1997 Bangor Blue Ox Statistics

Northeast League (NL) - Independent
Team Record: 40-43
Finished 4th in the NL's North Division
Manager: Roger LaFrancois (40-43)
Location: Bangor, Maine
Ballpark: Maheney Diamond
Attendance: 35,591, Avg. 937 in 38 home dates

1997 Bangor Blue Ox Roster

The Bangor Blue Ox of the Northeast League ended the 1997 season with a record of 40 wins and 43 losses, finishing fourth in the league's North Division.

The Blue Ox plated 427 runs and conceded 467 runs. Hugh Walker paced Bangor with 15 home runs Hugh Walker and Steve Hine each accounted for 51 RBI. Steve Hine led all regular hitters by hitting .306. Pete Hartmann topped the team with 8 wins and a team-best 3.47 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Players from the 1997 Bangor Blue Ox who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Fernando Ramsey, Joe Grahe, George Tsamis and Bob Zupcic.

Roger LaFrancois 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
Pete Hartmann	8	6	.571	3.46	17	17	0	5	1	0	119.7	120	60	46	8	55	2	118	1	4	7	519
Mo Christmas	6	4	.600	3.64	13	12	0	1	0	0	81.7	95	48	33	5	24	1	51	1	0	0	364
George Tsamis	5	6	.455	4.96	15	15	0	0	0	0	74.3	88	49	41	7	18	1	34	2	0	3	328
Heath Mercier	3	1	.750	3.38	13	2	5	0	0	0	32.0	35	16	12	2	9	3	18	2	0	3	138
Joe Grahe	3	2	.600	2.54	7	5	2	1	1	2	28.3	25	13	8	4	8	0	19	2	0	1	117
Mark Hreben	3	3	.500	4.40	25	1	10	0	0	3	45.0	44	34	22	2	36	3	48	3	1	6	217
Andy High	3	4	.429	4.61	15	8	3	0	0	0	54.7	73	38	28	2	23	2	42	1	0	3	258
John Quirk	3	4	.429	6.43	16	11	1	0	0	0	63.0	79	58	45	6	39	3	37	3	1	2	304
Scott Chesmer	2	3	.400	5.18	24	5	5	2	1	2	66.0	84	40	38	4	22	2	37	0	3	3	291
Jamie Davis	2	4	.333	5.30	23	6	13	0	0	6	52.7	66	40	31	3	18	1	52	2	0	3	247
Mike Macone	1	1	.500	4.30	21	0	9	0	0	3	29.3	25	18	14	1	22	1	42	4	1	4	138
Garrett Quinn	1	3	.250	3.60	26	0	22	0	0	5	30.0	32	23	12	2	8	2	17	3	0	2	133
Karl Bussey	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3
Ray Coleman	0	1	.000	4.76	12	0	2	0	0	0	22.7	39	21	12	3	12	3	16	1	0	2	118
Jeff Longo	0	1	.000	6.35	5	1	2	0	0	0	11.3	10	9	8	1	7	0	11	0	0	4	52
Totals	40	43	.482	4.43	233	83	74	9	3	21	711.7	815	467	350	50	301	24	544	25	10	43	3227

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
Steve Hine	82	360	324	53	99	16	3	2	51	7	5	30	33	.306	.367	.392	.759	127	5	3	0	3	1
Hugh Walker	82	344	312	58	91	13	5	15	51	20	5	21	42	.292	.350	.510	.859	159	5	8	1	2	0
Tim Morrow	82	351	321	55	91	18	1	14	49	1	0	23	62	.283	.342	.477	.819	153	3	6	0	1	2
Chad White	80	314	274	52	80	11	5	4	41	24	5	26	33	.292	.360	.412	.773	113	8	6	3	5	2
Gabe Duross	67	266	252	21	70	13	1	5	48	1	0	9	13	.278	.306	.397	.702	100	3	2	1	2	1
Dave Ekelund	75	319	262	40	68	11	3	0	22	12	6	43	68	.260	.370	.324	.694	85	2	4	8	2	1
Carlos Mota	56	201	181	30	55	7	6	6	40	7	1	18	30	.304	.365	.508	.873	92	2	0	1	1	0
Rogelio Nunez	63	225	214	27	51	12	2	2	12	8	2	5	45	.238	.259	.341	.600	73	1	2	1	3	0
Fernando Ramsey	40	165	150	26	48	10	2	2	11	7	2	9	22	.320	.368	.453	.821	68	2	3	2	1	1
Manuel Garcia	28	99	94	12	28	9	0	0	8	4	1	3	33	.298	.323	.394	.717	37	2	1	0	1	1
Karl Bussey	40	122	94	12	19	3	0	0	9	5	2	23	32	.202	.367	.234	.601	22	0	2	2	1	1
Bobby Murray	29	91	78	14	18	3	1	1	12	3	2	12	22	.231	.333	.333	.667	26	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Zupcic	25	108	82	13	16	1	0	3	16	1	1	20	18	.195	.370	.317	.687	26	1	4	0	2	2
Jeremy Tardiff	18	58	56	7	13	2	1	0	4	0	1	0	16	.232	.259	.304	.562	17	0	2	0	0	0
Jeff Longo	27	64	57	5	9	1	1	0	4	0	0	5	17	.158	.238	.211	.449	12	2	1	1	0	0
Willy Kingsbury	15	32	32	2	5	1	1	1	3	0	0	0	14	.156	.156	.344	.500	11	0	0	0	0	0
Stephane Dionne	7	21	21	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.143	.143	.190	.333	4	0	0	0	0	0
Garrett Quinn	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Adam Samuelian	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	844	3144	2807	427	764	132	32	55	382	100	33	248	510	.272	.338	.401	.739	1125	36	44	21	24	12

