1996 Nashville Sounds Statistics

American Association (AA) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 77-67
Finished 3rd in the AA's East Division
Manager: Rick Renick (77-67)
Affiliation: Chicago White Sox
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Ballpark: Herschel Greer Stadium
Attendance: 303,407, Avg. 4,334 in 70 home dates

1996 Nashville Sounds Roster

The Nashville Sounds of the American Association ended the 1996 season with a record of 77 wins and 67 losses, finishing third in the league's East Division.

The Sounds scored 624 runs and allowed 590 runs. Mike Robertson led Nashville with 21 home runs, while Olmedo Sáenz walloped 15 or more, too. Mike Robertson accounted for 74 RBI. Jeff Abbott paced all regular hitters by hitting .325. Scott Ruffcorn topped the squad with 13 wins, and Tom Fordham recorded a 3.47 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Members of the 1996 Nashville Sounds who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Rich Sauveur, Tom Fordham, Fernando Ramsey, Norberto Martin, James Baldwin, Chris Snopek, Al Levine, Luis Andújar, Jeff Darwin, Mike Bertotti, Mike Robertson, Doug Brady, Scott Ruffcorn, Steve Gajkowski, Bobby Thigpen, Steve Schrenk, Greg Norton, Robert Ellis, Craig Wilson, Olmedo Sáenz, Stacy Jones, Jose Munoz, Joe Magrane, Brian Keyser, Matt Karchner, Jimmy Hurst, Mel Hall, Jeff Abbott, Mike Sirotka, Jason Bere, Chris Tremie and Chuck Smith.

Rick Renick 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
Scott Ruffcorn	13	4	.765	3.87	24	24	0	2	1	0	149.0	142	71	64	18	61	1	129	5	0	7	649
Tom Fordham	10	8	.556	3.45	22	22	0	3	2	0	140.7	117	60	54	15	69	1	118	4	1	7	589
Barry Johnson	7	2	.778	2.80	38	8	8	0	0	0	103.0	93	38	32	11	39	3	68	1	0	4	430
Mike Sirotka	7	5	.583	3.60	15	15	0	1	1	0	90.0	90	44	36	10	24	0	58	1	1	0	381
Jeff Darwin	5	2	.714	3.55	25	6	11	0	0	3	63.3	52	31	25	8	17	1	33	1	0	5	256
Mike Bertotti	5	3	.625	4.37	28	9	5	1	0	1	82.3	80	43	40	10	42	3	73	2	0	3	365
Steve Gajkowski	5	6	.455	3.94	49	8	17	0	0	2	107.3	113	61	47	11	41	5	47	5	0	6	472
Rich Sauveur	4	3	.571	3.70	61	3	20	0	0	8	73.0	63	34	30	8	28	4	69	3	0	3	311
Al Levine	4	5	.444	3.65	43	0	28	0	0	12	61.7	58	27	25	4	24	6	45	3	0	1	267
Steve Schrenk	4	10	.286	4.42	16	15	1	1	0	0	95.7	93	54	47	12	29	2	58	3	0	3	395
Stacy Jones	3	0	1.000	0.83	19	0	18	0	0	12	21.7	17	3	2	0	6	2	18	0	0	0	81
Brian Keyser	3	3	.500	2.01	6	6	0	2	1	0	44.7	38	11	10	2	13	1	22	0	0	0	178
Robert Ellis	3	8	.273	6.01	19	13	2	1	0	0	70.3	78	49	47	6	45	3	35	7	0	8	327
James Baldwin	1	1	.500	0.64	2	2	0	1	0	0	14.0	5	1	1	0	4	0	15	0	0	1	48
Steve Worrell	1	1	.500	3.15	11	2	7	0	0	0	20.0	19	8	7	2	5	1	11	0	0	2	84
Joe Magrane	1	1	.500	5.47	21	1	8	0	0	1	26.3	29	17	16	5	8	0	26	1	0	2	115
Luis Andújar	1	4	.200	5.92	8	7	0	1	0	0	38.0	50	26	25	4	8	0	24	2	1	1	171
Matt Karchner	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Mark Zappelli	0	0		0.68	9	0	6	0	0	1	13.3	11	3	1	0	2	0	9	0	0	1	54
Jason Bere	0	0		1.42	3	3	0	0	0	0	12.7	9	2	2	1	4	0	15	0	0	0	48
Chuck Smith	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5
Bobby Thigpen	0	1	.000	7.11	4	0	0	0	0	0	6.3	8	5	5	2	2	0	6	0	0	1	27
Totals	77	67	.535	3.78	425	144	131	13	5	40	1234.7	1167	590	518	129	472	33	880	38	3	55	5255

