1997 Salem Avalanche

1997 > Class Adv A > 1997 Carolina League (South)
Overall: 63-75
Scored 588 runs, Allowed 612 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 66-72

Affiliation: Colorado Rockies-NL
Manager: Bill McGuire
Represented: Salem, VA
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1996 / 1998

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	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	Rod Bair	22	16	50	44	5	12	3	0	0	6	2	0	0	6	.273	.298	.341	.639	15	1	2	3	1	0
2	Clint Bryant	23	52	203	185	15	42	9	0	2	18	4	4	14	36	.227	.289	.308	.597	57	2	2	2	0	0
3	John Clifford	23	17	36	34	3	8	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	7	.235	.278	.235	.513	8	1	1	0	0	0
4	Justin Drizos*	23	57	170	151	13	28	7	1	5	19	1	1	15	56	.185	.262	.344	.606	52	2	1	2	1	2
5	Salvadore Duverge	21	42	127	113	9	21	5	0	0	9	1	4	9	32	.186	.254	.230	.484	26	6	2	1	2	0
6	Brett Elam	24	6	17	15	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	.200	.250	.200	.450	3	1	0	1	0	0
7	Dave Feuerstein	23	94	361	327	47	76	13	3	1	34	20	6	21	45	.232	.285	.300	.585	98	8	4	7	2	3
8	Chad Gambill	22	124	495	450	61	111	18	2	11	73	6	11	37	125	.247	.307	.369	.676	166	7	4	0	4	4
9	Vicente Garcia	22	98	376	319	49	82	22	1	4	37	11	5	44	51	.257	.356	.370	.726	118	8	6	5	2	2
10	Kyle Houser	22	110	432	383	36	83	18	1	0	28	11	8	33	61	.217	.280	.269	.549	103	6	2	10	4	1
11	Lincoln Jarrett#	25	9	27	25	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.160	.192	.160	.352	4	1	0	1	0	0
12	Brian Keck	23	48	142	121	22	34	4	0	0	11	17	3	11	21	.281	.350	.314	.664	38	3	3	5	2	1
13	Tal Light	23	104	440	373	57	99	19	2	15	65	0	1	59	144	.265	.368	.448	.816	167	6	4	0	4	2
14	Dean Marnell	21	17	58	52	4	10	2	0	0	7	0	0	3	1	.192	.250	.231	.481	12	0	1	2	0	0
15	Garrett Neubart	23	133	590	527	66	135	23	3	0	34	50	18	39	90	.256	.321	.311	.632	164	3	12	10	2	0
16	Elvis Pena#	20	93	335	279	41	62	9	2	1	30	16	6	37	53	.222	.315	.280	.594	78	1	2	14	3	0
17	Ben Petrick	20	121	482	412	68	102	23	3	15	56	30	11	62	100	.248	.347	.427	.774	176	6	2	4	2	2
18	Jamie Taylor*	26	23	96	80	13	21	4	1	1	9	2	2	13	27	.263	.379	.375	.754	30	2	2	1	0	0
19	Mike Vavrek*	23	10	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
20	Gilbert Vidal	22	80	252	226	20	54	21	0	6	30	1	2	19	54	.239	.292	.412	.704	93	4	0	2	5	1
21	Forry Wells*	26	93	382	321	58	96	27	3	11	52	19	7	48	64	.299	.404	.505	.908	162	9	9	3	1	2
	21 Players	22.4	138	5073	4439	588	1084	227	22	72	522	191	92	467	980	.244	.322	.354	.676	1571	77	59	73	35	20

