1997 New Haven Ravens Statistics

Eastern League (EL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 64-78
Finished 5th in the EL's North Division
Manager: Bill Hayes (64-78)
Affiliation: Colorado Rockies
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Ballpark: Yale Field
Attendance: 232,101, Avg. 3,517 in 66 home dates

1997 New Haven Ravens Roster

The New Haven Ravens of the Eastern League ended the 1997 season with a record of 64 wins and 78 losses, finishing fifth in the league's North Division.

The Ravens scored 663 runs and yielded 696 runs. Derrick Gibson led New Haven with 23 home runs, while Kevin Curtis walloped 15 or more, too. Derrick Gibson accounted for 75 RBI and topped all regular batters by hitting .317. Mike Vavrek paced the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 2.58 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Members of the 1997 New Haven Ravens who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Scott Watkins, Mike DeJean, Heath Haynes, Luther Hackman, Jeff Barry, Derrick Gibson, Terry Shumpert, Mark Brownson, Chris Sexton, Phil Stidham and Mike Saipe.

Bill Hayes 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 Vavrek	12	3	.800	2.57	17	17	0	2	0	0	122.7	94	38	35	7	34	0	101	1	0	4	491
Mark Brownson	10	9	.526	4.19	29	29	0	2	0	0	184.7	172	101	86	24	55	1	170	14	2	5	779
Mike Saipe	8	5	.615	3.10	19	19	0	4	2	0	136.7	127	57	47	18	29	2	123	5	1	4	550
Steve Shoemaker	6	4	.600	3.02	14	14	0	1	0	0	95.3	64	36	32	6	53	3	111	3	1	5	389
Joel Moore	6	4	.600	3.84	19	12	3	1	0	0	77.3	77	38	33	12	35	3	47	3	0	7	331
Lloyd Peever	5	5	.500	5.50	20	10	2	0	0	0	73.7	70	49	45	14	24	2	46	5	0	2	310
Matt Pool	3	5	.375	4.28	29	1	9	0	0	0	48.3	57	36	23	9	16	3	23	1	0	2	217
Mike Zolecki	3	5	.375	5.08	16	7	2	1	0	0	56.7	64	38	32	10	32	3	32	1	2	10	255
Scott Watkins	2	0	1.000	3.52	13	0	8	0	0	0	15.3	9	6	6	1	3	0	8	1	0	3	58
Heath Bost	2	2	.500	3.56	38	0	32	0	0	20	43.0	44	18	17	3	10	1	45	0	0	5	180
Mike Kusiewicz	2	4	.333	6.35	10	4	0	0	0	0	28.3	41	28	20	2	10	1	11	6	0	1	138
Ryan Henderson	2	5	.286	4.80	24	4	7	0	0	0	50.7	54	29	27	2	27	2	46	3	0	6	228
Tom Price	1	3	.250	3.16	48	1	18	0	0	0	57.0	55	25	20	6	21	2	48	3	0	1	246
Matt Byrd	1	3	.250	5.01	10	3	4	0	0	0	23.3	22	15	13	3	12	1	17	0	0	1	105
Scott Norman	1	5	.167	6.75	29	0	9	0	0	1	41.3	58	38	31	3	15	2	21	2	0	3	192
Heath Haynes	0	0		1.12	5	0	1	0	0	0	8.0	7	1	1	0	1	0	8	0	0	0	31
James Kammerer	0	0		3.60	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	3	2	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	21
Phil Stidham	0	0		3.72	8	0	4	0	0	1	9.7	10	4	4	1	8	1	7	0	0	0	47
Mike DeJean	0	1	.000	6.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	3	2	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	14
Chris Macca	0	4	.000	7.77	46	0	32	0	0	9	44.0	47	40	38	3	55	1	29	7	0	8	237
Doug Million	0	5	.000	9.22	10	10	0	0	0	0	40.0	64	46	41	7	36	0	19	3	2	4	213
Luther Hackman	0	6	.000	7.82	10	10	0	0	0	0	50.7	58	49	44	11	34	1	34	5	3	4	241
Totals	64	78	.451	4.44	417	142	131	11	2	31	1214.7	1200	696	599	143	515	29	949	64	11	75	5273

