1998 Lansing Lugnuts Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 71-69
Finished 4th in the MWL's East Division
Manager: Bob Herold (71-69)
Affiliation: Kansas City Royals
Location: Lansing, Michigan
Ballpark: Oldsmobile Park
Attendance: 485,815, Avg. 7,041 in 69 home dates

1998 Lansing Lugnuts Roster

The Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League ended the 1998 season with a record of 71 wins and 69 losses, finishing fourth in the league's East Division.

The Lugnuts scored 695 runs and surrendered 673 runs. Juan LeBron paced Lansing with 17 home runs, and Joe Dillon walloped 15 or more, too. Juan LeBron drove in 84 runs. Joe Caruso led all regular hitters by hitting .269. Justin Pederson topped the squad with 13 wins, while Edwin Gonzalez registered a 3.4 earned run average, tops among regular hurlers.

Members of the 1998 Lansing Lugnuts who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Juan Brito, Joe Dillon, Jeremy Hill, Dan Reichert, Lance Carter, Kevin Appier, Kris Wilson, Corey Thurman, Jeremy Affeldt and Kiko Calero.

Bob Herold served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Justin Pederson	13	5	.722	3.45	30	27	1	0	0	154.0	132	66	59	9	62	0	119	11	2	10	644
Kris Wilson	10	5	.667	3.53	18	18	0	1	0	117.3	119	50	46	7	15	0	74	3	0	2	470
Edwin Gonzalez	8	3	.727	3.40	23	22	0	0	0	127.0	120	57	48	5	39	0	106	7	1	7	530
Aaron Carter	5	4	.556	3.78	43	0	24	0	12	78.7	72	40	33	5	36	1	89	3	0	10	346
Corey Thurman	5	6	.455	3.61	14	11	2	0	0	62.3	47	31	25	6	30	0	61	4	0	10	261
Eric Yanz	5	6	.455	5.42	34	4	11	0	2	81.3	91	57	49	2	39	1	78	4	1	12	371
Jordy Alexander	4	2	.667	5.11	21	15	0	0	0	91.7	98	56	52	11	31	0	69	6	0	1	400
Ryan Douglass	4	8	.333	6.17	18	18	0	0	0	89.0	122	80	61	5	33	0	45	9	2	8	418
Scott Key	4	9	.308	2.95	38	0	24	0	7	91.7	68	37	30	4	40	0	74	8	0	9	386
Lance Carter	3	1	.750	0.67	15	2	10	0	2	40.3	34	6	3	0	9	1	37	0	0	0	158
Tomas Medina	3	2	.600	7.66	14	0	8	0	0	24.7	24	22	21	4	26	0	14	1	1	4	123
Steve Maas	3	3	.500	3.77	43	0	32	0	12	71.7	71	33	30	5	31	0	59	3	0	12	318
Francisco Solano	2	1	.667	2.91	4	4	0	0	0	21.7	17	8	7	2	14	0	16	1	0	0	93
Kiko Calero	1	0	1.000	3.78	4	4	0	0	0	16.7	19	7	7	1	7	0	10	2	1	1	76
Dan Reichert	1	1	.500	3.28	13	6	1	0	0	35.7	25	16	13	0	20	0	35	3	1	4	152
Kevin Appier	0	0		2.25	1	1	0	0	0	4.0	4	1	1	0	0	0	5	2	0	0	17
Ricardo Montas	0	0		3.38	2	0	1	0	0	2.7	1	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	11
Taylor Myers	0	0		3.60	1	1	0	0	0	5.0	5	3	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	21
Jeremy Williamson	0	0		8.31	9	0	5	0	0	13.0	18	12	12	0	12	0	7	2	0	3	69
Monty Ward	0	0		12.00	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	8	4	4	0	3	0	4	0	0	1	20
Carlos Pichardo	0	0		13.50	5	0	1	0	0	6.0	11	9	9	2	2	0	3	2	0	1	34
Griffin Moore	0	0		18.00	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6
Joe Caruso	0	0		27.00	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	5	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	9
Matt Ramagli	0	1	.000	3.18	3	0	0	0	0	5.7	8	6	2	0	5	0	2	0	0	0	29
Javier Pamus	0	2	.000	13.00	7	1	2	0	0	9.0	15	14	13	0	6	0	8	0	0	1	47
Matt Smith	0	3	.000	3.81	9	3	3	0	0	26.0	21	12	11	2	14	0	19	0	0	2	108
Jeremy Affeldt	0	3	.000	9.53	6	3	0	0	0	17.0	27	21	18	1	12	0	8	0	0	2	90
Donnie Delaney	0	4	.000	3.19	25	0	12	0	3	36.7	31	19	13	2	26	0	47	2	0	1	172
Totals	71	69	.507	4.19	403	140	139	1	38	1233.7	1216	673	575	76	516	3	991	73	9	102	5379

