Windy City Blues History - 1997 Summary

Team Results

Year	W	L	WPct	Finish	GB	Exp Rec	Diff	Avg	ERA	Playoffs	Champion	Attendance	Expenses	Revenue
1997 Windy City Playboys	65	97	.401	4^th	29	75-87	-10	.242	3.87			2,171,888	$63,360,742	$101,060,747

Award Winners

Award	Players	Qty
All-Star	Jaap Ouwendijk	1
Pitcher of the Month	Jerry Williams (Aug)	1

Batting Stats

Pos	Player	Age	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	HP	SH	SF	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR	OPS+
C	Curt Wells	29	144	581	159	43	0	19	94	68	42	7	0	4	151	0	0	.274	.328	.446	.774	4.1	110
CF	Héctor Marín	28	158	545	123	22	6	19	75	68	78	0	5	4	114	8	3	.226	.321	.393	.713	2.3	94
3B	Clarence Willis	28	154	508	132	14	2	16	68	59	55	5	2	2	116	1	0	.260	.337	.390	.727	2.9	98
SS	Cristián Rivera	27	148	506	137	22	5	6	54	58	59	1	0	2	38	3	4	.271	.347	.370	.716	2.7	96
RF	Ángelo Hernández	28	127	462	135	13	2	26	73	75	87	9	0	2	66	1	1	.292	.412	.498	.910	5.4	148
1B	Art Yeandle	28	152	461	99	32	1	12	59	57	61	5	1	2	129	0	1	.215	.312	.367	.679	0.3	85
2B	Raúl Águila	25	133	470	133	25	3	1	27	59	37	2	2	3	69	0	2	.283	.336	.355	.691	1.7	89
LF	Gene Roberson	26	126	360	72	17	5	6	42	35	38	3	5	2	92	2	1	.200	.280	.325	.605	-0.4	65
SS	Dylan Torley	25	144	319	68	16	1	3	31	31	26	11	1	4	60	0	0	.213	.292	.298	.589	0.3	61
1B	Hirotaka Sakamoto	28	142	261	71	18	0	4	22	31	32	0	0	1	80	0	0	.272	.350	.387	.737	0.8	101
2B	Jerry Davis	25	87	180	47	16	0	1	14	19	19	1	1	1	22	0	0	.261	.333	.367	.700	0.6	91
CF	Antonio Cintron	23	37	149	36	7	3	2	9	17	15	1	0	0	25	4	2	.242	.315	.369	.684	0.4	86
LF	Dani Ortíz	26	73	153	25	10	2	3	13	17	12	0	0	0	44	4	1	.163	.224	.314	.538	-0.9	46
RF	Daron Moran	28	32	135	28	12	1	1	12	15	8	0	0	0	37	5	2	.207	.252	.333	.585	0.1	59
C	Alex Mendoza	23	56	98	23	2	0	1	6	9	7	0	3	1	23	0	0	.235	.283	.286	.569	-0.1	56
P	Jimmy Neuharth	25	31	69	8	1	0	0	2	6	1	0	10	2	21	0	0	.116	.125	.130	.255	-0.9	-30
P	Dewitt Pierce	26	33	60	8	5	0	0	3	5	3	0	6	1	13	0	0	.133	.172	.217	.389	-0.5	6
P	Jaap Ouwendijk	25	31	54	10	2	0	0	4	5	3	0	7	1	14	0	1	.185	.224	.222	.446	-0.4	22
P	Hai-feng Goei	28	31	52	5	2	0	0	1	3	2	0	10	1	19	0	0	.096	.127	.135	.262	-0.6	-28
P	Jerry Williams	30	24	44	11	2	0	0	0	4	3	0	11	0	10	0	0	.250	.298	.295	.593	0.3	63
P	Raúl Pérez	31	6	10	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-0.1	10
P	Ángelo Gonzáles	25	75	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-0.1	-9
P	Jeremiah Hebert	28	75	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	-100
P	Pete Puckett	25	51	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	-100
P	Eddie Resendez	23	19	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	-100
P	Shawn Mills	29	74	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.0	-100
P	Seth Bram	25	53	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0.2	-2
P	Pete Morrison	30	48	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	-100
28 Players		27.0	2264	5501	1333	281	31	120	611	643	588	46	67	33	1152	28	18	.242	.319	.370	.689	17.8	88
IL Rank				10	11	8	8	5	11	11	8	9	6	11	3	11	11	11	11	9	11	9
BLB Rank				22	23	17	18	16	23	23	18	20	7	23	7	23	22	22	22	20	22	17