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	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	Bobby Bevel*	23	4	7	.364	4.64	50	0	18	0	0	3	66.0	69	37	34	5	17	0	57	9	0	3	290	1.303	9.4	0.7	2.3	7.8	3.35
2	Heath Bost	22	1	0	1.000	2.40	13	0	10	0	0	3	15.0	9	4	4	1	2	0	9	0	0	0	57	0.733	5.4	0.6	1.2	5.4	4.50
3	Luis Colmenares	20	6	1	.857	3.92	32	3	15	0	0	2	66.2	60	34	29	5	30	3	70	4	2	6	283	1.350	8.1	0.7	4.0	9.4	2.33
4	Jason Dietrich	24	3	2	.600	3.26	21	0	11	0	0	2	30.1	15	11	11	2	16	0	38	0	1	1	121	1.022	4.5	0.6	4.7	11.3	2.38
5	Salvadore Duverge	21	0	0		27.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.2	3	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	6.000	40.5	13.5	13.5	0.0	0.00
6	Lariel Gonzalez	21	5	0	1.000	2.53	44	0	25	0	0	8	57.0	42	19	16	3	23	1	79	3	0	4	237	1.140	6.6	0.5	3.6	12.5	3.43
7	Luther Hackman	22	1	4	.200	5.80	15	15	0	2	0	0	80.2	99	60	52	14	37	0	59	9	0	8	384	1.686	11.0	1.6	4.1	6.6	1.59
8	James Kammerer*	23	0	0		2.87	6	1	2	0	0	0	15.2	10	5	5	0	3	0	12	0	0	0	57	0.830	5.7	0.0	1.7	6.9	4.00
9	Mike Kusiewicz*	20	8	6	.571	2.52	19	18	0	1	1	0	117.2	99	44	33	5	32	0	107	9	1	7	480	1.113	7.6	0.4	2.4	8.2	3.34
10	Curt Leskanic	29	0	0		3.86	2	1	0	0	0	0	2.1	5	2	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	12	2.571	19.3	0.0	3.9	11.6	3.00
11	Chandler Martin	23	1	5	.167	3.97	16	5	8	0	0	1	45.1	46	25	20	1	25	0	30	3	0	7	205	1.566	9.1	0.2	5.0	6.0	1.20
12	Doug Million*	21	5	9	.357	5.12	18	17	0	1	0	0	96.2	104	59	55	13	55	1	58	8	0	5	436	1.645	9.7	1.2	5.1	5.4	1.05
13	Sean Murphy	24	1	3	.250	4.58	15	0	5	0	0	0	19.2	21	16	10	0	12	0	11	2	0	5	93	1.678	9.6	0.0	5.5	5.0	0.92
14	Scott Norman	24	0	1	.000	3.96	18	0	11	0	0	1	25.0	29	12	11	4	8	1	13	0	0	0	109	1.480	10.4	1.4	2.9	4.7	1.63
15	Lloyd Peever	25	0	0		3.27	4	1	0	0	0	0	11.0	13	6	4	0	3	0	10	0	0	0	49	1.455	10.6	0.0	2.5	8.2	3.33
16	Scott Randall	21	9	10	.474	3.84	27	26	1	2	1	0	176.0	167	93	75	8	66	3	128	11	0	14	763	1.324	8.5	0.4	3.4	6.5	1.94
17	Scott Schroeffel	23	1	4	.200	8.16	16	3	6	0	0	0	28.2	34	27	26	3	17	1	24	5	0	0	140	1.779	10.7	0.9	5.3	7.5	1.41
18	Steve Shoemaker	24	3	3	.500	2.77	9	9	0	1	0	0	52.0	31	21	16	3	25	0	76	5	3	2	215	1.077	5.4	0.5	4.3	13.2	3.04
19	Tom Stepka	21	11	14	.440	4.15	28	28	0	4	3	0	182.1	205	100	84	25	28	0	120	9	0	3	766	1.278	10.1	1.2	1.4	5.9	4.29
20	Bill Swift	35	0	1	.000	6.75	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	4	3	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	16	1.000	9.0	2.2	0.0	2.2
21	Mike Vavrek*	23	2	2	.500	2.15	10	9	0	0	0	0	62.2	55	21	15	3	18	0	48	3	0	3	255	1.165	7.9	0.4	2.6	6.9	2.67
22	Jamey Wright	22	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	2.000	9.0	0.0	9.0	9.0	1.00
23	Mike Zolecki	25	2	2	.500	2.65	22	0	14	0	0	6	34.0	22	10	10	2	11	2	31	1	0	3	133	0.971	5.8	0.5	2.9	8.2	2.82
	23 Players	22.1	63	75	.457	3.89	138	138	127	11	12	26	1190.1	1143	612	515	99	431	12	985	81	7	71	5112	1.322	8.6	0.7	3.3	7.4	2.29

Team Fielding--By Pos

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

C

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO
Ben Petrick	107		754	91	10	6	.988	7.90	12	84	38	31%
Gilbert Vidal	41		218	26	3	1	.988	5.95	11	33	15	31%

