1997 Tulsa Drillers Statistics

Texas League (TL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 61-78
Finished 4th in the TL's East Division
Manager: Bob Jones (61-78)
Affiliation: Texas Rangers
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ballpark: Driller Stadium
Attendance: 333,019, Avg. 5,046 in 66 home dates

1997 Tulsa Drillers Roster

The Tulsa Drillers of the Texas League ended the 1997 season with a record of 61 wins and 78 losses, finishing fourth in the league's East Division.

The Drillers scored 712 runs and conceded 727 runs. Dan Collier led Tulsa with 26 home runs, while Edwin Díaz, Fernando Tatís and Doug O'Neill each walloped 15 or more also. Dan Collier drove in 79 runs. Fernando Tatís paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .314. Ted Silva topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 4.1 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Members of the 1997 Tulsa Drillers who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Jonathan Johnson, Edwin Díaz, Mike Venafro, Frank Charles, Andy Barkett, David Manning, Dan Smith, Chris Eddy, Ryan Glynn, Danny Patterson, Jim Brower, Roger Pavlik, Mike Bell, Ken Hill, Danny Kolb, Domingo Cedeño, Warren Newson, Todd Van Poppel, Fernando Tatís, Mike York, Mickey Tettleton, Jim Dedrick and Brandon Knight.

Bob Jones 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
Ted Silva	13	10	.565	4.09	26	25	1	4	0	0	171.7	178	88	78	21	42	1	121	3	1	7	728
Brandon Knight	6	4	.600	4.50	14	14	0	2	1	0	90.0	83	52	45	12	35	0	84	2	4	9	383
Jonathan Johnson	5	4	.556	3.52	10	10	0	4	0	0	71.7	70	35	28	3	15	0	47	2	0	4	297
Jim Brower	5	12	.294	5.21	23	23	0	1	0	0	140.0	156	99	81	13	42	1	103	3	1	15	602
Chris Eddy	4	0	1.000	3.18	41	0	24	0	0	5	51.0	48	24	18	1	24	0	45	1	0	2	222
John Powell	4	3	.571	2.56	43	0	34	0	0	5	63.3	54	22	18	8	23	2	56	2	1	2	265
Jeff Davis	4	6	.400	3.65	11	11	0	2	1	0	69.0	76	41	28	5	17	0	25	2	1	2	299
Bobby Moore	4	6	.400	5.35	35	7	11	0	0	2	72.3	74	50	43	8	34	0	41	2	1	3	327
David Manning	4	7	.364	4.88	13	12	1	1	0	0	75.7	77	46	41	8	27	0	55	0	0	5	324
Todd Van Poppel	3	3	.500	5.06	7	7	0	0	0	0	42.7	53	27	24	2	15	0	26	1	1	2	197
Bucky Buckles	2	2	.500	7.00	34	0	19	0	0	1	45.0	59	38	35	5	20	0	29	1	0	2	204
Ritchie Moody	2	4	.333	5.88	30	0	13	0	0	0	49.0	52	41	32	2	41	1	38	4	0	8	243
Jim Dedrick	1	0	1.000	2.35	12	0	2	0	0	0	23.0	26	9	6	0	9	0	16	0	0	5	100
Ryan Glynn	1	1	.500	3.38	3	3	0	0	0	0	21.3	21	9	8	1	10	0	18	2	0	2	94
Dan Smith	1	1	.500	3.64	5	5	0	0	0	0	29.7	25	18	12	3	15	0	27	0	0	1	128
Terry Farrar	1	2	.333	4.95	6	3	1	0	0	1	20.0	18	12	11	1	15	0	16	2	0	0	92
Keiichi Kojima	1	8	.111	8.83	13	10	1	0	0	0	53.0	83	55	52	6	18	0	40	0	1	1	258
Ken Hill	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	16
Roger Pavlik	0	0		3.60	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	3	2	2	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	19
Danny Patterson	0	0		4.50	2	2	0	0	0	0	2.0	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	13
Mike York	0	0		5.06	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.3	7	3	3	0	2	0	2	2	2	0	24
Dan Collier	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Mike Venafro	0	1	.000	3.45	11	0	9	0	0	1	15.7	13	12	6	1	12	0	13	2	0	1	75
Danny Kolb	0	2	.000	4.76	2	2	0	0	0	0	11.3	7	7	6	1	11	0	6	0	0	4	50
Rob Kell	0	2	.000	5.88	28	2	8	0	0	1	41.3	60	32	27	7	14	2	35	1	0	4	197
Totals	61	78	.439	4.64	373	139	125	14	2	16	1175.0	1252	727	606	108	445	7	850	33	13	79	5163

