1998 St. Louis Cardinals Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1998 St. Louis Cardinals Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1997 / 1999)
83-79, Finished 3rd in NL Central
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Scored 810 runs, Allowed 782 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 84-78
Manager: Tony LaRussa (83-79)
Ballpark: Busch Stadium II (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 3,195,691 (4th of 16)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 100; one-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 100
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1997 / 1999 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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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	Eli Marrero	24	83	284	254	28	62	18	1	4	20	6	2	28	42	.244	.318	.370	.688	81	94	5	0	1	1	5
2	1B	Mark McGwire	34	155	681	509	130	152	21	0	70	147	1	0	162	155	.299	.470	.752	1.222	216	383	8	6	0	4	28
3	2B	Delino DeShields*	29	117	484	420	74	122	21	8	7	44	26	10	56	61	.290	.371	.429	.799	110	180	6	0	4	4	2
4	SS	Royce Clayton	28	90	402	355	59	83	19	1	4	29	19	6	40	51	.234	.313	.327	.640	69	116	10	2	3	2	1
5	3B	Gary Gaetti	39	91	345	306	39	81	23	1	11	43	1	1	31	39	.265	.339	.454	.793	107	139	10	5	0	3	1
6	LF	Ron Gant	33	121	438	383	60	92	17	1	26	67	8	0	51	92	.240	.331	.493	.825	114	189	6	2	0	2	2
7	CF	Ray Lankford*	31	154	626	533	94	156	37	1	31	105	26	5	86	151	.293	.391	.540	.932	143	288	4	3	0	4	5
8	RF	Brian Jordan	31	150	617	564	100	178	34	7	25	91	17	5	40	66	.316	.368	.534	.902	134	301	18	9	0	4	1
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
9	UT	John Mabry*	27	142	413	377	41	94	22	0	9	46	0	2	30	76	.249	.305	.379	.684	79	143	6	1	3	2	6
10	OF	Willie McGee#	39	120	286	269	27	68	10	1	3	34	7	2	14	49	.253	.287	.331	.618	62	89	6	0	0	3	5
11	C	Tom Lampkin*	34	93	248	216	25	50	12	1	6	28	3	2	24	32	.231	.328	.380	.708	86	82	5	7	1	0	5
12	3B	Fernando Tatis	23	55	229	202	28	58	16	2	8	26	7	3	24	57	.287	.367	.505	.872	127	102	6	2	0	1	1
13	C	Tom Pagnozzi	35	51	178	160	7	35	9	0	1	10	0	0	14	37	.219	.280	.294	.574	52	47	4	0	3	1	0
14	2B	Pat Kelly	30	53	170	153	18	33	5	0	4	14	5	1	13	48	.216	.284	.327	.611	61	50	3	2	1	1	0
15	SS	Luis Ordaz	22	57	169	153	9	31	5	0	0	8	2	0	12	18	.203	.261	.235	.496	32	36	3	0	4	0	1
16	UT	Brian Hunter	30	62	123	112	11	23	9	1	4	13	1	1	7	23	.205	.258	.411	.669	73	46	4	1	3	0	0
17	SS	Placido Polanco	22	45	122	114	10	29	3	2	1	11	2	0	5	9	.254	.292	.342	.634	67	39	1	1	2	0	0
18	MI	David Howard#	31	46	117	102	15	25	1	1	2	12	0	0	12	22	.245	.322	.333	.655	73	34	2	0	2	1	2
19	OF	J.D. Drew*	22	14	41	36	9	15	3	1	5	13	0	0	4	10	.417	.463	.972	1.436	266	35	4	0	0	1	0
20	UT	Joe McEwing	25	10	23	20	5	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	3	.200	.273	.250	.523	39	5	0	1	1	0	0
21	OF	Mark Little	25	7	15	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	.083	.214	.083	.298	-17	1	0	0	1	0	0
22	IF	David Bell	25	4	9	9	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.222	.222	.333	.556	44	3	0	0	0	0	0
23	2B	Shawn Gilbert	33	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	165	1	0	0	0	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	Todd Stottlemyre*	33	22	62	53	3	12	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	24	.226	.281	.226	.507	36	12	1	0	5	0	0
