1997 Cedar Rapids Kernels Statistics
Team Record: 62-76
Finished 3rd in the MWL's West Division
Manager: Mario Mendoza (62-76)
Affiliation: Anaheim Angels
Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Ballpark: Veterans Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 124,629, Avg. 1,947 in 64 home dates
Playoffs - Cedar Rapids Kernels 2 games, Burlington Bees 0
Playoffs - Kane County Cougars 2 games, Cedar Rapids Kernels 0
The Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Midwest League ended the 1997 season with a record of 62 wins and 76 losses, finishing third in the league's West Division.
The Kernels scored 685 runs and yielded 756 runs, most in the circuit. Eric Gillespie paced Cedar Rapids with 18 home runs, while Shawn Wooten, Rob Sasser and Kevin Ham each walloped 15 or more as well. Rob Sasser drove in 77 runs. Kevin Ham and Juan Rodriguez topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .281 average. Tommy Darrell led the squad with 12 wins, and Ramón Ortiz recorded a 3.58 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.
Players from the 1997 Cedar Rapids Kernels who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Shawn Wooten, Brandon Puffer, Rob Sasser, Ramón Ortiz and Jerrod Riggan.
Mario Mendoza served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
| Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tommy Darrell | 12 | 10 | .545 | 4.04 | 27 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 191.7 | 212 | 108 | 86 | 18 | 40 | 1 | 106 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 810 |
| Ramón Ortiz | 11 | 10 | .524 | 3.58 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 181.0 | 156 | 78 | 72 | 22 | 53 | 0 | 225 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 740 |
| Jerrod Riggan | 9 | 8 | .529 | 4.89 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 116.0 | 132 | 70 | 63 | 15 | 36 | 2 | 65 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 506 |
| Edgar Leyva | 8 | 6 | .571 | 4.69 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 121.0 | 118 | 73 | 63 | 13 | 58 | 1 | 77 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 529 |
| Jason Stockstill | 7 | 14 | .333 | 5.38 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 160.7 | 167 | 111 | 96 | 25 | 86 | 1 | 116 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 706 |
| Kevin Humphreys | 5 | 1 | .833 | 5.62 | 30 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 65.7 | 75 | 45 | 41 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 40 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 283 |
| Brendon Cowsill | 3 | 5 | .375 | 4.75 | 26 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 36.0 | 41 | 24 | 19 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 160 |
| Keith Volkman | 2 | 2 | .500 | 2.45 | 38 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 51.3 | 36 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 27 | 1 | 43 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 218 |
| Hector Rodriguez | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 12.19 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.3 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 |
| Danny Greene | 1 | 1 | .500 | 0.45 | 24 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 39.7 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 156 |
| Jacobo Soriano | 1 | 4 | .200 | 7.75 | 25 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33.7 | 43 | 33 | 29 | 5 | 23 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 169 |
| Juan Henderson | 1 | 4 | .200 | 9.13 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 45.3 | 70 | 55 | 46 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 224 |
| Mark Harriger | 1 | 6 | .143 | 7.82 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.7 | 70 | 50 | 44 | 4 | 33 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 251 |
| Brandon Puffer | 0 | 0 | 2.60 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 66 | |
| Jose Cintron | 0 | 0 | 5.40 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Juan Rodriguez | 0 | 0 | 54.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | |
| Brian Scutero | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0.87 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10.3 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 54 |
| Chris Gadway | 0 | 1 | .000 | 4.56 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23.7 | 23 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 101 |
| Jimmy O'Quinn | 0 | 1 | .000 | 8.22 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.3 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 71 |
| Fernando De La Cruz | 0 | 2 | .000 | 11.48 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13.3 | 19 | 22 | 17 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 80 |
