1985 Fort Lauderdale Yankees Statistics
Team Record: 77-63
Finished 1st in the FSL's South Division
Manager: Bucky Dent (77-63)
Affiliation: New York Yankees
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Ballpark: Fort Lauderdale Stadium
Attendance: 52,115, Avg. 744
Playoffs - Fort Lauderdale Yankees 2 games, Osceola Astros 1
Finals - Fort Myers Royals 3 games, Fort Lauderdale Yankees 1
The Fort Lauderdale Yankees of the Florida State League ended the 1985 season with a record of 77 wins and 63 losses, finishing first in the league's South Division.
The Yankees paced the league with 652 runs, fueled by 62 home runs. Fort Lauderdale surrendered 533 runs. Jay Buhner led the squad with 11 home runs and drove in 76 runs, while leading hitters with significant playing time with a .296 average. Steve George topped the squad with 13 wins, and Bill Fulton recorded a 1.61 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.
Players from the 1985 Fort Lauderdale Yankees who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Jay Buhner, Ozzie Canseco, Logan Easley, Steve Frey, Bill Fulton, Tom Gilles, Rickey Henderson, Bob Johnson, Roberto Kelly, Al Leiter, Mitch Lyden, Carlos Martínez, Bobby Murcer, Darren Reed and Tom Underwood.
Bucky Dent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve George | 13 | 7 | .650 | 1.75 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 164.7 | 120 | 48 | 32 | 2 | 76 | 0 | 141 | 1 | 3 | 14 | |
| Bill Fulton | 11 | 2 | .846 | 1.61 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 112.0 | 91 | 31 | 20 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 71 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |
| Jeff Pries | 11 | 7 | .611 | 3.83 | 22 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 131.7 | 117 | 66 | 56 | 7 | 49 | 1 | 50 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Johnny Rodriguez | 6 | 5 | .545 | 3.09 | 30 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 96.0 | 100 | 41 | 33 | 3 | 35 | 1 | 48 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| Ricky Torres | 6 | 6 | .500 | 4.68 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 92.3 | 103 | 56 | 48 | 7 | 36 | 0 | 107 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| Ozzie Canseco | 5 | 4 | .556 | 3.61 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 57.3 | 42 | 33 | 23 | 1 | 42 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 3 | 10 | |
| Darin Cloninger | 4 | 4 | .500 | 3.70 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 58.3 | 62 | 28 | 24 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Dennis Chastain | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2.12 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 34.0 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Bob Devlin | 3 | 5 | .375 | 4.19 | 32 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 38.7 | 34 | 21 | 18 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Brent Blum | 2 | 1 | .667 | 5.50 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 22 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mo Guercio | 2 | 2 | .500 | 3.09 | 22 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 43.7 | 26 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 27 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Dody Rather | 2 | 3 | .400 | 3.47 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36.3 | 31 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 35 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Matt Harrison | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.15 | 22 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 37.7 | 27 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| Logan Easley | 1 | 1 | .500 | 0.95 | 17 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19.0 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Steve Frey | 1 | 1 | .500 | 1.21 | 19 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 22.3 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Chuck Yaeger | 1 | 1 | .500 | 1.60 | 20 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33.7 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Al Leiter | 1 | 6 | .143 | 6.48 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 82.0 | 87 | 70 | 59 | 3 | 57 | 1 | 44 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Eric Dersin | 8 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Kevin Trudeau | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Scot Beahan | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Pat Dougherty | 0 | 0 | 9.00 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Tom Underwood | 0 | 1 | .000 | 1.35 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.3 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bob Raftice | 0 | 2 | .000 | 4.58 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17.7 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Totals | 73 | 60 | .549 | 3.20 | 352 | 132 | 108 | 32 | 8 | 31 | 1125.0 | 985 | 505 | 400 | 38 | 503 | 9 | 801 | 29 | 14 | 76 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Buhner | 117 | 481 | 409 | 65 | 121 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 76 | 6 | 4 | 65 | 76 | .296 | .392 | .469 | .861 | 192 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |
