
1996 Salem Avalanche Statistics
Team Record: 62-76
Finished 4th in the CL's South Division
Manager: Bill McGuire (62-76)
Affiliation: Colorado Rockies
Location: Salem, Virginia
Ballpark: Salem Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 173,703, Avg. 2,632 in 66 home dates
The Salem Avalanche of the Carolina League ended the 1996 season with a record of 62 wins and 76 losses, finishing fourth in the league's South Division.
The Avalanche scored 585 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 656 runs. John Giudice and Nate Holdren paced Salem with 16 home runs apiece. John Giudice and Blake Barthol each drove in 67 runs. Chad Gambill led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .296. Mike Vavrek topped the squad with 10 wins, while Matt Pool earned a 4.66 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.
Elvis Peña, Luther Hackman, Eric Young, Bill Swift, David Nied, David Lee, John Burke and Larry Walker were all players from the 1996 Salem Avalanche who played in the Majors during their careers.
Bill McGuire served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mike Vavrek | 10 | 8 | .556 | 4.87 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 149.7 | 167 | 92 | 81 | 15 | 59 | 0 | 103 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 658 |
Todd Genke | 8 | 7 | .533 | 3.53 | 41 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 86.7 | 88 | 41 | 34 | 7 | 28 | 1 | 55 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 372 |
Doug Million | 7 | 5 | .583 | 2.53 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 106.7 | 84 | 37 | 30 | 1 | 60 | 1 | 99 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 443 |
Jeff Sobkoviak | 6 | 6 | .500 | 3.14 | 46 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 77.3 | 67 | 31 | 27 | 7 | 26 | 6 | 52 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 331 |
Matt Pool | 5 | 6 | .455 | 4.64 | 27 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135.7 | 158 | 80 | 70 | 8 | 41 | 3 | 93 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 591 |
Luther Hackman | 5 | 7 | .417 | 4.24 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 110.3 | 93 | 60 | 52 | 2 | 69 | 1 | 83 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 484 |
Luis Colmenares | 4 | 5 | .444 | 5.23 | 32 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 32.7 | 28 | 21 | 19 | 4 | 22 | 1 | 45 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 156 |
Pat McClinton | 3 | 1 | .750 | 2.09 | 39 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64.7 | 58 | 28 | 15 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 47 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 278 |
Scott LaRock | 3 | 2 | .600 | 3.65 | 39 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 81.3 | 72 | 38 | 33 | 4 | 31 | 3 | 57 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 341 |
David Nied | 3 | 3 | .500 | 2.95 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 42.7 | 37 | 25 | 14 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 183 |
Brent Crowther | 3 | 3 | .500 | 4.03 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 51.3 | 52 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 210 |
Steve Shoemaker | 2 | 7 | .222 | 4.69 | 25 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 86.3 | 63 | 49 | 45 | 6 | 63 | 0 | 105 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 371 |
Chandler Martin | 2 | 8 | .200 | 5.87 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 69.0 | 80 | 56 | 45 | 5 | 53 | 1 | 59 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 333 |
Keith Barnes | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.38 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34 |
Bill Swift | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | |
Brian Rose | 0 | 0 | 6.14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.3 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 32 | |
Doug Walls | 0 | 0 | 7.07 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14.0 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 70 | |
Bill Eden | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2.70 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13.3 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 56 |
Mike Kusiewicz | 0 | 1 | .000 | 5.09 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23.0 | 19 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 100 |
Neil Garrett | 0 | 1 | .000 | 5.14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29 |
Sean Murphy | 0 | 1 | .000 | 5.68 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6.3 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 29 |
John Burke | 0 | 1 | .000 | 6.00 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.0 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 54 |
Zack Sawyer | 0 | 1 | .000 | 13.50 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
David Lee | 0 | 2 | .000 | 2.25 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12.0 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 56 |
