1996 Binghamton Mets Statistics
Team Record: 76-66
Finished 2nd in the EL's North Division
Manager: John Tamargo (76-66)
Affiliation: New York Mets
Location: Binghamton, New York
Ballpark: NYSEG Park
Attendance: 202,461, Avg. 3,022 in 67 home dates
Playoffs - Portland Sea Dogs 3 games, Binghamton Mets 2
The Binghamton Mets of the Eastern League ended the 1996 season with a record of 76 wins and 66 losses, finishing second in the league's North Division.
The Mets scored 662 runs and yielded 626 runs. Brian Daubach led Binghamton with 22 home runs, while Chris Saunders walloped 15 or more also. Chris Saunders accounted for 105 RBI and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .298. Cory Lidle paced the team with 14 wins and a team-best 3.31 ERA, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.
Jason Hardtke, Mike Welch, Scott Sauerbeck, Cory Lidle, Shannon Withem, Jay Payton, Brian Edmondson, Kevin Morgan, Charlie Greene, Héctor Ramírez, Steve Dixon, Brian Daubach, Rafael Roque, Jeff Tam, Terrell Lowery, Benny Agbayani, Paul Wilson and Joe Crawford were all players from the 1996 Binghamton Mets who played in the Majors during their careers.
John Tamargo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cory Lidle | 14 | 10 | .583 | 3.31 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 190.3 | 186 | 78 | 70 | 13 | 49 | 4 | 141 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 779 |
| John Carter | 9 | 3 | .750 | 4.23 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 110.7 | 120 | 60 | 52 | 10 | 54 | 1 | 48 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 485 |
| Mark Guerra | 7 | 6 | .538 | 3.53 | 27 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 140.3 | 143 | 60 | 55 | 23 | 34 | 3 | 84 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 577 |
| Jeff Tam | 6 | 2 | .750 | 2.44 | 49 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 62.7 | 51 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 16 | 3 | 48 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 241 |
| Shannon Withem | 6 | 3 | .667 | 3.24 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 86.0 | 86 | 32 | 31 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 59 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 355 |
| Brian Edmondson | 6 | 6 | .500 | 4.25 | 39 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 114.3 | 130 | 69 | 54 | 16 | 38 | 5 | 83 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 502 |
| Joe Crawford | 5 | 1 | .833 | 1.45 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 49.7 | 34 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 190 |
| Jason Pierson | 5 | 3 | .625 | 3.38 | 34 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 53.3 | 56 | 21 | 20 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 227 |
| Mark Fuller | 5 | 4 | .556 | 4.18 | 51 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 75.3 | 86 | 41 | 35 | 7 | 22 | 3 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 332 |
| Mike Welch | 4 | 2 | .667 | 4.59 | 46 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 51.0 | 55 | 29 | 26 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 53 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 216 |
| Scott Sauerbeck | 3 | 3 | .500 | 3.47 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 46.7 | 48 | 24 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 191 |
| Toby Larson | 2 | 4 | .333 | 6.00 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 48.0 | 57 | 36 | 32 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 209 |
| Chris Roberts | 2 | 7 | .222 | 7.24 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 46.0 | 55 | 40 | 37 | 6 | 37 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 225 |
| Rich Turrentine | 1 | 1 | .500 | 2.89 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9.3 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Héctor Ramírez | 1 | 5 | .167 | 5.14 | 38 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 56.0 | 51 | 34 | 32 | 3 | 23 | 5 | 49 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 245 |
| Jim McCready | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Jason Bullard | 0 | 0 | 2.70 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | |
| Steve Dixon | 0 | 1 | .000 | 5.40 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.3 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 41 |
| Paul Wilson | 0 | 1 | .000 | 7.20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 |
| Rafael Roque | 0 | 4 | .000 | 7.27 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60.7 | 71 | 57 | 49 | 8 | 39 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 291 |
| Totals | 76 | 66 | .535 | 4.05 | 413 | 142 | 125 | 17 | 4 | 40 | 1224.7 | 1268 | 626 | 551 | 123 | 412 | 30 | 851 | 40 | 14 | 44 | 5223 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Saunders | 141 | 604 | 510 | 82 | 152 | 27 | 3 | 17 | 105 | 5 | 4 | 73 | 88 | .298 | .387 | .463 | .850 | 236 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 3 |