| Darren Reed | 100 | 419 | 369 | 63 | 117 | 21 | 4 | 10 | 61 | 13 | 3 | 36 | 56 | .317 | .382 | .477 | .859 | 176 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 3 | |
| Roberto Kelly | 114 | 487 | 417 | 86 | 103 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 38 | 49 | 14 | 58 | 70 | .247 | .339 | .341 | .679 | 142 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |
| Mitch Lyden | 116 | 438 | 400 | 43 | 102 | 21 | 1 | 10 | 58 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 93 | .255 | .307 | .388 | .694 | 155 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| Mo Ching | 90 | 345 | 293 | 38 | 88 | 28 | 3 | 4 | 54 | 9 | 6 | 47 | 66 | .300 | .392 | .457 | .850 | 134 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |
| Carlos Martínez | 93 | 333 | 311 | 39 | 77 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 44 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 65 | .248 | .283 | .399 | .681 | 124 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
| Felix Perdomo | 90 | 303 | 273 | 37 | 67 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 16 | 5 | 23 | 53 | .245 | .300 | .319 | .619 | 87 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | |
| Gary Cathcart | 76 | 290 | 256 | 35 | 64 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 31 | 44 | .250 | .334 | .305 | .639 | 78 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Mark Blaser | 53 | 201 | 175 | 24 | 51 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 28 | .291 | .383 | .417 | .800 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mitch Seoane | 63 | 197 | 182 | 22 | 50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 21 | .275 | .323 | .308 | .631 | 56 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Joe Mackay | 48 | 159 | 138 | 23 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 31 | .239 | .327 | .362 | .689 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Brad Winkler | 40 | 140 | 121 | 20 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 35 | .264 | .357 | .438 | .795 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bill Englehart | 38 | 141 | 114 | 14 | 31 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 23 | .272 | .397 | .386 | .783 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Fredi González | 48 | 161 | 137 | 13 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 34 | .204 | .310 | .292 | .602 | 40 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Doug Carpenter | 40 | 130 | 99 | 18 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 20 | .232 | .377 | .313 | .690 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| Chris Maynard | 22 | 86 | 70 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 9 | .286 | .405 | .343 | .748 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Norm Santiago | 32 | 99 | 90 | 10 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | .200 | .265 | .244 | .510 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tom Woleslagel | 25 | 85 | 81 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 14 | .173 | .202 | .222 | .425 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bob Johnson | 13 | 55 | 45 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 10 | .222 | .364 | .267 | .630 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Steve Peruso | 15 | 47 | 40 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | .175 | .283 | .200 | .483 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rick Bernaldo | 16 | 32 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | .200 | .355 | .240 | .595 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Joe Heeney | 14 | 42 | 32 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | .094 | .293 | .094 | .386 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tom Gilles | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .200 | .429 | .200 | .629 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rickey Henderson | 3 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | .167 | .545 | .500 | 1.045 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bobby Murcer | 4 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | .083 | .250 | .083 | .333 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Duane Lawhon | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1278 | 4709 | 4104 | 593 | 1067 | 178 | 51 | 62 | 531 | 133 | 61 | 509 | 774 | .260 | .342 | .374 | .716 | 1533 | 0 | 27 | 25 | 44 | 19 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | SB | CS | CS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mo Ching | 1B | 66 | 525 | 36 | 4 | 35 | .993 | 8.500 | ||||
| Gary Cathcart | 1B | 32 | 270 | 10 | 4 | 24 | .986 | 8.750 | ||||
| Bill Englehart | 1B | 28 | 215 | 23 | 4 | 23 | .983 | 8.500 | ||||
| Mark Blaser | 1B | 21 | 127 | 13 | 1 | 15 | .993 | 6.667 | ||||
| Fredi González | 1B | 6 | 50 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 9.500 | ||||
| Bob Johnson | 1B | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .889 | 8.000 | ||||
| Tom Gilles | 1B | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 4.000 | ||||
