1998 Wichita Wranglers Statistics

Texas League (TL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 75-65
Finished 1st in the TL's West Division
Manager: John Mizerock (75-65)
Affiliation: Kansas City Royals
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Ballpark: Lawrence-Dumont Stadium
Attendance: 155,353, Avg. 2,319 in 67 home dates

1998 Wichita Wranglers Roster

Playoffs - Wichita Wranglers 3 games, San Antonio Missions 2
Finals - Tulsa Drillers 3 games, Wichita Wranglers 2

The Wichita Wranglers of the Texas League ended the 1998 season with a record of 75 wins and 65 losses, finishing first in the league's West Division.

The Wranglers led the circuit with 857 runs, ignited by 184 home runs. Wichita allowed 861 runs. Kit Pellow paced the team with 29 home runs, while Mark Quinn, Ray Brown and Raúl González each walloped 15 or more, too. Ray Brown recorded 96 runs batted in. Carlos Febles topped all regular hitters by connecting at a .326 clip. Steve Prihoda paced the squad with 11 wins and a team-best 4.72 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.

Members of the 1998 Wichita Wranglers who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Héctor Ortiz, Matt Turner, Kevin Appier, Raúl González, Ryan Long, Orber Moreno, Jaime Bluma, Dan Reichert, Willie Smith, Scott Mullen, Ken Ray, Tim Byrdak, José Santiago, Carlos Méndez, Alex Prieto, Rod Myers, Scott Taylor, Carlos Febles, Mark Quinn, Kiko Calero, Andy Stewart, Kit Pellow and Carlos Beltrán.

John Mizerock served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Steve Prihoda	11	8	.579	4.72	58	3	16	0	3	122.0	140	76	64	18	23	7	85	9	1	7	528
Ken Ray	10	5	.667	5.20	24	21	0	0	0	117.7	149	79	68	7	47	2	71	3	0	1	530
Matt Saier	9	5	.643	5.16	18	18	0	0	0	103.0	127	70	59	14	28	1	80	5	1	8	463
Scott Mullen	8	2	.800	4.11	12	12	0	0	0	70.0	66	34	32	7	26	0	42	1	0	7	289
Scott Taylor	7	3	.700	4.78	14	13	0	0	0	79.0	91	50	42	13	17	0	54	2	0	3	341
Kevin Rawitzer	7	4	.636	5.08	14	14	0	2	0	85.0	94	52	48	13	28	0	54	3	1	4	379
Jason Gooding	5	7	.417	5.22	25	23	1	0	0	129.3	171	93	75	15	43	1	68	10	2	8	593
Ryan Brewer	3	0	1.000	4.00	20	0	6	0	1	36.0	47	16	16	3	12	3	30	0	0	3	161
José Santiago	3	4	.429	3.61	52	0	41	0	22	72.3	79	36	29	9	27	7	31	1	0	1	316
Tim Byrdak	3	5	.375	4.15	34	0	10	0	2	52.0	58	29	24	3	28	1	37	2	3	2	242
Phil Grundy	2	7	.222	8.11	18	14	2	0	1	81.0	117	86	73	21	49	1	60	6	0	6	396
Matt Turner	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	5.7	8	2	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	27
Eric Miller	1	0	1.000	5.70	18	0	6	0	0	23.7	36	22	15	3	13	2	20	1	0	3	118
Kiko Calero	1	0	1.000	9.64	3	3	0	0	0	14.0	23	16	15	2	6	0	5	1	0	0	72
Pat Flury	1	1	.500	5.40	8	0	2	0	0	11.7	14	11	7	0	7	0	13	3	0	1	59
Jaime Bluma	1	2	.333	5.37	39	0	18	0	0	62.0	67	49	37	10	35	6	38	4	0	5	291
Daron Kirkreit	1	3	.250	6.63	10	7	0	0	0	38.0	52	34	28	4	16	1	23	3	0	5	184
Dan Reichert	1	4	.200	9.75	8	8	0	0	0	36.0	52	40	39	7	29	1	24	4	1	2	186
Rod Steph	0	0		6.52	8	0	6	0	2	9.7	17	8	7	1	2	0	8	0	0	0	48
Sean McNally	0	0		7.94	5	0	5	0	0	5.7	6	5	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	23
Mike Evans	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Willie Smith	0	0		10.80	4	0	2	0	0	5.0	8	6	6	0	4	0	3	1	0	1	27
Jimmie Byington	0	0		27.00	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	2	3	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	8
Orber Moreno	0	1	.000	2.88	24	0	19	0	7	34.3	28	13	11	1	12	3	40	0	0	3	144
Kevin Appier	0	1	.000	6.00	1	1	0	0	0	6.0	8	4	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	25
Robert Toth	0	3	.000	14.59	5	2	2	0	0	12.3	27	26	20	7	10	2	9	0	0	0	73
Totals	75	65	.536	5.40	425	140	138	2	38	1213.3	1489	861	728	161	470	38	799	60	9	70	5529