| Brian Daubach | 122 | 521 | 436 | 80 | 129 | 24 | 1 | 22 | 76 | 7 | 9 | 74 | 103 | .296 | .403 | .507 | .910 | 221 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| Scott Pagano | 126 | 525 | 464 | 63 | 120 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 46 | 26 | 16 | 43 | 55 | .259 | .329 | .310 | .640 | 144 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
| Kevin Morgan | 107 | 478 | 409 | 61 | 103 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 35 | 13 | 4 | 53 | 59 | .252 | .340 | .333 | .672 | 136 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 2 |
| Dwight Maness | 130 | 471 | 399 | 65 | 97 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 47 | 25 | 8 | 52 | 80 | .243 | .338 | .358 | .697 | 143 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Phil Geisler | 107 | 397 | 355 | 47 | 89 | 17 | 2 | 11 | 59 | 5 | 4 | 33 | 96 | .251 | .316 | .403 | .718 | 143 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Charlie Greene | 100 | 359 | 336 | 35 | 82 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 52 | .244 | .277 | .312 | .590 | 105 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Jesus Azuaje | 86 | 299 | 249 | 36 | 59 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 5 | 6 | 45 | 33 | .237 | .355 | .325 | .680 | 81 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Terrell Lowery | 62 | 262 | 211 | 34 | 58 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 5 | 6 | 44 | 44 | .275 | .400 | .474 | .874 | 100 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| John Mahalik | 78 | 254 | 216 | 37 | 52 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 27 | 35 | .241 | .327 | .352 | .678 | 76 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Pedro Grifol | 64 | 223 | 202 | 22 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 29 | .238 | .284 | .356 | .640 | 72 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 |
| Don White | 82 | 250 | 219 | 29 | 42 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 61 | .192 | .285 | .311 | .596 | 68 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jason Hardtke | 35 | 154 | 137 | 23 | 36 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 16 | .263 | .340 | .409 | .749 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tyrone Horne | 43 | 141 | 125 | 17 | 34 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 39 | .272 | .355 | .424 | .779 | 53 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Brian Turner | 32 | 99 | 84 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 18 | .202 | .296 | .381 | .677 | 32 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Benny Agbayani | 21 | 67 | 53 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 13 | .170 | .318 | .302 | .620 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Joe Aversa | 13 | 42 | 32 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | .188 | .350 | .188 | .538 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Crawford | 7 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .875 | 1.375 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brian Edmondson | 39 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .308 | .308 | .308 | .615 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Mark Guerra | 27 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .231 | .333 | .538 | .872 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| John Carter | 19 | 22 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .176 | .263 | .235 | .498 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Cory Lidle | 28 | 34 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | .120 | .185 | .120 | .305 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Jay Payton | 4 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .200 | .286 | .200 | .486 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Shannon Withem | 12 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .143 | .200 | .143 | .343 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeff Tam | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Héctor Ramírez | 38 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | 1.000 | 1.250 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scott Sauerbeck | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .167 | .375 | .167 | .542 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tim Leiper | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rafael Roque | 13 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .125 | .300 | .125 | .425 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toby Larson | 11 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .111 | .200 | .222 | .422 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mark Fuller | 51 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jason Pierson | 34 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Roberts | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Welch | 46 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Totals | 1750 | 5328 | 4582 | 662 | 1160 | 204 | 27 | 103 | 597 | 109 | 66 | 572 | 867 | .253 | .340 | .377 | .717 | 1727 | 97 | 52 | 75 | 47 | 38 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Daubach | 1B | 121 | 1108 | 115 | 11 | 109 | .991 | 1.107 | ||||
