1998 Bakersfield Blaze Statistics

California League (CL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 49-91
Finished 5th in the CL's Freeway Division
Manager: Frank Reberger (49-91)
Affiliation: San Francisco Giants
Location: Bakersfield, California
Ballpark: Sam Lynn Ballpark
Attendance: 78,027, Avg. 1,131 in 69 home dates

1998 Bakersfield Blaze Roster

The Bakersfield Blaze of the California League ended the 1998 season with a record of 49 wins and 91 losses, finishing fifth in the league's Freeway Division.

The Blaze scored 642 runs and surrendered 823 runs, most in the circuit. Tim Flaherty led Bakersfield with 24 home runs and drove in 90 runs. Dan McKinley paced batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .301 clip. Ryan Jensen topped the squad with 11 wins and a team-best 3.37 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1998 Bakersfield Blaze who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Ryan Jensen, Shawn Estes, Kevin Rogers, Chris Magruder, Kevin Joseph and Erasmo Ramirez.

Frank Reberger served as manager.

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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
Ryan Jensen	11	12	.478	3.37	29	27	1	0	0	168.3	162	89	63	14	61	3	164	8	2	10	726
Jason Verdugo	6	6	.500	3.25	28	11	17	0	3	80.3	79	35	29	4	15	0	59	2	0	0	329
Mike Riley	6	12	.333	4.50	40	15	7	2	2	128.0	130	73	64	8	58	1	110	3	1	9	555
Fausto Macey	5	8	.385	5.28	17	15	1	1	0	87.0	114	63	51	14	20	0	72	4	4	6	381
Andy Taulbee	3	4	.429	5.38	18	13	0	0	0	75.3	96	55	45	10	33	0	43	3	1	7	348
Matt Wells	3	8	.273	4.50	40	6	15	0	5	104.0	107	63	52	9	46	3	70	8	3	3	472
Nathan Rice	3	8	.273	5.40	30	21	0	0	0	120.0	133	96	72	8	78	1	87	4	0	21	562
Phil Bailey	2	2	.500	5.74	20	0	8	0	1	31.3	40	22	20	1	23	2	27	1	0	4	154
Chad Frontera	2	6	.250	5.40	11	11	0	0	0	53.3	63	39	32	4	23	0	29	7	2	6	246
Josh Tyler	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Tom Nielsen	1	0	1.000	7.88	4	0	0	0	0	8.0	10	11	7	1	5	0	8	0	0	2	40
Erasmo Ramirez	1	1	.500	3.38	14	0	9	0	3	21.3	10	8	8	0	6	0	17	2	3	1	80
Will Malerich	1	1	.500	4.71	26	0	5	0	1	42.0	36	22	22	3	25	1	35	7	0	4	184
Guillermo Larreal	1	1	.500	4.82	9	0	2	0	0	18.7	23	14	10	3	2	1	14	0	1	0	82
Jon Valenti	1	2	.333	7.08	9	2	4	0	0	20.3	26	21	16	5	13	0	11	0	0	1	100
Jeff Hutzler	1	7	.125	5.71	51	0	21	0	3	80.3	96	64	51	9	31	4	34	4	0	6	372
Jesse Travis	1	7	.125	6.08	50	6	31	0	9	80.0	96	66	54	11	33	2	58	5	3	11	378
Travis Thurmond	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	6.0	0	0	0	0	5	0	7	0	0	0	24
Shawn Estes	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	4.3	3	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	17
Kevin Rogers	0	0		2.11	12	0	3	0	0	21.3	15	9	5	2	4	1	19	0	0	2	83
Kurt Takahashi	0	0		4.66	5	0	2	0	0	9.7	11	7	5	0	3	0	7	0	0	0	41
Mark Hutchings	0	0		6.30	6	0	4	0	0	10.0	8	7	7	1	7	0	6	1	0	0	47
Gabriel Luckert	0	0		16.20	2	0	2	0	0	1.7	5	3	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	12
Jake Esteves	0	2	.000	4.29	14	6	4	0	1	35.7	43	30	17	7	12	0	24	2	0	0	168
Kevin Joseph	0	4	.000	8.14	6	6	0	0	0	21.0	35	26	19	3	20	0	17	2	0	7	120
Totals	49	91	.350	4.77	445	140	137	3	28	1229.0	1342	823	652	117	526	19	924	64	20	101	5526