25	P	Kent Mercker*	30	32	61	54	3	8	0	1	1	6	0	0	2	25	.148	.179	.241	.419	9	13	1	0	5	0	0
26	P	Matt Morris	23	17	41	29	1	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	5	16	.069	.206	.103	.309	-15	3	0	0	7	0	0
27	P	Kent Bottenfield	29	42	39	34	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	9	.088	.088	.088	.176	-53	3	0	0	5	0	0
28	P	Donovan Osborne#	29	14	32	25	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	.040	.143	.040	.183	-48	1	1	0	4	0	0
29	P	Manuel Aybar	26	18	28	27	4	6	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	9	.222	.222	.333	.556	44	9	0	0	1	0	0
30	P	Mark Petkovsek	32	46	25	22	5	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.318	.348	.364	.711	88	8	0	0	2	0	0
31	P	Darren Oliver	27	11	24	23	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.087	.125	.130	.255	-32	3	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Juan Acevedo	28	48	20	17	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.176	.222	.235	.458	21	4	0	0	2	0	0
33	P	Cliff Politte	24	8	16	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.071	.133	.071	.205	-44	1	1	0	1	0	0
34	P	Bobby Witt	34	16	12	10	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.200	.273	.300	.573	51	3	0	0	1	0	0
35	P	Jose Jimenez	24	4	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	2	0	0
36	P	John Frascatore	28	65	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-12	1	1	0	0	0	0
37	P	Curtis King	27	32	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	0	0	0
38	P	Mike Busby	25	26	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	-26	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Sean Lowe	27	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	P	Rich Croushore	27	39	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	2	0	0
41	P	Lance Painter*	30	62	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	430	1	0	0	1	0	0
42	P	Jeff Brantley	34	46	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	1	0	0
43	P	Brady Raggio	25	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	P	Bryan Eversgerd	29	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
45	P	Braden Looper	23	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	30.6	163	6413	5593	810	1444	292	30	223	781	133	41	676	1179	.258	.341	.441	.781	104	2465	117	42	68	34	65
		Rank in 16 NL teams				6	6	7	5	8	1		4	14	2	3	10	4	3	4		3
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.

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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	Kent Mercker*	30	11	11	.500	5.07	30	29	1	0	0	0	161.2	199	99	91	11	53	4	72	3	4	6	716	84	1.559	11.1	0.6	3.0	4.0	1.36
2	SP	Todd Stottlemyre	33	9	9	.500	3.51	23	23	0	3	0	0	161.1	146	74	63	20	51	0	147	4	2	4	674	121	1.221	8.1	1.1	2.8	8.2	2.88
3	SP	Matt Morris	23	7	5	.583	2.53	17	17	0	2	1	0	113.2	101	37	32	8	42	6	79	3	0	3	468	167	1.258	8.0	0.6	3.3	6.3	1.88
4	SP	Donovan Osborne*	29	5	4	.556	4.09	14	14	0	1	1	0	83.2	84	42	38	11	22	2	60	1	0	1	358	104	1.267	9.0	1.2	2.4	6.5	2.73
5	SP	Manuel Aybar	26	6	6	.500	5.98	20	14	1	0	0	0	81.1	90	58	54	6	42	1	57	2	0	2	369	71	1.623	10.0	0.7	4.6	6.3	1.36
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