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
Andy Barkett	130	542	471	82	141	34	8	8	65	1	3	63	86	.299	.386	.456	.843	215	15	5	1	2	2
Andrew Vessel	138	573	517	78	135	35	1	12	75	3	1	41	87	.261	.320	.402	.722	208	8	6	4	5	2
Edwin Díaz	105	485	440	65	121	31	1	15	46	6	9	33	102	.275	.335	.452	.788	199	6	8	2	2	0
Fernando Tatís	102	433	382	73	120	26	1	24	61	17	8	46	72	.314	.390	.576	.966	220	16	3	0	2	4
Doug O'Neill	118	470	412	69	114	21	0	20	64	12	4	49	122	.277	.356	.473	.829	195	4	4	1	4	2
Dan Collier	115	451	389	60	100	20	0	26	79	1	2	44	134	.257	.351	.509	.860	198	3	14	1	3	1
Matt Bokemeier	105	437	394	51	91	18	3	5	43	1	6	37	73	.231	.295	.330	.625	130	7	0	3	3	2
Frank Charles	95	364	335	38	77	18	2	9	49	2	2	24	81	.230	.287	.376	.663	126	9	3	1	1	1
Cesar Morillo	84	321	288	38	76	18	1	1	23	0	4	28	53	.264	.328	.344	.672	99	3	0	4	1	2
Brian Blair	86	314	260	46	68	9	3	4	28	11	2	49	64	.262	.377	.365	.742	95	4	1	1	3	2
Mike Murphy	46	195	156	30	40	10	1	4	19	6	3	35	45	.256	.405	.410	.815	64	3	4	0	0	0
Mike Bell	33	146	123	17	35	11	0	8	23	0	1	15	28	.285	.375	.569	.944	70	2	4	2	2	0
Tim Cossins	36	120	108	11	32	5	1	4	17	2	0	8	24	.296	.339	.472	.811	51	1	0	2	2	0
Eric Christopherson	39	151	123	26	30	9	0	6	34	1	1	25	22	.244	.364	.463	.828	57	4	0	0	3	0
Cesar King	14	50	45	6	16	1	0	1	8	0	1	5	3	.356	.420	.444	.864	20	2	0	0	0	0
Essex Burton	17	67	63	8	13	2	1	0	2	3	2	3	7	.206	.254	.270	.524	17	4	1	0	0	0
Chris Unrat	19	67	51	4	11	3	0	0	7	0	0	16	7	.216	.403	.275	.677	14	3	0	0	0	1
Rowan Richards	11	40	35	5	10	1	0	0	5	0	0	5	9	.286	.375	.314	.689	11	3	0	0	0	0
Domingo Cedeño	2	9	9	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.444	.444	.667	1.111	6	0	0	0	0	0
Mickey Tettleton	3	15	11	4	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	2	.182	.400	.455	.855	5	2	0	0	0	0
Warren Newson	2	9	7	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	1	.143	.333	.571	.905	4	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1300	5259	4619	712	1237	272	24	149	652	66	49	532	1025	.268	.348	.434	.782	2004	99	53	22	33	19

