1997 Trenton Thunder Statistics

Eastern League (EL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 71-70
Finished 4th in the EL's South Division
Manager: DeMarlo Hale (71-70)
Affiliation: Boston Red Sox
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
Ballpark: ARM & HAMMER Park
Attendance: 446,527, Avg. 6,567 in 68 home dates

1997 Trenton Thunder Roster

The Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League ended the 1997 season with a record of 71 wins and 70 losses, finishing fourth in the league's South Division.

The Thunder plated 766 runs and allowed 760 runs. Pat Bryant paced Trenton with 19 home runs, and Joe Depastino walloped 15 or more, too. Dave Gibralter accounted for 86 RBI. Michael Coleman topped all regular batters by hitting .301. Brian Barkley and Jim Farrell led the squad with 12 wins each, while Jim Farrell recorded a 4.38 ERA, tops among regular hurlers.

Bret Saberhagen, Brian Barkley, Rod Correia, Lou Merloni, Cole Liniak, Walt McKeel, Juan Peña, Heath Haynes, Pete Walker, Andy Abad, Peter Munro, Jared Fernández, Joe Depastino, Ron Mahay, Bill Haselman, Michael Coleman and Robinson Checo were all players from the 1997 Trenton Thunder who played in the Majors during their careers.

DeMarlo Hale served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Jim Farrell	12	7	.632	4.37	26	26	0	0	0	162.7	173	93	79	24	57	0	110	7	0	11	706
Brian Barkley	12	9	.571	4.94	29	29	0	4	0	178.7	208	113	98	18	79	0	121	3	2	3	797
Peter Munro	7	10	.412	4.95	22	22	0	1	0	116.3	113	76	64	12	47	0	109	8	3	6	506
Juan Peña	5	6	.455	4.73	16	14	2	0	0	97.0	98	56	51	13	31	0	79	2	1	5	418
Jay Yennaco	5	11	.312	6.33	21	21	0	0	0	122.3	146	89	86	8	54	0	73	8	0	5	557
Felix Ramirez	4	2	.667	5.44	18	3	6	0	2	41.3	43	28	25	7	20	1	29	1	0	1	186
Jared Fernández	4	6	.400	5.41	21	16	4	1	0	121.3	138	90	73	12	66	0	73	0	0	14	560
Brad Tweedlie	4	6	.400	5.77	41	0	26	0	5	57.7	62	41	37	10	44	3	30	6	0	1	275
Frank Gonzales	3	1	.750	5.88	14	0	8	0	2	26.0	29	18	17	3	16	2	14	2	0	1	122
Ron Mahay	3	3	.500	3.10	17	4	9	0	5	40.7	29	16	14	0	13	0	47	1	0	2	165
Mike Blais	2	0	1.000	3.32	18	0	14	0	5	21.7	26	11	8	1	12	0	14	1	0	4	104
Rick Betti	2	0	1.000	6.35	30	0	14	0	3	39.7	42	29	28	7	17	0	30	3	0	3	179
Brian Rose	2	1	.667	2.84	15	0	6	0	0	25.3	23	8	8	4	10	0	18	0	0	0	107
Robinson Checo	1	0	1.000	2.35	1	1	0	0	0	7.7	6	3	2	0	1	0	9	0	0	0	29
Doug Hecker	1	0	1.000	2.57	4	0	1	0	0	7.0	5	2	2	0	9	1	7	0	0	0	34
Heath Haynes	1	1	.500	2.36	14	0	3	0	2	26.7	26	8	7	2	8	3	26	2	1	0	116
Kevan Cannon	1	1	.500	2.81	13	0	7	0	1	16.0	7	7	5	1	12	1	11	1	0	2	67
Steve Smetana	1	2	.333	2.95	18	0	10	0	3	21.3	25	9	7	2	7	1	16	2	0	1	97
Dean Peterson	1	3	.250	4.60	33	1	19	0	5	58.7	67	30	30	4	30	3	48	4	1	5	268
Bret Saberhagen	0	0		0.00	2	2	0	0	0	8.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	9	1	0	0	27
Pete Walker	0	0		4.05	8	0	3	0	3	13.3	14	6	6	1	7	0	13	0	0	0	61
Chad Hale	0	0		8.31	3	0	1	0	0	4.3	5	5	4	1	5	0	2	0	0	0	22
Brett Cederblad	0	0		8.68	6	0	2	0	0	9.3	12	10	9	1	2	0	7	0	0	1	42
Rafael Orellano	0	1	.000	17.05	2	2	0	0	0	6.3	14	12	12	1	7	0	5	0	1	1	42
Totals	71	70	.504	4.92	392	141	135	6	36	1229.3	1313	760	672	132	555	15	900	52	9	66	5487

