1997 Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks Statistics

Northern League (NL) - Independent
Team Record: 47-37
Finished 3rd in the NL's West Division
Manager: Doug Simunic (47-37)
Location: Moorhead, Minnesota; Fargo, North Dakota
Ballpark: Newman Outdoor Field
Attendance: 179,880, Avg. 4,283 in 42 home dates

1997 Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks Roster

Playoffs - Winnipeg Goldeyes 3 games, Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks 2

The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks of the Northern League ended the 1997 season with a record of 47 wins and 37 losses, finishing third in the league's West Division.

The Fargo- RedHawks plated 528 runs and yielded 485 runs. Darryl Motley paced Moorhead with 22 home runs and drove in 70 runs. Chad Akers led hitters with significant playing time with a .318 average. Gino Caruso topped the squad with 11 wins and a team-best 3.11 ERA, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1997 Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Jeff Bittiger, Brian Traxler, Darryl Motley and Chris Coste.

Doug Simunic 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
Gino Caruso	11	5	.688	3.10	19	19	0	1	0	133.3	107	57	46	8	53	1	132	5	0	5	554
Tim Smith	8	7	.533	5.32	19	19	0	1	0	106.7	104	73	63	14	68	1	82	3	0	10	477
Jeff Isom	7	6	.538	5.10	16	16	0	1	0	100.7	103	68	57	14	64	0	93	2	4	2	455
Brett Roberts	5	2	.714	3.53	8	8	0	0	0	43.3	40	24	17	4	12	0	41	0	1	1	184
Greg Salvevold	5	5	.500	6.20	19	11	1	0	0	74.0	85	56	51	7	44	2	47	3	0	10	347
George Schmidt	4	0	1.000	2.23	24	0	10	0	0	48.3	43	13	12	5	16	1	39	2	2	0	200
Jack Ford	3	3	.500	8.25	14	5	3	0	0	36.0	53	36	33	5	27	0	27	0	0	4	180
Craig Baumann	1	1	.500	3.52	6	0	4	0	0	7.7	5	5	3	0	7	0	10	0	0	0	35
Tony Runion	1	1	.500	3.80	11	0	3	0	1	21.3	25	9	9	2	5	1	22	0	0	0	90
Jeff Bittiger	1	2	.333	6.41	5	5	0	0	0	19.7	32	16	14	2	8	0	15	1	0	2	97
Stephen Lukas	1	3	.250	5.26	34	0	20	0	7	49.7	49	35	29	7	20	3	49	3	0	4	221
Jason Bloomer	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	15
Matt Jeckell	0	0		3.65	6	0	3	0	0	12.3	11	5	5	0	7	0	5	1	2	1	55
K. P. Paull	0	0		7.62	15	0	5	0	1	26.0	36	30	22	7	18	2	15	1	1	5	135
Tajah Merrill	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	2.0	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	11
Chuck Lyman	0	0		9.53	19	0	7	0	0	17.0	16	20	18	3	21	1	20	5	3	4	92
Jay Dillon	0	0		12.60	3	0	1	0	0	5.0	9	7	7	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	27
Chris Bryant	0	0		14.04	8	1	2	0	0	8.3	18	13	13	4	7	0	11	1	0	2	49
Blake Clancy	0	0		29.70	3	0	1	0	0	3.3	6	12	11	2	5	0	1	2	0	2	23
Barry Nelson	0	2	.000	1.71	18	0	18	0	12	21.0	14	4	4	1	3	0	22	2	0	4	83
Totals	47	37	.560	5.06	250	84	81	3	21	739.7	763	485	416	86	388	12	636	32	13	57	3330

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 Akers	84	404	368	75	117	14	6	4	43	27	4	25	41	.318	.363	.421	.784	155	6	4	2	5	0
Chris Coste	84	368	337	45	105	22	0	12	50	7	1	23	53	.312	.367	.484	.851	163	10	7	0	1	0
Darryl Motley	79	369	309	70	98	22	0	22	70	4	2	50	65	.317	.417	.602	1.019	186	5	6	0	4	8
Johnny Knott	84	379	307	59	96	13	1	10	52	30	5	57	81	.313	.431	.459	.891	141	6	10	1	4	1
Mike Trahan	84	328	303	38	84	17	4	5	38	7	4	19	74	.277	.325	.409	.734	124	4	3	2	1	1
Jackie Ross	67	305	263	45	80	16	2	6	34	3	9	37	39	.304	.393	.449	.841	118	4	2	2	1	0
Paul Ottavinia	42	186	168	45	56	16	3	0	22	12	4	16	16	.333	.398	.464	.862	78	2	2	0	0	0
Brian Traxler	42	199	178	29	53	12	0	3	37	1	0	18	18	.298	.367	.416	.783	74	5	2	0	1	0
Troy Hughes	42	186	165	28	44	10	2	8	41	8	1	12	30	.267	.306	.497	.803	82	4	1	0	8	0
Mike Vogel	42	186	160	23	41	11	0	2	21	0	1	22	35	.256	.346	.362	.708	58	4	1	1	2	2
Chris Powell	24	111	92	17	27	5	1	2	9	8	4	17	20	.293	.409	.435	.844	40	1	1	1	0	1
Ernest Castro	23	96	86	13	19	5	0	2	10	0	0	9	10	.221	.302	.349	.651	30	2	1	0	0	0
Darrel Deak	18	81	67	12	18	3	0	6	18	1	1	12	21	.269	.370	.582	.952	39	0	0	0	2	1
Jason Bloomer	39	69	60	13	13	1	1	1	9	3	1	7	10	.217	.309	.317	.625	19	2	1	1	0	0
Eddie Lantigua	13	53	49	6	12	1	0	2	9	0	0	2	13	.245	.283	.388	.671	19	1	1	0	1	0
Dan Foss	8	20	19	2	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.368	.368	.368	.737	7	2	0	1	0	0
Brad Bardin	12	28	24	2	7	3	0	0	5	0	1	3	7	.292	.393	.417	.810	10	1	1	0	0	0
Scott Weaver	9	36	31	4	7	0	0	0	6	1	0	4	3	.226	.333	.226	.559	7	0	1	0	0	0
Gregg Pacitti	5	14	11	1	3	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	2	.273	.357	.273	.630	3	0	1	0	1	0
Gino Caruso	20	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chad Wick	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	822	3422	3001	528	887	171	20	85	479	113	38	334	541	.296	.371	.451	.822	1353	59	45	11	31	14

