1983 Austin Riverbats Index Page

1983 Austin Riverbats

Record: 91-71
Finish: 2nd in FL Midwest Division
Runs Scored: 785
Runs Allowed: 715
Exp W-L: 88-74

Ballpark: Congress Avenue Bridge Ballpark
Attendance: 3,999,489
Manager: V. Homer Simpson

Statistics / Schedule

Minor League Records:
AAA: 67-71, 8th in the Frick League
AA: 76-62, 5th in the Frick League
A: 71-67, 5th in the Frick League

Postseason Results:
Lost Doubleday Series 0-3 to Buffalo Bisons

Team Index		Draft History		Park History
Starters:	Positional	Registers:	Batters	Leaders:	Batters
	Pitchers		Pitchers		Pitchers

Team Batting Stats Help
Pos	Name	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	XR	OWS	DWS
2B	Ryoko Masaki	28	155	615	89	203	20	8	8	90	59	27	20	127	.330	.358	.428	.786	89.2	16.9	6.5
3B	Leroy Jeffcoat	36	157	559	94	176	27	5	16	89	17	8	51	43	.315	.370	.467	.837	89.8	18.2	3.3
C	Del Heaven	26	150	561	79	186	37	1	13	91	0	1	30	108	.332	.372	.471	.843	89.7	19.2	5.3
LF	*George Kobayashi	28	150	532	83	146	36	6	23	90	15	9	63	148	.274	.355	.494	.849	88.7	17.9	3.9
SS	Fok-Han Leung	26	158	527	66	152	35	3	6	77	3	5	29	46	.288	.328	.400	.728	65.2	10.8	6.3
1B	John Dilbeck	28	131	392	72	113	30	5	5	48	1	2	64	68	.288	.391	.429	.819	63.9	13.7	1.3
CF	*Pedro Baez	23	135	365	45	95	22	3	9	40	16	9	15	96	.260	.297	.411	.708	42.0	6.0	3.0
LF	*Woodrow Wilhoite	33	123	339	43	93	17	3	4	34	0	3	42	90	.274	.359	.378	.737	46.0	8.4	1.7
RF	*Michael Yates	28	94	235	33	75	18	2	3	31	0	3	10	46	.319	.346	.451	.797	31.3	6.0	1.3
CF	Tom Laverriere	28	63	217	34	65	17	5	5	25	22	8	22	39	.300	.365	.493	.858	37.7	8.0	2.0
1B	*Hans Heywood	36	87	217	28	63	14	3	6	36	0	0	10	31	.290	.326	.465	.792	31.8	5.9	0.5
LF	Eric Dahlen	33	98	205	34	46	13	1	3	27	18	3	25	24	.224	.309	.341	.650	25.1	3.3	1.1
RF	*Quentin Rolando	28	52	174	35	33	7	0	9	23	12	1	31	59	.190	.317	.385	.702	24.8	3.5	1.3
1B	Glenn Miller	26	62	113	8	22	7	0	3	13	2	0	10	27	.195	.266	.336	.602	10.3	0.6	0.7
P	Vernon Meyer	30	34	75	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	35	.027	.075	.040	.115	-3.5	0.0	0.0
P	*Ryan Dunne	32	35	74	2	3	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	34	.041	.064	.054	.118	-3.6	0.0	0.0
P	*Fernando Huertas	29	36	76	1	7	3	0	0	5	0	0	1	36	.092	.104	.132	.235	-2.1	0.0	0.0
P	Mike Madorin	36	32	67	4	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	33	.119	.145	.149	.294	-0.3	0.0	0.0
C	Dave Roberts	31	28	59	10	17	6	0	0	6	0	0	5	14	.288	.354	.390	.744	7.2	1.3	0.6
C	Lance Albano	33	33	60	5	12	1	0	3	9	0	2	2	17	.200	.234	.367	.601	5.0	0.0	0.8
3B	Bobby Valentine	32	23	33	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	4	.121	.167	.152	.318	0.6	0.0	0.4
CF	*Nathaniel Ortiz	30	16	25	6	8	3	0	0	4	2	1	1	5	.320	.346	.440	.786	3.5	0.8	0.2
2B	Dick Davis	23	22	22	6	8	1	1	0	5	0	0	2	5	.364	.417	.500	.917	3.8	0.8	0.3
P	*David Clyde	27	35	18	0	4	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	6	.222	.211	.222	.433	1.1	0.0	0.0
P	*Jon Furlow	32	24	18	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.111	.111	.111	.222	-0.5	0.0	0.0
3B	Ted Striker	24	12	16	3	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	3	.250	.368	.313	.681	1.8	0.3	0.0
P	Lynn Eaves	35	5	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	-0.2	0.0	0.0
LF	*Andrew Backstrom	28	11	8	2	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750	0.9	0.2	0.0
P	Kurt Stallwith	38	3	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0.1	0.0	0.0
P	*Jose Higa	32	83	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.4	0.0	0.0
P	Peter Sanborn	28	92	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2	0.0	0.0
P	Davey Cantoni	37	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	0.0	0.0
P	Victor Ramirez	31	36	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	0.0	0.0
P	Meat Poplowski	39	18	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	0.0	0.0
P	George Thrilkil	28	75	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	0.0	0.0
P	Kevin Bilford	28	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0
P	*Gregory Guin	29	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0
P	#Timothy Delosreyes	32	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Team Totals	30.3	2305	5626	785	1551	322	46	116	761	167	82	446	1164	.276	.332	.411	.743	748.5	141.7	40.4
	Rank among 12 FL teams			5	3	3	2	6	9	3	6	7	4	11	2	2	4	3	4
* - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, blank - bats right-handed

