1996 Fort Myers Miracle Statistics

Florida State League (FSL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 79-58
Finished 2nd in the FSL's West Division
Manager: John Russell (79-58)
Affiliation: Minnesota Twins
Location: Fort Myers, Florida
Ballpark: W.H. Hammond Stadium
Attendance: 77,181, Avg. 1,225 in 63 home dates

1996 Fort Myers Miracle Roster

The Fort Myers Miracle of the Florida State League ended the 1996 season with a record of 79 wins and 58 losses, finishing second in the league's West Division.

The Miracle scored 641 runs and allowed 541 runs. Doug Mientkiewicz recorded 79 runs batted in and topped all regular batters by connecting at a .291 clip. Will Rushing and Dan Perkins led the squad with 13 wins each, while Trevor Cobb recorded a 2.64 ERA, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Players from the 1996 Fort Myers Miracle who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Benj Sampson, Gus Gandarillas, Javier Valentín, Doug Mientkiewicz, Mike Lincoln, Jacque Jones, Corey Koskie, Dan Perkins, Fred Rath, Matt Walbeck, Rick Aguilera, Mike Moriarty, Mark Redman, Torii Hunter and Rob Radlosky.

John Russell 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
Will Rushing	13	6	.684	3.49	28	25	1	2	1	1	165.0	157	72	64	10	74	0	111	9	2	5	699
Dan Perkins	13	7	.650	2.96	39	13	10	3	1	2	136.7	125	52	45	5	37	1	111	11	1	9	557
Benj Sampson	7	1	.875	3.47	11	11	0	2	0	0	70.0	55	28	27	5	26	0	65	1	0	1	282
Trevor Cobb	7	3	.700	2.64	31	14	5	1	1	0	126.3	101	44	37	1	43	0	98	5	1	12	520
Tom Mott	7	5	.583	4.82	14	14	0	0	0	0	74.7	80	43	40	5	37	0	48	3	0	10	328
Jason Bell	6	3	.667	1.69	13	13	0	0	0	0	90.3	61	20	17	1	22	0	83	6	0	3	350
Mike Lincoln	5	2	.714	4.07	12	11	0	0	0	0	59.7	64	31	27	5	25	0	24	3	1	4	263
Tom Gourdin	4	6	.400	4.26	52	1	32	0	0	16	63.3	64	37	30	6	29	3	44	3	1	7	277
Rob Radlosky	4	6	.400	5.45	28	16	5	1	1	1	104.0	116	70	63	11	46	0	80	9	0	10	467
Mark Redman	3	4	.429	1.85	13	13	0	1	0	0	82.7	63	24	17	1	34	0	75	5	1	4	335
Rick Aguilera	2	0	1.000	3.75	2	2	0	0	0	0	12.0	13	5	5	1	1	0	12	1	0	1	50
Paul Pavicich	2	3	.400	5.06	29	0	8	0	0	0	42.7	49	30	24	4	13	0	29	0	0	3	190
Deron Dowhower	2	4	.333	3.70	39	2	9	0	0	1	75.3	63	37	31	5	45	0	83	5	0	17	329
Fred Rath	2	5	.286	2.79	22	0	16	0	0	4	29.0	25	10	9	1	10	0	29	2	0	3	123
Paul Morse	1	0	1.000	2.57	13	0	12	0	0	9	14.0	8	4	4	1	5	0	10	0	0	0	50
Kasey Richardson	1	0	1.000	6.32	3	3	0	0	0	0	15.7	18	11	11	2	8	0	12	0	0	2	69
Dom Konieczki	0	0		0.64	14	0	8	0	0	1	14.0	7	1	1	0	6	0	22	0	0	2	54
Gus Gandarillas	0	0		9.00	4	0	3	0	0	1	6.0	9	7	6	0	8	0	3	1	0	1	35
Jason Tatar	0	0		9.82	4	0	3	0	0	0	3.7	6	4	4	0	4	0	4	0	0	2	21
Tim Peters	0	3	.000	3.54	28	0	16	0	0	1	28.0	31	11	11	2	5	2	23	2	0	2	120
Totals	79	58	.577	3.51	399	138	128	10	4	37	1213.0	1115	541	473	66	478	6	966	66	7	98	5119