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Gabe Duross	1B	42	349	22	9	25	.976	8.833
Tim Morrow	1B	30	245	18	3	19	.989	8.767
Jeff Longo	1B	10	84	10	1	9	.989	9.400
Willy Kingsbury	1B	4	23	0	2	3	.920	5.750
Stephane Dionne	1B	4	32	5	1	2	.974	9.250
Steve Hine	2B	81	119	225	18	38	.950	4.247
Dave Ekelund	2B	5	10	7	0	2	1.000	3.400
Adam Samuelian	2B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Bobby Murray	2B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Karl Bussey	2B	1	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000
Dave Ekelund	3B	43	29	65	4	3	.959	2.186
Rogelio Nunez	3B	20	19	29	7	2	.873	2.400
Karl Bussey	3B	17	9	25	3	0	.919	2.000
Bobby Murray	3B	11	9	16	3	3	.893	2.273
Bob Zupcic	3B	9	6	15	4	1	.840	2.333
Carlos Mota	C	50	302	20	8	2	.976	6.440	11	47	13	21.7
Rogelio Nunez	C	38	225	29	9	0	.966	6.684	3	36	11	23.4
Willy Kingsbury	C	6	25	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	1	6	1	14.3
Fernando Ramsey	CF	40						.000
Chad White	CF	36						.000
Karl Bussey	CF	8						.000
Jeremy Tardiff	CF	2						.000
Hugh Walker	LF	75						.000
Chad White	LF	5						.000
Jeremy Tardiff	LF	4						.000
Bob Zupcic	LF	3						.000
Karl Bussey	LF	2						.000
Garrett Quinn	LF	1						.000
Tim Morrow	LF	1						.000
Hugh Walker	OF	75	98	2	0	0	1.000	1.333
Chad White	OF	64	126	6	2	2	.985	2.062
Tim Morrow	OF	41	85	6	2	2	.978	2.220
Fernando Ramsey	OF	40	88	3	6	0	.938	2.275
Karl Bussey	OF	19	25	2	0	0	1.000	1.421
Jeremy Tardiff	OF	17	29	1	0	0	1.000	1.765
Bob Zupcic	OF	6	6	1	2	0	.778	1.167
Carlos Mota	OF	3	12	2	0	0	1.000	4.667
Jeff Longo	OF	3	2	0	1	0	.667	.667
Garrett Quinn	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Rogelio Nunez	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Garrett Quinn	P	26	2	5	0	0	1.000	.269
Mark Hreben	P	25	2	6	2	0	.800	.320
Scott Chesmer	P	24	7	15	0	3	1.000	.917
Jamie Davis	P	23	3	6	0	0	1.000	.391
Mike Macone	P	21	4	2	0	1	1.000	.286
Pete Hartmann	P	17	5	20	1	2	.962	1.471
John Quirk	P	16	0	9	0	2	1.000	.562
George Tsamis	P	15	3	10	4	1	.765	.867
Andy High	P	15	3	8	1	1	.917	.733
Heath Mercier	P	13	3	4	1	0	.875	.538
Mo Christmas	P	13	10	13	0	0	1.000	1.769
Ray Coleman	P	12	0	3	0	0	1.000	.250
Joe Grahe	P	7	3	4	1	0	.875	1.000
Jeff Longo	P	5	0	0	0	0		.000
Karl Bussey	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Tim Morrow	RF	40						.000
Chad White	RF	24						.000
Jeremy Tardiff	RF	12						.000
Karl Bussey	RF	10						.000
Bob Zupcic	RF	3						.000
Carlos Mota	RF	3						.000
Jeff Longo	RF	3						.000
Rogelio Nunez	RF	1						.000
Dave Ekelund	SS	36	53	97	10	15	.938	4.167
Manuel Garcia	SS	28	38	82	9	16	.930	4.286
Bobby Murray	SS	19	19	44	12	5	.840	3.316
Chad White	SS	12	18	27	4	2	.918	3.750
Adam Samuelian	SS	1	2	2	2	1	.667	4.000
Totals		1245	2135	871	132	162	.958	2.414	15	89	25	21.9

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.

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