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Andy Barkett	1B	130	1114	76	15	92	.988	9.154
Frank Charles	1B	11	56	4	1	5	.984	5.455
Cesar Morillo	1B	4	34	1	2	2	.946	8.750
Brian Blair	1B	2	6	2	0	0	1.000	4.000
Edwin Díaz	2B	105	170	312	19	58	.962	4.590
Cesar Morillo	2B	20	25	60	4	11	.955	4.250
Essex Burton	2B	16	27	38	6	3	.915	4.062
Matt Bokemeier	2B	1	1	1	1	0	.667	2.000
Fernando Tatís	3B	100	53	193	21	15	.921	2.460
Mike Bell	3B	33	28	55	9	2	.902	2.515
Cesar Morillo	3B	9	5	16	0	0	1.000	2.333
Frank Charles	3B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Matt Bokemeier	3B	1	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.000
Frank Charles	C	59	339	46	10	0	.975	6.525	9	56	24	30.0
Eric Christopherson	C	37	237	19	6	0	.977	6.919	2	21	9	30.0
Tim Cossins	C	35	206	22	5	0	.979	6.514	11	33	17	34.0
Cesar King	C	13	85	8	3	3	.969	7.154	1	10	6	37.5
Chris Unrat	C	1	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	0	0	0
Doug O'Neill	CF	111						.000
Rowan Richards	CF	11						.000
Mike Murphy	CF	11						.000
Brian Blair	CF	8						.000
Andrew Vessel	LF	83						.000
Dan Collier	LF	42						.000
Mike Murphy	LF	9						.000
Brian Blair	LF	7						.000
Frank Charles	LF	1						.000
Andrew Vessel	OF	133	225	9	8	1	.967	1.759
Doug O'Neill	OF	111	246	3	7	0	.973	2.243
Brian Blair	OF	71	154	4	3	1	.981	2.225
Dan Collier	OF	51	91	4	3	0	.969	1.863
Mike Murphy	OF	44	108	2	1	0	.991	2.500
Rowan Richards	OF	11	18	3	0	0	1.000	1.909
Cesar Morillo	OF	3	0	0	0	0		.000
Frank Charles	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
John Powell	P	43	2	8	2	0	.833	.233
Chris Eddy	P	41	0	8	0	0	1.000	.195
Bobby Moore	P	35	7	14	1	0	.955	.600
Bucky Buckles	P	34	2	12	0	4	1.000	.412
Ritchie Moody	P	30	3	12	3	2	.833	.500
Rob Kell	P	28	0	4	0	0	1.000	.143
Ted Silva	P	26	11	31	1	0	.977	1.615
Jim Brower	P	23	9	23	1	1	.970	1.391
Brandon Knight	P	14	2	12	3	0	.824	1.000
David Manning	P	13	7	19	2	2	.929	2.000
Keiichi Kojima	P	13	0	16	0	0	1.000	1.231
Jim Dedrick	P	12	1	4	0	0	1.000	.417
Mike Venafro	P	11	4	2	0	0	1.000	.545
Jeff Davis	P	11	9	17	1	1	.963	2.364
Jonathan Johnson	P	10	9	6	0	0	1.000	1.500
Todd Van Poppel	P	7	4	3	0	0	1.000	1.000
Terry Farrar	P	6	0	2	0	0	1.000	.333
Dan Smith	P	5	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.000
Ryan Glynn	P	3	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.667
Danny Patterson	P	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Danny Kolb	P	2	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.500
Mike York	P	1	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000
Roger Pavlik	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Ken Hill	P	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Dan Collier	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brian Blair	RF	57						.000
Andrew Vessel	RF	53						.000
Mike Murphy	RF	24						.000
Dan Collier	RF	9						.000
Cesar Morillo	RF	3						.000
Matt Bokemeier	SS	97	145	248	29	45	.931	4.052
Cesar Morillo	SS	43	65	118	11	31	.943	4.256
Domingo Cedeño	SS	2	3	9	1	3	.923	6.000
Totals		1947	3525	1462	179	282	.965	2.561	23	120	56	31.8

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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