1997 Lansing Lugnuts Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 69-68
Finished 3rd in the MWL's East Division
Manager: Bob Herold (69-68)
Affiliation: Kansas City Royals
Location: Lansing, Michigan
Ballpark: Oldsmobile Park
Attendance: 523,443, Avg. 7,813 in 67 home dates

1997 Lansing Lugnuts Roster

Playoffs - Lansing Lugnuts 2 games, Fort Wayne Wizards 0
Playoffs - Lansing Lugnuts 2 games, Michigan Battle Cats 1
Finals - Lansing Lugnuts 3 games, Kane County Cougars 2

The Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League ended the 1997 season with a record of 69 wins and 68 losses, finishing third in the league's East Division.

The Lugnuts scored 772 runs and allowed 730 runs. Brandon Berger led Lansing with 12 home runs and accounted for 73 RBI. Tony Miranda paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .341. Allen Sanders topped the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 3.79 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Scott Mullen, Chad Durbin, José Santiago, Orber Moreno, Jason Simontacchi, Kit Pellow, Brandon Berger and Jeremy Giambi were all players from the 1997 Lansing Lugnuts who played in the Majors during their careers.

Bob Herold 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
Allen Sanders	12	7	.632	3.78	32	18	7	2	1	2	140.3	143	72	59	15	32	0	79	2	1	8	594
Brandon Baird	10	7	.588	3.01	55	0	36	0	0	7	77.7	74	31	26	2	28	6	83	5	0	2	336
Aaron Lineweaver	7	1	.875	3.33	21	9	3	0	0	0	83.7	89	38	31	4	28	1	73	3	1	6	359
Ethan Stein	6	10	.375	4.69	39	10	13	1	0	2	124.7	150	83	65	19	24	1	72	8	1	4	549
Scott Mullen	5	2	.714	3.70	16	16	0	0	0	0	92.3	90	46	38	14	31	0	78	4	1	2	391
Chad Rodriguez	5	3	.625	4.01	48	0	37	0	0	12	60.7	66	29	27	5	11	0	48	4	0	3	256
Chad Durbin	5	8	.385	4.79	26	26	0	0	0	0	144.7	157	85	77	15	53	0	116	11	1	12	642
Tony Penny	4	1	.800	5.21	22	2	6	0	0	0	38.0	46	30	22	8	15	1	25	0	1	5	179
Orber Moreno	4	8	.333	4.81	27	25	0	0	0	0	138.3	150	83	74	15	45	0	128	8	0	9	603
Edwin Gonzalez	3	5	.375	3.65	11	11	0	0	0	0	69.0	67	32	28	4	15	0	58	3	0	3	283
Jason Simontacchi	3	7	.300	6.97	29	1	11	0	0	2	60.7	93	56	47	7	15	1	38	4	2	1	295
Steve Hueston	2	2	.500	7.44	34	7	5	0	0	0	71.3	95	65	59	6	49	1	42	6	2	5	345
José Santiago	1	0	1.000	2.08	9	0	6	0	0	1	13.0	10	6	3	0	6	1	8	0	0	0	57
Jeremy Williamson	1	1	.500	4.22	8	7	1	0	0	0	32.0	31	22	15	3	16	0	24	0	0	0	141
Taylor Myers	1	1	.500	9.26	8	2	3	0	0	1	23.3	29	24	24	10	13	0	19	4	0	0	116
Todd Meady	0	1	.000	4.85	4	2	1	0	0	0	13.0	25	10	7	0	6	0	5	0	0	2	64
Jason Gooding	0	1	.000	5.79	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.7	6	5	3	0	1	0	3	1	0	2	24
Carlos Paredes	0	1	.000	9.00	5	0	3	0	0	0	7.0	8	7	7	0	8	0	9	1	0	3	36
Richard Boring	0	2	.000	20.25	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.7	6	6	6	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	16
Totals	69	68	.504	4.65	398	137	134	3	1	27	1197.0	1335	730	618	127	400	12	910	64	10	67	5286

