1998 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 69-93
Finished 6th in the NL's Central Division
Attendance: 1,560,950, Avg. 19,512
Ballpark: Three Rivers Stadium
Manager: Gene Lamont (69-93)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1998 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1998 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1998 season with a record of 69 wins and 93 losses, finishing sixth in the NL's Central Division.

The Pirates scored 650 runs and conceded 718 runs. Kevin Young led Pittsburgh with 27 home runs and drove in 108 runs. Jason Kendall paced batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .327 clip. Francisco Cordova topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.31 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Gene Lamont 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
Francisco Cordova	13	14	.481	3.31	33	33	0	3	2	0	220.3	204	91	81	22	69	5	157	3	1	1	921
Jason Schmidt	11	14	.440	4.07	33	33	0	0	0	0	214.3	228	106	97	24	71	3	158	4	1	15	916
Chris Peters	8	10	.444	3.47	39	21	7	1	0	1	148.0	142	63	57	13	55	4	103	3	1	4	630
Jon Lieber	8	14	.364	4.11	29	28	1	2	0	1	171.0	182	93	78	23	40	4	138	3	3	0	731
Esteban Loaiza	6	5	.545	4.52	21	14	3	0	0	0	91.7	96	50	46	13	30	1	53	3	2	1	394
Jose Silva	6	7	.462	4.40	18	18	0	1	0	0	100.3	104	55	49	7	30	2	64	1	2	2	425
Mike Williams	4	2	.667	1.94	37	1	9	0	0	0	51.0	39	12	11	1	16	4	59	0	0	3	204
Jason Christiansen	3	3	.500	2.51	60	0	19	0	0	6	64.7	51	22	18	2	27	7	71	0	0	3	269
Sean Lawrence	2	1	.667	7.32	7	3	0	0	0	0	19.7	25	16	16	4	10	0	12	0	0	1	92
Jeff Tabaka	2	2	.500	3.02	37	0	9	0	0	0	50.7	37	19	17	6	22	4	40	5	0	1	212
Elmer Dessens	2	6	.250	5.67	43	5	8	0	0	0	74.7	90	50	47	10	25	2	43	0	0	1	332
Rich Loiselle	2	7	.222	3.44	54	0	43	0	0	19	55.0	56	26	21	2	36	9	48	2	0	0	258
Todd Van Poppel	1	2	.333	5.36	18	7	3	0	0	0	47.0	53	32	28	4	18	3	32	0	3	5	208
Jeff McCurry	1	3	.250	6.52	16	0	8	0	0	0	19.3	24	14	14	4	9	0	11	1	0	0	87
Marc Wilkins	0	0		3.52	16	0	6	0	0	0	15.3	13	6	6	1	9	2	17	2	1	1	67
Javier Martinez	0	1	.000	4.83	37	0	13	0	0	0	41.0	39	32	22	5	34	1	42	4	0	5	199
Ricardo Rincon	0	2	.000	2.91	60	0	27	0	0	14	65.0	50	31	21	6	29	2	64	0	0	2	272
Totals	69	93	.426	3.91	558	163	156	7	2	41	1449.0	1433	718	629	147	530	53	1112	31	14	45	6217

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
Tony Womack	159	704	655	85	185	26	7	3	45	58	8	38	94	.282	.319	.357	.677	234	4	0	6	5	1
Jason Kendall	149	627	535	95	175	36	3	12	75	26	5	51	51	.327	.411	.473	.884	253	6	31	2	8	3
Kevin Young	159	656	592	88	160	40	2	27	108	15	7	44	127	.270	.328	.481	.809	285	20	11	0	9	1
Jose Guillen	153	605	573	60	153	38	2	14	84	3	5	21	100	.267	.298	.414	.712	237	7	6	1	4	0
Al Martin	125	479	440	57	105	15	2	12	47	20	3	32	91	.239	.296	.364	.660	160	13	5	0	2	2
Lou Collier	110	379	334	30	82	13	6	2	34	2	2	31	70	.246	.316	.338	.655	113	8	6	3	5	6
Turner Ward	123	324	282	33	74	13	3	9	46	5	4	27	40	.262	.328	.426	.754	120	4	4	4	7	1
Jermaine Allensworth	69	261	233	30	72	13	3	3	24	8	4	17	43	.309	.372	.429	.801	100	1	7	3	1	0
Aramis Ramirez	72	275	251	23	59	9	1	6	24	0	1	18	72	.235	.296	.351	.646	88	3	4	1	1	0
