1996 Salem Avalanche Statistics

Carolina League (CL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 62-76
Finished 4th in the CL's South Division
Manager: Bill McGuire (62-76)
Affiliation: Colorado Rockies
Location: Salem, Virginia
Ballpark: Salem Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 173,703, Avg. 2,632 in 66 home dates

1996 Salem Avalanche Roster

The Salem Avalanche of the Carolina League ended the 1996 season with a record of 62 wins and 76 losses, finishing fourth in the league's South Division.

The Avalanche scored 585 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 656 runs. Nate Holdren and John Giudice paced Salem with 16 home runs apiece. Blake Barthol and John Giudice each drove in 67 runs. Chad Gambill led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .296. Mike Vavrek topped the squad with 10 wins, while Matt Pool earned a 4.66 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Luther Hackman, Elvis Peña, Eric Young, Bill Swift, David Nied, John Burke, David Lee and Larry Walker were all players from the 1996 Salem Avalanche who played in the Majors during their careers.

Bill McGuire 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	10	8	.556	4.87	26	25	0	2	1	0	149.7	167	92	81	15	59	0	103	5	0	10	658
Todd Genke	8	7	.533	3.53	41	1	13	0	0	3	86.7	88	41	34	7	28	1	55	3	0	5	372
Doug Million	7	5	.583	2.53	17	16	0	1	1	0	106.7	84	37	30	1	60	1	99	2	1	8	443
Jeff Sobkoviak	6	6	.500	3.14	46	1	26	0	0	9	77.3	67	31	27	7	26	6	52	6	1	0	331
Matt Pool	5	6	.455	4.64	27	21	3	0	0	0	135.7	158	80	70	8	41	3	93	6	0	10	591
Luther Hackman	5	7	.417	4.24	21	21	0	1	0	0	110.3	93	60	52	2	69	1	83	5	2	6	484
Luis Colmenares	4	5	.444	5.23	32	0	25	0	0	12	32.7	28	21	19	4	22	1	45	2	3	6	156
Pat McClinton	3	1	.750	2.09	39	0	20	0	0	1	64.7	58	28	15	2	21	1	47	3	2	2	278
Scott LaRock	3	2	.600	3.65	39	1	13	0	0	1	81.3	72	38	33	4	31	3	57	0	1	2	341
David Nied	3	3	.500	2.95	7	6	1	1	1	0	42.7	37	25	14	3	18	0	42	1	0	3	183
Brent Crowther	3	3	.500	4.03	8	8	0	1	1	0	51.3	52	23	23	2	14	0	28	3	0	2	210
Steve Shoemaker	2	7	.222	4.69	25	13	5	0	0	1	86.3	63	49	45	6	63	0	105	4	1	1	371
Chandler Martin	2	8	.200	5.87	13	13	0	1	1	0	69.0	80	56	45	5	53	1	59	5	0	12	333
Keith Barnes	1	0	1.000	3.38	4	0	1	0	0	0	8.0	10	3	3	0	2	0	9	0	0	1	34
Bill Swift	0	0		4.50	2	2	0	0	0	0	6.0	9	4	3	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	29
Brian Rose	0	0		6.14	5	0	3	0	0	0	7.3	10	7	5	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	32
Doug Walls	0	0		7.07	5	3	1	0	0	1	14.0	17	12	11	3	10	0	17	0	0	3	70
Bill Eden	0	1	.000	2.70	11	0	7	0	0	1	13.3	8	4	4	0	7	1	15	1	0	2	56
Mike Kusiewicz	0	1	.000	5.09	5	3	2	0	0	1	23.0	19	15	13	2	12	0	18	1	0	2	100
Neil Garrett	0	1	.000	5.14	1	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	8	4	4	1	2	0	8	0	0	1	29
Sean Murphy	0	1	.000	5.68	3	0	2	0	0	1	6.3	9	5	4	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	29
John Burke	0	1	.000	6.00	3	3	0	0	0	0	12.0	10	12	8	1	9	0	12	0	0	4	54
Zack Sawyer	0	1	.000	13.50	4	0	4	0	0	1	2.0	6	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	13
David Lee	0	2	.000	2.25	8	0	5	0	0	1	12.0	14	6	3	1	6	0	10	2	0	2	56
Totals	62	76	.449	4.10	392	138	131	7	5	33	1205.3	1167	656	549	75	558	19	969	49	13	84	5253

