1997 BIRMINGHAM BARONS

| Level: AA

Location:
Team Record: 76-62 .551
Result: 1st in Southern League - West Division
Affiliate: Chicago White Sox
Manager(s): Dave Huppert
Stadium: Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Attendance: 302,144
Playoffs: Did not qualify

Chicago White Sox affiliate history

Oldest Player: Rick Wrona (33)
Youngest Player: Lorenzo Barcelo (19)
Top Hitter: Luis Raven (1)
Top Pitcher: Russ Herbert (1)
Top Prospect: Jeff Liefer

Southern League Standings

West	W	L	Pct	GB
Birmingham	76	62	.551	--
Knoxville	75	63	.543	1.0
Chattanooga	70	69	.504	6.5
Mobile	69	68	.504	6.5
Memphis	67	72	.482	9.5

BATTING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
-	Brian Simmons	lf-cf	8	23	1995-2-55	MLB	138	546	108	143	28	12	15	72	15	12	88	124	2	5	2	3	10	.262	.365	.440	804	240	641	430	93	5.8	.312
-	Jeff Liefer	1b-lf	33	22	1995-1-25	MLB	119	474	67	113	24	9	15	71	2	0	38	115	7	3	1	4	10	.238	.302	.422	724	200	524	376	63	4.5	.282
-	Luis Raven	1b	1	28	UDFA: 1989	AAA	117	456	88	153	30	3	30	112	4	3	46	126	5	7	0	7	5	.336	.397	.612	1009	279	514	318	110	9.4	.401
-	Brandon Moore	ss	35	24	1994-17-481	AAA	125	414	58	106	15	1	1	47	4	7	45	48	1	0	21	4	11	.256	.328	.304	632	126	485	351	44	3.4	.285
-	Eddie Pearson	1b	51	23	1992-1-24	AAA	95	382	59	125	33	1	5	59	1	1	23	50	2	1	0	3	13	.327	.366	.458	824	175	410	274	67	6.6	.364
-	Sandy McKinnon	of	64	24	1993-12-341	AA	96	332	58	90	20	1	4	31	13	6	31	68	2	1	5	3	3	.271	.334	.373	708	124	373	259	44	4.6	.327
-	Frank Menechino	2b	29	26	1993-45-1261	MLB	90	318	78	95	28	4	12	60	7	3	79	77	11	0	1	6	7	.299	.447	.525	972	167	415	240	84	9.4	.353
-	Juan Thomas	if	75	25	1991-10-281	AAA	80	311	50	94	16	2	10	55	1	2	23	92	4	1	0	4	4	.302	.354	.463	817	144	342	227	50	5.9	.394
-	John Finn	3b-of	66	29	1989-10-259	AAA	73	246	49	68	15	0	0	27	13	2	39	28	8	0	4	1	5	.276	.391	.337	729	83	298	190	41	5.8	.311
-	Clemente Alvarez	c	-	29	UDFA: 1987	MLB	79	242	29	49	10	1	3	23	0	0	27	49	5	0	3	1	17	.202	.295	.289	584	70	278	214	16	2.1	.241
-	Scott Coolbaugh	3b	-	31	1987-3-77	MLB	68	235	35	68	18	0	11	50	0	0	37	60	4	3	0	4	3	.289	.389	.506	896	119	280	174	50	7.7	.339
-	Jason Evans	of	68	26	1992-12-344	AAA	63	223	33	68	16	1	5	25	2	2	28	51	0	4	3	1	2	.305	.381	.453	834	101	255	163	40	6.7	.375
-	John Cotton	if	-	26	1989-10-253	AAA	33	124	23	36	10	2	7	26	1	2	9	33	2	0	0	1	3	.290	.346	.573	918	71	136	94	25	7.1	.341
-	Josh Paul	c	-	22	1996-2-47	MLB	34	115	18	34	5	0	1	16	6	2	12	25	1	0	3	0	4	.296	.367	.365	732	42	131	90	15	4.6	.371
-	Rick Wrona	c	-	33	1985-5-128	MLB	29	103	11	26	7	1	2	24	0	0	3	12	2	0	1	1	1	.252	.284	.398	682	41	110	80	14	4.6	.267
-	Wil Polidor	ss	-	23	UDFA: 1991	AAA	33	93	11	25	2	1	0	13	0	2	1	16	1	0	1	0	1	.269	.284	.312	596	29	96	72	7	2.6	.325
-	Ryan Topham	of	-	23	1995-4-112	AA	17	47	6	10	5	1	0	8	1	0	6	15	2	0	1	1	0	.213	.321	.362	683	17	57	39	6	4.5	.303
-	Juan Bautista	ss	-	22	UDFA: 1993	AAA	12	46	6	11	3	0	0	4	0	1	3	15	0	0	1	0	2	.239	.286	.304	590	14	50	39	2	1.7	.355
-	Daniel Fagley	c	-	22	1993-37-1030	AAA	20	19	1	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	1	.368	.400	.421	821	8	20	13	3	5.7	.500
-	Robin Ventura	3b	-	29	1988-1-10	MLB	4	17	3	5	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	.294	.333	.529	863	9	18	14	3	5.2	.267
-	Lyle Mouton	rf-lf	-	28	1991-5-127	MLB	3	11	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	.182	.250	.455	705	5	12	9	1	3.5	.167
-	Warren Sawkiw	2b	-	29	1990-20-517	AAA	4	7	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.714	1000	5	7	5	2	8.8	.200
Totals: (22 players)							138	4761	793	1330	287	40	124	729	70	45	540	1015	60	25	47	44	104	.279	.357	.435	792	2069	5452	3671	777	5.7	.329

