1981 Asheville Tourists Statistics

South Atlantic League (SAL) - Class: A
Team Record: 74-68
Finished 2nd in the SAL's North Division
Manager: Tom Robson (74-68)
Affiliation: Texas Rangers
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Ballpark: Old McCormick Field
Attendance: 70,957, Avg. 999

1981 Asheville Tourists Roster

The Asheville Tourists of the South Atlantic League ended the 1981 season with a record of 74 wins and 68 losses, finishing second in the league's North Division.

The Tourists scored 773 runs and yielded 666 runs. Dan Murphy led Asheville with 18 home runs, while George Gomez and Tom Dunbar walloped 15 or more also. Dan Murphy drove in 88 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .369 clip. Dar Smith paced the team with 16 wins and a team-best 2.76 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Dar Smith, Dwayne Henry, Billy Taylor, Greg Tabor, Tom Dunbar, Tom Henke, Curt Wilkerson and Mike Mason were all players from the 1981 Asheville Tourists who played in the Majors during their careers.

Tom Robson served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Dar Smith	16	5	.762	2.76	29	22	4	7	0	1	160.0	136	65	49	7	57	0	64	4	0	9
Mike Mason	8	3	.727	2.12	12	12	0	6	1	0	85.0	58	28	20	4	35	0	39	2	0	11
Brad Mengwasser	8	5	.615	4.50	41	5	22	0	0	5	94.0	80	61	47	7	48	1	74	4	0	5
Tom Henke	8	6	.571	2.93	28	8	19	0	0	3	92.0	77	36	30	5	35	4	67	3	0	6
Dwayne Henry	8	7	.533	4.43	25	25	0	1	0	0	134.0	120	81	66	21	58	0	86	4	0	8
Al Hartman	6	6	.500	4.11	36	4	17	0	0	4	105.0	110	67	48	9	52	4	54	7	1	7
Mark Gammage	4	4	.500	4.21	18	15	0	3	0	0	92.0	91	53	43	12	53	1	53	3	1	7
Marty Leach	3	0	1.000	1.88	9	5	3	2	1	0	48.0	32	13	10	1	10	0	25	1	0	0
Tim Henry	3	2	.600	4.36	18	8	5	0	0	1	64.0	55	39	31	1	42	0	42	2	0	9
Tim Maki	3	7	.300	5.23	15	15	0	2	0	0	74.0	81	49	43	5	47	0	40	6	2	3
Tony Hudson	2	5	.286	5.58	16	6	8	0	0	2	50.0	60	41	31	3	36	0	23	4	0	4
Dennis Long	1	1	.500	0.72	12	0	12	0	0	1	25.0	18	5	2	0	2	0	18	1	0	0
Mike Schmid	1	2	.333	5.06	10	0	6	0	0	0	16.0	21	10	9	1	8	1	8	1	0	0
Mitch Zwolensky	1	4	.200	6.67	9	2	4	1	0	1	27.0	42	20	20	4	14	3	21	1	0	0
Billy Taylor	1	7	.125	4.64	14	12	0	1	0	0	64.0	76	43	33	2	35	0	44	5	0	11
Amos Lewis	0	0		13.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	4	3	1	2	0	1	1	0	0
Dave Moharter	0	1	.000	6.75	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	5	4	3	0	1	0	2	1	0	0
Matthew Courtney	0	3	.000	3.48	15	2	7	0	0	2	31.0	30	16	12	1	19	0	27	1	0	5
Totals	73	68	.518	3.86	309	142	108	23	2	20	1167.0	1095	635	500	84	554	14	688	51	4	85	0

