1981 Tidewater Tides Statistics

International League (IL) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 70-68
Finished 3rd in the IL
Manager: Jack Aker (70-68)
Affiliation: New York Mets
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
Ballpark: Metropolitan Park
Attendance: 135,001, Avg. 1,957

1981 Tidewater Tides Roster

Playoffs - Richmond Braves 3 games, Tidewater Tides 2

The Tidewater Tides of the International League ended the 1981 season with a record of 70 wins and 68 losses, finishing third in the IL.

The Tides plated 547 runs and conceded 558 runs. Gary Rajsich paced Tidewater with 24 home runs and drove in 56 runs. Gil Flores led batters with significant playing time by hitting .296. Charlie Puleo topped the squad with 12 wins, while Brent Gaff recorded a 2.94 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.

Mike Howard, Gary Rajsich, Dan Norman, Tom Dixon, Ron Gardenhire, Dave Von Ohlen, Ed Lynch, Wally Backman, Greg Harris, Brian Giles, Tim Leary, Terry Leach, Rick Sweet, Charlie Puleo, Gil Flores, Ray Searage, Mike Mendoza, Jesús Vega, Mike Fitzgerald, Brent Gaff, Jesse Orosco, Dan Boitano, Rick Anderson, Bruce Bochy, Sam Perlozzo, Phil Mankowski and Keith Smith were all players from the 1981 Tidewater Tides who played in the Majors during their careers.

