	Jorge Orta	28	113	325	49	85	18	3	11	46	1	5	44	33	1	2	3	4	6	.262	.348	.437	785

1B-DH	Lamar Johnson	28	133	479	60	148	29	1	12	74	8	2	41	56	2	1	0	4	23	.309	.363	.449	812
P	Francisco Barrios	25	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
OF-DH	Ralph Garr	33	102	307	34	86	10	2	9	39	2	4	17	19	1	0	2	2	5	.280	.318	.414	732
P	Ross Baumgarten	24	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
2B-3B	Jim Morrison	26	67	240	38	66	14	0	14	35	11	3	15	48	4	0	7	3	2	.275	.324	.508	832
P	Britt Burns	20	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
3B	Eric Soderholm	30	56	210	31	53	8	2	6	34	0	1	19	19	0	1	1	1	9	.252	.313	.395	708
P	Rich Hinton	32	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
OF	Junior Moore	26	88	201	24	53	6	2	1	23	0	2	12	20	0	0	0	4	8	.264	.300	.328	628
P	Ken Kravec	27	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
DH-OF	Wayne Nordhagen	30	78	193	20	54	15	0	7	25	0	0	13	22	0	2	0	1	9	.280	.324	.466	790
P	Jack Kucek	26	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
C	Bill Nahorodny	25	65	179	20	46	10	0	6	29	0	1	18	23	0	1	0	2	5	.257	.322	.413	735
P	Lerrin LaGrow	30	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
SS	Don Kessinger	36	56	110	14	22	6	0	1	7	1	0	10	12	0	1	3	1	5	.200	.264	.282	546
P	Mike Proly	28	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
C	Marv Foley	25	34	97	6	24	3	0	2	10	0	0	7	5	0	1	4	2	4	.247	.292	.340	632
P	Ron Schueler	31	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
C	Mike Colbern	24	32	83	5	20	5	1	0	8	0	0	4	25	0	0	4	0	1	.241	.276	.325	601
P	Pablo Torrealba	31	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
OF	Thad Bosley	22	36	77	13	24	1	1	1	8	4	1	9	14	0	0	0	0	1	.312	.384	.390	774
P	Steve Trout	21	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
SS	Harry Chappas	21	26	59	9	17	1	0	1	4	1	1	5	5	1	0	0	0	2	.288	.354	.356	710
P	Rich Wortham	25	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
2B	Joe Gates	24	16	16	5	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	.063	.167	.188	355
OF	Rusty Kuntz	24	5	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	0	0	0	1	.091	.231	.091	322
P	Richard Dotson	20	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Mark Esser	23	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Ed Farmer	29	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Guy Hoffman	22	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Fred Howard	22	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	LaMarr Hoyt	24	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Dewey Robinson	24	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Gilberto Rondon	25	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Randy Scarbery	27	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
Batting Totals			160	5463	730	1505	290	33	127	680	97	62	454	668	36	29	58	45	151	.275	.333	.410	743