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
Tony Miranda	104	456	387	85	132	35	5	5	72	11	10	54	62	.341	.430	.496	.926	192	10	10	0	5	2
Kendrick Moore	112	527	456	105	130	16	8	6	42	43	14	45	78	.285	.370	.395	.764	180	5	19	2	5	0
Brandon Berger	107	446	393	64	115	22	6	12	73	13	1	42	79	.293	.368	.471	.838	185	8	7	0	4	1
Jason Layne	98	403	337	54	93	22	3	9	68	0	0	54	85	.276	.387	.439	.826	148	5	9	0	3	3
Jose Cepeda	89	380	326	40	91	17	1	2	35	4	2	42	35	.279	.363	.356	.718	116	10	3	5	4	0
Pat Hallmark	88	347	306	49	87	13	6	0	39	22	5	28	43	.284	.353	.366	.719	112	8	7	1	5	0
Micah Williams	65	275	249	34	83	13	3	0	30	22	3	9	34	.333	.378	.410	.788	102	6	9	8	0	0
Jose Amado	61	268	234	49	80	25	1	4	45	10	2	24	18	.342	.403	.509	.912	119	8	4	0	6	1
Kit Pellow	65	290	256	39	76	17	2	11	52	2	0	24	74	.297	.366	.508	.873	130	5	6	0	4	1
Steve Medrano	97	364	321	35	71	7	5	0	29	10	5	34	39	.221	.299	.274	.573	88	8	3	3	3	0
Vic Radcliff	81	289	253	40	68	25	3	3	33	3	0	19	56	.269	.334	.427	.761	108	5	9	2	6	0
Brett Taft	85	327	269	41	67	21	0	4	30	5	4	47	60	.249	.366	.372	.738	100	9	4	5	2	0
Matt Smith	62	250	227	33	63	4	3	4	33	4	2	21	45	.278	.336	.374	.710	85	2	0	0	2	1
Jeremy Giambi	31	142	116	33	39	11	1	5	21	5	1	23	16	.336	.451	.578	1.028	67	1	2	0	1	2
Juan Robles	51	161	145	11	30	6	1	2	17	1	2	14	40	.207	.280	.303	.583	44	1	1	0	1	0
Juan LeBron	35	116	113	12	24	7	0	3	20	0	0	0	32	.212	.216	.354	.569	40	4	1	0	2	0
Doug Blosser	38	128	103	13	22	3	0	3	17	0	0	20	29	.214	.331	.330	.661	34	2	0	1	4	3
Cade Griffis	10	35	30	4	9	3	0	0	5	2	1	4	8	.300	.371	.400	.771	12	0	0	0	1	0
Brett Schafer	21	66	47	16	9	3	1	0	6	3	0	15	8	.191	.409	.298	.707	14	2	3	0	1	0
Rick Pitts	35	69	58	7	9	3	1	0	6	2	0	8	16	.155	.279	.241	.521	14	3	2	1	0	0
Troy Doezie	19	55	51	3	8	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	14	.157	.185	.196	.381	10	2	0	1	1	0
Dave Ullery	18	59	44	5	7	1	2	1	10	0	0	13	16	.159	.356	.341	.697	15	2	1	0	1	0
Ricardo Montas	4	11	10	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.300	.273	.300	.573	3	0	0	0	1	0
Totals	1376	5464	4731	772	1316	276	52	74	685	162	52	542	889	.278	.360	.405	.766	1918	106	100	29	62	14

