1997 Birmingham Barons Statistics

Southern League (SL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 76-62
Finished 2nd in the SL's West Division
Manager: Dave Huppert (76-62)
Affiliation: Chicago White Sox
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Ballpark: Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Attendance: 302,144, Avg. 4,443 in 68 home dates

1997 Birmingham Barons Roster

The Birmingham Barons of the Southern League ended the 1997 season with a record of 76 wins and 62 losses, finishing second in the league's West Division.

The Barons scored 793 runs and surrendered 744 runs. Luis Raven walloped 30 home runs for Birmingham, while Jeff Liefer and Brian Simmons swatted 15 or more as well. Luis Raven drove in 112 runs and topped all regular hitters by connecting at a .336 clip. Russ Herbert and Scott Eyre led the squad with 13 wins each, and Russ Herbert recorded a 3.64 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Lyle Mouton, Kevin Beirne, Brian Simmons, Scott Coolbaugh, Robin Ventura, Mike Heathcott, Lorenzo Barceló, Jeff Liefer, Rick Wrona, Clemente Álvarez, Josh Paul, Frank Menechino, Jason Bere, David Lundquist, Bob Howry, John Snyder, Chuck Smith, Alan Newman and Scott Eyre were all players from the 1997 Birmingham Barons who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Dave Huppert 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
Russ Herbert	13	5	.722	3.63	27	26	0	3	1	0	158.7	136	72	64	14	80	0	126	14	0	7	681
Scott Eyre	13	5	.722	3.84	22	22	0	0	0	0	126.7	110	61	54	14	55	2	127	5	1	9	538
Jason Olsen	9	14	.391	4.88	28	27	0	1	1	0	160.3	183	101	87	14	58	2	121	3	0	9	709
Alan Newman	7	3	.700	2.49	44	0	33	0	0	10	72.3	55	34	20	0	40	4	64	0	0	9	314
John Snyder	7	8	.467	4.64	20	20	0	2	1	0	114.3	130	76	59	9	43	0	90	6	2	6	510
Kevin Beirne	6	4	.600	4.92	13	12	1	0	0	0	75.0	76	51	41	4	41	0	49	4	1	2	336
Derek Hasselhoff	5	2	.714	2.41	18	0	10	0	0	3	33.7	35	10	9	3	11	0	22	1	0	1	141
Mike Heathcott	3	1	.750	1.83	30	1	12	0	0	7	59.0	50	20	12	2	25	0	47	1	0	3	247
Bob Theodile	2	0	1.000	5.49	19	9	3	0	0	1	57.3	72	43	35	2	35	0	41	2	0	5	272
Lorenzo Barceló	2	1	.667	4.86	6	6	0	0	0	0	33.3	36	20	18	2	9	0	29	4	0	1	147
Chuck Smith	2	2	.500	3.16	25	0	6	0	0	0	62.7	63	35	22	4	27	5	57	5	3	8	280
Shane Buteaux	2	2	.500	4.19	44	0	16	0	0	2	73.0	74	41	34	4	34	1	34	7	1	5	328
Steve Worrell	2	2	.500	5.47	18	0	7	0	0	1	24.7	28	16	15	5	12	0	21	0	1	2	111
Scott Christman	2	7	.222	9.05	15	14	0	0	0	0	63.7	100	74	64	8	38	0	39	5	0	5	325
Brian Woods	1	5	.167	6.31	35	0	31	0	0	10	45.7	49	41	32	3	28	1	35	8	0	4	223
Bob Howry	0	0		2.84	12	0	6	0	0	2	12.7	16	4	4	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	54
Maximo Nunez	0	0		7.64	14	0	3	0	0	0	17.7	19	18	15	1	13	0	14	1	2	3	85
David Lundquist	0	0		8.78	7	0	5	0	0	0	13.3	26	20	13	3	5	0	15	0	0	0	73
Jason Bere	0	1	.000	7.71	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.0	8	7	6	2	2	0	7	1	0	0	33
Totals	76	62	.551	4.49	399	139	133	6	3	36	1211.0	1266	744	604	95	559	15	941	67	11	79	5407

