1997 Winston-Salem Warthogs Statistics

Carolina League (CL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 63-77
Finished 4th in the CL's South Division
Manager: Mike Heath (0-0), Mark Haley (0-0)
Affiliation: Chicago White Sox
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Ballpark: Ernie Shore Stadium (Field)
Attendance: 156,285, Avg. 2,298 in 68 home dates

1997 Winston-Salem Warthogs Roster

The Winston-Salem Warthogs of the Carolina League ended the 1997 season with a record of 63 wins and 77 losses, finishing fourth in the league's South Division.

The Warthogs scored 615 runs and surrendered 653 runs. Carlos Lee paced Winston-Salem with 17 home runs and drove in 82 runs, while leading all regular batters with a .317 average. Carlos Chantres topped the team with 9 wins, and Jason Secoda recorded a 4.15 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Members of the 1997 Winston-Salem Warthogs who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Brian Schmack, Kevin Beirne, Carlos Lee, Mike Caruso, Luis García, David Lundquist, Mark Johnson, Ken Vining, Jim Parque, Chad Bradford and Clemente Álvarez.

Mike Heath and Mark Haley 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
Carlos Chantres	9	11	.450	4.70	26	26	0	2	0	0	164.7	152	94	86	21	71	1	158	4	2	10	712
John Ambrose	8	13	.381	5.47	27	27	0	1	1	0	149.7	136	102	91	17	117	2	137	8	5	16	688
Jim Parque	7	2	.778	2.77	11	11	0	0	0	0	61.7	29	19	19	3	23	0	76	0	2	2	231
Bob Theodile	7	3	.700	2.94	13	12	1	0	0	0	82.7	66	34	27	6	33	0	75	6	0	5	344
Jason Secoda	7	4	.636	4.14	29	15	5	1	0	2	119.7	118	67	55	11	57	1	85	4	1	16	525
Mark Roberts	5	9	.357	4.04	14	14	0	3	0	0	91.3	78	48	41	10	45	0	64	3	0	4	379
Kevin Beirne	4	4	.500	3.05	13	13	0	1	0	0	82.7	66	38	28	7	28	1	75	7	0	5	338
David Lundquist	3	1	.750	6.75	20	6	6	0	0	0	48.0	65	41	36	7	23	3	39	3	2	2	228
Derek Hasselhoff	3	2	.600	1.56	20	0	11	0	0	3	34.7	22	10	6	1	15	3	41	0	0	4	138
Chad Bradford	3	7	.300	3.95	46	0	41	0	0	15	54.7	51	30	24	2	25	5	43	5	0	2	247
Adam Virchis	3	7	.300	4.78	14	9	1	1	0	0	58.3	62	44	31	12	19	1	42	2	2	6	265
Ken Vining	2	2	.500	2.86	5	5	0	0	0	0	34.7	36	17	11	2	11	0	38	0	0	2	153
Brian Schmack	2	5	.286	2.75	42	0	18	0	0	6	75.3	65	32	23	0	36	4	71	2	1	6	325
Ken Mitchell	0	0		4.50	5	0	5	0	0	0	6.0	7	3	3	0	2	0	5	2	0	2	28
Jim Dixon	0	1	.000	4.05	16	0	6	0	0	0	33.3	29	16	15	2	10	0	29	1	0	1	139
Rafael Ruiz	0	1	.000	8.31	10	0	5	0	0	0	8.7	16	10	8	2	10	1	9	2	1	1	54
Sean Duncan	0	1	.000	8.68	6	0	2	0	0	0	9.3	16	12	9	4	7	0	9	0	0	1	53
Maximo Nunez	0	2	.000	1.73	28	0	19	0	0	8	52.0	35	15	10	5	21	1	53	1	0	2	210
Craig Hunt	0	2	.000	4.35	25	2	11	0	0	0	31.0	32	21	15	3	14	0	26	1	0	4	143
Totals	63	77	.450	4.04	370	140	131	9	1	34	1198.3	1081	653	538	115	567	23	1075	51	16	91	5200

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
Carlos Lee	139	593	546	81	173	50	4	17	82	11	5	36	65	.317	.357	.516	.874	282	12	2	2	7	2
Ramon Gomez	118	532	477	78	132	23	12	2	42	53	21	42	132	.277	.338	.388	.726	185	9	3	8	2	0
Luis García	130	523	498	55	128	29	7	13	81	4	8	16	93	.257	.277	.422	.699	210	9	0	4	5	0
Mark Johnson	120	491	375	59	95	27	4	4	46	4	2	106	85	.253	.420	.379	.798	142	7	5	0	5	2
Pete Pryor	124	479	391	51	82	15	0	8	44	3	0	71	97	.210	.340	.309	.650	121	11	9	3	5	4
Darren Baugh	101	365	325	41	73	11	4	3	22	13	3	27	100	.225	.287	.311	.597	101	4	2	9	2	0
Kevin Connacher	70	278	243	32	70	16	2	3	27	12	8	28	50	.288	.362	.407	.770	99	2	2	2	3	0
Ed Randolph	72	261	241	21	53	12	1	4	27	0	1	13	68	.220	.264	.328	.591	79	2	2	3	2	1
Jerry Whittaker	52	186	170	24	46	17	2	5	20	3	1	14	62	.271	.326	.482	.808	82	2	0	2	0	0
Ryan Topham	58	220	193	26	46	13	2	4	21	0	2	24	53	.238	.323	.389	.711	75	1	1	0	2	0
Ben Boulware	43	189	176	24	45	12	2	3	16	9	8	7	29	.256	.302	.398	.699	70	2	5	0	1	0
Juan Thomas	45	182	164	28	43	7	0	13	28	1	1	17	61	.262	.335	.543	.878	89	5	1	0	0	0
Wil Polidor	41	153	149	14	37	7	0	0	11	6	1	2	16	.248	.263	.295	.558	44	4	1	1	0	0
Brent Wilhelm	48	180	155	22	32	8	1	3	26	1	0	21	33	.206	.303	.329	.632	51	5	1	2	1	0
Brian Manning	28	116	106	13	31	6	0	2	12	1	2	8	14	.292	.353	.406	.759	43	3	2	0	0	1
Mike Caruso	28	125	119	12	27	3	2	0	14	3	0	4	8	.227	.264	.286	.550	34	0	2	0	0	0
Brian Downs	33	112	100	13	26	7	1	3	12	0	0	8	22	.260	.324	.440	.764	44	3	2	1	1	1
Rashad Albert	24	82	72	10	13	1	1	4	9	3	5	8	25	.181	.262	.389	.651	28	0	0	2	0	0
Allen Thomas	31	92	77	11	13	4	0	1	11	1	3	13	27	.169	.293	.260	.553	20	2	1	0	1	0
Chuck Antczak	5	14	14	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	2	0	0	0	0	0
Clemente Álvarez	2	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	1	0	0	0
Totals	1312	5178	4595	615	1168	268	45	92	552	128	71	465	1045	.254	.326	.392	.718	1802	83	42	39	37	11

