1988 Syracuse Chiefs

1988 > Class AAA > 1988 International League (West)
Overall: 70-71
Scored 523 runs, Allowed 564 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 66-75

Affiliation: Toronto Blue Jays-AL
Manager: Bob Bailor
Represented: Syracuse, NY
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1987 / 1989

Team Batting

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

Rk		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	Kevin Batiste	21	34	113	105	10	24	6	1	1	9	8	4	4	39	.229	.268	.333	.601	35	2	1	1	0
2	Geronimo Berroa	23	131	526	470	55	122	29	1	8	64	7	5	38	88	.260	.323	.377	.700	177	10	0	8	5
3	Pat Borders	25	35	138	120	11	29	8	0	3	14	0	0	16	22	.242	.326	.383	.709	46	0	0	2	0
4	Sal Butera	35	42	140	127	8	20	5	0	0	5	0	0	12	12	.157	.230	.197	.427	25	0	1	0	0
5	Sil Campusano	22	17	64	62	8	13	3	0	0	3	1	2	2	20	.210	.234	.258	.492	16	0	0	0	0
6	Hector De La Cruz	22	75	260	228	25	46	8	0	4	27	17	4	29	74	.202	.293	.289	.583	66	1	1	1	1
7	Carlos Diaz	23	27	87	83	4	14	5	0	1	8	0	0	1	23	.169	.176	.265	.442	22	0	2	1	0
8	Rob Ducey*	23	90	369	317	40	81	14	4	7	42	7	6	43	81	.256	.346	.391	.737	124	3	2	4	0
9	Jose Escobar	27	46	136	124	8	26	1	1	0	12	2	0	9	20	.210	.259	.234	.493	29	0	1	2	0
10	Otis Green*	24	109	439	410	59	109	23	7	10	41	13	4	22	68	.266	.306	.429	.735	176	3	1	3	4
11	Kelly Heath	30	90	345	287	48	89	22	0	5	41	5	4	51	49	.310	.414	.439	.854	126	3	0	4	1
12	Glenallen Hill	23	51	192	172	21	40	7	0	4	19	7	2	15	59	.233	.297	.343	.640	59	2	0	3	3
13	Alexis Infante	26	97	368	340	48	102	15	4	2	28	21	10	19	27	.300	.342	.385	.728	131	4	3	2	1
14	Nelson Liriano#	24	8	33	31	2	6	1	1	0	1	2	1	2	4	.194	.242	.290	.533	9	0	0	0	0
15	Glen McElroy	24	2	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0
16	Greg Myers*	22	34	128	120	18	34	7	1	7	21	1	0	8	24	.283	.328	.533	.861	64	0	0	0	1
17	Stu Pederson*	28	67	250	212	30	59	13	3	2	29	2	1	35	31	.278	.384	.396	.780	84	2	0	1	6
18	Luis Reyna*	24	54	210	200	14	39	8	2	2	15	14	4	5	31	.195	.229	.285	.514	57	4	0	1	0
19	Ken Rivers	23	37	131	123	6	28	4	1	1	14	0	0	4	32	.228	.250	.301	.551	37	0	3	1	0
20	Chris Shaddy	26	29	97	90	7	14	3	1	0	5	1	1	6	30	.156	.206	.211	.417	19	0	0	1	1
21	Lou Thornton*	25	69	260	246	23	51	12	3	4	22	11	5	11	46	.207	.244	.329	.573	81	1	2	0	6
22	Norm Tonucci	22	43	151	145	9	20	5	1	2	15	2	0	6	54	.138	.172	.228	.400	33	0	0	0	0
23	Eric Yelding	23	138	594	556	69	139	15	2	1	38	59	23	36	102	.250	.296	.290	.585	161	0	2	0	3
	23 Players	24.6	141	5035	4571	523	1105	214	33	64	473	180	76	375	937	.242	.302	.345	.647	1577	35	19	35	32

Only players for whom we have stats are shown. See roster for more complete team list.

