1997 Hickory Crawdads Statistics

South Atlantic League (SAL) - Class: A
Team Record: 76-64
Finished 2nd in the SAL's Central Division
Manager: Chris Cron (76-64)
Affiliation: Chicago White Sox
Location: Hickory, North Carolina
Ballpark: L.P. Frans Stadium
Attendance: 196,394, Avg. 2,888 in 68 home dates

1997 Hickory Crawdads Roster

Playoffs - Delmarva Shorebirds 2 games, Hickory Crawdads 0

The Hickory Crawdads of the South Atlantic League ended the 1997 season with a record of 76 wins and 64 losses, finishing second in the league's Central Division.

The Crawdads plated 748 runs, tops in the circuit. Hickory gave up 669 runs. Jeff Inglin paced the squad with 16 home runs, and Josh Fauske walloped 15 or more, too. Jeff Inglin drove in 102 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .334. Joe Farley led the team with 14 wins, while Jason Lakman recorded a 3.91 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Aaron Myette, McKay Christensen, Joe Crede, Chris Heintz, Liu Rodríguez, Jason Bere, Jason Dellaero, Jesús Peña and Rocky Biddle were all players from the 1997 Hickory Crawdads who played in the Major Leagues 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
Joe Farley	14	6	.700	4.30	28	27	0	3	2	0	173.7	190	94	83	16	48	0	94	3	1	11	742
Jamie Nichols	12	6	.667	4.14	28	27	1	1	0	0	158.7	161	85	73	12	49	0	112	6	0	7	681
Jason Lakman	10	9	.526	3.90	27	27	0	3	0	0	154.7	139	82	67	11	70	0	168	4	1	24	667
Mario Iglesias	8	4	.667	3.41	36	0	27	0	0	10	68.7	64	29	26	4	26	5	64	1	2	7	289
Brian Scott	6	3	.667	2.16	13	13	0	1	0	0	83.3	57	26	20	4	23	0	69	1	3	2	321
Jesús Peña	5	3	.625	2.22	43	0	32	0	0	8	65.0	55	24	16	3	19	1	57	0	0	3	263
Tom Buckman	5	8	.385	5.69	24	19	3	1	0	0	112.3	140	83	71	12	29	0	64	14	1	8	503
Steve Cardona	4	5	.444	4.33	32	0	12	0	0	1	60.3	62	41	29	5	16	0	40	5	0	17	265
Aaron Myette	3	1	.750	1.14	5	5	0	0	0	0	31.7	19	6	4	1	11	0	27	2	2	2	121
Kirk Irvine	3	3	.500	3.39	29	5	13	0	0	0	63.7	80	34	24	5	18	0	51	0	0	1	282
Adam Virchis	2	3	.400	3.86	15	2	4	0	0	1	44.3	42	20	19	3	11	0	34	3	1	3	183
Craig Hunt	2	3	.400	4.21	10	9	0	0	0	0	47.0	65	33	22	1	23	0	28	2	0	3	234
John Musachio	1	0	1.000	3.66	11	0	5	0	0	1	19.7	21	8	8	1	4	0	19	1	0	0	82
Jim Dixon	1	3	.250	3.63	16	0	13	0	0	6	22.3	17	12	9	0	7	1	22	1	1	6	97
Julien Tucker	0	0		3.68	4	0	1	0	0	0	7.3	11	7	3	1	2	0	7	1	0	0	35
Jason Bere	0	0		6.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	13
Joe Bales	0	0		6.48	11	0	4	0	0	1	25.0	29	19	18	4	16	0	28	2	0	0	117
Curtis Whitley	0	1	.000	3.65	9	0	6	0	0	0	12.3	11	7	5	1	5	0	8	1	0	2	58
Rocky Biddle	0	1	.000	4.64	13	0	4	0	0	1	21.3	22	18	11	2	10	0	25	2	0	5	96
Ariel Garcia	0	1	.000	13.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.7	6	5	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	17
Mark Roberts	0	2	.000	3.68	4	4	0	0	0	0	22.0	23	12	9	3	9	0	14	0	0	1	96
Tim Kraus	0	2	.000	4.99	15	0	6	0	0	0	30.7	37	22	17	1	13	0	29	1	0	0	143
Totals	76	64	.543	3.95	375	140	131	9	2	29	1229.7	1255	669	540	90	411	7	962	50	12	102	5305

