Seattle Mariners - The Beginning Years (1977-1979)
 
   
 
Seattle
Home
Click
on Logo		                                                    
                  Yr P W L                         1970  
                  1977 7 64 98                         Decade  
                  1978 6 58 104                         Click  
                  1979 7 67 96                         on Logo  
                                                     
                                                       
                                                             
   
  Titles: Top Mariners Players of the Seventies   
  None  
    Pitchers:  
  Ballpark: Enrique Romo (4.67) -   15  
  Kingdome Glenn Abbott (0.79) -   12  
  Mike Parrott (4.09) -   10  
  Team Name: Rick Honeycutt (2.33) -   9  
  Mariners  Floyd Bannister (3.05) -   6  
  John Montague (0.21) -   6  
  Owner:  Byron McLaughlin (2.86) -   5  
  Consortium of six including Danny Kaye (1977-1979) Paul Mitchell (1.48) -   5  
    Shane Rawley (1.74) -    5  
  General Managers:    
  Lou Gorman (1977-1979) Catchers:  
    Bob Stinson (3.24) -   11  
  Managers:    
  Darrell Johnson (1977-1979) First Basemen:  
    Bruce Bochte (4.83) -   8  
  Hall of Famers:    
  None Second Basemen:  
  Julio Cruz (6.6) -   15  
  Rookie of the Year:     
  None ShortStop:  
    Craig Reynolds (3.28) -   14  
  MVP    
  None Third Base:  
    Dan Meyer (1.21) -   5  
  Notable Events:    
    Outfield:  
   1976 - City of Seattle drops its lawsuit vs.the American League when it is awarded Ruppert Jones (8.1) -   34  
   a new franchise for  the 1977 season. Leon Roberts (8.3) -   18  
   The suit was filed when the Seattle Pilots owners sold the club in 1970 to LeRoy Stanton (1.65) -   10  
   a Milwaukee based group after only one season in operation in Seattle. Tom Paciorek (2.38) -   6  
   The Milwaukee owners, led by future Major League Baseball Commissioner    
   Bud Selig, promptly moved the franchise to  Milwaukee, thus leaving Seattle Notable Events:  
   fans high and dry. The American League should have never approved the     
  original move as the courts had adjudicated. From a pure sportsman's point of 1978 - SS Craig Reynolds, 26, is obtained from Pittsburgh for Grant Jackson  
  view it was wrong to move a team out of perfectly viable major league city.     
  It is also disturbing that a future Commissioner of baseball could be a major 1978 - LHP Rick Honeycutt, 24, obtained from Pittsburgh in a trade  
  part of a transaction that treated fans of a city so callously.  for Dave Pagan   
       
  Notable Expansion Draftees: 1978 - LHP Shane Rawley, 22 obtained in trade from Reds for Dave Collins  
  □   1976 - OF Ruppert Jones, 21, is drafted from KC as first overall pick     
   in expansion draft. 1978 - OF Leon Roberts, 27, is obtained from Houston for Jimmy Sexton  
  □   OF Dan Meyer, 25, is drafted from Detroit as the 9th overall pick     
  □   LHP Grant Jackson, 34, is drafted from New York as 11th overall pick 1978 - 1B / OF Bruce Bochte, 27, is signed from Cleveland as a Free Agent  
  □   OF Dave Collins, 25, is drafted from Anaheim as 14th overall pick    
  □   RHP Glenn Abbott, 22, is drafted from A's as 24th overall pcik 1979 - LHP Floyd Bannister, 24, obtained from Houston in a trade  
  □   RHP Dave Pagan, 27, is drafted from Baltimore as 29th overall pick  for SS Craig Reynolds   
  □   2B Julio Cruz, 22, is drafted from Anaheim as 52nd pick in expansion draft    
       
  1977-1979 - First Round Amateur Draft picks:    
  □   1977 - OF Dave Henderson, 18, 26th overall selection in amateur draft,     
   debut 1981 - √√    
  □   1978 - OF Tito Nanni, 6th overall  selection in amateur draft- X    
  □   1979 - OF Al Chambers, first overall  selection in amateur draft - X