1985 Cleveland Indians season

The 1985 Cleveland Indians season was the 85th for the franchise.

Offseason

October 15, 1984: Jamie Quirk was released by the Indians.
October 15, 1984: Broderick Perkins was released by the Indians.
January 7, 1985: Butch Benton was signed as a free agent with the Cleveland Indians.
January 9, 1985: Dave Von Ohlen was signed as a free agent by the Indians.
March 22, 1985: Jerry Ujdur was released by the Indians.

Regular season

Notable transactions

April 3, 1985: Doug Jones was signed as a free agent by the Indians.
April 19, 1985: Benny Ayala was signed as a free agent by the Indians.
April 23, 1985: Geno Petralli was released by the Indians.
May 7, 1985:Johnnie LeMaster was traded by the San Francisco Giants to the Cleveland Indians for Mike Jeffcoat and Luis Quiñones. Lemaster was made the starting shortstop. The previous shortstop, Julio Franco, moved to second base a position he had never played before, and Tony Bernazard benched in spite of his leading the team in home runs at the time. Bill James called these maneuvers 'strangest, most incomprehensible organizational stratagem in many years'.
May 30, 1985: Johnnie LeMaster was traded by the Cleveland Indians to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a player to be named later.
July 3, 1985: The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Scott Bailes to the Cleveland Indians to complete an earlier deal made on May 30, 1985, for Johnnie LeMaster.
August 1, 1985: Bert Blyleven was traded by the Indians to the Minnesota Twins for Curt Wardle, Jay Bell, Jim Weaver and a player to be named later. The Minnesota Twins completed the deal by sending Rich Yett to the Indians on September 17.

Draft picks

The Cleveland Indians drafted pitcher Mike Poehl with the ninth overall pick in the 1985 Draft.

Player stats

Batting

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

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
	46	76	10	19	7	0	2	15	.250	0
	73	173	11	24	4	1	0	13	.139	0
	31	67	5	12	4	0	0	7	.179	0
	153	500	73	137	26	3	11	59	.274	17
	152	591	106	184	28	14	5	50	.311	47
	143	489	64	128	27	0	15	59	.262	24
	67	184	27	45	5	1	11	25	.245	3
	73	60	12	12	4	1	0	2	.200	0
	160	636	97	183	33	4	6	90	.288	13
	23	66	7	21	6	0	0	12	.318	0
	107	284	31	81	14	1	1	27	.285	1
	161	606	72	166	26	3	20	87	.274	2
	11	20	0	3	0	0	0	2	.150	0
	104	162	34	38	4	0	3	9	.235	20
	117	404	47	111	18	3	5	59	.275	0
	124	461	49	109	13	0	22	88	.236	3
	149	434	43	106	22	0	8	45	.244	2
	104	300	39	81	13	0	7	36	.270	0
	4	14	2	5	0	0	0	4	.357	0
Team Totals	162	5527	729	1465	254	31	116	689	.265	132

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	3	5.27	21	0	1	41.0	37	26	24	15	30
	0	2	7.78	4	4	0	19.2	29	17	17	8	4
	9	11	3.26	23	23	0	179.2	163	76	65	49	129
	0	1	8.10	2	0	0	3.1	4	3	3	1	2
	3	4	6.32	31	3	2	62.2	78	47	44	34	24
	2	5	4.79	15	8	0	62.0	73	35	33	23	31
	4	1	3.92	50	7	0	98.2	96	52	43	53	58
	9	17	4.90	36	33	0	207.2	244	119	113	80	82
	0	0	2.79	9	0	0	9.2	8	5	3	6	4
	3	5	4.11	33	5	8	72.1	67	41	33	19	37
	0	4	6.61	5	3	0	16.1	13	17	12	14	12
	2	3	6.58	19	10	0	64.1	69	48	47	38	38
	2	10	4.32	42	16	3	125.0	139	65	60	30	54
	4	10	6.01	19	18	0	94.1	128	75	63	19	37
	1	4	5.34	12	11	0	62.1	84	40	37	17	28
	3	8	6.30	57	0	5	80.0	95	63	56	48	30
	3	2	2.91	26	0	0	43.1	47	20	14	20	12
	8	6	4.87	49	9	9	112.2	104	61	61	39	53
	7	6	6.68	15	12	0	66.0	78	51	49	34	37
Team Totals	60	102	4.91	162	162	28	1421.0	1556	861	776	547	702

Awards and honors

'''All-Star Game'''