1998 Salt Lake Buzz Statistics

Pacific Coast League (PCL) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 79-64
Finished 2nd in the PCL's South Division of the Pacific Conference
Manager: Phil Roof (79-64)
Affiliation: Minnesota Twins
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Ballpark: Spring Mobile Park
Attendance: 554,719, Avg. 8,158 in 68 home dates

1998 Salt Lake Buzz Roster

The Salt Lake Buzz of the Pacific Coast League ended the 1998 season with a record of 79 wins and 64 losses, finishing second in the league's South Division of the Pacific Conference.

The Buzz plated 787 runs and allowed 750 runs. Corey Koskie paced Salt Lake with 26 home runs, while Chad Rupp, Brian Buchanan and Scott Stahoviak each walloped 15 or more also. Corey Koskie drove in 105 runs. Scott Stahoviak topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .316. Benj Sampson led the squad with 10 wins, and Travis Baptist registered a 3.13 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Members of the 1998 Salt Lake Buzz who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Todd Ritchie, Shane Bowers, Gus Gandarillas, Benj Sampson, David Ortiz, Gary Wilson, A. J. Pierzynski, Kevin Ohme, Frankie Rodriguez, Esteban Beltré, Mike Moriarty, Steve Wojciechowski, Travis Baptist, Brian Buchanan, Chris Latham, Scott Stahoviak, Ricky Bones, Travis Miller, Mark Redman, Torii Hunter, Jon Shave, Matt LeCroy, Fred Rath, Dan Perkins, Paul Molitor, Corey Koskie, Dan Naulty, Doug Linton, Dan Serafini, Jeff Harris, Ken Ramos and Jayhawk Owens.

Phil Roof 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
Benj Sampson	10	7	.588	5.14	28	28	0	0	0	0	161.0	198	99	92	24	52	0	132	2	4	8	726
Shane Bowers	9	7	.562	5.89	33	16	2	2	0	0	110.0	137	76	72	18	40	0	101	1	0	6	498
Jeff Harris	8	0	1.000	5.91	25	0	18	0	0	3	32.0	38	24	21	4	19	4	24	0	0	3	148
Travis Baptist	8	5	.615	3.12	21	21	0	1	0	0	135.7	128	53	47	12	41	1	98	4	1	7	559
Mark Redman	6	7	.462	5.53	19	18	1	0	0	0	99.3	111	75	61	13	41	1	88	5	3	3	446
Dan Perkins	5	0	1.000	4.82	7	7	0	1	0	0	46.7	48	30	25	8	20	1	33	2	0	2	205
Ricky Bones	5	1	.833	3.42	8	8	0	0	0	0	47.3	41	20	18	5	19	1	41	3	0	1	200
Frankie Rodriguez	5	7	.417	4.67	16	16	0	2	1	0	96.3	97	53	50	9	35	0	79	5	1	7	419
Kevin Ohme	4	3	.571	5.01	51	0	23	0	0	6	82.7	90	48	46	5	31	3	47	6	1	3	361
Doug Linton	4	4	.500	5.99	18	14	2	0	0	0	79.7	106	57	53	19	14	1	60	1	2	5	348
Gus Gandarillas	4	5	.444	5.27	53	1	24	0	0	4	70.0	88	47	41	4	24	5	42	0	0	9	322
Chris Cumberland	3	2	.600	5.93	17	1	4	1	1	0	30.3	37	21	20	2	18	1	19	1	3	5	142
Travis Miller	3	4	.429	4.84	34	2	15	0	0	9	57.7	60	33	31	3	31	1	65	1	0	4	262
Dan Serafini	2	4	.333	3.71	9	8	1	0	0	0	53.3	56	29	22	4	21	0	39	3	0	4	233
Dan Naulty	1	0	1.000	6.75	5	0	2	0	0	0	5.3	8	4	4	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	24
Fred Rath	1	2	.333	4.55	27	0	22	0	0	8	31.7	35	16	16	4	8	0	15	2	0	3	133
Todd Ritchie	1	3	.250	4.15	36	0	18	0	0	4	60.7	55	38	28	5	31	3	62	4	0	2	271
Esteban Beltré	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Gary Wilson	0	1	.000	6.17	10	2	2	0	0	0	23.3	24	16	16	3	5	1	13	2	0	1	100
Steve Wojciechowski	0	2	.000	6.55	9	1	1	0	0	0	11.0	13	10	8	0	7	0	6	0	0	1	52
Totals	79	64	.552	4.89	427	143	136	7	2	34	1234.3	1371	750	671	142	459	23	969	42	15	74	5452

