1998 Lethbridge Black Diamonds Statistics

Pioneer League (PL) - Class: R
Team Record: 43-32
Finished 2nd in the PL's North Division
Manager: Joe Almaraz (43-32)
Affiliation: Arizona Diamondbacks
Location: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Ballpark: Henderson Stadium
Attendance: 40,998, Avg. 1,108 in 37 home dates

1998 Lethbridge Black Diamonds Roster

Playoffs - Lethbridge Black Diamonds 2 games, Great Falls Dodgers 1
Finals - Idaho Falls Braves 2 games, Lethbridge Black Diamonds 1

The Lethbridge Black Diamonds of the Pioneer League ended the 1998 season with a record of 43 wins and 32 losses, finishing second in the league's North Division.

The Black Diamonds tallied 489 runs and allowed 421 runs. Jack Cust paced Lethbridge with 11 home runs Robby Hammock and Jack Cust each recorded 56 runs batted in. Jack Cust topped all regular batters by hitting .345. Paul Giambalvo, Jody Fuller, Simon Sanchez, Justin Kees and Mike McCutcheon led the team with 5 wins each, while Simon Sanchez recorded a 4.12 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Players from the 1998 Lethbridge Black Diamonds who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Mike Koplove, Bret Prinz, Alex Cintrón, Jack Cust and Robby Hammock.

Joe Almaraz 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
Paul Giambalvo	5	1	.833	2.48	22	0	13	0	0	2	36.3	28	14	10	2	12	0	41	1	2	3	151
Jody Fuller	5	1	.833	3.95	18	7	5	0	0	0	54.7	45	26	24	5	24	0	41	2	0	3	225
Simon Sanchez	5	3	.625	4.11	13	13	0	0	0	0	61.3	72	39	28	2	25	0	37	3	0	6	274
Justin Kees	5	3	.625	4.32	17	10	3	0	0	0	50.0	45	33	24	3	41	0	46	8	0	5	239
Mike McCutcheon	5	3	.625	5.43	17	10	0	0	0	0	64.7	66	45	39	4	34	0	40	3	3	6	291
Bret Prinz	4	2	.667	3.09	11	10	0	0	0	0	46.7	49	26	16	2	13	0	30	3	0	8	204
Jose Bido	4	6	.400	4.14	18	7	0	1	1	0	63.0	64	38	29	7	19	0	48	3	4	6	277
Steve Verigood	2	0	1.000	1.16	15	0	9	0	0	3	23.3	11	5	3	0	12	0	17	0	0	1	88
Scott Abeyta	2	1	.667	4.54	24	0	20	0	0	3	35.7	43	24	18	3	15	1	38	3	0	4	167
Doug Kohl	2	1	.667	4.66	13	13	0	1	0	0	63.7	72	42	33	5	27	0	43	5	1	3	289
Phil Davis	2	2	.500	6.81	20	0	7	0	0	1	35.7	33	31	27	2	31	0	36	6	0	5	174
Troy Niehaus	1	1	.500	5.63	19	0	7	0	0	1	38.3	52	36	24	2	18	0	23	3	1	3	185
Mike Koplove	1	2	.333	3.54	12	1	4	0	0	2	28.0	23	12	11	2	3	0	22	4	0	0	114
Jeff Barndollar	0	0		8.18	6	1	0	0	0	0	11.0	15	13	10	0	10	0	4	1	2	4	63
Antonio Guzman	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	6
Keith Wilson	0	0		27.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	4	4	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7
Julio Guzman	0	0		81.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	1	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4
Travis McCall	0	1	.000	13.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.7	5	7	4	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	17
Hatuey Mendoza	0	1	.000	27.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	4	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	8
Seth Tate	0	4	.000	7.06	9	1	4	0	0	0	21.7	30	18	17	0	13	0	18	3	0	2	107
Totals	43	32	.573	4.59	239	75	73	2	1	12	639.7	661	421	326	41	305	1	491	49	13	60	2890

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
Belvani Martinez	63	277	256	56	78	11	3	5	25	30	10	12	30	.305	.342	.430	.772	110	7	4	2	3	0
Jack Cust	73	315	223	75	77	20	2	11	56	15	8	86	71	.345	.530	.601	1.131	134	3	4	0	2	3
Alex Cintrón	67	285	258	41	68	11	4	3	34	8	4	20	32	.264	.319	.372	.691	96	8	2	3	2	0
Dan Singletary	58	254	213	53	66	9	6	8	44	15	4	37	34	.310	.417	.521	.938	111	4	3	0	1	2
Robby Hammock	62	259	227	46	65	14	2	10	56	5	4	28	34	.286	.367	.498	.865	113	3	2	0	2	1
Jeff Brooks	68	274	242	33	62	10	1	2	38	0	1	25	52	.256	.336	.331	.666	80	5	5	0	2	0
Paul Weichard	54	227	188	37	55	10	2	0	28	19	4	38	45	.293	.412	.367	.779	69	0	0	1	0	0
Steve Neal	43	178	148	16	37	8	0	3	20	5	4	28	50	.250	.376	.365	.741	54	4	2	0	0	0
Antonio Guzman	35	141	127	25	35	6	1	6	26	11	2	13	24	.276	.348	.480	.828	61	5	1	0	0	0
Lance Downing	47	175	145	20	34	5	3	1	19	4	4	26	26	.234	.351	.331	.682	48	4	1	1	2	0
Julio Guzman	36	112	93	16	24	4	0	3	17	1	2	15	35	.258	.351	.398	.749	37	2	0	1	3	0
Jim Rinne	23	82	68	14	15	3	0	0	6	1	2	14	24	.221	.354	.265	.618	18	2	0	0	0	1
Francisco Mendez	20	74	60	13	14	2	0	3	10	2	1	14	8	.233	.378	.417	.795	25	2	0	0	0	1
Justin Beasley	17	59	50	9	13	2	0	1	5	0	1	4	11	.260	.362	.360	.722	18	2	4	1	0	0
Adolfo Joseph	22	76	70	10	13	2	1	1	9	1	1	5	24	.186	.250	.286	.536	20	3	1	0	0	0
Josh McAffee	17	65	56	9	10	1	0	2	5	0	0	7	23	.179	.292	.304	.596	17	1	2	0	0	0
Justin Santonocito	12	44	39	6	9	3	0	1	5	0	0	2	6	.231	.295	.385	.680	15	2	2	0	1	0
Miguel Rodriguez	5	18	16	3	6	0	0	1	2	1	1	2	4	.375	.444	.562	1.007	9	0	0	0	0	0
Darryl Conyer	11	29	22	6	6	3	1	0	4	2	0	7	6	.273	.448	.500	.948	11	0	0	0	0	0
Keith Wilson	2	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Fox	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	736	2948	2505	489	689	124	26	61	409	120	53	383	540	.275	.376	.418	.794	1048	57	33	9	18	8

