1997 Wichita Wranglers Statistics

Texas League (TL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 64-76
Finished 4th in the TL's West Division
Manager: Ron Johnson (64-76)
Affiliation: Kansas City Royals
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Ballpark: Lawrence-Dumont Stadium
Attendance: 148,590, Avg. 2,476 in 60 home dates

1997 Wichita Wranglers Roster

The Wichita Wranglers of the Texas League ended the 1997 season with a record of 64 wins and 76 losses, finishing fourth in the league's West Division.

The Wranglers scored 723 runs and allowed 781 runs. Sal Fasano and Raúl González led Wichita with 13 home runs apiece. Carlos Méndez accounted for 90 RBI and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .325 clip. Kiko Calero paced the squad with 11 wins and a team-best 4.46 ERA, best among regular hurlers.

Members of the 1997 Wichita Wranglers who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Mendy López, Jamie Walker, José Santiago, Rod Myers, Carlos Méndez, Chris Hatcher, Chris Haney, Raúl González, Brad Pennington, Héctor Ortiz, Jamie Brewington, Steve Sisco, Kit Pellow, Kiko Calero, Mark Quinn, Bart Evans, Jeremy Giambi, Sal Fasano, Brian Bevil and Allen McDill.

Ron Johnson 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
Kiko Calero	11	9	.550	4.44	23	22	0	2	0	127.7	120	78	63	15	44	0	100	4	2	2	541
Phil Grundy	9	11	.450	5.70	28	24	1	2	0	156.3	194	108	99	17	53	3	117	6	1	12	712
Pat Flury	8	3	.727	3.56	42	0	19	0	5	48.0	47	26	19	4	18	3	47	4	0	1	215
Matt Saier	7	5	.583	4.90	17	17	0	0	0	101.0	112	66	55	6	48	4	53	7	0	7	452
Kevin Rawitzer	5	1	.833	5.75	44	9	6	0	0	97.0	125	68	62	10	44	4	75	6	1	1	457
Jim Telgheder	4	7	.364	6.28	28	12	5	0	0	86.0	104	66	60	22	30	4	47	2	0	6	393
Robert Toth	4	8	.333	5.82	20	9	5	1	0	68.0	82	47	44	9	26	2	47	2	0	3	303
Tim Grieve	3	1	.750	3.38	17	0	4	0	1	37.3	30	15	14	3	21	0	36	3	0	4	160
Steve Olsen	2	0	1.000	0.00	3	2	0	0	0	14.7	11	1	0	0	2	0	7	0	0	0	56
José Santiago	2	1	.667	4.00	22	0	8	0	3	27.0	32	13	12	1	8	1	12	2	0	0	120
Toby Smith	2	3	.400	4.91	8	8	0	0	0	44.0	49	30	24	7	11	0	29	2	2	4	195
Jamie Brewington	2	5	.286	6.71	10	10	0	0	0	51.0	68	43	38	12	28	0	31	4	0	2	245
Bryan Wolff	1	1	.500	6.52	12	0	8	0	1	9.7	18	7	7	2	5	1	8	1	0	1	50
Mike Zimmerman	1	2	.333	3.67	11	4	3	0	0	27.0	21	14	11	2	17	1	11	7	0	2	120
Bart Evans	1	2	.333	4.59	32	0	22	0	6	33.3	45	20	17	4	8	2	28	0	0	1	148
Blaine Mull	1	2	.333	6.65	8	8	0	0	0	44.7	66	41	33	4	23	0	16	0	1	1	225
Joe Morvay	1	2	.333	10.94	9	2	1	0	0	26.3	39	32	32	9	7	0	13	1	0	1	118
Jimmie Byington	0	0		0.00	3	0	2	0	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	14
Brad Pennington	0	0		0.75	12	0	8	0	3	12.0	7	1	1	0	8	0	14	0	0	3	50
Brian Bevil	0	0		5.62	4	2	2	0	0	8.0	11	8	5	0	4	0	10	1	0	1	38
Chris Haney	0	1	.000	2.70	2	2	0	0	0	6.7	5	3	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	24
Allen McDill	0	1	.000	3.12	16	0	7	0	3	17.3	18	7	6	0	7	1	14	0	0	1	72
Jamie Walker	0	1	.000	9.45	5	0	0	0	0	6.7	6	8	7	1	5	0	6	2	0	0	32
Steve Prihoda	0	3	.000	3.24	70	0	32	0	10	89.0	87	34	32	3	40	8	68	4	1	3	391
Javier Gamboa	0	3	.000	8.69	6	6	0	0	0	29.0	49	30	28	3	8	0	16	2	0	1	139
Dusty Brixey	0	4	.000	6.98	5	3	2	0	0	19.3	23	15	15	1	9	1	5	4	1	1	92
Totals	64	76	.457	5.19	457	140	135	5	32	1190.0	1370	781	686	136	477	35	815	64	9	58	5362