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
Derrick Gibson	119	509	461	91	146	24	2	23	75	20	13	36	100	.317	.377	.527	.904	243	8	10	0	2	7
Jamie Taylor	104	375	329	43	107	17	1	8	41	2	3	35	49	.325	.389	.456	.845	150	5	2	5	4	7
Chris Sexton	98	439	360	65	107	22	4	1	38	8	16	62	37	.297	.400	.389	.788	140	8	2	11	4	0
Kevin Curtis	105	408	362	58	99	24	0	17	69	0	2	34	82	.273	.341	.481	.821	174	9	6	0	6	0
D. J. Boston	83	346	293	53	84	14	2	7	49	1	5	49	63	.287	.384	.420	.804	123	5	0	0	4	2
Link Jarrett	88	292	261	19	79	9	1	1	27	2	2	18	30	.303	.349	.356	.705	93	3	1	11	1	3
Blake Barthol	109	379	325	42	79	12	2	6	39	5	3	31	76	.243	.326	.348	.674	113	6	10	11	2	0
Keith Grunewald	103	347	310	41	75	11	1	0	24	7	3	25	78	.242	.296	.284	.580	88	8	1	6	5	1
Steve Bernhardt	101	358	315	35	67	14	0	6	38	2	2	27	46	.213	.277	.314	.591	99	5	3	8	5	0
Doug Newstrom	95	290	244	29	65	10	1	1	43	9	5	39	32	.266	.365	.328	.692	80	8	1	2	4	1
John Giudice	63	236	216	26	54	8	2	5	30	5	1	16	49	.250	.309	.375	.684	81	6	3	0	1	1
Kinnis Pledger	61	235	201	35	51	10	2	10	26	2	2	30	53	.254	.352	.473	.825	95	7	1	2	1	2
Anthony Lewis	51	183	167	32	38	9	0	12	36	1	1	13	39	.228	.279	.497	.776	83	1	0	0	3	0
Jeff Barry	40	155	146	21	32	4	0	5	12	3	2	4	34	.219	.253	.349	.603	51	3	3	1	1	0
Dave Feuerstein	26	111	104	8	27	4	3	0	10	2	1	7	20	.260	.306	.356	.662	37	4	0	0	0	0
Forry Wells	39	123	98	16	22	4	0	2	7	1	2	21	37	.224	.374	.327	.701	32	2	3	0	1	0
Tal Light	25	89	83	10	20	6	0	5	11	0	1	5	36	.241	.284	.494	.778	41	1	0	1	0	0
Nate Holdren	25	86	82	9	15	2	0	4	9	0	2	3	28	.183	.221	.354	.575	29	2	1	0	0	0
Billy Hall	17	66	59	8	13	2	1	1	7	7	1	7	10	.220	.303	.339	.642	20	1	0	0	0	0
Vicente Garcia	22	73	58	9	9	2	0	2	11	0	1	12	19	.155	.292	.293	.585	17	1	0	1	2	0
Mike Saipe	19	25	21	5	5	1	0	2	5	0	0	0	2	.238	.238	.571	.810	12	0	0	4	0	0
Steve Shoemaker	14	20	16	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	5	.250	.250	.250	.500	4	0	0	4	0	0
Terry Shumpert	5	17	17	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.235	.235	.412	.647	7	1	0	0	0	0
Mark Brownson	31	34	28	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	10	.143	.250	.143	.393	4	0	0	2	0	0
Lloyd Peever	20	17	13	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.231	.214	.231	.445	3	0	0	3	1	0
Doug Million	10	10	8	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.333	.375	.708	3	0	0	1	0	0
Joel Moore	19	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Watkins	13	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Luther Hackman	10	10	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Vavrek	17	17	16	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.062	.062	.062	.125	1	0	0	1	0	0
Matt Pool	29	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Heath Bost	38	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Byrd	10	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Tom Price	48	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Osborne	3	7	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.000	.286	.000	.286	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Norman	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Heath Haynes	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Macca	46	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Kusiewicz	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryan Henderson	24	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Zolecki	16	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1790	5291	4637	663	1216	211	22	119	612	77	69	482	957	.262	.335	.394	.729	1828	95	47	78	47	24