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
Chad Gambill	115	449	406	61	120	22	2	7	41	6	6	33	83	.296	.352	.411	.763	167	4	3	6	1	2
Nate Holdren	114	466	426	53	118	24	0	16	64	15	5	29	109	.277	.327	.446	.773	190	6	5	1	5	3
John Giudice	101	431	373	58	109	30	1	16	67	10	8	45	66	.292	.376	.507	.883	189	11	7	3	3	6
Blake Barthol	109	430	375	58	107	17	2	13	67	12	5	36	48	.285	.366	.445	.811	167	5	12	6	1	0
Kyle Houser	117	513	436	59	104	12	3	1	48	13	9	68	47	.239	.341	.287	.627	125	12	1	5	3	1
Pookie Jones	102	376	335	45	94	18	1	6	40	16	6	29	76	.281	.336	.394	.730	132	12	1	7	4	0
Elvis Peña	102	419	341	48	76	9	4	0	28	30	16	61	70	.223	.345	.273	.618	93	12	3	13	1	2
Steve Bernhardt	63	223	203	17	61	12	2	1	19	4	4	12	23	.300	.344	.394	.738	80	4	2	5	1	0
Tal Light	64	259	234	29	55	10	0	13	36	3	1	19	59	.235	.305	.444	.749	104	6	5	0	1	0
Chan Mayber	97	310	264	38	55	5	0	1	20	22	9	27	50	.208	.291	.239	.530	63	2	5	11	3	0
Will Scalzitti	81	287	270	24	53	14	0	6	23	0	2	16	33	.196	.244	.315	.559	85	5	1	0	0	2
Mike Higgins	66	249	219	24	52	11	0	5	18	1	4	24	50	.237	.317	.356	.673	78	6	2	3	1	2
Garrett Neubart	24	102	85	16	31	2	2	0	6	8	6	12	13	.365	.465	.435	.901	37	0	4	1	0	0
John Fantauzzi	62	117	95	10	27	10	0	0	11	2	0	17	25	.284	.409	.389	.798	37	3	3	2	0	1
Brian Culp	36	140	121	8	24	4	0	1	15	3	1	16	14	.198	.293	.256	.549	31	2	1	0	2	0
Link Jarrett	38	110	98	9	22	3	1	0	8	1	2	8	14	.224	.290	.276	.565	27	3	1	3	0	0
Earl Cunningham	29	100	87	9	15	1	0	1	6	3	0	9	24	.172	.263	.218	.481	19	0	2	1	1	0
Gary Gordon	10	38	35	5	13	3	0	0	1	2	1	3	6	.371	.421	.457	.878	16	0	0	0	0	0
Keith Grunewald	10	42	37	1	9	1	0	0	4	0	3	2	12	.243	.293	.270	.563	10	0	1	1	1	0
Ronnie Hall	14	58	53	7	8	2	0	0	2	1	1	4	8	.151	.224	.189	.413	10	2	1	0	0	0
Larry Walker	2	8	8	3	4	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.250	1.750	10	1	0	0	0	0
Mark Hamlin	9	33	28	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	3	.143	.273	.250	.523	7	2	1	0	0	0
Eric Young	3	13	10	2	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	3	1	.300	.462	.600	1.062	6	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1368	5173	4539	585	1164	216	18	89	527	154	89	477	835	.256	.333	.371	.704	1683	98	61	68	28	19

