1998 San Jose Giants Statistics

California League (CL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 83-57
Finished 1st in the CL's Valley Division
Manager: Shane Turner (83-57)
Affiliation: San Francisco Giants
Location: San Jose, California
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium
Attendance: 141,180, Avg. 2,017 in 70 home dates

1998 San Jose Giants Roster

Playoffs - San Jose Giants 3 games, High Desert Mavericks 2
Finals - San Jose Giants 3 games, Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 1

The San Jose Giants of the California League ended the 1998 season with a record of 83 wins and 57 losses, finishing first in the league's Valley Division.

The Giants led the circuit with just 567 runs allowed. San Jose scored 704 runs. Giuseppe Chiaramonte paced the team with 22 home runs, while Benji Simonton and Juan Dilone walloped 15 or more, too. Giuseppe Chiaramonte drove in 87 runs. Mark Gulseth topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .283. Bill Malloy paced the squad with 11 wins, and Joe Nathan recorded a 3.32 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Joe Nathan, Damon Minor, Nate Bump, Chad Zerbe, Yorvit Torrealba, Guillermo Rodríguez, Ryan Vogelsong and Jim Stoops were all players from the 1998 San Jose Giants who played in the Majors during their careers.

Shane Turner 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
Bill Malloy	11	7	.611	4.88	41	15	10	0	0	4	125.3	132	81	68	10	42	1	103	4	8	10	550
Jeff Andra	8	2	.800	3.32	15	15	0	2	1	0	86.7	75	36	32	2	28	0	80	2	1	5	358
Joe Nathan	8	6	.571	3.32	22	22	0	0	0	0	122.0	100	51	45	13	48	0	118	10	0	1	506
Jason Grote	7	2	.778	2.45	15	15	0	0	0	0	88.0	85	30	24	2	22	0	88	2	0	6	363
Brian Knoll	7	7	.500	3.45	42	6	15	1	1	3	114.7	135	47	44	4	21	0	109	5	0	5	490
Manny Bermudez	7	11	.389	4.64	24	24	0	1	0	0	139.7	161	82	72	10	44	0	87	4	0	8	609
Robbie Crabtree	6	1	.857	0.99	24	0	10	0	0	2	54.3	39	6	6	0	8	0	67	3	0	1	213
Nate Bump	6	1	.857	1.75	11	11	0	0	0	0	61.7	37	13	12	2	24	0	61	2	0	2	240
Ben Tucker	5	5	.500	3.75	29	14	5	0	0	1	112.7	97	54	47	10	33	1	69	9	2	3	467
Luis Estrella	5	6	.455	4.75	36	2	12	0	0	2	72.0	79	41	38	5	27	0	57	2	1	9	315
Jeff Urban	4	0	1.000	3.52	4	4	0	0	0	0	23.0	27	13	9	2	5	0	23	3	0	2	103
Chad Zerbe	2	0	1.000	3.35	23	0	12	0	0	1	37.7	37	16	14	3	12	0	28	3	0	1	159
Jim Stoops	2	1	.667	0.98	45	0	43	0	0	31	55.3	28	7	6	0	25	0	96	3	0	1	222
Will Malerich	2	2	.500	2.23	20	0	10	0	0	2	32.3	28	14	8	1	14	1	24	4	0	0	140
Masashi Kiyono	2	5	.286	5.94	13	8	2	0	0	0	47.0	56	37	31	8	14	0	20	2	2	4	208
Jeff Keith	1	1	.500	3.77	23	0	13	0	0	0	28.7	28	16	12	2	16	1	29	4	0	2	133
Jason Verdugo	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Ryan Vogelsong	0	0		7.58	4	4	0	0	0	0	19.0	23	16	16	3	4	0	26	1	4	2	83
Eric Johnson	0	0		9.64	5	0	3	0	0	0	4.7	5	7	5	0	9	0	2	0	0	1	27
Totals	83	57	.593	3.59	397	140	136	4	2	46	1225.7	1174	567	489	77	396	4	1088	63	18	63	5191

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
Giuseppe Chiaramonte	129	565	502	87	137	33	3	22	87	5	2	47	139	.273	.333	.482	.815	242	7	4	0	12	4
Mark Gulseth	119	527	467	72	132	38	2	9	75	2	2	50	67	.283	.357	.430	.788	201	11	6	1	3	2
Mike Byas	135	609	521	87	131	10	2	1	36	30	22	81	98	.251	.349	.284	.633	148	8	0	2	5	1
Travis Young	133	603	517	79	126	21	2	4	63	27	12	61	101	.244	.329	.315	.645	163	14	8	11	6	2
Juan Dilone	85	355	316	63	101	24	2	18	47	19	9	31	103	.320	.383	.579	.962	183	3	4	0	4	2
Tony Zuniga	113	444	397	52	97	20	4	8	59	1	2	39	64	.244	.318	.375	.693	149	7	5	0	3	0
Benji Simonton	89	359	300	59	96	28	4	16	69	4	2	53	100	.320	.426	.600	1.026	180	4	4	0	2	0
Carlos Mendoza	110	397	365	36	78	7	3	0	20	11	8	19	64	.214	.255	.249	.504	91	10	1	12	0	0
Chris Van Rossum	65	237	214	33	53	9	3	2	15	10	2	17	55	.248	.314	.346	.659	74	6	4	1	1	0
Damon Minor	48	207	176	26	50	10	1	7	36	0	1	28	40	.284	.386	.472	.858	83	1	2	0	1	0
Josh Tyler	50	209	194	24	48	10	2	1	21	7	8	10	29	.247	.282	.335	.617	65	8	0	3	2	0
Angel Melendez	54	184	167	22	47	11	0	5	28	4	1	14	34	.281	.339	.437	.776	73	4	1	1	1	0
Mike Glendenning	48	200	176	26	44	9	0	10	33	1	1	24	66	.250	.340	.472	.812	83	5	0	0	0	0
Yorvit Torrealba	21	74	70	10	20	2	0	0	10	2	2	1	6	.286	.292	.314	.606	22	2	0	2	1	0
Carlos Campusano	34	108	98	11	18	1	2	0	7	0	0	5	29	.184	.243	.235	.478	23	3	3	1	1	0
Chad Faircloth	18	64	63	5	13	3	1	0	2	1	1	1	12	.206	.219	.286	.504	18	0	0	0	0	0
Pedro Mota	15	58	55	2	12	3	0	0	4	2	1	2	16	.218	.246	.273	.518	15	0	0	1	0	0
Joel Fuentes	9	34	29	5	9	2	0	0	2	0	1	4	9	.310	.412	.379	.791	11	0	1	0	0	0
Ben Bertrand	13	49	46	3	9	3	0	0	3	0	0	3	13	.196	.245	.261	.506	12	1	0	0	0	0
Kevin Tommasini	6	25	25	1	5	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	4	.200	.200	.320	.520	8	2	0	0	0	0
Craig Mayes	3	11	11	1	4	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	1	.364	.364	.727	1.091	8	1	0	0	0	0
Guillermo Rodríguez	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1298	5320	4710	704	1230	245	31	105	622	126	78	490	1050	.261	.334	.393	.727	1852	97	43	35	42	11