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
Luis Raven	117	514	456	88	153	30	3	30	112	4	3	46	126	.336	.397	.612	1.009	279	5	5	0	7	7
Brian Simmons	138	641	546	108	143	28	12	15	72	15	12	88	124	.262	.365	.440	.804	240	10	2	2	3	5
Eddie Pearson	95	410	382	59	125	33	1	5	59	1	1	23	50	.327	.366	.458	.824	175	13	2	0	3	1
Jeff Liefer	119	524	474	67	113	24	9	15	71	2	0	38	115	.238	.302	.422	.724	200	10	7	1	4	3
Brandon Moore	125	485	414	58	106	15	1	1	47	4	7	45	48	.256	.328	.304	.632	126	11	1	21	4	0
Frank Menechino	90	415	318	78	95	28	4	12	60	7	3	79	77	.299	.447	.525	.972	167	7	11	1	6	0
Juan Thomas	80	342	311	50	94	16	2	10	55	1	2	23	92	.302	.354	.463	.817	144	4	4	0	4	1
Sandy McKinnon	96	373	332	58	90	20	1	4	31	13	6	31	68	.271	.334	.373	.708	124	3	2	5	3	1
Jason Evans	63	255	223	33	68	16	1	5	25	2	2	28	51	.305	.381	.453	.834	101	2	0	3	1	4
Scott Coolbaugh	68	280	235	35	68	18	0	11	50	0	0	37	60	.289	.389	.506	.896	119	3	4	0	4	3
John Finn	73	298	246	49	68	15	0	0	27	13	2	39	28	.276	.391	.337	.729	83	5	8	4	1	0
Clemente Álvarez	79	278	242	29	49	10	1	3	23	0	0	27	49	.202	.295	.289	.584	70	17	5	3	1	0
John Cotton	33	136	124	23	36	10	2	7	26	1	2	9	33	.290	.346	.573	.918	71	3	2	0	1	0
Josh Paul	34	131	115	18	34	5	0	1	16	6	2	12	25	.296	.367	.365	.732	42	4	1	3	0	0
Rick Wrona	29	110	103	11	26	7	1	2	24	0	0	3	12	.252	.284	.398	.682	41	1	2	1	1	0
Wil Polidor	33	96	93	11	25	2	1	0	13	0	2	1	16	.269	.284	.312	.596	29	1	1	1	0	0
Juan Bautista	12	50	46	6	11	3	0	0	4	0	1	3	15	.239	.286	.304	.590	14	2	0	1	0	0
Ryan Topham	17	57	47	6	10	5	1	0	8	1	0	6	15	.213	.321	.362	.683	17	0	2	1	1	0
Dan Fagley	20	20	19	1	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.368	.400	.421	.821	8	1	1	0	0	0
Robin Ventura	4	18	17	3	5	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	1	.294	.333	.529	.863	9	2	0	0	0	0
Warren Sawkiw	4	7	7	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.714	1.000	5	0	0	0	0	0
Lyle Mouton	3	12	11	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	4	.182	.250	.455	.705	5	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1332	5452	4761	793	1330	287	40	124	729	70	45	540	1015	.279	.357	.435	.792	2069	104	60	47	44	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Eddie Pearson	1B	89	737	60	10	68	.988	8.955
Juan Thomas	1B	47	400	13	7	56	.983	8.787
Luis Raven	1B	4	33	3	0	2	1.000	9.000
Frank Menechino	2B	78	167	211	11	58	.972	4.846
John Cotton	2B	24	60	50	6	17	.948	4.583
Wil Polidor	2B	17	27	37	4	6	.941	3.765
Brandon Moore	2B	12	35	27	0	13	1.000	5.167
John Finn	2B	12	17	37	1	8	.982	4.500
Scott Coolbaugh	3B	62	42	124	7	16	.960	2.677
Luis Raven	3B	39	19	73	23	4	.800	2.359
John Finn	3B	20	9	38	4	4	.922	2.350
Frank Menechino	3B	12	9	26	0	5	1.000	2.917
Wil Polidor	3B	10	1	15	7	1	.696	1.600
John Cotton	3B	5	1	4	4	0	.556	1.000
Robin Ventura	3B	4	2	3	2	0	.714	1.250
Clemente Álvarez	C	78	500	49	1	5	.998	7.038	10	63	27	30.0
Josh Paul	C	32	221	17	3	0	.988	7.438	7	23	8	25.8
Rick Wrona	C	29	199	28	3	4	.987	7.828	4	21	19	47.5
Dan Fagley	C	20	40	2	3	0	.933	2.100	0	9	2	18.2
Warren Sawkiw	C	1	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	2	2	0	0.0
Brian Simmons	CF	136						.000
Sandy McKinnon	CF	5						.000
Jeff Liefer	LF	106						.000
Jason Evans	LF	29						.000
Ryan Topham	LF	2						.000
John Finn	LF	2						.000
John Cotton	LF	1						.000
Brian Simmons	OF	136	322	7	5	1	.985	2.419
Jeff Liefer	OF	106	166	2	8	0	.955	1.585
Sandy McKinnon	OF	88	170	6	5	1	.972	2.000
Jason Evans	OF	61	89	3	8	0	.920	1.508
John Finn	OF	15	26	3	0	0	1.000	1.933
Ryan Topham	OF	13	30	0	1	0	.968	2.308
John Cotton	OF	4	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.250
Lyle Mouton	OF	3	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.667
Alan Newman	P	44	2	16	5	1	.783	.409
Shane Buteaux	P	44	5	7	0	0	1.000	.273
Brian Woods	P	35	1	8	1	0	.900	.257
Mike Heathcott	P	30	4	9	0	1	1.000	.433
Jason Olsen	P	28	14	28	2	0	.955	1.500
Russ Herbert	P	27	9	21	2	0	.938	1.111
Chuck Smith	P	25	4	6	1	2	.909	.400
Scott Eyre	P	22	3	20	0	1	1.000	1.045
John Snyder	P	20	8	17	2	1	.926	1.250
Bob Theodile	P	19	4	4	2	0	.800	.421
Steve Worrell	P	18	2	2	0	0	1.000	.222
Derek Hasselhoff	P	18	4	3	0	0	1.000	.389
Scott Christman	P	15	6	10	0	1	1.000	1.067
Maximo Nunez	P	14	2	1	0	0	1.000	.214
Kevin Beirne	P	13	5	10	1	0	.938	1.154
Bob Howry	P	12	0	2	0	1	1.000	.167
David Lundquist	P	7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.143
Lorenzo Barceló	P	6	2	8	0	0	1.000	1.667
Jason Bere	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Sandy McKinnon	RF	84						.000
Jason Evans	RF	32						.000
John Finn	RF	13						.000
Ryan Topham	RF	11						.000
Lyle Mouton	RF	3						.000
John Cotton	RF	3						.000
Brandon Moore	SS	112	177	354	22	70	.960	4.741
John Finn	SS	13	17	27	3	4	.936	3.385
Juan Bautista	SS	12	20	32	5	6	.912	4.333
Wil Polidor	SS	8	6	19	5	1	.833	3.125
Totals		1992	3633	1443	174	358	.967	2.548	23	118	56	32.2

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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