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
Corey Koskie	135	574	505	91	152	32	5	26	105	15	7	51	104	.301	.368	.539	.906	272	17	8	0	10	4
Esteban Beltré	133	558	510	84	142	24	4	2	49	26	11	39	109	.278	.327	.353	.680	180	7	0	5	4	0
Brian Buchanan	133	547	500	74	139	29	3	17	82	14	2	36	90	.278	.337	.450	.787	225	7	9	1	1	1
Marc Lewis	119	473	444	61	130	31	1	14	68	10	11	23	64	.293	.328	.462	.789	205	16	1	3	2	0
Scott Stahoviak	111	452	399	71	126	33	6	18	82	5	2	45	94	.316	.381	.564	.944	225	9	1	0	7	4
Chris Latham	97	438	377	81	122	21	4	11	51	29	5	56	99	.324	.412	.488	.901	184	5	1	4	0	4
Chad Rupp	115	489	413	78	120	25	3	20	89	8	3	61	105	.291	.383	.511	.894	211	3	6	1	8	4
Jon Shave	90	370	317	63	107	20	1	4	41	8	9	34	46	.338	.422	.445	.867	141	7	13	5	1	1
Jamie Ogden	94	293	272	29	68	16	0	6	32	4	2	16	65	.250	.297	.375	.672	102	7	2	3	0	0
A. J. Pierzynski	59	220	208	29	53	7	2	7	30	3	1	9	24	.255	.284	.409	.693	85	4	0	2	1	2
Jeff Ferguson	81	263	223	35	46	6	1	3	20	7	2	24	42	.206	.319	.283	.602	63	7	13	3	0	0
Mike Moriarty	64	187	161	21	36	8	2	3	19	2	1	22	39	.224	.319	.354	.673	57	1	1	2	1	0
Jayhawk Owens	52	179	161	19	33	9	0	3	16	1	2	13	63	.205	.271	.317	.588	51	1	2	2	1	0
Torii Hunter	26	97	92	15	31	7	0	4	20	2	2	1	13	.337	.347	.543	.891	50	3	1	2	1	0
Jeff Horn	24	87	72	14	22	5	0	1	6	1	2	12	18	.306	.412	.417	.828	30	0	1	2	0	0
Ken Ramos	18	76	69	6	18	4	1	1	11	1	1	6	13	.261	.320	.391	.711	27	1	0	1	0	0
Jeff Smith	23	73	67	9	17	3	0	0	2	0	0	4	13	.254	.296	.299	.594	20	2	0	2	0	0
David Ortiz	11	40	37	5	9	3	0	2	6	0	0	3	9	.243	.300	.486	.786	18	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Molitor	2	10	10	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.600	1.100	6	1	0	0	0	0
Matt LeCroy	3	13	13	2	4	1	0	2	4	0	0	0	7	.308	.308	.846	1.154	11	0	0	0	0	0
Travis Miller	34	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Wilson	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1434	5441	4852	787	1380	285	33	144	733	136	63	455	1017	.284	.351	.446	.796	2163	98	59	38	37	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Scott Stahoviak	1B	67	548	55	3	50	.995	9.000
Chad Rupp	1B	59	517	31	5	59	.991	9.288
Jamie Ogden	1B	14	80	9	1	6	.989	6.357
David Ortiz	1B	9	76	10	3	8	.966	9.556
Jon Shave	1B	2	13	2	0	2	1.000	7.500
Jeff Ferguson	2B	67	108	164	13	39	.954	4.060
Jon Shave	2B	63	107	149	7	28	.973	4.063
Mike Moriarty	2B	37	59	100	6	28	.964	4.297