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Jason Layne	1B	56	474	26	8	49	.984	8.929
Matt Smith	1B	54	468	29	5	26	.990	9.204
Kit Pellow	1B	18	132	8	2	16	.986	7.778
Jose Amado	1B	12	91	10	2	13	.981	8.417
Doug Blosser	1B	7	32	2	0	1	1.000	4.857
Tony Miranda	1B	2	22	0	0	2	1.000	11.000
Ricardo Montas	1B	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Kendrick Moore	2B	57	124	142	8	30	.971	4.667
Brett Taft	2B	47	101	130	11	31	.955	4.915
Jose Cepeda	2B	43	69	119	3	15	.984	4.372
Brett Schafer	2B	4	5	7	0	2	1.000	3.000
Ricardo Montas	2B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Kit Pellow	3B	51	38	90	31	5	.805	2.510
Jose Cepeda	3B	37	22	50	6	2	.923	1.946
Jose Amado	3B	27	26	55	4	7	.953	3.000
Jason Layne	3B	17	15	40	3	6	.948	3.235
Brett Schafer	3B	6	8	9	1	2	.944	2.833
Tony Miranda	3B	5	5	11	4	2	.800	3.200
Ricardo Montas	3B	2	2	0	1	0	.667	1.000
Vic Radcliff	3B	1	1	2	1	0	.750	3.000
Pat Hallmark	C	62	398	43	9	2	.980	7.113	7	47	17	26.6
Juan Robles	C	48	321	30	3	2	.992	7.312	2	37	19	33.9
Dave Ullery	C	18	77	12	1	1	.989	4.944	1	21	5	19.2
Troy Doezie	C	17	74	8	6	1	.932	4.824	1	17	6	26.1
Cade Griffis	C	10	67	6	2	1	.973	7.300	2	17	3	15.0
Kendrick Moore	CF	50						.000
Micah Williams	CF	36						.000
Vic Radcliff	CF	22						.000
Rick Pitts	CF	20						.000
Pat Hallmark	CF	14						.000
Brett Schafer	CF	8						.000
Tony Miranda	CF	7						.000
Juan LeBron	CF	1						.000
Jason Layne	CF	1						.000
Tony Miranda	LF	66						.000
Brandon Berger	LF	40						.000
Jeremy Giambi	LF	17						.000
Vic Radcliff	LF	13						.000
Kendrick Moore	LF	7						.000
Rick Pitts	LF	3						.000
Micah Williams	LF	2						.000
Juan LeBron	LF	2						.000
Brandon Berger	OF	87	136	7	3	0	.979	1.644
Tony Miranda	OF	73	107	14	1	3	.992	1.658
Vic Radcliff	OF	68	105	9	4	0	.966	1.676
Micah Williams	OF	63	126	2	1	1	.992	2.032
Kendrick Moore	OF	57	106	4	2	1	.982	1.930
Juan LeBron	OF	31	45	2	2	1	.959	1.516
Rick Pitts	OF	25	39	1	2	0	.952	1.600
Pat Hallmark	OF	20	35	2	1	0	.974	1.850
Jeremy Giambi	OF	17	30	2	0	0	1.000	1.882
Brett Schafer	OF	9	14	1	0	1	1.000	1.667
Jason Layne	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brandon Baird	P	55	0	6	1	1	.857	.109
Chad Rodriguez	P	48	2	9	0	0	1.000	.229
Ethan Stein	P	39	9	16	1	1	.962	.641
Steve Hueston	P	34	2	18	1	1	.952	.588
Allen Sanders	P	32	9	22	3	1	.912	.969
Jason Simontacchi	P	29	2	17	3	0	.864	.655
Orber Moreno	P	27	4	16	1	1	.952	.741
Chad Durbin	P	26	5	20	2	1	.926	.962
Tony Penny	P	22	6	4	0	0	1.000	.455
Aaron Lineweaver	P	21	3	11	1	0	.933	.667
Scott Mullen	P	16	5	17	0	1	1.000	1.375
Edwin Gonzalez	P	11	10	8	1	0	.947	1.636
José Santiago	P	9	0	2	0	1	1.000	.222
Jeremy Williamson	P	8	3	8	0	1	1.000	1.375
Taylor Myers	P	8	1	3	0	0	1.000	.500
Carlos Paredes	P	5	0	2	0	1	1.000	.400
Todd Meady	P	4	0	0	0	0		.000
Richard Boring	P	3	0	0	0	0		.000
Jason Gooding	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Brandon Berger	RF	50						.000
Vic Radcliff	RF	35						.000
Micah Williams	RF	30						.000
Juan LeBron	RF	28						.000
Pat Hallmark	RF	6						.000
Rick Pitts	RF	2						.000
Tony Miranda	RF	2						.000
Brett Schafer	RF	1						.000
Steve Medrano	SS	95	140	263	20	52	.953	4.242
Brett Taft	SS	41	64	107	9	16	.950	4.171
Jose Cepeda	SS	10	9	32	6	5	.872	4.100
Totals		2061	3591	1456	176	306	.966	2.449	13	139	50	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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