1996 Hickory Crawdads Statistics

South Atlantic League (SAL) - Class: A
Team Record: 55-85
Finished 6th in the SAL's Central Division
Manager: Chris Cron (55-85)
Affiliation: Chicago White Sox
Location: Hickory, North Carolina
Ballpark: L.P. Frans Stadium
Attendance: 207,069, Avg. 2,958 in 70 home dates

1996 Hickory Crawdads Roster

The Hickory Crawdads of the South Atlantic League ended the 1996 season with a record of 55 wins and 85 losses, finishing sixth in the league's Central Division.

The Crawdads plated 596 runs and surrendered 714 runs. Carlos Lee drove in 70 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .312. Adam Virchis led the team with 8 wins, while Craig Hunt and Carlos Chantres recorded a 3.78 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Josh Paul, Chad Bradford, McKay Christensen, Brian Schmack, Liu Rodríguez, Carlos Lee, Luis García and Jason Bere were all players from the 1996 Hickory Crawdads who played in the Majors during their careers.

Chris Cron 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
Adam Virchis	8	6	.571	3.27	26	3	13	0	0	0	82.7	82	38	30	10	25	5	42	6	3	3	348
Craig Hunt	7	10	.412	3.78	25	25	0	3	0	0	143.0	136	85	60	3	70	1	80	11	0	13	628
Brian Schmack	6	4	.600	2.31	43	0	25	0	0	5	62.3	61	24	16	4	16	5	56	4	1	3	264
Carlos Chantres	6	7	.462	3.76	18	18	0	0	0	0	119.7	108	63	50	10	38	0	93	1	5	8	497
Maximo Nunez	5	16	.238	4.67	31	24	3	3	1	0	152.3	173	93	79	12	45	0	105	7	3	5	660
Mark Roberts	4	6	.400	4.88	13	13	0	0	0	0	72.0	70	42	39	12	19	0	62	3	3	4	298
Joe Farley	3	0	1.000	2.10	4	4	0	0	0	0	25.7	21	6	6	2	5	0	15	1	0	1	104
Jason Gray	3	8	.273	4.59	13	13	0	1	1	0	68.7	67	45	35	12	28	0	61	5	1	7	300
Jason Olsen	2	1	.667	1.37	4	4	0	1	0	0	26.3	19	5	4	1	6	0	32	0	0	0	101
Rich Sauget	2	1	.667	3.99	25	0	13	0	0	1	47.3	48	24	21	5	9	1	39	2	3	2	202
Tom Reimers	2	2	.500	6.43	14	12	0	0	0	0	56.0	66	43	40	6	25	0	55	6	2	7	259
Mario Iglesias	2	3	.400	4.93	10	5	2	0	0	1	34.7	45	19	19	4	6	0	31	6	1	1	155
Jason Bere	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	18
Joel Garber	1	1	.500	4.03	17	1	4	0	0	2	51.3	60	26	23	2	16	0	46	4	5	2	228
Joe Bales	1	1	.500	8.35	15	2	6	0	0	0	32.3	45	35	30	5	29	0	24	0	0	2	166
Rafael Ruiz	1	2	.333	3.35	34	0	9	0	0	0	51.0	58	32	19	4	13	0	52	0	0	0	228
Pedro DeMorejon	1	2	.333	4.43	17	1	6	0	0	0	42.7	45	26	21	5	22	0	34	5	3	4	193
Chad Bradford	0	2	.000	0.90	28	0	27	0	0	18	30.0	21	7	3	1	7	1	27	3	0	0	121
Tom Buckman	0	3	.000	2.57	16	0	13	0	0	1	28.0	36	16	8	3	7	0	15	1	2	2	126
Jamie Nichols	0	4	.000	2.70	20	1	11	0	0	1	50.0	52	30	15	4	18	0	45	4	0	5	224
Jason Lakman	0	6	.000	6.79	13	13	0	0	0	0	63.7	66	55	48	7	43	0	43	4	3	7	302
Totals	55	85	.393	4.09	387	140	132	8	2	29	1244.7	1282	714	566	112	447	13	962	73	35	77	5422

