1997 Texas Rangers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 77-85
Finished 3rd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,945,228, Avg. 36,545
Ballpark: The Ballpark at Arlington
Manager: Johnny Oates (77-85)
Location: Arlington, Texas

1997 Texas Rangers Roster
1997 Texas Rangers Results

The Texas Rangers of the American League ended the 1997 season with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses, finishing third in the AL's West Division.

The Rangers plated 807 runs and surrendered 823 runs. Juan Gonzalez walloped 42 home runs for Texas, while Ivan Rodriguez, Lee Stevens and Rusty Greer each swatted 20 or more, too. Juan Gonzalez drove in 131 runs. Rusty Greer led all regular hitters with a .321 average. Darren Oliver topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 4.20 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Johnny Oates 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
Darren Oliver	13	12	.520	4.20	32	32	0	3	1	0	201.3	213	111	94	29	82	3	104	11	0	7	887
Bobby Witt	12	12	.500	4.82	34	32	1	3	0	0	209.0	245	118	112	33	74	4	121	2	0	7	919
Danny Patterson	10	6	.625	3.42	54	0	17	0	0	1	71.0	70	29	27	3	23	4	69	0	1	7	296
John Burkett	9	12	.429	4.56	30	30	0	2	0	0	189.3	240	106	96	20	30	1	139	4	0	1	828
John Wetteland	7	2	.778	1.94	61	0	58	0	0	31	65.0	43	18	14	5	21	3	63	0	0	1	259
Ken Hill	5	8	.385	5.19	19	19	0	0	0	0	111.0	129	69	64	11	56	3	68	2	0	5	499
Matt Whiteside	4	1	.800	5.08	42	1	8	0	0	0	72.7	85	45	41	4	26	3	44	3	2	3	323
Julio Santana	4	6	.400	6.75	30	14	3	0	0	0	104.0	141	86	78	16	49	2	64	4	1	8	496
Rick Helling	3	3	.500	4.58	10	8	1	0	0	0	55.0	47	29	28	5	21	0	46	2	0	3	226
Roger Pavlik	3	5	.375	4.37	11	11	0	0	0	0	57.7	59	29	28	7	31	1	35	1	0	0	256
Eric Gunderson	2	1	.667	3.26	60	0	11	0	0	1	49.7	45	19	18	5	15	3	31	2	1	2	209
Scott Bailes	1	0	1.000	2.86	24	0	7	0	0	0	22.0	18	9	7	2	10	2	14	0	0	0	91
Wilson Heredia	1	0	1.000	3.20	10	0	3	0	0	0	19.7	14	9	7	2	16	0	8	0	0	0	89
Tanyon Sturtze	1	1	.500	8.27	9	5	1	0	0	0	32.7	45	30	30	6	18	0	18	0	1	1	155
Ed Vosberg	1	2	.333	4.61	42	0	16	0	0	0	41.0	44	23	21	3	15	6	29	2	0	1	180
Terry Clark	1	4	.200	5.87	9	5	2	0	0	0	30.7	41	20	20	3	10	0	11	2	0	1	138
Eric Moody	0	1	.000	4.26	10	1	3	0	0	0	19.0	26	10	9	4	2	0	12	0	0	0	82
Bryan Eversgerd	0	2	.000	20.25	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.3	5	3	3	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	12
Jose Alberro	0	3	.000	7.94	10	4	2	0	0	0	28.3	37	33	25	4	17	1	11	1	0	3	143
Xavier Hernandez	0	4	.000	4.56	44	0	20	0	0	0	49.3	51	27	25	7	22	4	36	2	0	5	221
Totals	77	85	.475	4.70	544	162	154	8	1	33	1429.7	1598	823	747	169	541	40	925	38	6	55	6309

