1997 Springfield Capitals Statistics

Frontier League (FL) - Independent
Team Record: 42-37
Finished 3rd in the FL's West Division
Manager: Mal Fichman (42-37)
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Ballpark: Robin Roberts Stadium at Lanphier Park
Attendance: 44,219, Avg. 1,164 in 38 home dates

1997 Springfield Capitals Roster

The Springfield Capitals of the Frontier League ended the 1997 season with a record of 42 wins and 37 losses, finishing third in the league's West Division.

The Capitals conceded 398 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Springfield plated 488 runs. Joe Ronca paced the squad with 17 home runs and recorded 72 runs batted in, while leading hitters with significant playing time with a .341 average. Josh Neese and Sean House topped the team with 8 wins each, and Matt Duff earned a 2.73 ERA, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Matt Duff played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Springfield Capitals to do so.

Mal Fichman 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
Josh Neese	8	1	.889	3.51	18	15	2	1	0	0	107.7	97	45	42	10	38	4	84	9	0	9	457
Sean House	8	6	.571	4.78	19	18	1	5	0	0	111.0	137	80	59	9	28	2	74	2	1	10	499
Matt Duff	7	4	.636	2.71	14	12	1	2	0	0	79.7	70	33	24	3	27	1	76	3	0	3	334
Mike Brown	4	3	.571	4.44	13	13	0	1	0	0	73.0	80	40	36	10	27	1	50	1	0	1	320
Chris Seiler	4	5	.444	5.50	21	11	5	1	1	1	75.3	83	51	46	6	29	3	61	6	0	5	337
Josh Ophus	3	3	.500	6.05	26	2	16	0	0	3	38.7	49	30	26	0	24	2	35	9	0	2	198
Tony Pavlovich	3	5	.375	4.15	30	0	20	0	0	4	43.3	52	23	20	2	19	4	44	1	0	1	197
Matt Smith	2	3	.400	2.98	27	3	9	0	0	3	51.3	52	25	17	2	31	7	42	0	0	7	237
Brian Smith	1	0	1.000	10.12	5	0	1	0	0	0	8.0	15	10	9	2	5	0	6	0	1	1	42
J. R. Hoffman	1	2	.333	3.99	31	0	9	0	0	2	29.3	29	17	13	2	14	4	16	2	0	1	129
Thad Rowland	1	4	.200	4.11	24	5	6	0	0	1	61.3	74	31	28	8	23	0	43	1	0	3	277
Nate Thomas	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Greg Denly	0	0		4.15	4	0	0	0	0	0	4.3	6	4	2	0	3	0	4	1	0	0	21
Joe Abell	0	0		5.06	3	0	0	0	0	0	5.3	7	3	3	1	4	1	6	1	0	1	23
Matt Johnson	0	1	.000	54.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	0.7	4	6	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	10
Totals	42	37	.532	4.29	237	80	70	10	1	14	690.0	755	398	329	55	276	29	542	36	2	44	3084

