1985 Milwaukee Brewers season

The 1985 Milwaukee Brewers season involved the Brewers finishing 6th in the American League East with a record of 71 wins and 90 losses.

1985 Milwaukee Brewers
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
OwnersBud Selig
General managersHarry Dalton
ManagersGeorge Bamberger
Local televisionWVTV
(Steve Shannon, Mike Hegan)
Local radioWTMJ (AM)
(Bob Uecker, Pat Hughes)
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Offseason
  • December 7, 1984: Don Sutton was traded by the Brewers to the Oakland Athletics for Ray Burris, Eric Barry (minors), and a player to be named later. The Athletics completed the deal by sending Ed Myers (minors) to the Brewers on March 25, 1985.[1]
  • January 3, 1985: Steve Carter was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 3rd round of the 1985 amateur draft (January), but did not sign.[2]
  • January 8, 1985: Jim Kern was signed as a free agent by the Brewers.[3]
  • January 18, 1985: Jim Sundberg was traded by the Brewers to the Kansas City Royals as part of a 4-team trade. Danny Darwin and a player to be named later were traded by the Texas Rangers to the Brewers, and Tim Leary was traded by the New York Mets to the Brewers. Don Slaught was traded by the Kansas City Royals to the Rangers. Frank Wills was traded by the Royals to the Mets. The Rangers completed the trade by sending Bill Nance (minors) to the Brewers on January 30.[4]
  • April 3, 1985: Yutaka Enatsu was cut after a spring training tryout with the team at age 36.[5]

Regular season

Season standings
AL East W L Pct. GB Home Road
Toronto Blue Jays 9962 0.615 — 54–26 45–36
New York Yankees 9764 0.602 2 58–22 39–42
Detroit Tigers 8477 0.522 15 44–37 40–40
Baltimore Orioles 8378 0.516 16 45–36 38–42
Boston Red Sox 8181 0.500 18½ 43–37 38–44
Milwaukee Brewers 7190 0.441 28 40–40 31–50
Cleveland Indians 60102 0.370 39½ 38–43 22–59

Record vs. opponents
1985 American League record

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —5–87–58–48–56–76–69–46–61–127–56–610–24–8
Boston 8–5—5–74–8–18–56–75–75–87–55–88–46–65–79–4
California 5–77–5—8–58–48–44–99–39–43–96–79–49–45–7
Chicago 4–88–4–15–8—10–26–65–85–76–76–68–59–410–33–9
Cleveland 5–85–84–82–10—5–82–107–64–86–73–96–67–54–9
Detroit 7–67–64–86–68–5—5–79–43–99–38–45–77–56–7
Kansas City 6–67–59–48–510–27–5—8–47–65–78–53–106–77–5
Milwaukee 4–98–53–97–56–74–94–8—9–37–63–94–88–34–9
Minnesota 6–65–74–97–68–49–36–73–9—3–98–56–78–54–8
New York 12–18–59–36–67–63–97–56–79–3—7–59–38–46–7
Oakland 5–74–87–65–89–34–85–89–35–85–7—8–56–75–7
Seattle 6–66–64–94–96–67–510–38–47–63–95–8—6–72–10
Texas 2–107–54–93–105–75–77–63–85–84–87–67–6—3–9
Toronto 8–44–97–59–39–47–65–79–48–47–67–510–29–3—

Notable transactions
  • June 17, 1985: Jim Kern was released by the Brewers.[3]

Draft picks
  • June 3, 1985: B. J. Surhoff was drafted by the Brewers in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1985 Major League Baseball draft.[6]
  • June 3, 1985: Steve Carter was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 3rd round of the 1985 amateur draft (June Secondary), but did not sign.[2]

Roster
1985 Milwaukee Brewers
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Coaches

Player stats

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
CCharlie Moore10534981.232031
1BCecil Cooper154631185.2931699
2BJim Gantner143523133.254544
SSErnie Riles116448128.286545
3BPaul Molitor140576171.2971048
LFRobin Yount122466129.2771568
CFRick Manning7921647.218218
RFPaul Householder9529977.2581134
DHTed Simmons143528144.2731276

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
Ben Oglivie10134199.2901061
Ed Romero8825163.251021
Bill Schroeder5319447.242825
Randy Ready4818148.265121
Mark Brouhard3710828.259113
Bobby Clark299321.22608
Doug Loman246614.21207
Carlos Ponce216210.16115
Brian Giles345810.17211
Mike Felder155611.19600
Billy Jo Robidoux18519.17638
Dion James184911.22403
Dave Huppert15211.04800

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
Danny Darwin39217.28183.80125
Teddy Higuera32212.11583.90127
Ray Burris29170.19134.8181
Moose Haas27161.2883.8478
Pete Vuckovich22112.26105.5155
Tim Leary533.1144.0529
Bill Wegman317.2203.576

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
Jaime Cocanower24116.1684.3344
Chuck Porter613.2001.988

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
Rollie Fingers4716175.0424
Bob Gibson4167113.9053
Bob McClure384134.3157
Ray Searage331415.9236
Pete Ladd290024.5322
Rick Waits243216.5124
Jim Kern50106.553
Brad Lesley51009.955

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball

The Brewers' farm system consisted of five minor league affiliates in 1985.[7] The Vancouver Canadians won the Pacific Coast League championship.[8]

Level Team League Manager
Triple-A Vancouver Canadians Pacific Coast League Tom Trebelhorn
Double-A El Paso Diablos Texas League Terry Bevington
Class A Stockton Ports California League Tom Gamboa
Class A Beloit Brewers Midwest League Dave Machemer
Rookie Helena Gold Sox Pioneer League Mike Easom

Notes
  1. Don Sutton at Baseball-Reference
  2. "Steve Carter Stats".
  3. Jim Kern at Baseball-Reference
  4. Danny Darwin at Baseball-Reference
  5. "Yanks to open season minor Henderson". Ocala Star-Banner. Ocala, Florida. April 4, 1985. p. 6B.
  6. B.J. Surhoff at Baseball-Reference
  7. "1985 Milwaukee Brewers Minor League Affiliates". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  8. "Pacific Coast League Champions". Pacific Coast League. Minor League Baseball. Archived from the original on December 5, 2020. Retrieved December 31, 2020.

References
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