Team Pitching

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

Rk		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	Doug Bair	38	3	4	.429	2.34	39	0	30	0	0	14	65.1	41	19	17	4	20	2	60	0	4	1	0.934	5.6	0.6	2.8	8.3	3.00
2	Omar Bencomo	24	0	0		3.00	6	0	4	0	0	0	9.0	12	5	3	2	1	0	6	0	1	0	1.444	12.0	2.0	1.0	6.0	6.00
3	Enrique Burgos*	22	0	0		7.71	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	4	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	2.571	15.4	0.0	7.7	7.7	1.00
4	Steve Davis*	27	10	15	.400	3.29	31	31	0	4	2	0	178.0	166	94	65	13	66	1	130	4	6	10	1.303	8.4	0.7	3.3	6.6	1.97
5	Hector De La Cruz	22	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	9.0	0.0	0.00
6	Mark Eichhorn	27	4	4	.500	1.17	18	1	8	0	0	2	38.1	35	9	5	0	15	5	34	4	0	0	1.304	8.2	0.0	3.5	8.0	2.27
7	Kelly Faulk	29	0	1	.000	13.50	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.2	5	4	4	1	1	0	2	0	1	2	2.250	16.9	3.4	3.4	6.8	2.00
8	Colin McLaughlin	29	9	4	.692	2.88	47	1	28	1	1	7	68.2	47	24	22	1	37	4	62	1	1	4	1.223	6.2	0.1	4.8	8.1	1.68
9	Jeff Musselman*	25	4	1	.800	2.94	10	10	0	1	0	0	49.0	42	20	16	5	17	0	31	0	4	1	1.204	7.7	0.9	3.1	5.7	1.82
10	Jose Nunez	24	5	4	.556	2.90	12	10	0	0	0	0	71.1	62	26	23	2	16	0	67	0	3	5	1.093	7.8	0.3	2.0	8.5	4.19
11	Jack O'Connor*	30	2	6	.250	4.11	40	3	18	0	0	4	81.0	86	42	37	5	28	2	63	1	0	5	1.407	9.6	0.6	3.1	7.0	2.25
12	Mark Ross	33	3	8	.273	3.61	17	15	1	2	0	0	99.2	101	50	40	8	19	2	57	1	1	5	1.204	9.1	0.7	1.7	5.1	3.00
13	Alex Sanchez	22	4	3	.571	3.59	10	10	0	1	0	0	57.2	47	26	23	8	43	1	57	0	3	4	1.561	7.3	1.2	6.7	8.9	1.33
14	Bob Shirley*	34	3	6	.333	3.90	36	5	10	2	0	3	90.0	98	50	39	11	22	2	45	2	1	0	1.333	9.8	1.1	2.2	4.5	2.05
15	Todd Stottlemyre	23	5	0	1.000	2.05	7	7	0	1	0	0	48.1	36	12	11	1	8	0	51	0	2	2	0.910	6.7	0.2	1.5	9.5	6.38
16	Dave Walsh*	27	0	1	.000	8.10	3	2	0	0	0	0	10.0	8	9	9	2	9	0	10	0	0	1	1.700	7.2	1.8	8.1	9.0	1.11
17	David Wells*	25	0	0		0.00	6	0	3	0	0	3	5.2	7	1	0	0	2	1	8	0	1	2	1.588	11.1	0.0	3.2	12.7	4.00
18	Frank Wills	29	6	4	.600	3.24	25	10	8	0	0	3	80.2	70	40	29	4	25	2	53	4	4	7	1.178	7.8	0.4	2.8	5.9	2.12
19	Mike Yearout*	26	3	4	.429	4.39	28	18	5	0	0	0	106.2	112	63	52	10	38	3	66	2	1	5	1.406	9.4	0.8	3.2	5.6	1.74
20	Cliff Young*	23	9	6	.600	3.42	33	18	7	4	1	1	147.1	133	68	56	13	32	0	75	3	4	3	1.120	8.1	0.8	2.0	4.6	2.34
	20 Players	28.5	70	71	.496	3.35	141	141	125	16	11	37	1212.2	1112	564	452	90	402	25	879	22	37	59	1.248	8.3	0.7	3.0	6.5	2.19

