1981 Columbus Clippers Statistics

International League (IL) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 88-51
Finished 1st in the IL
Manager: Frank Verdi (88-51)
Affiliation: New York Yankees
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Ballpark: Harold Cooper Stadium
Attendance: 527,124, Avg. 7,585

1981 Columbus Clippers Roster

Playoffs - Columbus Clippers 3 games, Rochester Red Wings 2
Finals - Columbus Clippers 2 games, Richmond Braves 1 - Series called when rains struck.

The Columbus Clippers of the International League ended the 1981 season with a record of 88 wins and 51 losses, finishing first in the IL.

The Clippers paced the circuit with 738 runs, ignited by 174 home runs. Columbus surrendered 604 runs. Steve Balboni walloped 33 home runs for the team, while Brad Gulden, Tucker Ashford, Mike Patterson and Marshall Brant each swatted 15 or more, too. Steve Balboni drove in 98 runs. Tucker Ashford topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .300 clip. John Pacella and Dave Wehrmeister led the squad with 11 wins each, and Dave Wehrmeister registered a 3.11 earned run average, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1981 Columbus Clippers who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Tucker Ashford, Andy McGaffigan, Mike Bruhert, Bobby Brown, Steve Balboni, Marshall Brant, Dave Stegman, Bill Castro, Mike Griffin, Dennis Werth, Mike Patterson, Dave Coleman, Paul Boris, John Pacella, Tom Filer, Juan Espino, Dave Righetti, Brad Gulden, Pat Tabler, Andre Robertson, Gene Nelson, Dave Wehrmeister, Jim Lewis, Paul Mitchell and George Frazier.