| Brian Turner | 1B | 18 | 163 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 1.000 | 9.944 | ||||
| Phil Geisler | 1B | 9 | 55 | 7 | 1 | 6 | .984 | 6.889 | ||||
| Chris Saunders | 1B | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 4.500 | ||||
| Jesus Azuaje | 2B | 79 | 154 | 249 | 9 | 56 | .978 | 5.101 | ||||
| Jason Hardtke | 2B | 34 | 61 | 100 | 6 | 25 | .964 | 4.735 | ||||
| John Mahalik | 2B | 33 | 69 | 85 | 2 | 18 | .987 | 4.667 | ||||
| Tim Leiper | 2B | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 4.000 | ||||
| Joe Aversa | 2B | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 5.000 | ||||
| Chris Saunders | 3B | 137 | 74 | 327 | 25 | 25 | .941 | 2.927 | ||||
| John Mahalik | 3B | 9 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 3 | .933 | 1.556 | ||||
| Tim Leiper | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Brian Daubach | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Charlie Greene | C | 98 | 550 | 75 | 3 | 8 | .995 | 6.378 | 3 | 34 | 42 | 55.3 |
| Pedro Grifol | C | 53 | 336 | 32 | 5 | 2 | .987 | 6.943 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 42.1 |
| Dwight Maness | CF | 122 | .000 | |||||||||
| Terrell Lowery | CF | 14 | .000 | |||||||||
| Don White | CF | 12 | .000 | |||||||||
| Scott Pagano | CF | 9 | .000 | |||||||||
| Phil Geisler | LF | 54 | .000 | |||||||||
| Don White | LF | 50 | .000 | |||||||||
| Terrell Lowery | LF | 32 | .000 | |||||||||
| Tyrone Horne | LF | 22 | .000 | |||||||||
| Benny Agbayani | LF | 5 | .000 | |||||||||
| Brian Turner | LF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Dwight Maness | OF | 122 | 244 | 9 | 5 | 0 | .981 | 2.074 | ||||
| Scott Pagano | OF | 116 | 194 | 10 | 5 | 0 | .976 | 1.759 | ||||
| Phil Geisler | OF | 70 | 93 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .990 | 1.400 | ||||
| Don White | OF | 62 | 91 | 4 | 6 | 0 | .941 | 1.532 | ||||
| Terrell Lowery | OF | 53 | 97 | 3 | 3 | 0 | .971 | 1.887 | ||||
| Tyrone Horne | OF | 22 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.136 | ||||
| Benny Agbayani | OF | 11 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .952 | 1.818 | ||||
| Brian Turner | OF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Mark Fuller | P | 51 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 0 | .920 | .451 | ||||
| Jeff Tam | P | 49 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .367 | ||||
| Mike Welch | P | 46 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | .818 | .196 | ||||
| Brian Edmondson | P | 39 | 11 | 24 | 3 | 2 | .921 | .897 | ||||
| Héctor Ramírez | P | 38 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .800 | .211 | ||||
| Jason Pierson | P | 34 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .294 | ||||
| Cory Lidle | P | 27 | 31 | 32 | 2 | 3 | .969 | 2.333 | ||||
| Mark Guerra | P | 27 | 20 | 14 | 1 | 2 | .971 | 1.259 | ||||
| John Carter | P | 19 | 16 | 17 | 2 | 0 | .943 | 1.737 | ||||
| Rafael Roque | P | 13 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .909 | .769 | ||||
| Shannon Withem | P | 12 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.500 | ||||
| Toby Larson | P | 11 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .727 | ||||
| Chris Roberts | P | 9 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 1.667 | ||||
| Rich Turrentine | P | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .125 | ||||
| Scott Sauerbeck | P | 8 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 1.125 | ||||
| Jason Bullard | P | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .250 | ||||
| Joe Crawford | P | 7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .900 | 1.286 | ||||
| Steve Dixon | P | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .400 | ||||
| Paul Wilson | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Jim McCready | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Scott Pagano | RF | 111 | .000 | |||||||||
| Phil Geisler | RF | 22 | .000 | |||||||||
| Terrell Lowery | RF | 13 | .000 | |||||||||
| Benny Agbayani | RF | 7 | .000 | |||||||||
| Don White | RF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Kevin Morgan | SS | 107 | 170 | 330 | 23 | 65 | .956 | 4.673 | ||||
| John Mahalik | SS | 24 | 28 | 69 | 7 | 15 | .933 | 4.042 | ||||
| Joe Aversa | SS | 12 | 16 | 31 | 3 | 5 | .940 | 3.917 | ||||
| Jesus Azuaje | SS | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 4.000 | ||||
| Totals | 2089 | 3674 | 1684 | 133 | 364 | .976 | 2.565 | 8 | 56 | 58 | 50.9 |
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.