Pitching Stats

Player	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	HA	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERA+
Jimmy Neuharth	25	32	32	12	12	0	3.54	236.3	230	97	93	32	64	77	0	6	2	1.24	.247	0.8	117
Dewitt Pierce	26	33	33	10	16	0	4.23	198.0	191	105	93	5	118	120	0	1	0	1.56	.291	3.0	98
Jaap Ouwendijk	25	33	33	12	15	0	3.98	192.0	187	97	85	17	68	110	0	3	0	1.33	.273	2.4	104
Hai-feng Goei	28	32	32	9	15	0	3.89	180.7	166	90	78	23	58	119	0	1	0	1.24	.262	1.8	106
Jerry Williams	30	25	25	10	7	0	3.48	165.3	141	68	64	18	61	87	0	1	0	1.22	.238	1.1	119
Shawn Mills	29	75	0	4	8	8	2.55	81.3	68	28	23	4	47	59	12	0	0	1.41	.274	0.4	163
Jeremiah Hebert	28	76	0	1	3	0	2.63	78.7	49	26	23	7	33	84	21	0	0	1.04	.225	1.1	157
Ángelo Gonzáles	25	76	0	3	8	19	3.99	76.7	75	38	34	8	30	62	6	0	0	1.37	.291	0.5	104
Seth Bram	25	53	0	2	1	2	3.51	66.7	66	28	26	1	24	35	2	0	0	1.35	.301	1.0	118
Pete Puckett	25	51	0	0	4	4	5.40	55.0	57	37	33	3	48	43	2	0	0	1.91	.323	-0.3	77
Pete Morrison	30	48	0	1	1	2	3.97	47.7	34	27	21	0	36	44	2	0	0	1.47	.260	0.7	104
Raúl Pérez	31	6	6	0	5	0	4.50	32.0	30	23	16	1	13	10	0	0	0	1.34	.264	0.4	92
Eddie Resendez	23	19	0	1	1	0	9.15	20.7	29	21	21	4	8	24	6	0	0	1.79	.410	-0.0	45
Shawn Fitzgerald	28	4	0	0	0	1	6.00	3.0	4	2	2	0	4	2	0	0	0	2.67	.444	-0.1	69
Clarence Ivey	25	1	1	0	1	0	45.00	1.0	6	6	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	8.00	.667	-0.1	9
15 Pitchers	26.8	564	162	65	97	36	3.87	1435.0	1333	693	617	123	614	877	51	12	2	1.36	.270	12.9	112
IL Rank		11	1	9	2	10	2	10	2	2	2	5	5	10	11	1	2	3	1	7
BLB Rank		21	1	21	3	23	6	23	5	6	4	8	9	23	20	1	3	7	2	15

Fielding Stats

Pitchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
J. Neuharth	32	32	14	26	5	42	2	.952	236.3	1.52	1.3
D. Pierce	33	33	17	28	0	49	4	.918	198.0	2.05	0.4
J. Ouwendijk	33	33	10	24	2	34	0	1.000	192.0	1.59	0.6
H. Goei	32	32	8	30	0	38	0	1.000	180.7	1.89	1.1
J. Williams	25	25	18	22	0	43	3	.930	165.3	2.18	3.4
S. Mills	75	0	4	13	0	19	2	.895	81.3	1.88	0.5
J. Hebert	76	0	3	5	0	9	1	.889	78.7	0.92	0.4
�. Gonzáles	76	0	4	5	0	10	1	.900	76.7	1.06	-0.0
S. Bram	53	0	5	12	0	17	0	1.000	66.7	2.29	2.2
P. Puckett	51	0	1	6	0	7	0	1.000	55.0	1.15	-0.3
P. Morrison	48	0	2	8	0	10	0	1.000	47.7	1.89	-0.1
R. Pérez	6	6	3	5	1	8	0	1.000	32.0	2.25	0.1
E. Resendez	19	0	0	5	0	5	0	1.000	20.7	2.18	0.1
S. Fitzgerald	4	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	3.0	3.00	0.7
C. Ivey	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	-0.1
Totals	564	162	89	190	8	292	13	.955	1435.0	1.75	10.4

Catchers
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	RTO%
C. Wells	144	144	820	59	5	888	9	.990	1276.0	6.20	4.0	6	38.5
A. Mendoza	17	17	101	10	0	111	0	1.000	151.0	6.62	0.3	1	33.3
A. Yeandle	1	1	4	0	0	4	0	1.000	8.0	4.50	0.0	0	0.0
Totals	162	162	925	69	5	1003	9	.991	1435.0	6.23	4.3	7	37.9

First Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
A. Yeandle	119	118	850	73	64	931	8	.991	960.7	8.65	3.9
H. Sakamoto	80	44	446	23	37	470	1	.998	462.3	9.13	1.5
G. Roberson	1	0	8	0	2	8	0	1.000	5.0	14.40	-0.5
C. Willis	2	0	4	0	0	4	0	1.000	4.0	9.00	0.0
A. Mendoza	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	1.000	2.0	9.00	0.0
D. Ortíz	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1.000	1.0	9.00	0.0
C. Rivera	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	206	162	1311	96	105	1416	9	.994	1435.0	8.82	4.9