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Nate Holdren	1B	94	788	64	11	68	.987	9.064
John Fantauzzi	1B	58	294	20	3	22	.991	5.414
Will Scalzitti	1B	23	145	7	3	11	.981	6.609
Tal Light	1B	4	15	2	0	1	1.000	4.250
Elvis Peña	2B	97	211	245	19	60	.960	4.701
Link Jarrett	2B	19	48	42	1	11	.989	4.737
Chan Mayber	2B	15	24	42	1	6	.985	4.400
Keith Grunewald	2B	10	21	38	0	4	1.000	5.900
Eric Young	2B	3	8	6	2	3	.875	4.667
Steve Bernhardt	3B	61	39	150	14	13	.931	3.098
Tal Light	3B	58	33	120	32	7	.827	2.638
Chan Mayber	3B	27	15	53	5	3	.932	2.519
Link Jarrett	3B	7	2	7	0	0	1.000	1.286
Will Scalzitti	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Elvis Peña	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Blake Barthol	C	92	668	80	16	5	.979	8.130	15	115	44	27.7
Mike Higgins	C	47	323	44	13	1	.966	7.809	11	63	20	24.1
Will Scalzitti	C	5	25	2	2	0	.931	5.400	0	3	2	40.0
John Giudice	CF	87						.000
Garrett Neubart	CF	23						.000
Chan Mayber	CF	14						.000
Gary Gordon	CF	10						.000
Chad Gambill	CF	6						.000
Ronnie Hall	CF	5						.000
Pookie Jones	CF	1						.000
Pookie Jones	LF	91						.000
Will Scalzitti	LF	20						.000
Chan Mayber	LF	18						.000
Brian Culp	LF	10						.000
Chad Gambill	LF	8						.000
Earl Cunningham	LF	7						.000
Mark Hamlin	LF	4						.000
Chad Gambill	OF	114	197	8	5	1	.976	1.798
John Giudice	OF	100	210	16	7	3	.970	2.260
Pookie Jones	OF	97	108	7	9	1	.927	1.186
Chan Mayber	OF	37	33	7	1	1	.976	1.081
Garrett Neubart	OF	23	54	4	0	0	1.000	2.522
Earl Cunningham	OF	22	28	3	0	0	1.000	1.409
Will Scalzitti	OF	20	24	3	3	0	.900	1.350
Brian Culp	OF	13	10	0	2	0	.833	.769
Gary Gordon	OF	10	23	0	0	0	1.000	2.300
Mark Hamlin	OF	5	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.400
Ronnie Hall	OF	5	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.800
Jeff Sobkoviak	P	46	0	8	0	0	1.000	.174
Todd Genke	P	41	3	20	0	1	1.000	.561
Pat McClinton	P	39	9	9	2	0	.900	.462
Scott LaRock	P	39	5	14	1	0	.950	.487
Luis Colmenares	P	32	1	9	0	0	1.000	.312
Matt Pool	P	27	16	32	2	2	.960	1.778
Mike Vavrek	P	26	13	29	4	3	.913	1.615
Steve Shoemaker	P	25	4	9	0	0	1.000	.520
Luther Hackman	P	21	3	15	1	1	.947	.857
Doug Million	P	17	4	22	2	0	.929	1.529
Chandler Martin	P	13	2	7	0	0	1.000	.692
Bill Eden	P	11	0	1	0	1	1.000	.091
David Lee	P	8	2	1	0	0	1.000	.375
Brent Crowther	P	8	5	16	2	2	.913	2.625
David Nied	P	7	1	7	1	0	.889	1.143
Doug Walls	P	5	2	1	0	0	1.000	.600
Brian Rose	P	5	1	2	2	0	.600	.600
Mike Kusiewicz	P	5	0	6	0	0	1.000	1.200
Zack Sawyer	P	4	0	0	0	0		.000
Keith Barnes	P	4	1	2	0	0	1.000	.750
Sean Murphy	P	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.000
John Burke	P	3	0	3	2	1	.600	1.000
Bill Swift	P	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.000
Neil Garrett	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Chad Gambill	RF	106						.000
Earl Cunningham	RF	17						.000
John Giudice	RF	13						.000
Pookie Jones	RF	9						.000
Chan Mayber	RF	7						.000
Brian Culp	RF	3						.000
Mark Hamlin	RF	1						.000
Kyle Houser	SS	117	151	342	20	59	.961	4.214
Chan Mayber	SS	18	21	47	5	5	.932	3.778
Link Jarrett	SS	10	9	31	2	5	.952	4.000
Totals		2065	3616	1607	195	301	.964	2.529	26	181	66	26.7

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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