Manny Martinez	73	196	180	21	45	11	2	6	24	0	3	9	44	.250	.290	.433	.723	78	3	2	3	2	0
Freddy Garcia	56	193	172	27	44	11	1	9	26	0	2	18	45	.256	.332	.488	.820	84	3	2	0	1	3
Adrian Brown	41	165	152	20	43	4	1	0	5	4	0	9	18	.283	.323	.322	.645	49	3	0	4	0	0
Kevin Polcovich	81	238	212	18	40	12	0	0	14	4	3	15	33	.189	.255	.245	.501	52	7	5	3	3	2
Doug Strange	90	201	185	9	32	8	0	0	14	1	0	10	39	.173	.217	.216	.433	40	5	1	3	2	1
Mark Smith	59	144	128	18	25	6	0	2	13	7	0	10	26	.195	.264	.289	.553	37	1	3	0	3	0
Keith Osik	39	116	98	8	21	4	0	0	7	1	2	13	16	.214	.316	.255	.571	25	4	2	2	1	2
Emil Brown	13	41	39	2	10	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	11	.256	.293	.282	.575	11	0	1	0	0	0
Abraham Nunez	24	67	52	6	10	2	0	1	2	4	2	12	14	.192	.344	.288	.632	15	1	0	3	0	0
Tim Laker	14	26	24	2	9	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	3	.375	.385	.542	.926	13	1	0	0	1	0
Chris Peters	39	44	39	2	9	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	9	.231	.250	.231	.481	9	0	0	4	0	0
Francisco Cordova	33	79	75	3	9	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	29	.120	.143	.160	.303	12	2	0	2	0	0
Jon Lieber	29	58	48	3	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	20	.167	.216	.188	.403	9	0	0	7	0	0
Esteban Loaiza	21	33	29	2	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	5	.241	.267	.241	.508	7	1	0	3	0	0
Jason Schmidt	33	77	62	1	6	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	25	.097	.123	.129	.252	8	1	0	12	1	0
Chance Sanford	14	29	28	3	4	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	6	.143	.172	.250	.422	7	1	0	0	0	0
Steve Bieser	13	13	11	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.273	.385	.364	.748	4	1	0	0	0	0
Todd Van Poppel	18	14	12	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.250	.308	.333	.641	4	0	0	1	0	0
Jason Christiansen	60	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Silva	18	35	27	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.037	.133	.074	.207	2	1	1	5	0	0
Mike Williams	37	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Elmer Dessens	43	12	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	3	0	0
Jeff Tabaka	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ricardo Rincon	60	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Sean Lawrence	7	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Javier Martinez	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marc Wilkins	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Loiselle	54	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Jeff McCurry	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2194	6111	5493	650	1395	271	35	107	613	159	51	393	1060	.254	.311	.374	.686	2057	102	91	78	56	22

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Kevin Young	1B	157	153	1359.0	1334	80	8	139	.994	9.364	9.006	0	0	0
Mark Smith	1B	6	4	37.0	30	4	0	3	1.000	8.270	5.667	0	0	0
Tim Laker	1B	4	4	28.0	33	1	0	4	1.000	1.929	8.500	0	0	0
Freddy Garcia	1B	4	2	20.0	25	2	1	2	.964	12.150	6.750	0	0	0
Doug Strange	1B	3	0	5.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.000	0	0	0
Tony Womack	2B	152	149	1316.0	304	450	17	104	.978	5.157	4.961	0	0	0
