1997 Huntsville Stars Roster

Playoffs - Huntsville Stars 3 games, Mobile BayBears 2
Finals - Greenville Braves 3 games, Huntsville Stars 2

The Huntsville Stars of the Southern League ended the 1997 season with a record of 77 wins and 62 losses, finishing first in the league's West Division.

The Stars scored 942 runs, best in the league. Huntsville yielded 816 runs, most in the circuit. Mike Coolbaugh walloped 30 home runs for the team, while Ben Grieve, D. T. Cromer, Miguel Tejada and Rob De Boer each swatted 15 or more also. Mike Coolbaugh accounted for 132 RBI. Mike Neill led batters with significant playing time by hitting .340. Chris Nelson, Bill King and Jamey Price topped the team with 9 wins each, and Bill King earned a 4.19 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Ramón Hernández, Benito Báez, Mike Neill, D. T. Cromer, Danny Ardoin, Miguel Jimenez, Ryan Christenson, Matt Dunbar, Willie Morales, Miguel Tejada, Gary Haught, Steve Connelly, Blake Stein, Carl Dale, Steve Phoenix, Bert Bradley, David Newhan, Mike Coolbaugh and Ben Grieve were all players from the 1997 Huntsville Stars who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Mike Quade 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
Chris Nelson	9	3	.750	4.97	20	15	0	1	1	0	99.7	116	60	55	10	25	1	71	1	2	4	430
Jamey Price	9	3	.750	5.30	20	20	0	0	0	0	110.3	153	71	65	16	38	0	80	3	0	2	502
Bill King	9	7	.562	4.19	28	27	0	1	0	0	176.0	216	99	82	18	28	0	103	10	0	7	762
Mike Maurer	8	7	.533	3.83	52	5	24	0	0	2	84.7	86	48	36	10	31	3	61	2	1	5	371
Miguel Jimenez	7	6	.538	5.86	24	18	2	1	0	0	101.3	127	83	66	15	50	1	64	2	1	4	475
Carl Dale	6	4	.600	5.38	20	16	2	0	0	0	85.3	95	61	51	10	43	0	57	8	0	4	389
Stacy Hollins	5	4	.556	5.37	32	17	4	0	0	2	114.0	110	77	68	11	72	4	68	5	0	15	514
Bob Bennett	4	3	.571	7.17	23	1	3	0	0	1	42.7	64	38	34	7	15	2	32	0	0	3	204
Scott Rivette	3	1	.750	6.69	7	6	0	0	0	0	39.0	52	29	29	3	19	0	33	0	1	3	180
Blake Stein	3	2	.600	5.71	7	7	0	0	0	0	34.7	36	24	22	3	20	1	25	0	0	6	157
Steve Connelly	3	3	.500	3.75	43	0	22	0	0	7	69.7	74	33	29	3	20	2	49	4	0	5	297
Todd Weinberg	2	1	.667	2.33	20	0	5	0	0	3	27.0	18	12	7	1	17	0	24	1	0	2	114
Todd Bussa	2	1	.667	4.22	19	0	13	0	0	7	21.3	20	13	10	2	12	0	27	4	1	3	99
Benito Báez	2	4	.333	9.14	15	7	2	0	0	0	42.3	64	47	43	8	22	1	27	1	2	3	206
Jason Rajotte	2	6	.250	4.40	55	0	21	0	0	3	57.3	67	35	28	5	29	4	35	1	0	3	264
Matt Dunbar	1	0	1.000	5.40	5	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	8	3	3	0	1	0	7	0	0	0	23
Bob Baxter	1	1	.500	11.57	6	0	3	0	0	0	4.7	15	10	6	0	3	1	3	0	0	1	32
Derek Manning	1	2	.333	5.93	21	0	8	0	0	2	44.0	57	31	29	7	12	0	27	1	0	2	195
Bert Bradley	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Dane Walker	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Bret Wagner	0	0		20.25	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	7	11	6	0	6	0	3	2	0	2	24
Gary Haught	0	1	.000	5.59	6	0	0	0	0	0	9.7	15	6	6	2	2	1	6	0	0	0	44
Steve Phoenix	0	3	.000	5.80	29	0	23	0	0	9	35.7	43	25	23	3	11	1	25	2	0	4	156
Totals	77	62	.554	5.20	457	139	136	3	1	36	1209.0	1443	816	698	134	477	22	827	47	8	78	5445