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
Carlos Méndez	129	535	507	72	165	32	1	12	90	4	7	19	43	.325	.346	.464	.809	235	19	1	0	8	2
Raúl González	129	501	452	66	129	30	4	13	74	12	8	36	52	.285	.335	.456	.791	206	12	2	3	8	0
Jeremy Carr	91	403	340	76	104	19	1	8	40	39	8	50	53	.306	.408	.438	.846	149	4	9	3	1	1
Jeremy Giambi	74	322	268	50	86	15	1	11	52	4	4	44	47	.321	.422	.507	.930	136	7	6	0	4	3
Tony Medrano	108	389	349	45	86	9	1	4	42	8	2	26	32	.246	.297	.312	.610	109	10	1	9	4	1
Mendy López	101	406	357	56	83	16	3	5	42	7	5	36	70	.232	.304	.336	.640	120	8	3	5	5	0
Lino Diaz	92	325	289	36	82	26	3	2	51	3	6	23	27	.284	.348	.415	.763	120	7	7	3	3	0
Al Shirley	81	267	240	31	65	10	1	4	25	9	7	21	92	.271	.332	.371	.703	89	3	2	2	2	1
Kit Pellow	68	269	241	40	60	12	1	10	41	5	2	21	72	.249	.311	.432	.742	104	5	2	2	3	1
Steve Sisco	55	209	182	34	52	8	2	3	24	3	1	24	29	.286	.365	.401	.766	73	5	0	1	2	0
Mark Merchant	49	174	147	27	50	9	0	9	38	0	1	23	35	.340	.431	.585	1.016	86	3	2	0	2	0
Jimmie Byington	92	220	196	30	46	8	0	2	16	5	6	15	39	.235	.300	.306	.606	60	3	4	3	2	0
Héctor Ortiz	59	209	180	20	45	3	0	1	25	1	2	21	15	.250	.332	.283	.615	51	10	2	4	2	0
Matt Smith	52	192	176	19	40	7	1	1	15	1	0	13	37	.227	.283	.295	.578	52	1	1	1	1	2
Sergio Nunez	34	144	137	18	38	1	1	1	11	12	3	6	17	.277	.308	.321	.629	44	3	0	1	0	0
Mark Quinn	26	114	96	26	36	13	0	2	19	1	1	15	19	.375	.474	.573	1.047	55	2	3	0	0	0
Ramy Brooks	56	164	140	19	32	5	0	4	16	2	2	19	45	.229	.335	.350	.685	49	2	4	0	1	0
Sal Fasano	40	161	131	27	31	5	0	13	27	0	2	20	35	.237	.360	.573	.933	75	2	7	0	3	0
Joe De Berry	30	93	82	9	20	5	0	1	5	3	0	10	20	.244	.333	.341	.675	28	0	1	0	0	3
Sean McNally	18	64	53	9	13	4	0	0	2	1	2	11	12	.245	.375	.321	.696	17	2	0	0	0	0
Chris Hatcher	11	47	42	7	11	0	0	5	7	1	0	4	16	.262	.340	.619	.959	26	0	1	0	0	0
Rod Myers	4	19	16	3	5	2	0	0	3	0	1	3	3	.312	.421	.438	.859	7	0	0	0	0	0
Kinnis Pledger	12	42	37	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	14	.081	.190	.162	.353	6	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1411	5269	4658	723	1282	240	21	111	665	121	70	465	824	.275	.345	.407	.752	1897	108	58	37	51	14