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
Joe Caruso	120	496	417	73	112	23	7	9	60	24	9	60	61	.269	.374	.422	.796	176	9	13	1	5	1
Juan LeBron	121	513	442	70	111	26	9	17	84	18	11	57	129	.251	.344	.466	.810	206	11	8	1	5	5
Dave Willis	97	397	374	56	105	30	5	9	50	9	2	17	69	.281	.312	.460	.772	172	10	2	0	4	0
Tony Longueira	97	396	357	46	104	21	2	6	49	5	7	25	58	.291	.342	.412	.754	147	8	5	4	5	0
Steve Medrano	106	393	340	45	88	14	5	0	29	15	3	34	39	.259	.332	.329	.661	112	4	4	13	2	2
Gary Coffee	83	347	285	52	81	21	7	8	44	5	2	55	91	.284	.403	.491	.895	140	4	4	0	3	2
Rod Metzler	88	366	323	45	81	17	4	2	34	17	6	36	77	.251	.331	.347	.678	112	2	3	4	0	0
Goef Tomlinson	68	318	274	55	78	16	7	7	39	21	6	39	34	.285	.384	.471	.854	129	4	5	0	0	2
Joe Dillon	73	308	268	37	70	17	2	15	43	9	2	36	57	.261	.349	.507	.856	136	6	0	4	0	1
Jeremy Hill	86	313	288	25	69	12	1	4	37	4	1	15	75	.240	.285	.330	.615	95	8	4	4	2	1
Vic Radcliff	66	291	253	42	66	15	4	5	33	12	5	26	53	.261	.344	.411	.755	104	5	8	0	4	0
Micah Williams	77	296	270	43	65	8	4	2	19	33	10	18	55	.241	.300	.322	.623	87	3	5	3	0	0
Rick Pitts	85	274	249	33	57	5	4	1	21	22	6	13	62	.229	.271	.293	.565	73	2	3	5	4	1
Juan Brito	63	234	212	16	52	7	0	0	22	2	2	17	41	.245	.305	.278	.583	59	6	2	1	2	0
Rafael Torres	42	152	136	18	37	7	1	1	15	3	2	13	32	.272	.342	.360	.702	49	1	2	0	1	0
Ricardo Montas	51	164	140	21	32	4	1	1	14	4	2	22	28	.229	.337	.293	.630	41	4	1	1	0	2
Jose Taveras	14	60	57	7	16	3	0	1	7	3	1	2	14	.281	.317	.386	.703	22	1	1	0	0	0
Dan DiPace	20	64	49	11	13	1	0	1	7	1	0	11	14	.265	.406	.347	.753	17	1	2	0	2	1
Steve Maas	43	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1400	5383	4735	695	1237	247	63	89	607	207	77	496	989	.261	.338	.396	.734	1877	89	72	41	39	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Joe Dillon	1B	45	416	37	3	36	.993	1.067
Gary Coffee	1B	45	384	22	7	38	.983	9.022
Ricardo Montas	1B	23	137	18	2	16	.987	6.739
Dave Willis	1B	17	109	10	0	13	1.000	7.000
Dan DiPace	1B	12	86	3	1	7	.989	7.417
Tony Longueira	1B	11	96	6	0	13	1.000	9.273
Rod Metzler	2B	66	146	163	14	40	.957	4.682
Joe Caruso	2B	47	95	124	6	33	.973	4.660
Tony Longueira	2B	34	77	105	8	24	.958	5.353
Joe Caruso	3B	71	49	123	13	8	.930	2.423
Dave Willis	3B	38	23	65	17	5	.838	2.316
Ricardo Montas	3B	24	17	43	0	2	1.000	2.500
Joe Dillon	3B	13	8	33	4	3	.911	3.154
Tony Longueira	3B	6	3	12	5	2	.750	2.500
Jeremy Hill	C	85	554	78	9	4	.986	7.435	16	59	36	37.9
