1983 Texas Rangers season explained

Texas Rangers
Season:	1983
League:	American League
Division:	West
Ballpark:	Arlington Stadium
City:	Arlington, Texas
Owners:	Eddie Chiles
General Managers:	Joe Klein
Managers:	Doug Rader
Television:	KXAS-TV (Steve Busby, Merle Harmon)
Radio:	WBAP (Eric Nadel, Mark Holtz)

The Texas Rangers 1983 season involved the Rangers finishing third in the American League West with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses. The Rangers did break a Major League Baseball record for the most runs ever scored by one team during a single extra inning.

Regular season

Opening Day starters

• Buddy Bell
• Bucky Dent
• Dave Hostetler
• Pete O'Brien
• Larry Parrish
• Mike Richardt
• Billy Sample
• Mike Smithson
• Jim Sundberg
• George Wright

Notable transactions

• August 19, 1983: Rick Honeycutt was traded by the Rangers to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Dave Stewart, a player to be named later and $200,000. The Dodgers completed by sending Ricky Wright to the Rangers on September 16.^[1]

Roster

1983 Texas Rangers roster
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		OutfieldersOther batters		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		131	378	76	.201	2	28
1B		154	524	124	.237	8	53
2B		134	470	122	.260	3	20
3B		156	618	171	.277	14	66
SS		131	417	99	.237	2	34
LF		147	554	152	.274	12	57
CF		162	634	175	.276	18	80
RF		145	555	151	.272	26	88
DH		94	304	67	.220	11	46

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
	96	309	88	.285	1	20
	78	232	72	.310	2	33
	72	175	37	.211	5	16
	66	116	32	.276	0	18
	50	102	22	.216	0	6
	22	83	13	.157	1	7
	41	72	16	.222	1	11
	16	35	6	.171	0	1
	12	24	6	.250	0	3
	2	4	0	.000	0	0
	2	2	0	.000	0	0
	8	2	0	.000	0	0

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
	34	252.0	15	13	3.18	152
	33	223.1	10	14	3.91	135
	28	183.0	8	13	3.49	92
	25	174.2	14	8	2.42	56
	29	159.1	7	9	3.16	108
	8	59.0	5	2	2.14	24

Other 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
	38	123.0	6	6	3.51	58
	25	73.1	2	4	4.66	38
	2	8.0	0	1	2.25	8

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
	42	3	6	10	3.09	50
	31	3	3	2	3.88	29
	27	2	1	9	3.68	30
	17	1	3	5	1.44	18
	8	1	0	1	3.38	17
	5	0	2	0	5.91	9
	1	0	0	0	0.00	2

Awards and honors

• Buddy Bell, 3B, Gold Glove 1983

All-Star Game

Team leaders

• Larry Parrish, Home Runs, 26
• Larry Parrish, RBI, 88
• Billy Sample, Runs, 80
• Billy Sample, Stolen bases, 44
• Buddy Bell, Batting average, .277
• George Wright, Hits, 175

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball.

Notable events

• July 3 — The Rangers score twelve runs in the fifteenth inning to defeat the Oakland Athletics 16–4, in the process breaking the MLB record for most runs scored during one single extra inning, previously held by the 1928 New York Yankees.^[2]

References

• 1983 Texas Rangers at Baseball Reference
• 1983 Texas Rangers at Baseball Almanac
• Book: Johnson. Lloyd. Wolff. Miles. The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. 3rd. Durham, North Carolina. Baseball America. 2007. 978-1-932391-17-6.

Notes and References

1. https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/stewada01.shtml Dave Stewart
2. 'Rangers Rout A's 16–4 in 15-Inning Marathon'; The Greenville News, July 5, 1983, p. 18