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
Rusty Greer	157	690	601	112	193	42	3	26	87	9	5	83	87	.321	.405	.531	.936	319	11	3	1	2	4
Ivan Rodriguez	150	648	597	98	187	34	4	20	77	7	3	38	89	.313	.360	.484	.844	289	18	8	1	4	7
Juan Gonzalez	133	579	533	87	158	24	3	42	131	0	0	33	107	.296	.335	.589	.924	314	12	3	0	10	7
Will Clark	110	450	393	56	128	29	1	12	51	0	0	49	62	.326	.400	.496	.896	195	4	3	0	5	11
Lee Stevens	137	454	426	58	128	24	2	21	74	1	3	23	83	.300	.336	.514	.850	219	18	1	1	3	2
Domingo Cedeno	113	397	365	49	103	19	6	4	36	3	3	27	77	.282	.334	.400	.734	146	5	2	2	1	0
Mark McLemore	89	399	349	47	91	17	2	1	25	7	5	40	54	.261	.338	.330	.668	115	5	2	6	2	1
Dean Palmer	94	386	355	47	87	21	0	14	55	1	0	26	84	.245	.296	.423	.719	150	4	1	1	3	2
Damon Buford	122	404	366	49	82	18	0	8	39	18	7	30	83	.224	.287	.339	.626	124	8	3	3	2	0
Benji Gil	110	345	317	35	71	13	2	5	31	1	2	17	96	.224	.263	.325	.587	103	3	1	6	4	0
Fernando Tatis	60	241	223	29	57	9	0	8	29	3	0	14	42	.256	.297	.404	.701	90	6	0	2	2	0
Billy Ripken	71	218	203	18	56	9	1	3	24	0	1	9	32	.276	.300	.374	.674	76	7	0	1	5	0
Tom Goodwin	53	235	207	39	49	13	2	0	17	16	6	25	37	.237	.319	.319	.638	66	2	1	0	2	1
Warren Newson	81	201	169	23	36	10	1	10	23	3	0	31	53	.213	.333	.462	.795	78	4	0	0	1	2
Mike Simms	59	121	111	13	28	8	0	5	22	0	1	8	27	.252	.298	.459	.757	51	3	0	0	2	1
Jim Leyritz	37	113	85	11	24	4	0	0	14	1	0	23	22	.282	.446	.329	.776	28	2	3	1	1	0
Alex Diaz	28	97	90	8	20	4	0	2	12	1	1	5	13	.222	.268	.333	.601	30	3	1	0	1	0
Mike Devereaux	29	80	72	8	15	3	0	0	7	1	0	7	10	.208	.275	.250	.525	18	0	0	0	1	0
Henry Mercedes	23	56	47	4	10	4	0	0	4	0	0	6	25	.213	.302	.298	.600	14	0	0	3	0	0
Marc Sagmoen	21	46	43	2	6	2	0	1	4	0	0	2	13	.140	.174	.256	.430	11	1	0	0	1	0
Hanley Frias	14	27	26	4	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.192	.222	.231	.453	6	1	0	0	0	0
Mickey Tettleton	17	48	44	5	4	1	0	3	4	0	0	3	12	.091	.167	.318	.485	14	1	1	0	0	1
Kevin Brown	4	5	5	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	1.000	1.400	5	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Witt	35	6	6	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	1.000	1.333	6	0	0	0	0	0
John Wetteland	61	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Clark	9	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
Julio Santana	30	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Darren Oliver	32	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167	1	0	1	0	0	0
John Burkett	30	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Silvestri	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Helling	10	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Bailes	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Vosberg	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Eric Moody	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Whiteside	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tanyon Sturtze	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Alberro	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Hill	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Eric Gunderson	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Wilson Heredia	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Xavier Hernandez	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Pavlik	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Patterson	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bryan Eversgerd	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2259	6265	5651	807	1547	311	27	187	773	72	37	500	1116	.274	.334	.438	.771	2473	118	34	28	52	39

