1997 Carolina Mudcats Statistics

Southern League (SL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 55-82
Finished 5th in the SL's East Division
Manager: Marc Hill (0-0), Jeff Banister (0-0)
Affiliation: Pittsburgh Pirates
Location: Zebulon, North Carolina
Ballpark: Five County Stadium
Attendance: 265,219, Avg. 4,018 in 66 home dates

1997 Carolina Mudcats Roster

The Carolina Mudcats of the Southern League ended the 1997 season with a record of 55 wins and 82 losses, finishing fifth in the league's East Division.

The Mudcats plated 688 runs and yielded 786 runs. Tracy Sanders paced Carolina with 21 home runs, while Chad Hermansen and Freddy García walloped 15 or more, too. Tracy Sanders drove in 78 runs. Chad Hermansen topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .275. Jeff Kelly, John Dillinger and Mike Halperin led the team with 6 wins each, and Jeff Kelly recorded a 4.67 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.

Players from the 1997 Carolina Mudcats who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Kris Benson, Kane Davis, Paul Wagner, Abraham Núñez, Jimmy Anderson, Jason Christiansen, Chance Sanford, Blaine Beatty, Kevin Pickford, Scott Fredrickson, Jeff Wallace, Al Martin, Jason Phillips, Dennis Konuszewski, Darrell Whitmore, Freddy García, Kevin Polcovich, Jason Johnson, Carlos Crawford, Chad Hermansen, Gary Wilson, Mark Smith, Adrian Brown and Ricky Jordan.

Marc Hill and Jeff Banister 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
John Dillinger	6	4	.600	6.00	23	11	3	0	0	0	81.0	88	66	54	8	52	0	64	5	1	7	382
Mike Halperin	6	7	.462	3.87	17	17	0	0	0	0	93.0	102	54	40	8	40	0	66	8	0	8	419
Jeff Kelly	6	11	.353	4.65	31	19	3	0	0	0	127.7	134	79	66	7	85	5	83	12	2	7	593
Del Mathews	5	2	.714	3.04	21	1	5	0	0	1	50.3	53	25	17	5	20	1	51	1	1	2	225
Matt Ryan	4	3	.571	2.22	48	0	39	0	0	14	52.7	32	18	13	2	21	4	43	12	0	9	229
Jose Pett	4	4	.500	3.51	14	14	0	0	0	0	74.3	76	37	29	5	25	1	39	1	0	1	313
Jeff Wallace	4	8	.333	5.40	38	0	15	0	0	3	43.3	43	37	26	3	36	3	39	1	1	9	207
Carlos Crawford	3	2	.600	4.19	29	3	10	0	0	4	62.3	62	34	29	4	25	2	39	2	0	4	273
Jason Johnson	3	3	.500	4.08	9	9	0	1	0	0	57.3	56	31	26	6	16	0	63	1	0	1	244
Kris Benson	3	5	.375	4.98	14	14	0	0	0	0	68.7	81	49	38	11	32	1	66	2	0	2	316
Jimmy Anderson	2	1	.667	1.46	4	4	0	0	0	0	24.7	16	6	4	1	9	0	23	2	0	1	98
Elvin Hernandez	2	7	.222	5.73	17	17	0	0	0	0	92.7	104	67	59	11	26	2	66	3	0	4	409
Dennis Konuszewski	1	0	1.000	4.43	15	0	5	0	0	0	22.3	20	12	11	3	15	2	21	1	0	2	103
Mike Freitas	1	0	1.000	13.50	6	0	4	0	0	1	5.3	8	8	8	1	4	1	2	2	0	0	30
Curtis Shaw	1	1	.500	2.81	27	0	6	0	0	0	41.7	30	23	13	1	28	1	46	1	1	9	189
Jason Phillips	1	2	.333	2.32	4	4	0	2	1	0	31.0	21	8	8	1	9	0	22	4	0	2	127
Gary Wilson	1	2	.333	5.65	7	4	1	0	0	1	28.7	34	19	18	1	5	0	19	1	0	0	124
Kevin Pickford	1	2	.333	7.36	21	1	7	0	0	1	29.3	48	29	24	3	15	3	24	3	0	0	152
Hal Garrett	1	2	.333	8.78	6	0	2	0	0	0	13.3	19	14	13	6	6	1	7	0	0	2	64
Rick Paugh	0	0		5.62	5	0	2	0	0	0	8.0	8	5	5	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	31
Steve Hazlett	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7
Jeff Williams	0	0		10.80	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	6	5	4	1	4	0	3	0	0	0	21
Mike Brown	0	0		18.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	5	5	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	13
O. J. Cook	0	0		20.25	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	5	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	10
John Carter	0	0		54.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	4	6	6	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	9
Jason Christiansen	0	1	.000	4.20	8	1	3	0	0	1	15.0	17	7	7	1	5	0	25	0	0	0	63
Joe Maskivish	0	1	.000	6.19	15	0	9	0	0	0	16.0	20	11	11	2	4	1	7	1	0	0	73
Paul Wagner	0	1	.000	10.12	12	3	1	0	0	0	16.0	25	20	18	3	16	0	20	1	1	3	90
Rafael Chaves	0	2	.000	8.59	5	0	4	0	0	0	7.3	12	8	7	1	4	2	6	0	0	0	39
Kane Davis	0	3	.000	3.77	6	6	0	0	0	0	28.7	22	17	12	2	16	1	23	3	0	2	128
Scott Fredrickson	0	3	.000	6.08	19	0	8	0	0	1	23.7	22	21	16	3	19	1	17	3	0	0	117
Blaine Beatty	0	5	.000	5.38	19	9	5	0	0	0	82.0	104	61	49	12	27	4	41	3	0	4	366
Totals	55	82	.401	4.77	447	137	134	3	1	27	1205.0	1281	786	639	116	569	36	933	73	8	80	5464

