1996 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 73-89
Finished 5th in the NL's Central Division
Attendance: 1,332,150, Avg. 16,950
Ballpark: Three Rivers Stadium
Manager: Jim Leyland (73-89)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1996 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1996 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1996 season with a record of 73 wins and 89 losses, finishing fifth in the NL's Central Division.

The Pirates plated 776 runs and surrendered 833 runs. Jeff King walloped 30 home runs for Pittsburgh, while Orlando Merced and Al Martin swatted 20 or more as well. Jeff King recorded 111 runs batted in. Al Martin topped all regular hitters by connecting at a .300 clip. Denny Neagle led the team with 14 wins and a team-best 3.05 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Jim Leyland 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
Denny Neagle	14	6	.700	3.05	27	27	0	1	0	0	182.7	186	67	62	21	34	2	131	3	1	2	745
Jon Lieber	9	5	.643	3.99	51	15	6	0	0	1	142.0	156	70	63	19	28	2	94	3	0	0	600
Danny Darwin	7	9	.438	3.02	19	19	0	0	0	0	122.3	117	48	41	9	16	0	69	6	3	3	493
Dan Plesac	6	5	.545	4.09	73	0	30	0	0	11	70.3	67	35	32	4	24	6	76	0	0	4	300
Marc Wilkins	4	3	.571	3.84	47	2	11	0	0	1	75.0	75	36	32	6	36	6	62	6	0	5	331
John Ericks	4	5	.444	5.79	28	4	13	0	0	8	46.7	56	35	30	11	19	2	46	0	0	2	213
Zane Smith	4	6	.400	5.08	16	16	0	1	1	0	83.3	104	53	47	7	21	4	47	4	1	0	368
Francisco Cordova	4	7	.364	4.09	59	6	41	0	0	12	99.0	103	49	45	11	20	6	95	2	1	2	414
Paul Wagner	4	8	.333	5.40	16	15	0	1	0	0	81.7	86	49	49	10	39	2	81	3	0	7	361
Jason Christiansen	3	3	.500	6.70	33	0	9	0	0	0	44.3	56	34	33	7	19	2	38	1	1	4	205
Ramon Morel	2	1	.667	5.36	29	0	4	0	0	0	42.0	57	27	25	4	19	5	22	1	1	1	198
Jason Schmidt	2	2	.500	4.06	6	6	0	1	0	0	37.7	39	19	17	2	21	0	26	2	0	3	171
Esteban Loaiza	2	3	.400	4.96	10	10	0	1	1	0	52.7	65	32	29	11	19	2	32	2	0	0	236
Chris Peters	2	4	.333	5.63	16	10	0	0	0	0	64.0	72	43	40	9	25	0	28	1	0	4	283
Dan Miceli	2	10	.167	5.78	44	9	17	0	0	1	85.7	99	65	55	15	45	5	66	3	0	9	398
Rich Loiselle	1	0	1.000	3.05	5	3	0	0	0	0	20.7	22	8	7	3	8	1	9	0	0	3	90
Dave Wainhouse	1	0	1.000	5.70	17	0	6	0	0	0	23.7	22	16	15	3	10	1	16	0	0	2	101
Matt Ruebel	1	1	.500	4.60	26	7	3	0	0	1	58.7	64	38	30	7	25	0	22	6	0	2	265
John Hope	1	3	.250	6.98	5	4	0	0	0	0	19.3	17	18	15	5	11	1	13	2	0	2	86
Lee Hancock	0	0		6.38	13	0	3	0	0	0	18.3	21	18	13	5	10	3	13	2	0	1	89
Steve Cooke	0	0		7.56	3	0	1	0	0	0	8.3	11	7	7	1	5	0	7	0	0	1	41
Darrell May	0	1	.000	9.35	5	2	0	0	0	0	8.7	15	10	9	5	4	0	5	1	0	0	47
Joe Boever	0	2	.000	5.40	13	0	9	0	0	2	15.0	17	11	9	2	6	0	6	1	0	3	68
Elmer Dessens	0	2	.000	8.28	15	3	1	0	0	0	25.0	40	23	23	2	4	0	13	0	0	0	112
Steve Parris	0	3	.000	7.18	8	4	3	0	0	0	26.3	35	22	21	4	11	0	27	1	0	2	123
Totals	73	89	.451	4.64	584	162	157	5	2	37	1453.3	1602	833	749	183	479	50	1044	50	8	62	6338

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
Al Martin	155	694	630	101	189	40	1	18	72	38	12	54	116	.300	.354	.452	.806	285	9	2	1	7	2
Jeff King	155	672	591	91	160	36	4	30	111	15	1	70	95	.271	.346	.497	.843	294	17	2	1	8	3
Jay Bell	151	598	527	65	132	29	3	13	71	6	4	54	108	.250	.323	.391	.714	206	10	5	6	6	5
Orlando Merced	120	507	453	69	130	24	1	17	80	8	4	51	74	.287	.357	.457	.814	207	9	0	0	3	5
Jason Kendall	130	471	414	54	124	23	5	3	42	5	2	35	30	.300	.372	.401	.773	166	7	15	3	4	11
Charlie Hayes	128	500	459	51	114	21	2	10	62	6	0	36	78	.248	.301	.368	.669	169	16	0	2	3	4
Carlos Garcia	101	422	390	66	111	18	4	6	44	16	6	23	58	.285	.329	.397	.727	155	3	4	3	2	3
Mark Johnson	127	396	343	55	94	24	0	13	47	6	4	44	64	.274	.361	.458	.819	157	5	5	0	4	3
