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1997 American Association | Year in Review | |
| Standings |
| Eastern | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team Name | Aff | W | L | Pct | GBL | Manager(s) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Buffalo Bisons | Cle | 87 | 57 | .604 | -- | Brian Graham | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indianapolis Indians | Cin | 85 | 59 | .590 | 2.0 | Dave Miley | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nashville Sounds | Chw | 74 | 69 | .517 | 12.5 | Tom Spencer | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisville Redbirds | Stl | 58 | 85 | .406 | 28.5 | Gaylen Pitts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team Name | Aff | W | L | Pct | GBL | Manager(s) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa Cubs | Chc | 74 | 69 | .517 | -- | Tim Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Orleans Zephyrs | Hou | 74 | 70 | .514 | 0.5 | Steve Swisher | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oklahoma City 89ers | Tex | 61 | 82 | .427 | 13.0 | Greg Biagini | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Omaha Royals | Kc | 61 | 83 | .424 | 13.5 | Mike Jirschele | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Playoff teams in bold.
| Player Register |
Abbott, Jeff (MLB) - Nashville Abreu, Bobby (MLB) - New Orleans Alberro, Jose (MLB) - Oklahoma City Anderson, Brian (MLB) - Buffalo Anthony, Eric (MLB) - Oklahoma City Arrandale, Matt (AAA) - Louisville Aven, Bruce (MLB) - Buffalo Aybar, Manny (MLB) - Louisville Badorek, Michael (AAA) - Louisville Bailes, Scott (MLB) - Oklahoma City Bailey, Cory (MLB) - Oklahoma City Bako, Paul (MLB) - Indianapolis Barber, Brian (MLB) - Louisville Barfield, John (MLB) - Buffalo Barrios, Manuel (MLB) - New Orleans Batchelor, Rich (MLB) - Louisville Batista, Miguel (MLB) - Iowa Battle, Allen (MLB) - Nashville Bautista, Jose (MLB) - Louisville Belk, Tim (MLB) - Indianapolis Bell, David (MLB) - Louisville Bell, Derek (MLB) - New Orleans Bell, Mike (MLB) - Oklahoma City Beltran, Rigo (MLB) - Louisville Benes, Andy (MLB) - Louisville Benitez, Yamil (MLB) - Omaha Berblinger, Jeff (MLB) - Louisville Bere, Jason (MLB) - Nashville Berry, Sean (MLB) - New Orleans Bertotti, Mike (MLB) - Nashville Bevil, Brian (MLB) - Omaha Blomdahl, Ben (MLB) - Buffalo Blosser, Greg (MLB) - Oklahoma City Bolton, Rodney (MLB) - Indianapolis Boone, Aaron (MLB) - Indianapolis Bradshaw, Terry (MLB) - Louisville Brady, Doug (MLB) - Nashville Branson, Jeff (MLB) - Indianapolis Brewer, Rod (MLB) - Buffalo Brewington, Jamie (MLB) - Omaha Bridges, Kary (AAA) - New Orleans Brooks, Ramy (AAA) - Omaha Brower, Jim (MLB) - Oklahoma City Brown, Brant (MLB) - Iowa Brown, Kevin (MLB) - Oklahoma City Buckles, Bucky (AAA) - Oklahoma City Burgos, John (AAA) - Oklahoma City Burkett, John (MLB) - Oklahoma City Busby, Mike (MLB) - Louisville Busch, Mike (MLB) - Buffalo Cabrera, Jose (MLB) - Buffalo , New Orleans Cadaret, Greg (MLB) - Buffalo Cairo, Miguel (MLB) - Iowa Cameron, Mike (MLB) - Nashville Candaele, Casey (MLB) - Buffalo Cappuccio, Carmine (AAA) - Nashville