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
Jeff Inglin	135	598	536	100	179	34	6	16	102	31	8	49	87	.334	.388	.509	.897	273	12	4	0	9	4
McKay Christensen	127	576	503	95	141	12	12	5	47	28	20	52	61	.280	.357	.382	.738	192	2	11	4	6	0
Liu Rodríguez	129	537	450	72	130	21	6	1	62	12	13	65	56	.289	.380	.369	.748	166	13	5	10	7	0
Manny Gonzalez	116	510	469	70	129	21	2	11	54	31	12	28	78	.275	.314	.399	.713	187	11	1	7	5	1
Chris Heintz	107	432	388	57	110	28	1	2	54	1	3	28	57	.284	.342	.376	.718	146	6	9	2	5	0
Joe Crede	113	433	402	45	109	25	0	5	62	3	1	24	83	.271	.319	.371	.689	149	6	5	0	2	0
Chuck Klee	119	450	400	55	108	18	3	1	48	5	8	31	78	.270	.333	.338	.670	135	8	8	8	3	1
Greg Shepard	102	400	342	54	105	27	2	12	62	4	2	46	81	.307	.394	.503	.897	172	7	6	2	4	1
Dan Olson	98	395	350	59	100	31	3	9	47	4	1	36	120	.286	.353	.469	.821	164	4	3	1	5	1
Josh Fauske	98	397	344	56	81	24	0	15	60	1	0	38	76	.235	.325	.436	.761	150	4	10	0	5	0
Jason Dellaero	55	214	191	37	53	10	3	6	29	3	1	17	49	.277	.341	.455	.797	87	6	3	0	3	0
Darontaye Hollins	42	134	115	22	27	9	0	4	13	3	1	15	37	.235	.323	.417	.741	48	1	1	1	2	0
Ovidio Frias	33	118	108	10	25	3	1	0	11	1	2	6	20	.231	.274	.278	.551	30	3	1	1	2	0
Brian Downs	25	85	82	8	19	4	0	4	7	0	0	3	22	.232	.259	.427	.686	35	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Fagley	9	25	20	4	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	4	9	.200	.333	.300	.633	6	0	0	1	0	0
Allen Thomas	27	55	49	4	4	2	0	0	2	0	1	4	19	.082	.164	.122	.286	6	1	1	0	1	0
Angel Solano	11	22	21	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	7	.095	.091	.143	.234	3	0	0	0	1	0
Chuck Antczak	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.500	1.000	1.500	1	0	0	0	1	0
Totals	1347	5383	4771	748	1327	272	39	91	666	127	73	446	940	.278	.344	.409	.753	1950	84	68	37	61	8

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Chris Heintz	1B	69	614	42	4	51	.994	9.507
Greg Shepard	1B	68	601	23	17	50	.973	9.176
Chuck Klee	1B	8	41	6	1	5	.979	5.875
Dan Olson	1B	5	29	0	2	1	.935	5.800
Liu Rodríguez	2B	126	225	332	6	69	.989	4.421
Chuck Klee	2B	11	18	25	2	5	.956	3.909
Angel Solano	2B	9	9	15	1	3	.960	2.667
Ovidio Frias	2B	6	5	9	2	0	.875	2.333
Joe Crede	3B	112	84	232	33	23	.905	2.821
Ovidio Frias	3B	20	11	28	4	3	.907	1.950
Chuck Klee	3B	14	12	16	4	2	.875	2.000
Josh Fauske	C	78	504	70	17	7	.971	7.359	26	86	30	25.9
Chris Heintz	C	43	252	35	6	3	.980	6.674	26	35	12	25.5
Brian Downs	C	25	149	22	9	3	.950	6.840	6	39	10	20.4
Dan Fagley	C	7	42	4	0	0	1.000	6.571	1	3	4	57.1
Greg Shepard	C	6	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	0	0	0
Chuck Antczak	C	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
McKay Christensen	CF	124						.000
Manny Gonzalez	CF	20						.000
Allen Thomas	CF	3						.000
Jeff Inglin	LF	76						.000
Darontaye Hollins	LF	26						.000
Manny Gonzalez	LF	20						.000
Allen Thomas	LF	17						.000
Dan Olson	LF	10						.000
Greg Shepard	LF	3						.000
Ovidio Frias	LF	1						.000
McKay Christensen	OF	124	280	5	9	4	.969	2.298
Manny Gonzalez	OF	114	222	22	6	4	.976	2.140
Jeff Inglin	OF	88	124	14	4	4	.972	1.568
Dan Olson	OF	63	105	6	3	1	.974	1.762
Darontaye Hollins	OF	27	40	4	1	0	.978	1.630
Allen Thomas	OF	20	28	0	1	0	.966	1.400
Greg Shepard	OF	4	2	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Ovidio Frias	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Jesús Peña	P	43	4	13	2	2	.895	.395
Mario Iglesias	P	36	2	13	0	0	1.000	.417
Steve Cardona	P	32	4	6	1	1	.909	.312
Kirk Irvine	P	29	3	5	0	0	1.000	.276
Jamie Nichols	P	28	8	23	2	2	.939	1.107
Joe Farley	P	28	11	37	2	4	.960	1.714
Jason Lakman	P	27	12	17	4	0	.879	1.074
Tom Buckman	P	24	6	12	1	2	.947	.750
Jim Dixon	P	16	1	2	0	0	1.000	.188
Adam Virchis	P	15	2	11	0	0	1.000	.867
Tim Kraus	P	15	1	5	1	0	.857	.400
Brian Scott	P	13	9	16	2	2	.926	1.923
Rocky Biddle	P	13	0	1	1	0	.500	.077
John Musachio	P	11	2	3	0	0	1.000	.455
Joe Bales	P	11	0	1	0	0	1.000	.091
Craig Hunt	P	10	1	10	3	1	.786	1.100
Curtis Whitley	P	9	2	2	1	0	.800	.444
Aaron Myette	P	5	2	4	0	1	1.000	1.200
Julien Tucker	P	4	1	3	0	1	1.000	1.000
Mark Roberts	P	4	0	2	2	0	.500	.500
Ariel Garcia	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Jason Bere	P	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Manny Gonzalez	RF	81						.000
Dan Olson	RF	53						.000
Jeff Inglin	RF	12						.000
Greg Shepard	RF	1						.000
Darontaye Hollins	RF	1						.000
Chuck Klee	SS	80	125	239	34	41	.915	4.550
Jason Dellaero	SS	55	79	150	14	23	.942	4.164
Ovidio Frias	SS	7	6	20	5	5	.839	3.714
Angel Solano	SS	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Liu Rodríguez	SS	2	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.000
Totals		2018	3689	1509	207	323	.962	2.576	59	163	56	25.6

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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