1981 Elizabethton Twins

1981 > Class Rookie > 1981 Appalachian League
Overall: 42-28
Scored 402 runs, Allowed 335 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 41-29

Affiliation: Minnesota Twins-AL
Manager: Fred Waters
Represented: Elizabethton, TN
Ballpark: Joe O'Brien Field (Elizabethton, TN)
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1980 / 1982

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	Talbot Aiello	22	18	75	60	8	15	4	0	0	16	0	1	15	14	.250	.400	.317	.717	19	0	0	0	0
2	Sebastiano Borriello	22	48	184	155	24	39	5	2	4	17	3	0	24	36	.252	.353	.387	.740	60	2	0	3	0
3	Carson Carroll	21	64	265	221	33	56	12	2	2	27	10	2	39	23	.253	.363	.353	.716	78	0	3	2	0
4	Herbert Carter	19	44	163	144	16	33	3	1	1	22	0	0	15	39	.229	.296	.285	.581	41	0	1	3	0
5	Donald Fleming	19	37	130	98	27	18	1	0	1	5	7	2	28	39	.184	.385	.224	.609	22	4	0	0	0
6	Philip Franko*	22	52	198	162	26	34	8	0	0	26	2	0	31	16	.210	.337	.259	.596	42	1	2	2	2
7	Cedric Gray	19	6	21	17	6	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	2	.235	.381	.294	.675	5	0	0	0	0
8	Robert Heimerl*	19	33	116	96	16	18	3	0	3	13	0	1	19	32	.188	.319	.313	.631	30	0	0	1	1
9	Craig Henderson?	20	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0
10	David Hoyt	21	66	286	252	59	85	15	2	9	50	18	0	32	31	.337	.409	.520	.929	131	0	0	2	1
11	Dean Kappes	19	3	9	8	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	0	0
12	Steve Lombardozzi	21	65	297	246	48	79	13	2	6	38	9	1	46	28	.321	.431	.463	.894	114	2	2	1	2
13	Jeffery Martin	19	14	47	37	6	5	2	0	0	2	0	1	9	10	.135	.304	.189	.494	7	0	1	0	0
14	Mike Piatnik	22	18	75	67	9	14	2	0	0	8	2	1	6	15	.209	.280	.239	.519	16	1	0	1	0
15	Eric Porter	22	5	13	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.182	.308	.182	.490	2	1	0	0	0
16	Gary Robertson*	23	12	42	33	6	8	2	1	1	7	0	0	8	4	.242	.381	.455	.835	15	0	0	1	0
17	Johnny Salery	21	49	220	175	38	40	6	0	6	27	26	2	38	42	.229	.372	.366	.737	64	3	2	2	0
18	George Skeens	22	10	43	39	2	4	2	0	0	5	0	0	3	14	.103	.163	.154	.317	6	0	0	1	0
19	Julio Tirado*	19	62	255	217	30	49	7	4	7	49	5	2	29	29	.226	.322	.392	.713	85	4	0	5	5
20	Rhett Whisman	19	60	263	217	44	48	12	1	5	30	3	2	39	27	.221	.342	.355	.697	77	3	0	4	1
	20 Players	20.5	70	2703	2256	402	552	98	15	45	344	85	15	387	405	.245	.357	.361	.718	815	21	11	28	12

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	Craig Anderson	20	0	2	.000	10.29	5	2	1	0	0	0	14.0	23	20	16	5	9	0	10	0	0	2	2.286	14.8	3.2	5.8	6.4	1.11
2	Donald Borgini	22	1	1	.500	6.00	5	2	2	1	0	1	21.0	29	17	14	3	7	0	19	0	1	2	1.714	12.4	1.3	3.0	8.1	2.71
3	Albert Everett	18	3	4	.429	4.19	10	7	1	0	0	0	43.0	41	27	20	0	38	0	19	5	0	4	1.837	8.6	0.0	8.0	4.0	0.50
4	Doug Fregin	22	6	2	.750	3.18	11	11	0	2	1	0	68.0	67	37	24	2	23	2	36	4	0	2	1.324	8.9	0.3	3.0	4.8	1.57
5	Craig Henderson*	20	2	0	1.000	2.81	2	2	0	2	0	0	16.0	16	5	5	1	4	0	18	0	0	0	1.250	9.0	0.6	2.2	10.1	4.50
6	Richard Henkemeyer*	19	2	3	.400	7.69	10	9	0	0	0	0	48.0	51	41	41	2	42	0	36	2	1	1	1.938	9.6	0.4	7.9	6.8	0.86
7	Steve Korczyk	21	6	4	.600	1.50	28	0	26	0	0	5	48.0	34	11	8	1	9	0	33	0	0	2	0.896	6.4	0.2	1.7	6.2	3.67
8	Michael Kribell*	20	4	1	.800	3.54	15	9	1	0	0	0	61.0	55	31	24	3	38	1	42	3	0	10	1.525	8.1	0.4	5.6	6.2	1.11
9	Mark Larcom*	20	0	0		5.87	8	1	6	0	0	0	23.0	20	15	15	5	9	0	9	0	0	4	1.261	7.8	2.0	3.5	3.5	1.00
10	Michael Muhlenburg*	19	0	0		21.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	7	7	7	0	7	0	4	0	0	1	4.667	21.0	0.0	21.0	12.0	0.57
11	Marc Page	18	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	5	4	4	0	5	0	2	0	0	0	2.500	11.2	0.0	11.2	4.5	0.40
12	Mark Portugal	18	7	1	.875	3.71	14	13	1	2	0	1	85.0	65	41	35	11	39	3	65	5	0	12	1.224	6.9	1.2	4.1	6.9	1.67
13	Arthur Valencia	19	1	0	1.000	7.20	9	0	4	0	0	0	20.0	20	17	16	1	16	0	7	0	0	2	1.800	9.0	0.4	7.2	3.2	0.44
14	Michael Weiermiller*	21	4	4	.500	3.00	23	0	15	0	0	1	51.0	41	20	17	1	38	5	62	1	2	4	1.549	7.2	0.2	6.7	10.9	1.63
15	Mark Wright	21	6	5	.545	3.90	13	13	0	5	1	0	83.0	80	42	36	4	33	0	36	1	0	4	1.361	8.7	0.4	3.6	3.9	1.09
	15 Players	20.1	42	28	.600	4.30	70	70	58	12	3	8	589.2	554	335	282	39	317	11	398	21	4	50	1.477	8.5	0.6	4.8	6.1	1.26

