1998 Fort Myers Miracle Statistics

Florida State League (FSL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 65-73
Finished 7th in the FSL's West Division
Manager: Mike Boulanger (65-73)
Affiliation: Minnesota Twins
Location: Fort Myers, Florida
Ballpark: W.H. Hammond Stadium
Attendance: 107,110, Avg. 1,552 in 69 home dates

1998 Fort Myers Miracle Roster

The Fort Myers Miracle of the Florida State League ended the 1998 season with a record of 65 wins and 73 losses, finishing seventh in the league's West Division.

The Miracle scored 704 runs and yielded 735 runs. Tommy Peterman led Fort Myers with 20 home runs and accounted for 110 RBI, while leading all regular batters by connecting at a .312 clip. Mick Fieldbinder topped the squad with 10 wins, and Corey Spiers recorded a 3.34 ERA, tops among qualifying pitchers.

Danny Mota, Luis Rivas, Matt Kinney, Chad Moeller, Joe Mays, Micheal Nakamura, Cleatus Davidson and Matt LeCroy were all players from the 1998 Fort Myers Miracle who played in the Majors during their careers.

Mike Boulanger 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
Mick Fieldbinder	10	8	.556	4.73	35	21	4	0	1	137.0	171	99	72	14	44	1	64	4	0	9	614
Corey Spiers	9	8	.529	3.33	24	24	0	1	0	151.3	172	70	56	7	38	0	98	6	1	7	650
Dave Hooten	9	11	.450	4.49	28	28	0	0	0	158.3	185	94	79	7	57	0	136	11	0	4	714
Joe Mays	7	2	.778	3.04	16	15	0	0	0	94.7	101	45	32	7	23	0	83	5	0	4	409
Chris Garza	5	5	.500	2.74	58	0	43	0	14	82.0	73	33	25	3	46	3	63	4	0	9	358
Mike Bauder	5	6	.455	4.59	36	8	7	0	1	98.0	108	61	50	6	46	1	79	5	3	6	442
Walker Chapman	4	0	1.000	1.97	24	0	11	0	2	50.3	40	17	11	1	15	0	47	1	0	4	209
Nate Yeskie	4	2	.667	3.30	14	11	2	1	0	62.7	74	27	23	4	16	0	39	5	0	3	273
Brad Niedermaier	4	2	.667	7.88	25	0	13	0	3	40.0	59	39	35	3	21	1	44	1	0	13	202
Matt Kinney	3	2	.600	3.13	7	7	0	0	0	37.3	31	18	13	0	18	0	39	0	0	6	162
Danny Mota	3	5	.375	2.85	19	4	9	0	0	47.3	45	21	15	3	22	0	49	0	1	6	206
Tom LaRosa	1	2	.333	7.91	22	3	12	0	0	38.7	37	39	34	4	48	0	29	9	1	22	198
Micheal Nakamura	1	3	.250	3.45	8	6	1	1	0	28.7	28	15	11	3	10	0	21	2	0	1	123
Ryan Mills	0	0		1.80	2	2	0	0	0	5.0	2	3	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	20
Seth Bean	0	0		3.78	10	0	6	0	1	16.7	16	7	7	2	5	0	19	0	0	0	68
Mario Opipari	0	1	.000	3.97	17	0	4	0	0	34.0	38	19	15	2	13	1	18	3	0	1	152
Bryan Malko	0	1	.000	6.92	7	0	3	0	2	13.0	19	14	10	0	9	0	5	1	0	3	67
Troy Carrasco	0	4	.000	4.53	19	4	2	0	0	45.7	52	29	23	4	26	0	35	1	1	6	209
Jeromy Palki	0	4	.000	4.76	40	0	17	0	4	58.7	51	39	31	3	29	1	48	2	0	7	263
Chad Roper	0	7	.000	8.93	17	6	2	0	0	40.3	61	46	40	2	21	2	30	3	1	4	204
Totals	65	73	.471	4.23	428	139	136	3	28	1239.7	1363	735	583	75	508	10	949	63	8	118	5543

