1998 Bristol White Sox Statistics
Team Record: 42-24
Finished 1st in the AL's West Division
Manager: Nick Capra (42-24)
Affiliation: Chicago White Sox
Location: Bristol, Virginia
Ballpark: DeVault Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 27,002, Avg. 844 in 32 home dates
Playoffs - Bristol White Sox 2 games, Princeton Devil Rays 0
The Bristol White Sox of the Appalachian League ended the 1998 season with a record of 42 wins and 24 losses, finishing first in the league's West Division.
The White Sox plated 447 runs and conceded 368 runs. Manuel Lutz paced Bristol with 17 home runs and drove in 58 runs. Mario Valenzuela topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .330 clip. Kai Freeman led the team with 6 wins and a team-best 3.3 ERA, leading regular hurlers.
Edwin Almonte played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Bristol White Sox to do so.
Nick Capra 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kai Freeman | 6 | 2 | .750 | 3.28 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 57.7 | 56 | 28 | 21 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 44 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 252 |
| Geronimo Mendoza | 5 | 2 | .714 | 3.82 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80.0 | 78 | 40 | 34 | 5 | 30 | 0 | 70 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 350 |
| Juan Figueroa | 5 | 5 | .500 | 5.06 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 80.0 | 87 | 58 | 45 | 14 | 22 | 0 | 102 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 353 |
| Eloy Tellez | 4 | 2 | .667 | 6.59 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27.3 | 39 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 127 |
| Andrew Jacobson | 4 | 3 | .571 | 3.52 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 64.0 | 72 | 38 | 25 | 3 | 24 | 1 | 38 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 288 |
| Edwin Almonte | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.38 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26.7 | 29 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 113 |
| Marcus Rodgers | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 4.18 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 28.0 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 107 |
| Mike Williams | 3 | 1 | .750 | 3.49 | 24 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 38.7 | 28 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 43 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 162 |
| Jose Lopez | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8.7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 |
| Solomon Johnson | 2 | 2 | .500 | 3.74 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43.3 | 38 | 22 | 18 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 189 |
| Kyle Kane | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 5.32 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23.7 | 34 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 115 |
| Tom Williams | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 7.71 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.3 | 23 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 78 |
| Jamie Smith | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 8.38 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.7 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 49 |
| Juan Felix | 1 | 1 | .500 | 4.57 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21.7 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 100 |
| Alain Duenas | 1 | 2 | .333 | 7.48 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21.7 | 37 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 103 |
| Manuel Lutz | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Eric Fischer | 0 | 1 | .000 | 6.35 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Ariel Garcia | 0 | 1 | .000 | 11.12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 |
| Mitch Wylie | 0 | 2 | .000 | 3.30 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 30.0 | 34 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 133 |
| Totals | 42 | 24 | .636 | 4.46 | 196 | 66 | 61 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 589.7 | 632 | 368 | 292 | 57 | 214 | 6 | 542 | 38 | 7 | 68 | 2617 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel Lutz | 65 | 298 | 279 | 52 | 85 | 21 | 0 | 17 | 58 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 56 | .305 | .347 | .563 | .910 | 157 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mario Valenzuela | 61 | 262 | 233 | 44 | 77 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 46 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 49 | .330 | .397 | .524 | .921 | 122 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Jose Gonzalez | 51 | 231 | 205 | 39 | 64 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 16 | 5 | 18 | 35 | .312 | .377 | .395 | .772 | 81 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Jeff Newkirk | 59 | 258 | 222 | 40 | 59 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 33 | 19 | 1 | 27 | 32 | .266 | .350 | .428 | .778 | 95 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Jason Fennell | 47 | 199 | 170 | 40 | 54 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 25 | .318 | .392 | .500 | .892 | 85 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Luis Suarez | 59 | 227 | 198 | 35 | 50 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 40 | .253 | .320 | .303 | .623 | 60 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Ryan Hankins | 50 | 229 | 188 | 40 | 48 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 38 