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
Sebastiano Borriello	46	275	23	10	3	.968	6.48	8
Jeffery Martin	13	62	6	3	0	.958	5.23	4
George Skeens	9	54	3	4	0	.934	6.33	4
Eric Porter	5	31	2	0	0	1.000	6.60	2

1B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Julio Tirado	58	521	38	19	42	.967	9.64
Philip Franko	11	111	3	2	7	.983	10.36
Gary Robertson	2	19	0	0	2	1.000	9.50

2B

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Carson Carroll	64		138	183	9	39	.973	5.02
Mike Piatnik	8		15	30	4	4	.918	5.63

3B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Rhett Whisman	57	36	98	21	4	.865	2.35
Philip Franko	8	8	9	4	1	.810	2.13
Mike Piatnik	5	1	11	2	0	.857	2.40

SS

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Steve Lombardozzi	59	89	192	14	38	.953	4.76
Philip Franko	11	20	22	3	8	.933	3.82
Mike Piatnik	1	3	1	0	0	1.000	4.00

OF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
David Hoyt	62	126	10	8	3	.944	2.19
Johnny Salery	48	88	3	10	0	.901	1.90
Herbert Carter	42	50	5	3	1	.948	1.31
Donald Fleming	26	32	1	1	0	.971	1.27
Robert Heimerl	24	22	0	4	0	.846	0.92
Talbot Aiello	14	15	2	0	0	1.000	1.21
Cedric Gray	6	7	0	1	0	.875	1.17

P

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Steve Korczyk	28	7	8	1	1	.938	0.54
Michael Weiermiller	23	1	5	0	0	1.000	0.26
Michael Kribell	15	2	15	0	0	1.000	1.13
Mark Portugal	14	9	10	2	0	.905	1.36
Mark Wright	13	9	10	1	0	.950	1.46
Doug Fregin	11	7	11	1	1	.947	1.64
Albert Everett	10	3	7	2	1	.833	1.00
Richard Henkemeyer	10	1	3	0	0	1.000	0.40
Arthur Valencia	9	0	2	0	0	1.000	0.22
Mark Larcom	8	6	2	0	0	1.000	1.00
Craig Anderson	5	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.00
Donald Borgini	5	0	4	1	0	.800	0.80
Craig Henderson	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.00
Michael Muhlenburg	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.50
Marc Page	1	0	0	0	0		0.00

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Talbot Aiello	22	R	R	6' 0.0"	195	1959
Craig Anderson	20		R	6' 4.0"	200	1961
Donald Borgini	22		R	6' 0.0"	185	1959
Sebastiano Borriello	22	R	R	6' 1.0"	195	1959
Carson Carroll	21	R	R	6' 1.0"	170	Sep 23, 1959
Herbert Carter	19	R	R	6' 1.0"	190	1962
Albert Everett	18		R	6' 0.0"	185	1963
Donald Fleming	19	R	R	6' 0.0"	180	1962
Philip Franko	22	L	R	6' 3.0"	180	1959
Doug Fregin	22		R	6' 1.0"	190	Apr 5, 1959	Little Falls, MN, US
Cedric Gray	19	R	R			1962
Robert Heimerl	19	L	L	6' 2.0"	195	1962
Craig Henderson	20		L	6' 2.0"	185	Oct 20, 1960	Milwaukee, WI, US
Richard Henkemeyer	19		L	6' 1.0"	180	1962
David Hoyt	21	R	R	5' 11.0"	185	Jul 29, 1959	Madrid, ES
Dean Kappes	19	R	R	6' 1.0"	182	1962
Steve Korczyk	21		R	5' 11.0"	190	Oct 9, 1959	New Brunswick, NJ, US
Michael Kribell	20		L	6' 0.0"	180	1961
Mark Larcom	20		L	6' 2.0"	185	1961
Steve Lombardozzi	21	R	R	6' 0.0"	175	Apr 26, 1960	Malden, MA, US
Jeffery Martin	19	R	R	6' 1.0"	180	1962
Michael Muhlenburg	19		L	5' 11.0"	160	1962
Marc Page	18		R	6' 3.0"	205	1963
Mike Piatnik	22	R	R	5' 11.0"	170	1959
Eric Porter	22	R	R	6' 2.0"	195	1959
Mark Portugal	18	R	R	6' 0.0"	170	Oct 30, 1962	Los Angeles, CA, US
Gary Robertson	23	L	R	6' 5.0"	210	1958
Johnny Salery	21	R	R	5' 11.0"	170	1960
George Skeens	22	R	R	6' 2.0"	190	1959
Julio Tirado	19	L	L	6' 3.0"	165	Dec 18, 1961
Arthur Valencia	19		R	6' 2.0"	190	1962
Michael Weiermiller	21		L	5' 11.0"	175	1960
Rhett Whisman	19	R	R	6' 0.0"	180	1962
Mark Wright	21		R	6' 5.0"	215	1960

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