Friday, January 28, 2011

1983 San Diego Padres



We are now at the .500 mark for teams in 1983. The Padres were a perfectly even 81-81. This is the second year in a row they had a .500 record, and after signing a few veterans for 1984 after signing Steve Garvey in 1983, were on their way to the World Series.

Best Player: Terry Kennedy...led the team in RBI by almost 40

Best Pitcher: Luis DeLeon...I had a hard time with this team picking out the best pitcher as no one stood out in any one category, so I created the following chart based on the team leaders in the same categories I get points for in my fantasy league, assigning 5 points for the team leader and going down to one point for the top 5. I split up 3 points among the pitchers with 7 wins on this team, and only ranked the top 4 save leaders on a 4-1 scale:


Wins ERA Saves Strikeouts WHIP Total
DeLeon 0 4 3 3 5 15
Thurmond 1 5 0 0 4 10
Show 5 0 0 4 0 9
Dravecky 4 0 0 1 3 8
Lucas 0 3 4 0 1 8
Lollar 1 0 0 5 0 6
Montefusco 3 0 1 0 0 4
Hawkins 0 2 0 0 2 4
Monge 0 1 2 0 0 3
Whitson 0 0 0 2 0 2
Monge 1 0 0 0 0 1

It turns out Luis DeLeon may have been the best pitcher for this team in this unscientific ranking.

All-Stars: Dave Dravecky, Terry Kennedy

Hall-of-Famers
: Tony Gwynn, Dick Williams

Rookie Card of the Year
: Tony Gwynn...one of the iconic rookie cards of the 1980s and a Hall-of-Famer

Other rookie cards: Floyd Chiffer, Dave Dravecky, Alan Wiggins

First Padre cards: Steve Garvey, Sid Monge, Elias Sosa, Ed Whitson, Dick Williams

Most interesting non-Topps card: The only Padre not found in the Topps set is John Curtis. His Padre card is in the Donruss set. He is another of the players appearing in the Donruss set with a team that they didn't finished 1982 or play in 1983 with.
Other notes: Bobby Brown signed with the Padres in mid-April after being cut by the Mariners. He didn't make it into the traded set with the Padres. He played in only 57 games, but did lead the team in starts and innings played in left field. His Mariner card is listed here.

Jerry Turner signed with the Padres in the off season, also never had a card in the traded set, so his Tiger card is listed here.

Starters
__ TO 274 C Terry Kennedy SDP
__ TT 37 1B Steve Garvey SDP
__ TO 563 2B Juan Bonilla SDP
__ TO 505 SS Garry Templeton SDP
__ TO 533 3B Luis Salazar SDP
__ TO 287 LF Bobby Brown SEA
__ TO 695 CF Ruppert Jones SDP
__ TO 455 RF Sixto Lezcano SDP
__ TO 251 UT Alan Wiggins SDP
__ TO 482 OF Tony Gwynn SDP
__ TO 7 LF Gene Richards SDP
__ TO 38 3B Tim Flannery SDP

Starting Pitchers
__ TO 68 SP Eric Show SDP
__ TO 384 SP Dave Dravecky SDP
__ TO 185 SP Tim Lollar SDP
__ TT 127 SP Ed Whitson SDP
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SP Mark Thurmond
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SP Andy Hawkins

Relief Pitchers
__ TO 761 CL Gary Lucas SDP
__ TO 323 RP Luis DeLeon SDP
__ TO 223 RP John Montefusco SDP
__ TT 74 RP Sid Monge SDP
__ TT 107 RP Elias Sosa SDP

Other Players
__ TO 674 1B Kurt Bevacqua SDP
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CF Kevin McReynolds
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SS Mario Ramirez
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C Doug Gwosdz
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C Bruce Bochy
__ TO 41 RF Jerry Turner DET
__ TO 644 UT Joe Lefebvre SDP
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RF Gerry Davis
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3B George Hinshaw
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IF Edwin Rodriguez
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1B Joe Lansford
__ TO 298 RP Floyd Chiffer SDP
__ TO 118 RP Chris Welsh SDP
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RP Mike Couchee
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RP Dennis Rasmussen
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RP Greg Booker
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RP Marty Decker
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RP Steve Fireovid

Minor Leagues
__ TO 346 MN Joe Pittman SDP

Manager
__ TO 366 MG Dick Williams SDP

2 comments:

  1. there is a large bunch of those players who are either in the 84 Topps or Mothers set. And a bunch of them never had any Padres cards.

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  2. Thanks for the heads up on the Mothers cards...I see in 1983 they only made a set for the Giants, but made a set for several west coast teams in 1984. Since I am in the middle of making my 1984 master checklist, these sets did fill in some holes, which I will present when I get around to the 1984 teams.

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