Second Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
R. Águila	108	102	194	285	60	484	5	.990	885.0	4.87	4.5
J. Davis	50	42	59	112	19	180	9	.950	377.0	4.08	1.8
C. Willis	22	18	35	39	9	75	1	.987	161.3	4.13	0.7
C. Rivera	4	0	2	4	2	6	0	1.000	9.0	6.00	0.1
D. Pierce	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.7	0.00	0.0
G. Roberson	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	1.0	9.00	0.0
Totals	186	162	290	441	90	746	15	.980	1435.0	4.58	7.1

Third Basemen
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
C. Willis	104	103	77	167	9	258	14	.946	874.7	2.51	7.5
C. Rivera	58	55	30	94	3	125	1	.992	489.3	2.28	2.6
D. Torley	6	4	2	6	0	10	2	.800	35.3	2.04	-0.4
J. Davis	10	0	1	3	1	4	0	1.000	16.7	2.16	0.1
A. Mendoza	12	0	1	4	0	5	0	1.000	16.3	2.76	0.1
R. Águila	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0
D. Ortíz	1	0	0	1	0	2	1	.500	1.0	9.00	0.0
A. Cintron	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	0.7	13.50	0.0
Totals	193	162	111	276	13	405	18	.956	1435.0	2.43	9.9

Shortstops
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
D. Torley	98	73	154	194	45	361	13	.964	675.7	4.64	3.3
C. Rivera	75	70	96	163	37	262	3	.989	580.7	4.01	3.0
C. Willis	13	11	23	26	6	51	2	.961	94.0	4.69	1.2
R. Águila	9	8	14	21	6	38	3	.921	72.7	4.33	-0.9
J. Davis	10	0	1	3	0	6	2	.667	12.0	3.00	-0.5
Totals	205	162	288	407	94	718	23	.968	1435.0	4.36	6.0

Left Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
G. Roberson	94	90	230	9	1	244	5	.980	780.7	2.76	4.1
D. Ortíz	40	36	94	2	0	96	0	1.000	316.3	2.73	0.8
H. Marín	38	35	90	1	1	91	0	1.000	309.7	2.64	2.3
A. Mendoza	3	1	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	11.7	1.54	-0.0
�. Hernández	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	11.7	0.00	0.0
D. Moran	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	4.0	0.00	0.0
A. Cintron	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1.0	0.00	0.0
Totals	184	162	416	12	2	433	5	.988	1435.0	2.68	7.1

Center Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
H. Marín	123	122	359	10	1	372	3	.992	1065.3	3.12	3.8
A. Cintron	36	36	105	1	0	108	2	.981	305.7	3.12	-0.2
D. Ortíz	11	4	13	0	0	14	1	.929	45.0	2.60	-0.3
D. Moran	5	0	3	0	0	3	0	1.000	9.0	3.00	-0.1
�. Hernández	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	6.0	3.00	-0.0
G. Roberson	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	4.0	4.50	-0.0
Totals	181	162	484	11	1	501	6	.988	1435.0	3.10	3.1

Right Fielders
Player	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR
�. Hernández	127	127	295	11	3	307	1	.997	1099.0	2.51	8.6
D. Moran	31	31	67	2	0	70	1	.986	252.0	2.46	5.2
A. Mendoza	12	2	9	0	0	10	1	.900	38.0	2.13	-0.1
D. Ortíz	12	1	5	0	0	5	0	1.000	26.0	1.73	-2.3
G. Roberson	7	1	5	0	0	5	0	1.000	20.0	2.25	0.7
Totals	189	162	381	13	3	397	3	.992	1435.0	2.47	12.0

Team Leaders

Batting Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Batting Average	Ángelo Hernández	.292
On-Base Percentage	Ángelo Hernández	.412
Slugging Percentage	Ángelo Hernández	.498
OPS	Ángelo Hernández	.910
Games	Héctor Marín	158
At-Bats	Curt Wells	581
Runs	Ángelo Hernández	75
Hits	Curt Wells	159
Doubles	Curt Wells	43
Triples	Héctor Marín	6
Home Runs	Ángelo Hernández	26
Runs Batted In	Curt Wells	94
Stolen Bases	Héctor Marín	8
Caught Stealing	Cristián Rivera	4
Walks	Ángelo Hernández	87
Strikeouts	Curt Wells	151

Pitching Leaders

Category	Player(s)	Value
Wins	Jimmy Neuharth, Jaap Ouwendijk	12
Losses	Dewitt Pierce	16
Saves	Ángelo Gonzáles	19
Games	Jeremiah Hebert, Ángelo Gonzáles	76
Games Started	Dewitt Pierce, Jaap Ouwendijk	33
Complete Games	Jimmy Neuharth	6
Shutouts	Jimmy Neuharth	2
Innings Pitched	Jimmy Neuharth	236.3
Hits Allowed	Jimmy Neuharth	230
Home Runs Allowed	Jimmy Neuharth	32
Strikeouts	Dewitt Pierce	120
Walks Allowed	Dewitt Pierce	118
Earned Run Average	Jerry Williams	3.48
Walks + Hits per IP	Jerry Williams	1.22
BABIP	Jerry Williams	.238