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
D. J. Boston	1B	81	665	59	7	77	.990	8.938
Nate Holdren	1B	20	161	9	7	16	.960	8.500
Keith Grunewald	1B	18	130	7	2	12	.986	7.611
Kevin Curtis	1B	12	105	15	2	18	.984	1.000
Doug Newstrom	1B	11	83	14	0	8	1.000	8.818
Jeff Barry	1B	6	57	10	2	5	.971	11.167
Jamie Taylor	1B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Steve Bernhardt	2B	80	177	199	10	59	.974	4.700
Keith Grunewald	2B	29	47	75	1	17	.992	4.207
Vicente Garcia	2B	21	44	35	1	15	.988	3.762
Link Jarrett	2B	11	29	19	0	6	1.000	4.364
Billy Hall	2B	11	9	31	3	4	.930	3.636
Terry Shumpert	2B	4	8	17	0	7	1.000	6.250
Jamie Taylor	3B	98	60	218	13	20	.955	2.837
Keith Grunewald	3B	25	7	40	8	6	.855	1.880
Tal Light	3B	24	14	57	16	4	.816	2.958
Link Jarrett	3B	4	0	3	0	0	1.000	.750
Steve Bernhardt	3B	3	0	3	1	0	.750	1.000
Blake Barthol	C	107	671	71	12	5	.984	6.935	13	82	42	33.9
Doug Newstrom	C	52	296	36	5	3	.985	6.385	3	43	13	23.2
John Giudice	CF	57						.000
Kinnis Pledger	CF	37						.000
Chris Sexton	CF	26						.000
Dave Feuerstein	CF	22						.000
Jeff Barry	CF	5						.000
Billy Hall	CF	1						.000
Derrick Gibson	LF	115						.000
Kinnis Pledger	LF	17						.000
Kevin Curtis	LF	9						.000
Dave Feuerstein	LF	2						.000
Forry Wells	LF	1						.000
John Giudice	LF	1						.000
Jeff Barry	LF	1						.000
Derrick Gibson	OF	115	188	8	11	0	.947	1.704
Kevin Curtis	OF	80	126	4	4	1	.970	1.625
John Giudice	OF	58	123	4	4	0	.969	2.190
Kinnis Pledger	OF	55	95	3	1	0	.990	1.782
Jeff Barry	OF	30	65	1	4	0	.943	2.200
Anthony Lewis	OF	28	45	0	1	0	.978	1.607
Chris Sexton	OF	26	58	1	1	0	.983	2.269
Forry Wells	OF	24	26	5	3	0	.912	1.292
Dave Feuerstein	OF	24	53	2	0	1	1.000	2.292
Billy Hall	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Tom Price	P	48	5	9	0	0	1.000	.292
Chris Macca	P	46	4	6	0	0	1.000	.217
Heath Bost	P	38	2	8	1	0	.909	.263
Matt Pool	P	29	6	9	1	2	.938	.517
Scott Norman	P	29	2	10	0	1	1.000	.414
Mark Brownson	P	29	14	18	2	0	.941	1.103
Ryan Henderson	P	24	6	7	0	1	1.000	.542
Lloyd Peever	P	20	4	18	1	0	.957	1.100
Mike Saipe	P	19	9	24	2	4	.943	1.737
Joel Moore	P	19	3	7	2	2	.833	.526
Mike Vavrek	P	17	5	14	1	1	.950	1.118
Mike Zolecki	P	16	4	9	1	1	.929	.812
Steve Shoemaker	P	14	10	14	1	0	.960	1.714
Scott Watkins	P	13	2	2	0	0	1.000	.308
Doug Million	P	10	1	13	0	2	1.000	1.400
Mike Kusiewicz	P	10	2	11	0	0	1.000	1.300
Luther Hackman	P	10	2	5	0	0	1.000	.700
Matt Byrd	P	10	3	3	1	1	.857	.600
Phil Stidham	P	8	1	2	0	0	1.000	.375
Heath Haynes	P	5	1	2	0	0	1.000	.600
Mike DeJean	P	2	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.500
James Kammerer	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Kevin Curtis	RF	74						.000
Anthony Lewis	RF	28						.000
Jeff Barry	RF	27						.000
Forry Wells	RF	23						.000
Kinnis Pledger	RF	1						.000
John Giudice	RF	1						.000
Chris Sexton	SS	72	120	199	13	45	.961	4.431
Link Jarrett	SS	64	80	189	5	46	.982	4.203
Keith Grunewald	SS	11	14	34	5	8	.906	4.364
Billy Hall	SS	1	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000
Totals		2072	3644	1564	155	398	.971	2.514	16	125	55	30.6

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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