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
Raúl González	118	520	455	84	148	31	1	17	86	12	8	58	53	.325	.401	.510	.911	232	15	2	1	4	3
Carlos Febles	126	531	432	110	141	28	9	14	52	51	16	80	70	.326	.441	.530	.971	229	6	11	5	3	1
Mark Quinn	100	432	372	82	130	26	6	16	84	4	1	43	54	.349	.424	.581	1.004	216	5	10	0	7	1
Ray Brown	114	469	402	79	128	31	1	21	96	4	2	57	57	.318	.402	.557	.959	224	16	3	1	6	5
Andy Stewart	85	335	305	45	103	26	0	12	58	0	2	19	33	.338	.381	.541	.922	165	11	5	2	4	0
Alex Prieto	113	425	384	61	101	18	7	2	35	4	8	31	54	.263	.321	.362	.683	139	13	2	8	0	0
Kit Pellow	103	411	374	70	100	24	3	29	73	4	3	27	107	.267	.324	.580	.905	217	2	6	1	3	2
Tony Medrano	96	349	301	48	92	14	2	10	46	3	3	28	36	.306	.378	.465	.843	140	7	9	8	3	0
Sean McNally	98	366	319	43	84	21	3	6	44	2	4	39	86	.263	.341	.404	.745	129	9	1	2	5	0
Carlos Méndez	52	220	207	37	66	14	0	9	39	4	1	7	20	.319	.333	.517	.850	107	10	0	1	5	1
Carlos Beltrán	47	208	182	50	64	13	3	14	44	7	1	23	30	.352	.427	.687	1.114	125	4	1	2	0	3
Ryan Long	67	269	247	32	63	14	1	7	29	2	2	17	50	.255	.310	.405	.715	100	10	3	1	1	1
Mike Evans	72	265	230	35	48	10	1	12	34	0	1	27	62	.209	.295	.417	.712	96	2	2	4	2	2
Roman Escamilla	43	142	129	16	34	6	0	1	10	0	1	10	21	.264	.312	.333	.645	43	7	0	1	2	0
Rod Myers	41	178	143	19	32	11	0	4	21	8	1	30	31	.224	.354	.385	.739	55	0	0	3	2	1
Al Shirley	32	103	93	13	21	2	0	5	12	3	2	5	30	.226	.287	.409	.696	38	1	3	2	0	0
Tony Miranda	27	94	76	14	14	2	0	1	10	2	0	10	10	.184	.289	.250	.539	19	3	2	4	2	0
Jimmie Byington	26	85	66	12	11	1	0	0	5	1	2	15	19	.167	.325	.182	.507	12	2	1	2	1	0
Anthony Lewis	10	39	34	6	7	1	0	4	8	0	0	5	7	.206	.308	.588	.896	20	2	0	0	0	1
Héctor Ortiz	4	15	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	.154	.267	.154	.421	2	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Prihoda	58	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Taylor	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1446	5458	4766	857	1389	293	37	184	786	111	59	533	832	.291	.367	.484	.851	2308	125	61	48	50	21

