1997 Greensboro Bats Statistics

South Atlantic League (SAL) - Class: A
Team Record: 75-65
Finished 3rd in the SAL's Central Division
Manager: Tom Nieto (75-65)
Affiliation: New York Yankees
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Ballpark: War Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 146,987, Avg. 2,333 in 63 home dates

1997 Greensboro Bats Roster

Playoffs - Greensboro Bats 2 games, Capital City Bombers 0
Playoffs - Greensboro Bats 2 games, Macon Braves 0
Finals - Delmarva Shorebirds 2 games, Greensboro Bats 0

The Greensboro Bats of the South Atlantic League ended the 1997 season with a record of 75 wins and 65 losses, finishing third in the league's Central Division.

The Bats scored 641 runs and surrendered 683 runs. Nick Johnson led Greensboro with 16 home runs and drove in 75 runs. Jose Velazquez paced hitters with significant playing time by hitting .280. Julio Rangel topped the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 3.58 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Members of the 1997 Greensboro Bats who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Jake Robbins, Luis de los Santos, Craig Dingman, Marcus Thames, Cristian Guzmán, Danny Mota, Tony Armas, Nick Johnson, Scott Seabol and Oswaldo Mairena.

Tom Nieto 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
Julio Rangel	12	9	.571	3.57	26	26	0	4	1	0	163.7	147	80	65	17	49	0	122	6	5	9	681
Rich Olivier	8	5	.615	4.13	35	13	6	0	0	2	106.7	111	61	49	8	51	1	79	8	0	6	471
Oswaldo Mairena	6	1	.857	2.54	49	0	20	0	0	8	60.3	43	24	17	2	16	3	75	1	3	0	241
Jake Robbins	6	4	.600	5.77	20	19	0	0	0	0	101.3	114	81	65	6	55	1	72	2	0	7	462
Tony Armas	5	2	.714	1.05	9	9	0	2	1	0	51.7	36	13	6	3	13	0	64	3	1	1	207
Eric Schaffner	5	2	.714	3.45	28	7	9	0	0	0	78.3	73	35	30	1	23	0	73	4	2	3	329
Francisco De La Cruz	5	4	.556	3.30	13	13	0	1	0	0	84.7	71	41	31	6	36	1	75	4	2	3	359
Luis de los Santos	5	6	.455	3.05	14	14	0	1	0	0	88.7	91	45	30	3	13	0	62	7	0	4	377
Omar Obando	5	7	.417	4.65	45	0	23	0	0	7	60.0	61	36	31	5	26	2	41	4	0	8	267
Dave Dudeck	3	4	.429	3.60	25	1	7	0	0	0	50.0	48	29	20	6	16	1	43	5	0	6	221
Danny Mota	2	0	1.000	1.82	20	0	9	0	0	1	29.7	17	6	6	1	11	1	30	0	0	0	111
Craig Dingman	2	0	1.000	1.91	30	0	27	0	0	19	33.0	19	7	7	0	12	0	41	1	0	3	131
Scott Brand	2	0	1.000	3.43	8	0	6	0	0	1	21.0	21	8	8	2	5	0	22	0	0	2	88
Cam Spence	2	2	.500	3.38	8	7	0	0	0	0	48.0	43	23	18	4	10	0	35	3	0	0	195
Eric Krall	2	2	.500	3.86	15	1	9	0	0	0	35.0	37	23	15	3	14	1	26	1	0	2	157
Jason Coble	2	11	.154	4.94	24	23	0	1	0	0	120.3	93	84	66	6	96	1	99	3	0	14	552
Jason Ellison	1	0	1.000	4.85	9	0	4	0	0	1	13.0	16	10	7	1	3	0	11	1	0	1	60
Frisco Parotte	1	1	.500	4.19	18	0	11	0	0	2	38.7	48	27	18	6	14	2	28	0	0	5	174
Brien Taylor	1	4	.200	14.33	8	7	1	0	0	0	27.0	31	47	43	6	52	0	20	0	0	13	162
Cesar Verdin	0	1	.000	1.80	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	5	3	1	2	1	0	8	0	0	0	21
Totals	75	65	.536	3.94	405	141	132	9	2	41	1216.0	1125	683	533	88	516	14	1026	53	13	87	5266