| Rich Mattocks | 2B | 58 | .000 | |||||||||
| Felix Perdomo | 2B | 44 | 85 | 120 | 6 | 29 | .972 | 4.659 | ||||
| Mitch Seoane | 2B | 40 | 55 | 72 | 0 | 14 | 1.000 | 3.175 | ||||
| Rick Bernaldo | 2B | 10 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 1 | .923 | 2.400 | ||||
| Joe Heeney | 2B | 4 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | .889 | 4.000 | ||||
| Tom Woleslagel | 2B | 2 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1.000 | 7.000 | ||||
| Chris Maynard | 2B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | ||||
| Mark Blaser | 3B | 35 | 17 | 68 | 7 | 3 | .924 | 2.429 | ||||
| Jose Rivera | 3B | 28 | .000 | |||||||||
| Norm Santiago | 3B | 24 | 16 | 39 | 4 | 5 | .932 | 2.292 | ||||
| Mitch Seoane | 3B | 20 | 9 | 32 | 6 | 1 | .872 | 2.050 | ||||
| Tom Woleslagel | 3B | 19 | 9 | 48 | 4 | 2 | .934 | 3.000 | ||||
| Felix Perdomo | 3B | 11 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 0 | .909 | 1.818 | ||||
| Joe Heeney | 3B | 8 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 0 | .765 | 1.625 | ||||
| Phil Lane | 3B | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 2.667 | ||||
| Tom Gilles | 3B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | .500 | ||||
| Chris Maynard | 3B | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .833 | 5.000 | ||||
| Mitch Lyden | C | 101 | 607 | 63 | 8 | 5 | .988 | 6.634 | 14 | |||
| Fredi González | C | 37 | 218 | 18 | 4 | 2 | .983 | 6.378 | 2 | |||
| Bob Johnson | C | 8 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 5.375 | 1 | |||
| Duane Lawhon | C | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.250 | 1 | |||
| Roberto Kelly | OF | 113 | 187 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .995 | 1.664 | ||||
| Jay Buhner | OF | 113 | 235 | 12 | 7 | 4 | .972 | 2.186 | ||||
| Darren Reed | OF | 96 | 191 | 8 | 7 | 3 | .966 | 2.073 | ||||
| Doug Carpenter | OF | 38 | 50 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .944 | 1.342 | ||||
| Gary Cathcart | OF | 33 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.758 | ||||
| Joe Mackay | OF | 25 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.280 | ||||
| Steve Peruso | OF | 13 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .900 | 1.385 | ||||
| Brad Winkler | OF | 7 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.143 | ||||
| Phil Lane | OF | 6 | .000 | |||||||||
| Rickey Henderson | OF | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | ||||
| Mitch Seoane | OF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||
| Bob Devlin | P | 32 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .312 | ||||
| Johnny Rodriguez | P | 30 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | .889 | .533 | ||||
| Steve George | P | 24 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 2 | .788 | 1.083 | ||||
| Jeff Pries | P | 22 | 20 | 25 | 3 | 1 | .938 | 2.045 | ||||
| Matt Harrison | P | 22 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .500 | ||||
| Mo Guercio | P | 22 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .591 | ||||
| Dennis Chastain | P | 22 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .409 | ||||
| Chuck Yaeger | P | 20 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .550 | ||||
| Steve Frey | P | 19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .211 | ||||
| Darin Cloninger | P | 19 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .579 | ||||
| Al Leiter | P | 18 | 10 | 25 | 3 | 0 | .921 | 1.944 | ||||
| Ricky Torres | P | 17 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 0 | .870 | 1.176 | ||||
| Logan Easley | P | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | .176 | ||||
| Bill Fulton | P | 15 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 0 | .917 | 1.467 | ||||
| Bob Raftice | P | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .800 | .364 | ||||
| Ozzie Canseco | P | 11 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .667 | .545 | ||||
| Eric Dersin | P | 8 | .000 | |||||||||
| Dody Rather | P | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.167 | ||||
| Tom Underwood | P | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .200 | ||||
| Pat Dougherty | P | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .500 | ||||
| Brent Blum | P | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 1.250 | ||||
| Scot Beahan | P | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | .333 | ||||
| Kevin Trudeau | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||||
| Carlos Martínez | SS | 91 | 123 | 254 | 25 | 45 | .938 | 4.143 | ||||
| Felix Perdomo | SS | 34 | 32 | 84 | 14 | 14 | .892 | 3.412 | ||||
| Chris Maynard | SS | 19 | 29 | 58 | 8 | 11 | .916 | 4.579 | ||||
| Tom Woleslagel | SS | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1.000 | 3.000 | ||||
| Mitch Seoane | SS | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.500 | ||||
| Joe Heeney | SS | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | .667 | 4.000 | ||||
| Totals | 1565 | 3362 | 1228 | 158 | 260 | .967 | 2.933 | 18 | 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.
Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