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
Chad Hermansen	129	571	487	87	134	31	4	20	70	18	6	69	136	.275	.373	.478	.851	233	3	10	0	5	5
Charles Peterson	126	488	442	59	111	26	4	7	68	20	11	40	105	.251	.318	.376	.694	166	11	4	1	1	4
Tracy Sanders	116	460	376	77	102	23	1	21	78	7	6	74	88	.271	.397	.505	.902	190	2	6	1	3	0
Kary Bridges	66	297	283	43	95	17	1	3	29	9	5	9	10	.336	.354	.435	.788	123	7	0	3	2	0
Freddy García	73	310	282	47	82	17	4	19	57	0	1	18	56	.291	.342	.582	.923	164	11	6	0	4	2
Jon Sweet	82	291	273	22	67	15	1	1	27	1	1	15	20	.245	.286	.319	.605	87	8	1	1	1	2
Abraham Núñez	47	223	198	31	65	6	1	1	14	10	5	20	28	.328	.385	.384	.768	76	2	0	2	3	1
T. J. Staton	58	229	207	33	60	11	2	6	33	8	4	12	60	.290	.341	.449	.790	93	3	5	3	2	1
Ricky Jordan	52	201	188	25	59	9	2	7	33	0	0	8	25	.314	.343	.495	.838	93	2	2	0	3	0
Steve Thobe	53	200	181	21	53	10	0	7	32	4	1	13	52	.293	.352	.464	.816	84	4	4	1	1	0
Adrian Brown	37	168	145	29	44	4	4	2	15	9	5	18	12	.303	.388	.428	.815	62	1	2	3	0	1
Brandon Cromer	55	228	193	23	44	12	4	4	14	1	5	29	50	.228	.326	.394	.720	76	0	0	4	2	0
Marcus Hanel	56	187	173	15	41	5	0	2	12	0	0	9	39	.237	.283	.301	.583	52	5	2	3	0	3
Rickey Holifield	51	202	185	27	40	12	5	5	23	8	3	14	59	.216	.274	.416	.690	77	2	1	1	1	1
Chance Sanford	44	177	149	30	39	10	2	9	36	3	1	20	39	.262	.349	.537	.885	80	1	2	2	4	1
Steve Hazlett	45	171	153	22	36	7	3	2	17	1	6	14	31	.235	.316	.359	.675	55	2	4	0	0	0
Sergio Mendez	49	158	146	17	34	10	1	2	12	1	1	6	33	.233	.278	.356	.635	52	10	4	0	2	1
Tony Beasley	31	126	117	15	32	5	0	0	12	2	1	7	16	.274	.317	.316	.634	37	3	1	0	1	1
Jeff Conger	58	161	138	15	27	5	1	3	12	4	0	19	53	.196	.302	.312	.613	43	0	2	2	0	1
Ramon Espinosa	19	75	72	10	20	2	1	1	10	0	2	3	15	.278	.307	.375	.682	27	3	0	0	0	0
Kevin Polcovich	17	64	50	13	16	5	0	3	7	4	2	10	4	.320	.452	.600	1.052	30	1	2	2	0	0
Ken Bonifay	22	85	68	11	12	4	1	1	7	1	0	17	23	.176	.341	.309	.650	21	0	0	0	0	1
Mike Asche	15	47	42	2	9	1	1	0	2	0	0	4	6	.214	.283	.286	.568	12	0	0	1	0	0
Blaine Beatty	20	15	11	1	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	.455	.538	.636	1.175	7	0	0	2	0	0
Mark Smith	3	12	12	5	5	1	0	3	4	0	0	0	1	.417	.417	1.250	1.667	15	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Kelly	31	20	20	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.250	.250	.250	.500	5	0	0	0	0	0
Darrell Whitmore	2	9	9	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.556	.889	5	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Halperin	17	13	12	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	3	0	0	1	0	0
Kevin Pickford	21	4	3	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.667	.750	1.000	1.750	3	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Johnson	9	11	11	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.182	.182	.273	.455	3	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Wallace	38	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Ryan	48	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Kane Davis	6	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	1	0	0
