1985 Nashville Sounds Statistics

American Association (AA) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 71-70
Finished 2nd in the AA's East Division
Manager: Lee Walls (0-0), Gordon MacKenzie (0-0)
Affiliation: Detroit Tigers
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Ballpark: Herschel Greer Stadium
Attendance: 364,225, Avg. 5,166

1985 Nashville Sounds Roster

The Nashville Sounds of the American Association ended the 1985 season with a record of 71 wins and 70 losses, finishing second in the league's East Division.

The Sounds plated 568 runs and gave up 609 runs. Mike Laga paced Nashville with 20 home runs, while Scotti Madison walloped 15 or more also. Mike Laga recorded 79 runs batted in. Darrell Brown led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .294. Paul Voigt topped the squad with 11 wins and a team-best 3.17 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Players from the 1985 Nashville Sounds who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Dwight Lowry, Ted Wilborn, John Harris, Doug Baker, Don Heinkel, Steve Shirley, Luis Rosado, Dan Meyer, Rusty Kuntz, Tom O'Malley, Bryan Kelly, Leon Roberts, Don Werner, Alejandro Sánchez, Bobby Mitchell, Dave Bergman, Joe Pittman, Darrell Brown, Bob Stoddard, Fred Breining, Mike Laga, Nelson Simmons, Mickey Mahler, Ron Johnson, Rich Monteleone, Sid Monge, Chris Pittaro, Chuck Cary, Víctor Cruz, Randy O'Neal, Bob Melvin, John Pacella, Scott Earl, Scotti Madison and Brian Denman.

Lee Walls and Gordon MacKenzie 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 Voigt	11	9	.550	3.17	28	27	1	7	1	0	176.0	155	75	62	10	85	2	95	10	3	8
Brian Denman	10	8	.556	4.06	27	26	0	8	4	0	181.7	198	93	82	12	51	0	65	5	1	1
Jeff Conner	8	7	.533	2.74	33	10	15	3	0	1	105.0	96	51	32	11	33	2	57	4	0	0
Bryan Kelly	8	8	.500	3.75	27	18	6	1	1	0	112.7	86	51	47	4	89	0	93	10	3	14
John Pacella	7	7	.500	3.23	37	12	12	2	1	3	122.7	90	47	44	4	54	2	79	0	6	10
Rich Monteleone	6	12	.333	5.08	27	26	0	3	0	0	145.3	149	89	82	14	87	2	97	2	0	11
Randy O'Neal	5	4	.556	3.59	10	10	0	3	1	0	67.7	57	29	27	9	19	0	44	0	1	0
Sid Monge	4	4	.500	3.64	31	0	24	0	0	8	47.0	50	21	19	4	16	5	26	1	0	2
Steve Shirley	3	2	.600	3.61	21	0	6	0	0	1	47.3	40	22	19	4	20	0	40	1	1	4
Bob Stoddard	2	1	.667	0.59	22	0	17	0	0	6	30.7	15	3	2	0	14	1	31	0	0	2
Chuck Cary	2	1	.667	3.00	48	0	16	0	0	8	66.0	55	27	22	6	27	1	54	3	0	4
Víctor Cruz	1	2	.333	7.23	31	0	14	0	0	2	37.3	43	32	30	4	23	6	24	0	0	2
Don Heinkel	1	3	.250	7.13	8	7	0	0	0	0	41.7	49	36	33	8	14	0	18	2	2	3
Mickey Mahler					5						0.0
Fred Breining					3						0.0
Jim Rasmussen	0	1	.000	6.75	7	1	2	0	0	0	14.7	20	14	11	2	10	1	12	2	0	2
Totals	68	69	.496	3.85	365	137	113	27	8	29	1195.7	1103	590	512	92	542	22	735	40	17	63	0

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
Darrell Brown	97	409	395	45	116	12	2	1	33	32	17	9	25	.294	.310	.342	.651	135		1	2	2	1
Mike Laga	117	478	430	58	113	30	2	20	79	2	3	39	95	.263	.321	.481	.802	207		1	1	7	4
Scotti Madison	86	365	317	59	108	23	4	16	54	3	3	43	45	.341	.423	.590	1.013	187		3	1	1	2
Joe Pittman	107	405	374	41	100	19	1	3	26	18	9	26	49	.267	.313	.348	.661	130		0	3	2	1
Scott Earl	125	449	381	55	90	19	3	7	44	23	12	50	98	.236	.325	.357	.682	136		2	12	4	1
Leon Roberts	97	358	311	31	83	19	0	4	39	6	6	39	47	.267	.345	.367	.711	114		1	1	6	6
Bobby Mitchell	111	374	325	47	80	16	3	3	29	5	9	45	50	.246	.339	.342	.680	111		1	2	1	0
Doug Baker	107	383	325	42	71	9	4	2	30	6	2	41	50	.218	.308	.289	.598	94		3	10	4	0
Bob Melvin	53	197	177	27	48	7	1	9	24	3	1	16	38	.271	.332	.475	.806	84		1	1	2	0
Nelson Simmons	49	207	188	17	46	14	0	9	26	0	0	14	30	.245	.295	.463	.757	87		1	0	4	1
Tom O'Malley	33	139	128	13	39	8	0	1	12	0	0	11	9	.305	.360	.391	.750	50		0	0	0	2
Rusty Kuntz	74	208	167	24	37	5	0	7	29	7	6	33	39	.222	.351	.377	.728	63		2	3	3	0
Dwight Lowry	74	234	203	20	37	7	1	2	13	2	2	24	51	.182	.273	.256	.529	52		2	3	2	1
Dan Meyer	51	170	160	10	36	13	1	1	13	3	1	5	29	.225	.254	.338	.592	54		2	1	2	1
Pedro Chavez	51	170	154	14	35	3	1	2	14	6	6	12	17	.227	.281	.299	.580	46		0	3	1	0
Chris Pittaro	60	203	175	22	34	4	1	3	19	4	2	22	32	.194	.291	.280	.571	49		2	4	0	0
John Harris	32	102	93	7	23	3	0	2	10	0	1	6	21	.247	.290	.344	.634	32		0	2	1	1
Ted Wilborn	37	111	100	11	20	1	0	0	4	4	0	10	26	.200	.273	.210	.483	21		0	1	0	0
Mark Smith	26	86	80	5	17	4	0	1	8	0	0	4	9	.212	.256	.300	.556	24		1	0	1	0
Alejandro Sánchez	10	39	38	6	9	1	0	2	5	3	1	1	8	.237	.256	.421	.677	16		0	0	0	0
Dave Bergman	11	45	39	6	9	1	0	1	6	1	1	5	6	.231	.311	.333	.644	13		0	0	1	1
Luis Rosado	4	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	0		0	0	0	0
Totals	1412	5138	4565	560	1151	218	24	96	517	128	82	456	774	.252	.320	.373	.694	1705	0	23	50	44	22

