1997 COLUMBIA BOMBERS

| Level: A

Location: Columbia,SC
Team Record: 77-63 .550
Result: 1st in South Atlantic League - Central Division
Affiliate: New York Mets
Manager(s): Doug Mansolino
Stadium: Capital City Stadium
Attendance: 135,670
Playoffs: Lost in 1st Round

New York Mets affiliate history

Oldest Player: Matt Splawn (24)
Youngest Player: Dicky Gonzalez (18)
Top Hitter: Dan Ramirez (22)
Top Pitcher: Kyle Kessel (3)
Top Prospect: Grant Roberts

South Atlantic League Standings

Central	W	L	Pct	GB
Columbia	77	63	.550	--
Hickory	76	64	.543	1.0
Greensboro	75	65	.536	2.0
Piedmont	70	72	.493	8.0
Asheville	62	76	.449	14.0
Charleston (Sc)	60	82	.423	18.0

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
-	Dan Ramirez	of	22	23	UDFA: 1992	AAA	130	478	82	146	24	4	1	42	51	25	44	104	4	0	3	3	4	.305	.367	.379	745	181	532	367	68	5.0	.386
-	Garrick Haltiwanger	of	47	22	1996-11-318	AAA	125	441	59	115	19	2	14	73	20	7	45	107	10	0	1	2	4	.261	.341	.408	750	180	499	340	65	5.1	.314
-	Tim Tessmar	1b	-	23	1995-41-1141	A+	120	430	53	105	14	4	8	55	10	3	36	93	2	1	0	4	7	.244	.303	.351	654	151	472	339	46	3.7	.291
-	John Tamargo	if	76	22	1996-21-618	AAA	113	393	44	98	17	2	1	47	13	7	45	72	2	2	5	1	9	.249	.329	.310	639	122	446	317	41	3.5	.302
-	B.J. Huff	of	-	21	1996-48-1398	AA	99	363	49	92	20	5	7	41	11	3	19	78	4	1	1	2	8	.253	.296	.394	690	143	389	285	43	4.1	.304
-	Carlos Soriano	3b	73	22	UDFA: 1995	A	101	318	37	66	14	0	4	41	5	2	24	52	1	1	3	7	8	.208	.260	.289	549	92	353	272	23	2.3	.230
-	Yohanny Valera	c	-	20	UDFA: 1993	MLB	94	293	32	56	14	0	8	33	2	0	21	101	5	0	2	1	4	.191	.256	.321	577	94	322	244	19	2.1	.259
-	Randy Vickers	ss	-	21	1994-31-861	A	72	245	22	42	10	1	10	26	1	4	9	99	2	0	0	1	5	.171	.206	.343	549	84	257	213	9	1.1	.234
-	Tom Stanton	of	-	21	1996-14-408	A+	60	190	29	36	10	0	7	31	0	1	24	79	7	0	0	2	2	.189	.300	.353	653	67	223	159	18	3.0	.274
-	Corey Erickson	if	-	20	1995-4-105	AAA	49	173	18	37	11	2	2	16	3	1	11	49	1	0	1	3	2	.214	.261	.335	596	58	189	143	14	2.7	.280
-	Jeff Parsons	ss	-	23	1995-5-133	A+	52	152	25	41	2	0	0	11	16	2	26	41	1	0	4	0	1	.270	.380	.283	663	43	183	118	19	4.3	.369
-	Rafael Martinez	1b	-	21	UDFA: 1995	AAA	44	149	20	40	7	2	5	25	10	2	17	44	1	2	0	0	1	.268	.347	.443	790	66	167	112	24	5.8	.350
-	Tracy Edmondson	2b	-	22	1994-43-1178	A	50	131	16	25	6	1	1	12	1	1	16	38	1	0	1	1	0	.191	.282	.275	557	36	150	109	9	2.3	.258
-	Junior Zamora	3b	-	21	UDFA: 1995	AAA	36	124	16	31	5	0	8	19	0	1	10	29	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.306	.484	790	60	134	96	18	5.2	.264
-	Angel Espada	if	-	21	1994-42-1177	A	30	102	17	33	6	0	0	7	8	4	9	9	0	0	5	0	0	.324	.378	.382	761	39	116	78	17	5.9	.355
-	Kevin McCarthy	of	-	20	1994-4-92	A	31	98	6	19	1	0	1	9	1	1	8	21	0	0	0	0	0	.194	.255	.235	489	23	106	80	4	1.5	.237
-	Ryan Jaroncyk	ss	-	20	1995-1-18	A+	29	86	5	15	1	2	0	7	4	4	11	25	0	0	1	3	1	.174	.260	.233	493	20	101	80	3	1.1	.234
-	Bailey Chancey	of	-	22	1996-19-558	AAA	30	85	12	21	0	0	0	7	5	2	13	19	1	0	4	1	0	.247	.350	.247	597	21	104	71	8	3.1	.313
-	Tim Bishop	of	-	21	1994-57-1471	A	14	49	4	10	2	0	0	2	7	2	6	16	1	0	1	0	0	.204	.304	.245	548	12	57	42	4	2.3	.303
-	Jose Rijo-Berger	of	-	-	1995-59-1519	A	17	48	4	11	2	0	0	1	2	1	6	12	0	0	1	0	0	.229	.315	.271	586	13	55	39	4	2.8	.306
-	Ryan Bennett	c	-	22	UDFA: 1996	AAA	19	42	6	8	1	0	0	3	0	0	5	15	0	0	0	0	1	.190	.277	.214	491	9	47	35	1	0.9	.296
-	Jeramie Simpson	of	-	22	1994-12-316	A+	10	29	4	7	0	1	0	2	1	1	1	15	0	0	0	0	0	.241	.267	.310	577	9	30	23	1	1.2	.500
-	Juan Penalver	3b	-	21	UDFA: 1996	A	9	22	1	6	1	0	0	1	0	1	3	3	0	0	2	0	1	.273	.360	.318	678	7	27	20	2	3.1	.316
-	Beau Engle	c	-	22	1994-45-1230	A+	6	10	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	.300	.462	.300	762	3	13	7	2	6.4	.429
-	Jersen Perez	ss-2b	-	21	1996-22-648	AAA	2	6	3	4	3	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.667	.714	1.167	1881	7	7	2	5	61.4	.667
Totals: (25 players)							140	4457	564	1067	190	26	77	515	172	75	411	1124	45	7	35	31	60	.239	.308	.346	654	1540	4979	3591	466	3.5	.301