Team Pitching Stats Help
Name	Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	PWS
*Ryan Dunne	32	14	10	.583	35	35	0	229.0	212	85	16	36	147	3.34	13.1
Vernon Meyer	30	11	11	.500	34	34	0	228.7	218	100	18	66	184	3.94	9.5
*Fernando Huertas	29	17	8	.680	36	35	0	226.7	176	74	7	81	223	2.94	17.7
Mike Madorin	36	13	5	.722	32	32	0	208.3	238	90	17	17	81	3.89	11.5
Peter Sanborn	28	9	3	.750	92	0	5	89.3	76	35	10	30	69	3.53	8.8
*Jose Higa	32	5	3	.625	83	0	7	85.7	78	42	11	13	55	4.41	7.1
*David Clyde	27	5	8	.385	35	14	0	76.0	90	57	16	22	64	6.75	0.0
*Jon Furlow	32	4	4	.500	24	9	1	74.3	78	33	7	11	23	4.00	3.9
George Thrilkil	28	9	7	.563	75	0	18	72.0	83	37	4	9	54	4.63	8.0
Victor Ramirez	31	2	2	.500	36	0	2	46.7	54	17	2	8	18	3.28	3.5
Lynn Eaves	35	1	2	.333	5	2	0	28.3	35	21	4	6	14	6.67	0.0
Meat Poplowski	39	0	2	.000	18	0	12	19.3	12	3	1	5	13	1.40	4.8
Kurt Stallwith	38	0	0	.000	3	3	0	15.7	16	5	3	2	9	2.87	0.9
Davey Cantoni	37	0	1	.000	11	0	0	12.3	18	9	3	0	13	6.56	0.0
*Mike Schreier	24	0	2	.000	16	0	0	12.3	24	14	2	7	5	10.22	0.0
Melvin Daly	29	0	3	.000	10	0	0	11.0	15	11	3	7	9	9.00	0.0
*Gregory Guin	29	1	0	1.000	12	0	1	10.3	9	4	0	3	4	3.48	1.3
Timothy Delosreyes	32	1	0	1.000	8	0	0	9.7	12	8	1	7	10	7.45	0.0
Pedro Martinez	26	0	0	.000	4	0	0	4.0	1	0	0	2	1	0.00	0.7
Kevin Bilford	28	0	0	.000	6	0	1	3.0	6	4	1	1	1	12.00	0.0
Team Totals	31.1	92	71	.564	575	164	47	1462.6	1451	649	126	333	997	3.99	90.9
Rank among 12 FL teams				3	3	2	3	4	5	7	7	2	7	7
* - throws left-handed, blank - throws right-handed

Team Fielding Stats Help

Last 2 columns are Fielding Percentage and Range Factor (expect Catcher where last column is Runners Thrown Out Percentage)
Numbers in headings are league average values.

