1997 Norwich Navigators Statistics

Eastern League (EL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 73-69
Finished 2nd in the EL's North Division
Manager: Trey Hillman (73-69)
Affiliation: New York Yankees
Location: Norwich, Connecticut
Ballpark: Senator Thomas J. Dodd Stadium
Attendance: 244,246, Avg. 3,877 in 63 home dates

1997 Norwich Navigators Roster

Playoffs - Portland Sea Dogs 3 games, Norwich Navigators 2

The Norwich Navigators of the Eastern League ended the 1997 season with a record of 73 wins and 69 losses, finishing second in the league's North Division.

The Navigators scored 784 runs and allowed 681 runs. Chris Ashby led Norwich with 24 home runs, while Kurt Bierek, Tom Wilson and Mike Lowell each walloped 15 or more as well. Chris Ashby drove in 82 runs. Brian Buchanan paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .309 clip. Chris Cumberland topped the squad with 11 wins, and Kevin Lomon recorded a 3.21 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Eric Milton, Dwight Gooden, Tom Wilson, Brian Buchanan, Jason Beverlin, Frank Lankford, Jay Tessmer, Mike Buddie, Ben Ford, Darryl Strawberry, Mike Jerzembeck, Mike Lowell, Luis de los Santos, Tim Raines, Larry Mitchell, Hideki Irabu and Kevin Lomon were all players from the 1997 Norwich Navigators who played in the Majors during their careers.