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
D. T. Cromer	134	614	545	100	176	40	6	15	121	12	7	60	102	.323	.389	.501	.890	273	8	3	0	6	4
Mike Coolbaugh	139	628	559	100	172	37	2	30	132	8	3	52	105	.308	.369	.542	.911	303	17	7	2	8	3
Mike Neill	122	568	486	129	165	30	2	14	80	16	7	72	113	.340	.427	.496	.922	241	8	4	3	3	0
Miguel Tejada	128	568	502	85	138	20	3	22	97	15	11	50	99	.275	.344	.458	.802	230	9	7	1	8	0
Ben Grieve	100	466	372	100	122	29	2	24	108	5	1	81	75	.328	.455	.610	1.065	227	8	9	0	4	0
Demond Smith	87	397	323	79	90	20	6	8	39	31	9	65	76	.279	.404	.452	.856	146	3	4	3	2	0
Dane Walker	106	433	361	62	87	17	3	7	52	7	2	68	87	.241	.360	.363	.723	131	8	0	2	2	0
Rob De Boer	91	359	288	55	70	16	1	18	48	8	5	60	111	.243	.385	.493	.878	142	6	7	3	1	3
David Newhan	57	245	212	40	67	13	2	5	35	5	5	28	59	.316	.398	.467	.865	99	4	2	1	2	2
Troy Hughes	72	285	258	37	54	12	0	5	33	2	1	23	50	.209	.274	.314	.588	81	8	1	0	3	0
Eric Martins	61	235	205	33	53	10	3	3	31	2	1	23	31	.259	.336	.380	.717	78	9	2	3	2	0
Danny Ardoin	57	230	208	26	48	10	1	4	23	2	3	17	38	.231	.296	.346	.642	72	7	3	0	2	0
Ryan Christenson	29	145	120	39	44	9	3	2	18	5	4	24	23	.367	.469	.542	1.011	65	3	0	0	1	0
Willie Morales	36	156	136	19	37	11	0	3	24	1	0	17	24	.272	.346	.419	.765	57	2	0	0	3	0
Ramón Hernández	44	185	161	27	31	3	0	4	24	0	0	18	23	.193	.281	.286	.567	46	8	3	0	3	0
Roberto Ramirez	19	68	66	7	21	4	0	0	6	2	0	0	16	.318	.328	.379	.707	25	0	1	1	0	0
Jose Castro	5	18	13	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	.385	.556	.385	.940	5	0	1	0	0	0
Scott Rivette	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Todd Bussa	19	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1313	5605	4818	942	1380	281	34	164	871	121	59	664	1036	.286	.376	.461	.837	2221	108	54	19	50	12

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
D. T. Cromer	1B	131	1167	100	18	129	.986	9.672
Willie Morales	1B	5	43	7	1	6	.980	1.000
Ramón Hernández	1B	4	34	2	0	2	1.000	9.000
Eric Martins	2B	57	126	168	10	46	.967	5.158
David Newhan	2B	48	96	129	16	27	.934	4.688
Dane Walker	2B	39	74	104	13	28	.932	4.564
Mike Coolbaugh	2B	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Jose Castro	2B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Mike Coolbaugh	3B	131	94	302	24	35	.943	3.023
Dane Walker	3B	8	5	11	3	1	.842	2.000
Danny Ardoin	3B	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.000
Ramón Hernández	3B	2	2	2	0	0	1.000	2.000
Eric Martins	3B	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Danny Ardoin	C	51	301	43	10	6	.972	6.745	8	42	29	40.8
Rob De Boer	C	42	205	24	5	3	.979	5.452	2	35	14	28.6
Ramón Hernández	C	34	238	23	1	1	.996	7.676	0	17	14	45.2
Willie Morales	C	17	102	10	1	2	.991	6.588	2	10	9	47.4
Demond Smith	CF	67						.000
Mike Neill	CF	37						.000
Ryan Christenson	CF	29						.000
Dane Walker	CF	7						.000
Roberto Ramirez	CF	4						.000
Mike Neill	LF	55						.000
Troy Hughes	LF	49						.000
Dane Walker	LF	22						.000
Demond Smith	LF	14						.000
Roberto Ramirez	LF	6						.000
Rob De Boer	LF	4						.000
D. T. Cromer	LF	1						.000
Mike Neill	OF	119	212	12	4	2	.982	1.882
Ben Grieve	OF	98	193	6	8	2	.961	2.031
Demond Smith	OF	84	167	2	5	0	.971	2.012
Troy Hughes	OF	50	67	9	2	2	.974	1.520
Dane Walker	OF	29	38	6	0	0	1.000	1.517
Ryan Christenson	OF	29	81	1	1	0	.988	2.828
Roberto Ramirez	OF	17	25	4	2	1	.935	1.706
Rob De Boer	OF	4	5	0	2	0	.714	1.250
D. T. Cromer	OF	1	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.000
Jason Rajotte	P	55	8	13	0	1	1.000	.382
Mike Maurer	P	52	7	17	2	1	.923	.462
Steve Connelly	P	43	8	9	1	1	.944	.395
Stacy Hollins	P	32	15	12	0	1	1.000	.844
Steve Phoenix	P	29	0	2	0	0	1.000	.069
Bill King	P	28	15	18	5	1	.868	1.179
Miguel Jimenez	P	24	12	10	4	0	.846	.917
Bob Bennett	P	23	4	6	0	0	1.000	.435
Derek Manning	P	21	5	8	0	2	1.000	.619
Todd Weinberg	P	20	2	3	0	0	1.000	.250
Jamey Price	P	20	4	24	0	1	1.000	1.400
Chris Nelson	P	20	6	9	2	0	.882	.750
Carl Dale	P	20	6	18	0	2	1.000	1.200
Todd Bussa	P	19	3	1	0	0	1.000	.211
Benito Báez	P	15	1	4	0	0	1.000	.333
Blake Stein	P	7	2	2	0	0	1.000	.571
Scott Rivette	P	7	3	5	1	0	.889	1.143
Gary Haught	P	6	2	3	0	1	1.000	.833
Bob Baxter	P	6	0	2	2	1	.500	.333
Matt Dunbar	P	5	1	0	0	1	1.000	.200
Bret Wagner	P	3	0	0	0	0		.000
Dane Walker	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Bert Bradley	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Ben Grieve	RF	98						.000
Mike Neill	RF	31						.000
Roberto Ramirez	RF	7						.000
Demond Smith	RF	3						.000
Troy Hughes	RF	2						.000
Miguel Tejada	SS	128	229	423	36	97	.948	5.094
Mike Coolbaugh	SS	8	11	27	2	5	.950	4.750
Jose Castro	SS	5	4	17	2	6	.913	4.200
Totals		2040	3627	1602	184	414	.966	2.563	12	104	66	38.8

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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1997 Huntsville Stars Statistics

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