1974 California Angels season

The 1974 California Angels season involved the Angels finishing sixth in the American League West with a record of 68 wins and 94 losses. This was the Angels' first last place divisional finish in franchise history.

1974 California Angels
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Gene Autry
General manager(s)Harry Dalton
Manager(s)Bobby Winkles, Whitey Herzog, Dick Williams
Local televisionKTLA
Local radioKMPC
(Dick Enberg, Dave Niehaus, Don Drysdale)
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Offseason

Regular season

On August 25, Nolan Ryan struck out Sandy Alomar for the 1500th strikeout of his career.[3] Ryan and Alomar had been teammates earlier in the season before Alomar was sold to the Yankees on July 8.

Season standings
AL West W L Pct. GB Home Road
Oakland Athletics 9072 0.556 — 49–32 41–40
Texas Rangers 8476 0.525 5 42–38 42–38
Minnesota Twins 8280 0.506 8 48–33 34–47
Chicago White Sox 8080 0.500 9 46–34 34–46
Kansas City Royals 7785 0.475 13 40–41 37–44
California Angels 6894 0.420 22 36–45 32–49

Record vs. opponents
1974 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK TEX
Baltimore —10–87–55–712–614–48–48–106–611–76–64–8
Boston 8–10—4–88–49–911–74–810–86–611–78–45–7
California 5–78–4—10–8–13–95–78–103–98–103–96–129–9
Chicago 7–54–88–10–1—8–47–511–78–47–11–14–87–119–7–1
Cleveland 6–129–99–34–8—9–98–410–86–67–115–74–8
Detroit 4–147–117–55–79–9—7–59–93–911–75–75–7
Kansas City 4–88–410–87–114–85–7—11–18–104–88–108–10
Milwaukee 10–88–109–34–88–109–91–11—6–69–95–77–5
Minnesota 6–66–610–811–7–16–69–310–86–6—4–85–139–9
New York 7–117–119–38–411–77–118–49–98–4—7–58–4
Oakland 6–64–812–611–77–57–510–87–513–55–7—8–10
Texas 8–47–59–97–9–18–47–510–85–79–94–810–8—

Notable transactions

Roster
1974 California Angels
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

  • 24 Sandy Alomar
 Outfielders Manager

Coaches

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
CEllie Rodríguez140395100.253736
1BJohn Doherty7422357.256315
2BDenny Doyle147511133.260134
3BPaul Schaal5316541.248220
SSDave Chalk133465117.252531
CFMickey Rivers118466133.285331
RFLeroy Stanton118415111.2671162
DHFrank Robinson129427107.2512063

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
Bob Oliver11035989.248855
Joe Lahoud12732588.2711344
Morris Nettles5617548.27408
Sandy Alomar465412.22201
Richie Scheinblum10264.15402

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
Nolan Ryan42332.222162.89367
Frank Tanana39268.214193.12180
Andy Hassler231627112.6176
Chuck Dobson530235.7016

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
Ed Figueroa25105.1283.6749

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
Skip Lockwood372514.3239
Dave Sells202323.6914
Rudy May180127.0012
John Cumberland170103.7412
Horacio Piña111202.316
Orlando Peña40030.005

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Salt Lake City Angels Pacific Coast League Norm Sherry
AA El Paso Diablos Texas League Dave Garcia
A Salinas Packers California League Jim Saul
A Quad Cities Angels Midwest League Jimy Williams
Rookie Idaho Falls Angels Pioneer League Larry Himes

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Idaho Falls

Notes
  1. Ellie Rodríguez at Baseball-Reference
  2. Denny Doyle at Baseball-Reference
  3. "The Nolan Ryan Express | The Strikeout King". smackbomb.com/nolanryan. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2008.
  4. Paul Schaal at Baseball-Reference
  5. Mike Epstein at Baseball-Reference
  6. Greg Harris at Baseball-Reference
  7. Rudy May at Baseball-Reference
  8. Sandy Alomar at Baseball-Reference
  9. Horacio Piña at Baseball-Reference
  10. Frank Robinson at Baseball-Reference

References
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