1997 Chicago White Sox Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1997 Chicago White Sox Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1996 / 1998)
80-81, Finished 2nd in AL Central
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Scored 779 runs, Allowed 833 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 76-85
Manager: Terry Bevington (80-81)
Ballpark: Comiskey Park II (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,864,782 (8th of 14)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 96, Pitching - 96; one-year: Batting - 95, Pitching - 96

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1996 / 1998 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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Team Batting

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Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Jorge Fabregas*	27	100	342	322	31	90	10	1	7	48	1	1	11	43	.280	.302	.382	.684	81	123	14	1	4	4	0
2	1B	Frank Thomas	29	146	649	530	110	184	35	0	35	125	1	1	109	69	.347	.456	.611	1.067	181	324	15	3	0	7	9
3	2B	Ray Durham#	25	155	711	634	106	172	27	5	11	53	33	16	61	96	.271	.337	.382	.719	91	242	14	6	2	8	0
4	SS	Ozzie Guillen*	33	142	527	490	59	120	21	6	4	52	5	3	22	24	.245	.275	.337	.612	62	165	7	0	11	4	1
5	3B	Chris Snopek	26	86	323	298	27	65	15	0	5	35	3	2	18	51	.218	.263	.319	.582	54	95	4	1	4	2	0
6	LF	Albert Belle	30	161	701	634	90	174	45	1	30	116	4	4	53	105	.274	.332	.491	.823	116	311	26	6	0	8	6
7	CF	Mike Cameron	24	116	446	379	63	98	18	3	14	55	23	2	55	105	.259	.356	.433	.789	109	164	8	5	2	5	1
8	RF	Dave Martinez*	32	145	573	504	78	144	16	6	12	55	12	6	55	69	.286	.356	.413	.768	104	208	4	3	5	6	7
9	DH	Harold Baines*	38	93	361	318	40	97	18	0	12	52	0	1	41	47	.305	.382	.475	.857	127	151	9	0	0	2	10
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
10	RF	Lyle Mouton	28	88	260	242	26	65	9	0	5	23	4	4	14	66	.269	.308	.368	.675	79	89	8	1	0	3	1
11	3B	Robin Ventura*	29	54	220	183	27	48	10	1	6	26	0	0	34	21	.262	.373	.426	.799	112	78	3	0	0	3	5
12	IF	Norberto Martin	30	71	219	213	24	64	7	1	2	27	1	4	6	31	.300	.320	.371	.691	83	79	2	0	0	0	0
13	RF	Tony Phillips#	38	36	161	129	23	40	6	0	2	9	4	1	29	29	.310	.440	.403	.843	127	52	3	1	2	0	0
14	C	Ron Karkovice	33	51	161	138	10	25	3	0	6	18	0	0	11	32	.181	.248	.333	.582	53	46	3	3	4	5	0
15	1B	Mario Valdez*	22	54	137	115	11	28	7	0	1	13	1	0	17	39	.243	.350	.330	.681	83	38	3	3	0	2	0
16	CF	Darren Lewis	29	81	93	77	15	18	1	0	0	5	11	4	11	14	.234	.330	.247	.576	57	19	2	0	5	0	0
17	C	Tony Pena	40	31	76	67	4	11	1	0	0	8	0	0	8	13	.164	.250	.179	.429	17	12	3	0	0	1	0
18	RF	Magglio Ordonez	23	21	72	69	12	22	6	0	4	11	1	2	2	8	.319	.338	.580	.918	138	40	1	0	1	0	0
19	UT	Chad Kreuter#	32	19	45	37	6	8	2	1	1	3	0	1	8	9	.216	.356	.405	.761	102	15	0	0	0	0	0
20	UT	Jeff Abbott	24	19	38	38	8	10	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	6	.263	.263	.368	.632	66	14	3	0	0	0	0
21	UT	Greg Norton#	24	18	37	34	5	9	2	2	0	1	0	0	2	8	.265	.306	.441	.747	96	15	0	0	1	0	0