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
Dan McKinley	94	425	379	58	114	16	4	6	44	19	6	30	84	.301	.366	.412	.777	156	8	10	4	2	2
Tim Flaherty	124	531	478	72	112	27	0	24	90	0	0	41	171	.234	.301	.441	.743	211	6	7	0	5	1
Jon Valenti	113	436	371	52	91	23	1	6	35	2	2	57	65	.245	.343	.361	.705	134	10	1	2	5	2
Chad Faircloth	84	308	288	39	74	13	3	3	30	12	2	16	78	.257	.300	.354	.654	102	5	2	1	1	0
William Otero	69	292	245	33	72	14	0	3	36	8	0	35	50	.294	.382	.388	.770	95	4	2	7	3	1
Art Baeza	64	282	251	35	61	17	2	8	38	0	2	27	44	.243	.324	.422	.746	106	7	3	1	0	0
Josh Tyler	53	239	220	27	59	14	1	6	43	12	2	11	32	.268	.309	.423	.732	93	2	3	3	2	0
Fred Soriano	72	271	242	38	59	9	2	4	23	9	4	22	71	.244	.320	.347	.667	84	3	5	2	0	1
José Alguacil	61	254	228	25	57	11	2	2	23	3	0	11	45	.250	.308	.342	.650	78	6	8	7	0	0
Matt Priess	52	214	188	23	54	11	0	4	19	0	0	19	30	.287	.362	.410	.771	77	11	4	1	2	0
Teo Prospero	65	213	199	27	48	7	1	5	23	7	3	11	48	.241	.284	.362	.646	72	4	1	2	0	0
Brett Casper	74	267	237	27	46	10	3	2	18	5	4	23	75	.194	.285	.287	.572	68	8	7	0	0	0
Scott Smith	49	199	178	27	44	11	1	4	18	2	1	18	52	.247	.327	.388	.714	69	2	3	0	0	0
Marco Pernalete	73	207	190	19	44	6	0	0	12	5	1	11	52	.232	.281	.263	.544	50	1	2	4	0	0
Clay Greene	52	205	175	26	38	3	0	0	9	13	8	28	51	.217	.328	.234	.563	41	1	1	1	0	0
Joel Fuentes	31	127	117	14	33	3	0	3	17	0	2	9	31	.282	.339	.385	.723	45	0	1	0	0	0
Don Denbow	29	125	101	18	31	4	2	2	13	0	3	22	35	.307	.440	.446	.886	45	0	2	0	0	1
Zach Wells	49	163	143	9	30	6	3	1	14	0	3	17	52	.210	.288	.315	.603	45	2	0	0	3	0
Chris Magruder	22	105	92	21	28	7	0	1	4	3	0	13	16	.304	.390	.413	.804	38	2	0	0	0	1
Reymundo Delgado	21	81	71	7	21	6	0	0	5	0	1	6	8	.296	.362	.380	.743	27	1	2	1	1	1
Kevin Tommasini	33	109	99	12	21	5	1	3	11	0	1	9	26	.212	.284	.374	.658	37	1	1	0	0	0
Peto Ramirez	28	96	89	5	18	6	0	4	15	1	0	6	28	.202	.253	.404	.657	36	1	0	1	0	0
Jeff Poor	26	87	77	6	16	5	0	1	4	0	0	10	15	.208	.299	.312	.611	24	5	0	0	0	0
Angel Melendez	12	48	47	4	10	1	0	1	4	1	0	1	11	.213	.229	.298	.527	14	1	0	0	0	0
Pedro Mota	15	57	53	8	10	1	1	0	2	2	1	4	15	.189	.246	.245	.491	13	0	0	0	0	0
Shawn Lindsey	10	32	27	6	9	2	0	0	2	1	2	5	6	.333	.438	.407	.845	11	0	0	0	0	0
Cesar Morillo	14	43	38	3	7	0	0	0	6	0	0	3	10	.184	.238	.184	.422	7	1	0	1	1	0
Eric Brown	5	14	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	7	.214	.214	.214	.429	3	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1394	5430	4837	642	1210	238	27	93	559	105	49	465	1208	.250	.323	.368	.691	1781	92	65	38	25	10

