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1980 Cleveland Indians season

Field	Value
name	Cleveland Indians
season	1980
league	American League
division	East
ballpark	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
city	Cleveland, Ohio
owners	Steve O'Neill
general_managers	Phil Seghi
managers	Dave Garcia
television	WUAB
radio	WWWE

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The 1980 Cleveland Indians season was the 80th season for the franchise, the 66th as the Indians and the 49th season at Cleveland Stadium. They failed to improve upon their 81–80 campaign from the previous season, and missed the playoffs for the 26th consecutive season, finishing the season at 79–81.

Offseason

October 24, 1979: Paul Reuschel was released by the Indians.
January 4, 1980: David Clyde and Jim Norris were traded by the Indians to the Texas Rangers for Gary Gray and Mike Bucci (minors).
February 15, 1980: Jerry Mumphrey was traded by the Indians to the San Diego Padres for Bob Owchinko and Jim Wilhelm.

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

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

June 3, 1980: 1980 Major League Baseball draft
- Kelly Gruber was drafted by the Indians in the 1st round (10th pick). Player signed June 8, 1980.
- Doug Drabek was drafted by the Indians in the 4th round, but did not sign.
- Mike Jeffcoat was drafted in the 13th round of the 1980 amateur draft.

Opening Day Lineup

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28	Rick Manning	CF
11	Toby Harrah	3B
21	Mike Hargrove	1B
35	Gary Alexander	DH
6	Jorge Orta	RF
9	Ron Hassey	C
34	Joe Charboneau	LF
18	Duane Kuiper	2B
15	Tom Veryzer	SS
37	Dan Spillner	P

Roster

1980 Cleveland Indians
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
	76	178	22	40	7	1	5	31	.225	0
	52	54	11	12	1	2	0	9	.222	2
	81	262	41	86	17	4	1	32	.328	9
	53	142	13	32	5	1	1	15	.225	0
	131	453	76	131	17	2	23	87	.289	2
	76	207	15	47	11	2	3	32	.227	1
	132	528	82	180	30	9	0	40	.341	61
	114	248	32	57	11	1	1	23	.230	4
	28	54	4	8	1	0	2	4	.148	0
	160	589	86	179	22	2	11	85	.304	4
	160	561	100	150	22	4	11	72	.267	17
	130	390	43	124	18	4	8	65	.318	0
	54	174	25	40	3	1	6	28	.230	0
	42	149	10	42	5	0	0	9	.282	0
	140	471	55	110	17	4	3	52	.234	12
	9	18	0	2	0	0	0	0	.111	0
	129	481	78	140	18	3	10	64	.291	6
	23	36	1	11	1	0	0	4	.306	0
	71	117	16	29	3	0	2	12	.248	0
	109	358	28	97	12	0	2	28	.271	0
Team Totals	160	5470	738	1517	221	40	89	692	.277	118

Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
	19	12	4.17	36	36	0	246.1	237	127	114	92	187
	0	0	7.50	4	0	0	6.0	9	5	5	7	0
	6	7	3.45	55	0	12	86.0	71	36	33	27	88
	8	6	4.39	16	16	0	108.2	116	54	53	47	59
	6	9	4.61	25	20	0	150.1	163	85	77	48	55
	4	5	6.75	14	11	0	74.2	103	63	56	24	18
	3	5	3.53	67	0	14	94.1	80	39	37	40	61
	2	9	5.27	29	14	0	114.1	138	71	67	47	66
	0	0	12.91	4	0	0	7.2	13	11	11	6	6
	16	11	5.28	34	30	0	194.1	225	122	114	74	100
	1	3	5.46	51	0	5	85.2	98	58	52	44	74
	13	14	4.45	33	33	0	224.1	231	118	111	82	109
	1	0	3.57	17	0	1	35.1	35	18	14	14	20
Team Totals	79	81	4.68	160	160	32	1428.0	1519	807	743	552	843

Awards and honors

Joe Charboneau, American League Rookie of the Year All-Star Game

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Waterloo

Notes

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/r/reuscpa01.shtml Paul Reuschel page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grayga01.shtml Gary Gray page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/owchibo01.shtml Bob Owchinko page at Baseball-Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grubeke01.shtml Kelly Gruber page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/d/drabedo01.shtml Doug Drabek page at Baseball Reference]
"Mike Jeffcoat Stats".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CAL/CAL198004110.shtml 1980 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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