1B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Forry Wells	70	630	40	7	51	.990	9.57
Justin Drizos	53	380	41	5	23	.988	7.94
Tal Light	14	102	10	6	10	.949	8.00
John Clifford	10	44	4	0	3	1.000	4.80
Jamie Taylor	7	61	7	0	4	1.000	9.71

2B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Vicente Garcia	97	199	282	15	61	.970	4.96
Elvis Pena	38	70	101	5	8	.972	4.50
Lincoln Jarrett	5	9	9	0	1	1.000	3.60
Brett Elam	2	5	7	0	2	1.000	6.00

3B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Tal Light	53	22	86	11	3	.908	2.04
Clint Bryant	39	16	68	15	4	.848	2.15
Brian Keck	28	8	55	1	3	.984	2.25
Elvis Pena	19	11	22	4	1	.892	1.74
Jamie Taylor	6	3	20	1	1	.958	3.83
Brett Elam	3	0	5	1	1	.833	1.67
Lincoln Jarrett	2	2	5	0	1	1.000	3.50

SS

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Kyle Houser	110	154	297	19	61	.960	4.10
Elvis Pena	29	46	76	11	14	.917	4.21
Brett Elam	2	1	3	0	1	1.000	2.00
Brian Keck	2	2	5	0	0	1.000	3.50
Clint Bryant	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00
Lincoln Jarrett	1	1	5	1	0	.857	6.00

LF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Dave Feuerstein	88							0.00
Salvadore Duverge	26							0.00
Dean Marnell	16							0.00
Brian Keck	7							0.00
Forry Wells	6							0.00
Rod Bair	2							0.00

CF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Garrett Neubart	132							0.00
Dave Feuerstein	5							0.00
Rod Bair	2							0.00
Salvadore Duverge	2							0.00
Justin Drizos	1							0.00

RF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Chad Gambill	123							0.00
Salvadore Duverge	13							0.00
Forry Wells	8							0.00
Rod Bair	1							0.00
Dean Marnell	1							0.00

OF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Garrett Neubart	132	254	13	4	1	.985	2.02
Chad Gambill	123	214	7	6	3	.974	1.80
Dave Feuerstein	91	164	7	5	1	.972	1.88
Salvadore Duverge	41	46	3	4	0	.925	1.20
Dean Marnell	17	36	1	0	0	1.000	2.18
Forry Wells	14	21	1	0	0	1.000	1.57
Brian Keck	7	6	1	0	0	1.000	1.00
Rod Bair	5	7	0	1	0	.875	1.40
Justin Drizos	1	0	0	0	0		0.00