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
Dave Gibralter	123	536	478	70	131	25	1	14	86	3	5	44	103	.274	.344	.418	.762	200	10	9	1	4	3
Aaron Fuller	128	589	481	87	125	17	6	6	46	40	15	95	84	.260	.384	.358	.741	172	8	4	5	4	4
Michael Coleman	102	444	385	56	116	17	8	14	58	20	7	41	89	.301	.372	.496	.869	191	5	5	9	4	1
Pat Bryant	104	452	379	73	109	20	3	19	77	18	7	60	76	.288	.396	.507	.902	192	3	9	2	2	1
Randy Brown	97	385	336	51	86	11	4	8	49	9	7	38	102	.256	.335	.384	.719	129	6	4	3	4	3
Gavin Jackson	100	369	301	46	82	12	0	1	46	2	6	48	36	.272	.381	.322	.703	97	11	6	12	2	0
Nick Ortiz	87	331	288	47	81	17	2	8	53	3	2	27	55	.281	.348	.438	.785	126	8	5	6	5	1
Lou Merloni	69	302	255	49	79	17	4	5	37	3	2	30	43	.310	.402	.467	.869	119	2	12	1	4	1
Tony Derosso	102	390	357	50	77	18	1	14	40	13	1	26	94	.216	.271	.389	.661	139	5	2	3	2	0
Rod Correia	67	282	249	40	73	18	1	7	33	4	2	22	32	.293	.363	.458	.821	114	7	6	4	1	0
Joe Depastino	79	316	276	51	70	14	1	17	55	1	2	32	63	.254	.345	.496	.841	137	10	7	0	1	0
Cole Liniak	53	222	200	20	56	11	0	2	18	0	1	17	29	.280	.338	.365	.703	73	6	1	3	1	0
Richie Borrero	57	222	203	31	51	12	1	3	23	2	2	13	46	.251	.305	.365	.669	74	7	3	2	1	0
Andy Abad	45	201	165	37	50	13	0	8	24	2	4	33	27	.303	.423	.527	.950	87	2	2	0	1	3
Juan Williams	63	235	200	34	40	5	1	12	30	0	4	33	63	.200	.312	.415	.727	83	2	0	1	1	2
Ethan Faggett	17	68	56	10	16	2	0	2	8	2	0	8	17	.286	.379	.429	.807	24	0	1	2	1	0
Chris Madonna	14	47	41	7	14	3	0	0	6	2	2	6	11	.341	.426	.415	.840	17	1	0	0	0	0
Bill Haselman	7	28	26	3	6	1	0	2	3	0	0	2	2	.231	.286	.500	.786	13	0	0	0	0	0
Nate Tebbs	5	18	16	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	.312	.389	.312	.701	5	0	0	0	0	0
Walt McKeel	7	27	25	0	4	2	0	0	4	0	0	1	2	.160	.192	.240	.432	6	0	0	1	0	0
Chad Epperson	3	9	9	2	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	.333	.333	.444	.778	4	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1329	5473	4726	766	1274	236	33	142	697	125	70	578	977	.270	.356	.424	.779	2002	93	76	55	38	19

