1998 Rockford Cubbies Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 71-68
Finished 3rd in the MWL's Central Division
Manager: Rubén Amaro (71-68)
Affiliation: Chicago Cubs
Location: Rockford, Illinois
Ballpark: Marinelli Stadium
Attendance: 75,600, Avg. 1,163 in 65 home dates

1998 Rockford Cubbies Roster

Playoffs - Rockford Cubbies 2 games, Fort Wayne Wizards 0
Playoffs - Rockford Cubbies 2 games, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 1
Finals - West Michigan Whitecaps 3 games, Rockford Cubbies 1

The Rockford Cubbies of the Midwest League ended the 1998 season with a record of 71 wins and 68 losses, finishing third in the league's Central Division.

The Cubbies plated 637 runs and surrendered 643 runs. Mike Amrhein drove in 87 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .317. Kyle Lohse led the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.23 ERA, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Chris Gissell, Eric Hinske, Chris Booker, Jon Garland, Jason Smith, Chris Piersoll, Nate Teut, Will Ohman and Kyle Lohse were all players from the 1998 Rockford Cubbies who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Rubén Amaro 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
Kyle Lohse	13	8	.619	3.22	28	26	1	3	1	0	170.7	158	76	61	8	45	1	121	11	1	13	712
Nate Teut	8	5	.615	3.31	16	16	0	1	0	0	103.3	99	49	38	9	23	0	67	6	1	3	434
Mike Meyers	7	5	.583	3.36	17	16	0	0	0	0	85.7	75	37	32	3	32	2	86	3	1	5	363
Rick Palma	7	6	.538	4.46	21	19	0	0	0	0	103.0	114	59	51	6	36	0	65	4	1	9	451
Todd Noel	6	6	.500	4.03	16	16	0	1	0	0	89.3	83	45	40	1	37	0	70	5	1	10	375
Elvis Polanco	6	6	.500	5.82	26	7	6	0	0	0	68.0	81	50	44	5	40	0	51	5	2	6	319
Shane Sullivan	4	3	.571	3.66	41	0	15	0	0	2	71.3	67	31	29	6	32	1	56	4	1	4	306
Jon Garland	4	7	.364	5.03	19	19	0	1	0	0	107.3	124	69	60	11	45	0	70	8	1	5	467
Chris Gissell	3	0	1.000	0.80	5	5	0	0	0	0	33.7	27	8	3	0	15	0	23	1	0	1	138
Barry Fennell	2	0	1.000	0.64	17	0	9	0	0	6	28.3	14	2	2	0	12	0	25	2	0	3	110
Chris Piersoll	2	0	1.000	3.92	27	4	11	1	0	2	59.7	52	28	26	8	20	0	55	4	0	3	251
Mike Delano	2	1	.667	5.40	5	5	0	0	0	0	23.3	23	17	14	2	17	0	20	0	1	4	109
Matt Magers	2	6	.250	2.60	50	0	18	0	0	5	52.0	57	26	15	0	32	2	31	1	1	1	236
Andrew Mallory	2	7	.222	7.23	33	1	13	0	0	0	61.0	63	59	49	5	43	0	44	8	0	12	298
Will Ohman	1	1	.500	4.44	4	4	0	0	0	0	24.3	25	13	12	3	7	0	21	2	0	1	104
Ronnie Sorzano	1	1	.500	5.68	9	0	6	0	0	2	12.7	25	11	8	0	8	1	9	0	0	2	68
Chris Booker	1	2	.333	3.36	44	1	22	0	0	4	64.3	47	32	24	2	53	4	78	4	1	8	287
Jason Kelley	0	0		3.78	9	0	2	0	0	0	16.7	9	8	7	0	13	1	14	0	0	2	71
Chris Grubbs	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	10
T. P. Waligora	0	4	.000	4.81	35	0	28	0	0	18	33.7	36	22	18	3	14	2	32	1	0	6	150
Totals	71	68	.511	3.97	423	139	132	7	1	39	1210.3	1182	643	534	72	524	14	939	70	12	98	5259

