1983 Tidewater Tides Statistics

International League (IL) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 71-68
Finished 4th in the IL
Manager: Davey Johnson (71-68)
Affiliation: New York Mets
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
Ballpark: Metropolitan Park
Attendance: 147,584, Avg. 2,124

1983 Tidewater Tides Roster

Playoffs - Tidewater Tides 3 games, Columbus Clippers 2
Finals - Tidewater Tides 3 games, Richmond Braves 1

The Tidewater Tides of the International League ended the 1983 season with a record of 71 wins and 68 losses, finishing fourth in the IL.

The Tides paced the league with just 635 runs allowed. Tidewater scored 694 runs. Gary Rajsich led the squad with 28 home runs, and Clint Hurdle walloped 15 or more, too. Clint Hurdle drove in 105 runs. Ron Gardenhire topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .287. Jeff Bittiger paced the squad with 12 wins, while Greg Biercevicz registered a 3.42 earned run average, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

José Oquendo, Herm Winningham, Kelvin Moore, Rick Anderson, Walt Terrell, Darryl Strawberry, Brent Gaff, Mike Fitzgerald, Ron Darling, Kelvin Chapman, La Schelle Tarver, Gil Flores, Wally Backman, Ronn Reynolds, Rusty Tillman, Tim Leary, Steve Senteney, Tom Gorman, John Christensen, Terry Leach, Jeff Bittiger, Mike Howard, Clint Hurdle, Mike Bishop, Gary Rajsich, Terry Blocker, Tucker Ashford, Marvell Wynne and Ron Gardenhire were all players from the 1983 Tidewater Tides who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Davey Johnson 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
Jeff Bittiger	12	10	.545	4.36	28	28	0	1	1	0	163.0	175	90	79	15	111	0	110	2	0	6
Walt Terrell	10	1	.909	3.12	12	12	0	5	1	0	86.7	76	34	30	9	44	0	58	0	1	6
Ron Darling	10	9	.526	4.02	27	27	0	5	1	0	159.0	137	83	71	12	102	1	107	1	1	10
Greg Biercevicz	8	8	.500	3.40	23	18	3	4	1	3	121.7	115	51	46	12	28	1	82	2	3	1
Tim Leary	8	16	.333	4.38	27	27	0	8	1	0	160.3	170	100	78	11	73	1	106	7	2	10
Tom Gorman	6	1	.857	2.92	10	8	1	1	1	0	61.7	54	25	20	6	18	0	58	1	0	3
Brent Gaff	6	7	.462	6.04	37	11	16	1	0	5	111.7	132	87	75	13	43	1	60	1	1	10
Terry Leach	5	7	.417	4.46	37	7	18	2	0	6	113.0	120	66	56	10	42	5	66	4	0	1
Rick Anderson	2	1	.667	4.05	15	1	8	0	0	2	40.0	37	19	18	1	22	1	23	0	0	2
John Semprini	2	1	.667	4.32	16	0	9	0	0	2	16.7	19	9	8	1	8	1	13	1	0	0
Rich Pickett	1	0	1.000	3.98	26	0	12	0	0	5	31.7	31	16	14	1	18	0	27	0	2	1
Scott Dye	1	3	.250	6.08	27	0	21	0	0	5	37.0	47	26	25	4	20	6	23	1	0	1
Matt Bullinger	0	1	.000	3.41	24	0	10	0	0	0	31.7	27	17	12	3	22	4	15	0	0	5
Steve Senteney	0	3	.000	2.88	20	0	14	0	0	6	34.3	25	12	11	1	20	1	39	1	0	4
Totals	71	68	.511	4.18	329	139	112	27	6	34	1168.3	1165	635	543	99	571	22	787	21	10	60	0