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
Doug Mientkiewicz	133	568	492	69	143	36	4	5	79	12	2	66	47	.291	.374	.411	.784	202	10	3	1	6	3
Ryan Lane	106	485	404	74	110	20	7	9	62	21	9	60	96	.272	.367	.423	.791	171	2	6	6	9	0
Mike Moriarty	133	504	428	76	107	18	2	3	39	14	15	59	67	.250	.349	.322	.671	138	2	8	5	4	0
Shane Gunderson	117	495	410	61	103	20	5	5	50	12	8	63	85	.251	.368	.361	.729	148	5	14	6	2	2
Armann Brown	112	483	403	75	100	14	8	3	27	36	15	65	75	.248	.357	.345	.702	139	5	5	7	3	0
Javier Valentín	87	379	338	34	89	26	1	7	54	1	0	32	65	.263	.330	.408	.738	138	5	4	0	5	4
Troy Fortin	104	401	358	40	89	11	2	7	52	1	1	29	29	.249	.309	.349	.658	125	10	4	6	4	0
Corey Koskie	95	383	338	43	88	19	4	9	55	1	1	40	76	.260	.338	.420	.758	142	4	1	1	3	0
Kelcey Mucker	100	371	331	34	79	9	3	2	32	5	2	36	66	.239	.316	.302	.618	100	11	2	1	1	4
Keith Legree	58	247	198	39	54	8	2	5	37	2	2	42	52	.273	.409	.409	.818	81	2	5	0	2	2
Ivory Jones	48	170	144	20	34	7	1	0	10	9	7	21	32	.236	.335	.299	.634	43	2	1	3	1	0
Ben Jones	56	184	162	22	34	1	0	0	8	17	3	17	26	.210	.283	.216	.499	35	4	0	4	1	0
Joey Cranford	30	115	105	9	23	3	1	0	17	3	1	7	21	.219	.265	.267	.532	28	0	0	2	1	0
Tom Knauss	36	130	117	11	22	1	0	5	12	2	1	12	28	.188	.269	.325	.594	38	1	1	0	0	0
Jim McCalmont	30	96	89	8	18	3	0	0	6	1	0	4	15	.202	.245	.236	.481	21	2	1	2	0	0
Carlos Garcia	26	97	90	10	13	2	0	1	8	9	2	6	26	.144	.196	.200	.396	18	0	0	0	1	0
Ramon Borrego	16	63	56	10	11	2	1	0	5	1	4	4	13	.196	.274	.268	.542	15	1	2	1	0	0
Matt Walbeck	9	40	33	4	9	1	1	0	9	0	1	4	2	.273	.350	.364	.714	12	0	1	0	2	0
Torii Hunter	4	18	16	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	5	.188	.278	.188	.465	3	0	0	0	0	0
Rafael Alvarez	6	24	22	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	7	.136	.167	.136	.303	3	0	0	0	1	0
Jacque Jones	1	3	3	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.667	.667	1.000	1.667	3	0	0	0	0	0
Benj Sampson	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1318	5257	4538	641	1134	202	42	61	565	148	77	570	834	.250	.338	.353	.691	1603	66	58	45	46	15