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
Jose Velazquez	137	539	489	77	137	19	3	9	62	10	8	42	71	.280	.335	.387	.722	189	15	1	2	5	1
Cristian Guzmán	124	528	495	68	135	21	4	4	52	23	12	17	105	.273	.309	.356	.665	176	3	10	4	2	0
Donny Leon	137	545	516	45	131	32	1	12	74	6	4	15	106	.254	.278	.390	.668	201	13	5	2	7	2
Rod Smith	137	605	528	96	131	25	6	13	50	54	20	69	148	.248	.340	.392	.732	207	5	5	2	1	0
Nick Johnson	127	533	433	77	118	23	1	16	75	16	3	76	99	.273	.398	.441	.839	191	5	18	0	6	1
Derek Shumpert	86	357	322	49	97	22	6	6	39	12	6	27	91	.301	.367	.463	.830	149	3	7	0	1	1
Vic Valencia	107	406	353	42	78	12	1	13	43	2	1	43	116	.221	.317	.371	.688	131	6	7	2	1	0
Eric Kofler	73	274	262	23	72	17	2	5	39	3	2	7	54	.275	.288	.412	.701	108	1	0	0	5	0
Jeff Saffer	90	313	267	40	55	13	1	12	39	0	3	35	79	.206	.309	.397	.706	106	6	6	2	3	0
Garrett Butler	82	257	237	31	46	14	1	1	14	11	5	11	58	.194	.241	.274	.515	65	4	4	4	1	0
Pat Antrim	68	180	173	23	39	3	0	0	13	3	2	7	40	.225	.256	.243	.498	42	1	0	0	0	0
Scott Seabol	48	151	136	11	36	12	2	2	15	3	1	9	26	.265	.325	.426	.751	58	1	4	0	2	0
Rene Pinto	35	111	105	20	30	9	1	2	10	0	0	3	34	.286	.306	.448	.754	47	0	1	0	2	0
Brian Aylor	61	201	181	25	29	7	4	9	28	3	0	16	90	.160	.224	.392	.616	71	2	0	0	4	0
Erik Keech	26	76	72	5	18	1	0	2	9	0	0	3	15	.250	.276	.347	.624	25	1	0	0	1	0
Dennis Twombley	15	40	36	4	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	12	.194	.250	.278	.528	10	1	0	0	1	0
James Rowson	8	27	21	1	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	8	.286	.423	.333	.756	7	0	0	1	0	0
Marcus Thames	4	16	16	2	5	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	.312	.312	.375	.688	6	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Emmons	3	8	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.286	.375	.429	.804	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Baksh	4	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ryan Huffman	4	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	.125	.300	.125	.425	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Staubach	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1377	5187	4667	641	1174	233	33	107	570	147	68	391	1162	.252	.316	.384	.700	1794	67	68	19	42	5