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Tom Dunbar	138	609	530	101	157	33	7	15	76	26	12	74	77	.296	.382	.470	.851	249		1	1	3	1
Dan Murphy	116	491	409	93	151	28	4	18	88	20	3	69	54	.369	.457	.589	1.046	241		2	5	6	9
George Gomez	106	412	356	58	103	22	3	15	68	2	1	51	63	.289	.383	.494	.877	176		3	2	0	3
James Maxwell	110	456	402	56	102	23	1	12	53	7	2	42	88	.254	.330	.405	.736	163		5	5	2	1
Richard Wilkinson	111	426	364	57	97	19	3	9	67	0	2	48	61	.266	.360	.409	.770	149		7	4	3	4
Carmelo Aguayo	86	358	308	59	91	19	5	7	48	2	2	48	30	.295	.394	.458	.852	141		2	0	0	1
Oscar Mejia	57	263	236	42	75	16	1	7	44	1	1	16	13	.318	.364	.483	.847	114		3	5	3	0
Curt Wilkerson	106	377	333	45	68	7	3	0	19	12	5	26	53	.204	.269	.243	.512	81		5	9	4	0
Brett Benza	85	328	280	48	65	10	3	0	18	15	1	32	37	.232	.319	.289	.608	81		5	8	3	3
Amos Lewis	78	303	249	45	62	9	1	11	48	1	3	51	87	.249	.374	.426	.800	106		0	1	2	4
Jerry Neufang	76	268	222	34	56	6	0	0	23	2	0	41	27	.252	.372	.279	.651	62		2	2	1	1
Gary Venner	84	292	264	24	53	6	1	10	38	0	1	21	34	.201	.271	.345	.616	91		5	1	1	1
Chuckie Canady	35	140	120	20	36	6	0	2	26	3	0	17	18	.300	.393	.400	.793	48		2	0	1	1
Larry Reynolds	23	93	84	20	29	3	0	0	9	8	3	7	4	.345	.402	.381	.783	32		1	1	0	1
Brooks Wallace	55	188	169	16	26	3	0	0	11	1	1	14	34	.154	.222	.172	.393	29		1	3	1	0
Greg Tabor	39	148	136	13	23	3	1	0	4	4	5	7	23	.169	.214	.206	.420	28		1	3	1	0
Lorenzo Bundy	24	82	69	10	20	4	1	3	17	0	0	9	8	.290	.378	.507	.885	35		2	0	2	1
James Tjader	26	81	75	9	18	1	2	3	10	2	0	5	24	.240	.288	.427	.714	32		0	1	0	1
David Hibner	23	93	76	15	18	4	0	3	6	2	2	14	26	.237	.370	.408	.777	31		2	1	0	0
Samuel Crafort	16	50	42	9	6	1	0	0	3	4	1	8	19	.143	.280	.167	.447	7		0	0	0	0
Totals	1394	5458	4724	774	1256	223	36	115	676	112	45	600	780	.266	.352	.401	.754	1896	0	49	52	33	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Richard Wilkinson	1B	91	908	61	16	74	.984	1.648
Amos Lewis	1B	25	194	7	7	18	.966	8.040
James Maxwell	1B	20	180	12	3	15	.985	9.600
Lorenzo Bundy	1B	11	104	5	2	11	.982	9.909
James Tjader	1B	4	48	3	0	3	1.000	12.750
Brett Benza	1B	1	8	0	0	1	1.000	8.000
Curt Wilkerson	2B	44	100	163	16	27	.943	5.977
Carmelo Aguayo	2B	36	79	121	8	25	.962	5.556
George Gomez	2B	30	67	105	12	25	.935	5.733
James Tjader	2B	19	38	50	2	8	.978	4.632
Greg Tabor	2B	10	31	18	2	10	.961	4.900
Brooks Wallace	2B	9	12	35	4	4	.922	5.222
Oscar Mejia	2B	7	20	25	2	2	.957	6.429
James Maxwell	3B	89	71	153	15	15	.937	2.517
George Gomez	3B	29	24	42	14	7	.825	2.276
Oscar Mejia	3B	24	26	55	11	3	.880	3.375
Brooks Wallace	3B	9	9	13	8	1	.733	2.444
Jerry Neufang	C	75	401	62	10	5	.979	6.173	6
Gary Venner	C	72	319	34	9	4	.975	4.903	8
Carmelo Aguayo	C	7	49	6	2	1	.965	7.857	1
Tom Dunbar	OF	134	184	15	13	1	.939	1.485
Dan Murphy	OF	111	133	4	7	0	.951	1.234
Brett Benza	OF	77	127	9	5	1	.965	1.766
Chuckie Canady	OF	32	39	4	2	0	.956	1.344
Amos Lewis	OF	21	21	2	2	0	.920	1.095
David Hibner	OF	20	32	4	1	1	.973	1.800
Larry Reynolds	OF	19	27	2	2	0	.935	1.526
Samuel Crafort	OF	14	15	0	1	0	.938	1.071
George Gomez	OF	12	27	2	1	0	.967	2.417
Brad Mengwasser	P	41	8	24	3	2	.914	.780
Al Hartman	P	36	8	28	1	1	.973	1.000
Dar Smith	P	29	18	32	2	2	.962	1.724
Tom Henke	P	28	6	18	3	4	.889	.857
Dwayne Henry	P	25	7	23	1	0	.968	1.200
Tim Henry	P	18	2	5	0	1	1.000	.389
Mark Gammage	P	18	1	11	5	0	.706	.667
Tony Hudson	P	16	7	9	2	1	.889	1.000
Tim Maki	P	15	3	7	0	0	1.000	.667
Matthew Courtney	P	15	0	6	0	0	1.000	.400
Billy Taylor	P	14	3	12	2	0	.882	1.071
Mike Mason	P	12	7	27	1	2	.971	2.833
Dennis Long	P	12	3	5	0	0	1.000	.667
Mike Schmid	P	10	0	0	0	0		.000
Mitch Zwolensky	P	9	0	5	0	1	1.000	.556
Marty Leach	P	9	6	13	1	2	.950	2.111
Dave Moharter	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Amos Lewis	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Richard Wilkinson	SS	59	88	209	12	30	.961	5.034
Brooks Wallace	SS	40	62	122	17	25	.915	4.600
Greg Tabor	SS	30	59	113	21	17	.891	5.733
Oscar Mejia	SS	24	54	93	9	16	.942	6.125
Totals		1514	3635	1774	257	366	.955	3.573	15	0	0

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

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