Mike Kingery	117	304	276	32	68	12	2	3	27	2	1	23	29	.246	.304	.337	.641	93	5	1	1	3	2
Jermaine Allensworth	61	260	229	32	60	9	3	4	31	11	6	23	50	.262	.337	.380	.717	87	2	4	2	2	0
Dave Clark	92	243	211	28	58	12	2	8	35	2	1	31	51	.275	.366	.464	.831	98	6	0	0	1	3
Nelson Liriano	112	234	217	23	58	14	2	3	30	2	0	14	22	.267	.308	.392	.699	85	1	0	0	3	2
Keith Osik	48	156	140	18	41	14	1	1	14	1	0	14	22	.293	.361	.429	.790	60	3	1	1	0	1
John Wehner	86	149	139	19	36	9	1	2	13	1	5	8	22	.259	.299	.381	.681	53	3	0	2	0	1
Jacob Brumfield	29	86	80	11	20	9	0	2	8	3	1	5	17	.250	.291	.438	.728	35	4	0	0	1	1
Midre Cummings	24	87	85	11	19	3	1	3	7	0	0	0	16	.224	.221	.388	.609	33	0	0	1	1	0
Dale Sveum	12	40	34	9	12	5	0	1	5	0	0	6	6	.353	.450	.588	1.038	20	0	0	0	0	0
Trey Beamon	24	56	51	7	11	2	0	0	6	1	1	4	6	.216	.273	.255	.528	13	0	0	1	0	0
Tony Womack	17	40	30	11	10	3	1	0	7	2	0	6	1	.333	.459	.500	.959	15	0	1	3	0	0
Denny Neagle	30	73	55	3	10	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	15	.182	.193	.200	.393	11	0	0	16	1	0
Danny Darwin	19	44	39	2	8	4	0	1	3	0	0	0	19	.205	.205	.385	.590	15	1	0	5	0	0
Angelo Encarnacion	7	22	22	3	7	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.318	.318	.409	.727	9	0	0	0	0	0
Jon Lieber	51	42	36	4	7	3	0	0	3	0	0	3	11	.194	.256	.278	.534	10	2	0	3	0	0
Rich Aude	7	16	16	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.250	.250	.250	.500	4	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Peters	16	20	19	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.211	.211	.263	.474	5	0	0	1	0	0
Zane Smith	16	28	26	2	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	6	.154	.154	.154	.308	4	0	0	2	0	0
Matt Ruebel	26	16	13	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.231	.286	.231	.516	3	0	0	2	0	0
Elmer Dessens	15	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Loiselle	5	8	8	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.375	.625	3	1	0	0	0	0
Marc Wilkins	47	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	0	0	0
Francisco Cordova	59	18	16	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	7	.125	.125	.125	.250	2	1	0	2	0	0
Esteban Loaiza	11	22	17	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.118	.118	.118	.235	2	1	0	5	0	0
Darrell May	5	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
John Hope	5	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	1	0	0
Steve Parris	8	9	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	0	0	2	0	0
Jason Schmidt	6	13	12	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	0	0	1	0	0
Paul Wagner	17	30	25	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	8	.040	.111	.040	.151	1	0	0	3	0	0
Steve Cooke	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Ericks	28	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Dave Wainhouse	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Miceli	44	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ramon Morel	29	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Dan Plesac	73	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Boever	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Christiansen	33	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Lee Hancock	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2292	6336	5665	776	1509	319	33	138	738	126	49	510	989	.266	.329	.407	.736	2308	107	40	72	49	46

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Mark Johnson	1B	100	82	739.7	777	72	5	64	.994	1.330	8.490	0	0	0
Jeff King	1B	92	76	683.3	745	47	2	60	.997	1.431	8.609	0	0	0
Rich Aude	1B	4	4	28.0	28	3	1	3	.969	9.964	7.750	0	0	0
Orlando Merced	1B	1	0	2.3	1	1	0	1	1.000	7.714	2.000	0	0	0
Carlos Garcia	2B	77	66	581.3	131	199	5	35	.985	5.109	4.286	0	0	0