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Nick Johnson	1B	126	1176	59	16	99	.987	9.802
Jose Velazquez	1B	14	99	3	1	7	.990	7.286
Jeff Saffer	1B	7	45	0	1	2	.978	6.429
Ray Baksh	1B	4	19	1	1	0	.952	5.000
Ryan Huffman	1B	1	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.000
Rod Smith	2B	134	244	387	33	79	.950	4.709
Pat Antrim	2B	13	16	34	4	5	.926	3.846
Donny Leon	3B	136	80	229	40	13	.885	2.272
Scott Seabol	3B	10	8	11	4	1	.826	1.900
Pat Antrim	3B	5	2	11	3	1	.812	2.600
Vic Valencia	C	100	680	105	24	5	.970	7.850	18	145	51	26.0
Rene Pinto	C	28	211	18	2	1	.991	8.179	5	27	12	30.8
Erik Keech	C	12	63	8	0	1	1.000	5.917	2	8	5	38.5
Dennis Twombley	C	8	38	3	0	1	1.000	5.125	4	3	0	0.0
Scott Emmons	C	3	16	2	0	0	1.000	6.000	0	6	0	0.0
Mike Munson	C	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	0	0	0
Garrett Butler	CF	64						.000
Derek Shumpert	CF	55						.000
Brian Aylor	CF	25						.000
Eric Kofler	CF	5						.000
James Rowson	CF	4						.000
Jose Velazquez	CF	2						.000
Jose Velazquez	LF	114						.000
Derek Shumpert	LF	23						.000
Scott Seabol	LF	4						.000
Jeff Saffer	LF	3						.000
Garrett Butler	LF	3						.000
Pat Antrim	LF	2						.000
Marcus Thames	LF	1						.000
Brian Aylor	LF	1						.000
Jose Velazquez	OF	115	158	3	5	0	.970	1.400
Derek Shumpert	OF	86	144	2	2	0	.986	1.698
Garrett Butler	OF	74	110	1	4	0	.965	1.500
Eric Kofler	OF	62	95	6	4	0	.962	1.629
Brian Aylor	OF	59	95	4	3	0	.971	1.678
Scott Seabol	OF	17	21	0	1	0	.955	1.235
Jeff Saffer	OF	12	12	0	2	0	.857	1.000
Pat Antrim	OF	12	18	2	0	0	1.000	1.667
James Rowson	OF	8	13	2	1	0	.938	1.875
Marcus Thames	OF	4	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Erik Keech	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Ryan Huffman	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Oswaldo Mairena	P	49	2	8	1	1	.909	.204
Omar Obando	P	45	3	14	2	1	.895	.378
Rich Olivier	P	35	2	21	2	3	.920	.657
Craig Dingman	P	30	1	4	0	0	1.000	.167
Eric Schaffner	P	28	5	7	1	0	.923	.429
Julio Rangel	P	26	10	36	2	1	.958	1.769
Dave Dudeck	P	25	0	9	2	0	.818	.360
Jason Coble	P	24	3	19	6	0	.786	.917
Jake Robbins	P	20	7	21	2	1	.933	1.400
Danny Mota	P	20	1	4	0	0	1.000	.250
Frisco Parotte	P	18	1	6	0	0	1.000	.389
Eric Krall	P	15	0	5	1	0	.833	.333
Luis de los Santos	P	14	4	19	0	2	1.000	1.643
Francisco De La Cruz	P	13	3	12	0	0	1.000	1.154
Jason Ellison	P	9	1	0	0	0	1.000	.111
Tony Armas	P	9	4	8	0	0	1.000	1.333
Brien Taylor	P	8	2	5	0	0	1.000	.875
Cam Spence	P	8	4	7	0	0	1.000	1.375
Scott Brand	P	8	5	4	0	1	1.000	1.125
Cesar Verdin	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Eric Kofler	RF	60						.000
Brian Aylor	RF	33						.000
Derek Shumpert	RF	15						.000
Scott Seabol	RF	13						.000
Jeff Saffer	RF	10						.000
Pat Antrim	RF	10						.000
Garrett Butler	RF	7						.000
James Rowson	RF	6						.000
Marcus Thames	RF	3						.000
Erik Keech	RF	1						.000
Ryan Huffman	RF	1						.000
Cristian Guzmán	SS	122	173	364	37	68	.936	4.402
Pat Antrim	SS	24	37	60	12	8	.890	4.042
Scott Seabol	SS	2	4	3	1	1	.875	3.500
Totals		2071	3648	1528	220	302	.959	2.499	29	189	68	26.5

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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