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1979 Milwaukee Brewers season

Field	Value
name	Milwaukee Brewers
season	1979
league	American League
division	East
ballpark	Milwaukee County Stadium
city	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
record
divisional_place	2nd
owners	Bud Selig
general_managers	Harry Dalton
managers	George Bamberger
television	WTMJ-TV
(Merle Harmon, Bob Uecker, Mike Hegan)	radio = 620 WTMJ
(Merle Harmon, Bob Uecker)
espntn	mil
brtn	MIL

(Merle Harmon, Bob Uecker, Mike Hegan) | radio = 620 WTMJ (Merle Harmon, Bob Uecker) |}} The 1979 Milwaukee Brewers season was the 10th season for the Brewers in Milwaukee, and their 11th overall. The Brewers finished second in the American League East with a record of 95 wins and 66 losses. They scored at least one run in each of their first 160 games of the season, and were shutout (losing 5–0 to Minnesota) only in the 161st game which was to be their last game of the season.

Offseason

December 21, 1978: Steve Lake was purchased from the Orioles by the Milwaukee Brewers.
February 26, 1979: Eduardo Rodríguez was purchased from the Brewers by the Kansas City Royals.
March 6, 1979: Vic Harris was signed as a free agent by the Brewers.
March 28, 1979: Gary Beare was traded by the Brewers to the Philadelphia Phillies for Dan Boitano.

Regular season

Gorman Thomas enjoyed his best season in the majors, compiling career high numbers in home runs (45, tops in the AL), RBI (123), runs scored (97), hits (136), doubles (29), walks (98), on-base percentage (.356), total bases (300), slugging average (.539) and OPS (.895).

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day starters

Sal Bando
Mike Caldwell
Cecil Cooper
Larry Hisle
Sixto Lezcano
Don Money
Charlie Moore
Ben Oglivie
Gorman Thomas
Robin Yount

Notable transactions

June 7, 1979: Randy Stein was traded by the Brewers to the Seattle Mariners for Paul Mitchell.

Roster

1979 Milwaukee Brewers
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	111	337	101	.300	5	38
1B	150	590	182	.308	24	106
2B	140	584	188	.322	9	62
SS	149	577	154	.267	8	51
3B	130	476	117	.246	9	43
LF	139	514	145	.282	29	81
CF	156	557	136	.244	45	123
RF	138	473	152	.321	28	101
DH	91	335	89	.266	12	41

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
92	350	83	.237	6	38
70	208	59	.284	2	22
69	196	53	.270	4	26
63	175	46	.263	1	17
26	96	27	.281	3	14
19	52	12	.231	0	2
4	14	7	.500	0	1
2	2	1	.500	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
34	235.1	15	14	3.98	63
30	235.0	16	6	3.29	89
32	213.0	15	9	3.63	80
30	187.1	14	8	3.89	74
29	184.2	11	11	4.78	95

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	18	75.0	3	3	5.76	32

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
39	3	1	6	2.03	10
43	9	6	5	3.47	41
36	5	2	5	3.88	37
31	3	1	3	4.38	28
29	1	5	4	6.71	22
5	0	0	0	1.50	5
3	0	0	0	5.63	2
3	0	0	0	9.00	2
1	0	0	0	6.00	0
1	0	0	0	0.00	0
1	0	0	0	9.00	0

Farm system

The Brewers' farm system consisted of five minor league affiliates in 1979.

Notes

References

1979 Milwaukee Brewers at Baseball Reference
1979 Milwaukee Brewers at Baseball Almanac

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lakest01.shtml Steve Lake page on Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/r/rodried01.shtml Eduardo Rodríguez page on Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/harrivi01.shtml Vic Harris] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boitada01.shtml Dan Boitano] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/steinra02.shtml Randy Stein] at ''Baseball Reference''
"1979 Milwaukee Brewers Minor League Affiliates". Sports Reference.

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