6	CL	Juan Acevedo	28	8	3	.727	2.56	50	9	29	0	0	15	98.1	83	30	28	7	29	2	56	4	0	3	394	165	1.139	7.6	0.6	2.7	5.1	1.93
7	RP	Mark Petkovsek	32	7	4	.636	4.77	48	10	7	0	0	0	105.2	131	63	56	9	36	3	55	8	1	1	476	89	1.580	11.2	0.8	3.1	4.7	1.53
8	RP	John Frascatore	28	3	4	.429	4.14	69	0	15	0	0	0	95.2	95	48	44	11	36	3	49	3	0	2	415	102	1.369	8.9	1.0	3.4	4.6	1.36
9	RP	Jeff Brantley	34	0	5	.000	4.44	48	0	33	0	0	14	50.2	40	26	25	12	18	3	48	1	0	1	209	95	1.145	7.1	2.1	3.2	8.5	2.67
10	RP	Lance Painter*	30	4	0	1.000	3.99	65	0	9	0	0	1	47.1	42	24	21	5	28	3	39	4	0	2	207	106	1.479	8.0	1.0	5.3	7.4	1.39
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
11		Kent Bottenfield	29	4	6	.400	4.44	44	17	11	0	0	4	133.2	128	72	66	13	57	3	98	4	2	3	578	95	1.384	8.6	0.9	3.8	6.6	1.72
12		Darren Oliver*	27	4	4	.500	4.26	10	10	0	0	0	0	57.0	64	31	27	7	23	1	29	0	3	1	256	99	1.526	10.1	1.1	3.6	4.6	1.26
13		Rich Croushore	27	0	3	.000	4.97	41	0	15	0	0	8	54.1	44	31	30	6	29	2	47	4	0	6	243	85	1.344	7.3	1.0	4.8	7.8	1.62
14		Curtis King	27	2	0	1.000	3.53	36	0	11	0	0	2	51.0	50	20	20	5	20	4	28	3	0	0	218	120	1.373	8.8	0.9	3.5	4.9	1.40
15		Bobby Witt	34	2	5	.286	4.94	17	5	8	0	0	0	47.1	55	32	26	7	20	1	28	2	1	1	217	86	1.585	10.5	1.3	3.8	5.3	1.40
16		Mike Busby	25	5	2	.714	4.50	26	2	7	0	0	0	46.0	45	23	23	3	15	0	33	5	0	3	202	94	1.304	8.8	0.6	2.9	6.5	2.20
17		Cliff Politte	24	2	3	.400	6.32	8	8	0	0	0	0	37.0	45	32	26	6	18	0	22	1	1	2	172	67	1.703	10.9	1.5	4.4	5.4	1.22
18		Jose Jimenez	24	3	0	1.000	2.95	4	3	0	0	0	0	21.1	22	8	7	0	8	0	12	0	0	0	94	143	1.406	9.3	0.0	3.4	5.1	1.50
19		Brady Raggio	25	1	1	.500	15.43	4	1	2	0	0	0	7.0	22	12	12	1	3	0	3	1	0	0	43	27	3.571	28.3	1.3	3.9	3.9	1.00
20		Bryan Eversgerd*	29	0	0		9.00	8	0	2	0	0	0	6.0	9	7	6	1	2	0	4	1	0	0	31	47	1.833	13.5	1.5	3.0	6.0	2.00
21		Sean Lowe	27	0	3	.000	15.19	4	1	2	0	0	0	5.1	11	9	9	1	5	0	2	0	0	0	31	28	3.000	18.6	1.7	8.4	3.4	0.40
22		Braden Looper	23	0	1	.000	5.40	4	0	3	0	0	0	3.1	5	4	2	1	1	0	4	0	0	1	16	78	1.800	13.5	2.7	2.7	10.8	4.00
23		Gary Gaetti	39	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5		2.000	18.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	28.8	83	79	.512	4.32	163	163	157	6	2	44	1469.2	1513	782	706	151	558	38	972	54	14	42	6392	98	1.409	9.3	0.9	3.4	6.0	1.74
		Rank in 16 NL teams		7	9		8				12	6	6	4	12	9	9	6	10		17553
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
Juan Acevedo	28	50	9	98.1	25	6	18	1	0	.960									2.20	0.48						P
Manuel Aybar	26	20	13	81.1	16	8	8	0	0	1.000									1.77	0.80						P
David Bell	25	5	2	22.0	5	1	4	0	1	1.000	-0.2	-10.9	-0.2	0.0	-0.2		0		2.05	1.00						3B-2B
Kent Bottenfield	29	44	17	133.2	30	3	27	0	0	1.000									2.02	0.68						P
Jeff Brantley	34	48	0	50.2	4	4	0	0	0	1.000									0.71	0.08						P
Mike Busby	25	26	2	46.0	7	3	4	0	1	1.000									1.37	0.27						P
Royce Clayton	28	89	86	777.1	439	140	286	13	53	.970	2.3	3.6	3.3	-0.4	3.7		-1		4.93	4.79						SS
Rich Croushore	27	41	0	54.1	15	2	13	0	0	1.000									2.48	0.37						P
Delino DeShields	29	112	102	897.1	529	247	273	9	66	.983	-4.0	-5.3	-2.0	-2.7	0.7		-2		5.22	4.64						2B-1B
J.D. Drew	22	13	8	75.0	20	19	1	0	1	1.000	1.7	27.2	1.7	-0.2	1.9	0			2.40	1.54						RF-LF-CF
Bryan Eversgerd	29	8	0	6.0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000									4.50	0.38						P
