1996 Knoxville Smokies Statistics

Southern League (SL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 75-65
Finished 3rd in the SL's West Division
Manager: Omar Malave (75-65)
Affiliation: Toronto Blue Jays
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Ballpark: Smithson Stadium
Attendance: 142,537, Avg. 2,160 in 66 home dates

1996 Knoxville Smokies Roster

The Knoxville Smokies of the Southern League ended the 1996 season with a record of 75 wins and 65 losses, finishing third in the league's West Division.

The Smokies plated 708 runs and surrendered 673 runs. Ryan Jones paced Knoxville with 20 home runs, while Chris Weinke, Tom Evans and Lorenzo De La Cruz each walloped 15 or more also. Ryan Jones drove in 97 runs. Jeff Patzke led all regular batters by connecting at a .303 clip. Mike Halperin topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.48 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Players from the 1996 Knoxville Smokies who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Brian Smith, Mike Romano, Anthony Sanders, Sandy Martínez, Frank Viola, Tom Evans, Roberto Durán, Adam Melhuse, Chris Carpenter, José Silva, Julio Mosquera, Kelvim Escobar, Rickey Cradle and Carlos Almánzar.

Omar Malave 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 Halperin	13	7	.650	3.48	28	28	0	0	0	0	155.0	156	67	60	6	71	3	112	6	4	11	658
Mark Sievert	9	2	.818	2.58	17	17	0	0	0	0	101.3	79	32	29	6	51	0	75	3	0	3	415
Mike Romano	9	9	.500	4.98	34	21	5	0	0	1	130.0	148	98	72	17	72	1	92	5	2	5	600
Carlos Almánzar	7	8	.467	4.85	54	0	29	0	0	9	94.7	106	58	51	13	33	6	105	3	0	3	418
Chris Carpenter	7	9	.438	3.94	28	28	0	1	0	0	171.3	161	94	75	13	91	4	150	8	2	8	755
Chris Freeman	6	1	.857	3.35	26	0	8	0	0	0	45.7	45	23	17	3	23	3	54	1	0	1	200
Jose Pett	4	2	.667	4.09	7	7	0	1	1	0	44.0	37	20	20	4	10	0	38	0	1	1	169
Roberto Durán	4	6	.400	5.13	19	16	1	0	0	0	80.7	72	52	46	8	61	1	74	3	2	13	366
Kelvim Escobar	3	4	.429	5.33	10	10	0	0	0	0	54.0	61	36	32	7	24	0	44	1	1	6	238
Brian Smith	3	5	.375	3.81	54	0	43	0	0	16	75.7	76	42	32	7	31	6	58	4	0	4	333
Scotty Pace	2	0	1.000	3.00	4	1	0	0	0	0	12.0	8	4	4	2	6	0	5	0	0	1	49
Kurt Bogott	2	2	.500	5.33	33	0	9	0	0	3	54.0	64	34	32	2	29	2	56	5	1	12	256
José Silva	2	3	.400	4.91	22	6	4	0	0	0	44.0	45	27	24	3	22	2	26	3	0	4	196
Chad Brown	2	4	.333	4.06	46	0	23	0	0	7	64.3	72	33	29	2	23	1	63	1	1	6	285
Roger Doman	1	1	.500	5.49	17	1	6	0	0	0	39.3	51	30	24	2	14	0	30	0	1	5	177
Derek Brandow	1	2	.333	7.71	5	1	3	0	0	2	11.7	11	10	10	3	5	0	6	0	1	2	50
Frank Viola	0	0		1.64	4	4	0	0	0	0	22.0	16	4	4	1	3	0	15	0	0	0	84
Kris Harmes	0	0		3.38	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.7	3	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	12
Kendall Rhine	0	0		5.84	11	0	6	0	0	2	12.3	12	8	8	1	11	1	9	3	0	3	62
Totals	75	65	.536	4.22	420	140	138	2	1	40	1214.7	1223	673	570	100	582	30	1013	46	17	88	5323

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
Ryan Jones	134	578	506	70	137	26	3	20	97	2	2	60	88	.271	.351	.453	.804	229	6	6	0	6	6
Jeff Patzke	124	517	429	70	130	31	4	4	66	6	5	80	103	.303	.418	.422	.840	181	2	6	0	2	6
Tom Evans	120	520	394	87	111	27	1	17	65	4	0	115	113	.282	.452	.485	.937	191	7	9	0	2	0
Angel Ramirez	102	418	392	64	110	25	7	5	51	16	6	15	69	.281	.314	.418	.733	164	9	6	1	4	1
Lorenzo De La Cruz	122	488	441	60	109	24	4	18	79	8	4	36	123	.247	.311	.442	.754	195	11	7	0	4	1
Santiago Henry	110	399	371	37	100	15	7	3	32	11	7	19	66	.270	.309	.372	.681	138	5	3	4	2	1
Rickey Cradle	92	412	333	59	94	23	2	12	47	15	11	55	65	.282	.393	.471	.864	157	2	10	7	7	1
Brandon Cromer	98	385	318	56	88	15	8	7	32	3	6	60	84	.277	.392	.440	.832	140	2	2	2	3	3
Julio Mosquera	92	355	318	36	73	17	0	2	31	6	5	29	55	.230	.301	.302	.603	96	16	4	3	1	1
Chris Weinke	75	321	265	48	70	18	2	15	55	2	2	52	74	.264	.380	.517	.897	137	3	0	0	4	4
Lonell Roberts	58	272	237	35	69	1	0	1	12	24	14	32	39	.291	.375	.308	.683	73	1	0	3	0	1
Ben Candelaria	55	184	162	16	45	11	2	3	14	3	3	18	40	.278	.357	.426	.783	69	7	2	2	0	0
Rob Mummau	47	177	154	23	43	11	0	2	22	1	4	15	25	.279	.351	.390	.740	60	6	3	3	2	1
Anthony Sanders	38	143	133	16	36	8	0	1	18	1	3	7	33	.271	.317	.353	.670	47	0	2	1	0	0
Kris Harmes	44	136	122	16	26	8	1	2	8	1	0	13	17	.213	.294	.344	.638	42	4	1	0	0	1
Adam Melhuse	32	110	94	13	20	3	0	1	6	0	1	14	29	.213	.312	.277	.589	26	3	0	1	1	1
Sandy Martínez	4	16	16	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.188	.188	.188	.375	3	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1347	5431	4685	708	1264	263	41	113	635	103	73	620	1028	.270	.360	.416	.776	1948	84	61	27	38	28