Team Fielding--By Pos

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

C

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB
Sal Butera	42	245	23	2	3	.993	6.38	3
Ken Rivers	37	202	21	5	2	.978	6.03	4
Pat Borders	30	202	17	2	2	.991	7.30	4
Carlos Diaz	25	174	13	0	2	1.000	7.48	2
Greg Myers	10	63	9	1	0	.986	7.20	0
Glen McElroy	1	16	1	0	0	1.000	17.00	0

1B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Otis Green	87	679	44	6	60	.992	8.31
Luis Reyna	45	371	27	9	23	.978	8.84
Hector De La Cruz	11	96	4	2	9	.980	9.09
Chris Shaddy	1	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.00

2B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Eric Yelding	88	146	194	21	41	.942	3.86
Chris Shaddy	25	56	62	6	13	.952	4.72
Jose Escobar	12	16	24	2	1	.952	3.33
Kelly Heath	11	23	29	0	5	1.000	4.73
Nelson Liriano	8	14	23	0	5	1.000	4.63
Alexis Infante	4	5	6	0	1	1.000	2.75

3B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Hector De La Cruz	45	36	91	6	7	.955	2.82
Norm Tonucci	41	32	106	13	7	.914	3.37
Jose Escobar	22	4	36	4	5	.909	1.82
Kelly Heath	19	13	35	7	6	.873	2.53
Lou Thornton	15	10	30	7	2	.851	2.67
Alexis Infante	13	11	27	2	2	.950	2.92

SS

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Alexis Infante	79	127	207	23	39	.936	4.23
Eric Yelding	50	76	116	14	20	.932	3.84
Jose Escobar	13	19	43	6	5	.912	4.77

OF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Geronimo Berroa	131	243	12	5	0	.981	1.95
Rob Ducey	81	233	6	4	2	.984	2.95
Lou Thornton	50	96	1	5	0	.951	1.94
Glenallen Hill	45	101	2	1	0	.990	2.29
Stu Pederson	41	72	3	1	0	.987	1.83
Kevin Batiste	34	85	2	1	1	.989	2.56
Hector De La Cruz	21	37	2	1	2	.975	1.86
Sil Campusano	16	44	0	1	0	.978	2.75
Otis Green	12	26	3	2	1	.935	2.42
Kelly Heath	3	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.33
Luis Reyna	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.50

P

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Colin McLaughlin	47	5	11	2	0	.889	0.34
Jack O'Connor	40	5	10	0	1	1.000	0.38
Doug Bair	39	6	5	0	1	1.000	0.28
Bob Shirley	36	5	12	0	1	1.000	0.47
Cliff Young	33	5	16	2	3	.913	0.64
Steve Davis	31	3	14	1	2	.944	0.55
Mike Yearout	28	3	10	0	0	1.000	0.46
Frank Wills	25	6	10	3	0	.842	0.64
Mark Eichhorn	18	0	6	1	1	.857	0.33
Mark Ross	17	9	15	0	1	1.000	1.41
Jose Nunez	12	4	7	1	0	.917	0.92
Jeff Musselman	10	3	3	0	0	1.000	0.60
Alex Sanchez	10	1	3	0	0	1.000	0.40
Todd Stottlemyre	7	1	2	1	0	.750	0.43
Omar Bencomo	6	0	0	0	0		0.00
David Wells	6	0	0	1	0	.000	0.00
Kelly Faulk	3	0	0	0	0		0.00
Dave Walsh	3	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.00
Enrique Burgos	2	0	0	0	0		0.00
Hector De La Cruz	1	0	0	0	0		0.00