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 47 | .255 | .372 | .495 | .866 | 93 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Derek Wallace | 52 | 221 | 204 | 32 | 45 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 52 | .221 | .276 | .402 | .678 | 82 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Jon Aceves | 43 | 170 | 135 | 29 | 40 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 38 | .296 | .425 | .519 | .944 | 70 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Brandon Hyde | 27 | 123 | 94 | 21 | 35 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 20 | .372 | .520 | .628 | 1.148 | 59 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ricardo Medrano | 40 | 185 | 148 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 28 | 4 | 29 | 23 | .230 | .365 | .230 | .594 | 34 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Terrell Merriman | 37 | 147 | 128 | 24 | 29 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 17 | 33 | .227 | .317 | .320 | .638 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Marty Romero | 19 | 78 | 71 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 21 | .239 | .308 | .521 | .829 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Junior Roman | 7 | 33 | 27 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | .222 | .364 | .222 | .586 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 617 | 2661 | 2302 | 447 | 643 | 117 | 17 | 76 | 390 | 100 | 28 | 282 | 477 | .279 | .364 | .444 | .808 | 1022 | 42 | 35 | 22 | 20 | 6 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel Lutz | 1B | 65 | 614 | 39 | 13 | 45 | .980 | 1.046 | ||||
| Marty Romero | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Brandon Hyde | 1B | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .750 | 3.000 | ||||
| Jason Fennell | 1B | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 8.000 | ||||
| Ricardo Medrano | 2B | 40 | 79 | 97 | 4 | 18 | .978 | 4.400 | ||||
| Jose Gonzalez | 2B | 21 | 44 | 56 | 6 | 15 | .943 | 4.762 | ||||
| Junior Roman | 2B | 7 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 4 | .889 | 3.429 | ||||
| Ryan Hankins | 2B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .667 | ||||
| Ryan Hankins | 3B | 41 | 26 | 86 | 10 | 11 | .918 | 2.732 | ||||
| Jose Gonzalez | 3B | 30 | 15 | 56 | 6 | 5 | .922 | 2.367 | ||||
| Manuel Lutz | 3B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | ||||
| Jon Aceves | C | 43 | 334 | 47 | 8 | 2 | .979 | 8.860 | 13 | 54 | 14 | 20.6 |
| Marty Romero | C | 17 | 135 | 15 | 3 | 2 | .980 | 8.824 | 4 | 24 | 4 | 14.3 |
| Brandon Hyde | C | 8 | 68 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .988 | 1.000 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 46.2 |
| Jeff Newkirk | CF | 33 | .000 | |||||||||
| Terrell Merriman | CF | 33 | .000 | |||||||||
| Derek Wallace | LF | 45 | .000 | |||||||||
| Jeff Newkirk | LF | 19 | .000 | |||||||||
| Jason Fennell | LF | 4 | .000 | |||||||||
| Mario Valenzuela | OF | 59 | 94 | 12 | 5 | 0 | .955 | 1.797 | ||||
| Jeff Newkirk | OF | 59 | 103 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .981 | 1.797 | ||||
| Derek Wallace | OF | 45 | 54 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .952 | 1.311 | ||||
| Terrell Merriman | OF | 35 | 70 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .946 | 2.000 | ||||
| Jason Fennell | OF | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.500 | ||||
| Mike Williams | P | 24 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .333 | ||||
| Mitch Wylie | P | 20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .200 | ||||
| Marcus Rodgers | P | 18 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .714 | .278 | ||||
| Eloy Tellez | P | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Solomon Johnson | P | 14 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .429 | ||||
| Geronimo Mendoza | P | 13 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .947 | 1.385 | ||||
| Kyle Kane | P | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .750 | .231 | ||||
| Juan Figueroa | P | 13 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 0 | .722 | 1.000 | ||||
| Andrew Jacobson | P | 12 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | .938 | 1.250 | ||||
| Kai Freeman | P | 11 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | .824 | 1.273 | ||||
| Jamie Smith | P | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Edwin Almonte | P | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .833 | .625 | ||||
| Alain Duenas | P | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .333 | ||||
| Jose Lopez | P | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .600 | ||||
| Juan Felix | P | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .833 | 1.000 | ||||
| Tom Williams | P | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Eric Fischer | P | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Ariel Garcia | P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Manuel Lutz | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Mario Valenzuela | RF | 59 | .000 | |||||||||
| Jeff Newkirk | RF | 7 | .000 | |||||||||
| Terrell Merriman | RF | 2 | .000 | |||||||||
| Luis Suarez | SS | 59 | 72 | 180 | 21 | 29 | .923 | 4.271 | ||||
| Ryan Hankins | SS | 8 | 2 | 23 | 6 | 2 | .806 | 3.125 | ||||
| Marty Romero | SS | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .600 | 3.000 | ||||
| Jose Gonzalez | SS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Totals | 948 | 1769 | 736 | 113 | 141 | .957 | 2.642 | 18 | 85 | 24 | 22.0 |
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.
Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