Caraballo, Ramon (MLB) - Iowa Carpenter, Brian (AAA) - Louisville Carr, Chuck (MLB) - New Orleans Carr, Jeremy (AAA) - Omaha Carrara, Giovanni (MLB) - Indianapolis Carrasco, Hector (MLB) - Indianapolis Casey, Sean (MLB) - Buffalo Castillo, Carlos (AAA) - Nashville Castleberry, Kevin (AAA) - Oklahoma City Cedeno, Domingo (MLB) - Oklahoma City Cholowsky, Dan (AAA) - Iowa Christopherson, Eric (AAA) - New Orleans Clark, Terry (MLB) - Buffalo Clemons, Chris (MLB) - Nashville Cline, Pat (AAA) - Iowa Colon, Bartolo (MLB) - Buffalo Colon, Dennis (AAA) - New Orleans Converse, Jim (MLB) - Omaha Costo, Tim (MLB) - Louisville Cotton, John (AAA) - Nashville Coughlin, Kevin (AAA) - Louisville Croushore, Rich (MLB) - Louisville Crowell, Jim (MLB) - Indianapolis Cruz, Nelson (MLB) - Nashville Curtis, Randy (AAA) - Buffalo Dalesandro, Mark (MLB) - Iowa Darwin, Jeff (MLB) - Nashville Davis, Clint (AAA) - Oklahoma City De La Maza, Roland (MLB) - Buffalo De la rosa, Maximo (AAA) - Buffalo Dedrick, Jim (MLB) - Oklahoma City Detmers, Kris (AAA) - Louisville Diaz, Alex (MLB) - Oklahoma City Diaz, Edwin (MLB) - Oklahoma City Diaz, Einar (MLB) - Buffalo DiFelice, Mike (MLB) - Louisville Dougherty, Tony (AAA) - Buffalo Dowler, Dee (AAA) - Iowa Downs, Brian (AAA) - Nashville Driskill, Travis (MLB) - Buffalo Dye, Jermaine (MLB) - Omaha Eischen, Joey (MLB) - Indianapolis Elarton, Scott (MLB) - New Orleans Estrada, Osmani (AAA) - Oklahoma City Evans, Jason (AAA) - Nashville Eversgerd, Bryan (MLB) - Oklahoma City Fasano, Sal (MLB) - Omaha Fernandez, Sid (MLB) - New Orleans Fletcher, Paul (MLB) - Iowa Flora, Kevin (MLB) - New Orleans Flury, Pat (Intl) - Omaha Fordham, Tom (MLB) - Nashville Fordyce, Brook (MLB) - Indianapolis Foulke, Keith (MLB) - Nashville Franklin, Micah (MLB) - Louisville Freeman, Ricky (AAA) - Iowa Frias, Hanley (MLB) - Oklahoma City Gallego, Mike (MLB) - Louisville Garcia, Guillermo (MLB) - Indianapolis Gardiner, Mike (MLB) - New Orleans Giannelli, Ray (MLB) - Louisville Glauber, Keith (MLB) - Louisville Gonzalez, Jeremi (MLB) - Iowa Goodwin, Curtis (MLB) - Indianapolis Graves, Danny (MLB) - Buffalo , Indianapolis Grebeck, Brian (AAA) - New Orleans Green, Scarborough (MLB) - Louisville Greene, Tommy (MLB) - New Orleans Grimsley, Jason (MLB) - Omaha Gross, Kevin (MLB) - Oklahoma City Guillen, Carlos (MLB) - New Orleans Gulan, Mike (MLB) - Louisville Gutierrez, Jim (AAA) - New Orleans Gutierrez, Ricky (MLB) - New Orleans Halama, John (MLB) - New Orleans Hall, Billy (AAA) - Indianapolis Halter, Shane (MLB) - Omaha Haney, Chris (MLB) - Omaha Haney, Todd (MLB) - New Orleans Hansen, Jed (MLB) - Omaha Harrison, Brian (AAA) - Omaha Hart, Jason (AAA) - Iowa Hartvigson, Chad (AAA) - Oklahoma City Hasselhoff, Derek (AAA) - Nashville Hatcher, Chris (MLB) - Omaha Heathcott, Mike (MLB) - Nashville Heiserman, Rick (MLB) - Louisville Henriquez, Oscar (MLB) - New Orleans Heredia, Gil (MLB) - Iowa Heredia, Wilson (MLB) - Oklahoma City Hidalgo, Richard (MLB) - New Orleans Holbert, Aaron (MLB) - Louisville Houston, Tyler (MLB) - Iowa Hubbard, Mike (MLB) - Iowa Hubbard, Trenidad (MLB) - Buffalo Hudek, John (MLB) - New