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Doug Mientkiewicz	1B	126	1183	85	3	113	.998	1.063
Troy Fortin	1B	13	108	11	0	13	1.000	9.154
Shane Gunderson	1B	2	7	1	0	3	1.000	4.000
Ryan Lane	2B	105	219	296	19	79	.964	4.905
Joey Cranford	2B	25	31	81	4	15	.966	4.480
Ramon Borrego	2B	7	14	21	0	7	1.000	5.000
Jim McCalmont	2B	4	5	8	2	1	.867	3.250
Carlos Garcia	2B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Corey Koskie	3B	87	62	176	19	15	.926	2.736
Carlos Garcia	3B	19	5	38	8	3	.843	2.263
Jim McCalmont	3B	18	11	30	4	1	.911	2.278
Ramon Borrego	3B	8	4	19	3	2	.885	2.875
Javier Valentín	3B	6	5	11	2	0	.889	2.667
Joey Cranford	3B	6	4	10	2	1	.875	2.333
Troy Fortin	C	76	529	61	6	7	.990	7.763	3	69	32	31.7
Javier Valentín	C	53	355	60	2	2	.995	7.830	8	41	35	46.1
Doug Mientkiewicz	C	8	46	6	1	0	.981	6.500	2	9	5	35.7
Matt Walbeck	C	7	46	6	0	1	1.000	7.429	0	5	4	44.4
Armann Brown	CF	89						.000
Ivory Jones	CF	20						.000
Shane Gunderson	CF	14						.000
Ben Jones	CF	8						.000
Rafael Alvarez	CF	5						.000
Torii Hunter	CF	4						.000
Jacque Jones	CF	1						.000
Troy Fortin	CF	1						.000
Shane Gunderson	LF	98						.000
Keith Legree	LF	20						.000
Ivory Jones	LF	15						.000
Ben Jones	LF	13						.000
Armann Brown	LF	3						.000
Tom Knauss	LF	1						.000
Shane Gunderson	OF	112	146	14	3	2	.982	1.429
Armann Brown	OF	95	202	4	5	1	.976	2.168
Kelcey Mucker	OF	84	119	7	3	0	.977	1.500
Keith Legree	OF	49	57	6	2	0	.969	1.286
Ben Jones	OF	42	61	4	0	0	1.000	1.548
Ivory Jones	OF	36	62	4	4	0	.943	1.833
Tom Knauss	OF	13	15	1	1	0	.941	1.231
Rafael Alvarez	OF	5	9	1	0	1	1.000	2.000
Torii Hunter	OF	4	9	0	0	0	1.000	2.250
Jacque Jones	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Troy Fortin	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Tom Gourdin	P	52	10	10	1	0	.952	.385
Dan Perkins	P	39	4	18	0	0	1.000	.564
Deron Dowhower	P	39	8	6	1	0	.933	.359
Trevor Cobb	P	31	11	17	6	3	.824	.903
Paul Pavicich	P	29	1	8	0	0	1.000	.310
Will Rushing	P	28	6	31	2	2	.949	1.321
Rob Radlosky	P	28	5	12	0	0	1.000	.607
Tim Peters	P	28	3	6	0	1	1.000	.321
Fred Rath	P	22	1	3	0	0	1.000	.182
Tom Mott	P	14	4	13	2	1	.895	1.214
Dom Konieczki	P	14	0	3	0	0	1.000	.214
Mark Redman	P	13	2	13	1	0	.938	1.154
Paul Morse	P	13	1	1	0	0	1.000	.154
Jason Bell	P	13	10	12	2	1	.917	1.692
Mike Lincoln	P	12	7	12	0	0	1.000	1.583
Benj Sampson	P	11	1	5	1	0	.857	.545
Jason Tatar	P	4	0	0	0	0		.000
Gus Gandarillas	P	4	0	3	0	0	1.000	.750
Kasey Richardson	P	3	1	0	1	0	.500	.333
Rick Aguilera	P	2	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.500
Kelcey Mucker	RF	84						.000
Keith Legree	RF	31						.000
Ben Jones	RF	21						.000
Tom Knauss	RF	12						.000
Armann Brown	RF	3						.000
Ivory Jones	RF	1						.000
Mike Moriarty	SS	133	239	458	24	96	.967	5.241
Carlos Garcia	SS	4	6	13	0	1	1.000	4.750
Ryan Lane	SS	2	4	4	0	1	1.000	4.000
Totals		1995	3639	1612	134	373	.975	2.632	13	124	76	38.0

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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