1974 California Angels season explained

California Angels
Season:	1974
League:	American League
Division:	West
Ballpark:	Anaheim Stadium
City:	Anaheim, California
Owners:	Gene Autry
General Managers:	Harry Dalton
Managers:	Bobby Winkles, Whitey Herzog, Dick Williams
Television:	KTLA
Radio:	KMPC (Dick Enberg, Dave Niehaus, Don Drysdale)

The 1974 California Angels season involved the Angels finishing sixth in the American League West with a record of 68 wins and 94 losses. This was the Angels' first last place divisional finish in franchise history.

Offseason

• October 22, 1973: Clyde Wright, Steve Barber, Ken Berry, Art Kusnyer, and cash were traded by the Angels to the Milwaukee Brewers for Ellie Rodríguez, Ollie Brown, Joe Lahoud, Skip Lockwood, and Gary Ryerson.^[1]
• December 6, 1973: Aurelio Monteagudo and Chris Coletta were sent by the Angels to the Philadelphia Phillies for Denny Doyle to complete an earlier deal (the Angels sent Billy Grabarkewitz and players to be named later to the Phillies for a player to be named later) made on August 14, 1973.^[2]

Regular season

On August 25, Nolan Ryan struck out Sandy Alomar for the 1,500th strikeout of his career.^[3] Ryan and Alomar had been teammates earlier in the season before Alomar was sold to the Yankees on July 8.

Notable transactions

• April 30, 1974: Richie Scheinblum was traded by the Angels to the Kansas City Royals for Paul Schaal.^[4]
• May 4, 1974: Mike Epstein was released by the Angels.^[5]
• June 5, 1974: Greg Harris was drafted by the Angels in the 10th round of the 1974 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign.^[6]
• June 15, 1974: Rudy May was purchased from the Angels by the New York Yankees.^[7]
• July 8, 1974: Sandy Alomar Sr. was purchased from the Angels by the New York Yankees.^[8]
• July 28, 1974: Rick Stelmaszek was traded by the Angels to the Chicago Cubs for Horacio Piña.^[9]
• September 12, 1974: Frank Robinson was traded by the Angels to the Cleveland Indians for Ken Suarez, Rusty Torres, and cash.^[10]

Roster

1974 California Angels
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		Outfielders		ManagerCoaches

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	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C		140	395	100	.253	7	36
1B		74	223	57	.256	3	15
2B		147	511	133	.260	1	34
3B		53	165	41	.248	2	20
SS		133	465	117	.252	5	31
LF		117	371	97	.261	3	39
CF		118	466	133	.285	3	31
RF		118	415	111	.267	11	62
DH		129	427	107	.251	20	63

Other batters

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

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	110	359	89	.248	8	55
	127	325	88	.271	13	44
	57	196	53	.270	5	26
	56	175	48	.274	0	8
	72	138	36	.261	2	17
	56	119	34	.286	3	17
	43	94	11	.117	0	4
	36	90	22	.244	0	3
	31	86	14	.163	0	7
	43	83	16	.193	4	13
	29	75	20	.267	0	6
	18	62	10	.161	4	6
	46	54	12	.222	0	1
	14	42	10	.238	1	5
	22	39	9	.231	0	5
	10	26	4	.154	0	2

Pitching

Starting 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
	42	332.2	22	16	2.89	367
	39	268.2	14	19	3.12	180
	23	162.0	7	11	2.61	76
	21	113.2	3	8	3.80	57
	14	108.2	7	4	2.98	77
	13	58.2	1	8	6.14	33
	5	30.0	2	3	5.70	16

Other pitchers

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

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	37	2	5	1	4.32	39
	20	2	3	2	3.69	14
	18	0	1	2	7.00	12
	18	2	2	1	5.09	15
	18	2	1	0	4.26	11
	17	0	1	0	3.74	12
	13	1	2	1	6.48	9
	11	1	2	0	2.31	6
	9	0	0	1	2.79	4
	4	0	0	3	0.00	5
	3	0	0	0	8.59	4
	3	0	0	0	13.50	0

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball.

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Idaho Falls

References

• Book: Johnson. Lloyd. Wolff. Miles. The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. 2nd. Durham, North Carolina. Baseball America. 1997. 978-0-9637189-8-3.
• 1974 California Angels team at Baseball-Reference
• 1974 California Angels team page at www.baseball-almanac.com

Notes and References

1. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodriel01.shtml Ellie Rodríguez
2. https://www.baseball-reference.com/d/doylede01.shtml Denny Doyle
3. Web site: The Nolan Ryan Express The Strikeout King . smackbomb.com/nolanryan . July 28, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716092407/http://www.smackbomb.com/nolanryan/strikeouts.html . July 16, 2011 . dead . mdy-all .
4. https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/schaapa01.shtml Paul Schaal
5. https://www.baseball-reference.com/e/epstemi01.shtml Mike Epstein
6. https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/harrigr01.shtml Greg Harris
7. https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mayru01.shtml Rudy May
8. https://www.baseball-reference.com/a/alomasa01.shtml Sandy Alomar
9. https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/pinaho01.shtml Horacio Piña
10. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinfr02.shtml Frank Robinson