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
-	Kyle Kessel	3	21	1994-60-1516	AAA	11	11	2.72	27	27	5	1	0	0	168.2	131	63	51	8	53	151	8	0	1.09	6.99	0.43	2.83	8.06	0.35
-	Ken Pumphrey	6	20	1994-4-98	AAA	12	6	3.10	27	27	3	2	0	0	165.2	137	70	57	11	72	133	11	1	1.26	7.44	0.60	3.91	7.23	0.54
-	Brett Herbison	17	20	1995-2-48	AA	7	14	3.99	28	27	2	0	0	0	160.0	166	86	71	13	63	146	11	2	1.43	9.34	0.73	3.54	8.21	0.43
-	Grant Roberts	42	19	1995-11-301	MLB	11	3	2.36	22	22	2	1	0	0	129.2	98	37	34	1	44	122	5	0	1.10	6.80	0.07	3.05	8.47	0.36
-	Lindsay Gulin	68	20	1995-16-441	AAA	8	1	2.91	17	15	1	1	2	0	99.0	77	37	32	2	60	118	9	1	1.38	7.00	0.18	5.45	10.73	0.51
-	Brandon Villafuerte	47	21	1994-66-1587	MLB	3	1	2.38	47	3	0	0	31	7	75.2	58	23	20	6	33	88	12	0	1.20	6.90	0.71	3.93	10.47	0.38
-	Jeff Hafer	-	22	1996-38-1128	AA	6	5	2.99	37	2	0	0	18	7	69.1	59	29	23	2	21	74	10	1	1.15	7.66	0.26	2.73	9.61	0.28
-	Mike Lyons	39	22	1996-20-588	AAA	6	2	1.86	44	0	0	0	32	14	58.0	40	15	12	3	20	55	2	0	1.03	6.21	0.47	3.10	8.53	0.36
-	Leo Vasquez	-	23	UDFA: 1996	AAA	4	5	5.14	22	8	0	0	8	1	56.0	63	37	32	4	22	49	7	1	1.52	10.12	0.64	3.54	7.88	0.45
-	Osvaldo Coronado	-	23	UDFA: 1993	A+	2	4	2.64	26	0	0	0	9	0	47.2	42	18	14	5	15	42	4	0	1.20	7.93	0.94	2.83	7.93	0.36
-	Dicky Gonzalez	-	18	1996-16-468	MLB	1	4	4.94	10	7	1	0	2	0	47.1	50	28	26	8	15	49	2	0	1.37	9.51	1.52	2.85	9.32	0.31
-	Scott McCrary	-	23	UDFA: 1997	AA	3	2	0.96	13	0	0	0	5	0	28.0	20	4	3	1	5	24	2	0	0.89	6.43	0.32	1.61	7.71	0.21
-	William Santamaria	-	19	1994-27-736	A	2	1	3.33	14	0	0	0	8	0	24.1	22	11	9	0	16	18	1	1	1.56	8.14	0.00	5.92	6.66	0.89
-	Erick Ojeda	81	21	UDFA: 1994	A	0	2	5.79	7	0	0	0	4	0	14.0	14	10	9	2	4	13	1	1	1.29	9.00	1.29	2.57	8.36	0.31
-	Hans Beebe	-	22	1994-71-1630	A	0	0	9.95	6	0	0	0	1	0	12.2	21	15	14	3	6	6	0	0	2.13	14.92	2.13	4.26	4.26	1.00
-	Matt Splawn	-	24	1996-53-1503	A	0	0	0.93	7	0	0	0	5	0	9.2	7	4	1	1	1	10	0	0	0.83	6.52	0.93	0.93	9.31	0.10
-	Todd Cutchins	-	21	1995-6-161	A+	0	1	5.40	3	1	0	0	1	0	6.2	7	4	4	1	5	6	0	0	1.80	9.45	1.35	6.75	8.10	0.83
-	J.D. Arteaga	-	22	1997-26-780	AAA	1	0	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	3	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.50	4.50	0.00	0.00	6.00	0.00
-	Kirk Presley	-	22	1993-1-8	A+	0	1	10.80	2	0	0	0	0	0	3.1	5	4	4	0	0	5	0	0	1.50	13.50	0.00	0.00	13.50	0.00
Totals: (25 players)						77	63	3.17	140	140	14	5	126	29	1,182	1020	495	416	77	455	1113	85	8	1.25	7.77	0.54	3.47	8.48	0.41