| Totals | 62 | 76 | .449 | 4.90 | 368 | 138 | 120 | 18 | 6 | 27 | 1189.0 | 1251 | 756 | 647 | 145 | 474 | 13 | 927 | 66 | 28 | 93 | 5214 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rob Sasser | 134 | 577 | 497 | 103 | 135 | 26 | 5 | 17 | 77 | 37 | 13 | 69 | 92 | .272 | .367 | .447 | .814 | 222 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Kevin Ham | 123 | 494 | 441 | 67 | 124 | 26 | 1 | 15 | 73 | 9 | 9 | 41 | 127 | .281 | .342 | .447 | .789 | 197 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| Chuck Abbott | 133 | 593 | 520 | 86 | 120 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 54 | 31 | 12 | 62 | 170 | .231 | .315 | .331 | .646 | 172 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Juan Rodriguez | 111 | 481 | 416 | 66 | 117 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 55 | 11 | 12 | 43 | 106 | .281 | .348 | .450 | .797 | 187 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 0 |
| Eric Gillespie | 122 | 484 | 421 | 78 | 107 | 26 | 7 | 18 | 72 | 8 | 0 | 55 | 80 | .254 | .343 | .477 | .820 | 201 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Shawn Wooten | 108 | 417 | 353 | 43 | 102 | 23 | 1 | 15 | 75 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 71 | .289 | .379 | .487 | .866 | 172 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| Theo Fefee | 110 | 387 | 367 | 40 | 88 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 35 | 10 | 9 | 18 | 90 | .240 | .276 | .332 | .609 | 122 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Evert Jean 't Hoen | 123 | 432 | 384 | 41 | 78 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 46 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 114 | .203 | .273 | .292 | .565 | 112 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| Jeff Guiel | 41 | 172 | 132 | 32 | 42 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 26 | 13 | 2 | 35 | 28 | .318 | .465 | .598 | 1.064 | 79 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Bryan Graves | 68 | 226 | 191 | 14 | 39 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 32 | .204 | .327 | .283 | .610 | 54 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nate Murphy | 51 | 170 | 149 | 21 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 43 | .221 | .312 | .275 | .587 | 41 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Curtis | 34 | 134 | 113 | 21 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 16 | .248 | .351 | .442 | .793 | 50 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Jose Monzon | 34 | 124 | 111 | 12 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 14 | .225 | .301 | .360 | .661 | 40 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gar Vallone | 41 | 110 | 89 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 20 | .236 | .361 | .281 | .642 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Matt Garrick | 28 | 110 | 95 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 23 | .221 | .321 | .305 | .626 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cale Carter | 30 | 100 | 86 | 18 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 16 | .221 | .313 | .256 | .569 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Robby Welles | 20 | 71 | 64 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 18 | .266 | .329 | .391 | .719 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Allan Parker | 15 | 51 | 48 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | .250 | .294 | .292 | .586 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cesar Geronimo | 17 | 46 | 42 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | .167 | .222 | .167 | .389 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Brian Ussery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 1344 | 5180 | 4520 | 685 | 1135 | 220 | 40 | 112 | 619 | 135 | 71 | 531 | 1080 | .251 | .334 | .392 | .726 | 1771 | 99 | 50 | 44 | 35 | 14 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Gillespie | 1B | 101 | 905 | 64 | 9 | 91 | .991 | 9.594 | ||||
| Juan Rodriguez | 1B | 22 | 147 | 8 | 3 | 11 | .981 | 7.045 | ||||
| Robby Welles | 1B | 11 | 87 | 6 | 1 | 10 | .989 | 8.455 | ||||
| Shawn Wooten | 1B | 9 | 66 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1.000 | 8.000 | ||||
| Gar Vallone | 1B | 5 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1.000 | 6.200 | ||||
| Matt Curtis | 1B | 5 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 9.800 | ||||
| Chuck Abbott | 2B | 113 | 196 | 339 | 15 | 69 | .973 | 4.735 | ||||
| Evert Jean 't Hoen | 2B | 18 | 35 | 42 | 3 | 15 | .962 | 4.278 | ||||
| Gar Vallone | 2B | 11 | 16 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 1.000 | 3.273 | ||||
| Rob Sasser | 3B | 133 | 104 | 303 | 28 | 22 | .936 | 3.060 | ||||
| Eric Gillespie | 3B | 12 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 2 | .895 | 1.417 | ||||
| Allan Parker | 3B | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.000 | ||||
| Bryan Graves | C | 64 | 368 | 61 | 8 | 6 | .982 | 6.703 | 5 | 54 | 22 | 28.9 |
| Jose Monzon | C | 32 | 228 | 36 | 1 | 1 | .996 | 8.250 | 6 | 19 | 17 | 47.2 |
