1997 Knoxville Smokies Statistics

Southern League (SL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 75-63
Finished 1st in the SL's East Division
Manager: Omar Malave (75-63)
Affiliation: Toronto Blue Jays
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Ballpark: Smithson Stadium
Attendance: 138,389, Avg. 2,097 in 66 home dates

1997 Knoxville Smokies Roster

Playoffs - Greenville Braves 3 games, Knoxville Smokies 1

The Knoxville Smokies of the Southern League ended the 1997 season with a record of 75 wins and 63 losses, finishing first in the league's East Division.

The Smokies plated 727 runs and surrendered 723 runs. Kevin Witt walloped 30 home runs for Knoxville, while Andy Thompson, Anthony Sanders and Ben Candelaria each swatted 15 or more as well. Kevin Witt drove in 91 runs. Ben Candelaria paced all regular hitters by connecting at a .294 clip. Jason Stevenson topped the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 4.28 earned run average, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1997 Knoxville Smokies who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Kelvim Escobar, Julio Mosquera, Rickey Cradle, Tom Davey, Beiker Graterol, Carlos Almánzar, Brian Smith, Anthony Sanders, Mark Lukasiewicz, Andy Thompson, Ryan Freel, Jim Czajkowski, Roy Halladay, Kevin Witt and Adam Melhuse.

Omar Malave 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
Jason Stevenson	12	9	.571	4.27	26	26	0	2	2	0	149.7	166	88	71	18	43	1	101	7	1	7	640
Doug Meiners	9	5	.643	5.43	23	23	0	3	0	0	122.7	161	85	74	13	31	0	81	8	0	4	554
Roger Doman	7	3	.700	3.67	48	1	13	0	0	4	100.7	99	46	41	5	29	6	71	8	1	9	425
Chad Brown	6	4	.600	3.72	32	0	14	0	0	4	55.7	46	25	23	4	16	0	40	2	0	2	231
Tom Davey	6	7	.462	5.83	20	16	1	0	0	0	92.7	108	65	60	5	50	0	72	6	0	14	429
Joe Young	5	4	.556	4.42	19	11	2	0	0	0	59.0	52	38	29	4	40	0	62	5	3	6	271
Chris McBride	4	4	.500	3.71	10	10	0	0	0	0	60.7	61	30	25	5	14	0	33	3	1	3	256
Benny Lowe	3	1	.750	5.54	18	0	8	0	0	0	26.0	33	21	16	6	14	1	29	2	2	2	124
Chris Freeman	3	3	.500	2.48	47	2	21	0	0	8	83.3	71	32	23	8	36	7	86	3	0	4	362
Jay Veniard	3	8	.273	5.85	17	15	0	2	0	0	75.3	97	59	49	6	37	2	54	8	2	14	369
Mark Lukasiewicz	2	0	1.000	3.65	27	0	8	0	0	7	37.0	26	17	15	2	14	1	43	1	0	4	149
Kelvim Escobar	2	1	.667	3.70	5	5	0	1	0	0	24.3	20	13	10	1	16	0	31	2	2	1	108
Kurt Bogott	2	1	.667	3.90	35	1	14	0	0	2	64.7	66	32	28	10	25	2	77	6	1	6	284
Beiker Graterol	2	1	.667	5.40	3	3	0	0	0	0	16.7	24	12	10	1	9	0	11	1	0	0	81
Jim Czajkowski	2	2	.500	6.47	25	0	18	0	0	5	32.0	43	27	23	5	11	1	33	2	0	0	149
Mike Gordon	2	3	.400	5.33	33	6	7	0	0	2	72.7	91	46	43	5	40	3	64	1	0	6	341
Roy Halladay	2	3	.400	5.40	7	7	0	0	0	0	36.7	46	26	22	4	11	0	30	0	0	4	165
Ken Folkers	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	15
D. J. Harris	1	1	.500	1.64	2	2	0	0	0	0	11.0	6	2	2	1	6	0	8	0	0	1	43
Carlos Almánzar	1	1	.500	4.91	21	0	19	0	0	8	25.7	30	14	14	2	5	1	25	0	0	0	109
Dave Morgan	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Brian Smith	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
John Curl	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	10
Adam Meinershagen	0	0		3.71	7	7	0	0	0	0	17.0	16	8	7	0	6	0	7	0	0	0	72
Kendall Rhine	0	0		10.32	8	0	2	0	0	0	11.3	13	13	13	1	15	1	6	2	0	1	61
Jason Jarvis	0	2	.000	9.78	4	4	0	1	0	0	19.3	28	24	21	7	9	0	11	0	0	1	95
Totals	75	63	.543	4.63	441	139	130	9	2	40	1202.3	1307	723	619	113	480	26	980	67	14	89	5351