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Mark Gulseth	1B	71	684	42	8	54	.989	1.225
Damon Minor	1B	44	413	36	6	29	.987	1.205
Benji Simonton	1B	26	252	15	4	21	.985	1.269
Travis Young	2B	133	228	404	17	80	.974	4.752
Joel Fuentes	2B	6	9	17	0	2	1.000	4.333
Josh Tyler	2B	2	3	5	0	1	1.000	4.000
Tony Zuniga	3B	104	51	210	16	13	.942	2.510
Josh Tyler	3B	35	26	84	5	6	.957	3.143
Kevin Tommasini	3B	3	1	6	1	0	.875	2.333
Mark Gulseth	3B	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Giuseppe Chiaramonte	C	105	826	71	9	5	.990	8.543	11	94	42	30.9
Yorvit Torrealba	C	19	171	16	2	0	.989	9.842	0	9	6	40.0
Ben Bertrand	C	13	77	10	0	1	1.000	6.692	7	11	7	38.9
Craig Mayes	C	3	17	2	0	0	1.000	6.333	0	1	1	50.0
Kevin Tommasini	C	1	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	0	0	0
Guillermo Rodríguez	C	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Mike Byas	CF	134						.000
Chris Van Rossum	CF	6						.000
Chad Faircloth	CF	3						.000
Angel Melendez	CF	1						.000
Mike Glendenning	LF	48						.000
Benji Simonton	LF	44						.000
Chris Van Rossum	LF	28						.000
Josh Tyler	LF	13						.000
Angel Melendez	LF	9						.000
Juan Dilone	LF	3						.000
Mike Byas	OF	134	228	9	4	2	.983	1.769
Juan Dilone	OF	63	78	6	4	0	.955	1.333
Chris Van Rossum	OF	57	87	6	2	1	.979	1.632
Mike Glendenning	OF	48	66	4	3	0	.959	1.458
Benji Simonton	OF	44	52	2	5	0	.915	1.227
Angel Melendez	OF	35	40	3	2	0	.956	1.229
Chad Faircloth	OF	18	33	0	1	0	.971	1.833
Pedro Mota	OF	15	19	3	1	0	.957	1.467
Josh Tyler	OF	14	20	1	1	0	.955	1.500
Kevin Tommasini	OF	3	2	0	1	0	.667	.667
Jim Stoops	P	45	2	5	0	0	1.000	.156
Brian Knoll	P	42	6	22	0	2	1.000	.667
Bill Malloy	P	41	7	20	2	0	.931	.659
Luis Estrella	P	36	7	16	2	0	.920	.639
Ben Tucker	P	29	8	26	0	2	1.000	1.172
Robbie Crabtree	P	24	2	14	0	0	1.000	.667
Manny Bermudez	P	24	16	14	0	3	1.000	1.250
Chad Zerbe	P	23	2	6	0	0	1.000	.348
Jeff Keith	P	23	1	6	1	0	.875	.304
Joe Nathan	P	22	8	12	2	3	.909	.909
Will Malerich	P	20	3	4	0	0	1.000	.350
Jason Grote	P	15	6	12	3	1	.857	1.200
Jeff Andra	P	15	3	13	1	0	.941	1.067
Masashi Kiyono	P	13	6	4	2	0	.833	.769
Nate Bump	P	11	6	6	0	0	1.000	1.091
Eric Johnson	P	5	1	0	0	0	1.000	.200
Ryan Vogelsong	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Jeff Urban	P	4	1	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Jason Verdugo	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Juan Dilone	RF	60						.000
Chris Van Rossum	RF	25						.000
Angel Melendez	RF	25						.000
Pedro Mota	RF	15						.000
Chad Faircloth	RF	15						.000
Kevin Tommasini	RF	3						.000
Josh Tyler	RF	1						.000
Carlos Mendoza	SS	110	169	369	28	64	.951	4.891
Carlos Campusano	SS	33	30	114	8	20	.947	4.364
Tony Zuniga	SS	2	2	7	0	2	1.000	4.500
Joel Fuentes	SS	1	3	1	0	0	1.000	4.000
Totals		1974	3677	1626	141	312	.974	2.686	18	115	56	32.7

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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