2003 Bakersfield Blaze Statistics
Team Record: 70-70
Finished 4th in the CL's North Division
Manager: Omer Munoz (70-70)
Affiliation: Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Location: Bakersfield, California
Ballpark: Sam Lynn Ballpark
Attendance: 90,099, Avg. 1,325 in 68 home dates
The Bakersfield Blaze of the California League ended the 2003 season with a record of 70 wins and 70 losses, finishing fourth in the league's North Division.
The Blaze plated 668 runs and yielded 665 runs. Aaron Clark and Eric Reece paced Bakersfield with 15 home runs apiece. Aaron Clark drove in 83 runs. Fernando Cortez topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .281 clip. James Shields led the squad with 10 wins, while Jarod Matthews registered a 4.02 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.
Members of the 2003 Bakersfield Blaze who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Fernando Cortez, Brian O'Connor, Juan Salas, Edgar Gonzalez, Chris Seddon, Bobby Cramer, Dewon Brazelton, Chad Gaudin, Joey Gathright and James Shields.
Omer Munoz served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
| Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Shields | 10 | 10 | .500 | 4.45 | 26 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 143.7 | 161 | 85 | 71 | 19 | 38 | 0 | 119 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 632 |
| Chris Seddon | 9 | 11 | .450 | 4.99 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 133.3 | 147 | 93 | 74 | 12 | 54 | 0 | 95 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 595 |
| Chris Flinn | 8 | 6 | .571 | 4.57 | 24 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.3 | 116 | 65 | 51 | 8 | 35 | 0 | 79 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 452 |
| Jarod Matthews | 8 | 7 | .533 | 4.02 | 23 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 121.0 | 131 | 62 | 54 | 12 | 27 | 0 | 109 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 526 |
| Chris Crawford | 6 | 6 | .500 | 4.16 | 47 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 88.7 | 96 | 53 | 41 | 6 | 36 | 0 | 59 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 398 |
| Brian Lockwood | 6 | 6 | .500 | 4.97 | 27 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117.7 | 152 | 79 | 65 | 15 | 31 | 0 | 72 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 524 |
| Chad Gaudin | 5 | 3 | .625 | 2.13 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 80.3 | 63 | 23 | 19 | 2 | 23 | 0 | 70 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 323 |
| Jarrett Campbell | 5 | 4 | .556 | 2.65 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 78.0 | 79 | 32 | 23 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 64 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 333 |
| Austin Coose | 5 | 5 | .500 | 3.44 | 50 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 65.3 | 69 | 30 | 25 | 4 | 41 | 1 | 66 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 304 |
| Greg Dukeman | 3 | 4 | .429 | 4.50 | 28 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76.0 | 94 | 44 | 38 | 5 | 25 | 0 | 47 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 341 |
| Jason Pruett | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.78 | 48 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 47.7 | 54 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 215 |
| Carlos Hines | 1 | 1 | .500 | 2.77 | 25 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 26.0 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 117 |
| Derek Andersen | 1 | 1 | .500 | 2.82 | 17 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22.3 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 88 |
| Dewon Brazelton | 1 | 5 | .167 | 5.26 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49.7 | 62 | 33 | 29 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 42 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 230 |
| Eric Reece | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Brady Williams | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Josh Parker | 0 | 0 | 1.38 | 31 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 32.7 | 32 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 132 | |
| Bobby Cramer | 0 | 0 | 3.55 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.7 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | |
| Brian O'Connor | 0 | 0 | 4.91 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.3 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33 | |
| Rob Ellis | 0 | 0 | 15.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | |
