1997 Savannah Sand Gnats Statistics

South Atlantic League (SAL) - Class: A
Team Record: 63-77
Finished 3rd in the SAL's South Division
Manager: John Shelby (63-77)
Affiliation: Los Angeles Dodgers
Location: Savannah, Georgia
Ballpark: Grayson Stadium
Attendance: 125,729, Avg. 1,965 in 64 home dates

1997 Savannah Sand Gnats Roster

The Savannah Sand Gnats of the South Atlantic League ended the 1997 season with a record of 63 wins and 77 losses, finishing third in the league's South Division.

The Sand Gnats scored 560 runs, worst in the league, and allowed 660 runs. Juan Diaz led Savannah with 25 home runs and recorded 83 runs batted in. Peter Bergeron paced batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .280 clip. Dean Mitchell topped the squad with 11 wins and a team-best 2.88 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1997 Savannah Sand Gnats who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Juan Diaz, Peter Bergeron, Pedro Feliciano, Damian Rolls, Luke Prokopec and Wayne Franklin.

John Shelby 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
Dean Mitchell	11	5	.688	2.88	52	7	38	1	0	16	122.0	110	50	39	6	25	1	118	1	1	2	499
Peter Cervantes	8	8	.500	3.84	21	20	0	1	0	0	103.0	113	48	44	9	22	0	84	4	0	1	438
Toby Dollar	7	2	.778	2.60	20	8	7	3	1	1	90.0	78	33	26	7	12	0	67	5	0	6	359
Ben Simon	7	5	.583	3.09	18	17	1	2	1	0	93.3	84	35	32	2	27	0	93	7	0	3	398
Matthew Kramer	6	4	.600	5.85	23	8	3	0	0	0	64.7	62	49	42	7	31	1	62	1	0	9	290
Jay O'Shaughnessy	6	12	.333	4.44	27	24	1	0	0	0	115.7	87	64	57	10	83	0	150	2	1	13	509
Wayne Franklin	5	3	.625	3.18	28	7	10	1	0	2	82.0	79	41	29	10	35	0	58	4	1	2	362
Luke Prokopec	3	1	.750	4.07	13	6	5	0	0	0	42.0	37	21	19	8	12	0	45	1	0	1	175
Pedro Feliciano	3	7	.300	2.64	36	9	8	1	0	4	105.7	90	45	31	11	39	0	94	1	4	6	437
Brian Paluk	3	8	.273	5.78	27	20	0	1	1	0	118.3	141	82	76	10	35	0	61	9	0	11	527
Seferino Soto	2	2	.500	3.79	26	0	9	0	0	3	54.7	57	29	23	2	28	0	59	1	1	11	244
Brian Jacobson	1	4	.200	4.04	23	0	18	0	0	3	35.7	36	24	16	2	10	2	35	2	1	6	159
Mike Sanchez	1	5	.167	4.68	40	0	16	0	0	0	75.0	72	43	39	10	32	2	74	3	1	21	321
Craig Allen	0	1	.000	7.53	10	0	6	0	0	2	14.3	13	14	12	1	13	0	14	1	0	5	71
Alejandro Romero	0	1	.000	10.38	5	0	2	0	0	0	4.3	12	10	5	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	28
Hal Garrett	0	3	.000	8.44	8	1	4	0	0	0	16.0	21	15	15	0	7	0	13	2	0	4	78
Mike Bourbakis	0	6	.000	7.82	23	13	2	0	0	0	58.7	70	57	51	9	39	0	47	6	3	11	286
Totals	63	77	.450	4.19	400	140	130	10	3	31	1195.3	1162	660	556	104	451	6	1079	50	13	112	5181

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
Peter Bergeron	131	569	492	89	138	18	5	5	36	32	21	67	110	.280	.367	.368	.735	181	5	2	5	3	3
Juan Diaz	127	517	460	63	106	24	2	25	83	2	2	48	155	.230	.306	.454	.761	209	10	4	1	4	2
Damian Rolls	130	525	475	57	100	17	5	5	47	11	3	38	83	.211	.274	.299	.573	142	9	5	3	4	0
Trent Cuevas	90	334	313	42	73	10	3	10	41	3	1	13	59	.233	.273	.380	.653	119	10	5	1	2	1
Luis Martinez	75	307	294	26	68	7	3	2	23	1	0	5	48	.231	.250	.296	.546	87	6	3	3	2	0
Randy Stearns	94	336	301	41	68	10	3	2	18	21	14	31	96	.226	.302	.299	.601	90	1	2	2	0	1
Jeff Bramlett	102	390	326	49	61	11	6	14	42	2	1	49	122	.187	.313	.387	.699	126	7	12	0	3	1
Brian Sankey	63	237	210	25	56	11	0	5	27	5	2	24	37	.267	.346	.390	.736	82	6	2	0	1	1
Jaime Malave	58	213	206	23	52	11	1	9	32	2	1	4	54	.252	.269	.447	.715	92	2	1	1	1	0
Eric Brown	61	232	211	26	51	10	3	7	22	12	1	17	74	.242	.297	.417	.714	88	3	1	0	3	0
Scott Morrison	61	246	219	30	51	13	3	4	34	4	1	17	45	.233	.299	.374	.673	82	2	4	5	1	0
Luke Prokopec	61	179	164	11	38	7	3	2	20	3	1	12	49	.232	.291	.348	.638	57	2	2	0	1	1
Josh Glassey	73	246	207	17	38	5	0	0	20	3	1	35	72	.184	.300	.208	.508	43	3	0	3	1	0
Nick Leach	37	149	131	14	35	6	0	0	13	1	2	14	23	.267	.356	.313	.669	41	2	4	0	0	0
Brett Illig	51	185	158	16	32	4	0	2	11	1	3	20	49	.203	.308	.266	.574	42	3	5	0	2	0
Cash Riley	27	92	87	6	18	3	3	0	3	4	2	3	27	.207	.250	.310	.560	27	4	2	0	0	0
Travis Meyer	13	47	45	4	13	2	0	0	2	1	1	1	6	.289	.319	.333	.652	15	2	1	0	0	0
Kip Harkrider	18	75	71	8	13	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	6	.183	.203	.183	.386	13	0	0	1	1	0
Brian Zaun	13	43	42	6	10	2	1	1	6	0	0	1	16	.238	.256	.405	.661	17	0	0	0	0	0
Lance Warren	11	28	25	5	6	1	1	0	1	2	0	3	5	.240	.321	.360	.681	9	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Foulks	20	59	57	2	6	2	0	1	3	1	1	2	21	.105	.136	.193	.329	11	0	0	0	0	0
Eric Flores	6	17	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	.077	.294	.077	.371	1	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1322	5026	4507	560	1034	174	42	94	488	111	58	410	1164	.229	.300	.349	.649	1574	78	55	25	29	10

