1997 Fort Myers Miracle Statistics

Florida State League (FSL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 81-58
Finished 3rd in the FSL's West Division
Manager: John Russell (81-58)
Affiliation: Minnesota Twins
Location: Fort Myers, Florida
Ballpark: W.H. Hammond Stadium
Attendance: 88,266, Avg. 1,358 in 65 home dates

1997 Fort Myers Miracle Roster

The Fort Myers Miracle of the Florida State League ended the 1997 season with a record of 81 wins and 58 losses, finishing third in the league's West Division.

The Miracle scored 635 runs and surrendered 563 runs. Jacque Jones paced Fort Myers with 15 home runs and drove in 82 runs. Chad Allen led hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .309 clip. Mike Lincoln topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 2.28 ERA, tops among regular hurlers.

Members of the 1997 Fort Myers Miracle who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were David Ortiz, Jacque Jones, Mike Lincoln, A. J. Pierzynski, Roberto Kelly, Rob Radlosky, Fred Rath, Chad Allen, J. C. Romero and Jeff Harris.

John Russell 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
Mike Lincoln	13	4	.765	2.28	20	20	0	1	1	0	134.0	130	41	34	4	25	0	75	4	2	4	553
Phil Haigler	11	9	.550	2.84	25	25	0	4	1	0	158.3	172	57	50	7	32	0	80	2	0	2	652
Rob Radlosky	9	5	.643	2.59	23	22	1	3	1	0	128.3	87	42	37	10	37	0	109	5	0	2	510
Tom LaRosa	8	6	.571	4.31	25	23	0	3	1	0	135.7	120	73	65	10	66	0	118	7	0	6	592
Trevor Cobb	7	0	1.000	2.97	15	7	0	1	1	0	60.7	49	29	20	2	16	0	48	2	0	2	246
Brent Stentz	7	2	.778	2.47	49	1	30	0	0	17	69.3	53	20	19	4	24	3	70	2	2	5	285
Walker Chapman	6	5	.545	5.80	27	14	4	0	0	1	90.0	121	64	58	7	32	0	65	3	1	1	405
Fred Rath	4	0	1.000	1.64	17	0	11	0	0	2	22.0	18	4	4	2	3	1	22	0	0	1	87
Troy Carrasco	3	3	.500	5.37	12	8	3	0	0	0	55.3	61	37	33	5	18	2	36	0	1	4	241
Tom Mott	2	0	1.000	3.19	14	0	3	0	0	0	31.0	25	13	11	1	12	0	23	2	0	6	127
Brad Niedermaier	2	3	.400	1.47	32	0	29	0	0	17	36.7	27	15	6	2	12	2	47	0	0	4	154
Jeff Harris	2	4	.333	2.14	24	0	6	0	0	1	42.0	30	11	10	4	15	2	32	0	0	1	164
Hector Trinidad	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	1	0	0	0	0	8.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	5	1	0	1	28
Charlie Gillian	1	1	.500	2.30	10	0	3	0	0	0	15.7	10	5	4	1	5	0	11	5	0	3	65
J. C. Romero	1	1	.500	4.38	7	1	3	0	0	0	12.3	11	6	6	1	4	0	9	1	0	0	50
Chad Roper	1	2	.333	2.72	27	1	10	0	0	0	39.7	32	20	12	1	13	1	27	0	0	1	159
Alan Mahaffey	1	2	.333	4.10	38	0	11	0	0	1	48.3	46	27	22	2	8	0	55	1	0	1	200
Kasey Richardson	1	3	.250	4.46	7	7	0	0	0	0	34.3	35	23	17	1	18	0	17	3	0	5	156
Will Rushing	1	5	.167	7.51	12	7	0	0	0	0	38.3	54	41	32	4	22	0	34	0	0	1	191
Jamie Splittorff	0	0		9.53	2	2	0	0	0	0	5.7	11	6	6	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	29
Darren Fidge	0	3	.000	6.34	24	0	13	0	0	0	38.3	44	29	27	3	20	0	25	2	0	4	175
Totals	81	58	.583	3.54	412	139	127	12	5	39	1204.0	1138	563	473	71	384	11	911	40	6	54	5069

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
Jacque Jones	131	577	539	84	160	33	6	15	82	24	12	33	110	.297	.340	.464	.804	250	9	3	0	2	3
Dan Cey	127	567	521	84	148	34	5	7	60	23	9	34	85	.284	.332	.409	.740	213	11	5	3	4	1
Chad Allen	105	447	401	66	124	18	4	3	45	27	15	40	51	.309	.373	.397	.770	159	9	2	2	2	2
Israel Paez	135	522	478	56	121	11	1	1	39	26	16	35	66	.253	.304	.287	.590	137	18	1	5	3	1
A. J. Pierzynski	118	439	412	49	115	23	1	9	64	2	1	16	59	.279	.313	.405	.718	167	9	6	1	4	1
Troy Fortin	111	434	383	58	113	20	0	13	59	1	2	34	37	.295	.364	.449	.813	172	11	10	3	4	1
Kelcey Mucker	114	437	389	43	93	26	3	3	48	1	5	33	80	.239	.300	.344	.645	134	5	4	4	7	1
David Ortiz	61	265	239	45	79	15	0	13	58	2	1	22	53	.331	.385	.556	.941	133	3	1	0	3	3
Joey Cranford	112	381	355	39	71	9	1	1	22	4	6	21	90	.200	.246	.239	.485	85	4	1	3	1	0
T. J. Johnson	73	263	227	29	55	16	1	7	36	2	1	30	77	.242	.338	.414	.752	94	4	4	0	2	2
Jeff Smith	49	139	121	17	34	5	0	4	26	0	2	12	18	.281	.331	.421	.752	51	4	0	0	6	0
Rafael Alvarez	47	143	122	13	33	9	1	1	15	6	2	17	27	.270	.357	.385	.742	47	1	0	3	1	0
Chad Roper	66	170	148	19	30	3	0	3	9	1	0	22	23	.203	.306	.284	.590	42	7	0	0	0	1
Lateef Vaughn	36	105	93	15	25	2	0	0	8	2	0	6	18	.269	.320	.290	.610	27	0	1	5	0	0
Carlos Garcia	69	165	147	11	20	3	0	0	2	8	6	11	31	.136	.196	.156	.353	23	4	0	7	0	0
Shane Gunderson	14	58	50	5	14	4	0	0	5	3	1	7	8	.280	.379	.360	.739	18	2	1	0	0	0
Roberto Kelly	4	15	11	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	4	1	.364	.533	.636	1.170	7	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1372	5127	4636	635	1239	231	23	81	581	132	79	377	834	.267	.325	.379	.705	1759	101	39	36	39	16

