1983 Cleveland Indians season explained

Cleveland Indians
Season:	1983
League:	American League
Division:	East
Ballpark:	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
City:	Cleveland, Ohio
Owners:	Steve O'Neill
General Managers:	Phil Seghi
Managers:	Mike Ferraro, Pat Corrales
Television:	WUAB
Radio:	WWWE

The 1983 Cleveland Indians season was the 83rd for the franchise. It was the final season under the ownership of Steve O'Neill, who had owned the team since 1978. He died on August 29, 1983, with his estate owning the team until 1986.

Offseason

November 18, 1982: Ed Whitson was traded by the Indians to the San Diego Padres for Broderick Perkins and Juan Eichelberger.^[1]
December 9, 1982: Von Hayes was traded by the Indians to the Philadelphia Phillies for Manny Trillo, Jay Baller, Julio Franco, George Vukovich, and Jerry Willard.^[2]
December 15, 1982: Rick Manning was signed as a free agent by the Indians.^[3]

Regular season

Notable transactions

April 1, 1983: Jerry Dybzinski was traded by the Indians to the Chicago White Sox for Pat Tabler.^[4]
June 6, 1983: Rick Manning and Rick Waits were traded by the Indians to the Milwaukee Brewers for Gorman Thomas, Ernie Camacho and Jamie Easterly.^[5]
August 17, 1983: Manny Trillo was traded by the Indians to the Montreal Expos for Don Carter (minors) and $300,000.^[2]

Opening Day Lineup

Opening Day Starters
	Name	Position
21		1B
11		3B
26		RF
29		DH
24		LF
8
20		CF
9		C
14		SS
43		P

^[6]

Roster

1983 Cleveland Indians

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

Manager

Coaches

(Third Base)
(Pitching)
(First Base)
(Hitting)

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
align=left		48	121	15	31	3	0	4	15	.256	0
align=left		117	377	51	100	25	4	5	45	.265	6
align=left		23	36	9	10	2	1	1	3	.278	1
align=left		7	19	0	2	0	0	0	1	.105	0
align=left		32	68	15	13	3	1	0	7	.191	5
align=left		48	93	11	19	4	0	2	11	.204	0
align=left		95	225	31	47	5	2	2	23	.209	9
align=left		149	560	68	153	24	8	8	80	.273	32
align=left		134	469	57	134	21	4	3	57	.286	0
align=left		138	526	81	140	23	1	9	53	.266	16
align=left		117	341	48	92	21	0	6	42	.270	2
align=left		50	194	20	54	6	0	1	10	.278	7
align=left		70	230	21	67	8	1	1	18	.291	8
align=left		8	20	1	6	0	0	0	1	.300	0
align=left		14	26	1	7	1	0	0	0	.269	3
align=left		79	184	23	50	10	0	0	24	.272	1
align=left		12	21	2	10	0	0	0	2	.476	1
align=left		124	430	56	125	23	5	6	65	.291	2
align=left		106	371	51	82	17	0	17	51	.221	8
align=left		141	508	78	143	27	1	17	77	.281	4
align=left		88	320	33	87	13	1	1	29	.272	1
align=left		10	25	1	2	0	0	0	1	.080	0
align=left		124	312	31	77	13	2	3	44	.247	3
Team Totals	162	5476	704	1451	249	31	86	659	.265	109

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
align=left		1	6	4.08	39	1	7	68.1	64	34	31	32	32
align=left		8	13	5.11	24	24	0	149.1	150	92	85	52	105
align=left		1	1	6.94	4	2	0	11.1	18	10	9	10	2
align=left		0	2	4.15	5	4	0	26.0	22	13	12	14	9
align=left		7	10	3.91	24	24	0	156.1	160	74	68	44	123
align=left		2	2	3.86	11	5	0	39.2	45	22	17	8	21
align=left		0	1	5.06	4	0	0	5.1	5	3	3	2	2
align=left		4	2	3.63	41	0	3	57.0	69	25	23	22	39
align=left		4	11	4.90	28	15	0	134.0	132	80	73	59	56
align=left		0	2	5.84	11	0	0	12.1	22	11	8	6	13
align=left		11	7	4.16	39	16	7	149.1	157	79	69	44	75
align=left		1	3	3.31	11	2	0	32.2	32	13	12	13	9
align=left		0	0	7.17	7	0	0	21.1	26	19	17	9	11
align=left		12	11	4.24	36	34	0	222.2	238	112	105	65	76
align=left		2	9	5.07	60	0	8	92.1	117	54	52	38	48
align=left		17	11	4.29	36	35	0	243.1	251	131	116	102	160
align=left		0	1	4.58	8	0	0	19.2	23	13	10	9	13
Team Totals	70	92	4.43	162	162	25	1441.2	1531	785	710	529	794

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system

References

1983 Cleveland Indians team at Baseball-Reference
1983 Cleveland Indians team page at www.baseball-almanac.com

Notes and References

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/perkibr01.shtml Broderick Perkins
https://www.baseball-reference.com/t/trillma01.shtml Manny Trillo
https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/manniri01.shtml Rick Manning
https://www.baseball-reference.com/t/tablepa01.shtml Pat Tabler
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19830607&id=u6EfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ytUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2103,5479870&hl=en Gorman Thomas dealt to Tribe
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK198304040.shtml 1983 Opening Day Lineup
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007