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Juan Diaz	1B	70	608	23	15	49	.977	9.014
Brian Sankey	1B	32	262	19	1	20	.996	8.781
Nick Leach	1B	26	201	19	3	9	.987	8.462
Jeff Bramlett	1B	16	142	9	1	9	.993	9.438
Luis Martinez	2B	74	128	187	9	35	.972	4.257
Trent Cuevas	2B	57	86	145	9	27	.962	4.053
Scott Morrison	2B	15	9	35	1	2	.978	2.933
Damian Rolls	3B	130	111	246	31	14	.920	2.746
Brian Zaun	3B	9	10	16	2	2	.929	2.889
Trent Cuevas	3B	2	0	5	0	1	1.000	2.500
Jaime Malave	3B	1	1	5	0	1	1.000	6.000
Jeff Bramlett	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Josh Glassey	C	73	533	53	10	2	.983	8.027	15	106	20	15.9
Jaime Malave	C	56	403	40	14	1	.969	7.911	12	54	17	23.9
Travis Meyer	C	13	128	12	5	1	.966	1.769	0	32	6	15.8
Eric Flores	C	3	9	2	1	0	.917	3.667	1	4	0	0.0
Peter Bergeron	CF	131						.000
Randy Stearns	CF	11						.000
Jeff Bramlett	LF	48						.000
Randy Stearns	LF	32						.000
Eric Brown	LF	25						.000
Cash Riley	LF	24						.000
Brian Sankey	LF	10						.000
Brian Foulks	LF	6						.000
Peter Bergeron	OF	131	240	8	4	3	.984	1.893
Randy Stearns	OF	90	139	6	5	1	.967	1.611
Eric Brown	OF	58	79	8	1	2	.989	1.500
Jeff Bramlett	OF	56	94	2	2	1	.980	1.714
Luke Prokopec	OF	47	77	8	2	1	.977	1.809
Cash Riley	OF	26	31	1	2	0	.941	1.231
Brian Foulks	OF	17	24	1	1	0	.962	1.471
Brian Sankey	OF	11	16	1	0	0	1.000	1.545
Dean Mitchell	P	52	11	16	5	3	.844	.519
Mike Sanchez	P	40	4	11	1	1	.938	.375
Pedro Feliciano	P	36	5	30	6	2	.854	.972
Wayne Franklin	P	28	0	16	2	0	.889	.571
Brian Paluk	P	27	10	26	5	1	.878	1.333
Jay O'Shaughnessy	P	27	7	14	1	0	.955	.778
Seferino Soto	P	26	5	5	1	0	.909	.385
Matthew Kramer	P	23	5	12	2	2	.895	.739
Brian Jacobson	P	23	2	4	4	0	.600	.261
Mike Bourbakis	P	23	2	5	0	0	1.000	.304
Peter Cervantes	P	21	9	18	4	0	.871	1.286
Toby Dollar	P	20	4	19	0	1	1.000	1.150
Ben Simon	P	18	7	18	2	0	.926	1.389
Luke Prokopec	P	13	2	3	0	0	1.000	.385
Craig Allen	P	10	1	0	0	0	1.000	.100
Hal Garrett	P	8	1	2	0	0	1.000	.375
Alejandro Romero	P	5	0	0	0	0		.000
Randy Stearns	RF	47						.000
Luke Prokopec	RF	47						.000
Eric Brown	RF	33						.000
Brian Foulks	RF	11						.000
Jeff Bramlett	RF	9						.000
Cash Riley	RF	2						.000
Brian Sankey	RF	1						.000
Brett Illig	SS	51	67	132	7	15	.966	3.902
Scott Morrison	SS	45	42	121	14	18	.921	3.622
Trent Cuevas	SS	32	43	68	9	18	.925	3.469
Kip Harkrider	SS	18	28	47	3	8	.962	4.167
Totals		1997	3586	1418	185	250	.964	2.506	28	196	43	18.0

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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