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Will Clark	1B	100	98	848.0	880	62	4	86	.996	9.998	9.420	0	0	0
Lee Stevens	1B	62	54	478.0	456	33	3	45	.994	9.207	7.887	0	0	0
Jim Leyritz	1B	9	5	53.7	60	2	0	4	1.000	1.398	6.889	0	0	0
Billy Ripken	1B	9	3	35.0	34	4	0	4	1.000	9.771	4.222	0	0	0
Mike Simms	1B	2	2	13.0	13	1	1	2	.933	9.692	7.000	0	0	0
Marc Sagmoen	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Alex Diaz	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Mark McLemore	2B	89	86	742.3	148	254	8	60	.980	4.874	4.517	0	0	0
Domingo Cedeno	2B	65	53	484.3	100	162	11	28	.960	4.869	4.031	0	0	0
Billy Ripken	2B	25	23	195.0	40	78	2	18	.983	5.446	4.720	0	0	0
Alex Diaz	2B	1	0	5.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	5.000	0	0	0
Hanley Frias	2B	1	0	3.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0
Dean Palmer	3B	93	92	799.3	72	162	10	10	.959	2.635	2.516	0	0	0
Fernando Tatis	3B	60	60	529.3	45	90	7	5	.951	2.295	2.250	0	0	0
Billy Ripken	3B	13	7	72.0	4	12	0	2	1.000	2.000	1.231	0	0	0
Domingo Cedeno	3B	3	3	27.0	2	6	0	2	1.000	2.667	2.667	0	0	0
Dave Silvestri	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ivan Rodriguez	C	143	139	1201.0	821	75	7	11	.992	6.714	6.266	3	37	49	57.0
Henry Mercedes	C	23	12	128.7	78	4	1	2	.988	5.736	3.565	2	11	1	8.3
Jim Leyritz	C	11	10	87.0	56	5	1	0	.984	6.310	5.545	1	11	6	35.3
Kevin Brown	C	4	1	13.0	9	0	1	0	.900	6.231	2.250	0	1	0	0.0
Rusty Greer	OF	153	152	1327.3	318	9	12	0	.965	2.217	2.137	0	0	0
Damon Buford	OF	117	102	909.7	282	7	3	4	.990	2.859	2.470	0	0	0
Juan Gonzalez	OF	64	64	555.7	128	6	4	1	.971	2.170	2.094	0	0	0
Tom Goodwin	OF	51	49	426.0	138	3	2	0	.986	2.979	2.765	0	0	0
Warren Newson	OF	58	38	357.0	93	1	5	0	.949	2.370	1.621	0	0	0
Alex Diaz	OF	23	21	194.3	48	2	1	0	.980	2.316	2.174	0	0	0
Mike Devereaux	OF	28	20	182.0	40	0	0	0	1.000	1.978	1.429	0	0	0
Lee Stevens	OF	22	20	151.0	30	0	0	0	1.000	1.788	1.364	0	0	0
Marc Sagmoen	OF	17	10	101.0	24	0	0	0	1.000	2.139	1.412	0	0	0
Mike Simms	OF	19	10	84.0	23	0	1	0	.958	2.464	1.211	0	0	0
Mark McLemore	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bobby Witt	P	34	32	209.0	10	27	1	2	.974	1.593	1.088	0	0	0
Darren Oliver	P	32	32	201.3	7	23	2	0	.938	1.341	.938	0	0	0
John Burkett	P	30	30	189.3	12	28	1	1	.976	1.901	1.333	0	0	0
Ken Hill	P	19	19	111.0	13	25	0	1	1.000	3.081	2.000	0	0	0
Julio Santana	P	30	14	104.0	6	15	0	3	1.000	1.817	.700	0	0	0
Matt Whiteside	P	42	1	72.7	9	16	1	1	.962	3.096	.595	0	0	0
Danny Patterson	P	54	0	71.0	4	7	0	1	1.000	1.394	.204	0	0	0
John Wetteland	P	61	0	65.0	1	6	0	0	1.000	.969	.115	0	0	0
Roger Pavlik	P	11	11	57.7	3	4	1	1	.875	1.092	.636	0	0	0
Rick Helling	P	10	8	55.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	.327	.200	0	0	0
Eric Gunderson	P	60	0	49.7	1	3	0	0	1.000	.725	.067	0	0	0
Xavier Hernandez	P	44	0	49.3	3	6	0	1	1.000	1.642	.205	0	0	0
Ed Vosberg	P	42	0	41.0	1	4	1	0	.833	1.098	.119	0	0	0
Tanyon Sturtze	P	9	5	32.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.276	.111	0	0	0
Terry Clark	P	9	5	30.7	6	7	1	2	.929	3.815	1.444	0	0	0
Jose Alberro	P	10	4	28.3	3	5	1	1	.889	2.541	.800	0	0	0
Scott Bailes	P	24	0	22.0	2	6	0	1	1.000	3.273	.333	0	0	0
Wilson Heredia	P	10	0	19.7	0	3	0	1	1.000	1.373	.300	0	0	0
Eric Moody	P	10	1	19.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.421	.300	0	0	0
Bryan Eversgerd	P	3	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Benji Gil	SS	106	100	860.7	163	328	19	71	.963	5.134	4.632	0	0	0
Domingo Cedeno	SS	43	30	279.7	44	91	6	28	.957	4.344	3.140	0	0	0
Billy Ripken	SS	31	24	213.3	38	64	3	15	.971	4.303	3.290	0	0	0
Hanley Frias	SS	12	7	68.0	12	11	0	2	1.000	3.044	1.917	0	0	0
Dave Silvestri	SS	1	1	8.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		2006	1458	12867.0	4289	1666	121	416	.980	4.165	2.969	6	60	56	48.3

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