1971 Cleveland Indians season

The 1971 Cleveland Indians season was the 71st in franchise history. The team finished sixth in the American League East with a record of 60–102, 43 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.

Regular season

In the summer of 1971, Indians owner Vernon Stouffer was entertaining overtures with regards to the Cleveland Indians playing 27 to 30 home dates a year in New Orleans.

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Run batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
	23	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	73	181	18	38	12	1	1	23	.210	1
	18	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	.200	0
	55	137	9	28	3	1	3	13	.204	0
	20	38	4	6	2	1	0	3	.158	0
	13	50	4	11	1	0	0	5	.220	0
	39	81	5	16	2	0	0	0	.198	0
	111	415	49	114	20	4	9	48	.275	2
	13	18	2	3	0	1	0	0	.167	0
	52	29	3	4	1	0	0	0	.138	0
	32	55	5	10	1	0	1	7	.182	0
	43	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	.071	0
	74	196	15	38	6	0	2	14	.194	2
	133	486	53	134	21	1	12	62	.276	4
	37	51	2	2	1	0	0	3	.039	0
	125	396	51	97	21	1	18	45	.245	6
	16	16	1	2	0	0	0	0	.125	0
	37	32	0	2	0	0	0	0	.063	0
	52	161	20	32	2	0	5	14	.199	1
	81	240	16	50	7	0	0	9	.208	1
	57	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	88	147	13	33	7	0	5	14	.224	0
	80	83	3	17	3	0	1	9	.205	0
	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0
	43	43	3	4	0	0	0	0	.093	0
	131	429	35	112	12	2	4	35	.261	3
	58	140	15	26	5	0	4	9	.186	1
	14	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	0
	35	73	1	13	0	0	0	4	.178	0
	54	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	0
	158	598	78	156	18	1	28	86	.261	7
	9	5	0	3	1	0	0	0	.600	0
	17	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	.053	0
	146	566	60	149	23	4	11	35	.263	25
	60	129	14	29	4	0	2	12	.225	1
	50	123	10	25	7	0	1	9	.203	0
	141	500	52	144	20	3	2	47	.288	3
Team Totals	162	5467	543	1303	200	20	109	507	.238	57

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; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
	0	0	5.09	23	0	1	23.0	25	15	13	20	20
	1	2	4.67	18	0	0	34.2	30	21	18	13	25
	7	6	3.97	50	10	2	142.2	140	71	63	71	74
	8	14	4.50	31	29	1	184.0	173	98	92	109	132
	5	4	4.35	43	4	4	78.2	77	42	38	41	48
	8	12	4.16	36	26	0	181.2	158	93	84	82	97
	2	6	5.79	15	12	0	60.2	74	43	39	38	26
	1	13	6.19	37	16	1	113.1	138	83	78	56	52
	4	3	4.94	57	0	14	82.0	80	45	45	51	69
	0	0	4.50	5	0	0	6.0	8	3	3	3	4
	6	12	3.35	43	21	1	158.1	147	67	59	69	91
	0	2	6.38	14	0	3	18.1	16	16	13	15	9
	13	17	3.40	35	31	1	214.2	160	89	81	153	192
	1	2	1.43	54	0	4	56.2	31	10	9	24	45
	2	2	3.09	9	1	0	23.1	17	9	8	11	20
	2	7	5.95	17	12	0	62.0	78	42	41	14	33
Team Totals	60	102	4.28	162	162	32	1440.0	1352	747	684	770	937

Awards and honors

All-Star Game
Ray Fosse, Gold Glove Award