| Joe Little | 0 | 1 | .000 | 4.82 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.3 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| Totals | 70 | 70 | .500 | 4.06 | 440 | 140 | 136 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 1216.3 | 1329 | 665 | 549 | 100 | 404 | 1 | 957 | 79 | 10 | 77 | 5357 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Clark | 136 | 577 | 527 | 57 | 134 | 26 | 1 | 15 | 83 | 6 | 4 | 43 | 146 | .254 | .315 | .393 | .708 | 207 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Brian Martin | 129 | 531 | 478 | 73 | 132 | 26 | 4 | 11 | 65 | 19 | 3 | 35 | 147 | .276 | .342 | .416 | .758 | 199 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Luis Mateo | 107 | 412 | 400 | 45 | 112 | 26 | 0 | 11 | 46 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 130 | .280 | .299 | .428 | .727 | 171 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Joey Gathright | 89 | 389 | 340 | 65 | 110 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 57 | 13 | 41 | 54 | .324 | .406 | .359 | .765 | 122 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Fernando Cortez | 102 | 438 | 384 | 53 | 108 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 53 | 32 | 9 | 41 | 61 | .281 | .346 | .339 | .685 | 130 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| Joey Gomes | 105 | 452 | 401 | 67 | 108 | 26 | 2 | 9 | 55 | 2 | 4 | 41 | 88 | .269 | .350 | .411 | .761 | 165 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Luis DePaula | 119 | 456 | 419 | 50 | 108 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 46 | 9 | 8 | 23 | 99 | .258 | .301 | .327 | .628 | 137 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| Edgar Gonzalez | 100 | 405 | 349 | 51 | 104 | 34 | 3 | 6 | 62 | 8 | 7 | 45 | 82 | .298 | .381 | .464 | .845 | 162 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Eric Reece | 90 | 351 | 324 | 44 | 90 | 22 | 3 | 15 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 75 | .278 | .328 | .503 | .831 | 163 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Josh Arhart | 88 | 321 | 286 | 43 | 73 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 70 | .255 | .330 | .357 | .687 | 102 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Irwin Centeno | 71 | 242 | 218 | 28 | 51 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 16 | 61 | .234 | .304 | .261 | .566 | 57 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Juan Salas | 37 | 148 | 137 | 26 | 44 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 30 | .321 | .365 | .511 | .876 | 70 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Chairon Isenia | 24 | 108 | 92 | 16 | 25 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 19 | .272 | .355 | .435 | .790 | 40 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Adam Bonner | 23 | 98 | 85 | 20 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 30 | .282 | .378 | .600 | .978 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ryan Riley | 24 | 91 | 82 | 10 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 15 | .256 | .322 | .293 | .615 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Heath Kelly | 31 | 127 | 118 | 12 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 47 | .161 | .200 | .220 | .420 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Graig Merritt | 24 | 86 | 78 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 12 | .218 | .253 | .256 | .509 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Jorge Maduro | 11 | 36 | 36 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | .222 | .222 | .333 | .556 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ronnie Deck | 5 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .222 | .300 | .222 | .522 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brady Williams | 5 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .222 | .222 | .222 | .444 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 1320 | 5287 | 4772 | 668 | 1292 | 256 | 19 | 92 | 614 | 150 | 59 | 386 | 1183 | .271 | .333 | .390 | .723 | 1862 | 80 | 74 | 23 | 32 | 6 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Clark | 1B | 113 | 883 | 73 | 7 | 84 | .993 | 8.460 | ||||
| Eric Reece | 1B | 25 | 182 | 11 | 1 | 20 | .995 | 7.720 | ||||
| Joey Gomes | 1B | 6 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 4 | .882 | 5.000 | ||||
| Brady Williams | 1B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | ||||
| Josh Arhart | 1B | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 5.000 | ||||
| Fernando Cortez | 2B | 100 | 234 | 235 | 22 | 59 | .955 | 4.690 | ||||
| Luis DePaula | 2B | 23 | 52 | 66 | 5 | 19 | .959 | 5.130 | ||||
| Edgar Gonzalez | 2B | 10 | 18 | 23 | 2 | 3 | .953 | 4.100 | ||||
| Ryan Riley | 2B | 6 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 2 | .966 | 4.667 | ||||
| Irwin Centeno | 2B | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .750 | 1.000 | ||||
| Brady Williams | 2B | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .875 | 3.500 | ||||
