1987 Sumter Braves Statistics

South Atlantic League (SAL) - Class: A
Team Record: 75-62
Finished 2nd in the SAL's South Division
Manager: Buddy Bailey (75-62)
Affiliation: Atlanta Braves
Location: Sumter, South Carolina
Ballpark: Riley Park
Attendance: 26,081, Avg. 381

1987 Sumter Braves Roster

The Sumter Braves of the South Atlantic League ended the 1987 season with a record of 75 wins and 62 losses, finishing second in the league's South Division.

The Braves plated 616 runs and allowed 561 runs. Brian Deak paced Sumter with 15 home runs Al Martin recorded 64 runs batted in. Rich Maloney led all regular batters with a .270 average. Paul Marak topped the squad with 12 wins, while Rich Longuil recorded a 2.9 ERA, tops among regular hurlers.

Al Martin, Kevin Brown, Jim Czajkowski, Mike Bell, Rusty Richards, Matt Turner, Dale Polley and Paul Marak were all players from the 1987 Sumter Braves who played in the Majors during their careers.

Buddy Bailey 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 Marak	12	5	.706	3.13	50	6	14	0	0	2	118.0	101	50	41	6	44	1	98	6	0	9
Rich Longuil	9	9	.500	2.89	27	23	3	6	0	2	152.7	148	66	49	8	45	0	100	7	1	11
Walt Williams	8	4	.667	3.91	24	18	5	0	0	1	112.7	105	58	49	11	64	1	88	4	0	13
Kevin Brown	7	1	.875	1.93	9	9	0	0	0	0	56.0	53	14	12	2	19	0	45	1	0	5
Andy Nezelek	6	3	.667	1.80	12	12	0	5	0	0	85.0	56	24	17	5	12	1	67	6	2	4
Jim Nowlin	6	5	.545	4.54	41	9	10	1	1	4	113.0	112	64	57	13	39	1	89	8	1	5
Jim Lemasters	5	9	.357	3.62	28	17	2	2	1	0	109.3	91	60	44	8	50	0	105	2	2	3
Gerald Wagner	4	2	.667	3.16	26	0	13	0	0	1	31.3	25	14	11	0	18	0	24	1	0	2
Mark Clark	4	4	.500	4.56	10	10	0	0	0	0	51.3	49	29	26	5	21	0	46	1	0	5
Jim Czajkowski	4	6	.400	2.23	50	0	40	0	0	20	68.7	63	26	17	2	17	3	59	2	0	4
Dale Polley	3	1	.750	2.88	7	6	1	1	1	0	40.7	37	16	13	2	9	0	32	0	1	1
Rusty Richards	3	3	.500	3.19	10	8	0	1	1	0	48.0	45	28	17	5	17	1	39	0	0	3
Matt Turner	2	3	.400	4.71	39	9	17	0	0	0	93.7	91	61	49	8	48	2	102	5	6	8
Steve O'Quinn	2	4	.333	3.04	22	7	6	1	0	1	56.3	58	26	19	5	17	1	42	0	0	4
Brian Murphy	0	1	.000	2.35	7	0	4	0	0	1	7.7	3	3	2	0	6	0	9	1	1	3
Terry Sloan	0	2	.000	5.19	16	3	5	0	0	0	34.7	30	22	20	3	18	0	26	3	0	2
Totals	75	62	.547	3.38	378	137	120	17	4	32	1179.0	1067	561	443	83	444	11	971	47	14	82	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
Sean Ross	118	492	462	51	113	12	2	4	43	43	7	21	82	.245	.279	.305	.584	141		2	4	3	2
Mike Bell	133	501	443	54	108	17	3	5	51	11	9	54	95	.244	.329	.330	.659	146		3	0	1	3
Rich Maloney	110	470	397	63	107	7	4	0	26	25	6	64	47	.270	.371	.307	.678	122		3	1	5	0
Al Martin	117	426	375	59	95	18	5	12	64	27	8	44	69	.253	.332	.424	.756	159		2	1	4	5
Dave Plumb	86	324	292	47	93	26	1	5	43	3	2	30	46	.318	.380	.466	.845	136		0	0	2	4
Ken Pennington	103	414	372	50	92	13	0	8	48	12	5	31	55	.247	.318	.347	.665	129		8	2	1	2
Miguel Sabino	112	360	319	39	80	9	2	2	31	25	8	30	81	.251	.310	.310	.620	99		0	5	6	0
Carl Jones-Pointer	110	403	351	60	79	19	0	6	39	35	6	47	90	.225	.321	.330	.651	116		3	1	1	4
Dave Butts	100	322	295	45	77	14	3	5	34	5	2	26	27	.261	.323	.380	.703	112		1	0	0	4
Brian Deak	92	327	252	50	51	6	0	15	49	7	1	68	89	.202	.370	.405	.775	102		2	0	5	2
Jerald Frost	70	199	176	19	44	1	0	0	15	11	1	13	28	.250	.312	.256	.568	45		3	7	0	2
Jay Johnson	84	229	207	24	37	6	3	2	30	7	2	11	28	.179	.232	.266	.498	55		4	5	2	1
Danny Rogers	73	171	155	16	28	8	1	1	17	4	3	13	37	.181	.249	.265	.513	41		1	2	0	0
Tom Redington	18	69	56	9	18	2	0	0	5	1	2	13	14	.321	.449	.357	.806	20		0	0	0	0
Mark Davis	22	59	52	8	15	6	0	0	8	0	0	2	10	.288	.356	.404	.760	21		4	0	1	0
Walt Williams	25	33	28	4	12	5	0	2	9	0	0	4	10	.429	.500	.821	1.321	23		0	1	0	0
Jesse Minton	34	79	76	4	11	1	0	0	3	0	1	3	14	.145	.177	.158	.335	12		0	0	0	0
Greg Cloninger	11	38	34	2	10	1	1	0	4	0	0	3	8	.294	.368	.382	.751	13		1	0	0	0
Rich Longuil	28	32	28	5	4	0	0	2	3	0	0	4	9	.143	.250	.357	.607	10		0	0	0	0
Andy Nezelek	12	16	14	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.214	.267	.357	.624	5		0	1	0	0
Rusty Richards	10	8	7	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.429	.714	3		0	1	0	0
Jim Nowlin	42	13	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.200	.273	.200	.473	2		0	2	0	0
Mark Clark	10	14	12	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.167	.231	.167	.397	2		0	1	0	0
Jesus Mendoza	7	15	13	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.154	.267	.231	.497	3		0	0	0	0
Jim Lemasters	28	17	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.133	.235	.133	.369	2		0	0	0	0
Kevin Brown	9	19	19	1	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	5	.105	.105	.105	.211	2		0	0	0	0
Brian Murphy	8	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1		0	0	0	0
Dale Polley	7	12	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.125	.300	.125	.425	1		0	2	0	0
Matt Turner	39	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.100	.100	.100	.200	1		0	0	0	0
Jim Czajkowski	50	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	0	0	0
Paul Marak	50	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.071	.000	.071	0		1	0	0	0
Terry Sloan	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0		0	1	0	0
Gerald Wagner	26	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0		0	0	0	0
Totals	1760	5092	4495	615	1092	173	26	69	529	216	63	491	881	.243	.321	.339	.660	1524	0	38	37	31	29