Juan Brito	C	63	454	65	6	3	.989	8.238	8	81	44	35.2
Goef Tomlinson	CF	58						.000
Rick Pitts	CF	40						.000
Rod Metzler	CF	16						.000
Vic Radcliff	CF	14						.000
Jose Taveras	CF	13						.000
Micah Williams	CF	9						.000
Micah Williams	LF	53						.000
Vic Radcliff	LF	39						.000
Rick Pitts	LF	25						.000
Rafael Torres	LF	24						.000
Dave Willis	LF	12						.000
Rod Metzler	LF	8						.000
Goef Tomlinson	LF	2						.000
Juan LeBron	OF	114	184	10	8	1	.960	1.702
Rick Pitts	OF	78	113	3	3	0	.975	1.487
Micah Williams	OF	61	91	2	2	0	.979	1.525
Goef Tomlinson	OF	60	143	2	3	0	.980	2.417
Vic Radcliff	OF	60	90	4	4	0	.959	1.567
Rafael Torres	OF	30	32	2	2	0	.944	1.133
Rod Metzler	OF	22	38	1	1	1	.975	1.773
Dave Willis	OF	14	24	1	2	0	.926	1.786
Jose Taveras	OF	13	27	0	1	0	.964	2.077
Steve Maas	P	43	1	10	0	0	1.000	.256
Aaron Carter	P	43	2	4	1	0	.857	.140
Scott Key	P	38	5	11	3	0	.842	.421
Eric Yanz	P	34	10	10	3	1	.870	.588
Justin Pederson	P	30	5	16	2	0	.913	.700
Donnie Delaney	P	25	1	5	2	0	.750	.240
Edwin Gonzalez	P	23	13	26	3	2	.929	1.696
Jordy Alexander	P	21	5	11	0	1	1.000	.762
Kris Wilson	P	18	10	20	0	3	1.000	1.667
Ryan Douglass	P	18	10	12	1	2	.957	1.222
Lance Carter	P	15	0	9	1	0	.900	.600
Corey Thurman	P	14	3	4	1	0	.875	.500
Tomas Medina	P	14	2	3	0	0	1.000	.357
Dan Reichert	P	13	3	5	0	0	1.000	.615
Jeremy Williamson	P	9	2	3	0	0	1.000	.556
Matt Smith	P	9	2	3	0	0	1.000	.556
Javier Pamus	P	7	0	3	0	0	1.000	.429
Jeremy Affeldt	P	6	1	4	2	0	.714	.833
Carlos Pichardo	P	5	0	0	0	0		.000
Francisco Solano	P	4	0	1	2	0	.333	.250
Kiko Calero	P	4	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.250
Matt Ramagli	P	3	0	2	0	1	1.000	.667
Ricardo Montas	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Monty Ward	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Taylor Myers	P	1	0	1	1	0	.500	1.000
Griffin Moore	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Joe Caruso	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Kevin Appier	P	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Juan LeBron	RF	114						.000
Rick Pitts	RF	13						.000
Vic Radcliff	RF	7						.000
Rafael Torres	RF	6						.000
Dave Willis	RF	2						.000
Steve Medrano	SS	106	164	328	16	67	.969	4.642
Tony Longueira	SS	39	64	116	10	22	.947	4.615
Joe Caruso	SS	2	0	1	2	0	.333	.500
Totals		2057	3701	1544	171	348	.968	2.550	24	140	80	36.4

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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