Catchers	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.987	29.9
D.Heaven	1246.7	140	143	861	75	13	1	.986	30.4
L.Albano	133.7	14	20	114	9	0	0	1.000	21.9
D.Roberts	36.0	3	4	27	4	0	0	1.000	60.0
Team Total	1416.3	157	167	1002	88	13	1	.988	29.8
First Basemen	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.993	10.21
J.Dilbeck	883.3	106	110	1038	74	6	69	.995	11.33
H.Heywood	427.3	45	66	446	32	6	39	.988	10.07
G.Miller	55.1	5	12	57	1	1	9	.983	9.47
M.Yates	14.0	0	6	9	2	0	1	1.000	7.07
D.Roberts	10.1	1	2	14	0	0	1	1.000	12.48
P.Baez	3.0	0	1	2	0	0	1	1.000	6.00
Q.Rolando	1.1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	8.18
A.Backstrom	0.3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
N.Ortiz	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1394.4	157	199	1567	109	13	120	.992	10.82
Second Basemen	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.973	5.04
R.Masaki	1284.0	145	147	250	489	25	92	.967	5.18
P.Baez	111.3	12	15	18	46	1	9	.985	5.17
D.Roberts	34.3	2	5	6	12	1	2	.947	4.72
J.Dilbeck	21.0	2	3	5	7	0	0	1.000	5.14
B.Valentine	20.0	2	3	6	9	0	2	1.000	6.75
D.Davis	9.0	1	3	5	7	0	1	1.000	12.00
F.Leung	5.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
E.Dahlen	2.0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.50
Team Total	1486.6	164	178	290	571	27	106	.970	5.21
Third Basemen	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.963	2.61
L.Jeffcoat	1284.7	144	149	68	289	18	15	.952	2.50
P.Baez	66.0	7	11	3	11	1	0	.933	1.91
M.Yates	61.0	7	7	5	20	0	1	1.000	3.69
D.Roberts	23.7	2	4	1	5	0	1	1.000	2.28
B.Valentine	15.7	1	4	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.87
T.Striker	10.0	1	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.80
Team Total	1461.0	162	177	80	329	19	17	.956	2.52
Shortstops	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.967	4.40
F.Leung	1249.7	146	152	166	482	28	88	.959	4.67
P.Baez	86.3	7	19	13	27	2	5	.952	4.17
B.Valentine	41.0	4	8	5	13	0	0	1.000	3.95
D.Roberts	26.2	1	6	4	8	0	2	1.000	4.12
D.Davis	25.0	2	7	7	6	1	3	.929	4.68
J.Dilbeck	16.3	0	9	0	6	1	0	.857	3.31
T.Striker	9.0	1	1	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.00
R.Masaki	7.0	0	4	3	2	1	1	.833	6.43
L.Jeffcoat	3.0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	6.00
Team Total	1463.5	161	208	200	547	33	99	.958	4.59
Left Fielders	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.977	2.01
W.Wilhoite	604.0	68	77	117	2	0	0	1.000	1.77
G.Kobayashi	518.7	58	64	116	2	3	0	.975	2.05
E.Dahlen	213.0	26	33	36	1	0	0	1.000	1.56
P.Baez	75.0	7	16	19	0	0	0	1.000	2.28
Q.Rolando	34.0	4	4	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.85
M.Yates	17.0	1	7	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.06
N.Ortiz	5.0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.80
G.Miller	4.7	1	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.83
L.Albano	4.7	0	2	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
A.Backstrom	4.5	1	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.00
J.Dilbeck	1.0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1481.5	167	209	301	5	4	0	.987	1.86

