1997 Anderson Lawmen Statistics
Heartland League (HL) - Independent
Team Record: 32-37
Finished 4th in the HL
Manager: Jay Welker (32-37)
Location: Anderson, Indiana
Ballpark: Memorial Field
Attendance: 7,134, Avg. 207
1997 Anderson Lawmen RosterTeam Record: 32-37
Finished 4th in the HL
Manager: Jay Welker (32-37)
Location: Anderson, Indiana
Ballpark: Memorial Field
Attendance: 7,134, Avg. 207
Playoffs - Anderson Lawmen 2 games, Altoona Rail Kings 0
Finals - Columbia Mules 3 games, Anderson Lawmen 1
The Anderson Lawmen of the Heartland League ended the 1997 season with a record of 32 wins and 37 losses, finishing fourth in the HL.
The Lawmen scored 343 runs and conceded 367 runs. Chris Webb drove in 49 runs. Heath Bailey led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .341. Bruce Piddington topped the team with 8 wins and a team-best 2.32 earned run average, best among regular hurlers. Jay Welker served as manager.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Piddington | 8 | 2 | .800 | 2.32 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 93.0 | 88 | 38 | 24 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 89 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 385 |
| Dustin Riggs | 6 | 5 | .545 | 3.58 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 98.0 | 106 | 59 | 39 | 7 | 41 | 0 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 433 |
| Darren Westergard | 4 | 3 | .571 | 2.95 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 58.0 | 37 | 26 | 19 | 3 | 40 | 2 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 250 |
| Billy Freytag | 4 | 3 | .571 | 4.63 | 18 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 44.7 | 57 | 37 | 23 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 43 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 221 |
| Joseph Blasingim | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2.27 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 47.7 | 29 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 184 |
| Brent Coe | 3 | 6 | .333 | 7.30 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53.0 | 64 | 56 | 43 | 5 | 43 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 259 |
| J. D. French | 1 | 1 | .500 | 6.00 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 67 |
| Matt Kottmeyer | 1 | 2 | .333 | 3.86 | 18 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 37.3 | 33 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 164 |
| Michael Young | 1 | 2 | .333 | 5.97 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 31.7 | 37 | 23 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 135 |
| Andy Welches | 1 | 4 | .200 | 5.10 | 20 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47.7 | 51 | 32 | 27 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 218 |
| Jason Mendels | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Todd Craig | 0 | 0 | 2.25 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12.0 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 57 | |
| Kenya Hunt | 0 | 0 | 5.40 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Jason Moore | 0 | 0 | 22.50 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Ryan Lewis | 0 | 1 | .000 | 3.72 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.7 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| Dan Linton | 0 | 1 | .000 | 7.36 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.3 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| Gary Stephenson | 0 | 2 | .000 | 7.63 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.3 | 21 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 79 |
| Josh Trammell | 0 | 2 | .000 | 9.39 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.7 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 35 |
| Totals | 32 | 36 | .471 | 4.24 | 157 | 69 | 53 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 581.7 | 587 | 367 | 274 | 43 | 262 | 5 | 485 | 36 | 2 | 46 | 2587 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heath Bailey | 60 | 251 | 217 | 42 | 74 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 22 | 6 | 23 | 27 | .341 | .421 | .502 | .923 | 109 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Flood | 69 | 312 | 266 | 49 | 74 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 28 | 50 | .278 | .375 | .365 | .740 | 97 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Chris Webb | 58 | 244 | 211 | 24 | 60 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 49 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 44 | .284 | .366 | .436 | .802 | 92 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Brian Cruz | 54 | 220 | 181 | 30 | 53 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 26 | .293 | .402 | .503 | .905 | 91 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Gibby Vargo | 59 | 215 | 198 | 26 | 49 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 39 | .247 | .296 | .429 | .725 | 85 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Huntley | 52 | 185 | 159 | 28 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 45 | .220 | .306 | .346 | .651 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Tommy Johnston | 42 | 153 | 129 | 18 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 42 | .248 | .338 | .318 | .656 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Terry Johnson | 56 | 173 | 155 | 26 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 21 | 3 | 14 | 25 | .200 | .275 | .245 | .520 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Steve Smella | 36 | 130 | 116 | 20 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 35 | .259 | .333 | .405 | .739 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Jason Mendels | 47 | 129 | 119 | 13 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 20 | .244 | .276 | .294 | .570 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Mac Chapman | 38 | 121 | 95 | 13 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 30 | .284 | .433 | .463 | .896 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ron D'Auteuil | 41 | 149 | 136 | 14 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 34 | .191 | .245 | .243 | .488 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Eli Herdman | 32 | 128 | 107 | 15 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 20 | .224 | .339 | .383 | .722 | 41 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Brian Simmons | 11 | 45 | 41 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | .293 | .356 | .366 | .721 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bart Davis | 18 | 64 | 55 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 11 | .127 | .206 | .200 | .406 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Dave Ullery | 6 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | .312 | .450 | .438 | .888 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kenya Hunt | 8 | 19 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | .188 | .316 | .188 | .503 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Newell | 3 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .250 | .333 | .250 | .583 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Brendan Connolly | 5 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .182 | .182 | .273 | .455 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mark Young | 11 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | .143 | .294 | .214 | .508 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Curtis Knight | 4 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | .143 | .143 | .214 | .357 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dan Linton | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Burch | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Billy Freytag | 18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cortney Fritz | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Young | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 745 | 2627 | 2277 | 343 | 581 | 92 | 13 | 53 | 293 | 94 | 31 | 258 | 490 | .255 | .340 | .377 | .717 | 858 | 36 | 43 | 33 | 16 | 4 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Webb | 1B | 56 | 451 | 28 | 8 | 39 | .984 | 8.554 | ||||