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Mike Laga	1B	114	1024	111	11	101	.990	9.956
Scotti Madison	1B	11	86	5	1	4	.989	8.273
Dave Bergman	1B	9	87	8	1	11	.990	1.556
John Harris	1B	8	74	7	3	5	.964	1.125
Leon Roberts	1B	3	27	1	1	1	.966	9.333
Dan Meyer	1B	2	4	0	0	1	1.000	2.000
Bob Melvin	1B	1	8	2	0	1	1.000	1.000
Rusty Kuntz	1B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Scott Earl	2B	118	263	325	11	78	.982	4.983
Chris Pittaro	2B	15	23	30	2	6	.964	3.533
Pedro Chavez	2B	15	30	38	3	10	.958	4.533
Joe Pittman	2B	5	4	9	0	3	1.000	2.600
Joe Pittman	3B	63	35	113	17	7	.897	2.349
Chris Pittaro	3B	31	12	55	2	4	.971	2.161
Tom O'Malley	3B	28	16	62	9	2	.897	2.786
Scotti Madison	3B	23	24	41	1	2	.985	2.826
Pedro Chavez	3B	9	7	19	4	2	.867	2.889
Scott Earl	3B	5	2	13	0	2	1.000	3.000
Dwight Lowry	C	66	318	45	12	6	.968	5.500	1
Bob Melvin	C	47	266	26	2	2	.993	6.213	2
Scotti Madison	C	38	233	28	9	3	.967	6.868	1
Don Werner	C	3						.000
Luis Rosado	C	3	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.667	0
Bobby Mitchell	OF	105	162	8	3	2	.983	1.619
Darrell Brown	OF	97	213	9	5	1	.978	2.289
Rusty Kuntz	OF	70	93	3	0	1	1.000	1.371
Leon Roberts	OF	65	116	5	3	0	.976	1.862
Nelson Simmons	OF	49	93	7	1	4	.990	2.041
Ted Wilborn	OF	34	33	1	2	0	.944	1.000
Mark Smith	OF	26	46	1	0	0	1.000	1.808
Alejandro Sánchez	OF	10	17	0	0	0	1.000	1.700
John Harris	OF	10	13	0	2	0	.867	1.300
Joe Pittman	OF	7	8	0	1	0	.889	1.143
Dan Meyer	OF	5	2	0	0	0	1.000	.400
Scotti Madison	OF	5	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.800
Bob Melvin	OF	3	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667
Chuck Cary	P	48	6	12	1	2	.947	.375
John Pacella	P	37	11	17	4	0	.875	.757
Jeff Conner	P	33	7	18	4	1	.862	.758
Sid Monge	P	31	2	8	1	1	.909	.323
Víctor Cruz	P	31	0	4	0	0	1.000	.129
Paul Voigt	P	28	26	39	4	4	.942	2.321
Rich Monteleone	P	27	13	19	1	2	.970	1.185
Bryan Kelly	P	27	8	25	1	3	.971	1.222
Brian Denman	P	27	23	39	1	3	.984	2.296
Bob Stoddard	P	22	1	6	1	1	.875	.318
Steve Shirley	P	21	0	4	0	0	1.000	.190
Randy O'Neal	P	10	9	13	0	2	1.000	2.200
Don Heinkel	P	8	2	9	0	0	1.000	1.375
Jim Rasmussen	P	7	3	1	0	0	1.000	.571
Mickey Mahler	P	5						.000
Fred Breining	P	3						.000
Doug Baker	SS	107	179	318	22	74	.958	4.645
Pedro Chavez	SS	21	37	61	3	15	.970	4.667
Chris Pittaro	SS	16	28	41	2	8	.972	4.312
Joe Pittman	SS	1	2	3	0	2	1.000	5.000
Totals		1614	3712	1610	151	377	.972	3.297	4	0	0

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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