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Dave Gibralter	1B	114	942	74	10	86	.990	8.912
Andy Abad	1B	21	167	14	2	13	.989	8.619
Tony Derosso	1B	7	57	9	1	4	.985	9.429
Chris Madonna	1B	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Walt McKeel	1B	1	5	1	0	1	1.000	6.000
Chad Epperson	1B	1	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.000
Nick Ortiz	2B	63	129	176	5	36	.984	4.841
Rod Correia	2B	28	43	69	6	15	.949	4.000
Gavin Jackson	2B	27	39	67	2	12	.981	3.926
Randy Brown	2B	17	35	50	5	9	.944	5.000
Lou Merloni	2B	12	23	28	1	8	.981	4.250
Nate Tebbs	2B	2	7	3	0	1	1.000	5.000
Aaron Fuller	2B	2	4	6	0	1	1.000	5.000
Lou Merloni	3B	53	45	102	8	8	.948	2.774
Cole Liniak	3B	46	35	82	9	11	.929	2.543
Tony Derosso	3B	41	20	72	13	8	.876	2.244
Nick Ortiz	3B	4	3	7	2	0	.833	2.500
Nate Tebbs	3B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Joe Depastino	C	71	447	45	6	4	.988	6.930	7	46	25	35.2
Richie Borrero	C	56	373	39	7	1	.983	7.357	17	75	18	19.4
Chris Madonna	C	11	69	5	0	0	1.000	6.727	1	13	2	13.3
Bill Haselman	C	4	30	2	0	0	1.000	8.000	0	1	1	50.0
Walt McKeel	C	2	12	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	1	0	0
Chad Epperson	C	1	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.000	0	0	0
Michael Coleman	CF	100						.000
Aaron Fuller	CF	29						.000
Pat Bryant	CF	14						.000
Juan Williams	CF	1						.000
Aaron Fuller	LF	94						.000
Juan Williams	LF	19						.000
Tony Derosso	LF	18						.000
Rod Correia	LF	12						.000
Pat Bryant	LF	5						.000
Randy Brown	LF	2						.000
Aaron Fuller	OF	122	232	11	6	1	.976	1.992
Michael Coleman	OF	100	259	6	5	1	.981	2.650
Pat Bryant	OF	96	197	6	3	2	.985	2.115
Juan Williams	OF	48	100	4	1	1	.990	2.167
Andy Abad	OF	19	33	1	1	0	.971	1.789
Tony Derosso	OF	18	25	1	0	0	1.000	1.444
Rod Correia	OF	16	27	3	0	0	1.000	1.875
Ethan Faggett	OF	14	19	0	1	0	.950	1.357
Randy Brown	OF	4	3	0	0	0	1.000	.750
Dave Gibralter	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brad Tweedlie	P	41	4	9	1	2	.929	.317
Dean Peterson	P	33	4	10	0	1	1.000	.424
Rick Betti	P	30	1	3	2	1	.667	.133
Brian Barkley	P	29	7	29	5	3	.878	1.241
Jim Farrell	P	26	12	27	0	4	1.000	1.500
Peter Munro	P	22	10	24	0	0	1.000	1.545
Jay Yennaco	P	21	11	18	0	1	1.000	1.381
Jared Fernández	P	21	8	23	1	0	.969	1.476
Steve Smetana	P	18	0	5	0	0	1.000	.278
Felix Ramirez	P	18	1	7	0	0	1.000	.444
Mike Blais	P	18	1	0	0	0	1.000	.056
Ron Mahay	P	17	1	4	0	0	1.000	.294
Juan Peña	P	16	3	14	0	0	1.000	1.062
Brian Rose	P	15	0	5	0	0	1.000	.333
Heath Haynes	P	14	2	3	1	0	.833	.357
Frank Gonzales	P	14	1	6	0	0	1.000	.500
Kevan Cannon	P	13	0	1	0	0	1.000	.077
Pete Walker	P	8	2	2	1	0	.800	.500
Brett Cederblad	P	6	0	0	0	0		.000
Doug Hecker	P	4	1	0	0	0	1.000	.250
Chad Hale	P	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Bret Saberhagen	P	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Rafael Orellano	P	2	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Robinson Checo	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Pat Bryant	RF	80						.000
Juan Williams	RF	28						.000
Andy Abad	RF	19						.000
Ethan Faggett	RF	14						.000
Rod Correia	RF	4						.000
Randy Brown	RF	2						.000
Dave Gibralter	RF	1						.000
Gavin Jackson	SS	73	113	175	16	27	.947	3.945
Randy Brown	SS	59	92	149	14	33	.945	4.085
Nick Ortiz	SS	12	20	31	3	6	.944	4.250
Nate Tebbs	SS	1	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.000
Lou Merloni	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Totals		2005	3688	1433	139	301	.974	2.554	26	135	46	25.4

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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