1998 Visalia Oaks Statistics

California League (CL) - Class: Advanced A
Team Record: 67-73
Finished 2nd in the CL's Freeway Division
Manager: Tony DeFrancesco (67-73)
Affiliation: Oakland Athletics
Location: Visalia, California
Ballpark: Recreation Park
Attendance: 60,154, Avg. 925 in 65 home dates

1998 Visalia Oaks Roster

Playoffs - Lake Elsinore Storm 2 games, Visalia Oaks 0

The Visalia Oaks of the California League ended the 1998 season with a record of 67 wins and 73 losses, finishing second in the league's Freeway Division.

The Oaks tallied 739 runs and yielded 746 runs. Rob De Boer paced Visalia with 15 home runs Tom Russin drove in 74 runs and topped all regular batters with a .296 average. Mike Holmes paced the team with 9 wins, while Jared Jensen recorded a 4.01 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Players from the 1998 Visalia Oaks who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Eric Byrnes, Chad Harville, Eric DuBose and Marcus Jones.

Tony DeFrancesco 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
Mike Holmes	9	10	.474	4.14	31	24	4	2	1	0	152.0	192	86	70	14	21	3	98	7	1	8	657
Elvin Nina	8	8	.500	4.49	30	21	5	1	1	0	130.3	135	77	65	9	62	1	131	5	2	13	583
Marcus Jones	7	9	.438	4.67	29	20	8	0	0	4	131.0	155	79	68	8	45	3	112	7	3	2	587
Eric DuBose	6	1	.857	3.38	17	10	4	0	0	1	72.0	56	34	27	5	35	0	85	5	2	8	307
Randy Niles	6	12	.333	4.07	31	22	2	0	0	0	148.3	144	92	67	12	54	3	103	11	5	9	648
Pete Della Ratta	5	1	.833	2.44	36	0	28	0	0	13	59.0	43	24	16	5	25	6	73	1	0	4	249
Jared Jensen	5	9	.357	4.00	31	24	5	0	0	1	148.7	161	87	66	16	40	1	112	1	0	10	629
Chad Harville	4	3	.571	3.00	24	7	12	0	0	4	69.0	59	25	23	0	31	0	76	5	2	6	294
Jake O'Dell	3	1	.750	2.20	9	5	3	0	0	1	41.0	34	13	10	0	9	0	36	1	1	2	164
Todd Abbott	3	3	.500	7.12	34	0	11	0	0	1	48.0	71	47	38	6	21	2	49	2	1	10	245
Chris Gorrell	3	5	.375	5.20	32	0	12	0	0	2	55.3	65	39	32	3	17	2	53	6	1	4	247
Ray Noriega	3	5	.375	6.18	36	6	10	0	0	2	71.3	91	55	49	8	24	1	77	2	0	6	328
Doug Robertson	2	1	.667	4.95	17	0	11	0	0	0	20.0	23	11	11	1	7	1	15	0	0	1	88
Tom Bennett	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	1	0	0	0	3	0	9	0	0	0	24
Jason Faust	1	2	.333	4.85	14	0	6	0	0	0	29.7	39	27	16	4	14	0	25	0	0	4	137
Ara Petrosian	1	2	.333	9.82	19	0	8	0	0	2	29.3	40	36	32	9	24	0	24	0	0	3	152
David Skeels	0	0		5.40	7	0	7	0	0	0	10.0	8	7	6	1	3	0	6	0	0	1	40
Jason Berry	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5
Kevin Mlodik	0	1	.000	12.00	4	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	9	5	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	19
Totals	67	73	.479	4.42	403	140	137	3	2	31	1225.7	1328	746	602	101	438	23	1085	53	18	95	5403

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
Dionys Cesar	130	567	501	87	141	34	8	7	54	31	12	56	98	.281	.353	.423	.776	212	6	1	6	3	2
Eddie Lara	122	499	447	63	129	18	6	6	62	12	12	29	65	.289	.340	.396	.736	177	16	8	11	4	0
Tom Russin	101	431	388	70	115	27	1	14	74	1	2	33	62	.296	.360	.479	.840	186	17	7	1	2	1
Rob De Boer	125	527	409	83	114	25	1	15	66	6	5	97	157	.279	.433	.455	.888	186	5	17	1	3	3
Nick Sosa	102	409	357	39	99	21	0	3	44	1	0	41	122	.277	.355	.361	.717	129	13	5	1	5	0
Jose Soriano	86	333	290	55	87	13	5	5	28	26	17	35	49	.300	.378	.431	.809	125	2	3	2	3	1
Mike Koerner	113	399	360	50	83	20	3	13	62	6	9	30	104	.231	.292	.411	.703	148	6	3	2	4	0
Dave Slemmer	67	291	260	39	74	16	1	9	36	3	2	28	53	.285	.351	.458	.808	119	11	0	0	3	1
Dee Jenkins	65	304	268	37	70	16	3	8	37	12	6	23	67	.261	.323	.433	.756	116	6	4	4	5	0
Adam Robinson	82	348	296	54	69	13	3	0	26	14	4	43	89	.233	.333	.297	.631	88	4	3	3	3	0
Duane Filchner	64	253	218	34	65	18	2	2	31	1	1	30	29	.298	.377	.427	.804	93	5	0	1	4	0
David Skeels	78	252	222	19	50	14	1	1	35	0	1	18	42	.225	.291	.311	.602	69	7	3	8	1	0
Juan Camilo	85	260	220	29	49	9	0	4	27	5	4	35	75	.223	.337	.318	.655	70	1	3	2	0	3
Omar Rosario	82	256	212	33	47	8	1	1	24	18	4	33	68	.222	.335	.283	.618	60	2	4	5	2	0
Eric Byrnes	29	129	108	26	46	9	2	4	21	11	1	18	15	.426	.504	.657	1.161	71	2	1	0	2	0
Javier Flores	49	187	163	19	41	7	1	2	17	0	0	12	32	.252	.332	.344	.675	56	4	8	3	1	0
Ed Farris	9	26	25	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.120	.154	.120	.274	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ara Petrosian	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Noriega	36	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1444	5473	4746	739	1282	268	38	94	645	147	80	562	1136	.270	.353	.402	.755	1908	107	70	50	45	11

