1988 Columbus Clippers Statistics

International League (IL) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 65-77
Finished 3rd in the IL's West Division
Manager: Bucky Dent (65-77)
Affiliation: New York Yankees
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Ballpark: Harold Cooper Stadium
Attendance: 536,171, Avg. 7,552

1988 Columbus Clippers Roster

The Columbus Clippers of the International League ended the 1988 season with a record of 65 wins and 77 losses, finishing third in the league's West Division.

The Clippers plated 498 runs and conceded 548 runs. Turner Ward drove in 50 runs. Hal Morris led all regular hitters by connecting at a .296 clip. Scott Nielsen topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 2.41 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Players from the 1988 Columbus Clippers who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Bob Geren, Scott Nielsen, Jay Buhner, Amalio Carreño, Hipólito Peña, Hal Morris, Roberto Kelly, Clay Parker, Bill Fulton, Jeff Moronko, Jamie Nelson, José Cruz, Turner Ward, Mike Kinnunen, Hensley Meulens, Pat Clements, Bert Peña, Bob Davidson, Randy Velarde, Cliff Speck, Neil Allen, Tim Layana, Ross Jones, Pete Dalena, Al Leiter, Deion Sanders, Wayne Tolleson, Lee Guetterman, Andy Stankiewicz, Álvaro Espinoza, Rick Langford, Steve Shields, Robbie Wine, Wayne Krenchicki and Dave Eiland.

Bucky Dent 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
Scott Nielsen	13	6	.684	2.40	25	22	1	8	3	1	172.3	142	52	46	9	42	2	62	4	8	2
Lee Guetterman	9	6	.600	2.76	18	18	0	6	0	0	120.7	109	46	37	2	26	2	49	3	0	4
Rick Langford	9	6	.600	3.13	21	21	0	1	0	0	126.7	109	47	44	15	28	1	84	1	0	4
Hipólito Peña	7	6	.538	3.87	50	3	22	0	0	3	104.7	84	51	45	7	55	8	109	5	3	6
Pat Clements	6	7	.462	2.75	32	16	9	0	0	5	144.0	136	55	44	5	34	5	69	5	0	2
Bill Fulton	5	5	.500	3.25	45	1	26	0	0	2	80.3	63	37	29	6	29	5	44	1	2	7
Mike Kinnunen	4	5	.444	3.98	45	5	32	0	0	13	81.3	78	41	36	7	58	7	73	3	6	5
Cliff Speck	3	7	.300	4.34	32	9	6	1	0	1	76.7	74	46	37	7	38	3	54	3	6	6
Clay Parker	2	2	.500	3.26	10	10	0	0	0	0	49.7	49	21	18	3	9	0	51	3	2	2
Matt Harrison	2	3	.400	4.60	8	8	0	0	0	0	43.0	50	29	22	3	8	0	25	3	3	0
Eric Schmidt	2	10	.167	4.31	19	10	3	0	0	0	77.3	82	45	37	6	25	1	34	1	2	2
Dave Eiland	1	1	.500	2.59	4	4	0	0	0	0	24.3	25	8	7	4	6	0	13	1	0	1
Dana Ridenour	1	2	.333	2.11	14	0	11	0	0	0	21.3	16	9	5	1	19	2	24	0	0	3
Tim Layana	1	7	.125	6.04	11	9	0	0	0	0	47.7	54	34	32	2	25	0	25	6	4	2
Bob Davidson	0	0		2.37	6	0	3	0	0	1	19.0	19	7	5	0	8	4	5	1	0	0
Amalio Carreño	0	0		10.80	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	8	4	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	1
Neil Allen	0	1	.000	0.60	2	2	0	1	0	0	15.0	7	2	1	0	0	0	7	0	0	0
Steve Shields	0	1	.000	2.52	17	0	12	0	0	5	25.0	28	7	7	2	6	2	23	0	0	1
Al Leiter	0	2	.000	3.46	4	4	0	0	0	0	13.0	5	7	5	0	14	0	12	3	2	1
Totals	65	77	.458	3.33	364	142	125	17	3	31	1245.3	1138	548	461	79	430	42	765	44	38	49	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
Hal Morris	121	502	452	41	134	19	4	3	38	8	5	36	62	.296	.349	.376	.726	170		3	7	4	6
Turner Ward	134	551	490	55	123	24	1	7	50	28	5	48	100	.251	.320	.347	.667	170		3	8	2	5
Álvaro Espinoza	119	456	435	42	107	10	5	2	30	4	3	7	53	.246	.262	.306	.567	133		3	9	2	1
Pete Dalena	126	462	426	33	91	20	1	7	44	0	3	24	59	.214	.258	.315	.572	134		3	4	5	5
Bob Geren	95	363	321	37	87	13	2	8	35	0	1	33	69	.271	.337	.399	.736	128		1	4	4	0
Randy Velarde	78	321	293	39	79	23	4	5	37	7	5	25	71	.270	.327	.427	.754	125		1	0	2	1
Jeff Moronko	97	336	313	32	63	12	0	5	24	12	4	17	79	.201	.246	.288	.534	90		2	3	1	1
Ross Jones	72	298	244	26	57	9	3	4	19	1	2	48	50	.234	.361	.344	.706	84		2	2	2	0
Bobby Green	56	234	207	19	52	9	0	4	30	7	5	21	56	.251	.323	.353	.676	73		2	2	2	0
Hensley Meulens	55	224	209	27	48	9	1	6	22	2	0	14	61	.230	.277	.368	.645	77		0	0	1	0
Casey Close	81	280	250	24	47	11	4	3	25	2	4	23	43	.188	.257	.300	.557	75		1	4	2	1
Wayne Krenchicki	54	195	174	18	42	6	0	1	14	1	1	20	21	.241	.318	.293	.611	51		0	0	1	3
Roberto Kelly	30	128	120	25	40	8	1	3	16	11	3	6	29	.333	.370	.492	.862	59		1	1	0	1
Jay Buhner	38	152	129	26	33	5	0	8	18	1	1	19	33	.256	.362	.481	.842	62		3	0	1	3
Bert Peña	47	169	147	14	31	7	0	1	13	3	2	12	33	.211	.282	.279	.561	41		3	6	1	1
Chris Alvarez	29	111	100	9	28	3	0	1	12	1	1	11	12	.280	.351	.340	.691	34		0	0	0	0
Andy Stankiewicz	29	121	114	4	25	0	0	0	4	2	0	6	25	.219	.258	.219	.478	25		0	1	0	0
Glenn Sherlock	32	102	95	9	24	4	0	1	6	0	0	7	18	.253	.304	.326	.630	31		0	0	0	1
Jamie Nelson	28	89	73	6	11	1	1	0	6	0	0	14	22	.151	.287	.192	.479	14		0	2	0	0
Wayne Tolleson	8	33	27	4	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	6	3	.185	.333	.185	.519	5		0	0	0	0
José Cruz	5	18	17	3	4	2	0	1	5	1	0	1	4	.235	.278	.529	.807	9		0	0	0	0
Deion Sanders	5	24	20	3	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	4	.150	.261	.200	.461	4		2	1	0	0
Rob Lambert	8	16	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	6	.133	.188	.133	.321	2		0	0	0	0
Dana Ridenour	14	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
Bill Fulton	45	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	1	0	0
Totals	1406	5188	4673	498	1137	196	27	70	449	93	47	400	913	.243	.305	.342	.647	1597	0	30	55	30	29

