1981 Chicago White Sox season

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1981 Chicago White Sox
Major league affiliations
Location
1981 Information
Owner(s) Jerry Reinsdorf
Manager(s) Tony LaRussa
Local television WGN-TV
(Harry Caray, Jimmy Piersall, Lou Brock)
Local radio WBBM (AM)
(Harry Caray, Joe McConnell, Rich King)

The 1981 Chicago White Sox season was the White Sox's 82nd season. They finished with a record 54-52, good enough for 3rd place in the American League West, 8.5 games behind of the 1st place Oakland Athletics. However, due to a player's strike, neither the Athletics would play the 50-53 Kansas City Royals, who had finished behind the White Sox.

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[edit] Offseason

  • March 18, 1981: Carlton Fisk signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago White Sox. [1]

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Season standings

American League West
Rank Club Wins Losses Win % GB
1st Oakland Athletics 64 45 .587    --
2nd Texas Rangers 57 48 .543   5.0
3rd Chicago White Sox 54 52 .509   8.5
4th Kansas City Royals 50 53 .485 11.0
5th California Angels 51 59 .464 13.5
6th Seattle Mariners 44 65 .404 20.0
7th Minnesota Twins 41 68 .376 23.0

[edit] Transactions

August 30, 1981: Jerry Koosman was traded by the Minnesota Twins to the Chicago White Sox for a player to be named later, Ivan Mesa (minors), Ronnie Perry (minors), and cash. The Chicago White Sox sent Randy Johnson (September 2, 1981) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade. [2]

[edit] Roster

1981 Chicago White Sox roster
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Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

[edit] 1981 Opening Day Lineup

Ron LeFlore, lf

Mike Squires, 1b

Carlton Fisk, c

Greg Luzinski, dh

Chet Lemon, cf

Harold Baines, rf

Jim Morrison, 3b

Tony Bernazard, 2b

Bill Almon, ss

Britt Burns, p

[edit] Player stats

[edit] Batting

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

[edit] Other batters

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

[edit] Starting pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO

[edit] Other pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA

[edit] Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO

[edit] External links

  1. ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fiskca01.shtml
  2. ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/k/koosmje01.shtml
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