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Nick Sosa	1B	82	680	57	12	76	.984	8.988
Tom Russin	1B	65	460	32	11	33	.978	7.569
Dave Slemmer	1B	11	80	6	1	8	.989	7.818
Omar Rosario	1B	5	9	0	1	1	.900	1.800
Ed Farris	1B	3	21	0	3	2	.875	7.000
Duane Filchner	1B	1	7	0	0	1	1.000	7.000
Dee Jenkins	2B	65	139	194	11	54	.968	5.123
Dave Slemmer	2B	47	102	119	4	22	.982	4.702
Dionys Cesar	2B	22	33	63	6	13	.941	4.364
Eddie Lara	2B	12	19	28	2	5	.959	3.917
Dionys Cesar	3B	69	38	121	26	13	.859	2.304
Eddie Lara	3B	54	21	150	10	16	.945	3.167
Javier Flores	3B	14	7	21	8	1	.778	2.000
Dave Slemmer	3B	10	3	16	0	1	1.000	1.900
Tom Russin	3B	8	1	12	5	2	.722	1.625
Rob De Boer	C	64	466	36	11	4	.979	7.844	17	47	13	21.7
David Skeels	C	60	435	38	9	1	.981	7.883	5	34	18	34.6
Javier Flores	C	28	191	28	6	2	.973	7.821	5	16	13	44.8
Jose Soriano	CF	71						.000
Mike Koerner	CF	67						.000
Omar Rosario	CF	20						.000
Juan Camilo	CF	1						.000
Duane Filchner	LF	45						.000
Omar Rosario	LF	37						.000
Eric Byrnes	LF	29						.000
Dionys Cesar	LF	28						.000
Mike Koerner	LF	20						.000
Juan Camilo	LF	8						.000
Jose Soriano	LF	6						.000
Mike Koerner	OF	108	163	11	2	1	.989	1.611
Juan Camilo	OF	82	103	4	8	1	.930	1.305
Jose Soriano	OF	78	138	9	4	3	.974	1.885
Omar Rosario	OF	71	90	3	13	0	.877	1.310
Duane Filchner	OF	45	37	2	1	0	.975	.867
Tom Russin	OF	37	52	3	4	0	.932	1.486
Eric Byrnes	OF	29	56	4	3	0	.952	2.069
Dionys Cesar	OF	28	29	3	2	0	.941	1.143
David Skeels	OF	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Ray Noriega	P	36	5	14	1	1	.950	.528
Pete Della Ratta	P	36	5	7	4	1	.750	.333
Todd Abbott	P	34	3	14	1	0	.944	.500
Chris Gorrell	P	32	2	10	3	0	.800	.375
Randy Niles	P	31	7	25	2	1	.941	1.032
Jared Jensen	P	31	17	18	2	0	.946	1.129
Mike Holmes	P	31	10	19	2	2	.935	.935
Elvin Nina	P	30	13	20	3	2	.917	1.100
Marcus Jones	P	29	6	17	0	1	1.000	.793
Chad Harville	P	24	6	9	0	1	1.000	.625
Ara Petrosian	P	19	1	2	2	0	.600	.158
Doug Robertson	P	17	1	5	0	0	1.000	.353
Eric DuBose	P	17	4	10	2	0	.875	.824
Jason Faust	P	14	0	4	0	0	1.000	.286
Jake O'Dell	P	9	4	3	2	0	.778	.778
David Skeels	P	7	4	0	0	0	1.000	.571
Kevin Mlodik	P	4	0	2	0	0	1.000	.500
Jason Berry	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Tom Bennett	P	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Juan Camilo	RF	76						.000
Tom Russin	RF	37						.000
Mike Koerner	RF	30						.000
Omar Rosario	RF	24						.000
Jose Soriano	RF	4						.000
David Skeels	RF	1						.000
Adam Robinson	SS	81	103	265	26	42	.934	4.543
Eddie Lara	SS	54	87	156	6	35	.976	4.500
Dionys Cesar	SS	12	16	22	6	7	.864	3.167
Totals		2153	3677	1583	225	353	.959	2.443	27	97	44	31.2

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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