1997 Boston Red Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 78-84
Finished 4th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 2,226,136, Avg. 27,795
Ballpark: Fenway Park II
Manager: Jimy Williams (78-84)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

1997 Boston Red Sox Roster
1997 Boston Red Sox Results

The Boston Red Sox of the American League ended the 1997 season with a record of 78 wins and 84 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's East Division.

The Red Sox scored 851 runs and conceded 857 runs. Mo Vaughn walloped 35 home runs for Boston, while Nomar Garciaparra, Troy O'Leary, John Valentin and Wil Cordero each added 20 or more, too. Nomar Garciaparra recorded 98 runs batted in. Reggie Jefferson paced all regular hitters by hitting .319. Aaron Sele topped the squad with 13 wins, and Tom Gordon recorded a 3.74 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Jimy Williams coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Aaron Sele	13	12	.520	5.38	33	33	0	1	0	0	177.3	196	115	106	25	80	4	122	15	0	7	810
Tim Wakefield	12	15	.444	4.25	35	29	2	4	2	0	201.3	193	109	95	24	87	5	151	16	0	6	866
Butch Henry	7	3	.700	3.52	36	5	13	0	0	6	84.3	89	36	33	6	19	2	51	0	0	0	345
Jeff Suppan	7	3	.700	5.69	23	22	1	0	0	0	112.3	140	75	71	12	36	1	67	4	0	5	503
Steve Avery	6	7	.462	6.42	22	18	1	0	0	0	96.7	127	76	69	15	49	0	51	2	0	4	453
Tom Gordon	6	10	.375	3.74	42	25	16	2	1	11	182.7	155	85	76	10	78	1	159	3	0	5	774
Jim Corsi	5	3	.625	3.43	52	0	14	0	0	2	57.7	56	26	22	1	21	7	40	4	0	2	251
John Wasdin	4	6	.400	4.40	53	7	10	0	0	0	124.7	121	68	61	18	38	4	84	3	0	4	534
Ron Mahay	3	0	1.000	2.52	28	0	7	0	0	0	25.0	19	7	7	3	11	0	22	0	0	3	105
Joe Hudson	3	1	.750	3.53	26	0	9	0	0	0	35.7	39	16	14	1	14	2	14	4	0	1	154
Vaughn Eshelman	3	3	.500	6.33	21	6	6	0	0	0	42.7	58	32	30	3	17	5	18	2	0	2	198
Ricky Trlicek	3	4	.429	4.63	18	0	8	0	0	0	23.3	26	14	12	2	18	4	10	1	0	2	111
Chris Hammond	3	4	.429	5.92	29	8	6	0	0	1	65.3	81	45	43	5	27	4	48	2	0	2	293
Pat Mahomes	1	0	1.000	8.10	10	0	2	0	0	0	10.0	15	10	9	2	10	1	5	2	0	1	54
Robinson Checo	1	1	.500	3.38	5	2	1	0	0	0	13.3	12	5	5	0	3	0	14	0	0	0	54
Kerry Lacy	1	1	.500	6.11	33	0	12	0	0	3	45.7	60	34	31	7	22	4	18	0	0	0	215
Mike Benjamin	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Ken Grundt	0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	14
Brian Rose	0	0		12.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	5	4	4	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	16
Toby Borland	0	0		13.50	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	6	5	5	1	7	0	1	2	0	0	24
Rich Garces	0	1	.000	4.61	12	0	4	0	0	0	13.7	14	9	7	2	9	0	12	1	0	0	66
Bret Saberhagen	0	1	.000	6.58	6	6	0	0	0	0	26.0	30	20	19	5	10	0	14	2	0	1	120
Derek Lowe	0	2	.000	3.38	8	0	0	0	0	0	16.0	15	6	6	0	3	1	13	2	0	0	64
Mark Brandenburg	0	2	.000	5.49	31	0	5	0	0	0	41.0	49	25	25	3	16	3	34	2	0	0	186
Heathcliff Slocumb	0	5	.000	5.79	49	0	37	0	0	17	46.7	58	32	30	4	34	4	36	3	0	6	227
Totals	78	84	.481	4.85	579	162	155	7	3	40	1451.7	1569	857	783	149	611	52	987	70	1	51	6440