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ryan Jones	1B	121	1054	76	9	116	.992	9.339
Chris Weinke	1B	11	78	13	0	14	1.000	8.273
Kris Harmes	1B	10	82	7	0	6	1.000	8.900
Rob Mummau	1B	1	2	0	0	1	1.000	2.000
Tom Evans	1B	1	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.000
Jeff Patzke	2B	120	223	343	16	90	.973	4.717
Santiago Henry	2B	26	47	65	4	16	.966	4.308
Brandon Cromer	2B	1	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.000
Tom Evans	3B	72	46	146	12	13	.941	2.667
Rob Mummau	3B	45	31	93	5	11	.961	2.756
Brandon Cromer	3B	27	15	66	2	8	.976	3.000
Kris Harmes	3B	2	0	2	2	0	.500	1.000
Chris Weinke	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Julio Mosquera	C	92	679	63	7	6	.991	8.065	19	46	39	45.9
Adam Melhuse	C	31	162	15	2	2	.989	5.710	6	23	8	25.8
Kris Harmes	C	30	182	17	4	1	.980	6.633	1	32	9	22.0
Sandy Martínez	C	3	17	2	1	1	.950	6.333	0	1	1	50.0
Angel Ramirez	CF	63						.000
Lonell Roberts	CF	41						.000
Anthony Sanders	CF	36						.000
Rickey Cradle	CF	5						.000
Santiago Henry	CF	1						.000
Ben Candelaria	CF	1						.000
Rickey Cradle	LF	71						.000
Angel Ramirez	LF	32						.000
Ben Candelaria	LF	26						.000
Lonell Roberts	LF	17						.000
Chris Weinke	LF	3						.000
Anthony Sanders	LF	3						.000
Lorenzo De La Cruz	OF	116	184	9	9	1	.955	1.664
Angel Ramirez	OF	95	180	5	4	1	.979	1.947
Rickey Cradle	OF	88	135	8	4	1	.973	1.625
Lonell Roberts	OF	58	102	4	1	1	.991	1.828
Anthony Sanders	OF	38	66	1	3	0	.957	1.763
Ben Candelaria	OF	38	47	3	2	0	.962	1.316
Chris Weinke	OF	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Santiago Henry	OF	3	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.333
Kris Harmes	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brian Smith	P	54	5	12	1	2	.944	.315
Carlos Almánzar	P	54	7	7	2	0	.875	.259
Chad Brown	P	46	2	10	1	1	.923	.261
Mike Romano	P	34	10	19	3	1	.906	.853
Kurt Bogott	P	33	5	10	1	0	.938	.455
Mike Halperin	P	28	7	43	2	1	.962	1.786
Chris Carpenter	P	28	8	25	2	3	.943	1.179
Chris Freeman	P	26	4	6	0	0	1.000	.385
José Silva	P	22	5	8	1	0	.929	.591
Roberto Durán	P	19	5	7	2	1	.857	.632
Mark Sievert	P	17	7	9	1	1	.941	.941
Roger Doman	P	17	2	5	1	1	.875	.412
Kendall Rhine	P	11	3	1	0	1	1.000	.364
Kelvim Escobar	P	10	8	3	2	0	.846	1.100
Jose Pett	P	7	2	5	1	1	.875	1.000
Derek Brandow	P	5	0	0	0	0		.000
Frank Viola	P	4	4	1	0	0	1.000	1.250
Scotty Pace	P	4	1	1	1	0	.667	.500
Kris Harmes	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Lorenzo De La Cruz	RF	116						.000
Rickey Cradle	RF	16						.000
Ben Candelaria	RF	13						.000
Santiago Henry	RF	2						.000
Anthony Sanders	RF	1						.000
Angel Ramirez	RF	1						.000
Kris Harmes	RF	1						.000
Santiago Henry	SS	80	135	224	26	68	.932	4.488
Brandon Cromer	SS	73	79	172	14	36	.947	3.438
Adam Melhuse	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Totals		2057	3644	1508	148	407	.972	2.505	26	102	57	35.8

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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