Jack Aker 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
Charlie Puleo	12	9	.571	3.46	26	26	0	9	3	0	169.0	132	74	65	16	73	1	133	3	0	3
Brent Gaff	9	5	.643	2.94	23	21	0	7	0	0	147.0	150	54	48	7	64	4	59	6	5	3
Jesse Orosco	9	5	.643	3.31	47	10	24	0	0	8	87.0	80	39	32	7	32	4	81	3	2	3
Tom Dixon	9	11	.450	4.07	27	27	0	11	0	0	177.0	149	93	80	16	93	4	113	5	1	5
Ed Lynch	7	6	.538	3.91	15	15	0	6	3	0	99.0	93	46	43	12	29	0	54	3	1	2
Terry Leach	5	2	.714	2.72	15	8	4	4	1	0	76.0	63	27	23	8	19	3	42	1	0	1
Dan Boitano	5	6	.455	3.74	40	4	22	1	1	7	65.0	56	37	27	8	30	4	43	2	0	3
Greg Harris	4	0	1.000	2.06	8	7	0	2	0	0	48.0	37	14	11	0	16	1	26	0	0	2
Scott Dye	4	4	.500	4.80	19	7	4	1	0	0	75.0	91	45	40	6	30	2	42	3	1	5
Rick Anderson	3	5	.375	3.34	37	0	17	0	0	3	89.0	68	34	33	3	45	9	41	1	0	2
Ray Searage	2	0	1.000	2.33	18	0	8	0	0	3	27.0	29	10	7	0	13	1	23	0	0	1
Tim Leary	1	3	.250	3.71	6	6	0	1	0	0	34.0	27	16	14	2	27	0	15	4	0	3
Mike Mendoza	0	0		7.50	6	0	3	0	0	0	12.0	16	10	10	4	5	0	4	0	0	1
Ted Davis	0	1	.000	4.29	8	3	1	0	0	0	21.0	20	12	10	1	7	0	11	1	0	0
John Semprini	0	2	.000	3.00	14	0	10	0	0	2	18.0	13	7	6	0	15	2	17	1	0	3
Tom Thurberg	0	2	.000	8.00	4	2	0	0	0	0	9.0	9	11	8	1	18	0	9	1	0	1
Mark Daly	0	3	.000	3.60	5	0	2	0	0	0	10.0	10	7	4	0	6	2	7	0	0	0
Dave Von Ohlen	0	4	.000	5.76	10	2	1	0	0	0	25.0	30	22	16	4	11	2	18	0	0	0
Totals	70	68	.507	3.61	328	138	96	42	8	23	1188.0	1073	558	477	95	533	39	738	34	10	38	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
Rick Sweet	128	530	462	58	128	30	1	4	55	14	9	55	36	.277	.354	.372	.727	172		2	8	3	3
Gil Flores	113	475	419	57	124	13	2	4	31	43	12	49	53	.296	.371	.365	.736	153		1	6	0	2
Ron MacDonald	129	512	449	49	118	17	3	9	55	2	2	45	54	.263	.335	.374	.709	168		6	8	4	4
Mike Howard	120	477	418	56	116	22	5	6	33	23	17	48	62	.278	.351	.397	.748	166		1	7	3	6
Brian Giles	121	461	400	60	107	17	3	7	40	16	12	49	70	.268	.347	.378	.724	151		1	8	3	5
Ron Gardenhire	125	454	414	52	105	17	8	2	40	28	12	28	61	.254	.301	.348	.649	144		2	6	4	1
Gary Rajsich	74	288	253	47	70	11	1	24	56	6	2	28	52	.277	.352	.613	.965	155		3	1	3	7
Bruce Bochy	85	297	269	23	61	11	2	8	38	0	3	22	47	.227	.286	.372	.657	100		1	3	2	3
Phil Mankowski	55	220	199	18	50	4	0	6	30	3	2	18	20	.251	.320	.362	.681	72		2	1	0	3
Todd Winterfeldt	86	270	237	26	50	9	0	6	27	2	4	21	33	.211	.276	.325	.601	77		1	9	2	0
Dan Norman	40	160	150	23	37	8	1	4	21	10	2	7	23	.247	.288	.393	.681	59		2	0	1	0
Bill Haslerig	37	131	124	10	29	6	0	0	12	6	4	4	37	.234	.262	.282	.544	35		1	1	1	0
Sergio Beltre	51	173	158	15	28	6	2	2	42	4	3	11	37	.177	.240	.278	.518	44		2	2	0	0
Sam Perlozzo	33	96	82	10	17	0	0	1	4	2	1	9	9	.207	.293	.244	.537	20		1	4	0	2
Mike Fitzgerald	24	65	58	9	9	2	0	1	3	2	0	5	13	.155	.219	.241	.460	14		0	1	1	0
Wally Backman	21	70	59	6	9	3	1	0	6	2	2	10	8	.153	.275	.237	.513	14		0	1	0	1
Ed Cuervo	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	1.333	1.833	4		0	0	0	0
Jesse Orosco	47	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0		0	0	0	0
Brent Gaff	23	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	0	0	0
Dan Boitano	40	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0		0	0	0	0
Greg Harris	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0		0	0	0	0
Totals	1361	4694	4163	520	1059	176	29	85	494	163	87	412	620	.254	.323	.372	.695	1548	0	26	66	27	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Ron MacDonald	1B	112	1050	73	6	118	.995	1.027
Gary Rajsich	1B	15	129	13	1	11	.993	9.467
Jesús Vega	1B	13						.000
Rick Sweet	1B	1	7	1	0	0	1.000	8.000
Brian Giles	2B	69	184	228	11	54	.974	5.971
Sam Perlozzo	2B	28	54	96	5	15	.968	5.357
Ron Gardenhire	2B	27	60	78	3	16	.979	5.111
Todd Winterfeldt	2B	20	31	72	2	14	.981	5.150
Wally Backman	2B	2	3	7	0	2	1.000	5.000
Ed Cuervo	2B	1	2	3	0	1	1.000	5.000
Todd Winterfeldt	3B	48	29	81	8	8	.932	2.292
Phil Mankowski	3B	48	28	85	5	8	.958	2.354
Rick Sweet	3B	29	16	39	5	4	.917	1.897
Ron Gardenhire	3B	19	6	31	1	3	.974	1.947
Wally Backman	3B	5	4	10	0	0	1.000	2.800
Mike Howard	3B	3	1	1	0	0	1.000	.667
Sam Perlozzo	3B	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Rick Sweet	C	70	399	41	8	9	.982	6.286	8
Bruce Bochy	C	59	253	35	3	3	.990	4.881	9
Mike Fitzgerald	C	22	124	9	2	2	.985	6.045	1
Mike Howard	OF	114	259	12	3	1	.989	2.377
Gil Flores	OF	109	186	8	10	3	.951	1.780
Sergio Beltre	OF	44	65	6	1	0	.986	1.614
Gary Rajsich	OF	42	59	0	3	0	.952	1.405
Dan Norman	OF	38	56	2	1	0	.983	1.526
Bill Haslerig	OF	35	48	3	4	0	.927	1.457
Keith Smith	OF	26						.000
Jesús Vega	OF	17	31	1	3	0	.914	1.882
Todd Winterfeldt	OF	16	16	1	2	1	.895	1.062
Jesse Orosco	P	47	6	17	0	1	1.000	.489
Dan Boitano	P	40	5	11	2	2	.889	.400
Rick Anderson	P	37	3	22	0	2	1.000	.676
Tom Dixon	P	27	12	24	1	2	.973	1.333
Charlie Puleo	P	26	7	27	1	2	.971	1.308
Brent Gaff	P	23	10	30	3	3	.930	1.739
Scott Dye	P	19	5	6	0	1	1.000	.579
Ray Searage	P	18	0	6	0	1	1.000	.333
Ed Lynch	P	15	3	13	0	0	1.000	1.067
Terry Leach	P	15	5	10	0	0	1.000	1.000
John Semprini	P	14	1	6	0	1	1.000	.500
Dave Von Ohlen	P	10	2	6	0	1	1.000	.800
Greg Harris	P	8	5	9	2	2	.875	1.750
Ted Davis	P	8	2	3	0	0	1.000	.625
Mike Mendoza	P	6	0	4	0	0	1.000	.667
Tim Leary	P	6	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.333
Mark Daly	P	5	1	4	1	0	.833	1.000
Tom Thurberg	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Ron Gardenhire	SS	81	140	264	29	61	.933	4.988
Brian Giles	SS	53	83	156	13	28	.948	4.509
Wally Backman	SS	6	5	21	1	4	.963	4.333
Todd Winterfeldt	SS	2	2	7	0	2	1.000	4.500
Totals		1503	3401	1589	140	386	.973	3.320	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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