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Nomar Garciaparra	153	734	684	122	209	44	11	30	98	22	9	35	92	.306	.342	.534	.875	365	9	6	2	7	2
John Valentin	143	644	575	95	176	47	5	18	77	7	4	58	66	.306	.372	.499	.871	287	21	5	1	5	5
Mo Vaughn	141	628	527	91	166	24	0	35	96	2	2	86	154	.315	.420	.560	.980	295	10	12	0	3	17
Wil Cordero	140	609	570	82	160	26	3	18	72	1	3	31	122	.281	.320	.432	.752	246	11	4	0	4	7
Reggie Jefferson	136	524	489	74	156	33	1	13	67	1	2	24	93	.319	.358	.470	.828	230	17	7	1	3	5
Troy O'Leary	146	545	499	65	154	32	4	15	80	0	5	39	70	.309	.358	.479	.837	239	13	2	1	4	7
Darren Bragg	153	586	513	65	132	35	2	9	57	10	6	61	102	.257	.337	.386	.723	198	16	3	5	4	5
Jeff Frye	127	442	404	56	126	36	2	3	51	19	8	27	44	.312	.352	.433	.785	175	12	2	2	7	1
Scott Hatteberg	114	395	350	46	97	23	1	10	44	0	1	40	70	.277	.354	.434	.788	152	11	2	2	1	2
Mike Stanley	97	312	260	45	78	17	0	13	53	0	1	39	50	.300	.394	.515	.910	134	9	6	0	7	0
Tim Naehring	70	301	259	38	74	18	1	9	40	1	1	38	40	.286	.375	.467	.843	121	10	1	0	3	0
Bill Haselman	67	232	212	22	50	15	0	6	26	0	2	15	44	.236	.290	.392	.682	83	8	2	1	2	2
Shane Mack	60	146	130	13	41	7	0	3	17	2	1	9	24	.315	.368	.438	.807	57	3	3	2	2	1
Mike Benjamin	49	123	116	12	27	9	1	0	7	2	3	4	27	.233	.262	.328	.590	38	2	1	1	1	0
Rudy Pemberton	27	70	63	8	15	2	0	2	10	0	0	4	13	.238	.314	.365	.679	23	0	3	0	0	0
Jesus Tavarez	42	74	69	12	12	3	1	0	9	0	0	4	9	.174	.216	.246	.463	17	2	0	0	1	0
Arquimedez Pozo	4	17	15	0	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	5	.267	.250	.333	.583	5	0	0	1	1	0
Michael Coleman	8	25	24	2	4	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	11	.167	.167	.208	.375	5	0	0	1	0	0
Jason Varitek	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Curtis Pride	2	2	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	2.000	2.500	4	0	0	0	0	0
Vaughn Eshelman	21	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bret Saberhagen	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aaron Sele	33	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Suppan	23	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Wakefield	35	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Walt McKeel	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Malave	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Steve Avery	24	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Derek Lowe	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Mahomes	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Garces	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ricky Trlicek	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Robinson Checo	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Corsi	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Brandenburg	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Toby Borland	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Gordon	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Grundt	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Heathcliff Slocumb	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Hammond	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Hudson	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Rose	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kerry Lacy	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Mahay	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Butch Henry	36	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
John Wasdin	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2269	6430	5781	851	1684	373	32	185	810	68	48	514	1044	.291	.352	.463	.815	2676	155	59	21	55	54