Orleans Huisman, Rick (MLB) - Omaha Hunter, Brian (MLB) - Indianapolis Ilsley, Blaise (MLB) - Buffalo Jackson, Damian (MLB) - Indianapolis , Buffalo Jackson, Danny (MLB) - Louisville Jacome, Jason (MLB) - Buffalo Jennings, Robin (MLB) - Iowa Johns, Doug (MLB) - Omaha Johnson, Barry (AAA) - Nashville Johnson, Jonathan (MLB) - Oklahoma City Johnson, Mark (MLB) - Indianapolis Johnson, Russ (MLB) - New Orleans Jones, Stacy (MLB) - Nashville Jordan, Brian (MLB) - Louisville Karchner, Matt (MLB) - Nashville Kell, Robert (AAA) - Oklahoma City Kelly, Mike (MLB) - Indianapolis Keyser, Brian (MLB) - Nashville Kieschnick, Brooks (MLB) - Iowa King, Curtis (MLB) - Louisville Kirkreit, Daron (AAA) - Buffalo Kline, Steve (MLB) - Buffalo Klingenbeck, Scott (MLB) - Indianapolis Kmak, Joe (MLB) - Indianapolis Knorr, Randy (MLB) - New Orleans Koslofski, Kevin (MLB) - Louisville Leius, Scott (MLB) - Nashville Levine, Al (MLB) - Nashville Lewis, Richie (MLB) - Indianapolis Lisanti, Bob (AAA) - Iowa Listach, Pat (MLB) - Buffalo Little, Mark (MLB) - Oklahoma City Livingstone, Scott (MLB) - Louisville Long, Ryan (MLB) - Omaha Lopez, Albie (MLB) - Buffalo Lopez, Mendy (MLB) - Omaha Lovullo, Torey (MLB) - Buffalo Lowe, Sean (MLB) - Louisville Lowery, Terrell (MLB) - Iowa Ludwick, Eric (MLB) - Louisville Lyons, Curt (MLB) - Iowa Maas, Kevin (MLB) - New Orleans | , Indianapolis
Machado, Robert (MLB) - Nashville Magdaleno, Ricky (AAA) - Indianapolis Magnante, Mike (MLB) - New Orleans Manning, David (MLB) - Oklahoma City Manto, Jeff (MLB) - Buffalo Manzanillo, Josias (MLB) - New Orleans Marrero, Eli (MLB) - Louisville Martinez, Felix (MLB) - Omaha Martinez, Pedro (MLB) - Indianapolis Matranga, Jeff (AAA) - Louisville Matthews, Mike (MLB) - Buffalo Maxcy, Brian (MLB) - Louisville McCall, Rod (AAA) - Iowa , Buffalo McDill, Allen (MLB) - Omaha McGraw, Tom (MLB) - Louisville McIntosh, Tim (MLB) - Iowa McLemore, Mark (MLB) - Oklahoma City McNabb, Buck (AAA) - New Orleans Medrano, Anthony (AAA) - Omaha Mejia, Roberto (MLB) - Louisville Meluskey, Mitch (MLB) - New Orleans Menechino, Frank (MLB) - Nashville Mercedes, Henry (MLB) - Oklahoma City Merchant, Mark (AAA) - Omaha Miller, Trever (MLB) - New Orleans Mimbs, Mark (AAA) - New Orleans Minor, Blas (MLB) - New Orleans Miranda, Angel (MLB) - Buffalo , Oklahoma City Mitchell, Keith (MLB) - Indianapolis Mlicki, Doug (AAA) - New Orleans Molina, Jose (MLB) - Iowa Montgomery, Jeff (MLB) - Omaha Montgomery, Ray (MLB) - New Orleans Montgomery, Steve (MLB) - Buffalo Moody, Eric (MLB) - Oklahoma City Moore, Marcus (MLB) - Buffalo Mora, Melvin (MLB) - New Orleans Morman, Alvin (MLB) - Buffalo , New Orleans Morris, Warren (MLB) - Oklahoma City Mottola, Chad (MLB) - Indianapolis Mounce, Tony (MLB) - New Orleans Murphy, Mike (AAA) - Oklahoma City Murray, Glenn (MLB) - Indianapolis Myers, Rod (MLB) - Omaha Myers, Rodney (MLB) - Iowa Nava, Lipso (AAA) - Iowa Nevers, Tom (AAA) - Louisville Nitkowski, C.J. (MLB) - New Orleans Nix, James (AAA) - Indianapolis Norman, Les (MLB) - Buffalo Norton, Greg (MLB) - Nashville Nunnally, Jon (MLB) - Omaha Ogea, Chad (MLB) - Buffalo Oliver, Joe (MLB) - Indianapolis