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
Tommy Peterman	135	593	519	71	162	36	2	20	110	2	0	63	86	.312	.387	.505	.892	262	11	4	1	6	13
Luis Rivas	126	490	463	58	130	21	5	4	51	34	8	14	75	.281	.302	.374	.676	173	11	3	4	6	0
Papo Bolivar	126	523	489	59	129	15	2	5	45	14	11	29	104	.264	.306	.333	.639	163	14	1	3	1	1
Cleatus Davidson	130	591	527	97	127	12	7	2	45	44	16	45	99	.241	.303	.302	.604	159	6	3	13	3	0
Anthony Felston	114	532	427	74	119	8	0	0	43	86	26	83	65	.279	.398	.297	.696	127	5	6	10	6	2
Rafael Alvarez	110	445	391	54	114	20	2	4	38	19	8	45	51	.292	.364	.384	.747	150	5	1	5	3	8
Chad Moeller	66	288	254	37	83	24	1	6	39	2	3	31	37	.327	.406	.500	.906	127	8	3	0	0	4
Steve Hacker	62	272	251	29	62	11	0	11	38	0	1	17	40	.247	.298	.422	.720	106	9	2	0	2	0
Matt LeCroy	51	231	200	32	61	9	1	12	51	2	1	21	35	.305	.372	.540	.912	108	7	4	0	6	1
Joey Cranford	75	286	254	41	57	15	3	8	39	6	1	26	58	.224	.301	.402	.703	102	3	2	4	0	0
Rick Moss	41	188	160	18	50	7	0	1	19	0	0	24	17	.312	.412	.375	.787	60	3	3	1	0	0
Steve Huls	74	252	223	30	47	3	0	1	25	3	5	20	43	.211	.278	.238	.516	53	7	2	4	3	0
Shane Gunderson	42	180	149	25	40	12	2	5	20	3	2	23	42	.268	.375	.477	.852	71	1	3	4	1	1
Nelson Prada	41	141	133	11	32	6	0	1	11	0	0	4	21	.241	.279	.308	.587	41	5	3	1	0	0
Johnny Schroeder	39	147	135	17	28	5	0	8	24	0	0	10	53	.207	.272	.422	.694	57	0	2	0	0	3
Joe Fraser	34	124	101	25	27	3	1	3	13	3	1	15	12	.267	.372	.406	.778	41	2	3	3	2	1
Kelcey Mucker	21	78	71	11	24	6	0	2	9	1	0	5	10	.338	.397	.507	.904	36	1	2	0	0	0
Lateef Vaughn	22	65	59	9	17	2	1	0	8	2	3	3	12	.288	.328	.356	.684	21	0	1	1	1	0
Jeff Smith	6	25	23	4	8	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	.348	.400	.435	.835	10	1	1	0	0	0
Aaron Lough	1	5	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	.500	.600	1.250	1.850	5	0	0	0	0	0
Tony Stevens	3	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1319	5463	4840	704	1321	217	27	94	631	222	86	480	863	.273	.342	.387	.729	1874	99	49	54	40	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Tommy Peterman	1B	123	1156	80	9	117	.993	1.049
Steve Hacker	1B	14	118	7	2	11	.984	8.929
Johnny Schroeder	1B	3	20	3	0	3	1.000	7.667
Steve Huls	1B	2	6	0	0	0	1.000	3.000
Shane Gunderson	1B	1	7	0	0	1	1.000	7.000
Cleatus Davidson	2B	125	320	403	25	98	.967	5.784
Joey Cranford	2B	18	28	59	3	11	.967	4.833
Lateef Vaughn	2B	2	3	8	1	2	.917	5.500
Tony Stevens	2B	2	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.500
Steve Huls	2B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Steve Huls	3B	54	29	119	11	9	.931	2.741