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
Kevin Witt	127	551	501	76	145	27	4	30	91	1	0	44	109	.289	.349	.539	.888	270	13	3	1	2	7
Ben Candelaria	120	529	472	81	139	32	5	15	67	4	3	42	89	.294	.354	.479	.833	226	9	5	4	6	2
Andy Thompson	124	522	448	75	128	25	3	15	71	0	5	63	76	.286	.378	.455	.833	204	18	6	1	4	3
Angel Ramirez	85	384	369	55	114	24	7	5	37	11	6	10	48	.309	.331	.453	.783	167	4	3	0	2	0
Anthony Sanders	111	484	429	68	114	20	4	26	69	20	12	44	121	.266	.335	.513	.848	220	9	3	4	4	3
Fausto Solano	115	424	378	52	100	24	4	10	56	8	14	37	47	.265	.329	.429	.757	162	11	1	4	4	2
Julio Mosquera	87	341	309	47	90	23	1	5	50	3	4	22	56	.291	.345	.421	.766	130	10	5	2	3	0
Ryan Jones	86	362	328	41	84	19	3	12	51	0	1	27	63	.256	.315	.442	.757	145	5	3	0	4	1
Sharnol Adriana	99	375	314	50	74	11	1	6	39	9	7	47	66	.236	.341	.334	.675	105	11	5	5	4	2
Santiago Henry	52	204	196	25	57	10	1	5	26	3	2	4	35	.291	.304	.429	.732	84	3	1	0	3	1
Rickey Cradle	84	308	257	50	55	16	1	10	34	5	6	41	67	.214	.337	.401	.737	103	5	7	2	1	0
Lorenzo De La Cruz	39	166	146	32	49	7	2	7	26	2	2	14	38	.336	.410	.555	.964	81	2	5	0	1	1
Will Skett	30	117	110	18	30	6	1	3	15	4	4	4	31	.273	.302	.427	.729	47	2	1	1	1	0
Luis Rodriguez	24	82	78	6	21	3	1	0	6	0	1	3	20	.269	.305	.333	.638	26	1	1	0	0	0
Adam Melhuse	31	108	87	14	20	3	0	3	10	0	0	19	19	.230	.364	.368	.732	32	1	0	1	1	1
Ryan Freel	33	116	94	18	19	1	1	0	4	5	3	19	13	.202	.348	.234	.582	22	3	2	1	0	0
Dave Morgan	21	55	44	6	12	2	0	0	4	0	0	10	14	.273	.418	.318	.736	14	0	1	0	0	0
John Curl	10	32	29	0	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	6	.207	.281	.241	.523	7	0	0	0	0	0
Lonell Roberts	7	27	21	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	3	.190	.320	.286	.606	6	0	2	2	0	0
Cesar Diaz	7	20	15	2	3	1	0	1	3	0	0	5	2	.200	.400	.467	.867	7	0	0	0	0	0
Anton French	2	6	6	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.667	1.000	4	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Strange	12	24	21	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	4	.095	.208	.190	.399	4	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Soriano	7	22	17	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	4	.059	.273	.059	.332	1	0	2	0	0	0
Totals	1313	5259	4669	727	1269	255	42	153	661	76	73	466	933	.272	.342	.443	.785	2067	107	56	28	40	23