John Frascatore	28	69	0	95.2	24	11	11	2	1	.917									2.07	0.32						P
Gary Gaetti	39	89	79	690.0	218	62	153	3	17	.986	1.1	1.9	0.1	-3.6	3.7		1		2.80	2.42						3B-1B-2B-RF-P
Ron Gant	33	104	101	819.0	171	162	4	5	0	.971	0.6	0.9	2.6	-4.7	7.3	-2			1.82	1.60						LF
Shawn Gilbert	33	2	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0.2	-80.0	-0.2	-0.2	0.0		0		3.00	0.50						2B
David Howard	31	52	23	248.0	137	53	82	2	10	.985	-0.9	-4.4	-1.9	-1.4	-0.5	1	0		4.90	2.60						2B-SS-3B-CF-RF
Brian Hunter	30	39	22	201.2	72	66	3	3	3	.958	2.1	12.5	2.1	3.1	-1.0	0	0		3.08	1.77						LF-RF-1B-DH
Jose Jimenez	24	4	3	21.1	5	0	5	0	0	1.000									2.11	1.25						P
Brian Jordan	31	161	134	1172.0	303	282	12	9	6	.970	25.1	25.7	24.1	3.2	20.9	1	0		2.26	1.83						RF-CF-3B-DH
Pat Kelly	30	46	35	312.1	195	79	109	7	18	.964	3.0	11.5	4.0	1.5	2.5	0	-1		5.42	4.09						2B-LF-SS
Curtis King	27	36	0	51.0	19	10	9	0	1	1.000									3.35	0.53						P
Tom Lampkin	34	69	54	490.2	361	337	19	5	5	.986	-2.1	-5.1	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	0	0	-2	6.53	5.16	4	19	30	13	30%	C-LF-1B-RF
Ray Lankford	31	146	137	1216.1	349	337	7	5	2	.986	3.5	3.5	6.5	-0.9	7.4	-3			2.55	2.36						CF-DH
Mark Little	25	7	4	38.1	11	11	0	0	0	1.000	1.5	47.0	1.5	0.3	1.2	0			2.58	1.57						RF-LF
Braden Looper	23	4	0	3.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Sean Lowe	27	4	1	5.1	2	1	1	0	0	1.000									3.38	0.50						P
John Mabry	27	137	85	793.0	279	206	64	9	12	.968	-11.3	-17.1	-12.3	-3.4	-8.9	1	0		3.06	1.97						3B-LF-RF-1B
Eli Marrero	24	75	67	615.0	462	427	31	4	3	.991	5.1	10.0	0.1	0.1	0.0		0	5	6.70	6.11	1	13	32	19	37%	C-1B
Joe McEwing	25	9	4	41.0	20	10	10	0	3	1.000	0.9	26.3	0.9	0.3	0.6	0	0		4.39	2.22						2B-CF-LF-RF
Willie McGee	39	105	39	479.0	118	103	8	7	1	.941	6.2	15.5	4.2	0.7	3.5	2	0		2.09	1.06						LF-RF-CF-1B-DH
Mark McGwire	34	151	152	1326.1	1435	1326	97	12	128	.992	-16.2	-14.7	-16.2	-8.7	-7.5		0		9.66	9.42						1B
Kent Mercker	30	30	30	161.2	31	3	26	2	0	.935									1.61	0.97						P
Matt Morris	23	17	17	113.2	22	4	17	1	5	.955									1.66	1.24						P
Darren Oliver	27	10	10	57.0	12	0	12	0	1	1.000									1.89	1.20						P
Luis Ordaz	22	57	47	402.1	240	70	157	13	35	.946	-2.2	-6.6	-1.2	0.1	-1.3		-1		5.08	3.98						SS-2B-3B
Donovan Osborne	29	14	14	83.2	16	5	8	3	2	.813									1.40	0.93						P
Tom Pagnozzi	35	44	42	374.1	281	259	17	5	5	.982	1.0	3.2						1	6.64	6.27	1	10	30	12	29%	C
Lance Painter	30	65	0	47.1	18	6	12	0	1	1.000									3.42	0.28						P
Mark Petkovsek	32	48	10	105.2	20	8	11	1	1	.950									1.62	0.40						P
Placido Polanco	22	42	29	284.1	181	72	102	7	28	.961	-3.3	-13.9	-3.3	-0.8	-2.5		0		5.51	4.14						SS-2B
Cliff Politte	24	8	8	37.0	8	3	4	1	0	.875									1.70	0.88						P
Brady Raggio	25	4	1	7.0	2	1	1	0	1	1.000									2.57	0.50						P
Todd Stottlemyre	33	23	23	161.1	41	18	22	1	2	.976									2.23	1.74						P
Fernando Tatis	23	58	52	480.0	171	36	123	12	7	.930	-6.7	-16.7	-5.7	-1.3	-4.4		-1		2.98	2.74						3B-SS
Bobby Witt	34	17	5	47.1	12	3	9	0	2	1.000									2.28	0.71						P
Team Totals	30.2	163	1467	13227.0	6330	4407	1781	142	422	.978	7.0	0.6	8.0	-19.0	27.0	0	-5	4	4.21	2.81	6	42	92	44	32%
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