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
Joe Ronca	77	330	293	54	100	23	6	17	72	4	0	31	56	.341	.403	.635	1.038	186	10	2	0	4	3
James Harris	78	342	293	62	90	21	0	14	62	1	0	40	29	.307	.388	.522	.910	153	15	2	2	5	4
Darren Bush	75	322	278	47	80	15	3	7	45	2	7	40	39	.288	.376	.439	.815	122	6	1	0	3	2
A. J. Buckholz	64	248	202	40	61	11	0	5	25	5	4	25	21	.302	.401	.431	.832	87	5	11	6	4	0
Paul Cruz	48	213	165	45	57	9	3	8	27	9	3	32	14	.345	.479	.582	1.060	96	3	12	2	2	3
Tony Ramos	47	207	181	27	53	8	3	0	27	2	0	18	24	.293	.360	.370	.730	67	4	2	4	2	1
Jeff Snyder	64	239	203	32	49	8	0	2	24	8	3	23	36	.241	.333	.310	.644	63	4	7	2	4	1
Scott Kaczmar	59	207	181	28	48	12	2	8	36	1	6	22	52	.265	.350	.486	.836	88	2	2	1	1	1
Travis Flowers	42	129	115	23	36	6	1	1	22	0	1	7	11	.313	.362	.409	.771	47	4	3	2	2	0
Kevin Johnson	44	154	129	25	34	11	0	6	23	1	1	22	40	.264	.377	.488	.865	63	2	2	0	1	1
Rob Viera	35	115	102	13	24	6	1	2	16	0	1	7	19	.235	.295	.373	.667	38	4	2	3	1	0
Frank Cicero	37	101	86	15	20	5	1	1	9	2	0	13	21	.233	.340	.349	.689	30	1	1	1	0	0
Matt Lake	32	112	96	20	20	6	0	5	18	0	0	13	24	.208	.321	.427	.749	41	4	3	0	0	0
Quinn Murphy	22	85	72	14	17	1	0	1	6	6	2	10	22	.236	.333	.292	.625	21	1	1	1	1	0
Paul McSparin	28	77	70	9	16	3	1	2	7	0	0	6	22	.229	.286	.386	.671	27	0	0	0	1	2
Ryan McDonald	12	44	38	11	14	2	0	1	7	1	1	4	1	.368	.432	.500	.932	19	1	1	0	1	0
Nate Thomas	16	56	49	5	14	1	1	0	6	1	1	6	4	.286	.364	.347	.711	17	0	0	1	0	0
Sammy Taylor	7	19	17	4	5	1	0	0	3	1	1	2	5	.294	.368	.353	.721	6	0	0	0	0	0
Rod Walker	10	27	24	1	5	2	0	0	5	1	0	2	10	.208	.269	.292	.561	7	0	0	1	0	0
Baker Moore	12	40	34	5	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	6	.147	.256	.147	.403	5	0	2	1	0	0
Curtis Reed	4	18	17	3	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	3	.176	.222	.353	.575	6	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Gillis	12	41	35	5	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	5	.086	.200	.114	.314	4	0	1	1	0	0
Eric Johnson	4	8	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.167	.375	.167	.542	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	829	3134	2686	488	755	152	22	81	445	46	31	333	466	.281	.368	.445	.813	1194	66	55	28	32	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Matt Lake	1B	30	217	12	1	19	.996	7.633
Kevin Johnson	1B	26	177	15	6	17	.970	7.385
Travis Flowers	1B	15	109	7	5	10	.959	7.733
Nate Thomas	1B	14	108	7	1	10	.991	8.214
Joe Ronca	1B	5	31	2	2	5	.943	6.600
Eric Johnson	1B	1	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.000
A. J. Buckholz	2B	56	90	170	10	27	.963	4.643
Ryan McDonald	2B	12	26	24	3	8	.943	4.167
Ed Gillis	2B	11	25	22	0	7	1.000	4.273
Baker Moore	2B	9	11	26	4	3	.902	4.111
Travis Flowers	2B	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
James Harris	3B	76	59	137	17	10	.920	2.579
Travis Flowers	3B	6	5	10	1	4	.938	2.500
Joe Ronca	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Frank Cicero	C	37	190	21	3	2	.986	5.703	4	40	8	16.7
Rob Viera	C	35	232	24	2	1	.992	7.314	3	42	13	23.6
Paul McSparin	C	27	120	12	2	3	.985	4.889	1	17	4	19.0
Kevin Johnson	C	4	14	2	1	0	.941	4.000	1	0	1	100.0
Jeff Snyder	CF	59						.000
Darren Bush	CF	24						.000
Scott Kaczmar	CF	1						.000
Eric Johnson	CF	1						.000
Paul Cruz	CF	1						.000
Paul Cruz	LF	39						.000
Joe Ronca	LF	24						.000
Scott Kaczmar	LF	22						.000
Sammy Taylor	LF	3						.000
Curtis Reed	LF	2						.000
Kevin Johnson	LF	2						.000
Travis Flowers	LF	1						.000
Darren Bush	OF	69	134	11	8	2	.948	2.101
Jeff Snyder	OF	59	151	3	4	0	.975	2.610
Scott Kaczmar	OF	57	76	6	3	1	.965	1.439
Paul Cruz	OF	41	71	4	3	0	.962	1.829
Joe Ronca	OF	24	33	2	2	1	.946	1.458
Sammy Taylor	OF	3	3	1	0	1	1.000	1.333
Curtis Reed	OF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Kevin Johnson	OF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Nate Thomas	OF	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Quinn Murphy	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Eric Johnson	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Travis Flowers	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
J. R. Hoffman	P	31	4	6	1	1	.909	.323
Tony Pavlovich	P	30	6	8	1	0	.933	.467
Matt Smith	P	27	3	6	3	0	.750	.333
Josh Ophus	P	26	2	4	0	0	1.000	.231
Thad Rowland	P	24	4	7	0	1	1.000	.458
Chris Seiler	P	21	5	10	0	0	1.000	.714
Sean House	P	19	9	14	3	1	.885	1.211
Josh Neese	P	18	2	11	2	0	.867	.722
Matt Duff	P	14	5	3	1	1	.889	.571
Mike Brown	P	13	6	10	0	0	1.000	1.231
Brian Smith	P	5	0	2	1	0	.667	.400
Greg Denly	P	4	0	0	0	0		.000
Joe Abell	P	3	2	1	0	1	1.000	1.000
Nate Thomas	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Matt Johnson	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Darren Bush	RF	49						.000
Scott Kaczmar	RF	34						.000
Nate Thomas	RF	1						.000
Quinn Murphy	RF	1						.000
Paul Cruz	RF	1						.000
Tony Ramos	SS	47	81	117	18	24	.917	4.213
Quinn Murphy	SS	20	26	31	8	10	.877	2.850
Rod Walker	SS	10	11	21	4	6	.889	3.200
A. J. Buckholz	SS	7	5	14	3	3	.864	2.714
Baker Moore	SS	6	4	5	2	0	.818	1.500
Travis Flowers	SS	3	1	0	0	0	1.000	.333
Ed Gillis	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Totals		1224	2070	789	125	179	.958	2.336	9	99	26	20.8

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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