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
Carlos Lee	119	514	480	65	150	23	6	8	70	18	13	23	50	.312	.337	.435	.772	209	15	0	0	11	5
Liu Rodríguez	122	509	430	57	107	18	0	0	30	15	14	60	77	.249	.351	.291	.642	125	3	9	8	2	2
Ramon Gomez	116	477	418	73	104	8	3	1	30	57	19	44	99	.249	.322	.289	.611	121	5	2	11	2	0
Josh Fauske	115	477	412	43	100	20	0	9	62	1	1	51	132	.243	.335	.357	.692	147	5	8	2	4	1
Luis García	76	306	289	31	79	18	3	3	38	9	6	14	41	.273	.311	.388	.699	112	8	2	1	0	2
Darren Baugh	68	308	267	46	76	5	2	2	24	17	5	27	48	.285	.361	.341	.701	91	3	7	3	4	0
Josh Paul	59	252	226	41	74	16	0	8	37	13	4	21	53	.327	.386	.504	.890	114	2	1	3	1	3
Pete Pryor	59	247	205	37	63	18	1	6	37	3	2	36	43	.307	.421	.493	.914	101	7	5	0	1	4
Brian Downs	84	303	279	23	58	10	0	3	28	0	1	15	78	.208	.257	.276	.533	77	6	4	3	2	0
Dan Olson	57	224	193	25	48	8	2	2	19	2	3	31	65	.249	.353	.342	.695	66	1	0	0	0	3
Craig McClure	59	238	212	21	43	8	3	2	19	6	2	20	62	.203	.280	.297	.577	63	3	3	2	1	2
Rashad Albert	49	197	179	31	42	7	3	2	10	18	6	14	51	.235	.294	.341	.635	61	2	2	0	2	0
Doug Bearden	49	174	169	12	37	7	0	1	11	0	3	3	35	.219	.233	.278	.511	47	2	0	2	0	0
Manuel Lutz	44	159	143	10	34	2	0	1	12	0	1	9	46	.238	.291	.273	.564	39	3	3	1	3	2
Barry Shelton	47	181	161	15	34	9	0	3	13	1	2	12	52	.211	.289	.323	.612	52	2	6	1	1	0
Jeff Inglin	22	89	83	12	30	6	2	2	15	2	1	4	11	.361	.393	.554	.947	46	3	1	0	1	0
Allen Thomas	36	114	100	19	25	6	0	1	20	3	0	11	31	.250	.325	.340	.665	34	1	1	0	2	0
Clay Stevens	35	121	113	6	24	4	1	2	14	0	1	7	47	.212	.256	.319	.575	36	1	0	0	1	0
Chuck Klee	38	114	109	7	22	2	1	0	7	2	2	5	31	.202	.237	.239	.475	26	4	0	0	0	0
Darontaye Hollins	37	145	132	10	22	2	0	0	6	3	3	10	41	.167	.229	.182	.411	24	2	1	1	1	0
John Strasser	41	123	101	10	15	3	0	1	8	2	5	11	24	.149	.283	.208	.491	21	3	8	3	0	0
Chuck Antczak	9	17	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	.154	.312	.154	.466	2	0	0	1	0	0
Marty Romero	5	19	18	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.111	.158	.111	.269	2	1	0	0	0	0
McKay Christensen	6	12	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.083	.000	.083	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1352	5320	4743	596	1191	200	27	57	512	172	94	433	1127	.251	.320	.341	.660	1616	82	63	42	39	24

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Pete Pryor	1B	55	486	25	10	33	.981	9.291
Josh Fauske	1B	43	350	23	10	28	.974	8.674
Barry Shelton	1B	26	191	9	7	13	.966	7.692
Manuel Lutz	1B	19	156	15	7	14	.961	9.000
Carlos Lee	1B	9	58	4	0	6	1.000	6.889
Liu Rodríguez	2B	91	163	255	15	45	.965	4.593
John Strasser	2B	31	66	65	4	14	.970	4.226
Doug Bearden	2B	29	47	48	4	10	.960	3.276
Carlos Lee	3B	113	91	231	32	19	.910	2.850
Manuel Lutz	3B	17	8	39	12	2	.797	2.765
John Strasser	3B	9	5	15	3	1	.870	2.222
Doug Bearden	3B	6	4	19	4	0	.852	3.833
Barry Shelton	3B	5	9	7	1	0	.941	3.200
Brian Downs	C	84	532	93	9	3	.986	7.440	23
Josh Fauske	C	32	187	23	4	1	.981	6.562	13
Josh Paul	C	27	197	29	2	3	.991	8.370	4
Chuck Antczak	C	8	37	0	2	0	.949	4.625	3
Marty Romero	C	5	38	4	2	1	.955	8.400	2
Ramon Gomez	OF	111	274	8	8	2	.972	2.541
Luis García	OF	57	83	7	3	3	.968	1.579
Dan Olson	OF	49	82	3	0	2	1.000	1.735
Rashad Albert	OF	46	82	8	5	0	.947	1.957
Craig McClure	OF	43	81	4	3	2	.966	1.977
Darontaye Hollins	OF	34	51	3	3	1	.947	1.588
Clay Stevens	OF	32	53	0	3	0	.946	1.656
Allen Thomas	OF	26	33	3	0	2	1.000	1.385
Josh Paul	OF	21	43	1	0	0	1.000	2.095
Jeff Inglin	OF	16	32	3	0	1	1.000	2.188
McKay Christensen	OF	5	4	0	0	0	1.000	.800
Brian Schmack	P	43	3	12	1	1	.938	.349
Rafael Ruiz	P	34	3	5	0	0	1.000	.235
Maximo Nunez	P	31	10	25	2	0	.946	1.129
Chad Bradford	P	28	1	11	0	0	1.000	.429
Adam Virchis	P	26	3	23	3	3	.897	1.000
Rich Sauget	P	25	5	4	0	0	1.000	.360
Craig Hunt	P	25	5	29	8	0	.810	1.360
Jamie Nichols	P	20	4	9	0	1	1.000	.650
Carlos Chantres	P	18	10	25	2	2	.946	1.944
Joel Garber	P	17	1	15	0	2	1.000	.941
Pedro DeMorejon	P	17	3	2	1	1	.833	.294
Tom Buckman	P	16	4	7	0	0	1.000	.688
Joe Bales	P	15	2	3	0	0	1.000	.333
Tom Reimers	P	14	3	7	0	1	1.000	.714
Mark Roberts	P	13	2	12	2	0	.875	1.077
Jason Lakman	P	13	4	4	2	0	.800	.615
Jason Gray	P	13	5	3	0	0	1.000	.615
Mario Iglesias	P	10	3	1	0	0	1.000	.400
Jason Olsen	P	4	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.500
Joe Farley	P	4	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.250
Jason Bere	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Darren Baugh	SS	68	109	188	20	32	.937	4.368
Chuck Klee	SS	37	40	82	15	14	.891	3.297
Liu Rodríguez	SS	33	50	74	11	15	.919	3.758
Doug Bearden	SS	16	18	37	10	5	.846	3.438
Totals		1590	3734	1530	230	283	.958	3.311	45	0	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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