1968 Cleveland Indians season explained

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)

The 1968 Cleveland Indians season, seen their pitching staff lead the major leagues with the most strikeouts (1157) while allowing the fewest hits (1087).^[1]

Offseason

October 17, 1967: Jim King was released by the Indians.^[2]
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.^[3]
November 28, 1967: Darrell Sutherland was drafted by the Indians from the New York Mets in the 1967 minor league draft.^[4]
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.^[5]
January 27, 1968: Rick Sawyer was drafted by the Indians in the 3rd round of the 1968 Major League Baseball draft Secondary Phase.^[6]

Regular season

Transactions

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

Opening Day Lineup

Opening Day Starters
	Name	Position
21		LF
13		2B
1		CF
9		C
11		1B
25		RF
10		3B
16		SS
42		P

^[8]

Roster

1968 Cleveland Indians
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		OutfieldersOther batters		ManagerCoaches (First Base) (Pitching) (Third Base)

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

External links

1968 Cleveland Indians at Baseball Reference
1968 Cleveland Indians at Baseball Almanac

Notes and References

Web site: 1968 Major League Team Statistics . Baseball Reference . October 2, 2022.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kingji01.shtml Jim King
https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/staehma01.shtml Marv Staehle
https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sutheda01.shtml Darrell Sutherland
Web site: Eddie Fisher Stats.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sawyeri01.shtml Rick Sawyer
Web site: Vince Colbert Stats.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA196804100.shtml 1968 Opening Day Lineup
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007