Totals | 62 | 76 | .449 | 4.10 | 392 | 138 | 131 | 7 | 5 | 33 | 1205.3 | 1167 | 656 | 549 | 75 | 558 | 19 | 969 | 49 | 13 | 84 | 5253 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chad Gambill | 115 | 449 | 406 | 61 | 120 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 41 | 6 | 6 | 33 | 83 | .296 | .352 | .411 | .763 | 167 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
Nate Holdren | 114 | 466 | 426 | 53 | 118 | 24 | 0 | 16 | 64 | 15 | 5 | 29 | 109 | .277 | .327 | .446 | .773 | 190 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
John Giudice | 101 | 431 | 373 | 58 | 109 | 30 | 1 | 16 | 67 | 10 | 8 | 45 | 66 | .292 | .376 | .507 | .883 | 189 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Blake Barthol | 109 | 430 | 375 | 58 | 107 | 17 | 2 | 13 | 67 | 12 | 5 | 36 | 48 | .285 | .366 | .445 | .811 | 167 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
Kyle Houser | 117 | 513 | 436 | 59 | 104 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 48 | 13 | 9 | 68 | 47 | .239 | .341 | .287 | .627 | 125 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
Pookie Jones | 102 | 376 | 335 | 45 | 94 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 40 | 16 | 6 | 29 | 76 | .281 | .336 | .394 | .730 | 132 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
Elvis Peña | 102 | 419 | 341 | 48 | 76 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 30 | 16 | 61 | 70 | .223 | .345 | .273 | .618 | 93 | 12 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 2 |
Steve Bernhardt | 63 | 223 | 203 | 17 | 61 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 23 | .300 | .344 | .394 | .738 | 80 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
Tal Light | 64 | 259 | 234 | 29 | 55 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 36 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 59 | .235 | .305 | .444 | .749 | 104 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Chan Mayber | 97 | 310 | 264 | 38 | 55 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 22 | 9 | 27 | 50 | .208 | .291 | .239 | .530 | 63 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 |
Will Scalzitti | 81 | 287 | 270 | 24 | 53 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 33 | .196 | .244 | .315 | .559 | 85 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Mike Higgins | 66 | 249 | 219 | 24 | 52 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 50 | .237 | .317 | .356 | .673 | 78 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Garrett Neubart | 24 | 102 | 85 | 16 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 13 | .365 | .465 | .435 | .901 | 37 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
John Fantauzzi | 62 | 117 | 95 | 10 | 27 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 25 | .284 | .409 | .389 | .798 | 37 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Brian Culp | 36 | 140 | 121 | 8 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 14 | .198 | .293 | .256 | .549 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Link Jarrett | 38 | 110 | 98 | 9 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 14 | .224 | .290 | .276 | .565 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Earl Cunningham | 29 | 100 | 87 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 24 | .172 | .263 | .218 | .481 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Gary Gordon | 10 | 38 | 35 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | .371 | .421 | .457 | .878 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Keith Grunewald | 10 | 42 | 37 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | .243 | .293 | .270 | .563 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Ronnie Hall | 14 | 58 | 53 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | .151 | .224 | .189 | .413 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Larry Walker | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 1.250 | 1.750 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mark Hamlin | 9 | 33 | 28 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | .143 | .273 | .250 | .523 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eric Young | 3 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .300 | .462 | .600 | 1.062 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 1368 | 5173 | 4539 | 585 | 1164 | 216 | 18 | 89 | 527 | 154 | 89 | 477 | 835 | .256 | .333 | .371 | .704 | 1683 | 98 | 61 | 68 | 28 | 19 |
Fielding:
Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nate Holdren | 1B | 94 | 788 | 64 | 11 | 68 | .987 | 9.064 | ||||
John Fantauzzi | 1B | 58 | 294 | 20 | 3 | 22 | .991 | 5.414 | ||||
Will Scalzitti | 1B | 23 | 145 | 7 | 3 | 11 | .981 | 6.609 | ||||
Tal Light | 1B | 4 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 4.250 | ||||
Elvis Peña | 2B | 97 | 211 | 245 | 19 | 60 | .960 | 4.701 | ||||
Link Jarrett | 2B | 19 | 48 | 42 | 1 | 11 | .989 | 4.737 | ||||
Chan Mayber | 2B | 15 | 24 | 42 | 1 | 6 | .985 | 4.400 | ||||