Jeff King	2B	71	63	554.7	145	181	7	40	.979	5.290	4.592	0	0	0
Nelson Liriano	2B	36	24	223.0	50	73	2	13	.984	4.964	3.417	0	0	0
John Wehner	2B	12	7	70.3	19	18	1	3	.974	4.735	3.083	0	0	0
Tony Womack	2B	4	2	24.0	6	8	2	0	.875	5.250	3.500	0	0	0
Charlie Hayes	3B	124	120	1044.7	66	275	18	24	.950	2.938	2.750	0	0	0
Carlos Garcia	3B	14	12	103.0	4	36	3	4	.930	3.495	2.857	0	0	0
John Wehner	3B	24	8	96.7	8	24	0	3	1.000	2.979	1.333	0	0	0
Jeff King	3B	17	7	75.3	6	24	2	1	.938	3.584	1.765	0	0	0
Dale Sveum	3B	10	8	71.7	4	17	2	1	.913	2.637	2.100	0	0	0
Nelson Liriano	3B	9	7	59.0	4	17	0	0	1.000	3.203	2.333	0	0	0
Keith Osik	3B	2	0	3.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	9.000	1.500	0	0	0
Jason Kendall	C	129	117	1060.3	797	71	18	10	.980	7.367	6.729	8	136	41	23.2
Keith Osik	C	41	39	336.7	235	23	6	2	.977	6.897	6.293	1	43	15	25.9
Angelo Encarnacion	C	7	6	54.3	35	4	2	0	.951	6.460	5.571	1	6	1	14.3
John Wehner	C	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Al Martin	OF	152	148	1306.3	217	5	8	0	.965	1.529	1.461	0	0	0
Orlando Merced	OF	115	113	994.7	241	14	3	5	.988	2.307	2.217	0	0	0
Mike Kingery	OF	83	58	541.0	133	2	2	0	.985	2.246	1.627	0	0	0
Jermaine Allensworth	OF	61	55	501.7	139	4	3	1	.979	2.565	2.344	0	0	0
Dave Clark	OF	61	45	404.0	80	3	1	1	.988	1.849	1.361	0	0	0
Midre Cummings	OF	21	20	177.3	49	0	1	0	.980	2.487	2.333	0	0	0
Jacob Brumfield	OF	22	17	152.3	34	1	2	1	.946	2.068	1.591	0	0	0
John Wehner	OF	29	14	133.0	32	1	1	0	.971	2.233	1.138	0	0	0
Trey Beamon	OF	14	11	103.3	24	0	1	0	.960	2.090	1.714	0	0	0
Tony Womack	OF	6	3	25.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.776	.833	0	0	0
Keith Osik	OF	2	1	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.500	0	0	0
Mark Johnson	OF	1	1	9.0	1	1	1	0	.667	2.000	2.000	0	0	0
Denny Neagle	P	27	27	182.7	6	26	1	2	.970	1.577	1.185	0	0	0
Jon Lieber	P	51	15	142.0	17	25	0	0	1.000	2.662	.824	0	0	0
Danny Darwin	P	19	19	122.3	11	21	0	3	1.000	2.354	1.684	0	0	0
Francisco Cordova	P	59	6	99.0	6	16	2	1	.917	2.000	.373	0	0	0
Dan Miceli	P	44	9	85.7	6	3	3	0	.750	.946	.205	0	0	0
Zane Smith	P	16	16	83.3	1	13	1	1	.933	1.512	.875	0	0	0
Paul Wagner	P	16	15	81.7	10	14	0	1	1.000	2.645	1.500	0	0	0
Marc Wilkins	P	47	2	75.0	1	10	0	3	1.000	1.320	.234	0	0	0
Dan Plesac	P	73	0	70.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.128	.014	0	0	0
Chris Peters	P	16	10	64.0	3	8	1	3	.917	1.547	.688	0	0	0
Matt Ruebel	P	26	7	58.7	7	9	1	0	.941	2.455	.615	0	0	0
Esteban Loaiza	P	10	10	52.7	6	12	1	0	.947	3.076	1.800	0	0	0
John Ericks	P	28	4	46.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	.579	.107	0	0	0
Jason Christiansen	P	33	0	44.3	0	7	0	0	1.000	1.421	.212	0	0	0
Ramon Morel	P	29	0	42.0	4	3	0	0	1.000	1.500	.241	0	0	0
Jason Schmidt	P	6	6	37.7	3	4	0	0	1.000	1.673	1.167	0	0	0
Steve Parris	P	8	4	26.3	2	4	1	1	.857	2.051	.750	0	0	0
Elmer Dessens	P	15	3	25.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.080	.200	0	0	0
Dave Wainhouse	P	17	0	23.7	3	7	1	0	.909	3.803	.588	0	0	0
Rich Loiselle	P	5	3	20.7	2	5	0	0	1.000	3.048	1.400	0	0	0
John Hope	P	5	4	19.3	2	5	2	0	.778	3.259	1.400	0	0	0
Lee Hancock	P	13	0	18.3	3	7	1	2	.909	4.909	.769	0	0	0
Joe Boever	P	13	0	15.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	.231	0	0	0
Darrell May	P	5	2	8.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.077	.400	0	0	0
Steve Cooke	P	3	0	8.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jay Bell	SS	151	143	1289.3	215	478	10	78	.986	4.837	4.589	0	0	0
Carlos Garcia	SS	19	16	133.7	25	49	3	13	.961	4.983	3.895	0	0	0
Nelson Liriano	SS	5	3	30.3	4	8	1	2	.923	3.560	2.400	0	0	0
Totals		2101	1458	13080.0	4360	1868	128	383	.980	4.285	2.964	10	185	57	23.6

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