Joey Cranford	3B	35	19	58	9	3	.895	2.200
Joe Fraser	3B	31	23	73	7	9	.932	3.097
Rick Moss	3B	25	18	54	7	6	.911	2.880
Lateef Vaughn	3B	2	1	4	2	0	.714	2.500
Chad Moeller	C	57	395	36	9	0	.980	7.561	9	77	16	17.2
Matt LeCroy	C	44	309	28	3	0	.991	7.659	17	47	21	30.9
Nelson Prada	C	40	194	26	3	1	.987	5.500	8	34	12	26.1
Jeff Smith	C	4	33	3	1	0	.973	9.000	2	3	2	40.0
Steve Huls	C	3	7	1	0	0	1.000	2.667	1	2	1	33.3
Aaron Lough	C	1	11	2	0	0	1.000	13.000	1	4	1	20.0
Anthony Felston	CF	113						.000
Papo Bolivar	CF	19						.000
Lateef Vaughn	CF	4						.000
Rafael Alvarez	CF	3						.000
Shane Gunderson	CF	2						.000
Papo Bolivar	LF	87						.000
Rafael Alvarez	LF	21						.000
Shane Gunderson	LF	19						.000
Joey Cranford	LF	15						.000
Tommy Peterman	LF	6						.000
Lateef Vaughn	LF	1						.000
Papo Bolivar	OF	124	193	10	8	0	.962	1.637
Anthony Felston	OF	113	233	8	7	0	.972	2.133
Rafael Alvarez	OF	102	184	12	3	2	.985	1.922
Shane Gunderson	OF	39	60	3	3	2	.955	1.615
Kelcey Mucker	OF	18	32	1	2	1	.943	1.833
Joey Cranford	OF	15	22	4	0	0	1.000	1.733
Lateef Vaughn	OF	12	27	0	3	0	.900	2.250
Tommy Peterman	OF	6	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.667
Tony Stevens	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Chris Garza	P	58	4	19	1	1	.958	.397
Jeromy Palki	P	40	4	6	1	1	.909	.250
Mike Bauder	P	36	4	17	1	1	.955	.583
Mick Fieldbinder	P	35	11	18	2	1	.935	.829
Dave Hooten	P	28	11	29	1	2	.976	1.429
Brad Niedermaier	P	25	3	6	1	0	.900	.360
Corey Spiers	P	24	6	27	0	0	1.000	1.375
Walker Chapman	P	24	3	8	1	0	.917	.458
Tom LaRosa	P	22	5	4	1	2	.900	.409
Danny Mota	P	19	2	4	0	0	1.000	.316
Troy Carrasco	P	19	3	7	0	0	1.000	.526
Chad Roper	P	17	8	7	1	1	.938	.882
Mario Opipari	P	17	2	5	0	1	1.000	.412
Joe Mays	P	16	4	15	0	1	1.000	1.188
Nate Yeskie	P	14	2	8	0	0	1.000	.714
Seth Bean	P	10	1	0	1	0	.500	.100
Micheal Nakamura	P	8	0	6	3	0	.667	.750
Bryan Malko	P	7	0	3	0	0	1.000	.429
Matt Kinney	P	7	2	4	0	0	1.000	.857
Ryan Mills	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Rafael Alvarez	RF	79						.000
Papo Bolivar	RF	21						.000
Kelcey Mucker	RF	18						.000
Shane Gunderson	RF	18						.000
Lateef Vaughn	RF	7						.000
Tony Stevens	RF	1						.000
Luis Rivas	SS	124	162	415	55	78	.913	4.653
Steve Huls	SS	12	17	38	4	12	.932	4.583
Cleatus Davidson	SS	5	5	14	2	2	.905	3.800
Rafael Alvarez	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Totals		2021	3719	1664	193	379	.965	2.664	38	167	53	24.1

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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