| Heath Kelly | 2B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 3.000 | ||||
| Edgar Gonzalez | 3B | 79 | 42 | 166 | 24 | 10 | .897 | 2.633 | ||||
| Eric Reece | 3B | 36 | 19 | 57 | 8 | 5 | .905 | 2.111 | ||||
| Juan Salas | 3B | 27 | 20 | 33 | 4 | 3 | .930 | 1.963 | ||||
| Ryan Riley | 3B | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .857 | 1.200 | ||||
| Brady Williams | 3B | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.000 | ||||
| Irwin Centeno | 3B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | 1.000 | ||||
| Josh Arhart | C | 70 | 461 | 37 | 4 | 4 | .992 | 7.114 | 17 | 59 | 16 | 21.3 |
| Graig Merritt | C | 24 | 150 | 20 | 4 | 0 | .977 | 7.083 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 44.0 |
| Chairon Isenia | C | 24 | 180 | 19 | 1 | 2 | .995 | 8.292 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 28.1 |
| Eric Reece | C | 20 | 124 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .993 | 6.650 | 8 | 21 | 4 | 16.0 |
| Jorge Maduro | C | 9 | 51 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .982 | 6.222 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 40.0 |
| Ronnie Deck | C | 4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.750 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Joey Gathright | CF | 63 | .000 | |||||||||
| Brian Martin | CF | 57 | .000 | |||||||||
| Irwin Centeno | CF | 19 | .000 | |||||||||
| Aaron Clark | CF | 10 | .000 | |||||||||
| Brian Martin | LF | 50 | .000 | |||||||||
| Joey Gomes | LF | 30 | .000 | |||||||||
| Irwin Centeno | LF | 27 | .000 | |||||||||
| Luis Mateo | LF | 26 | .000 | |||||||||
| Aaron Clark | LF | 16 | .000 | |||||||||
| Brian Martin | OF | 128 | 285 | 11 | 4 | 3 | .987 | 2.312 | ||||
| Luis Mateo | OF | 96 | 173 | 11 | 13 | 2 | .934 | 1.917 | ||||
| Joey Gathright | OF | 63 | 150 | 7 | 3 | 1 | .981 | 2.492 | ||||
| Irwin Centeno | OF | 63 | 97 | 9 | 5 | 0 | .955 | 1.683 | ||||
| Joey Gomes | OF | 30 | 58 | 3 | 1 | 2 | .984 | 2.033 | ||||
| Aaron Clark | OF | 26 | 47 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .980 | 1.885 | ||||
| Adam Bonner | OF | 23 | 49 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .981 | 2.304 | ||||
| Juan Salas | OF | 12 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .895 | 1.417 | ||||
| Austin Coose | P | 50 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | .900 | .180 | ||||
| Jason Pruett | P | 48 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .900 | .188 | ||||
| Chris Crawford | P | 47 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 3 | .963 | .553 | ||||
| Jarrett Campbell | P | 32 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .531 | ||||
| Josh Parker | P | 31 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .800 | .129 | ||||
| Greg Dukeman | P | 28 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | .571 | ||||
| Brian Lockwood | P | 27 | 12 | 17 | 2 | 1 | .935 | 1.074 | ||||
| James Shields | P | 26 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 1 | .909 | .769 | ||||
| Chris Seddon | P | 26 | 5 | 21 | 4 | 3 | .867 | 1.000 | ||||
| Carlos Hines | P | 25 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .750 | .120 | ||||
| Chris Flinn | P | 24 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 2 | .926 | 1.042 | ||||
| Jarod Matthews | P | 23 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .522 | ||||
| Derek Andersen | P | 17 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .353 | ||||
| Chad Gaudin | P | 14 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 0 | .857 | 1.286 | ||||
| Dewon Brazelton | P | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .917 | 1.222 | ||||
| Bobby Cramer | P | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .600 | ||||
| Brian O'Connor | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Joe Little | P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .500 | ||||
| Rob Ellis | P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .500 | ||||
| Brady Williams | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Eric Reece | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Luis Mateo | RF | 71 | .000 | |||||||||
| Brian Martin | RF | 24 | .000 | |||||||||
| Adam Bonner | RF | 23 | .000 | |||||||||
| Irwin Centeno | RF | 21 | .000 | |||||||||
| Juan Salas | RF | 12 | .000 | |||||||||
| Luis DePaula | SS | 95 | 128 | 234 | 30 | 62 | .923 | 3.811 | ||||
| Heath Kelly | SS | 30 | 55 | 94 | 15 | 22 | .909 | 4.967 | ||||
| Ryan Riley | SS | 13 | 26 | 40 | 4 | 12 | .943 | 5.077 | ||||
| Fernando Cortez | SS | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .900 | 3.000 | ||||
| Totals | 2062 | 3649 | 1369 | 192 | 338 | .963 | 2.434 | 33 | 124 | 42 | 25.3 |
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.
Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
