1997 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 79-83
Finished 2nd in the NL's Central Division
Attendance: 1,694,633, Avg. 21,183
Ballpark: Three Rivers Stadium
Manager: Gene Lamont (79-83)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1997 Pittsburgh Pirates Roster
1997 Pittsburgh Pirates Results

The Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League ended the 1997 season with a record of 79 wins and 83 losses, finishing second in the NL's Central Division.

The Pirates scored 725 runs and allowed 760 runs. Kevin Young paced Pittsburgh with 18 home runs and drove in 74 runs. Joe Randa topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .302 clip. Francisco Cordova, Jon Lieber and Esteban Loaiza led the squad with 11 wins each, while Francisco Cordova earned a 3.63 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Gene Lamont coached the team.

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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
Francisco Cordova	11	8	.579	3.63	29	29	0	2	2	0	178.7	175	80	72	14	49	4	121	9	0	4	744
Esteban Loaiza	11	11	.500	4.13	33	32	0	1	0	0	196.3	214	99	90	17	56	9	122	12	3	2	851
Jon Lieber	11	14	.440	4.49	33	32	0	1	0	0	188.3	193	102	94	23	51	8	160	1	1	3	799
Jason Schmidt	10	9	.526	4.60	32	32	0	2	0	0	187.7	193	106	96	16	76	2	136	9	0	8	825
Marc Wilkins	9	5	.643	3.69	70	0	21	0	0	2	75.7	65	33	31	7	33	2	47	4	0	5	310
Steve Cooke	9	15	.375	4.30	32	32	0	0	0	0	167.3	184	95	80	15	77	11	109	9	1	8	756
Ricardo Rincon	4	8	.333	3.45	62	0	23	0	0	4	60.0	51	26	23	5	24	6	71	2	3	2	254
Jason Christiansen	3	0	1.000	2.94	39	0	9	0	0	0	33.7	37	11	11	2	17	3	37	2	0	4	154
Matt Ruebel	3	2	.600	6.32	44	0	9	0	0	0	62.7	77	50	44	8	27	3	50	5	0	4	296
Jose Silva	2	1	.667	5.94	11	4	0	0	0	0	36.3	52	26	24	4	16	3	30	1	1	0	174
Clint Sodowsky	2	2	.500	3.63	45	0	8	0	0	0	52.0	49	22	21	6	34	7	51	2	0	6	236
Chris Peters	2	2	.500	4.58	31	1	5	0	0	0	37.3	38	23	19	6	21	4	17	3	0	4	167
John Ericks	1	0	1.000	1.93	10	0	10	0	0	6	9.3	7	3	2	1	4	0	6	0	0	0	39
Rich Loiselle	1	5	.167	3.10	72	0	58	0	0	29	72.7	76	29	25	7	24	3	66	1	0	4	312
Elmer Dessens	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	13
Jeff Wallace	0	0		0.75	11	0	1	0	0	0	12.0	8	2	1	0	8	1	14	0	0	1	50
Paul Wagner	0	0		3.94	14	0	2	0	0	0	16.0	17	7	7	3	13	3	9	0	2	3	79
Ramon Morel	0	0		4.70	5	0	2	0	0	0	7.7	11	4	4	2	4	1	4	0	0	0	36
Jason Johnson	0	0		6.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	6.0	10	4	4	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	27
Jeff Granger	0	0		18.00	9	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	10	10	10	3	8	1	4	0	0	2	32
Dave Wainhouse	0	1	.000	8.04	25	0	6	0	0	0	28.0	34	28	25	2	17	0	21	3	1	1	137
Totals	79	83	.488	4.28	613	162	156	6	2	41	1436.0	1503	760	683	143	560	71	1080	64	12	61	6291