Trey Hillman 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
Chris Cumberland	11	10	.524	4.02	25	25	0	3	1	0	154.7	188	100	69	12	59	1	81	5	4	10	686
Kevin Lomon	9	7	.562	3.21	18	18	0	2	1	0	115.0	104	51	41	5	50	0	117	6	1	5	487
Larry Mitchell	9	9	.500	3.49	57	0	12	0	0	0	95.3	98	45	37	10	37	1	99	3	0	10	430
Katsuhiro Maeda	8	10	.444	4.56	25	21	2	1	1	0	124.3	117	75	63	14	62	1	76	8	2	11	545
Eric Milton	6	3	.667	3.13	14	14	0	1	0	0	77.7	59	29	27	2	36	0	67	0	4	3	322
Greg Resz	5	4	.556	4.70	25	13	6	0	0	0	90.0	94	59	47	9	43	0	75	3	0	17	410
Frank Lankford	4	2	.667	2.90	11	11	0	2	0	0	68.3	58	28	22	3	15	1	39	2	1	1	277
Ben Ford	4	3	.571	4.22	28	0	14	0	0	1	42.7	35	28	20	1	19	1	38	3	0	4	183
Dwight Gooden	3	0	1.000	3.00	3	3	0	0	0	0	18.0	13	6	6	3	5	0	14	2	0	0	74
Jay Tessmer	3	6	.333	5.31	55	0	49	0	0	17	62.7	78	41	37	7	24	2	51	2	0	4	289
Mike Jerzembeck	2	1	.667	1.71	8	8	0	0	0	0	42.0	21	10	8	1	16	0	42	0	1	2	164
Kevin Henthorne	2	1	.667	3.31	33	6	12	0	0	2	73.3	72	32	27	8	14	0	64	4	0	2	313
Andy Croghan	2	1	.667	5.72	42	1	13	0	0	4	67.7	72	48	43	9	36	2	85	1	0	3	308
Jason Beverlin	1	0	1.000	7.78	25	0	8	0	0	0	41.7	50	38	36	10	24	0	42	6	0	3	203
Sal Urso	1	1	.500	1.26	7	2	3	0	0	1	14.3	14	2	2	0	5	0	13	0	1	1	59
Luis de los Santos	1	1	.500	2.52	4	4	0	0	0	0	25.0	23	9	7	4	7	0	15	0	1	0	104
Hideki Irabu	1	1	.500	4.50	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.0	13	5	5	1	0	0	9	0	2	0	41
Brett Schlomann	1	4	.200	7.85	10	10	0	0	0	0	47.0	66	43	41	6	17	0	36	3	0	1	224
Mike Buddie	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3
Mark Hubbard	0	0		15.43	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	6	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	13
Francisco De La Cruz	0	1	.000	3.24	2	2	0	0	0	0	8.3	8	3	3	0	7	0	0	2	0	0	39
Scott Rose	0	2	.000	2.67	21	0	12	0	0	4	30.3	34	17	9	1	8	0	20	0	0	5	129
Ray Ricken	0	2	.000	6.75	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.7	12	8	8	0	5	0	13	0	0	0	48
Totals	73	69	.514	4.14	420	142	133	9	3	29	1222.3	1235	681	562	107	490	9	999	50	17	82	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
Brian Buchanan	116	519	470	75	145	25	2	10	69	11	9	32	85	.309	.362	.434	.796	204	11	11	0	6	0
Kurt Bierek	133	538	473	77	128	32	2	18	78	4	4	56	89	.271	.355	.461	.816	218	8	7	0	2	2
Tom Wilson	124	514	419	88	124	21	4	21	80	1	4	86	126	.296	.416	.516	.932	216	8	4	0	5	0
Rudy Gomez	102	468	393	65	118	18	7	5	52	11	7	61	64	.300	.405	.420	.825	165	8	10	1	3	0
Chris Ashby	136	546	457	92	114	20	1	24	82	10	7	80	95	.249	.366	.455	.821	208	14	6	0	3	2
Ron Brown	100	403	362	47	104	17	3	5	50	5	7	35	59	.287	.350	.392	.742	142	11	1	3	2	1
Gabby Martinez	77	341	312	49	100	12	5	6	54	21	6	11	44	.321	.350	.449	.799	140	5	5	10	3	0
Mike Lowell	78	343	285	60	98	17	0	15	47	2	1	48	30	.344	.439	.561	1.000	160	11	4	1	5	1
Danny Donato	96	385	349	44	96	16	1	5	43	7	4	26	44	.275	.340	.370	.710	129	13	9	0	1	2
Luke Wilcox	74	323	300	45	83	13	1	6	34	13	3	18	36	.277	.323	.387	.710	116	6	3	1	1	1
Grant Fithian	79	295	253	38	71	16	1	8	51	1	1	41	52	.281	.380	.447	.826	113	3	0	0	1	0
Kraig Hawkins	51	220	188	36	49	6	1	0	16	12	2	26	37	.261	.350	.303	.653	57	1	1	3	2	0
Jose Lobaton	68	218	197	16	38	6	0	1	15	2	3	12	60	.193	.244	.239	.483	47	4	2	5	2	0
Rob Hinds	51	138	119	15	29	4	1	0	12	1	1	12	31	.244	.319	.294	.613	35	5	2	3	2	0
R. D. Long	34	106	89	18	25	5	1	2	17	5	3	13	21	.281	.375	.427	.802	38	2	1	2	1	0
Randy Brown	19	71	60	10	13	2	0	3	8	2	1	9	22	.217	.338	.400	.738	24	1	2	0	0	0
Duke Dukart	9	38	32	4	11	2	0	0	5	0	0	3	4	.344	.447	.406	.854	13	1	3	0	0	0
Les Dennis	10	37	30	4	10	1	0	0	2	1	1	5	11	.333	.429	.367	.795	11	0	0	2	0	0
Tim Raines	2	7	7	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	0	0	0	0	0
Sloan Smith	2	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.200	.429	.200	.629	1	0	0	1	0	0
Kevin Henthorne	34	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angel Ramirez	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Rose	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Darryl Strawberry	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1420	5524	4806	784	1359	234	30	129	718	109	64	576	917	.283	.365	.424	.790	2040	113	71	32	39	9