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
Clint Hurdle	139	589	477	82	136	33	4	22	105	0	2	105	109	.285	.411	.509	.920	243		1	0	6	12
Rusty Tillman	126	526	483	67	123	20	7	8	63	23	0	34	111	.255	.303	.375	.677	181		1	4	4	0
Gary Rajsich	129	496	430	68	116	15	2	28	83	7	7	52	78	.270	.359	.509	.868	219		9	3	2	9
Wally Backman	101	431	361	69	114	11	3	1	28	37	15	68	47	.316	.422	.371	.793	134		0	0	2	2
Ron Gardenhire	102	430	387	63	111	20	6	4	39	9	7	34	54	.287	.346	.401	.746	155		2	5	2	0
Mike Fitzgerald	111	452	370	64	105	17	1	14	65	2	3	73	57	.284	.403	.449	.852	166		3	3	3	3
Gil Flores	88	354	317	57	99	11	1	2	34	17	9	29	33	.312	.370	.372	.742	118		3	0	5	0
Terry Blocker	72	253	239	26	73	7	2	2	32	24	6	10	41	.305	.333	.377	.710	90		0	4	0	1
Kelvin Chapman	72	264	223	41	61	8	3	4	28	14	2	36	35	.274	.379	.390	.769	87		3	0	2	0
Marvell Wynne	51	197	175	32	50	13	1	3	29	4	5	18	21	.286	.347	.423	.770	74		0	1	3	1
Mike Howard	65	249	216	26	42	10	1	4	30	12	4	29	47	.194	.293	.306	.599	66		2	0	2	0
Herm Winningham	29	123	113	18	30	5	2	1	11	6	2	10	29	.265	.325	.372	.697	42		0	0	0	0
Ronn Reynolds	40	135	128	8	27	8	0	0	9	0	0	6	27	.211	.246	.273	.520	35		0	1	0	0
Ricky McMullen	28	107	98	6	22	2	1	0	7	5	0	7	7	.224	.274	.265	.539	26		0	1	1	0
John Christensen	20	87	80	12	21	0	0	2	15	0	0	5	9	.262	.302	.338	.640	27		0	1	1	0
Kelvin Moore	30	109	101	11	21	3	1	2	14	1	1	6	39	.208	.248	.317	.565	32		0	0	2	0
Darryl Strawberry	16	71	57	12	19	4	1	3	13	7	1	14	18	.333	.465	.596	1.061	34		0	0	0	0
Tucker Ashford	12	53	49	8	16	3	0	1	8	0	1	2	5	.327	.358	.449	.807	22		1	0	1	0
Mike Bishop	27	91	74	6	15	6	0	1	11	1	1	15	16	.203	.341	.324	.665	24		1	0	1	0
La Schelle Tarver	3	10	10	4	5	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.500	.500	.600	1.100	6		0	0	0	0
José Oquendo	13	42	34	3	4	0	0	0	3	2	0	5	6	.118	.220	.118	.337	4		0	1	2	0
Terry Leach	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	0	0	0
Scott Dye	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	0	0	0
Brent Gaff	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	0	0	0
Totals	1375	5072	4425	683	1210	197	36	102	627	173	67	558	791	.273	.355	.403	.759	1785	0	26	24	39	28

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Gary Rajsich	1B	120	924	120	10	109	.991	8.700
Clint Hurdle	1B	9	68	6	1	5	.987	8.222
Kelvin Moore	1B	8	42	2	1	5	.978	5.500
Mike Fitzgerald	1B	6	56	6	1	3	.984	1.333
Mike Bishop	1B	6	48	2	0	3	1.000	8.333
Mike Howard	1B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Wally Backman	2B	85	154	233	10	51	.975	4.553
Ricky McMullen	2B	28	51	65	4	14	.967	4.143
Kelvin Chapman	2B	20	37	58	1	16	.990	4.750
Dan Schmitz	2B	19	33	40	2	10	.973	3.842
Mike Howard	2B	1	2	2	0	1	1.000	4.000
Clint Hurdle	3B	115	59	143	20	13	.910	1.757
Dan Schmitz	3B	16	1	18	1	0	.950	1.188
Tucker Ashford	3B	12	14	20	1	1	.971	2.833
Mike Bishop	3B	5	3	7	2	0	.833	2.000
Wally Backman	3B	4	3	6	1	1	.900	2.250
Mike Fitzgerald	3B	1	1	3	0	0	1.000	4.000
Kelvin Chapman	3B	1	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.000
Mike Fitzgerald	C	90	530	53	7	4	.988	6.478	5
Ronn Reynolds	C	39	209	27	1	4	.996	6.051	5
Mike Bishop	C	14	86	10	2	0	.980	6.857	1
Mike Howard	C	2	5	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	0
Rusty Tillman	OF	125	220	13	7	3	.971	1.864
Terry Blocker	OF	70	133	4	6	2	.958	1.957
Gil Flores	OF	59	106	3	5	0	.956	1.847
Mike Howard	OF	56	100	2	0	1	1.000	1.821
Marvell Wynne	OF	51	114	5	2	3	.983	2.333
Herm Winningham	OF	29	70	1	3	0	.959	2.448
John Christensen	OF	19	28	1	2	0	.935	1.526
Darryl Strawberry	OF	14	22	0	4	0	.846	1.571
Clint Hurdle	OF	6	3	0	1	0	.750	.500
Gary Rajsich	OF	4	3	0	0	0	1.000	.750
Mike Bishop	OF	3	7	1	0	0	1.000	2.667
Mike Fitzgerald	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Terry Leach	P	37	16	20	2	0	.947	.973
Brent Gaff	P	37	10	13	3	1	.885	.622
Jeff Bittiger	P	28	15	21	6	0	.857	1.286
Tim Leary	P	27	14	25	2	1	.951	1.444
Scott Dye	P	27	3	6	0	1	1.000	.333
Ron Darling	P	27	26	30	2	5	.966	2.074
Rich Pickett	P	26	2	5	1	0	.875	.269
Matt Bullinger	P	24	1	4	0	1	1.000	.208
Greg Biercevicz	P	23	8	13	1	0	.955	.913
Steve Senteney	P	20	3	6	0	0	1.000	.450
John Semprini	P	16	0	3	1	0	.750	.188
Rick Anderson	P	15	3	6	0	0	1.000	.600
Walt Terrell	P	12	4	20	0	2	1.000	2.000
Tom Gorman	P	10	3	10	2	2	.867	1.300
Ron Gardenhire	SS	102	202	321	27	77	.951	5.127
Dan Schmitz	SS	15						.000
José Oquendo	SS	13	20	23	4	4	.915	3.308
Wally Backman	SS	12	18	39	2	13	.966	4.750
Mike Howard	SS	2	1	1	3	0	.400	1.000
Totals		1512	3483	1419	151	357	.970	3.242	11	0	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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