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
Tony Womack	155	689	641	85	178	26	9	6	50	60	7	43	109	.278	.326	.374	.700	240	6	3	2	0	2
Jason Kendall	144	572	486	71	143	36	4	8	49	18	6	49	53	.294	.391	.434	.825	211	11	31	1	5	2
Joe Randa	126	499	443	58	134	27	9	7	60	4	2	41	64	.302	.366	.451	.817	200	10	6	4	5	1
Jose Guillen	143	526	498	58	133	20	5	14	70	1	2	17	88	.267	.300	.412	.712	205	16	8	0	3	0
Al Martin	113	477	423	64	123	24	7	13	59	23	7	45	83	.291	.359	.473	.832	200	7	3	1	5	7
Kevin Young	97	362	333	59	100	18	3	18	74	11	2	16	89	.300	.332	.535	.867	178	6	4	1	8	1
Jermaine Allensworth	108	435	369	55	94	18	2	3	43	14	7	44	79	.255	.340	.339	.679	125	5	7	9	6	1
Dale Sveum	126	339	306	30	80	20	1	12	47	0	3	27	81	.261	.319	.451	.770	138	8	0	4	2	2
Kevin Polcovich	84	279	245	37	67	16	1	4	21	2	2	21	45	.273	.350	.396	.746	97	11	9	2	2	4
Turner Ward	71	191	167	33	59	16	1	7	33	4	1	18	17	.353	.420	.587	1.007	98	1	2	3	1	2
Mark Smith	71	222	193	29	55	13	1	9	35	3	1	28	36	.285	.374	.503	.876	97	3	0	0	1	1
Mark Johnson	78	267	219	30	47	10	0	4	29	1	1	43	78	.215	.345	.315	.660	69	1	2	0	3	1
Kevin Elster	39	164	138	14	31	6	2	7	25	0	2	21	39	.225	.327	.449	.776	62	1	1	2	2	0
Shawon Dunston	18	74	71	14	28	4	1	5	16	3	1	0	11	.394	.389	.690	1.079	49	2	0	2	1	0
Adrian Brown	48	167	147	17	28	6	0	1	10	8	4	13	18	.190	.273	.252	.524	37	3	4	2	1	0
Keith Osik	49	117	105	10	27	9	1	0	7	0	1	9	21	.257	.322	.362	.684	38	1	1	2	0	1
Eddie Williams	30	103	89	12	22	5	0	3	11	1	0	10	24	.247	.333	.404	.738	36	2	2	1	1	1
Midre Cummings	52	116	106	11	20	6	2	3	8	0	0	8	26	.189	.252	.368	.620	39	1	1	1	0	0
Emil Brown	66	112	95	16	17	2	1	2	6	5	1	10	32	.179	.304	.284	.588	27	1	7	0	0	1
Esteban Loaiza	33	69	60	4	10	1	0	0	5	0	0	1	17	.167	.180	.183	.364	11	1	0	8	0	0
Abraham Nunez	19	45	40	3	9	2	2	0	6	1	0	3	10	.225	.289	.375	.664	15	1	1	0	1	0
Jon Lieber	33	64	58	1	7	2	0	0	8	0	0	4	23	.121	.177	.155	.333	9	4	0	2	0	0
Freddy Garcia	20	42	40	4	6	1	0	3	5	0	0	2	17	.150	.190	.400	.590	16	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Schmidt	32	67	56	2	6	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	26	.107	.138	.143	.281	8	1	0	9	0	0
Lou Collier	18	38	37	3	5	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	11	.135	.158	.135	.293	5	1	0	0	0	0
Francisco Cordova	29	68	56	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	26	.089	.150	.089	.239	5	0	0	8	0	0
Steve Cooke	32	59	52	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	18	.058	.058	.077	.135	4	1	0	7	0	0
Clint Sodowsky	45	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Peters	31	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Silva	11	10	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	3	0	0
Rich Loiselle	72	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Ruebel	44	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jason Johnson	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ricardo Rincon	62	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Marc Wilkins	70	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	1	0	0
Paul Wagner	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Wainhouse	25	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Christiansen	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Ericks	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ramon Morel	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Elmer Dessens	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Granger	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Wallace	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2288	6200	5503	725	1440	291	52	129	686	160	50	481	1161	.262	.329	.404	.733	2222	105	92	77	47	27