PITCHING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO
-	Jason Olsen	4	22	1994-44-1227	AAA	9	14	4.88	28	27	1	1	0	0	160.1	183	101	87	14	58	121	9	0	1.50	10.27	0.79	3.26	6.79	0.48
-	Russ Herbert	1	25	1994-11-313	AAA	13	5	3.63	27	26	3	1	0	0	158.2	136	72	64	14	80	126	7	0	1.36	7.71	0.79	4.54	7.15	0.63
-	Scott Eyre	18	25	1991-9-249	MLB	13	5	3.84	22	22	0	0	0	0	126.2	110	61	54	14	55	127	9	1	1.30	7.82	0.99	3.91	9.02	0.43
-	John Snyder	23	22	1992-13-356	MLB	7	8	4.64	20	20	2	1	0	0	114.1	130	76	59	9	43	90	6	2	1.51	10.23	0.71	3.38	7.08	0.48
-	Kevin Beirne	-	23	1995-11-308	MLB	6	4	4.92	13	12	0	0	1	0	75.0	76	51	41	4	41	49	2	1	1.56	9.12	0.48	4.92	5.88	0.84
-	Shane Buteaux	70	25	1994-6-173	AA	2	2	4.19	44	0	0	0	16	2	73.0	74	41	34	4	34	34	5	1	1.48	9.12	0.49	4.19	4.19	1.00
-	Alan Newman	29	27	1988-2-50	MLB	7	3	2.49	44	0	0	0	33	10	72.1	55	34	20	0	40	64	9	0	1.31	6.84	0.00	4.98	7.96	0.63
-	Scott Christman	-	25	1993-1-17	AA	2	7	9.05	15	14	0	0	0	0	63.2	100	74	64	8	38	39	5	0	2.17	14.14	1.13	5.37	5.51	0.97
-	Chuck Smith	-	27	UDFA: 1991	MLB	2	2	3.16	25	0	0	0	6	0	62.2	63	35	22	4	27	57	8	3	1.44	9.05	0.57	3.88	8.19	0.47
-	Mike Heathcott	69	28	1991-13-359	MLB	3	1	1.83	30	1	0	0	12	7	59.0	50	20	12	2	25	47	3	0	1.27	7.63	0.31	3.81	7.17	0.53
-	Robert Theodile	-	24	1992-8-232	AAA	2	0	5.49	19	9	0	0	3	1	57.1	72	43	35	2	35	41	5	0	1.87	11.30	0.31	5.49	6.44	0.85
-	Brian Woods	33	26	1993-20-565	AAA	1	5	6.31	35	0	0	0	31	10	45.2	49	41	32	3	28	35	4	0	1.69	9.66	0.59	5.52	6.90	0.80
-	Derek Hasselhoff	-	23	1995-17-476	AAA	5	2	2.41	18	0	0	0	10	3	33.2	35	10	9	3	11	22	1	0	1.37	9.36	0.80	2.94	5.88	0.50
-	Lorenzo Barcelo	-	19	UDFA: 1994	MLB	2	1	4.86	6	6	0	0	0	0	33.1	36	20	18	2	9	29	1	0	1.35	9.72	0.54	2.43	7.83	0.31
-	Steve Worrell	75	27	1992-18-512	AAA	2	2	5.47	18	0	0	0	7	1	24.2	28	16	15	5	12	21	2	1	1.62	10.22	1.82	4.38	7.66	0.57
-	Maximo Nunez	-	25	UDFA: 1994	AAA	0	0	7.64	14	0	0	0	3	0	17.2	19	18	15	1	13	14	3	2	1.81	9.68	0.51	6.62	7.13	0.93
-	David Lundquist	-	24	1993-5-145	MLB	0	0	8.78	7	0	0	0	5	0	13.1	26	20	13	3	5	15	0	0	2.33	17.55	2.03	3.38	10.13	0.33
-	Bob Howry	-	23	1994-5-144	MLB	0	0	2.84	12	0	0	0	6	2	12.2	16	4	4	1	3	3	0	0	1.50	11.37	0.71	2.13	2.13	1.00
-	Jason Bere	-	26	1990-36-934	MLB	0	1	7.71	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.0	8	7	6	2	2	7	0	0	1.43	10.29	2.57	2.57	9.00	0.29
Totals: (22 players)						76	62	4.49	138	138	6	3	132	36	1,211	1266	744	604	124	559	941	79	11	1.54	9.41	0.71	4.15	6.99	0.59