Carlos Crawford	29	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Del Mathews	21	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Al Martin	3	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tony Mitchell	4	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Pett	14	16	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.067	.125	.067	.192	1	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Wagner	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Curtis Shaw	27	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Kris Benson	14	11	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Jason Christiansen	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Elvin Hernandez	17	18	14	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.067	.000	.067	0	0	0	3	0	0
Jason Phillips	4	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	1	0	0
Chris Miyake	5	10	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jimmy Anderson	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Dillinger	23	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Wilson	7	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1688	5337	4745	688	1255	253	44	129	631	112	66	456	1024	.264	.334	.418	.752	1983	81	58	43	35	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Tracy Sanders	1B	65	553	35	5	58	.992	9.046
Ricky Jordan	1B	24	211	13	1	19	.996	9.333
Steve Thobe	1B	22	196	18	4	16	.982	9.727
Sergio Mendez	1B	17	125	6	2	7	.985	7.706
Ken Bonifay	1B	10	105	2	0	5	1.000	1.700
Freddy García	1B	6	41	3	0	6	1.000	7.333
Marcus Hanel	1B	2	10	1	2	1	.846	5.500
Mike Asche	1B	2	14	1	0	0	1.000	7.500
Jon Sweet	1B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Kary Bridges	2B	65	123	180	15	55	.953	4.662
Chance Sanford	2B	23	53	71	2	10	.984	5.391
Chad Hermansen	2B	22	39	45	8	10	.913	3.818
Tony Beasley	2B	12	29	45	4	6	.949	6.167
Brandon Cromer	2B	11	29	28	1	7	.983	5.182
Kevin Polcovich	2B	4	3	8	2	0	.846	2.750
Mike Asche	2B	3	6	8	0	1	1.000	4.667
Steve Hazlett	2B	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Jon Sweet	2B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Chris Miyake	2B	1	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.000
Freddy García	3B	68	52	152	22	12	.903	3.000
Steve Thobe	3B	26	20	59	10	6	.888	3.038
Chance Sanford	3B	19	5	52	6	4	.905	3.000
Kevin Polcovich	3B	11	7	22	3	1	.906	2.636
Ken Bonifay	3B	11	11	26	2	0	.949	3.364
Tony Beasley	3B	7	7	11	2	1	.900	2.571
Mike Asche	3B	4	2	11	6	0	.684	3.250
Jon Sweet	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Jon Sweet	C	75	505	46	3	7	.995	7.347	5	46	18	28.1
Marcus Hanel	C	51	326	39	6	2	.984	7.157	2	30	15	33.3
Sergio Mendez	C	22	137	10	0	0	1.000	6.682	4	10	6	37.5
Chad Hermansen	CF	59						.000
Adrian Brown	CF	37						.000
Rickey Holifield	CF	36						.000
Charles Peterson	CF	8						.000
Jeff Conger	CF	7						.000
T. J. Staton	LF	50						.000