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Chris Ashby	1B	117	994	75	19	92	.983	9.137
Kurt Bierek	1B	27	209	17	2	14	.991	8.370
Tom Wilson	1B	2	13	1	0	1	1.000	7.000
Grant Fithian	1B	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Danny Donato	1B	1	14	0	0	1	1.000	14.000
Rudy Gomez	2B	92	177	244	9	48	.979	4.576
Rob Hinds	2B	21	28	31	5	4	.922	2.810
Gabby Martinez	2B	19	34	57	7	17	.929	4.789
Jose Lobaton	2B	15	19	40	1	10	.983	3.933
R. D. Long	2B	14	22	28	6	8	.893	3.571
Mike Lowell	3B	65	48	120	14	10	.923	2.585
Danny Donato	3B	63	37	127	11	6	.937	2.603
Rudy Gomez	3B	9	3	16	1	1	.950	2.111
Duke Dukart	3B	7	6	8	2	0	.875	2.000
Kurt Bierek	3B	3	2	6	2	0	.800	2.667
Grant Fithian	3B	2	0	1	1	0	.500	.500
Tom Wilson	3B	1	0	3	1	0	.750	3.000
R. D. Long	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Randy Brown	3B	1	0	4	1	0	.800	4.000
Tom Wilson	C	103	694	80	7	5	.991	7.515	13	81	33	28.9
Grant Fithian	C	45	298	42	4	0	.988	7.556	7	31	27	46.6
Ron Brown	CF	79						.000
Kraig Hawkins	CF	50						.000
Luke Wilcox	CF	20						.000
Angel Ramirez	CF	2						.000
Rob Hinds	CF	2						.000
Kurt Bierek	LF	93						.000
Luke Wilcox	LF	38						.000
Ron Brown	LF	15						.000
Tim Raines	LF	2						.000
Rob Hinds	LF	2						.000
Darryl Strawberry	LF	1						.000
Sloan Smith	LF	1						.000
Danny Donato	LF	1						.000
Brian Buchanan	OF	114	192	11	8	1	.962	1.781
Ron Brown	OF	96	160	7	7	0	.960	1.740
Kurt Bierek	OF	93	157	3	8	0	.952	1.720
Luke Wilcox	OF	72	141	6	3	1	.980	2.042
Kraig Hawkins	OF	50	112	1	2	0	.983	2.260
Rob Hinds	OF	9	12	0	1	0	.923	1.333
Sloan Smith	OF	2	4	0	1	0	.800	2.000
Angel Ramirez	OF	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Tim Raines	OF	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Darryl Strawberry	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Scott Rose	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Jose Lobaton	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Kevin Henthorne	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Danny Donato	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Larry Mitchell	P	57	4	15	2	0	.905	.333
Jay Tessmer	P	55	0	19	2	0	.905	.345
Andy Croghan	P	42	2	8	0	0	1.000	.238
Kevin Henthorne	P	33	4	13	0	0	1.000	.515
Ben Ford	P	28	1	5	4	0	.600	.214
Greg Resz	P	25	6	6	3	0	.800	.480
Katsuhiro Maeda	P	25	12	20	1	2	.970	1.280
Chris Cumberland	P	25	11	34	8	4	.849	1.800
Jason Beverlin	P	25	4	5	0	0	1.000	.360
Scott Rose	P	21	2	9	0	3	1.000	.524
Kevin Lomon	P	18	9	13	0	1	1.000	1.222
Eric Milton	P	14	2	13	1	0	.938	1.071
Frank Lankford	P	11	9	17	0	0	1.000	2.364
Brett Schlomann	P	10	2	2	2	0	.667	.400
Mike Jerzembeck	P	8	3	6	2	0	.818	1.125
Sal Urso	P	7	1	3	0	0	1.000	.571
Luis de los Santos	P	4	2	3	1	0	.833	1.250
Dwight Gooden	P	3	1	1	0	0	1.000	.667
Ray Ricken	P	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Hideki Irabu	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Mark Hubbard	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Francisco De La Cruz	P	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.000
Mike Buddie	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brian Buchanan	RF	114						.000
Luke Wilcox	RF	17						.000
Rob Hinds	RF	6						.000
Ron Brown	RF	6						.000
Sloan Smith	RF	1						.000
Scott Rose	RF	1						.000
Jose Lobaton	RF	1						.000
Kevin Henthorne	RF	1						.000
Gabby Martinez	SS	53	65	152	10	33	.956	4.094
Jose Lobaton	SS	51	68	100	8	26	.955	3.294
Randy Brown	SS	18	30	45	1	8	.987	4.167
R. D. Long	SS	16	16	37	6	6	.898	3.312
Les Dennis	SS	8	13	31	4	7	.917	5.500
Mike Lowell	SS	7	9	13	1	2	.957	3.143
Rudy Gomez	SS	5	4	10	1	1	.933	2.800
Duke Dukart	SS	2	2	3	1	0	.833	2.500
Danny Donato	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Totals		2089	3667	1514	181	312	.966	2.480	20	112	60	34.9

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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