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Clemente Alvarez	C	78		500	49	1	5	.998	0.00
Josh Paul	C	32		221	17	3	0	.988	0.00
Rick Wrona	C	29		199	28	3	4	.987	0.00
Daniel Fagley	C	20		40	2	3	0	.933	0.00
Warren Sawkiw	C	1		6	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Eddie Pearson	1B	89		737	60	10	68	.988	0.00
Juan Thomas	1B	47		400	13	7	56	.983	0.00
Luis Raven	1B	4		33	3	0	2	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Frank Menechino	2B	78		167	211	11	58	.972	0.00
John Cotton	2B	24		60	50	6	17	.948	0.00
Wil Polidor	2B	17		27	37	4	6	.941	0.00
John Finn	2B	12		17	37	1	8	.982	0.00
Brandon Moore	2B	12		35	27	0	13	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Scott Coolbaugh	3B	62		42	124	7	16	.960	0.00
Luis Raven	3B	39		19	73	23	4	.800	0.00
John Finn	3B	20		9	38	4	4	.922	0.00
Frank Menechino	3B	12		9	26	0	5	1.000	0.00
Wil Polidor	3B	10		1	15	7	1	.696	0.00
John Cotton	3B	5		1	4	4	0	.556	0.00
Robin Ventura	3B	4		2	3	2	0	.714	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Brandon Moore	SS	112		177	354	22	70	.960	0.00
John Finn	SS	13		17	27	3	4	.936	0.00
Juan Bautista	SS	12		20	32	5	6	.912	0.00
Wil Polidor	SS	8		6	19	5	1	.833	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Brian Simmons	OF	136		322	7	5	1	.985	0.00
Jeff Liefer	OF	106		166	2	8	0	.955	0.00
Sandy McKinnon	OF	88		170	6	5	1	.972	0.00
Jason Evans	OF	61		89	3	8	0	.920	0.00
John Finn	OF	15		26	3	0	0	1.000	0.00
Ryan Topham	OF	13		30	0	1	0	.968	0.00
John Cotton	OF	4		5	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Lyle Mouton	OF	3		5	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Shane Buteaux	P	44		5	7	0	0	1.000	0.00
Alan Newman	P	44		2	16	5	1	.783	0.00
Brian Woods	P	35		1	8	1	0	.900	0.00
Mike Heathcott	P	30		4	9	0	1	1.000	0.00
Jason Olsen	P	28		14	28	2	0	.955	0.00
Russ Herbert	P	27		9	21	2	0	.937	0.00
Chuck Smith	P	25		4	8	1	2	.923	0.00
Scott Eyre	P	22		3	20	0	1	1.000	0.00
John Snyder	P	20		8	17	2	1	.926	0.00
Robert Theodile	P	19		4	4	2	0	.800	0.00
Derek Hasselhoff	P	18		4	3	0	0	1.000	0.00
Steve Worrell	P	18		2	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Scott Christman	P	15		6	10	0	1	1.000	0.00
Maximo Nunez	P	14		2	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Kevin Beirne	P	13		5	10	1	0	.937	0.00
Bob Howry	P	12		0	2	0	1	1.000	0.00
David Lundquist	P	7		0	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Lorenzo Barcelo	P	6		2	8	0	0	1.000	0.00

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