1998 Chicago White Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 80-82
Finished 2nd in the AL's Central Division
Attendance: 1,391,146, Avg. 17,609
Ballpark: Comiskey Park II
Manager: Jerry Manuel (80-82)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1998 Chicago White Sox Roster
1998 Chicago White Sox Results

The Chicago White Sox of the American League ended the 1998 season with a record of 80 wins and 82 losses, finishing second in the AL's Central Division.

The White Sox scored 861 runs and allowed 931 runs, most in the circuit. Albert Belle walloped 49 home runs for Chicago, while Ray Durham, Frank Thomas and Robin Ventura each added 20 or more, too. Albert Belle drove in 152 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .328. Mike Sirotka led the team with 14 wins and a team-best 5.06 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Jerry Manuel coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Mike Sirotka	14	15	.483	5.06	33	33	0	5	0	211.7	255	137	119	30	47	0	128	2	1	3	911
James Baldwin	13	6	.684	5.32	37	24	3	1	0	159.0	176	103	94	18	60	2	108	10	1	5	712
Jaime Navarro	8	16	.333	6.36	37	27	4	1	1	172.7	223	135	122	30	77	1	71	7	0	18	802
John Snyder	7	2	.778	4.80	15	14	0	1	0	86.3	96	49	46	14	23	1	52	2	0	2	367
Jim Parque	7	5	.583	5.10	21	21	0	0	0	113.0	135	72	64	14	49	0	77	6	3	0	507
Carlos Castillo	6	4	.600	5.11	54	2	11	0	0	100.3	94	61	57	17	35	1	64	5	3	4	431
Jim Abbott	5	0	1.000	4.55	5	5	0	0	0	31.7	35	16	16	2	12	0	14	1	0	0	134
Bill Simas	4	3	.571	3.57	60	0	41	0	18	70.7	54	29	28	12	22	4	56	1	0	1	287
Keith Foulke	3	2	.600	4.13	54	0	18	0	1	65.3	51	31	30	9	20	3	57	4	1	3	267
Jason Bere	3	7	.300	6.45	18	15	0	0	0	83.7	98	71	60	14	58	0	53	2	0	7	404
Scott Eyre	3	8	.273	5.38	33	17	10	0	0	107.0	114	78	64	24	64	0	73	2	0	7	491
Chad Bradford	2	1	.667	3.23	29	0	8	0	1	30.7	27	16	11	0	7	0	11	0	1	1	125
Matt Karchner	2	4	.333	5.15	32	0	23	0	11	36.7	33	21	21	2	19	6	30	5	0	0	167
Bryan Ward	1	2	.333	3.33	28	0	9	0	1	27.0	30	13	10	4	7	0	17	0	0	0	116
Tom Fordham	1	2	.333	6.75	29	5	5	0	0	48.0	51	36	36	7	42	0	23	1	0	1	228
Tony Castillo	1	2	.333	8.00	25	0	4	0	0	27.0	38	25	24	7	11	0	14	2	0	0	129
Mike Heathcott	0	0		3.00	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	12
Larry Casian	0	0		11.25	4	0	3	0	0	4.0	8	5	5	0	1	0	6	2	0	0	23
Todd Rizzo	0	0		13.50	9	0	1	0	0	6.7	12	12	10	0	6	0	3	0	0	2	38
Bob Howry	0	3	.000	3.15	44	0	15	0	9	54.3	37	20	19	7	19	2	51	2	0	2	217
Totals	80	82	.494	5.24	568	163	155	8	42	1438.7	1569	931	837	211	580	20	911	54	10	58	6368