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
Mike Amrhein	121	501	457	61	145	34	1	9	87	7	4	30	47	.317	.367	.455	.823	208	20	8	3	3	1
Derrick Bly	135	561	490	64	143	40	7	4	65	10	5	58	147	.292	.372	.427	.799	209	6	7	2	4	1
Jaisen Randolph	128	547	491	78	142	18	9	1	33	32	21	40	113	.289	.348	.369	.716	181	4	5	9	2	2
Jason Smith	126	506	464	67	111	15	9	7	60	23	6	31	122	.239	.286	.356	.642	165	2	1	6	4	1
Juan Salazar	100	371	322	39	82	20	1	4	53	7	3	44	85	.255	.342	.360	.703	116	7	1	0	4	1
Felipe Jimenez	120	423	367	46	81	11	4	1	36	36	11	28	126	.221	.301	.281	.582	103	7	15	11	2	0
Nelson Abreu	89	309	269	38	71	13	6	7	41	8	6	31	59	.264	.341	.435	.776	117	7	1	7	1	1
Franklin Font	66	267	237	34	64	5	2	0	15	25	6	20	39	.270	.338	.308	.646	73	5	5	4	1	0
J. J. Johnson	76	264	232	35	56	6	1	5	22	13	5	21	43	.241	.318	.341	.659	79	1	7	0	4	0
Jerry Connell	82	282	256	22	43	11	1	3	17	7	0	23	84	.168	.241	.254	.495	65	10	2	0	1	0
Tony Schrager	50	218	167	38	42	12	1	6	19	3	2	43	32	.251	.409	.443	.852	74	4	3	3	2	1
Tydus Meadows	35	154	134	35	39	5	0	7	24	6	1	15	32	.291	.377	.485	.862	65	1	4	0	1	1
Quincy Carter	27	112	101	9	25	6	0	2	14	9	2	11	18	.248	.321	.366	.688	37	1	0	0	0	0
Arnold Santiago	34	114	110	12	24	2	1	0	9	1	1	2	21	.218	.228	.255	.483	28	2	0	0	2	0
Marcel Longmire	40	141	124	10	20	4	1	0	11	6	2	13	36	.161	.239	.210	.449	26	5	0	3	1	0
Bob Lisanti	26	95	75	7	17	7	0	1	14	2	0	14	18	.227	.344	.360	.704	27	1	1	2	3	0
Chris Grubbs	39	115	96	8	15	3	1	0	1	0	1	15	38	.156	.296	.208	.504	20	1	4	0	0	0
Elinton Jasco	12	46	43	8	12	1	0	0	3	2	3	2	12	.279	.304	.302	.607	13	0	0	0	1	0
Ramon Melo	11	39	33	7	11	1	0	1	5	4	0	3	9	.333	.378	.455	.833	15	0	0	2	1	0
Eric Hinske	6	26	20	8	9	4	0	1	4	1	0	5	6	.450	.538	.800	1.338	16	0	0	0	1	0
Carlos Yedo	9	36	31	6	9	5	0	2	10	0	0	5	8	.290	.389	.645	1.034	20	1	0	0	0	0
Luis Medina	10	39	36	2	7	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	6	.194	.256	.250	.506	9	4	1	0	0	0
Willie King	13	37	33	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	11	.121	.216	.121	.337	4	2	0	0	0	0
Totals	1355	5203	4588	637	1172	225	45	61	544	203	79	460	1112	.255	.329	.364	.693	1670	91	65	52	38	9