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Pete Dalena	1B	101	1004	60	8	101	.993	1.535
Hal Morris	1B	49	428	23	5	39	.989	9.204
Wayne Krenchicki	1B	4	20	1	0	0	1.000	5.250
Ross Jones	1B	1	7	1	0	1	1.000	8.000
Álvaro Espinoza	2B	55	110	175	8	41	.973	5.182
Ross Jones	2B	38	81	116	4	27	.980	5.184
Andy Stankiewicz	2B	29	56	97	3	29	.981	5.276
Bert Peña	2B	12	22	30	0	6	1.000	4.333
Randy Velarde	2B	11	20	41	1	12	.984	5.545
Rob Lambert	2B	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Wayne Krenchicki	2B	2	6	6	0	2	1.000	6.000
Jeff Moronko	3B	54	31	124	8	7	.951	2.870
Hensley Meulens	3B	54	39	111	14	7	.915	2.778
Chris Alvarez	3B	25	15	45	6	2	.909	2.400
Bert Peña	3B	7	5	12	2	3	.895	2.429
Randy Velarde	3B	3	4	5	2	0	.818	3.000
Wayne Tolleson	3B	3	2	10	0	0	1.000	4.000
Wayne Krenchicki	3B	1	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000
Álvaro Espinoza	3B	1	1	1	0	1	1.000	2.000
Bob Geren	C	90	478	72	8	6	.986	6.111	10
Glenn Sherlock	C	29	122	11	1	1	.993	4.586	4
Jamie Nelson	C	24	133	14	2	0	.987	6.125	3
Robbie Wine	C	7						.000
Turner Ward	OF	131	233	5	1	0	.996	1.817
Hal Morris	OF	73	115	3	3	1	.975	1.616
Casey Close	OF	71	99	12	1	2	.991	1.563
Bobby Green	OF	56	130	1	3	0	.978	2.339
Jay Buhner	OF	38	83	3	1	1	.989	2.263
Roberto Kelly	OF	30	51	1	0	0	1.000	1.733
Jeff Moronko	OF	28	45	3	0	0	1.000	1.714
Ross Jones	OF	9	23	1	1	0	.960	2.667
Deion Sanders	OF	5	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.600
José Cruz	OF	3	8	0	1	0	.889	2.667
Hipólito Peña	P	50	2	16	1	0	.947	.360
Mike Kinnunen	P	45	7	23	0	1	1.000	.667
Bill Fulton	P	45	5	9	1	1	.933	.311
Cliff Speck	P	32	2	8	5	0	.667	.312
Pat Clements	P	32	10	32	2	2	.955	1.312
Scott Nielsen	P	25	8	40	0	4	1.000	1.920
Rick Langford	P	21	11	18	0	1	1.000	1.381
Eric Schmidt	P	19	3	10	1	0	.929	.684
Lee Guetterman	P	18	7	26	3	2	.917	1.833
Steve Shields	P	17	2	4	0	0	1.000	.353
Dana Ridenour	P	14	0	2	0	0	1.000	.143
Tim Layana	P	11	3	13	2	0	.889	1.455
Clay Parker	P	10	5	8	0	0	1.000	1.300
Matt Harrison	P	8	4	5	0	0	1.000	1.125
Bob Davidson	P	6	0	2	0	0	1.000	.333
Al Leiter	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Dave Eiland	P	4	1	2	0	0	1.000	.750
Neil Allen	P	2	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.000
Amalio Carreño	P	1	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.000
Randy Velarde	SS	67	99	225	22	44	.936	4.836
Álvaro Espinoza	SS	61	110	228	11	53	.968	5.541
Ross Jones	SS	14	24	52	2	11	.974	5.429
Wayne Tolleson	SS	5	5	10	1	1	.938	3.000
Totals		1557	3692	1726	134	410	.976	3.480	17	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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