P

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Bobby Bevel	50	5	14	1	3	.950	0.38
Lariel Gonzalez	44	3	2	0	0	1.000	0.11
Luis Colmenares	32	3	14	0	0	1.000	0.53
Tom Stepka	28	18	27	0	3	1.000	1.61
Scott Randall	27	18	32	3	4	.943	1.85
Mike Zolecki	22	2	5	0	0	1.000	0.32
Jason Dietrich	21	0	3	0	0	1.000	0.14
Mike Kusiewicz	19	6	22	1	0	.966	1.47
Doug Million	18	2	18	0	0	1.000	1.11
Scott Norman	18	1	6	0	0	1.000	0.39
Chandler Martin	16	2	7	1	0	.900	0.56
Scott Schroeffel	16	3	7	0	0	1.000	0.63
Luther Hackman	15	9	8	1	0	.944	1.13
Sean Murphy	15	2	1	1	0	.750	0.20
Heath Bost	13	0	3	0	0	1.000	0.23
Mike Vavrek	10	6	7	0	0	1.000	1.30
Steve Shoemaker	9	3	7	2	0	.833	1.11
James Kammerer	6	0	2	0	0	1.000	0.33
Lloyd Peever	4	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.50
Curt Leskanic	2	0	0	0	0		0.00
Salvadore Duverge	1	0	0	0	0		0.00
Bill Swift	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.00
Jamey Wright	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Rod Bair	22	R	R	5' 11.0"	195	Oct 29, 1974	Phoenix, AZ, US
Bobby Bevel	23	L	L	5' 10.0"	180	Oct 10, 1973	San Diego, CA, US
Heath Bost	22	R	R	6' 3.0"	205	Oct 13, 1974	Sanford, NC, US
Clint Bryant	23	R	R	6' 0.0"	180	Aug 29, 1973	San Antonio, TX, US
John Clifford	23	R	R	6' 1.0"	185	Aug 18, 1973	Worcester, MA, US
Luis Colmenares	20	R	R	5' 11.0"	190	Nov 25, 1976	Valencia, Carabobo, VE
Jason Dietrich	24	R	R	5' 11.0"	190	Nov 15, 1972	Stuttgart, DE
Justin Drizos	23	L	L	6' 2.0"	200	Dec 8, 1973	Cold Spring, NY, US
Salvadore Duverge	21	R	R	6' 0.0"	165	May 14, 1976	San Cristobal, San Cristobal, DO
Brett Elam	24	R	R	6' 0.0"	170	Aug 1, 1972	Council Bluffs, IA, US
Dave Feuerstein	23	R	R	6' 2.0"	200	Jul 19, 1973	New York, NY, US
Chad Gambill	22	R	R	6' 2.0"	190	Nov 27, 1974	Clearwater, FL, US
Vicente Garcia	22	R	R	6' 0.0"	170	Feb 14, 1975	Maracaibo, Zulia, VE
Lariel Gonzalez	21	R	R	6' 4.0"	228	May 25, 1976	San Cristobal, San Cristobal, DO
Luther Hackman	22	R	R	6' 4.0"	195	Oct 10, 1974	Columbus, MS, US
Kyle Houser	22	R	R	6' 0.0"	150	Jan 21, 1975	Dallas, TX, US
Lincoln Jarrett	25	S	R	5' 10.0"	165	Jan 26, 1972	Tallahassee, FL, US
James Kammerer	23	L	L	6' 3.0"	205	Jul 21, 1973	Winona, MN, US
Brian Keck	23	R	R	6' 3.0"	185	Jan 15, 1974	Dodge City, KS, US
Mike Kusiewicz	20	R	L	6' 2.0"	185	Nov 1, 1976	Montreal, QC, CA
Curt Leskanic	29	R	R	6' 0.0"	180	Apr 2, 1968	Homestead, PA, US
Tal Light	23	R	R	6' 3.0"	205	Nov 28, 1973	Beaumont, TX, US
Dean Marnell	21	R	R	5' 11.0"	185	Jan 9, 1976	Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Chandler Martin	23	R	R	6' 1.0"	195	Oct 23, 1973	Salem, OR, US
Doug Million	21	L	L	6' 4.0"	175	Oct 13, 1975	Fort Thomas, KY, US
Sean Murphy	24	R	R	6' 1.0"	180	Dec 7, 1972	Macomb, IL, US
Garrett Neubart	23	R	R	5' 10.0"	160	Nov 7, 1973	Summit, NJ, US
Scott Norman	24	R	R	6' 0.0"	195	Sep 1, 1972	Mount Vernon, OH, US
Lloyd Peever	25	R	R	5' 11.0"	185	Sep 15, 1971	Livermore, CA, US
Elvis Pena	20	S	R	5' 11.0"	164	Sep 15, 1976	San Pedro de Macoris, San Pedro de Macoris, DO
Ben Petrick	20	R	R	6' 0.0"	195	Apr 7, 1977	Salem, OR, US
Scott Randall	21	R	R	6' 3.0"	200	Oct 29, 1975	Fullerton, CA, US
Scott Schroeffel	23	S	R	6' 0.0"	190	Dec 30, 1973	Pittsburgh, PA, US
Steve Shoemaker	24	L	R	6' 1.0"	214	Feb 3, 1973	Phoenixville, PA, US
Tom Stepka	21	R	R	6' 2.0"	190	Nov 29, 1975	Buffalo, NY, US
Bill Swift	35	R	R	6' 0.0"	170	Oct 27, 1961	Portland, ME, US
Jamie Taylor	26	L	R	6' 2.0"	220	Oct 10, 1970	Steubenville, OH, US
Mike Vavrek	23	L	L	6' 2.0"	185	Apr 23, 1974	Winfield, IL, US
Gilbert Vidal	22	R	R	5' 11.0"	188	Apr 21, 1975	Santurce, PR
Forry Wells	26	L	R	6' 4.0"	205	Mar 21, 1971	Belleville, IL, US
Jamey Wright	22	R	R	6' 6.0"	235	Dec 24, 1974	Oklahoma City, OK, US
Mike Zolecki	25	R	R	6' 2.0"	195	Dec 6, 1971	Milwaukee, WI, US

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