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Troy Fortin	1B	72	611	43	7	42	.989	9.083
David Ortiz	1B	59	524	44	9	52	.984	9.627
Jeff Smith	1B	8	47	3	1	4	.980	6.250
A. J. Pierzynski	1B	2	16	0	0	1	1.000	8.000
T. J. Johnson	1B	1	4	0	1	1	.800	4.000
Shane Gunderson	1B	1	8	0	0	0	1.000	8.000
Joey Cranford	2B	100	178	280	22	57	.954	4.580
Israel Paez	2B	33	71	110	2	23	.989	5.485
Dan Cey	2B	14	25	23	0	5	1.000	3.429
Carlos Garcia	2B	4	2	3	0	0	1.000	1.250
Lateef Vaughn	2B	1	1	2	0	1	1.000	3.000
Israel Paez	3B	99	70	185	17	17	.938	2.576
Chad Roper	3B	39	19	79	9	5	.916	2.513
Joey Cranford	3B	3	0	2	0	0	1.000	.667
Carlos Garcia	3B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Troy Fortin	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
A. J. Pierzynski	C	105	661	78	10	6	.987	7.038	18	85	42	33.1
Troy Fortin	C	22	151	14	5	1	.971	7.500	2	23	10	30.3
Jeff Smith	C	18	120	5	2	0	.984	6.944	2	13	2	13.3
Jacque Jones	CF	131						.000
Chad Allen	CF	5						.000
Rafael Alvarez	CF	4						.000
Chad Allen	LF	100						.000
Rafael Alvarez	LF	22						.000
T. J. Johnson	LF	11						.000
Shane Gunderson	LF	6						.000
Carlos Garcia	LF	1						.000
Joey Cranford	LF	1						.000
Jacque Jones	OF	131	313	8	7	2	.979	2.450
Chad Allen	OF	105	206	10	5	1	.977	2.057
Kelcey Mucker	OF	103	187	2	3	0	.984	1.835
T. J. Johnson	OF	36	58	4	1	0	.984	1.722
Rafael Alvarez	OF	29	55	1	2	1	.966	1.931
Shane Gunderson	OF	13	23	1	0	1	1.000	1.846
Roberto Kelly	OF	4	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Carlos Garcia	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Joey Cranford	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brent Stentz	P	49	2	5	0	0	1.000	.143
Alan Mahaffey	P	38	3	7	0	0	1.000	.263
Brad Niedermaier	P	32	1	5	1	0	.857	.188
Chad Roper	P	27	3	3	1	0	.857	.222
Walker Chapman	P	27	3	7	4	1	.714	.370
Tom LaRosa	P	25	8	17	3	1	.893	1.000
Phil Haigler	P	25	15	32	2	2	.959	1.880
Jeff Harris	P	24	3	8	1	2	.917	.458
Darren Fidge	P	24	4	8	0	1	1.000	.500
Rob Radlosky	P	23	5	15	1	0	.952	.870
Mike Lincoln	P	20	10	29	1	2	.975	1.950
Fred Rath	P	17	0	3	0	0	1.000	.176
Trevor Cobb	P	15	7	12	2	1	.905	1.267
Tom Mott	P	14	2	3	0	0	1.000	.357
Will Rushing	P	12	0	5	0	1	1.000	.417
Troy Carrasco	P	12	4	13	3	0	.850	1.417
Charlie Gillian	P	10	1	1	0	0	1.000	.200
J. C. Romero	P	7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.143
Kasey Richardson	P	7	1	9	0	1	1.000	1.429
Hector Trinidad	P	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Jamie Splittorff	P	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Kelcey Mucker	RF	103						.000
T. J. Johnson	RF	25						.000
Shane Gunderson	RF	7						.000
Roberto Kelly	RF	4						.000
Rafael Alvarez	RF	3						.000
Chad Allen	RF	1						.000
Dan Cey	SS	68	84	178	25	39	.913	3.853
Carlos Garcia	SS	52	58	140	7	25	.966	3.808
Lateef Vaughn	SS	34	39	87	9	16	.933	3.706
Israel Paez	SS	2	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.500
Totals		1998	3612	1490	163	312	.969	2.554	22	121	54	30.9

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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