Keith Grunewald | 2B | 10 | 21 | 38 | 0 | 4 | 1.000 | 5.900 | ||||
Eric Young | 2B | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | .875 | 4.667 | ||||
Steve Bernhardt | 3B | 61 | 39 | 150 | 14 | 13 | .931 | 3.098 | ||||
Tal Light | 3B | 58 | 33 | 120 | 32 | 7 | .827 | 2.638 | ||||
Chan Mayber | 3B | 27 | 15 | 53 | 5 | 3 | .932 | 2.519 | ||||
Link Jarrett | 3B | 7 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.286 | ||||
Will Scalzitti | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
Elvis Peña | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
Blake Barthol | C | 92 | 668 | 80 | 16 | 5 | .979 | 8.130 | 15 | 115 | 44 | 27.7 |
Mike Higgins | C | 47 | 323 | 44 | 13 | 1 | .966 | 7.809 | 11 | 63 | 20 | 24.1 |
Will Scalzitti | C | 5 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .931 | 5.400 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 40.0 |
John Giudice | CF | 87 | .000 | |||||||||
Garrett Neubart | CF | 23 | .000 | |||||||||
Chan Mayber | CF | 14 | .000 | |||||||||
Gary Gordon | CF | 10 | .000 | |||||||||
Chad Gambill | CF | 6 | .000 | |||||||||
Ronnie Hall | CF | 5 | .000 | |||||||||
Pookie Jones | CF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
Pookie Jones | LF | 91 | .000 | |||||||||
Will Scalzitti | LF | 20 | .000 | |||||||||
Chan Mayber | LF | 18 | .000 | |||||||||
Brian Culp | LF | 10 | .000 | |||||||||
Chad Gambill | LF | 8 | .000 | |||||||||
Earl Cunningham | LF | 7 | .000 | |||||||||
Mark Hamlin | LF | 4 | .000 | |||||||||
Chad Gambill | OF | 114 | 197 | 8 | 5 | 1 | .976 | 1.798 | ||||
John Giudice | OF | 100 | 210 | 16 | 7 | 3 | .970 | 2.260 | ||||
Pookie Jones | OF | 97 | 108 | 7 | 9 | 1 | .927 | 1.186 | ||||
Chan Mayber | OF | 37 | 33 | 7 | 1 | 1 | .976 | 1.081 | ||||
Garrett Neubart | OF | 23 | 54 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.522 | ||||
Earl Cunningham | OF | 22 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.409 | ||||
Will Scalzitti | OF | 20 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 0 | .900 | 1.350 | ||||
Brian Culp | OF | 13 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .833 | .769 | ||||
Gary Gordon | OF | 10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.300 | ||||
Mark Hamlin | OF | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.400 | ||||
Ronnie Hall | OF | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.800 | ||||
Jeff Sobkoviak | P | 46 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .174 | ||||
Todd Genke | P | 41 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .561 | ||||
Pat McClinton | P | 39 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .900 | .462 | ||||
Scott LaRock | P | 39 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .950 | .487 | ||||
Luis Colmenares | P | 32 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .312 | ||||
Matt Pool | P | 27 | 16 | 32 | 2 | 2 | .960 | 1.778 | ||||
Mike Vavrek | P | 26 | 13 | 29 | 4 | 3 | .913 | 1.615 | ||||
Steve Shoemaker | P | 25 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .520 | ||||
Luther Hackman | P | 21 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 1 | .947 | .857 | ||||
Doug Million | P | 17 | 4 | 22 | 2 | 0 | .929 | 1.529 | ||||
Chandler Martin | P | 13 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .692 | ||||
Bill Eden | P | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .091 | ||||
David Lee | P | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .375 | ||||
Brent Crowther | P | 8 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 2 | .913 | 2.625 | ||||
David Nied | P | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .889 | 1.143 | ||||
Doug Walls | P | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .600 | ||||
Brian Rose | P | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .600 | .600 | ||||
Mike Kusiewicz | P | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.200 | ||||
Zack Sawyer | P | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
Keith Barnes | P | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .750 | ||||
Sean Murphy | P | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
John Burke | P | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | .600 | 1.000 | ||||
Bill Swift | P | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
Neil Garrett | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
Chad Gambill | RF | 106 | .000 | |||||||||
Earl Cunningham | RF | 17 | .000 | |||||||||
John Giudice | RF | 13 | .000 | |||||||||
Pookie Jones | RF | 9 | .000 | |||||||||
Chan Mayber | RF | 7 | .000 | |||||||||
Brian Culp | RF | 3 | .000 | |||||||||
Mark Hamlin | RF | 1 | .000 | |||||||||
Kyle Houser | SS | 117 | 151 | 342 | 20 | 59 | .961 | 4.214 | ||||
Chan Mayber | SS | 18 | 21 | 47 | 5 | 5 | .932 | 3.778 | ||||
Link Jarrett | SS | 10 | 9 | 31 | 2 | 5 | .952 | 4.000 | ||||
Totals | 2065 | 3616 | 1607 | 195 | 301 | .964 | 2.529 | 26 | 181 | 66 | 26.7 |
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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