22	C	Robert Machado	24	10	17	15	1	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	6	.200	.250	.333	.583	54	5	0	0	1	0	0
23	UT	Chad Fonville#	26	9	11	9	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	.111	.200	.111	.311	-14	1	0	0	1	0	0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
24	P	Danny Darwin	41	2	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
25	P	James Baldwin	25	2	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
26	P	Wilson Alvarez*	27	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	P	Jaime Navarro	30	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	1	0	0
28	P	Doug Drabek	34	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
29	P	Scott Eyre*	25	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	168	1	0	0	0	0	0
30	P	Carlos Castillo	22	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	436	1	0	0	0	0	0
31	P	Mike Sirotka*	26	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Tony Castillo*	34	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	29.4	161	6200	5491	779	1498	260	28	158	740	106	52	569	901	.273	.341	.417	.758	101	2288	133	33	47	60	40
		Rank in 14 AL teams				11	9	8	13	6	10		7	7	8	14	6	6	8	9		10
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

Team Pitching

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Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	Jaime Navarro	30	9	14	.391	5.79	33	33	0	2	0	0	209.2	267	155	135	22	73	6	142	3	1	14	957	76	1.622	11.5	0.9	3.1	6.1	1.95
2	SP	James Baldwin	25	12	15	.444	5.26	32	32	0	1	0	0	200.0	205	128	117	19	83	3	140	5	3	14	879	83	1.440	9.2	0.9	3.7	6.3	1.69
3	SP	Doug Drabek	34	12	11	.522	5.74	31	31	0	0	0	0	169.1	170	109	108	30	69	5	85	4	2	12	731	76	1.411	9.0	1.6	3.7	4.5	1.23
4	SP	Wilson Alvarez*	27	9	8	.529	3.03	22	22	0	2	1	0	145.2	126	61	49	9	55	1	110	3	0	4	613	145	1.243	7.8	0.6	3.4	6.8	2.00
5	SP	Danny Darwin	41	4	8	.333	4.13	21	17	0	1	0	0	113.1	130	60	52	21	31	1	62	1	2	1	496	106	1.421	10.3	1.7	2.5	4.9	2.00
6	SP	Scott Eyre*	25	4	4	.500	5.04	11	11	0	0	0	0	60.2	62	36	34	11	31	1	36	1	0	2	267	87	1.533	9.2	1.6	4.6	5.3	1.16
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
7	CL	Roberto Hernandez	32	5	1	.833	2.44	46	0	43	0	0	27	48.0	38	15	13	5	24	4	47	1	0	2	203	180	1.292	7.1	0.9	4.5	8.8	1.96
8	RP	Tony Castillo*	34	4	4	.500	4.91	64	0	20	0	0	4	62.1	74	48	34	6	23	7	42	1	0	0	283	89	1.556	10.7	0.9	3.3	6.1	1.83
9	RP	Chuck McElroy*	29	1	3	.250	3.94	48	0	13	0	0	1	59.1	56	29	26	3	19	1	44	2	0	1	254	111	1.264	8.5	0.5	2.9	6.7	2.32
10	RP	Matt Karchner	30	3	1	.750	2.91	52	0	25	0	0	15	52.2	50	18	17	4	26	4	30	0	0	6	224	151	1.443	8.5	0.7	4.4	5.1	1.15
11	RP	Bill Simas	25	3	1	.750	4.14	40	0	11	0	0	1	41.1	46	23	19	6	24	3	38	2	0	2	193	106	1.694	10.0	1.3	5.2	8.3	1.58
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
12		Carlos Castillo	22	2	1	.667	4.48	37	2	14	0	0	1	66.1	68	35	33	9	33	3	43	1	0	3	295	98	1.523	9.2	1.2	4.5	5.8	1.30
13		Mike Sirotka*	26	3	0	1.000	2.25	7	4	1	0	0	0	32.0	36	9	8	4	5	1	24	1	0	0	130	195	1.281	10.1	1.1	1.4	6.8	4.80