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Carlos Méndez	1B	84	738	67	8	67	.990	9.583
Matt Smith	1B	51	448	37	6	41	.988	9.510
Lino Diaz	1B	9	49	6	1	6	.982	6.111
Sal Fasano	1B	2	15	0	0	0	1.000	7.500
Mark Merchant	1B	1	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.000
Jeremy Giambi	1B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Jimmie Byington	1B	1	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.000
Tony Medrano	2B	70	129	190	6	40	.982	4.557
Sergio Nunez	2B	33	56	93	9	16	.943	4.515
Steve Sisco	2B	27	50	83	1	18	.993	4.926
Jimmie Byington	2B	17	32	40	2	8	.973	4.235
Lino Diaz	2B	6	14	11	0	4	1.000	4.167
Kit Pellow	3B	65	51	161	24	13	.898	3.262
Lino Diaz	3B	45	22	82	10	8	.912	2.311
Steve Sisco	3B	18	9	35	4	2	.917	2.444
Sean McNally	3B	16	17	24	5	3	.891	2.562
Héctor Ortiz	C	59	340	40	15	0	.962	6.441	3	59	24	28.9
Ramy Brooks	C	47	244	30	6	1	.979	5.830	5	40	16	28.6
Sal Fasano	C	39	217	21	4	4	.983	6.103	5	18	10	35.7
Carlos Méndez	C	8	42	4	1	0	.979	5.750	0	11	1	8.3
Jeremy Carr	CF	52						.000
Al Shirley	CF	39						.000
Jimmie Byington	CF	39						.000
Jeremy Giambi	CF	26						.000
Kinnis Pledger	CF	4						.000
Rod Myers	CF	4						.000
Raúl González	CF	1						.000
Jeremy Carr	LF	39						.000
Jeremy Giambi	LF	20						.000
Al Shirley	LF	19						.000
Mark Quinn	LF	19						.000
Raúl González	LF	17						.000
Jimmie Byington	LF	16						.000
Mark Merchant	LF	10						.000
Joe De Berry	LF	10						.000
Steve Sisco	LF	7						.000
Chris Hatcher	LF	6						.000
Carlos Méndez	LF	3						.000
Sean McNally	LF	1						.000
Lino Diaz	LF	1						.000
Raúl González	OF	101	167	9	14	2	.926	1.743
Jeremy Carr	OF	91	161	10	5	0	.972	1.879
Al Shirley	OF	71	104	6	6	1	.948	1.549
Jimmie Byington	OF	59	75	2	0	1	1.000	1.305
Jeremy Giambi	OF	57	117	2	3	0	.975	2.088
Mark Quinn	OF	26	35	0	1	0	.972	1.346
Joe De Berry	OF	18	19	0	1	0	.950	1.056
Steve Sisco	OF	11	7	0	0	0	1.000	.636
Mark Merchant	OF	11	24	0	0	0	1.000	2.182
Kinnis Pledger	OF	8	9	1	0	0	1.000	1.250
Chris Hatcher	OF	6	9	0	1	0	.900	1.500
Rod Myers	OF	4	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Carlos Méndez	OF	3	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.333
Lino Diaz	OF	3	0	0	0	0		.000
Sean McNally	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Steve Prihoda	P	70	10	14	2	0	.923	.343
Kevin Rawitzer	P	44	9	19	2	0	.933	.636
Pat Flury	P	42	2	3	1	0	.833	.119
Bart Evans	P	32	5	5	1	0	.909	.312
Jim Telgheder	P	28	2	10	1	0	.923	.429
Phil Grundy	P	28	12	13	4	2	.862	.893
Kiko Calero	P	23	9	14	2	0	.920	1.000
José Santiago	P	22	1	3	0	0	1.000	.182
Robert Toth	P	20	6	7	0	0	1.000	.650
Matt Saier	P	17	9	14	0	2	1.000	1.353
Tim Grieve	P	17	2	4	0	0	1.000	.353
Allen McDill	P	16	1	2	0	0	1.000	.188
Bryan Wolff	P	12	1	1	1	0	.667	.167
Brad Pennington	P	12	0	2	0	0	1.000	.167
Mike Zimmerman	P	11	1	10	1	2	.917	1.000
Jamie Brewington	P	10	1	4	1	0	.833	.500
Joe Morvay	P	9	0	5	0	1	1.000	.556
Toby Smith	P	8	7	3	1	0	.909	1.250
Blaine Mull	P	8	3	4	1	0	.875	.875
Javier Gamboa	P	6	3	4	0	0	1.000	1.167
Jamie Walker	P	5	0	2	0	0	1.000	.400
Dusty Brixey	P	5	0	3	0	0	1.000	.600
Brian Bevil	P	4	0	2	0	0	1.000	.500
Steve Olsen	P	3	1	2	1	0	.750	1.000
Jimmie Byington	P	3	1	1	0	0	1.000	.667
Chris Haney	P	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Raúl González	RF	87						.000
Al Shirley	RF	19						.000
Jeremy Giambi	RF	13						.000
Joe De Berry	RF	8						.000
Mark Quinn	RF	7						.000
Jeremy Carr	RF	7						.000
Jimmie Byington	RF	5						.000
Steve Sisco	RF	4						.000
Kinnis Pledger	RF	4						.000
Lino Diaz	RF	2						.000
Mark Merchant	RF	1						.000
Mendy López	SS	101	193	296	20	59	.961	4.842
Tony Medrano	SS	34	56	100	9	24	.945	4.588
Jimmie Byington	SS	9	11	20	4	5	.886	3.444
Steve Sisco	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Lino Diaz	SS	1	4	2	1	1	.857	6.000
Totals		2162	3570	1524	186	331	.965	2.356	13	128	51	28.5

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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