1997 Salem Avalanche Statistics

Carolina League (CL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 63-75
Finished 2nd in the CL's South Division
Manager: Bill McGuire (63-75)
Affiliation: Colorado Rockies
Location: Salem, Virginia
Ballpark: Salem Memorial Stadium
Attendance: 188,023, Avg. 2,893 in 65 home dates

1997 Salem Avalanche Roster

The Salem Avalanche of the Carolina League ended the 1997 season with a record of 63 wins and 75 losses, finishing second in the league's South Division.

The Avalanche plated 588 runs, worst in the circuit, and allowed 612 runs. Ben Petrick and Tal Light paced Salem with 15 home runs apiece. Chad Gambill drove in 73 runs. Tal Light topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .265. Tom Stepka led the squad with 11 wins, while Mike Kusiewicz registered a 2.53 earned run average, leading qualifying pitchers.

Elvis Peña, Ben Petrick, Luther Hackman, Scott Randall, Lariel González, Bill Swift, Curt Leskanic and Jamey Wright were all players from the 1997 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
Tom Stepka	11	14	.440	4.15	28	28	0	4	3	0	182.3	205	100	84	25	28	0	120	9	0	3	766
Scott Randall	9	10	.474	3.84	27	26	1	2	1	0	176.0	167	93	75	8	66	3	128	11	0	14	763
Mike Kusiewicz	8	6	.571	2.52	19	18	0	1	1	0	117.7	99	44	33	5	32	0	107	9	1	7	480
Luis Colmenares	6	1	.857	3.91	32	3	15	0	0	2	66.7	60	34	29	5	30	3	70	4	2	6	283
Lariel González	5	0	1.000	2.53	44	0	25	0	0	8	57.0	42	19	16	3	23	1	79	3	0	4	237
Doug Million	5	9	.357	5.12	18	17	0	1	0	0	96.7	104	59	55	13	55	1	58	8	0	5	436
Bobby Bevel	4	7	.364	4.64	50	0	18	0	0	3	66.0	69	37	34	5	17	0	57	9	0	3	290
Jason Dietrich	3	2	.600	3.26	21	0	11	0	0	2	30.3	15	11	11	2	16	0	38	0	1	1	121
Steve Shoemaker	3	3	.500	2.77	9	9	0	1	0	0	52.0	31	21	16	3	25	0	76	5	3	2	215
Mike Vavrek	2	2	.500	2.15	10	9	0	0	0	0	62.7	55	21	15	3	18	0	48	3	0	3	255
Mike Zolecki	2	2	.500	2.65	22	0	14	0	0	6	34.0	22	10	10	2	11	2	31	1	0	3	133
Heath Bost	1	0	1.000	2.40	13	0	10	0	0	3	15.0	9	4	4	1	2	0	9	0	0	0	57
Sean Murphy	1	3	.250	4.58	15	0	5	0	0	0	19.7	21	16	10	0	12	0	11	2	0	5	93
Luther Hackman	1	4	.200	5.80	15	15	0	2	0	0	80.7	99	60	52	14	37	0	59	9	0	8	384
Scott Schroeffel	1	4	.200	8.16	16	3	6	0	0	0	28.7	34	27	26	3	17	1	24	5	0	0	140
Chandler Martin	1	5	.167	3.97	16	5	8	0	0	1	45.3	46	25	20	1	25	0	30	3	0	7	205
James Kammerer	0	0		2.87	6	1	2	0	0	0	15.7	10	5	5	0	3	0	12	0	0	0	57
Lloyd Peever	0	0		3.27	4	1	0	0	0	0	11.0	13	6	4	0	3	0	10	0	0	0	49
Curt Leskanic	0	0		3.86	2	1	0	0	0	0	2.3	5	2	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	12
Salvadore Duverge	0	0		27.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.7	3	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Scott Norman	0	1	.000	3.96	18	0	11	0	0	1	25.0	29	12	11	4	8	1	13	0	0	0	109
Bill Swift	0	1	.000	6.75	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	4	3	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	16
Jamey Wright	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5
Totals	63	75	.457	3.91	388	138	127	11	5	26	1190.3	1143	612	517	99	431	12	985	81	7	71	5112