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Doug Bair	38	R	R	6' 0.0"	170	Aug 22, 1949	Defiance, OH, US
Kevin Batiste	21	R	R	6' 2.0"	178	Oct 21, 1966	Galveston, TX, US
Omar Bencomo	24	R	R	6' 2.0"	195	Jun 26, 1964	Barinas, Barinas, VE
Geronimo Berroa	23	R	R	6' 0.0"	165	Mar 18, 1965	Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, DO
Pat Borders	25	R	R	6' 2.0"	190	May 14, 1963	Columbus, OH, US
Enrique Burgos	22	L	L	6' 4.0"	195	Oct 7, 1965	Chorrera, PA
Sal Butera	35	R	R	6' 0.0"	190	Sep 25, 1952	Richmond Hill, NY, US
Sil Campusano	22	R	R	6' 0.0"	160	Dec 31, 1965	Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, DO
Steve Davis	27	L	L	6' 1.0"	195	Aug 4, 1960	San Antonio, TX, US
Hector De La Cruz	22	R	R	6' 2.0"	155	Oct 12, 1965	Sabana Perdida, DO
Carlos Diaz	23	R	R	6' 3.0"	190	Dec 24, 1964	Jersey City, NJ, US
Rob Ducey	23	L	R	6' 2.0"	175	May 24, 1965	Toronto, ON, CA
Mark Eichhorn	27	R	R	6' 4.0"	200	Nov 21, 1960	San Jose, CA, US
Jose Escobar	27	R	R	5' 10.0"	140	Oct 30, 1960	La Sabana, Vargas, VE
Kelly Faulk	29		R	6' 2.0"	205	Apr 23, 1959
Otis Green	24	L	L	6' 2.0"	192	Mar 11, 1964	Miami, FL, US
Kelly Heath	30	R	R	5' 7.0"	155	Sep 4, 1957	Plattsburg, NY, US
Glenallen Hill	23	R	R	6' 3.0"	210	Mar 22, 1965	Santa Cruz, CA, US
Alexis Infante	26	R	R	5' 10.0"	175	Dec 4, 1961	Barquisimeto, Lara, VE
Nelson Liriano	24	S	R	5' 10.0"	165	Jun 3, 1964	Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata, DO
Glen McElroy	24	R	R	5' 10.0"	180	Mar 18, 1964
Colin McLaughlin	29	R	R	6' 6.0"	210	Jun 9, 1959	Winchester, MA, US
Jeff Musselman	25	L	L	6' 0.0"	180	Jun 21, 1963	Doylestown, PA, US
Greg Myers	22	L	R	6' 1.0"	200	Apr 14, 1966	Riverside, CA, US
Jose Nunez	24	R	R	6' 3.0"	175	Jan 13, 1964	Jarabacoa, La Vega, DO
Jack O'Connor	30	L	L	6' 3.0"	215	Jun 2, 1958	Twentynine Palms, CA, US
Stu Pederson	28	L	L	6' 0.0"	185	Jan 28, 1960	Palo Alto, CA, US
Luis Reyna	24	L	R	5' 11.0"	155	Apr 29, 1964
Ken Rivers	23	R	R	6' 0.0"	195	May 20, 1965
Mark Ross	33	R	R	6' 0.0"	195	Aug 8, 1954	Galveston, TX, US
Alex Sanchez	22	R	R	6' 2.0"	185	Apr 8, 1966	Concord, CA, US
Chris Shaddy	26	R	R	6' 1.0"	185	Oct 14, 1961	Carrollton, MO, US
Bob Shirley	34	R	L	5' 11.0"	180	Jun 25, 1954	Cushing, OK, US
Todd Stottlemyre	23	L	R	6' 3.0"	195	May 20, 1965	Sunnyside, WA, US
Lou Thornton	25	L	R	6' 2.0"	185	Apr 26, 1963	Montgomery, AL, US
Norm Tonucci	22	R	R	6' 1.0"	180	Feb 28, 1966
Dave Walsh	27	L	L	6' 1.0"	185	Sep 25, 1960	Arlington, MA, US
David Wells	25	L	L	6' 3.0"	187	May 20, 1963	Torrance, CA, US
Frank Wills	29	R	R	6' 2.0"	200	Oct 26, 1958	New Orleans, LA, US
Mike Yearout	26		L	6' 1.0"	185	Aug 15, 1961
Eric Yelding	23	R	R	5' 11.0"	170	Feb 22, 1965	Montrose, AL, US
Cliff Young	23	L	L	6' 4.0"	200	Aug 2, 1964	Willis, TX, US

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