| Matt Garrick | C | 23 | 145 | 15 | 5 | 2 | .970 | 6.957 | 1 | 26 | 8 | 23.5 |
| Shawn Wooten | C | 19 | 100 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 5.947 | 7 | 21 | 6 | 22.2 |
| Eric Gillespie | C | 7 | 36 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .975 | 5.571 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 20.0 |
| Matt Curtis | C | 7 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 5.571 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 9.1 |
| Juan Rodriguez | CF | 92 | .000 | |||||||||
| Theo Fefee | CF | 32 | .000 | |||||||||
| Kevin Ham | CF | 12 | .000 | |||||||||
| Cesar Geronimo | CF | 10 | .000 | |||||||||
| Nate Murphy | CF | 6 | .000 | |||||||||
| Theo Fefee | LF | 69 | .000 | |||||||||
| Jeff Guiel | LF | 23 | .000 | |||||||||
| Cale Carter | LF | 21 | .000 | |||||||||
| Matt Curtis | LF | 17 | .000 | |||||||||
| Nate Murphy | LF | 11 | .000 | |||||||||
| Robby Welles | LF | 3 | .000 | |||||||||
| Gar Vallone | LF | 3 | .000 | |||||||||
| Juan Rodriguez | LF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Bryan Graves | LF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Matt Garrick | LF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Kevin Ham | OF | 121 | 220 | 16 | 7 | 5 | .971 | 1.950 | ||||
| Theo Fefee | OF | 99 | 159 | 7 | 4 | 1 | .976 | 1.677 | ||||
| Juan Rodriguez | OF | 96 | 174 | 10 | 4 | 3 | .979 | 1.917 | ||||
| Jeff Guiel | OF | 41 | 65 | 5 | 5 | 1 | .933 | 1.707 | ||||
| Cale Carter | OF | 22 | 34 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .946 | 1.591 | ||||
| Nate Murphy | OF | 18 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .969 | 1.722 | ||||
| Matt Curtis | OF | 17 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 1 | .946 | 2.059 | ||||
| Cesar Geronimo | OF | 13 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.615 | ||||
| Robby Welles | OF | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.333 | ||||
| Gar Vallone | OF | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .333 | ||||
| Bryan Graves | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Matt Garrick | OF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Keith Volkman | P | 38 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .395 | ||||
| Kevin Humphreys | P | 30 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 1 | .963 | .867 | ||||
| Jason Stockstill | P | 27 | 6 | 43 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 1.815 | ||||
| Ramón Ortiz | P | 27 | 4 | 20 | 1 | 1 | .960 | .889 | ||||
| Tommy Darrell | P | 27 | 11 | 28 | 6 | 1 | .867 | 1.444 | ||||
| Brendon Cowsill | P | 26 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | .857 | .231 | ||||
| Jacobo Soriano | P | 25 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .750 | .120 | ||||
| Danny Greene | P | 24 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .458 | ||||
| Edgar Leyva | P | 22 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | .636 | ||||
| Juan Henderson | P | 20 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | .450 | ||||
| Jerrod Riggan | P | 19 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 0 | .864 | 1.000 | ||||
| Chris Gadway | P | 15 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .400 | ||||
| Jimmy O'Quinn | P | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .286 | ||||
| Mark Harriger | P | 12 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.333 | ||||
| Brian Scutero | P | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .100 | ||||
| Brandon Puffer | P | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .400 | ||||
| Fernando De La Cruz | P | 10 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .857 | .600 | ||||
| Hector Rodriguez | P | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .111 | ||||
| Jose Cintron | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Juan Rodriguez | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Kevin Ham | RF | 110 | .000 | |||||||||
| Jeff Guiel | RF | 20 | .000 | |||||||||
| Cesar Geronimo | RF | 4 | .000 | |||||||||
| Juan Rodriguez | RF | 3 | .000 | |||||||||
| Nate Murphy | RF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Theo Fefee | RF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Cale Carter | RF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
| Evert Jean 't Hoen | SS | 102 | 141 | 269 | 46 | 65 | .899 | 4.020 | ||||
| Chuck Abbott | SS | 19 | 33 | 51 | 7 | 13 | .923 | 4.421 | ||||
| Allan Parker | SS | 13 | 24 | 35 | 1 | 6 | .983 | 4.538 | ||||
| Gar Vallone | SS | 10 | 10 | 22 | 5 | 5 | .865 | 3.200 | ||||
| Rob Sasser | SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Eric Gillespie | SS | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.000 | ||||
| Totals | 1989 | 3567 | 1552 | 174 | 358 | .967 | 2.574 | 22 | 138 | 56 | 28.9 |
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.
Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
