Stephen Lesfargues

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  • Bats Left, Throws Left
  • Height 6' 0", Weight 185 lb.

Biographical Information[edit]

Stephen Lesfargues played in the French Division I and for the French national team. He primarily was a first baseman.

He batted .111/.200/.111 and fielded .978 at first in the 1994 Baseball World Cup. [1] He hit .455/.571/.500 with 10 runs in 6 games in the 1995 European Championship. He was 9th in the event in average (between David Meurant and Eric de Bruin), 8th in OBP (between Meurant and Johnny Balentina) and 6th in fielding at 1B (.957, between Sven Hendrickx and Martin Helmig). [2] In the 1997 Intercontinental Cup, he backed up Jean-Baptiste Meunier at 1B but went 2-for-6 with two walks, a HBP, a triple and a RBI, handling 22 chances error-free and leading France in OPS. His triple was off Italy's Emiliano Ginanneschi. [3]

French stats are first available online (as of 9/1/25) for the 1998 season. He hit .389/.448/.722 at age 28 for the Barracudas de Montpellier. He moved to the Pessac Panthères in 1999 and fell to .284/.438/.365. [4] He was 3 for 10 with a walk, a run and a RBI in the 1999 European Championship, splitting first with Meunier. France won Bronze, their first medal in a European Championship. [5]

In 2000, he batted .429/.544/.667 for Montpellier, then .310/.353/.414 in 2001. He hit .276/.417/.414 with 6 RBI in 8 games in the 2001 European Championship; he had France's lone homer, off former Royals farmhand Pavel Budský. [6] He was at .111/.304/.111 and fielded .944 in the 2001 Baseball World Cup, but had a better OBP than the team mark of .255. [7] Moving to the Cougars de Montigny, he hit .309/.456/.395 in 2002. He was not in France's top league in 2003-2004. The veteran returned to Montpellier in 2005 but struggled at .194/.356/.250. He played in the French minors from 2006-2011. In 2012, the 52-year-old returned to Division I, going 10-for-30 with 3 walks, a double, 3 runs and two RBI for the Chevaliers de Beaucaire. The veteran led the team in OPS.He was 0 for 5 with a walk for the 2013 Chevaliers to end his playing career.

Lesfargues later was the National Technical Director for the Fédération Française de Baseball et Softball. [8]

Sources[edit]

  1. ↑ Defunct IBAF site
  2. ↑ Wayback Archive, 1995 European Championship
  3. ↑ Defunct IBAF site
  4. ↑ Stats.free.fr (this is the source for all French stats listed)
  5. ↑ International scorekeeper Harry Wedemeijer
  6. ↑ Harry Wedemeijer
  7. ↑ Defunct IBAF site
  8. ↑ French Baseball Federation
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