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1980 Detroit Tigers season

Major League Baseball season

Field	Value
name	Detroit Tigers
season	1980
league	American League
division	East
ballpark	Tiger Stadium
city	Detroit, Michigan
owners	John Fetzer
general_managers	Jim Campbell
managers	Sparky Anderson
television	WDIV-TV
(George Kell, Al Kaline)
radio	WJR
(Ernie Harwell, Paul Carey)

(George Kell, Al Kaline) (Ernie Harwell, Paul Carey) |}} The 1980 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 80th season and the 69th season at Tiger Stadium. The Tigers finished in fifth place in the American League East with a record of 84–78, 19 games behind the Yankees. They outscored their opponents 830 to 757. The Tigers drew 1,785,293 fans to Tiger Stadium in 1980, ranking 7th of the 14 teams in the American League. This was Sparky Anderson's first full season as Tigers manager.

Offseason

December 7, 1979: Ron LeFlore was traded by the Tigers to the Montreal Expos for Dan Schatzeder.

Regular season

Season standings

Boston's record of 83–77 has a fractionally better winning percentage than Detroit's record of 84–78; .51875 and .51851, respectively.

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

June 2, 1980: Al Greene and John Martin were traded by the Tigers to the St. Louis Cardinals for Jim Lentine.
June 3, 1980: Chuck Hensley was drafted by the Tigers in the 10th round of the 1980 Major League Baseball draft.
June 6, 1980: Bárbaro Garbey was signed as an amateur free agent by the Tigers.
September 21, 1980: Roger Mason was signed as an amateur free agent by the Tigers.

Roster

1980 Detroit Tigers
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

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	144	553	158	.286	24	82
1B	104	341	99	.290	12	82
2B	145	477	111	.233	1	45
3B	151	509	140	.275	10	66
SS	146	560	168	.300	9	65
LF	135	508	149	.293	21	101
CF	133	477	139	.291	2	42
RF	108	403	113	.280	5	42
DH	120	347	103	.297	17	60

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
126	372	102	.274	16	65
51	175	46	.263	9	16
67	161	42	.261	1	17
84	153	44	.288	3	18
65	130	23	.177	2	9
36	126	27	.214	4	20
46	114	27	.237	3	17
48	108	20	.185	4	11
45	72	17	.236	0	3
30	55	14	.255	0	6
2	7	1	.143	0	0

Note: pitchers' batting statistics not included

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
36	250.0	16	15	4.18	112
32	198.2	13	11	4.48	97
32	192.2	11	13	4.02	94
27	164.2	10	9	3.94	88
9	44.1	2	3	5.68	16

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
42	144.2	6	9	3.92	49
19	63.2	3	0	4.10	42
15	51.2	4	2	6.62	23
9	21.1	1	0	7.59	8

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	GF	ERA	SO
67	13	6	21	59	3.77	97
49	3	6	5	24	3.59	60
17	1	0	0	6	3.98	34
11	1	0	0	2	4.40	18
8	0	0	0	3	7.36	3

Awards and honors

Lance Parrish, AL Silver Slugger Award, catcher
Alan Trammell, AL Gold Glove Award, shortstop
Alan Trammell, Tiger of the Year Award, from Detroit sportswriters

All Star selections

Lance Parrish, AL All Star Team, catcher
Alan Trammell, AL All Star Team, shortstop

League top ten finishers

Steve Kemp

#2 in MLB in time grounded into double plays (24)
#5 in AL in sacrifice flies

Aurelio López

#3 in AL in games (67)
#3 in AL in games finished (59)

Jack Morris

#3 in AL in earned runs allowed (116)
#4 in AL in games started (36)
#10 in MLB in bases on balls allowed (87)
#10 in MLB in losses (15)

Lance Parrish

#2 in MLB in time grounded into double plays (24)
#4 in AL in strikeouts (109)
#10 in MLB in extra base hits (64)

Alan Trammell

#5 in AL in runs scored (107)
#6 in AL in sacrifice hits (13)

Milt Wilcox

#10 in MLB in complete games (13)

Players ranking among top 100 all time at position

The following members of the 1979 Detroit Tigers are among the Top 100 of all time at their position, as ranked by The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001:

Lance Parrish: 19th best catcher of all time
Lou Whitaker: 13th best second baseman of all time
Alan Trammell: 9th best shortstop of all time

Farm system

Notes

References

1980 Detroit Tigers Regular Season Statistics at Baseball Reference

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/schatda01.shtml Dan Schatzeder] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lentiji01.shtml Jim Lentine] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/henslch01.shtml Chuck Hensley] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/garbeba01.shtml Bárbaro Garbey] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/masonro01.shtml Roger Mason] at ''Baseball Reference''

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