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ray Brown	1B	110	986	57	23	94	.978	9.482
Sean McNally	1B	33	249	25	4	11	.986	8.303
Carlos Méndez	1B	9	74	6	2	9	.976	8.889
Tony Medrano	1B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Mike Evans	1B	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Carlos Febles	2B	120	248	334	19	63	.968	4.850
Tony Medrano	2B	31	49	84	4	20	.971	4.290
Alex Prieto	2B	2	5	5	0	2	1.000	5.000
Kit Pellow	3B	90	62	184	26	21	.904	2.733
Sean McNally	3B	41	26	80	18	9	.855	2.585
Tony Medrano	3B	34	16	35	1	2	.981	1.500
Andy Stewart	C	78	437	62	6	4	.988	6.397	10	65	32	33.0
Roman Escamilla	C	37	173	18	3	3	.985	5.162	10	41	5	10.9
Carlos Méndez	C	33	164	16	1	2	.994	5.455	1	22	3	12.0
Héctor Ortiz	C	4	24	6	1	0	.968	7.500	0	9	2	18.2
Mike Evans	C	3	6	1	1	0	.875	2.333	0	2	0	0.0
Raúl González	OF	102	191	11	9	3	.957	1.980
Mark Quinn	OF	89	157	11	8	4	.955	1.888
Ryan Long	OF	56	113	7	4	0	.968	2.143
Carlos Beltrán	OF	45	93	2	4	1	.960	2.111
Rod Myers	OF	36	70	5	0	2	1.000	2.083
Mike Evans	OF	32	44	1	1	0	.978	1.406
Al Shirley	OF	29	58	5	4	1	.940	2.172
Tony Miranda	OF	23	30	0	2	0	.938	1.304
Jimmie Byington	OF	23	52	1	0	0	1.000	2.304
Andy Stewart	OF	1	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.000
Alex Prieto	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Steve Prihoda	P	58	6	27	1	0	.971	.569
José Santiago	P	52	6	12	1	0	.947	.346
Jaime Bluma	P	39	6	10	0	0	1.000	.410
Tim Byrdak	P	34	2	12	0	1	1.000	.412
Jason Gooding	P	25	8	22	2	2	.938	1.200
Ken Ray	P	24	4	19	1	0	.958	.958
Orber Moreno	P	24	3	3	0	0	1.000	.250
Ryan Brewer	P	20	4	5	0	1	1.000	.450
Matt Saier	P	18	6	8	2	0	.875	.778
Eric Miller	P	18	1	0	0	0	1.000	.056
Phil Grundy	P	18	3	8	3	0	.786	.611
Scott Taylor	P	14	6	13	1	4	.950	1.357
Kevin Rawitzer	P	14	5	17	1	0	.957	1.571
Scott Mullen	P	12	4	9	0	1	1.000	1.083
Daron Kirkreit	P	10	1	4	1	0	.833	.500
Rod Steph	P	8	0	1	0	0	1.000	.125
Dan Reichert	P	8	1	5	1	0	.857	.750
Pat Flury	P	8	1	3	0	0	1.000	.500
Robert Toth	P	5	0	2	0	0	1.000	.400
Sean McNally	P	5	0	1	0	0	1.000	.200
Willie Smith	P	4	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Kiko Calero	P	3	1	1	0	0	1.000	.667
Matt Turner	P	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Mike Evans	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Jimmie Byington	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Kevin Appier	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Alex Prieto	SS	110	174	311	35	59	.933	4.409
Tony Medrano	SS	40	59	114	5	20	.972	4.325
Sean McNally	SS	2	3	4	0	1	1.000	3.500
Totals		1641	3640	1567	196	340	.964	3.173	21	139	42	23.2

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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