Steve Hazlett	LF	29						.000
Tracy Sanders	LF	23						.000
Jeff Conger	LF	16						.000
Ramon Espinosa	LF	13						.000
Rickey Holifield	LF	9						.000
Mark Smith	LF	3						.000
Tony Mitchell	LF	3						.000
Al Martin	LF	3						.000
Mike Asche	LF	3						.000
Charles Peterson	LF	2						.000
Charles Peterson	OF	116	186	17	7	6	.967	1.750
Chad Hermansen	OF	59	112	3	8	0	.935	1.949
T. J. Staton	OF	50	79	4	3	1	.965	1.660
Rickey Holifield	OF	50	100	3	3	2	.972	2.060
Jeff Conger	OF	39	57	6	1	1	.984	1.615
Steve Hazlett	OF	38	59	6	0	0	1.000	1.711
Adrian Brown	OF	37	63	2	3	1	.956	1.757
Tracy Sanders	OF	27	50	2	7	1	.881	1.926
Ramon Espinosa	OF	17	19	0	1	0	.950	1.118
Mark Smith	OF	3	4	0	1	0	.800	1.333
Tony Mitchell	OF	3	4	0	1	0	.800	1.333
Al Martin	OF	3	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667
Mike Asche	OF	3	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667
Matt Ryan	P	48	4	8	1	0	.923	.250
Jeff Wallace	P	38	1	12	0	0	1.000	.342
Jeff Kelly	P	31	1	24	5	0	.833	.806
Carlos Crawford	P	29	5	12	0	2	1.000	.586
Curtis Shaw	P	27	3	7	2	1	.833	.370
John Dillinger	P	23	7	9	2	0	.889	.696
Kevin Pickford	P	21	2	3	1	0	.833	.238
Del Mathews	P	21	4	11	1	1	.938	.714
Scott Fredrickson	P	19	2	2	0	0	1.000	.211
Blaine Beatty	P	19	3	18	0	0	1.000	1.105
Elvin Hernandez	P	17	3	12	0	0	1.000	.882
Mike Halperin	P	17	5	19	2	0	.923	1.412
Joe Maskivish	P	15	1	2	1	0	.750	.200
Dennis Konuszewski	P	15	2	2	0	0	1.000	.267
Jose Pett	P	14	1	10	0	0	1.000	.786
Kris Benson	P	14	2	5	0	0	1.000	.500
Paul Wagner	P	12	1	4	0	0	1.000	.417
Jason Johnson	P	9	1	5	2	0	.750	.667
Jason Christiansen	P	8	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Gary Wilson	P	7	1	3	1	0	.800	.571
Hal Garrett	P	6	0	3	0	0	1.000	.500
Mike Freitas	P	6	0	2	0	0	1.000	.333
Kane Davis	P	6	2	4	3	0	.667	1.000
Rick Paugh	P	5	0	2	0	0	1.000	.400
Rafael Chaves	P	5	0	1	0	0	1.000	.200
Jason Phillips	P	4	3	7	0	0	1.000	2.500
Jimmy Anderson	P	4	5	9	0	1	1.000	3.500
Jeff Williams	P	3	1	1	0	0	1.000	.667
Steve Hazlett	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
O. J. Cook	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
John Carter	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Mike Brown	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Charles Peterson	RF	108						.000
Jeff Conger	RF	20						.000
Steve Hazlett	RF	11						.000
Rickey Holifield	RF	8						.000
Tracy Sanders	RF	4						.000
Ramon Espinosa	RF	4						.000
Abraham Núñez	SS	47	76	129	11	25	.949	4.362
Brandon Cromer	SS	44	65	137	11	34	.948	4.591
Chad Hermansen	SS	33	43	77	23	14	.839	3.636
Tony Beasley	SS	11	14	28	2	5	.955	3.818
Kevin Polcovich	SS	2	2	3	0	1	1.000	2.500
Chris Miyake	SS	2	3	5	0	0	1.000	4.000
Steve Hazlett	SS	1	2	2	1	1	.800	4.000
Kary Bridges	SS	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Totals		2077	3615	1515	211	331	.960	2.470	11	86	39	31.2

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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