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
Albert Belle	163	706	609	113	200	48	2	49	152	6	4	81	84	.328	.399	.655	1.055	399	17	1	0	15	10
Ray Durham	158	723	635	126	181	35	8	19	67	36	9	73	105	.285	.363	.455	.818	289	5	6	6	3	3
Mike Caruso	133	555	523	81	160	17	6	5	55	22	6	14	38	.306	.331	.390	.721	204	8	7	8	3	0
Frank Thomas	160	712	585	109	155	35	2	29	109	7	0	110	93	.265	.381	.480	.861	281	14	6	0	11	2
Robin Ventura	161	674	590	84	155	31	4	21	91	1	1	79	111	.263	.349	.436	.785	257	10	1	1	3	15
Magglio Ordonez	145	578	535	70	151	25	2	14	65	9	7	28	53	.282	.326	.415	.741	222	19	9	2	4	1
Wil Cordero	96	371	341	58	91	18	2	13	49	2	1	22	66	.267	.314	.446	.759	152	7	3	1	4	0
Mike Cameron	141	443	396	53	83	16	5	8	43	27	11	37	101	.210	.285	.336	.621	133	6	6	1	3	0
Greg Norton	105	330	299	38	71	17	2	9	36	3	3	26	77	.237	.301	.398	.699	119	11	2	1	2	1
Jeff Abbott	89	260	244	33	68	14	1	12	41	3	3	9	28	.279	.298	.492	.790	120	2	0	2	5	1
Chad Kreuter	93	286	245	26	62	9	1	2	33	1	0	32	45	.253	.345	.322	.668	79	8	3	5	1	1
Charlie O'Brien	57	181	164	12	43	9	0	4	18	0	0	9	31	.262	.303	.390	.694	64	3	2	3	3	0
Chris Snopek	53	141	125	17	26	2	0	1	4	3	0	14	24	.208	.291	.248	.539	31	4	1	0	1	0
Robert Machado	34	121	111	14	23	6	0	3	15	0	0	7	22	.207	.254	.342	.597	38	3	0	3	0	0
Craig Wilson	13	53	47	14	22	5	0	3	10	1	0	3	6	.468	.490	.766	1.256	36	0	0	2	1	0
Ruben Sierra	27	77	74	7	16	4	1	4	11	2	0	3	11	.216	.247	.459	.706	34	2	0	0	0	0
Brian Simmons	5	19	19	4	7	0	0	2	6	0	1	0	2	.368	.368	.684	1.053	13	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Johnson	7	24	23	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	8	.087	.125	.261	.386	6	0	0	0	0	0
James Baldwin	37	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Sirotka	33	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Parque	21	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Carlos Castillo	54	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jaime Navarro	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Eyre	33	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lou Frazier	7	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	6	.000	.222	.000	.222	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tom Fordham	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tony Castillo	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bryan Ward	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Abbott	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Snyder	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Bere	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Heathcott	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Howry	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Simas	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Todd Rizzo	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Karchner	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chad Bradford	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Casian	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Keith Foulke	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2215	6280	5585	861	1516	291	38	198	806	127	46	551	916	.271	.339	.444	.782	2477	119	47	38	59	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Wil Cordero	1B	83	81	687.3	698	66	6	78	.992	1.004	9.205	0	0	0
Greg Norton	1B	79	67	630.3	642	30	4	57	.994	9.595	8.506	0	0	0
Frank Thomas	1B	14	14	114.0	116	6	2	12	.984	9.632	8.714	0	0	0
Chris Snopek	1B	1	1	7.0	9	0	0	1	1.000	11.571	9.000	0	0	0
Ray Durham	2B	158	156	1357.3	282	438	18	128	.976	4.774	4.557	0	0	0
Chris Snopek	2B	12	4	54.3	6	19	1	3	.962	4.141	2.083	0	0	0
Craig Wilson	2B	4	3	26.0	7	9	0	4	1.000	5.538	4.000	0	0	0
Greg Norton	2B	1	0	1.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Robin Ventura	3B	161	158	1381.7	102	330	15	38	.966	2.814	2.683	0	0	0
Greg Norton	3B	11	5	45.0	12	10	2	0	.917	4.400	2.000	0	0	0
Craig Wilson	3B	2	0	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.500	0	0	0
Chris Snopek	3B	3	0	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Chad Kreuter	C	91	71	647.0	424	35	7	4	.985	6.385	5.044	5	49	24	32.9
Charlie O'Brien	C	57	54	455.0	305	22	4	3	.988	6.468	5.737	1	47	21	30.9
Robert Machado	C	34	33	283.0	189	17	4	0	.981	6.551	6.059	3	24	12	33.3
Mark Johnson	C	7	5	53.7	36	2	0	1	1.000	6.373	5.429	0	2	2	50.0
Albert Belle	OF	159	159	1366.0	316	11	8	3	.976	2.154	2.057	0	0	0
Magglio Ordonez	OF	145	138	1227.0	323	10	5	2	.985	2.443	2.297	0	0	0
Mike Cameron	OF	138	105	983.0	313	6	4	0	.988	2.921	2.312	0	0	0
Jeff Abbott	OF	76	61	508.7	132	0	4	0	.971	2.336	1.737	0	0	0
Ruben Sierra	OF	14	12	98.0	19	1	0	0	1.000	1.837	1.429	0	0	0
Wil Cordero	OF	11	9	78.0	15	0	1	0	.938	1.731	1.364	0	0	0
Brian Simmons	OF	5	4	39.7	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.950	2.600	0	0	0
Lou Frazier	OF	3	1	14.7	5	0	0	0	1.000	3.068	1.667	0	0	0
Chris Snopek	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Sirotka	P	33	33	211.7	9	34	1	1	.977	1.828	1.303	0	0	0
Jaime Navarro	P	37	27	172.7	8	20	1	1	.966	1.459	.757	0	0	0
James Baldwin	P	37	24	159.0	7	15	5	0	.815	1.245	.595	0	0	0
Jim Parque	P	21	21	113.0	7	16	0	0	1.000	1.832	1.095	0	0	0
Scott Eyre	P	33	17	107.0	1	17	1	3	.947	1.514	.545	0	0	0
Carlos Castillo	P	54	2	100.3	5	16	1	1	.955	1.884	.389	0	0	0
John Snyder	P	15	14	86.3	8	14	1	0	.957	2.293	1.467	0	0	0
Jason Bere	P	18	15	83.7	7	6	1	0	.929	1.398	.722	0	0	0
Bill Simas	P	60	0	70.7	9	5	0	1	1.000	1.783	.233	0	0	0
Keith Foulke	P	54	0	65.3	1	8	2	0	.818	1.240	.167	0	0	0
Bob Howry	P	44	0	54.3	2	7	1	0	.900	1.491	.205	0	0	0
Tom Fordham	P	29	5	48.0	3	11	0	0	1.000	2.625	.483	0	0	0
Matt Karchner	P	32	0	36.7	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.964	.250	0	0	0
Jim Abbott	P	5	5	31.7	2	10	0	1	1.000	3.411	2.400	0	0	0
Chad Bradford	P	29	0	30.7	1	8	1	0	.900	2.641	.310	0	0	0
Bryan Ward	P	28	0	27.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667	.071	0	0	0
Tony Castillo	P	25	0	27.0	1	9	0	2	1.000	3.333	.400	0	0	0
Todd Rizzo	P	9	0	6.7	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Larry Casian	P	4	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Mike Heathcott	P	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Caruso	SS	131	129	1121.3	216	378	35	91	.944	4.768	4.534	0	0	0
Chris Snopek	SS	33	26	243.3	47	93	4	16	.972	5.178	4.242	0	0	0
Craig Wilson	SS	8	8	74.0	13	17	0	4	1.000	3.649	3.750	0	0	0
Totals		2010	1467	12948.0	4316	1706	140	455	.977	4.186	2.996	9	122	59	32.6

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