| Gibby Vargo | 1B | 17 | 78 | 6 | 5 | 7 | .944 | 4.941 | ||||
| Brian Cruz | 1B | 2 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 7.500 | ||||
| Ron D'Auteuil | 2B | 40 | 81 | 102 | 6 | 20 | .968 | 4.575 | ||||
| Tony Huntley | 2B | 20 | 32 | 59 | 2 | 14 | .978 | 4.550 | ||||
| Jason Mendels | 2B | 14 | 20 | 29 | 3 | 6 | .942 | 3.500 | ||||
| Chris Newell | 2B | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .857 | 2.000 | ||||
| Mike Burch | 2B | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 4.500 | ||||
| Brian Simmons | 2B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Mac Chapman | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Eli Herdman | 3B | 28 | 16 | 61 | 11 | 2 | .875 | 2.750 | ||||
| Tony Huntley | 3B | 24 | 12 | 28 | 8 | 1 | .833 | 1.667 | ||||
| Jason Mendels | 3B | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | .842 | 1.143 | ||||
| Brian Simmons | 3B | 9 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.667 | ||||
| Curtis Knight | 3B | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | .818 | 2.250 | ||||
| Brian Cruz | 3B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .500 | ||||
| Mac Chapman | 3B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | ||||
| Mike Burch | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Brian Cruz | C | 49 | 308 | 49 | 8 | 1 | .978 | 7.286 | 4 | 24 | 30 | 55.6 |
| Mac Chapman | C | 24 | 158 | 12 | 5 | 0 | .971 | 7.083 | 2 | 28 | 6 | 17.6 |
| Brendan Connolly | C | 5 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .941 | 3.200 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 25.0 |
| Dave Ullery | C | 4 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 4.250 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 33.3 |
| Cortney Fritz | C | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jason Mendels | C | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heath Bailey | CF | 51 | .000 | |||||||||
| Terry Johnson | CF | 17 | .000 | |||||||||
| Gibby Vargo | CF | 4 | .000 | |||||||||
| Jason Mendels | CF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Mark Young | CF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Mike Flood | CF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Terry Johnson | LF | 35 | .000 | |||||||||
| Gibby Vargo | LF | 29 | .000 | |||||||||
| Mark Young | LF | 10 | .000 | |||||||||
| Jason Mendels | LF | 10 | .000 | |||||||||
| Heath Bailey | LF | 3 | .000 | |||||||||
| Kenya Hunt | LF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Brian Cruz | LF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Michael Young | LF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Mike Flood | LF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Mike Flood | OF | 65 | 126 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .985 | 2.031 | ||||
| Heath Bailey | OF | 53 | 103 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .954 | 1.962 | ||||
| Terry Johnson | OF | 50 | 63 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .942 | 1.300 | ||||
| Gibby Vargo | OF | 37 | 46 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .980 | 1.297 | ||||
| Jason Mendels | OF | 14 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .929 | ||||
| Mark Young | OF | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .455 | ||||
| Kenya Hunt | OF | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Brian Cruz | OF | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.500 | ||||
| Michael Young | OF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | ||||
| Brian Simmons | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Tony Huntley | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Andy Welches | P | 20 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .933 | .700 | ||||
| Matt Kottmeyer | P | 18 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .900 | .500 | ||||
| Billy Freytag | P | 18 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | .900 | .500 | ||||
| Bruce Piddington | P | 16 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .947 | 1.125 | ||||
| Dustin Riggs | P | 15 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.600 | ||||
| Brent Coe | P | 14 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .857 | ||||
| Darren Westergard | P | 11 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .727 | ||||
| Gary Stephenson | P | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .800 | .571 | ||||
| Joseph Blasingim | P | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .857 | .857 | ||||
| Michael Young | P | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.200 | ||||
| Dan Linton | P | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .400 | ||||
| Todd Craig | P | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .200 | ||||
| Jason Moore | P | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| J. D. French | P | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Josh Trammell | P | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.667 | ||||
| Ryan Lewis | P | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.500 | ||||
| Kenya Hunt | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Jason Mendels | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Mike Flood | RF | 65 | .000 | |||||||||
| Gibby Vargo | RF | 6 | .000 | |||||||||
| Jason Mendels | RF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Brian Simmons | RF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Tony Huntley | RF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Kenya Hunt | RF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Heath Bailey | RF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Tommy Johnston | SS | 42 | 70 | 106 | 13 | 21 | .931 | 4.190 | ||||
| Bart Davis | SS | 17 | 19 | 51 | 8 | 10 | .897 | 4.118 | ||||
| Terry Johnson | SS | 5 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 2 | .960 | 4.800 | ||||
| Tony Huntley | SS | 5 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | .905 | 3.800 | ||||
| Jason Mendels | SS | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.333 | ||||
| Brian Simmons | SS | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.500 | ||||
| Totals | 1039 | 1745 | 699 | 107 | 133 | .958 | 2.352 | 8 | 57 | 38 | 40.0 |
Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.
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