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Kevin Young	1B	77	64	576.0	619	51	2	47	.997	1.469	8.701	0	0	0
Mark Johnson	1B	63	58	497.0	542	44	5	48	.992	1.612	9.302	0	0	0
Eddie Williams	1B	26	23	187.7	201	9	2	18	.991	1.071	8.077	0	0	0
Dale Sveum	1B	21	10	107.7	105	5	0	10	1.000	9.195	5.238	0	0	0
Mark Smith	1B	9	6	56.7	58	5	0	1	1.000	1.006	7.000	0	0	0
Freddy Garcia	1B	2	1	9.0	14	0	0	2	1.000	14.000	7.000	0	0	0
Keith Osik	1B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Tony Womack	2B	152	148	1292.7	335	429	20	83	.974	5.319	5.026	0	0	0
Joe Randa	2B	13	9	84.0	25	41	0	6	1.000	7.071	5.077	0	0	0
Abraham Nunez	2B	9	2	27.3	5	12	0	0	1.000	5.598	1.889	0	0	0
Dale Sveum	2B	2	2	17.0	3	5	1	1	.889	4.235	4.000	0	0	0
Kevin Polcovich	2B	2	1	10.0	4	0	0	1	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0
Keith Osik	2B	4	0	5.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.600	.500	0	0	0
Joe Randa	3B	120	111	970.3	66	247	21	24	.937	2.903	2.608	0	0	0
Dale Sveum	3B	47	39	332.7	17	78	6	4	.941	2.570	2.021	0	0	0
Freddy Garcia	3B	10	7	69.0	7	9	3	1	.842	2.087	1.600	0	0	0
Kevin Young	3B	12	5	61.0	7	16	3	2	.885	3.393	1.917	0	0	0
Keith Osik	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Kevin Polcovich	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jason Kendall	C	142	139	1218.0	952	103	11	20	.990	7.796	7.430	7	95	56	37.1
Keith Osik	C	32	23	218.0	160	13	2	3	.989	7.142	5.406	4	14	10	41.7
Jose Guillen	OF	136	132	1126.3	226	9	9	3	.963	1.878	1.728	0	0	0
Al Martin	OF	110	107	929.7	125	8	6	1	.957	1.288	1.209	0	0	0
Jermaine Allensworth	OF	104	94	837.7	189	5	4	1	.980	2.084	1.865	0	0	0
Turner Ward	OF	54	35	338.3	71	2	0	0	1.000	1.942	1.352	0	0	0
Adrian Brown	OF	38	36	318.3	74	3	1	1	.987	2.177	2.026	0	0	0
Mark Smith	OF	42	35	296.3	53	4	0	0	1.000	1.731	1.357	0	0	0
Emil Brown	OF	42	18	205.0	53	2	3	1	.948	2.415	1.310	0	0	0
Midre Cummings	OF	25	19	176.7	37	1	0	0	1.000	1.936	1.520	0	0	0
Kevin Young	OF	11	10	79.7	17	0	0	0	1.000	1.921	1.545	0	0	0
Esteban Loaiza	P	33	32	196.3	11	26	2	1	.949	1.696	1.121	0	0	0
Jon Lieber	P	33	32	188.3	16	25	1	1	.976	1.959	1.242	0	0	0
Jason Schmidt	P	32	32	187.7	13	19	0	0	1.000	1.535	1.000	0	0	0
Francisco Cordova	P	29	29	178.7	16	32	3	3	.941	2.418	1.655	0	0	0
Steve Cooke	P	32	32	167.3	10	29	1	1	.975	2.098	1.219	0	0	0
Marc Wilkins	P	70	0	75.7	1	4	0	1	1.000	.595	.071	0	0	0
Rich Loiselle	P	72	0	72.7	3	7	3	1	.769	1.239	.139	0	0	0
Matt Ruebel	P	44	0	62.7	3	9	3	0	.800	1.723	.273	0	0	0
Ricardo Rincon	P	62	0	60.0	3	6	0	0	1.000	1.350	.145	0	0	0
Clint Sodowsky	P	45	0	52.0	3	5	0	0	1.000	1.385	.178	0	0	0
Chris Peters	P	31	1	37.3	2	8	0	0	1.000	2.411	.323	0	0	0
Jose Silva	P	11	4	36.3	3	1	0	0	1.000	.991	.364	0	0	0
Jason Christiansen	P	39	0	33.7	1	4	1	0	.833	1.337	.128	0	0	0
Dave Wainhouse	P	25	0	28.0	2	4	1	0	.857	1.929	.240	0	0	0
Paul Wagner	P	14	0	16.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.250	.286	0	0	0
Jeff Wallace	P	11	0	12.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.500	.182	0	0	0
John Ericks	P	10	0	9.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.929	.200	0	0	0
Ramon Morel	P	5	0	7.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.522	.600	0	0	0
Jason Johnson	P	3	0	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jeff Granger	P	9	0	5.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Elmer Dessens	P	3	0	3.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	.667	0	0	0
Kevin Polcovich	SS	80	75	635.0	121	248	12	38	.969	5.230	4.613	0	0	0
Kevin Elster	SS	39	39	336.3	54	123	1	22	.994	4.736	4.538	0	0	0
Shawon Dunston	SS	18	18	150.3	28	55	3	8	.965	4.969	4.611	0	0	0
Dale Sveum	SS	28	13	146.3	29	54	1	14	.988	5.105	2.964	0	0	0
Lou Collier	SS	18	9	92.3	9	36	0	7	1.000	4.386	2.500	0	0	0
Abraham Nunez	SS	12	8	71.7	9	25	0	5	1.000	4.270	2.833	0	0	0
Tony Womack	SS	4	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.250	0	0	0
Totals		2120	1458	12924.0	4308	1833	131	380	.979	4.276	2.897	11	109	66	37.7

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