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Mo Vaughn	1B	131	131	1137.0	1088	75	14	117	.988	9.206	8.878	0	0	0
Mike Stanley	1B	31	23	226.7	231	18	1	26	.996	9.887	8.032	0	0	0
Reggie Jefferson	1B	12	8	80.0	74	5	2	9	.975	8.888	6.583	0	0	0
Mike Benjamin	1B	4	0	5.0	6	2	0	1	1.000	14.400	2.000	0	0	0
Walt McKeel	1B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Jeff Frye	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
John Valentin	2B	79	79	707.3	180	259	11	67	.976	5.586	5.557	0	0	0
Jeff Frye	2B	80	79	703.0	196	228	4	63	.991	5.428	5.300	0	0	0
Mike Benjamin	2B	5	4	37.3	14	11	0	6	1.000	6.027	5.000	0	0	0
Wil Cordero	2B	1	0	4.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	6.750	3.000	0	0	0
Tim Naehring	3B	68	68	602.3	40	111	3	11	.981	2.256	2.221	0	0	0
John Valentin	3B	64	63	552.7	59	121	11	15	.942	2.931	2.813	0	0	0
Mike Benjamin	3B	19	14	136.0	13	39	4	4	.929	3.441	2.737	0	0	0
Jeff Frye	3B	18	13	124.3	11	32	6	2	.878	3.113	2.389	0	0	0
Arquimedez Pozo	3B	4	4	35.3	4	14	1	1	.947	4.585	4.500	0	0	0
Darren Bragg	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Scott Hatteberg	C	106	93	839.3	574	46	11	13	.983	6.648	5.849	17	95	28	22.8
Bill Haselman	C	66	60	529.0	373	40	7	4	.983	7.026	6.258	17	63	22	25.9
Mike Stanley	C	15	9	77.0	53	3	1	0	.982	6.545	3.733	2	13	3	18.8
Walt McKeel	C	4	0	5.3	4	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.000	0	0	0
Jason Varitek	C	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Darren Bragg	OF	150	134	1226.3	365	11	5	3	.987	2.759	2.507	0	0	0
Wil Cordero	OF	137	137	1199.3	248	8	2	4	.992	1.921	1.869	0	0	0
Troy O'Leary	OF	142	128	1154.0	266	8	6	0	.979	2.137	1.930	0	0	0
Shane Mack	OF	45	37	306.0	75	0	0	0	1.000	2.206	1.667	0	0	0
Jesus Tavarez	OF	35	18	176.3	49	1	1	1	.980	2.552	1.429	0	0	0
Rudy Pemberton	OF	23	18	155.3	35	2	2	1	.949	2.144	1.609	0	0	0
Jeff Frye	OF	13	7	67.3	16	2	2	0	.900	2.406	1.385	0	0	0
Michael Coleman	OF	7	7	60.3	16	0	1	0	.941	2.387	2.286	0	0	0
Jose Malave	OF	4	0	10.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.700	.750	0	0	0
Tim Wakefield	P	35	29	201.3	9	22	3	1	.912	1.386	.886	0	0	0
Tom Gordon	P	42	25	182.7	18	20	2	1	.950	1.872	.905	0	0	0
Aaron Sele	P	33	33	177.3	10	25	1	2	.972	1.776	1.061	0	0	0
John Wasdin	P	53	7	124.7	5	11	2	0	.889	1.155	.302	0	0	0
Jeff Suppan	P	23	22	112.3	6	8	3	2	.824	1.122	.609	0	0	0
Steve Avery	P	22	18	96.7	0	19	0	1	1.000	1.769	.864	0	0	0
Butch Henry	P	36	5	84.3	4	17	0	2	1.000	2.241	.583	0	0	0
Chris Hammond	P	29	8	65.3	3	10	1	1	.929	1.791	.448	0	0	0
Jim Corsi	P	52	0	57.7	6	9	1	0	.938	2.341	.288	0	0	0
Heathcliff Slocumb	P	49	0	46.7	4	4	1	1	.889	1.543	.163	0	0	0
Kerry Lacy	P	33	0	45.7	4	2	1	0	.857	1.182	.182	0	0	0
Vaughn Eshelman	P	21	6	42.7	4	4	1	0	.889	1.688	.381	0	0	0
Mark Brandenburg	P	31	0	41.0	5	5	0	0	1.000	2.195	.323	0	0	0
Joe Hudson	P	26	0	35.7	2	7	0	2	1.000	2.271	.346	0	0	0
Bret Saberhagen	P	6	6	26.0	1	2	1	1	.750	1.038	.500	0	0	0
Ron Mahay	P	28	0	25.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.080	.107	0	0	0
Ricky Trlicek	P	18	0	23.3	3	3	0	1	1.000	2.314	.333	0	0	0
Derek Lowe	P	8	0	16.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	2.813	.625	0	0	0
Rich Garces	P	12	0	13.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.976	.250	0	0	0
Robinson Checo	P	5	2	13.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Pat Mahomes	P	10	0	10.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Toby Borland	P	3	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Brian Rose	P	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ken Grundt	P	2	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	1.000	0	0	0
Mike Benjamin	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Nomar Garciaparra	SS	153	152	1344.3	249	450	21	113	.971	4.680	4.569	0	0	0
Mike Benjamin	SS	16	10	99.3	17	29	2	4	.958	4.168	2.875	0	0	0
Jeff Frye	SS	3	0	8.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.333	0	0	0
Totals		2018	1458	13065.0	4355	1696	135	481	.978	4.168	2.999	36	171	53	23.7

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