Corey Koskie	3B	131	83	250	23	21	.935	2.542
Jon Shave	3B	14	2	14	4	2	.800	1.143
Mike Moriarty	3B	7	3	12	3	0	.833	2.143
A. J. Pierzynski	C	59	366	30	7	3	.983	6.712	5	28	15	34.9
Jayhawk Owens	C	47	323	16	2	4	.994	7.213	4	24	6	20.0
Jeff Horn	C	23	148	9	1	0	.994	6.826	1	14	3	17.6
Jeff Smith	C	22	145	9	1	2	.994	7.000	1	12	5	29.4
Matt LeCroy	C	2	6	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	0	0	0
Chris Latham	CF	72						.000
Marc Lewis	CF	35						.000
Jamie Ogden	CF	26						.000
Torii Hunter	CF	22						.000
Marc Lewis	LF	79						.000
Jamie Ogden	LF	29						.000
Ken Ramos	LF	17						.000
Chris Latham	LF	14						.000
Jon Shave	LF	8						.000
Scott Stahoviak	LF	3						.000
Brian Buchanan	LF	1						.000
Brian Buchanan	OF	122	244	6	8	3	.969	2.049
Marc Lewis	OF	113	171	8	3	1	.984	1.584
Chris Latham	OF	93	201	8	9	2	.959	2.247
Jamie Ogden	OF	64	92	5	1	0	.990	1.516
Torii Hunter	OF	24	55	1	2	0	.966	2.333
Ken Ramos	OF	17	19	1	0	0	1.000	1.176
Jon Shave	OF	9	16	1	0	0	1.000	1.889
Scott Stahoviak	OF	8	17	1	0	1	1.000	2.250
Gus Gandarillas	P	53	10	11	0	0	1.000	.396
Kevin Ohme	P	51	3	17	0	2	1.000	.392
Todd Ritchie	P	36	2	9	1	0	.917	.306
Travis Miller	P	34	3	8	0	0	1.000	.324
Shane Bowers	P	33	11	4	3	0	.833	.455
Benj Sampson	P	28	10	28	1	0	.974	1.357
Fred Rath	P	27	0	4	0	1	1.000	.148
Jeff Harris	P	25	3	5	1	3	.889	.320
Travis Baptist	P	21	8	26	2	5	.944	1.619
Mark Redman	P	19	6	13	3	2	.864	1.000
Doug Linton	P	18	5	6	1	0	.917	.611
Chris Cumberland	P	17	1	9	0	0	1.000	.588
Frankie Rodriguez	P	16	13	17	2	1	.938	1.875
Gary Wilson	P	10	1	4	0	1	1.000	.500
Steve Wojciechowski	P	9	2	1	0	0	1.000	.333
Dan Serafini	P	9	2	9	2	1	.846	1.222
Ricky Bones	P	8	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.000
Dan Perkins	P	7	3	3	0	0	1.000	.857
Dan Naulty	P	5	2	0	0	0	1.000	.400
Esteban Beltré	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brian Buchanan	RF	122						.000
Jamie Ogden	RF	10						.000
Chris Latham	RF	8						.000
Scott Stahoviak	RF	5						.000
Torii Hunter	RF	2						.000
Jon Shave	RF	1						.000
Marc Lewis	RF	1						.000
Esteban Beltré	SS	124	173	388	19	79	.967	4.524
Mike Moriarty	SS	23	33	59	5	12	.948	4.000
Jon Shave	SS	8	11	17	4	5	.875	3.500
Totals		2110	3703	1535	146	371	.973	2.482	11	78	29	27.1

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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