14		Jason Bere	26	4	2	.667	4.71	6	6	0	0	0	0	28.2	20	15	15	4	17	0	21	3	0	1	123	93	1.291	6.3	1.3	5.3	6.6	1.24
15		Keith Foulke	24	3	0	1.000	3.45	16	0	5	0	0	3	28.2	28	11	11	4	5	1	21	0	0	0	117	127	1.151	8.8	1.3	1.6	6.6	4.20
16		Alan Levine	29	2	2	.500	6.91	25	0	6	0	0	0	27.1	35	22	21	4	16	1	22	2	0	2	133	63	1.866	11.5	1.3	5.3	7.2	1.38
17		Nelson Cruz	24	0	2	.000	6.49	19	0	5	0	0	0	26.1	29	19	19	6	9	1	23	0	0	3	116	68	1.443	9.9	2.1	3.1	7.9	2.56
18		Tom Fordham*	23	0	1	.000	6.23	7	1	1	0	0	0	17.1	17	13	12	2	10	2	10	1	0	0	78	70	1.558	8.8	1.0	5.2	5.2	1.00
19		Jeff Darwin	27	0	1	.000	5.27	14	0	6	0	0	0	13.2	17	8	8	1	7	0	9	0	0	3	65	83	1.756	11.2	0.7	4.6	5.9	1.29
20		Chris Clemons	24	0	2	.000	8.53	5	2	3	0	0	0	12.2	19	13	12	4	11	0	8	1	0	1	67	51	2.368	13.5	2.8	7.8	5.7	0.73
21		Mike Bertotti*	27	0	0		7.36	9	0	2	0	0	0	3.2	9	3	3	0	2	0	4	0	1	0	23	60	3.000	22.1	0.0	4.9	9.8	2.00
22		Larry Thomas*	27	0	0		8.10	5	0	0	0	0	0	3.1	3	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	15	54	1.500	8.1	2.7	5.4	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	29.2	80	81	.497	4.74	161	161	155	6	1	52	1422.1	1505	833	749	175	575	45	961	32	9	71	6262	93	1.462	9.5	1.1	3.6	6.1	1.67
		Rank in 14 AL teams		6	9						11	8	2	14	7	10	8	6	9		10
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary
Jeff Abbott	24	13	4	46.2	15	15	0	0	0	1.000	-0.8	-20.6	0.2	-0.5	0.7	-1			2.89	1.15						LF-RF-CF-DH
Wilson Alvarez	27	22	22	145.2	24	6	17	1	0	.958	0.0	0.0							1.42	1.05						P
Harold Baines	38	86									0.0									0.00						DH
James Baldwin	25	32	32	200.0	39	15	22	2	0	.949	0.0	0.0							1.66	1.16						P
Albert Belle	30	161	154	1333.0	361	350	1	10	0	.972	-7.6	-6.8	-1.6	-2.5	0.9	-6			2.37	2.18						LF-DH
Jason Bere	26	6	6	28.2	4	1	2	1	1	.750	0.0	0.0							0.94	0.50						P
Mike Bertotti	27	9	0	3.2	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Mike Cameron	24	143	107	941.2	343	333	5	5	2	.985	17.9	22.8	13.9	4.4	9.5	4			3.23	2.36						CF-RF-DH
Carlos Castillo	22	37	2	66.1	6	1	5	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.81	0.16						P
Tony Castillo	34	64	0	62.1	25	3	19	3	0	.880	0.0	0.0							3.18	0.34						P
Chris Clemons	24	5	2	12.2	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.42	0.40						P
Nelson Cruz	24	19	0	26.1	4	3	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.37	0.21						P
Danny Darwin	41	21	17	113.1	26	6	20	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.06	1.24						P
Jeff Darwin	27	14	0	13.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.66	0.07						P
Doug Drabek	34	31	31	169.1	35	14	20	1	0	.971	0.0	0.0							1.81	1.10						P
Ray Durham	25	154	153	1339.2	683	270	395	18	77	.974	-16.2	-14.5	-14.2	-11.5	-2.7		-2		4.47	4.32						2B-DH
Scott Eyre	25	11	11	60.2	6	0	6	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.89	0.55						P
Jorge Fabregas	27	93	83	728.2	573	520	46	7	8	.988	1.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0			1	6.99	6.09	8	34	59	33	36%	C-1B