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Mike Bell	1B	122	1007	70	16	70	.985	8.828
Jesse Minton	1B	19	130	9	5	18	.965	7.316
Jesus Mendoza	1B	6	30	3	1	3	.971	5.500
Mark Davis	1B	5	19	1	0	0	1.000	4.000
Al Martin	1B	3	19	2	0	1	1.000	7.000
Ken Pennington	1B	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Jay Johnson	2B	75	122	163	10	30	.966	3.800
Dave Butts	2B	61	91	126	10	29	.956	3.557
Rich Maloney	2B	34	62	85	1	16	.993	4.324
Greg Cloninger	2B	3	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.333
Jerald Frost	2B	1	2	1	0	1	1.000	3.000
Ken Pennington	3B	100	86	196	39	26	.879	2.820
Dave Butts	3B	20	5	30	4	2	.897	1.750
Tom Redington	3B	17	12	29	3	1	.932	2.412
Mark Davis	3B	8	4	16	3	1	.870	2.500
Rich Maloney	3B	5	2	6	0	1	1.000	1.600
Brian Deak	C	77	576	55	11	3	.983	8.195	7
Dave Plumb	C	66	402	58	9	1	.981	6.970	11
Sean Ross	OF	111	226	9	7	1	.971	2.117
Al Martin	OF	103	118	5	9	0	.932	1.194
Carl Jones-Pointer	OF	103	158	8	3	2	.982	1.612
Miguel Sabino	OF	92	151	8	5	2	.970	1.728
Danny Rogers	OF	50	47	4	3	1	.944	1.020
Paul Marak	P	50	13	14	2	0	.931	.540
Jim Czajkowski	P	50	8	8	0	1	1.000	.320
Jim Nowlin	P	41	5	18	2	0	.920	.561
Matt Turner	P	39	5	10	1	0	.938	.385
Jim Lemasters	P	28	8	11	2	0	.905	.679
Rich Longuil	P	27	10	19	6	0	.829	1.074
Gerald Wagner	P	26	0	8	0	0	1.000	.308
Walt Williams	P	24	6	9	2	1	.882	.625
Steve O'Quinn	P	22						.000
Terry Sloan	P	16	3	9	1	0	.923	.750
Andy Nezelek	P	12	13	16	2	2	.935	2.417
Rusty Richards	P	10	2	11	0	1	1.000	1.300
Mark Clark	P	10	3	7	2	1	.833	1.000
Kevin Brown	P	9	2	15	0	0	1.000	1.889
Dale Polley	P	7	2	10	2	1	.857	1.714
Brian Murphy	P	7	0	2	0	0	1.000	.286
Rich Maloney	SS	77	90	217	12	36	.962	3.987
Jerald Frost	SS	59	73	126	23	20	.896	3.373
Dave Butts	SS	11	14	34	3	3	.941	4.364
Greg Cloninger	SS	7	3	27	2	1	.938	4.286
Totals		1614	3533	1457	201	276	.961	3.092	18	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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