Olsen, Steve (AAA) - Omaha Olson, Gregg (MLB) - Omaha O'Neill, Doug (AAA) - Oklahoma City Ordonez, Magglio (MLB) - Nashville Orie, Kevin (MLB) - Iowa Ortiz, Hector (MLB) - Omaha Ortiz, Luis (MLB) - Oklahoma City Osborne, Donovan (MLB) - Louisville Owens, Eric (MLB) - Indianapolis Pagnozzi, Tom (MLB) - Louisville Painter, Lance (MLB) - Louisville Paquette, Craig (MLB) - Omaha Parque, Jim (MLB) - Nashville Parris, Steve (MLB) - Indianapolis Patrick, Bronswell (MLB) - New Orleans Patterson, Ken (MLB) - Omaha Pavlik, Roger (MLB) - Oklahoma City Pearson, Eddie (Intl) - Nashville Pegues, Steve (MLB) - Iowa Pendleton, Terry (MLB) - Indianapolis Pennington, Brad (MLB) - Omaha Perez, Mike (MLB) - Omaha Petersen, Chris (MLB) - Iowa Phillips, J.R. (MLB) - New Orleans Pichardo, Hipolito (MLB) - Omaha Pisciotta, Marc (MLB) - Iowa Pittsley, Jim (MLB) - Omaha Plantier, Phil (MLB) - Louisville Polidor, Wil (AAA) - Nashville Pough, Pork Chop (AAA) - Omaha Powell, John (AAA) - Oklahoma City Pratt, Rich (AAA) - Nashville Probst, Alan (AAA) - New Orleans Raggio, Brady (MLB) - Louisville Rain, Steve (MLB) - Iowa Rakers, Jason (MLB) - Buffalo Ramirez, Alex (MLB) - Buffalo Ramos, Ken (MLB) - New Orleans Ratliff, Jon (MLB) - Iowa Ray, Ken (MLB) - Omaha Reed, Chris (AAA) - Indianapolis Reese, Pokey (MLB) - Indianapolis Reynolds, Shane (MLB) - New Orleans Rivera, Luis (MLB) - New Orleans Rizzo, Todd (MLB) - Nashville Robinson, Kerry (MLB) - Louisville Robles, Oscar (MLB) - New Orleans Rodriguez, Felix (MLB) - Indianapolis Rose, Pete (MLB) - Indianapolis Rupp, Brian (AAA) - Louisville Rusch, Glendon (MLB) - Omaha Russell, Lagrande (AAA) - Iowa Sagmoen, Marc (MLB) - Oklahoma City Salkeld, Roger (MLB) - Indianapolis Sanders, Reggie (MLB) - Indianapolis Santana, Julio (MLB) - Oklahoma City Sauveur, Rich (MLB) - Iowa Scarsone, Steve (MLB) - Louisville Schall, Gene (MLB) - Nashville Scott, Darryl (MLB) - Buffalo Scutaro, Marcos (MLB) - Buffalo Seanez, Rudy (MLB) - Omaha Seitzer, Brad (AAA) - Omaha Service, Scott (MLB) - Indianapolis , Omaha Sexson, Richie (MLB) - Buffalo Sexton, Jeff (AAA) - Buffalo Shuey, Paul (MLB) - Buffalo Silvestri, Dave (MLB) - Oklahoma City Simms, Mike (MLB) - Oklahoma City Sirotka, Mike (MLB) - Nashville Sisco, Steve (MLB) - Omaha Small, Mark (MLB) - New Orleans Smith, Bubba (Intl) - Oklahoma City Smith, Chuck (MLB) - Nashville Smith, Dan (MLB) - Oklahoma City Smith, Toby (AAA) - Omaha Snopek, Chris (MLB) - Nashville Soliz, Steven (AAA) - Buffalo Speier, Justin (MLB) - Iowa Steenstra, Kennie (MLB) - Iowa Stefanski, Mike (AAA) - Louisville Stevens, Dave (MLB) - Iowa Stewart, Andy (MLB) - Omaha Sturtze, Tanyon (MLB) - Oklahoma City Stynes, Chris (MLB) - Indianapolis , Omaha Sullivan, Scott (MLB) - Indianapolis Sutton, Larry (MLB) - Omaha Swartzbaugh, Dave (MLB) - Iowa Sweeney, Mike (MLB) - Omaha Tabaka, Jeff (MLB) - Indianapolis Tackett, Jeff (MLB) - Oklahoma City Tapani, Kevin (MLB) - Iowa Telemaco, Amaury (MLB) - Iowa Tettleton, Mickey (MLB) - Oklahoma City Thomas, Greg (AAA) - Buffalo Thomas, Larry (MLB) - Nashville Thompson, Ryan (MLB) - Buffalo Timmons, Ozzie (MLB) - Indianapolis