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Brian Traxler	1B	42	371	20	5	38	.987	9.310
Mike Vogel	1B	21	171	5	6	13	.967	8.381
Darrel Deak	1B	18	148	11	3	15	.981	8.833
Paul Ottavinia	1B	3	22	1	2	4	.920	7.667
Johnny Knott	1B	1	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.000
Mike Trahan	2B	84	153	250	19	46	.955	4.798
Jason Bloomer	2B	2	3	3	0	0	1.000	3.000
Johnny Knott	2B	1	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000
Johnny Knott	3B	62	49	123	14	8	.925	2.774
Chris Coste	3B	26	14	39	5	4	.914	2.038
Brad Bardin	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Chris Coste	C	61	458	37	7	5	.986	8.115	9	48	19	28.4
Mike Vogel	C	20	143	11	5	1	.969	7.700	2	31	8	20.5
Brad Bardin	C	12	51	2	2	0	.964	4.417	0	6	0	0.0
Troy Hughes	CF	30						.000
Chris Powell	CF	24						.000
Jackie Ross	CF	15						.000
Paul Ottavinia	CF	9						.000
Johnny Knott	CF	6						.000
Jason Bloomer	CF	2						.000
Jackie Ross	LF	50						.000
Jason Bloomer	LF	14						.000
Scott Weaver	LF	8						.000
Eddie Lantigua	LF	7						.000
Johnny Knott	LF	7						.000
Dan Foss	LF	6						.000
Gregg Pacitti	LF	5						.000
Darryl Motley	LF	3						.000
Gino Caruso	LF	1						.000
Jackie Ross	OF	63	98	3	4	0	.962	1.603
Troy Hughes	OF	41	83	6	3	1	.967	2.171
Paul Ottavinia	OF	39	84	1	1	1	.988	2.179
Jason Bloomer	OF	29	30	3	2	1	.943	1.138
Chris Powell	OF	24	49	2	3	0	.944	2.125
Johnny Knott	OF	23	45	0	1	0	.978	1.957
Ernest Castro	OF	23	35	0	0	0	1.000	1.522
Scott Weaver	OF	9	7	1	0	1	1.000	.889
Eddie Lantigua	OF	9	18	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Dan Foss	OF	6	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.167
Gregg Pacitti	OF	5	4	1	1	0	.833	1.000
Darryl Motley	OF	5	4	1	1	0	.833	1.000
Chad Wick	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Gino Caruso	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Stephen Lukas	P	34	5	8	0	0	1.000	.382
George Schmidt	P	24	2	8	0	2	1.000	.417
Tim Smith	P	19	3	23	2	2	.929	1.368
Greg Salvevold	P	19	7	16	1	2	.958	1.211
Chuck Lyman	P	19	1	1	1	0	.667	.105
Gino Caruso	P	19	4	16	2	0	.909	1.053
Barry Nelson	P	18	2	2	0	0	1.000	.222
Jeff Isom	P	16	3	21	2	0	.923	1.500
K. P. Paull	P	15	0	5	0	0	1.000	.333
Jack Ford	P	14	1	3	1	1	.800	.286
Tony Runion	P	11	0	1	0	0	1.000	.091
Brett Roberts	P	8	2	4	0	2	1.000	.750
Chris Bryant	P	8	0	0	0	0		.000
Matt Jeckell	P	6	1	3	0	1	1.000	.667
Craig Baumann	P	6	1	1	0	1	1.000	.333
Jeff Bittiger	P	5	0	5	0	0	1.000	1.000
Jay Dillon	P	3	1	0	0	0	1.000	.333
Blake Clancy	P	3	0	0	0	0		.000
Jason Bloomer	P	2	0	1	0	1	1.000	.500
Tajah Merrill	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Paul Ottavinia	RF	30						.000
Ernest Castro	RF	23						.000
Jason Bloomer	RF	13						.000
Troy Hughes	RF	11						.000
Johnny Knott	RF	10						.000
Darryl Motley	RF	2						.000
Eddie Lantigua	RF	2						.000
Chad Wick	RF	1						.000
Scott Weaver	RF	1						.000
Jackie Ross	RF	1						.000
Gregg Pacitti	RF	1						.000
Chad Akers	SS	84	133	243	21	52	.947	4.476
Jason Bloomer	SS	4	1	4	1	1	.833	1.250
Totals		1252	2219	887	115	203	.964	2.481	11	85	27	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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