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Pete Pryor	1B	99	753	52	18	48	.978	8.131
Juan Thomas	1B	26	227	9	2	14	.992	9.077
Brian Downs	1B	8	71	2	2	3	.973	9.125
Brent Wilhelm	1B	7	43	3	0	4	1.000	6.571
Ed Randolph	1B	6	50	1	1	6	.981	8.500
Kevin Connacher	2B	68	94	184	7	31	.975	4.088
Ben Boulware	2B	41	60	112	8	16	.956	4.195
Brent Wilhelm	2B	18	34	53	4	6	.956	4.833
Wil Polidor	2B	16	28	51	2	12	.975	4.938
Darren Baugh	2B	3	1	5	1	1	.857	2.000
Carlos Lee	3B	133	93	233	34	18	.906	2.451
Brent Wilhelm	3B	5	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.200
Wil Polidor	3B	3	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.667
Darren Baugh	3B	1	1	2	0	1	1.000	3.000
Mark Johnson	C	117	899	90	11	8	.989	8.453	14	86	45	34.4
Brian Downs	C	16	110	11	1	2	.992	7.562	2	18	5	21.7
Ed Randolph	C	8	35	5	2	0	.952	5.000	3	12	1	7.7
Chuck Antczak	C	5	37	1	1	0	.974	7.600	2	6	0	0.0
Clemente Álvarez	C	2	8	1	1	0	.900	4.500	0	3	1	25.0
Ramon Gomez	CF	64						.000
Jerry Whittaker	CF	44						.000
Rashad Albert	CF	19						.000
Luis García	CF	12						.000
Allen Thomas	CF	6						.000
Luis García	LF	66						.000
Ryan Topham	LF	48						.000
Ed Randolph	LF	13						.000
Brian Manning	LF	12						.000
Allen Thomas	LF	5						.000
Darren Baugh	LF	1						.000
Ramon Gomez	OF	113	213	8	14	1	.940	1.956
Luis García	OF	113	175	13	3	2	.984	1.664
Ryan Topham	OF	49	75	8	0	1	1.000	1.694
Jerry Whittaker	OF	46	105	8	2	4	.983	2.457
Ed Randolph	OF	42	80	4	4	1	.955	2.000
Allen Thomas	OF	23	33	2	0	0	1.000	1.522
Brian Manning	OF	22	43	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Rashad Albert	OF	22	42	1	2	0	.956	1.955
Darren Baugh	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Chad Bradford	P	46	4	17	2	1	.913	.457
Brian Schmack	P	42	5	9	2	0	.875	.333
Jason Secoda	P	29	8	14	0	1	1.000	.759
Maximo Nunez	P	28	7	4	3	0	.786	.393
John Ambrose	P	27	3	14	1	0	.944	.630
Carlos Chantres	P	26	10	21	2	1	.939	1.192
Craig Hunt	P	25	2	3	3	0	.625	.200
David Lundquist	P	20	2	6	0	0	1.000	.400
Derek Hasselhoff	P	20	2	8	2	1	.833	.500
Jim Dixon	P	16	2	5	0	0	1.000	.438
Adam Virchis	P	14	2	9	1	0	.917	.786
Mark Roberts	P	14	3	13	2	1	.889	1.143
Bob Theodile	P	13	1	9	2	0	.833	.769
Kevin Beirne	P	13	5	11	3	0	.842	1.231
Jim Parque	P	11	1	9	1	0	.909	.909
Rafael Ruiz	P	10	0	1	0	0	1.000	.100
Sean Duncan	P	6	0	2	0	0	1.000	.333
Ken Vining	P	5	0	6	1	0	.857	1.200
Ken Mitchell	P	5	0	0	0	0		.000
Ramon Gomez	RF	51						.000
Luis García	RF	38						.000
Ed Randolph	RF	30						.000
Allen Thomas	RF	13						.000
Brian Manning	RF	11						.000
Rashad Albert	RF	3						.000
Jerry Whittaker	RF	2						.000
Ryan Topham	RF	1						.000
Darren Baugh	SS	91	147	246	32	37	.925	4.319
Mike Caruso	SS	26	44	67	7	12	.941	4.269
Wil Polidor	SS	18	28	47	3	5	.962	4.167
Brent Wilhelm	SS	9	6	7	1	1	.929	1.444
Totals		1966	3595	1397	188	239	.964	2.539	21	125	52	29.4

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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