Tomko, Brett (MLB) - Indianapolis Toth, Robert (AAA) - Omaha Urbani, Tom (MLB) - Oklahoma City Valdes, Pedro (MLB) - Iowa Valdez, Mario (MLB) - Nashville Van Poppel, Todd (MLB) - Omaha Van Ryn, Ben (MLB) - Iowa Ventura, Robin (MLB) - Nashville Veres, Randy (MLB) - Omaha Vinas, Julio (AAA) - Nashville Vitiello, Joe (MLB) - Omaha Walker, Mike (MLB) - Indianapolis Wall, Donne (MLB) - New Orleans Ward, Daryle (MLB) - New Orleans Warner, Ron (AAA) - Louisville Warren, Brian (Intl) - Oklahoma City Watkins, Pat (MLB) - Indianapolis Watkins, Scott (MLB) - Omaha Weathers, Dave (MLB) - Buffalo White, Gabe (MLB) - Indianapolis Whiteside, Matt (MLB) - Oklahoma City Whitten, Casey (AAA) - Buffalo Wiegandt, Scott (AAA) - Louisville Williams, Harold (AAA) - Iowa Williams, Mike (AAA) - Omaha Williams, Todd (MLB) - Indianapolis Wilson, Brandon (AAA) - Indianapolis , Iowa Wilson, Craig (MLB) - Nashville Wilson, Enrique (MLB) - Buffalo Wimmer, Chris (AAA) - Louisville Winchester, Scott (MLB) - Indianapolis Wood, Kerry (MLB) - Iowa Woods, Brian (AAA) - Nashville Wright, Jaret (MLB) - Buffalo Wrona, Rick (MLB) - Nashville York, Mike (MLB) - Oklahoma City Young, Dmitri (MLB) - Louisville Zimmerman, Mike (AAA) - Omaha |
Rookie of the Year - Magglio Ordonez All-Star C - Eli Marrero All-Star 1B - Richie Sexson All-Star 2B - Miguel Cairo All-Star 3B - Aaron Boone All-Star SS - Damian Jackson All-Star OF - Jeff Abbott All-Star OF - Bruce Aven All-Star OF - Magglio Ordonez All-Star DH - Bubba Smith All-Star LHP - John Halama All-Star RHP - Giovanni Carrara All-Star RP - Marc Pisciotta |
| League Leaders |
On Base Pct (OBP): Terrell Lowery - Iowa (.385)
Slugging Pct (SLG): Rod McCall - Buffalo,Buffalo,Iowa (.534)
At Bats: Damian Jackson - Buffalo,Buffalo,Indianapolis (569)
Runs: Damian Jackson - Buffalo,Buffalo,Indianapolis (88)
Hits: Damian Jackson - Buffalo,Buffalo,Indianapolis (172)
Doubles: Richard Hidalgo - New Orleans (37)
Triples: Alex Ramirez - Buffalo (8)
Home Runs: Rod McCall - Buffalo,Buffalo,Iowa (31)
Runs Batted In: Rod McCall - Buffalo,Buffalo,Iowa (94)
Total Bases: Rod McCall - Buffalo,Buffalo,Iowa (258)
Walks: Damian Jackson - Buffalo,Buffalo,Indianapolis (72)
Strikeouts: Rod McCall - Buffalo,Buffalo,Iowa (139)
Stolen Bases: Damian Jackson - Buffalo,Buffalo,Indianapolis (40)
Hit by Pitch: Melvin Mora - New Orleans, Bruce Aven - Buffalo (9)
Wins: John Halama - New Orleans (12)
Losses: Dan Smith - Oklahoma City (12)
Earned Run Avg (ERA): John Halama - New Orleans (2.58)
Games: Oscar Henriquez - New Orleans (58)
Complete Games: Terry Clark - Buffalo, Kennie Steenstra - Iowa, Brian Harrison - Omaha (4)
Shutouts: Amaury Telemaco - Iowa, Manny Aybar - Louisville ()
Saves: Scott Service - Indianapolis,Omaha (22)
Innings Pitched: Brian Harrison - Omaha (174.1)
Walks: Mike Bertotti - Nashville (70)
Strikeouts: C.J. Nitkowski - New Orleans (126)
BB+H/IP (WHIP): John Halama - New Orleans (1.06)
Hits/9 Ip: John Halama - New Orleans (7.89)
HR/9 Ip: John Halama - New Orleans (0.47)
Walks/9 Ip: John Halama - New Orleans (1.68)
SO/9 Ip: C.J. Nitkowski - New Orleans (7.28)
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