Frank Verdi 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
Dave Wehrmeister	11	3	.786	3.11	24	19	2	2	0	1	136.0	117	53	47	10	48	1	83	7	0	4
John Pacella	11	9	.550	4.47	27	26	0	3	2	0	155.0	149	84	77	14	91	4	135	5	1	15
Paul Boris	10	6	.625	3.37	55	1	31	0	0	9	131.0	127	60	49	12	47	15	102	3	2	3
Bill Castro	8	1	.889	4.56	17	12	4	0	0	1	73.0	92	41	37	6	20	1	40	1	0	3
Andy McGaffigan	8	6	.571	3.23	17	17	0	4	1	0	103.0	85	45	37	14	37	4	57	0	2	5
Brian Ryder	8	7	.533	4.93	31	27	2	1	0	2	157.0	160	101	86	20	97	4	113	5	2	3
Jim Lewis	8	7	.533	4.98	54	7	37	2	0	13	150.0	147	89	83	19	65	11	100	2	2	6
Mike Bruhert	6	3	.667	3.00	21	5	5	2	0	0	60.0	59	25	20	3	15	1	17	1	0	0
Dave Righetti	5	0	1.000	1.00	7	7	0	2	2	0	45.0	30	8	5	1	26	2	50	1	0	1
Gene Nelson	4	0	1.000	2.53	5	4	1	0	0	1	32.0	25	9	9	3	14	0	37	0	1	0
George Frazier	4	1	.800	3.20	27	0	22	0	0	9	59.0	58	23	21	0	12	1	50	2	0	1
Mike Griffin	3	1	.750	2.44	17	1	13	0	0	6	48.0	39	14	13	1	16	3	34	2	0	0
Greg Cochran	1	2	.333	6.00	5	5	0	1	0	0	21.0	21	16	14	1	17	0	12	0	0	3
Paul Mitchell	1	4	.200	4.20	7	6	1	1	0	0	30.0	40	20	14	2	13	1	19	0	0	3
Garry Smith	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	0	0
Tim Lewis	0	0		5.14	5	1	1	0	0	0	7.0	8	4	4	1	10	0	6	0	0	2
Steve Taylor	0	0		12.60	1	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	9	7	7	3	2	0	2	1	0	1
Tom Filer	0	1	.000	15.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	6	5	5	0	4	0	3	0	0	1
Totals	88	51	.633	3.90	323	139	121	18	5	42	1219.0	1175	604	528	110	535	48	863	31	10	51	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
Tucker Ashford	132	582	504	81	151	32	8	17	86	7	5	65	61	.300	.380	.496	.876	250		3	6	4	6
Marshall Brant	127	544	456	80	119	19	1	25	95	1	0	73	117	.261	.369	.471	.841	215		9	0	6	2
Wayne Harer	111	472	397	68	107	15	5	2	34	11	7	67	41	.270	.376	.348	.723	138		1	6	1	3
Steve Balboni	125	498	434	68	107	21	2	33	98	0	0	55	146	.247	.337	.532	.870	231		6	0	3	5
Andre Robertson	123	429	402	55	104	13	6	9	49	4	4	13	70	.259	.282	.388	.670	156		2	7	5	0
Dan Schmitz	111	424	356	65	99	16	2	1	28	0	5	54	31	.278	.373	.343	.716	122		1	11	2	2
Mike Patterson	94	353	320	53	81	18	4	15	54	10	4	29	77	.253	.315	.475	.790	152		1	1	2	2
Brad Gulden	73	266	237	37	70	13	4	17	42	1	3	24	41	.295	.362	.599	.961	142		2	1	2	3
Dave Stegman	90	271	227	42	66	15	1	6	24	3	5	35	38	.291	.392	.445	.837	101		4	3	2	2
Juan Espino	80	277	253	22	59	8	2	7	32	0	1	19	36	.233	.292	.364	.656	92		2	3	0	0
Garry Smith	90	254	238	25	57	11	0	7	26	1	0	12	40	.239	.275	.374	.649	89		0	3	1	0
Pat Tabler	52	214	179	41	53	14	3	11	33	0	1	27	43	.296	.394	.592	.987	106		4	1	3	1
Bobby Brown	40	165	152	28	50	6	3	6	27	8	5	13	26	.329	.382	.526	.908	80		0	0	0	5
Rick Stenholm	79	215	186	28	41	5	1	10	38	0	0	25	29	.220	.321	.419	.740	78		3	0	1	1
Dave Coleman	61	184	160	23	37	2	0	6	16	0	0	21	39	.231	.326	.356	.682	57		2	0	1	0
Dennis Werth	16	57	41	8	14	3	1	1	7	0	0	16	11	.341	.526	.537	1.063	22		0	0	0	0
Pat Callahan	21	56	51	6	12	1	1	0	4	0	2	5	15	.235	.304	.294	.598	15		0	0	0	0
Buck Showalter	14	41	37	6	7	1	0	1	3	0	0	3	0	.189	.250	.297	.547	11		0	1	0	0
Nate Chapman	9	33	29	0	6	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	.207	.233	.241	.475	7		0	3	0	0
John Pacella	31	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0		0	0	0	0
Totals	1479	5335	4659	738	1240	214	44	174	696	47	42	557	866	.266	.347	.443	.790	2064	0	40	46	33	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Steve Balboni	1B	74	631	55	14	50	.980	9.270
Marshall Brant	1B	69	625	46	2	45	.997	9.725
Dennis Werth	1B	3	24	1	0	2	1.000	8.333
Wayne Harer	1B	1	11	0	0	1	1.000	11.000
Dan Schmitz	2B	69	90	216	6	24	.981	4.435
Tucker Ashford	2B	45	60	91	8	18	.950	3.356
Pat Tabler	2B	44	57	106	11	13	.937	3.705
Tucker Ashford	3B	100	73	158	15	14	.939	2.310
Dave Coleman	3B	29	15	41	5	3	.918	1.931
Dan Schmitz	3B	17	6	20	1	1	.963	1.529
Pat Tabler	3B	11	9	10	3	2	.864	1.727
Marshall Brant	3B	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Juan Espino	C	78	434	53	8	5	.984	6.244	6
Brad Gulden	C	56	362	39	7	5	.983	7.161	2
Pat Callahan	C	18	95	18	3	1	.974	6.278	1
Dennis Werth	C	2	10	2	0	0	1.000	6.000	0
Wayne Harer	OF	101	191	7	1	2	.995	1.960
Mike Patterson	OF	90	183	7	3	1	.984	2.111
Garry Smith	OF	85	117	2	0	0	1.000	1.400
Dave Stegman	OF	82	128	2	3	2	.977	1.585
Bobby Brown	OF	40	78	3	3	1	.964	2.025
Rick Stenholm	OF	32	45	2	3	1	.940	1.469
Dave Coleman	OF	26	42	1	1	0	.977	1.654
Buck Showalter	OF	12	11	0	1	0	.917	.917
Dennis Werth	OF	11	11	0	2	0	.846	1.000
Nate Chapman	OF	9	10	2	1	0	.923	1.333
Paul Boris	P	55	6	14	0	1	1.000	.364
Jim Lewis	P	54	13	31	3	0	.936	.815
Brian Ryder	P	31	9	16	3	1	.893	.806
John Pacella	P	27	10	17	3	1	.900	1.000
George Frazier	P	27	1	11	0	0	1.000	.444
Dave Wehrmeister	P	24	16	28	1	1	.978	1.833
Mike Bruhert	P	21	9	9	1	1	.947	.857
Andy McGaffigan	P	17	7	9	1	0	.941	.941
Mike Griffin	P	17	3	10	0	0	1.000	.765
Bill Castro	P	17	9	7	1	1	.941	.941
Dave Righetti	P	7	2	7	2	0	.818	1.286
Paul Mitchell	P	7	1	4	1	1	.833	.714
Gene Nelson	P	5	1	4	1	0	.833	1.000
Tim Lewis	P	5	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Greg Cochran	P	5	5	8	0	1	1.000	2.600
Garry Smith	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Steve Taylor	P	1	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.000
Tom Filer	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Andre Robertson	SS	122	210	362	17	66	.971	4.689
Dan Schmitz	SS	33	40	63	4	8	.963	3.121
Dave Coleman	SS	1	1	4	0	0	1.000	5.000
Totals		1584	3664	1488	140	273	.974	3.253	9	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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