Kevin Polcovich	2B	15	7	71.7	15	37	0	9	1.000	6.530	3.467	0	0	0
Doug Strange	2B	9	7	59.3	17	18	0	6	1.000	5.309	3.889	0	0	0
Chance Sanford	2B	1	0	2.0	1	0	1	0	.500	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Aramis Ramirez	3B	71	71	605.3	29	114	9	13	.941	2.126	2.014	0	0	0
Freddy Garcia	3B	47	46	397.3	28	102	7	9	.949	2.945	2.766	0	0	0
Doug Strange	3B	42	30	292.3	25	54	5	3	.940	2.432	1.881	0	0	0
Keith Osik	3B	7	7	64.7	9	18	1	4	.964	3.758	3.857	0	0	0
Chance Sanford	3B	5	5	46.0	4	5	1	2	.900	1.761	1.800	0	0	0
Kevin Polcovich	3B	8	4	43.3	2	17	0	1	1.000	3.946	2.375	0	0	0
Jason Kendall	C	144	143	1253.7	1015	58	9	10	.992	7.703	7.451	9	83	32	27.8
Keith Osik	C	26	20	192.3	143	12	0	1	1.000	7.253	5.962	4	12	7	36.8
Tim Laker	C	1	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	1	0	0
Jose Guillen	OF	151	146	1272.3	283	16	10	4	.968	2.115	1.980	0	0	0
Al Martin	OF	114	110	922.3	192	6	3	1	.985	1.932	1.737	0	0	0
Turner Ward	OF	97	61	586.7	163	7	3	2	.983	2.608	1.753	0	0	0
Jermaine Allensworth	OF	66	61	554.0	145	4	3	2	.980	2.421	2.258	0	0	0
Manny Martinez	OF	62	40	398.3	92	0	1	0	.989	2.079	1.484	0	0	0
Adrian Brown	OF	38	36	308.3	83	3	2	2	.977	2.510	2.263	0	0	0
Mark Smith	OF	24	20	180.7	42	0	1	0	.977	2.092	1.750	0	0	0
Emil Brown	OF	10	10	81.7	21	2	0	0	1.000	2.535	2.300	0	0	0
Tony Womack	OF	5	5	40.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	.900	.800	0	0	0
Steve Bieser	OF	1	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Francisco Cordova	P	33	33	220.3	12	30	1	1	.977	1.716	1.273	0	0	0
Jason Schmidt	P	33	33	214.3	7	16	2	2	.920	.966	.697	0	0	0
Jon Lieber	P	29	28	171.0	12	17	0	1	1.000	1.526	1.000	0	0	0
Chris Peters	P	39	21	148.0	3	16	3	2	.864	1.155	.487	0	0	0
Jose Silva	P	18	18	100.3	3	18	0	1	1.000	1.884	1.167	0	0	0
Esteban Loaiza	P	21	14	91.7	10	18	0	3	1.000	2.749	1.333	0	0	0
Elmer Dessens	P	43	5	74.7	4	9	1	0	.929	1.567	.302	0	0	0
Ricardo Rincon	P	60	0	65.0	3	9	2	2	.857	1.662	.200	0	0	0
Jason Christiansen	P	60	0	64.7	2	5	1	0	.875	.974	.117	0	0	0
Rich Loiselle	P	54	0	55.0	2	10	0	0	1.000	1.964	.222	0	0	0
Mike Williams	P	37	1	51.0	0	13	1	0	.929	2.294	.351	0	0	0
Jeff Tabaka	P	37	0	50.7	1	10	1	1	.917	1.954	.297	0	0	0
Todd Van Poppel	P	18	7	47.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	.574	.167	0	0	0
Javier Martinez	P	37	0	41.0	2	0	1	0	.667	.439	.054	0	0	0
Sean Lawrence	P	7	3	19.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	.915	.286	0	0	0
Jeff McCurry	P	16	0	19.3	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.862	.250	0	0	0
Marc Wilkins	P	16	0	15.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.587	.063	0	0	0
Lou Collier	SS	107	98	862.3	148	287	18	56	.960	4.540	4.065	0	0	0
Kevin Polcovich	SS	54	45	415.7	59	159	20	32	.916	4.720	4.037	0	0	0
Abraham Nunez	SS	23	20	163.7	33	60	7	12	.930	5.114	4.043	0	0	0
Chance Sanford	SS	1	0	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000	0	0	0
Tony Womack	SS	2	0	2.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	7.714	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		2015	1467	13041.0	4347	1698	140	434	.977	4.172	3.000	14	95	39	29.1

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