1975 Chicago White Sox season

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1975 Chicago White Sox
Major league affiliations
American League (since 1901) American League West (since 1969)
Location
Comiskey Park (since 1910) Chicago, Illinois (since 1900)
1975 information
Owner(s)	John Allyn
Manager(s)	Chuck Tanner
Local television	WSNS-TV (Harry Caray, Bob Waller)
Local radio	WMAQ (AM) (Harry Caray, J. C. Martin)
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The 1975 Chicago White Sox season was the team's 75th season in Major League Baseball, and its 76th season overall. They finished with a record 75-86, good enough for fifth place in the American League West, 22½ games behind the first-place Oakland Athletics.

Contents

1 Offseason
2 Regular season
3 Player stats
- 3.1 Batting
- 3.2 Pitching
4 Farm system
5 Notes
6 References

Offseason

December 3, 1974: Dick Allen was traded by the White Sox to the Atlanta Braves for a player to be named later and cash. The Braves completed the deal by sending Jim Essian to the White Sox on May 15, 1975.^[1]
January 2, 1975: Joe Henderson was purchased from the White Sox by the Cincinnati Reds.^[2]

Regular season

The proposed sale of the Chicago White Sox presented opportunities for the Oakland Athletics. A group from Seattle was ready to purchase the White Sox and move them to Seattle. As Charlie Finley had business interests in Chicago, he was prepared to move the Athletics to Chicago. Due to his 20 year lease with the city of Oakland (to expire in 1987), Finley was blocked. In the end, White Sox owner Arthur Allyn sold to Bill Veeck, who kept the White Sox in Chicago. ^[3]

Season standings

AL West	W	L	GB	Pct.
Oakland Athletics	98	64	--	.605
Kansas City Royals	91	71	7	.562
Texas Rangers	79	83	19	.488
Minnesota Twins	76	83	20.5	.478
Chicago White Sox	75	86	22.5	.466
California Angels	72	89	25.5	.447

Opening Day lineup

Notable transactions

May 8, 1975: Bill Sharp was traded by the White Sox to the Milwaukee Brewers for Bob Coluccio.^[4]
June 3, 1975: Marv Foley was drafted by the White Sox in the 17th round of the 1975 Major League Baseball Draft.^[5]
June 15, 1975: Tony Muser was traded by the White Sox to the Baltimore Orioles for Jesse Jefferson.^[6]

Roster

1975 Chicago White Sox

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

16 Brian Downing
8 Pete Varney

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

7 Chuck Tanner

Coaches

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; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	SB
Buddy Bradford, RF,LF,DH	25	58	8	9	3	1	2	15	8	22	.155	3
Bob Coluccio, OF	61	161	22	33	4	2	4	13	13	34	.205	4
Bucky Dent, SS	157	602	52	159	29	4	3	58	36	48	.264	2
Brian Downing, C	138	420	58	101	12	1	7	41	76	75	.240	13
Jerry Hairston, LF,DH,RF	69	219	26	62	8	0	0	23	46	23	.283	1
Ken Henderson, CF	140	513	65	129	20	3	9	53	74	65	.251	5
Deron Johnson, DH,1B	148	555	66	129	25	1	18	72	48	117	.232	0
Lamar Johnson, 1B,DH	8	30	2	6	3	0	1	1	1	5	.200	0
Pat Kelly, RF,DH	133	471	73	129	21	7	9	45	58	69	.274	18
Chet Lemon, 3B,DH,CF	9	35	2	9	2	0	0	1	2	6	.257	1
Carlos May, 1B,LF,DH	128	454	55	123	19	2	8	53	67	46	.271	12
Bill Melton, 3B,DH	149	512	62	123	16	0	15	70	78	106	.251	5
Jerry Moses, 1B	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	0
Tony Muser, 1B	43	111	11	27	3	0	0	6	7	8	.243	2
Nyls Nyman, OF	106	327	36	74	6	3	2	28	11	34	.226	10
Jorge Orta, 2B	140	542	64	165	26	10	11	83	48	67	.304	16
Lee Richard, SS,3B,DH,2B	43	49	11	9	0	1	0	5	4	7	.200	2
Bill Sharp, OF	18	35	1	7	0	0	0	4	2	3	.200	0
Mike Squires, 1B	20	65	5	15	0	0	0	4	8	5	.231	3
Bill Stein, 2B,3B,DH	76	226	23	61	7	1	3	21	18	32	.270	2
Pete Varney, C	36	107	12	29	5	1	2	8	6	28	.271	2
Team totals	161	5490	655	1400	209	38	94	604	611	800	.255	101

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; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K
Lloyd Allen	0	2	11.81	3	2	0	5.1	8	7	7	2	6	2
Stan Bahnsen	4	6	6.01	12	12	0	67.1	78	49	45	9	40	31
Terry Forster	3	3	2.19	17	1	4	37.0	30	12	9	0	28	32
Bill Gogolewski	0	0	5.24	19	0	2	55.0	61	35	32	5	31	37
Goose Gossage	9	8	1.84	62	0	26	141.2	99	32	29	3	85	130
Dave Hamilton	6	5	2.84	30	1	6	69.2	63	23	22	4	31	51
Rich Hinton	1	0	4.82	15	0	0	37.1	41	22	20	2	16	30
Jesse Jefferson	5	9	5.10	22	21	0	107.2	100	69	61	11	95	67
Jim Kaat	20	14	3.11	43	41	0	303.2	321	121	105	20	77	142
Chris Knapp	0	0	4.50	2	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	4	3
Ken Kravec	0	1	6.23	2	1	0	4.1	1	3	3	0	8	1
Jack Kucek	0	0	4.91	2	0	0	3.2	9	2	2	0	4	2
Ozzie Osborn	3	0	4.50	24	0	0	58.0	57	29	29	2	38	38
Claude Osteen	7	16	4.36	37	37	0	204.1	237	110	99	16	94	63
Jim Otten	0	0	6.75	2	0	0	5.1	4	5	4	1	7	3
Skip Pitlock	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Stoddard	0	0	9.00	1	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	0
Cecil Upshaw	1	1	3.23	29	0	1	47.1	49	19	17	5	24	22
Pete Vuckovich	0	1	13.06	4	2	0	10.1	17	15	15	0	8	5
Wilbur Wood	16	20	4.11	43	43	0	291.1	309	148	133	26	97	140
Team totals	75	86	3.93	161	161	39	1452.1	1489	703	634	107	693	799

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Denver Bears	American Association	Loren Babe
AA	Knoxville Knox Sox	Southern League	Jim Napier
A	Appleton Foxes	Midwest League	Gordon Lund
Rookie	GCL White Sox	Gulf Coast League	Joe Jones

Notes

^ Jim Essian page at Baseball Reference
^ Joe Henderson page at Baseball Reference
^ Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.229, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
^ Bob Coluccio page at Baseball Reference
^ Marv Foley page at Baseball Reference
^ Tony Muser page at Baseball Reference

References

Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles, eds. (1997). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (2nd ed.). Durham, N.C.: Baseball America. ISBN 978-0-9637189-8-3.
1975 Chicago White Sox at Baseball Reference

v t e 1975 MLB season by team

AL East	Baltimore Boston Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee New York

AL West	California Chicago Kansas City Minnesota Oakland Texas

NL East	Chicago Montréal New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis

NL West	Atlanta Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco

1975 All-Star Game 1975 World Series

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