Chad Fonville	26	8	2	25.0	13	9	3	1	0	.923	-0.7	-33.6	-0.7	0.3	-1.0	0	0		4.32	1.50						SS-CF-2B-LF-DH
Tom Fordham	23	7	1	17.1	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.04	0.29						P
Keith Foulke	24	16	0	28.2	5	1	4	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.57	0.31						P
Ozzie Guillen	33	139	134	1191.1	570	207	348	15	78	.974	-17.5	-17.6	-14.5	-8.7	-5.8		-3		4.19	3.99						SS
Roberto Hernandez	32	46	0	48.0	10	4	6	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.88	0.22						P
Matt Karchner	30	52	0	52.2	8	2	6	0	2	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.37	0.15						P
Ron Karkovice	33	51	45	379.1	275	261	13	1	1	.996	0.0	0.0						0	6.50	5.37	2	20	24	10	29%	C
Chad Kreuter	32	15	8	81.0	65	59	4	2	1	.969	0.6	8.9	-0.4	-0.4	0.0		0	1	7.00	4.20	0	1	5	2	29%	C-1B
Alan Levine	29	25	0	27.1	8	5	3	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.63	0.32						P
Darren Lewis	29	70	19	242.2	92	91	1	0	1	1.000	6.8	33.6	4.8	1.6	3.2	2			3.41	1.31						CF-DH
Robert Machado	24	10	4	46.0	37	34	3	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0						0	7.24	3.70	1	3	6	4	40%	C
Dave Martinez	32	177	129	1130.2	523	486	30	7	25	.987	7.7	8.2	6.7	10.0	-3.3	1	0		4.11	2.92						RF-CF-1B-LF-DH
Norberto Martin	30	60	45	397.2	152	50	97	5	16	.967	-5.7	-17.2	-5.7	-3.5	-2.2		0		3.33	2.45						SS-3B-2B-DH
Chuck McElroy	29	48	0	59.1	13	1	12	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.97	0.27						P
Lyle Mouton	28	82	56	471.2	131	126	1	4	0	.969	-1.9	-4.8	0.1	2.1	-2.0	-2			2.42	1.55						RF-LF-DH
Jaime Navarro	30	33	33	209.2	33	15	15	3	0	.909	0.0	0.0							1.29	0.91						P
Greg Norton	24	13	6	67.0	22	4	15	3	0	.864	-1.7	-30.4	-1.7	-1.0	-0.7		0		2.55	1.46						3B-DH
Magglio Ordonez	23	19	17	154.0	44	43	1	0	0	1.000	7.5	58.4	6.5	2.7	3.8	1			2.57	2.32						RF
Tony Pena	40	31	21	193.1	151	143	8	0	2	1.000	-6.2	-38.5	-0.2	-0.2	0.0			-6	7.03	4.87	5	13	25	3	11%	C-3B
Tony Phillips	38	37	34	292.1	92	74	15	3	2	.967	-2.9	-11.9	-2.9	-0.1	-2.8	0	0		2.74	2.41						RF-3B
Bill Simas	25	40	0	41.1	6	3	3	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.31	0.15						P
Mike Sirotka	26	7	4	32.0	5	1	3	1	0	.800	0.0	0.0							1.12	0.57						P
Chris Snopek	26	86	81	719.0	202	61	125	16	13	.921	-8.4	-14.0	-8.4	-6.9	-1.5		0		2.33	2.16						3B-SS
Frank Thomas	29	146	97	822.2	799	739	49	11	70	.986	-3.5	-5.1	-2.5	1.3	-3.8		-1		8.62	5.40						1B-DH
Larry Thomas	27	5	0	3.1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.70	0.20						P
Mario Valdez	22	50	35	312.2	268	256	12	0	19	1.000	-1.3	-5.0	-1.3	0.6	-1.9		0		7.71	5.36						1B-3B-DH
Robin Ventura	29	54	54	460.2	159	53	99	7	11	.956	6.5	16.9	6.5	-0.5	7.0		0		2.97	2.81						3B
Team Totals	29.2	161	1449	12799.0	5833	4267	1439	127	335	.978	-26.4	-2.5	-15.4	-12.8	-2.6	-1	-6	-4	4.01	2.54	16	71	119	52	30%
Rank in 14 AL teams								3	14	13
	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary

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