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Juan Salazar	1B	54	419	41	3	46	.994	8.519
Mike Amrhein	1B	33	236	23	3	22	.989	7.848
Arnold Santiago	1B	28	234	23	5	17	.981	9.179
Derrick Bly	1B	27	185	8	4	25	.980	7.148
Carlos Yedo	1B	8	66	9	0	7	1.000	9.375
Luis Medina	1B	6	54	3	0	5	1.000	9.500
Marcel Longmire	1B	5	43	0	5	3	.896	8.600
Eric Hinske	1B	4	15	0	0	0	1.000	3.750
Franklin Font	2B	66	142	204	14	55	.961	5.242
Tony Schrager	2B	50	79	111	7	26	.964	3.800
Nelson Abreu	2B	17	18	36	8	6	.871	3.176
Elinton Jasco	2B	12	25	29	9	6	.857	4.500
Ramon Melo	2B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Derrick Bly	3B	117	62	245	18	19	.945	2.624
Nelson Abreu	3B	30	12	52	5	6	.928	2.133
Luis Medina	3B	4	2	6	0	1	1.000	2.000
Juan Salazar	3B	2	0	5	1	0	.833	2.500
Ramon Melo	3B	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Mike Amrhein	C	72	419	52	4	2	.992	6.542	9	84	31	27.0
Chris Grubbs	C	31	184	24	7	1	.967	6.710	3	36	16	30.8
Bob Lisanti	C	26	199	11	5	0	.977	8.077	2	31	6	16.2
Juan Salazar	C	22	129	19	2	2	.987	6.727	7	19	6	24.0
Marcel Longmire	C	4	17	2	1	0	.950	4.750	3	1	1	50.0
Jaisen Randolph	CF	114						.000
Felipe Jimenez	CF	28						.000
J. J. Johnson	CF	7						.000
Tydus Meadows	CF	1						.000
Quincy Carter	CF	1						.000
Tydus Meadows	LF	31						.000
J. J. Johnson	LF	29						.000
Jerry Connell	LF	26						.000
Marcel Longmire	LF	24						.000
Nelson Abreu	LF	20						.000
Felipe Jimenez	LF	12						.000
Jaisen Randolph	LF	7						.000
Eric Hinske	LF	4						.000
Jaisen Randolph	OF	121	222	6	6	1	.974	1.884
Felipe Jimenez	OF	115	211	10	6	2	.974	1.922
Jerry Connell	OF	63	86	5	3	0	.968	1.444
J. J. Johnson	OF	52	72	8	3	2	.964	1.538
Tydus Meadows	OF	33	54	3	3	0	.950	1.727
Marcel Longmire	OF	24	37	0	1	0	.974	1.542
Nelson Abreu	OF	20	31	4	1	1	.972	1.750
Quincy Carter	OF	17	28	1	2	1	.935	1.706
Eric Hinske	OF	4	4	0	2	0	.667	1.000
Matt Magers	P	50	6	11	2	0	.895	.340
Chris Booker	P	44	1	7	0	1	1.000	.182
Shane Sullivan	P	41	4	10	0	0	1.000	.341
T. P. Waligora	P	35	2	6	1	0	.889	.229
Andrew Mallory	P	33	6	10	2	0	.889	.485
Kyle Lohse	P	28	15	27	2	1	.955	1.500
Chris Piersoll	P	27	2	4	1	0	.857	.222
Elvis Polanco	P	26	4	18	0	2	1.000	.846
Rick Palma	P	21	3	21	2	2	.923	1.143
Jon Garland	P	19	10	18	1	0	.966	1.474
Mike Meyers	P	17	1	11	1	0	.923	.706
Barry Fennell	P	17	2	9	0	0	1.000	.647
Nate Teut	P	16	5	12	1	2	.944	1.062
Todd Noel	P	16	4	8	0	0	1.000	.750
Ronnie Sorzano	P	9	2	1	0	1	1.000	.333
Jason Kelley	P	9	2	1	1	0	.750	.333
Chris Gissell	P	5	2	6	0	1	1.000	1.600
Mike Delano	P	5	0	1	0	0	1.000	.200
Will Ohman	P	4	1	5	1	1	.857	1.500
Chris Grubbs	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Felipe Jimenez	RF	81						.000
Jerry Connell	RF	41						.000
J. J. Johnson	RF	21						.000
Quincy Carter	RF	16						.000
Tydus Meadows	RF	6						.000
Jason Smith	SS	113	203	379	38	78	.939	5.150
Nelson Abreu	SS	30	48	71	5	11	.960	3.967
Ramon Melo	SS	8	21	18	6	5	.867	4.875
Derrick Bly	SS	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Totals		2114	3631	1596	192	361	.965	2.473	24	171	60	26.0

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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