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1968 Cleveland Indians season

Field	Value
name	Cleveland Indians
season	1968
league	American League
ballpark	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
city	Cleveland, Ohio
owners	Vernon Stouffer
general_managers	Gabe Paul
managers	Alvin Dark
television	WJW-TV
radio	WERE (1300)

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The 1968 Cleveland Indians season was their 68th season of baseball in the American League. It saw their pitching staff lead the major leagues with the most strikeouts (1,157) while allowing the fewest hits (1,087). Despite this, they finished 3rd in the American League, their highest finish in nine years. They would not finish higher than 4th again until 1994.

Off season

October 17, 1967: Jim King was released by the Indians.
October 26, 1967: Marv Staehle was sent to the Indians by the Chicago White Sox to complete an earlier deal (the White Sox sent Jim King and a player to be named later to the Indians for Rocky Colavito) made on July 29, 1967.
November 28, 1967: Darrell Sutherland was drafted by the Indians from the New York Mets in the 1967 minor league draft.
November 28, 1967: Eddie Fisher was traded by the Baltimore Orioles with Bob Scott (minors) and John Scruggs (minors) to the Cleveland Indians for Gordy Lund and John O'Donoghue.
January 27, 1968: Rick Sawyer was drafted by the Indians in the 3rd round of the 1968 Major League Baseball draft Secondary Phase.

Regular season

Transactions

June 7, 1968: Vince Colbert was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 11th round of the 1968 amateur draft.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day Lineup

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21	Tommy Harper	LF
13	Vern Fuller	2B
1	José Cardenal	CF
9	Duke Sims	C
11	Tony Horton	1B
25	Vic Davalillo	RF
10	Max Alvis	3B
16	Larry Brown	SS
42	Sonny Siebert	P

Roster

1968 Cleveland Indians
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	115	357	100	.280	4	42
1B	133	477	119	.249	14	59
2B	97	244	59	.242	0	18
SS	154	495	116	.234	6	35
3B	131	452	101	.223	8	37
LF	109	299	84	.281	4	26
CF	157	583	150	.257	7	44
RF	51	180	43	.239	2	13

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
122	361	90	.249	11	44
103	276	59	.214	3	12
130	235	51	.217	6	26
68	217	61	.281	2	23
65	202	52	.257	5	23
88	189	44	.233	0	19
53	111	22	.198	1	8
38	94	20	.213	0	3
19	55	12	.218	0	5
37	54	9	.167	2	5
38	49	9	.184	0	6
33	42	6	.143	0	3
11	15	2	.133	0	3
17	10	1	.100	0	0
6	5	0	.000	0	1
5	3	1	.333	0	0
6	1	0	.000	0	0
1	0	0	----	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
38	269.0	15	14	1.81	283
34	258.1	21	9	1.60	264
31	206.0	12	10	2.97	146
32	158.1	8	15	4.15	78

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
44	194.1	13	11	2.50	147
36	91.2	5	8	3.93	87
12	31.1	1	1	1.72	24
2	5.0	0	1	3.60	1

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
40	5	3	12	1.62	54
54	4	2	4	2.85	42
28	1	0	1	5.21	16
17	1	0	1	6.87	5
5	0	0	0	6.75	6
3	0	0	0	8.10	2
3	0	1	0	2.70	1
3	0	0	0	10.80	0
2	0	0	0	0.00	1

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system

References

"1968 Major League Team Statistics".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kingji01.shtml Jim King] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/staehma01.shtml Marv Staehle] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sutheda01.shtml Darrell Sutherland] at ''Baseball Reference''
"Eddie Fisher Stats".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sawyeri01.shtml Rick Sawyer] at ''Baseball Reference''
"Vince Colbert Stats".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA196804100.shtml 1968 Opening Day Lineup] at ''Baseball-Reference''
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition''. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

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