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Steve Neal	1B	43	393	25	7	39	.984	9.721
Francisco Mendez	1B	20	161	14	1	16	.994	8.750
Lance Downing	1B	8	62	3	4	9	.942	8.125
Dan Singletary	1B	4	35	3	0	2	1.000	9.500
Justin Santonocito	1B	3	22	5	0	5	1.000	9.000
Julio Guzman	1B	2	7	0	1	0	.875	3.500
Jack Cust	1B	1	4	0	0	2	1.000	4.000
Belvani Martinez	2B	48	91	130	11	30	.953	4.604
Lance Downing	2B	37	60	75	8	25	.944	3.649
Alex Cintrón	2B	1	1	4	0	1	1.000	5.000
Jeff Brooks	3B	67	58	138	28	13	.875	2.925
Belvani Martinez	3B	8	1	13	2	1	.875	1.750
Justin Santonocito	3B	7	4	8	2	1	.857	1.714
Robby Hammock	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Robby Hammock	C	52	346	36	4	4	.990	7.346	12	39	20	33.9
Josh McAffee	C	17	104	18	2	1	.984	7.176	4	15	9	37.5
Justin Beasley	C	10	44	5	2	0	.961	4.900	1	17	2	10.5
Keith Wilson	C	1	2	0	1	0	.667	2.000	0	3	0	0.0
Justin Santonocito	C	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1	0	0
Paul Weichard	CF	53						.000
Dan Singletary	CF	10						.000
Darryl Conyer	CF	10						.000
Antonio Guzman	CF	7						.000
Adolfo Joseph	CF	1						.000
Jack Cust	LF	61						.000
Dan Singletary	LF	10						.000
Julio Guzman	LF	7						.000
Jim Rinne	LF	2						.000
Miguel Rodriguez	LF	1						.000
Adolfo Joseph	LF	1						.000
Antonio Guzman	LF	1						.000
Jack Cust	OF	61	78	2	0	0	1.000	1.311
Paul Weichard	OF	53	109	5	7	0	.942	2.151
Dan Singletary	OF	39	58	0	4	0	.935	1.487
Julio Guzman	OF	28	33	2	2	0	.946	1.250
Antonio Guzman	OF	27	39	4	2	0	.956	1.593
Jim Rinne	OF	15	20	0	0	0	1.000	1.333
Adolfo Joseph	OF	13	18	2	2	0	.909	1.538
Darryl Conyer	OF	11	10	1	1	0	.917	1.000
Miguel Rodriguez	OF	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Scott Abeyta	P	24	1	5	1	1	.857	.250
Paul Giambalvo	P	22	2	4	0	0	1.000	.273
Phil Davis	P	20	2	8	1	0	.909	.500
Troy Niehaus	P	19	2	10	2	1	.857	.632
Jody Fuller	P	18	2	11	1	1	.929	.722
Jose Bido	P	18	1	8	1	1	.900	.500
Mike McCutcheon	P	17	3	18	0	2	1.000	1.235
Justin Kees	P	17	8	8	1	1	.941	.941
Steve Verigood	P	15	0	1	0	0	1.000	.067
Simon Sanchez	P	13	6	14	2	0	.909	1.538
Doug Kohl	P	13	1	14	2	1	.882	1.154
Mike Koplove	P	12	1	3	1	0	.800	.333
Bret Prinz	P	11	5	9	1	2	.933	1.273
Seth Tate	P	9	2	7	0	1	1.000	1.000
Jeff Barndollar	P	6	1	1	0	0	1.000	.333
Keith Wilson	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Hatuey Mendoza	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Travis McCall	P	1	0	2	1	1	.667	2.000
Julio Guzman	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Antonio Guzman	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Julio Guzman	RF	21						.000
Dan Singletary	RF	20						.000
Antonio Guzman	RF	20						.000
Jim Rinne	RF	13						.000
Adolfo Joseph	RF	11						.000
Darryl Conyer	RF	1						.000
Alex Cintrón	SS	66	107	209	27	39	.921	4.788
Belvani Martinez	SS	11	12	34	4	7	.920	4.182
Justin Santonocito	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Totals		1146	1919	860	136	207	.953	2.425	18	74	31	29.5

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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