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
Garrett Neubart	133	590	527	66	135	23	3	0	34	50	18	39	90	.256	.321	.311	.632	164	3	12	10	2	0
Chad Gambill	124	495	450	61	111	18	2	11	73	6	11	37	125	.247	.307	.369	.676	166	7	4	0	4	4
Ben Petrick	121	482	412	68	102	23	3	15	56	30	11	62	100	.248	.347	.427	.774	176	6	2	4	2	2
Tal Light	104	440	373	57	99	19	2	15	65	0	1	59	144	.265	.368	.448	.816	167	6	4	0	4	2
Forry Wells	93	382	321	58	96	27	3	11	52	19	7	48	64	.299	.404	.505	.908	162	9	9	3	1	2
Kyle Houser	110	432	383	36	83	18	1	0	28	11	8	33	61	.217	.280	.269	.549	103	6	2	10	4	1
Vicente Garcia	98	376	319	49	82	22	1	4	37	11	5	44	51	.257	.356	.370	.726	118	8	6	5	2	2
Dave Feuerstein	94	361	327	47	76	13	3	1	34	20	6	21	45	.232	.285	.300	.585	98	8	4	7	2	3
Elvis Peña	93	335	279	41	62	9	2	1	30	16	6	37	53	.222	.315	.280	.594	78	1	2	14	3	0
Gilbert Vidal	80	252	226	20	54	21	0	6	30	1	2	19	54	.239	.292	.412	.704	93	4	0	2	5	1
Clint Bryant	52	203	185	15	42	9	0	2	18	4	4	14	36	.227	.289	.308	.597	57	2	2	2	0	0
Brian Keck	48	142	121	22	34	4	0	0	11	17	3	11	21	.281	.350	.314	.664	38	3	3	5	2	1
Justin Drizos	57	170	151	13	28	7	1	5	19	1	1	15	56	.185	.262	.344	.606	52	2	1	2	1	2
Jamie Taylor	23	96	80	13	21	4	1	1	9	2	2	13	27	.262	.379	.375	.754	30	2	2	1	0	0
Salvadore Duverge	42	127	113	9	21	5	0	0	9	1	4	9	32	.186	.254	.230	.484	26	6	2	1	2	0
Rod Bair	16	50	44	5	12	3	0	0	6	2	0	0	6	.273	.298	.341	.639	15	1	2	3	1	0
Dean Marnell	17	58	52	4	10	2	0	0	7	0	0	3	1	.192	.250	.231	.481	12	0	1	2	0	0
John Clifford	17	36	34	3	8	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	7	.235	.278	.235	.513	8	1	1	0	0	0
Link Jarrett	9	27	25	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.160	.192	.160	.352	4	1	0	1	0	0
Brett Elam	6	17	15	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	.200	.250	.200	.450	3	1	0	1	0	0
Mike Vavrek	10	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1347	5073	4439	588	1084	227	22	72	522	191	92	467	980	.244	.322	.354	.676	1571	77	59	73	35	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Forry Wells	1B	70	630	40	7	51	.990	9.571
Justin Drizos	1B	53	380	41	5	23	.988	7.943
Tal Light	1B	14	102	10	6	10	.949	8.000
John Clifford	1B	10	44	4	0	3	1.000	4.800
Jamie Taylor	1B	7	61	7	0	4	1.000	9.714
Vicente Garcia	2B	97	199	282	15	61	.970	4.959
Elvis Peña	2B	38	70	101	5	8	.972	4.500
Link Jarrett	2B	5	9	9	0	1	1.000	3.600
Brett Elam	2B	2	5	7	0	2	1.000	6.000
Tal Light	3B	53	22	86	11	3	.908	2.038
Clint Bryant	3B	39	16	68	15	4	.848	2.154
Brian Keck	3B	28	8	55	1	3	.984	2.250
Elvis Peña	3B	19	11	22	4	1	.892	1.737
Jamie Taylor	3B	6	3	20	1	1	.958	3.833
Brett Elam	3B	3	0	5	1	1	.833	1.667
Link Jarrett	3B	2	2	5	0	1	1.000	3.500
Ben Petrick	C	107	754	91	10	6	.988	7.897	12	84	38	31.1
Gilbert Vidal	C	41	218	26	3	1	.988	5.951	11	33	15	31.2
Garrett Neubart	CF	132						.000
Dave Feuerstein	CF	5						.000
Salvadore Duverge	CF	2						.000
Rod Bair	CF	2						.000
Justin Drizos	CF	1						.000
Dave Feuerstein	LF	88						.000
Salvadore Duverge	LF	26						.000
Dean Marnell	LF	16						.000
Brian Keck	LF	7						.000
Forry Wells	LF	6						.000
Rod Bair	LF	2						.000
Garrett Neubart	OF	132	254	13	4	1	.985	2.023
Chad Gambill	OF	123	214	7	6	3	.974	1.797
Dave Feuerstein	OF	91	164	7	5	1	.972	1.879
Salvadore Duverge	OF	41	46	3	4	0	.925	1.195
Dean Marnell	OF	17	36	1	0	0	1.000	2.176
Forry Wells	OF	14	21	1	0	0	1.000	1.571
Brian Keck	OF	7	6	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Rod Bair	OF	5	7	0	1	0	.875	1.400
Justin Drizos	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Bobby Bevel	P	50	5	14	1	3	.950	.380
Lariel González	P	44	3	2	0	0	1.000	.114
Luis Colmenares	P	32	3	14	0	0	1.000	.531
Tom Stepka	P	28	18	27	0	3	1.000	1.607
Scott Randall	P	27	18	32	3	4	.943	1.852
Mike Zolecki	P	22	2	5	0	0	1.000	.318
Jason Dietrich	P	21	0	3	0	0	1.000	.143
Mike Kusiewicz	P	19	6	22	1	0	.966	1.474
Scott Norman	P	18	1	6	0	0	1.000	.389
Doug Million	P	18	2	18	0	0	1.000	1.111
Scott Schroeffel	P	16	3	7	0	0	1.000	.625
Chandler Martin	P	16	2	7	1	0	.900	.562
Sean Murphy	P	15	2	1	1	0	.750	.200
Luther Hackman	P	15	9	8	1	0	.944	1.133
Heath Bost	P	13	0	3	0	0	1.000	.231
Mike Vavrek	P	10	6	7	0	0	1.000	1.300
Steve Shoemaker	P	9	3	7	2	0	.833	1.111
James Kammerer	P	6	0	2	0	0	1.000	.333
Lloyd Peever	P	4	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.500
Curt Leskanic	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Jamey Wright	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Bill Swift	P	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Salvadore Duverge	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Chad Gambill	RF	123						.000
Salvadore Duverge	RF	13						.000
Forry Wells	RF	8						.000
Dean Marnell	RF	1						.000
Rod Bair	RF	1						.000
Kyle Houser	SS	110	154	297	19	61	.960	4.100
Elvis Peña	SS	29	46	76	11	14	.917	4.207
Brian Keck	SS	2	2	5	0	0	1.000	3.500
Brett Elam	SS	2	1	3	0	1	1.000	2.000
Link Jarrett	SS	1	1	5	1	0	.857	6.000
Clint Bryant	SS	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Totals		1991	3571	1491	145	275	.972	2.542	23	117	53	31.2

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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