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Yohanny Valera	C	89		651	107	10	4	.987	0.00
Tom Stanton	C	43		338	39	2	4	.995	0.00
Ryan Bennett	C	18		108	13	2	0	.984	0.00
Beau Engle	C	4		10	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Tim Tessmar	1B	103		877	77	9	61	.991	0.00
Randy Vickers	1B	24		192	17	2	12	.991	0.00
Rafael Martinez	1B	17		142	13	5	11	.969	0.00
Tracy Edmondson	1B	1		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Corey Erickson	2B	46		54	123	3	15	.983	0.00
Carlos Soriano	2B	31		52	66	5	12	.959	0.00
Angel Espada	2B	30		41	92	3	13	.978	0.00
John Tamargo	2B	21		38	52	2	11	.978	0.00
Tracy Edmondson	2B	11		7	14	2	0	.913	0.00
Jeff Parsons	2B	8		13	19	1	3	.970	0.00
Juan Penalver	2B	8		11	15	0	2	1.000	0.00
Jersen Perez	2B	2		2	9	0	4	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Carlos Soriano	3B	65		31	113	9	7	.941	0.00
Junior Zamora	3B	36		22	72	3	5	.969	0.00
Randy Vickers	3B	25		15	41	7	3	.889	0.00
Tracy Edmondson	3B	22		9	32	3	3	.932	0.00
Jeff Parsons	3B	4		3	6	1	0	.900	0.00
Corey Erickson	3B	3		1	7	0	0	1.000	0.00
Juan Penalver	3B	2		0	2	0	1	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
John Tamargo	SS	84		122	197	19	34	.944	0.00
Ryan Jaroncyk	SS	29		26	85	12	15	.902	0.00
Jeff Parsons	SS	17		25	48	11	6	.869	0.00
Tracy Edmondson	SS	15		19	21	2	4	.952	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Dan Ramirez	OF	125		196	17	9	4	.959	0.00
Garrick Haltiwanger	OF	113		148	7	4	1	.975	0.00
B.J. Huff	OF	83		139	2	1	1	.993	0.00
Kevin McCarthy	OF	27		26	2	1	0	.966	0.00
Bailey Chancey	OF	18		35	2	2	0	.949	0.00
Rafael Martinez	OF	18		28	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Jose Rijo-Berger	OF	15		13	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Tim Bishop	OF	14		22	0	1	0	.957	0.00
Jeff Parsons	OF	13		13	3	1	0	.941	0.00
Jeramie Simpson	OF	10		10	0	1	0	.909	0.00
Tracy Edmondson	OF	3		3	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Brandon Villafuerte	P	47		5	11	1	0	.941	0.00
Mike Lyons	P	44		6	5	0	0	1.000	0.00
Jeff Hafer	P	37		5	9	14		.500	0.00
Brett Herbison	P	28		8	27	1	3	.972	0.00
Kyle Kessel	P	27		14	30	3	2	.936	0.00
Ken Pumphrey	P	27		20	30	1	2	.980	0.00
Osvaldo Coronado	P	26		3	3	1	0	.857	0.00
Grant Roberts	P	22		15	25	0	0	1.000	0.00
Leo Vasquez	P	22		6	11	0	0	1.000	0.00
Lindsay Gulin	P	17		6	13	2	1	.905	0.00
William Santamaria	P	14		3	2	1	0	.833	0.00
Scott McCrary	P	13		3	7	0	1	1.000	0.00
Dicky Gonzalez	P	10		6	9	0	1	1.000	0.00
Erick Ojeda	P	7		1	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Matt Splawn	P	7		0	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Hans Beebe	P	6		0	2	1	0	.667	0.00
Todd Cutchins	P	3		1	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
J.D. Arteaga	P	1		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00

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