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 Abbott	113	475	440	64	143	27	1	14	60	12	4	32	50	.325	.373	.486	.860	214	12	2	1	0	1
Kerry Valrie	138	536	498	59	136	32	5	13	66	10	9	28	94	.273	.312	.436	.748	217	12	3	1	6	0
Olmedo Sáenz	134	545	476	86	124	29	1	18	63	4	2	53	80	.261	.350	.439	.789	209	5	13	2	1	1
Mike Robertson	138	504	450	64	116	16	4	21	74	1	2	38	83	.258	.321	.451	.772	203	10	5	9	2	4
Carmine Cappuccio	120	443	407	55	111	22	3	10	61	1	3	25	48	.273	.323	.415	.738	169	15	6	3	2	7
Doug Brady	115	468	427	59	103	18	7	6	42	20	6	31	61	.241	.294	.358	.653	153	4	2	6	2	1
Fernando Ramsey	110	414	395	42	86	3	0	7	24	12	10	10	57	.218	.243	.278	.521	110	9	3	6	0	0
Julio Vinas	104	380	338	48	80	18	2	11	52	1	4	36	63	.237	.311	.399	.710	135	8	2	0	4	2
Jose Munoz	78	320	295	30	69	17	1	6	34	8	1	20	37	.234	.283	.359	.642	106	10	1	2	2	2
Greg Norton	43	183	164	28	47	14	2	7	26	2	3	17	42	.287	.350	.524	.874	86	1	0	0	2	3
Chris Tremie	70	244	215	17	47	10	1	0	26	2	0	18	48	.219	.282	.274	.556	59	4	2	6	3	0
Chris Snopek	40	176	153	18	38	8	0	2	12	2	2	21	24	.248	.343	.340	.683	52	0	1	1	0	1
Mark Merchant	42	152	131	21	28	6	0	4	15	1	1	17	29	.214	.311	.351	.662	46	6	2	1	1	1
Glenn Disarcina	38	103	97	8	23	9	0	0	11	1	1	5	20	.237	.275	.330	.604	32	2	0	1	0	0
Craig Wilson	44	139	123	13	22	4	1	1	6	0	0	10	15	.179	.239	.252	.491	31	6	0	5	1	0
Norberto Martin	17	75	68	9	14	3	0	2	8	1	0	4	10	.206	.257	.338	.595	23	1	1	1	1	0
Mel Hall	4	16	15	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	.267	.312	.467	.779	7	0	0	0	0	0
Jimmy Hurst	3	7	6	2	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	3	.333	.429	1.000	1.429	6	0	0	0	0	0
Nilson Robledo	9	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.100	.250	.100	.350	1	0	1	0	0	0
Totals	1360	5192	4708	624	1194	237	28	124	583	78	48	368	772	.254	.312	.395	.707	1859	105	44	45	27	23

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Mike Robertson	1B	137	1074	54	4	89	.996	8.234
Julio Vinas	1B	16	120	8	1	17	.992	8.000
Nilson Robledo	1B	5	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.800
Doug Brady	2B	109	227	273	15	65	.971	4.587
Jose Munoz	2B	25	49	63	3	12	.974	4.480
Norberto Martin	2B	9	19	26	2	7	.957	5.000
Craig Wilson	2B	5	9	6	0	4	1.000	3.000
Olmedo Sáenz	3B	120	97	244	22	24	.939	2.842
Jose Munoz	3B	8	7	20	2	3	.931	3.375
Julio Vinas	3B	5	3	7	1	1	.909	2.000
Chris Snopek	3B	5	5	15	0	1	1.000	4.000
Glenn Disarcina	3B	5	2	13	1	1	.938	3.000
Greg Norton	3B	3	1	7	1	1	.889	2.667
Norberto Martin	3B	2	3	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Julio Vinas	C	82	461	46	4	1	.992	6.183	5	60	22	26.8
Chris Tremie	C	70	433	52	2	6	.996	6.929	5	45	37	45.1
Nilson Robledo	C	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Fernando Ramsey	CF	107						.000
Kerry Valrie	CF	44						.000
Jeff Abbott	LF	104						.000
Carmine Cappuccio	LF	44						.000
Mark Merchant	LF	2						.000
Jose Munoz	LF	1						.000
Kerry Valrie	OF	123	309	7	6	2	.981	2.569
Fernando Ramsey	OF	107	232	7	5	4	.980	2.234
Carmine Cappuccio	OF	104	215	11	2	2	.991	2.173
Jeff Abbott	OF	104	186	5	2	1	.990	1.837
Jimmy Hurst	OF	3	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667
Mark Merchant	OF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Jose Munoz	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Rich Sauveur	P	61	7	13	2	0	.909	.328
Steve Gajkowski	P	49	6	30	1	3	.973	.735
Al Levine	P	43	3	11	0	1	1.000	.326
Barry Johnson	P	38	4	12	0	0	1.000	.421
Mike Bertotti	P	28	4	13	0	1	1.000	.607
Jeff Darwin	P	25	1	9	0	1	1.000	.400
Scott Ruffcorn	P	24	10	22	0	2	1.000	1.333
Tom Fordham	P	22	4	12	0	1	1.000	.727
Joe Magrane	P	21	1	3	0	0	1.000	.190
Stacy Jones	P	19	0	0	0	0		.000
Robert Ellis	P	19	3	20	0	2	1.000	1.211
Steve Schrenk	P	16	4	16	1	1	.952	1.250
Mike Sirotka	P	15	2	14	0	1	1.000	1.067
Steve Worrell	P	11	1	1	0	0	1.000	.182
Mark Zappelli	P	9	1	1	0	0	1.000	.222
Luis Andújar	P	8	2	5	2	0	.778	.875
Brian Keyser	P	6	4	5	2	0	.818	1.500
Bobby Thigpen	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Jason Bere	P	3	1	1	1	0	.667	.667
James Baldwin	P	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Chuck Smith	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Matt Karchner	P	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Kerry Valrie	RF	85						.000
Carmine Cappuccio	RF	63						.000
Jimmy Hurst	RF	3						.000
Craig Wilson	SS	40	43	97	10	19	.933	3.500
Greg Norton	SS	37	42	88	12	10	.915	3.514
Chris Snopek	SS	34	33	92	6	16	.954	3.676
Glenn Disarcina	SS	27	40	78	6	16	.952	4.370
Jose Munoz	SS	10	14	26	3	5	.930	4.000
Norberto Martin	SS	6	5	16	0	0	1.000	3.500
Totals		2083	3704	1451	119	320	.977	2.475	10	105	59	36.0

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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