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Kevin Witt	1B	66	529	60	5	43	.992	8.924
Ryan Jones	1B	62	546	26	9	44	.985	9.226
Adam Melhuse	1B	8	48	6	1	1	.982	6.750
Sharnol Adriana	1B	7	49	3	2	6	.963	7.429
Dave Morgan	1B	3	14	2	0	2	1.000	5.333
Sharnol Adriana	2B	79	157	223	18	45	.955	4.810
Santiago Henry	2B	35	87	108	11	25	.947	5.571
Fausto Solano	2B	23	30	44	1	10	.987	3.217
Mike Strange	2B	8	15	19	1	2	.971	4.250
Fred Soriano	2B	4	12	6	1	1	.947	4.500
Andy Thompson	3B	104	72	202	31	9	.898	2.635
Kevin Witt	3B	34	19	58	10	9	.885	2.265
Sharnol Adriana	3B	5	1	8	1	0	.900	1.800
Julio Mosquera	C	86	587	56	7	6	.989	7.477	4	76	27	26.2
Luis Rodriguez	C	24	153	19	3	2	.983	7.167	4	19	10	34.5
Adam Melhuse	C	18	114	18	1	3	.992	7.333	4	17	12	41.4
Dave Morgan	C	16	118	9	2	2	.984	7.938	2	15	4	21.1
Cesar Diaz	C	5	26	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	0	8	1	11.1
Anthony Sanders	CF	108						.000
Angel Ramirez	CF	22						.000
Rickey Cradle	CF	8						.000
Ben Candelaria	CF	3						.000
Lonell Roberts	CF	1						.000
Angel Ramirez	LF	62						.000
Will Skett	LF	30						.000
Rickey Cradle	LF	26						.000
Ben Candelaria	LF	9						.000
Lonell Roberts	LF	5						.000
Adam Melhuse	LF	5						.000
Kevin Witt	LF	4						.000
Anton French	LF	2						.000
John Curl	LF	1						.000
Anthony Sanders	OF	109	224	7	4	3	.983	2.119
Ben Candelaria	OF	102	174	13	5	1	.974	1.833
Angel Ramirez	OF	82	131	15	7	5	.954	1.780
Rickey Cradle	OF	73	104	5	2	0	.982	1.493
Will Skett	OF	30	40	2	1	0	.977	1.400
Lorenzo De La Cruz	OF	11	20	2	1	0	.957	2.000
Lonell Roberts	OF	7	16	0	1	0	.941	2.286
Adam Melhuse	OF	5	10	2	0	0	1.000	2.400
Kevin Witt	OF	4	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.250
Anton French	OF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
John Curl	OF	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Roger Doman	P	48	6	23	3	1	.906	.604
Chris Freeman	P	47	10	9	0	0	1.000	.404
Kurt Bogott	P	35	0	11	1	0	.917	.314
Mike Gordon	P	33	4	10	1	0	.933	.424
Chad Brown	P	32	9	4	0	1	1.000	.406
Mark Lukasiewicz	P	27	4	4	0	0	1.000	.296
Jason Stevenson	P	26	7	18	3	1	.893	.962
Jim Czajkowski	P	25	1	2	0	0	1.000	.120
Doug Meiners	P	23	5	14	2	0	.905	.826
Carlos Almánzar	P	21	2	6	0	0	1.000	.381
Tom Davey	P	20	8	11	3	1	.864	.950
Joe Young	P	19	4	1	1	0	.833	.263
Benny Lowe	P	18	1	3	0	0	1.000	.222
Jay Veniard	P	17	5	17	1	1	.957	1.294
Chris McBride	P	10	3	3	2	0	.750	.600
Kendall Rhine	P	8	0	2	0	0	1.000	.250
Adam Meinershagen	P	7	0	1	1	0	.500	.143
Roy Halladay	P	7	4	9	1	2	.929	1.857
Kelvim Escobar	P	5	0	2	0	0	1.000	.400
Jason Jarvis	P	4	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.500
Beiker Graterol	P	3	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.000
D. J. Harris	P	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Brian Smith	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Dave Morgan	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Ken Folkers	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
John Curl	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Ben Candelaria	RF	90						.000
Rickey Cradle	RF	39						.000
Lorenzo De La Cruz	RF	11						.000
Anthony Sanders	RF	2						.000
Lonell Roberts	RF	1						.000
Fausto Solano	SS	93	151	267	22	53	.950	4.495
Ryan Freel	SS	33	44	92	13	17	.913	4.121
Santiago Henry	SS	17	27	63	6	9	.938	5.294
Kevin Witt	SS	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Fred Soriano	SS	2	5	4	1	1	.900	4.500
Mike Strange	SS	1	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.000
Totals		2031	3607	1502	186	306	.965	2.516	14	135	54	28.6

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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