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Art Baeza	1B	64	578	66	5	65	.992	1.062
Zach Wells	1B	35	261	26	5	24	.983	8.200
Jon Valenti	1B	23	186	14	4	17	.980	8.696
Tim Flaherty	1B	18	156	7	7	10	.959	9.056
Reymundo Delgado	1B	3	21	4	0	1	1.000	8.333
Josh Tyler	1B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
José Alguacil	2B	54	100	129	10	34	.958	4.241
Teo Prospero	2B	26	59	57	6	12	.951	4.462
Marco Pernalete	2B	26	40	42	5	11	.943	3.154
William Otero	2B	26	59	63	8	21	.938	4.692
Joel Fuentes	2B	21	55	49	8	10	.929	4.952
Josh Tyler	2B	4	5	9	0	2	1.000	3.500
Jon Valenti	2B	1	1	3	0	0	1.000	4.000
Cesar Morillo	2B	1	2	5	0	0	1.000	7.000
Jon Valenti	3B	70	58	145	20	16	.910	2.900
Josh Tyler	3B	48	44	93	9	7	.938	2.854
Teo Prospero	3B	17	12	23	8	2	.814	2.059
Cesar Morillo	3B	6	5	9	3	0	.824	2.333
William Otero	3B	4	1	7	3	2	.727	2.000
Peto Ramirez	3B	3	5	3	2	1	.800	2.667
José Alguacil	3B	2	0	2	2	0	.500	1.000
Tim Flaherty	C	79	492	51	9	7	.984	6.873	15	81	21	20.6
Matt Priess	C	43	315	33	11	4	.969	8.093	9	49	19	27.9
Jeff Poor	C	19	105	11	2	0	.983	6.105	2	18	8	30.8
Kevin Tommasini	C	6	10	1	0	0	1.000	1.833	3	4	1	20.0
Peto Ramirez	C	5	23	1	3	0	.889	4.800	4	6	1	14.3
Josh Tyler	C	3	9	3	2	1	.857	4.000	1	1	3	75.0
Dan McKinley	CF	94						.000
Chad Faircloth	CF	41						.000
Clay Greene	CF	3						.000
Don Denbow	CF	3						.000
Reymundo Delgado	CF	3						.000
Josh Tyler	CF	1						.000
Scott Smith	CF	1						.000
Chris Magruder	CF	1						.000
Clay Greene	LF	37						.000
Scott Smith	LF	27						.000
Kevin Tommasini	LF	22						.000
Chad Faircloth	LF	16						.000
Pedro Mota	LF	14						.000
Angel Melendez	LF	12						.000
Brett Casper	LF	9						.000
Reymundo Delgado	LF	8						.000
Chris Magruder	LF	5						.000
Jon Valenti	LF	4						.000
Zach Wells	LF	2						.000
Shawn Lindsey	LF	2						.000
Josh Tyler	LF	1						.000
Peto Ramirez	LF	1						.000
Eric Brown	LF	1						.000
Dan McKinley	OF	94	209	10	3	3	.986	2.330
Chad Faircloth	OF	72	122	6	8	2	.941	1.778
Brett Casper	OF	72	107	5	7	1	.941	1.556
Clay Greene	OF	46	81	1	5	0	.943	1.783
Scott Smith	OF	39	68	6	5	0	.937	1.897
Don Denbow	OF	25	44	3	2	1	.959	1.880
Kevin Tommasini	OF	22	32	1	2	0	.943	1.500
Chris Magruder	OF	22	48	2	0	0	1.000	2.273
Pedro Mota	OF	14	20	1	0	0	1.000	1.500
Angel Melendez	OF	12	17	1	0	0	1.000	1.500
Reymundo Delgado	OF	12	17	2	1	1	.950	1.583
Jon Valenti	OF	9	11	1	1	0	.923	1.333
Shawn Lindsey	OF	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Peto Ramirez	OF	4	5	0	1	0	.833	1.250
Zach Wells	OF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
José Alguacil	OF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Josh Tyler	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Teo Prospero	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Matt Priess	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
William Otero	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Joel Fuentes	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Tim Flaherty	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Eric Brown	OF	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Jeff Hutzler	P	51	8	18	1	2	.963	.510
Jesse Travis	P	50	3	6	1	0	.900	.180
Matt Wells	P	40	5	11	2	0	.889	.400
Mike Riley	P	40	11	22	0	1	1.000	.825
Nathan Rice	P	30	5	22	5	0	.844	.900
Ryan Jensen	P	29	6	18	5	0	.828	.828
Jason Verdugo	P	28	4	2	1	1	.857	.214
Will Malerich	P	26	5	7	1	1	.923	.462
Phil Bailey	P	20	1	6	1	0	.875	.350
Andy Taulbee	P	18	7	6	1	1	.929	.722
Fausto Macey	P	17	5	16	2	1	.913	1.235
Erasmo Ramirez	P	14	1	6	0	0	1.000	.500
Jake Esteves	P	14	3	3	2	0	.750	.429
Kevin Rogers	P	12	0	5	0	0	1.000	.417
Chad Frontera	P	11	5	9	2	1	.875	1.273
Jon Valenti	P	9	1	3	0	0	1.000	.444
Guillermo Larreal	P	9	0	4	1	0	.800	.444
Kevin Joseph	P	6	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.000
Mark Hutchings	P	6	0	2	0	0	1.000	.333
Kurt Takahashi	P	5	1	0	2	0	.333	.200
Tom Nielsen	P	4	1	2	0	0	1.000	.750
Travis Thurmond	P	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Gabriel Luckert	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Josh Tyler	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Shawn Estes	P	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Brett Casper	RF	63						.000
Don Denbow	RF	22						.000
Chris Magruder	RF	17						.000
Chad Faircloth	RF	16						.000
Scott Smith	RF	13						.000
Clay Greene	RF	8						.000
Jon Valenti	RF	5						.000
Shawn Lindsey	RF	5						.000
Peto Ramirez	RF	3						.000
Reymundo Delgado	RF	3						.000
José Alguacil	RF	2						.000
Josh Tyler	RF	1						.000
Teo Prospero	RF	1						.000
Matt Priess	RF	1						.000
William Otero	RF	1						.000
Joel Fuentes	RF	1						.000
Tim Flaherty	RF	1						.000
Fred Soriano	SS	72	99	212	20	47	.940	4.319
William Otero	SS	43	54	115	15	17	.918	3.930
Marco Pernalete	SS	40	54	101	15	16	.912	3.875
José Alguacil	SS	4	10	12	1	1	.957	5.500
Cesar Morillo	SS	3	0	6	0	0	1.000	2.000
Josh Tyler	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Totals		2147	3687	1512	247	344	.955	2.422	34	159	53	25.0

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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