Center Fielders	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.987	2.70
G.Kobayashi	575.7	66	67	159	2	0	0	1.000	2.52
T.Laverriere	478.9	59	60	144	2	1	1	.993	2.74
P.Baez	261.0	29	30	71	6	0	3	1.000	2.66
W.Wilhoite	83.7	9	12	23	0	1	0	.958	2.47
N.Ortiz	21.5	5	5	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.51
E.Dahlen	20.3	2	5	12	0	0	0	1.000	5.31
G.Miller	7.8	1	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.46
Q.Rolando	6.5	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.77
A.Backstrom	4.3	1	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.09
F.Leung	1.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1460.7	172	187	421	10	2	4	.995	2.66
Right Fielders	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.981	2.16
Q.Rolando	385.4	43	43	89	3	2	0	.979	2.15
M.Yates	378.3	45	52	80	1	2	0	.976	1.93
E.Dahlen	200.0	24	27	44	2	4	0	.920	2.07
G.Miller	182.4	21	26	42	2	0	1	1.000	2.17
P.Baez	174.7	17	29	43	1	0	0	1.000	2.27
G.Kobayashi	118.3	12	16	28	1	1	0	.967	2.21
N.Ortiz	27.5	6	7	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.96
W.Wilhoite	5.0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.60
T.Laverriere	3.4	0	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.65
A.Backstrom	2.5	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
B.Valentine	2.0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.50
Team Total	1479.5	169	206	336	10	9	1	.975	2.10
Pitchers	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.958	1.91
R.Dunne	229.0	35	35	18	28	3	4	.939	1.81
V.Meyer	228.7	34	34	17	39	2	3	.966	2.20
F.Huertas	226.7	35	36	13	29	2	1	.955	1.67
M.Madorin	208.3	32	32	15	35	0	3	1.000	2.16
P.Sanborn	89.3	0	92	4	5	1	1	.900	0.91
J.Higa	85.7	0	83	3	8	0	0	1.000	1.16
D.Clyde	76.0	14	35	6	16	1	2	.957	2.61
J.Furlow	74.3	9	24	4	10	1	1	.933	1.70
G.Thrilkil	72.0	0	75	5	8	0	0	1.000	1.63
V.Ramirez	46.7	0	36	4	3	0	0	1.000	1.35
L.Eaves	28.3	2	5	1	6	0	1	1.000	2.22
M.Poplowski	19.3	0	18	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.40
K.Stallwith	15.7	3	3	1	3	1	0	.800	2.30
D.Cantoni	12.3	0	11	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.19
M.Schreier	12.3	0	16	0	3	0	1	1.000	2.19
M.Daly	11.0	0	10	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.64
G.Guin	10.3	0	12	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.74
T.Delosreyes	9.7	0	8	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.80
P.Martinez	4.0	0	4	1	2	0	0	1.000	6.75
K.Bilford	3.0	0	6	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1462.6	164	575	96	204	11	17	.965	1.85

Team Batting Leaders

Team Pitching Leaders

Batting Average	Heaven	.332
On-Base Pct	Heaven	.372
Slugging Pct	Kobayashi	.494
OPS	Kobayashi	.849
XR	Jeffcoat	89.8
Games	Leung	158
At-Bats	Masaki	615
Runs	Jeffcoat	94
Hits	Masaki	203
Total Bases	Heaven	264
Singles	Masaki	167
Doubles	Heaven	37
Triples	Masaki	8
Homeruns	Kobayashi	23
RBIs	Heaven	91
Stolen Bases	Masaki	59
Caught Stealing	Masaki	27
Walks	Dilbeck	64
Strikeouts	Kobayashi	148

ERA	Huertas	2.94
Wins	Huertas	17
Losses	Meyer	11
Winning Pct	Madorin	.722
Saves	Thrilkil	18
Games Pitched	Sanborn	92
Games Started	Dunne, Huertas	35
Complete Games	Madorin	5
Shutouts	Dunne, Huertas, Madorin	2
Innings Pitched	Dunne	229.0
Hits Allowed	Madorin	238
Homeruns Allowed	Meyer	18
Strikeouts	Huertas	223
Walks Allowed	Huertas	81
Walks per 9IP	Madorin	0.7
Hits per 9IP	Huertas	7.0
Strikeouts per 9IP	Huertas	8.9
WHiP	Dunne	1.08
OAVG	Huertas	.213
OOBP	Dunne	.274
OSLG	Huertas	.323
OOPS	Huertas	.610

Team All-Stars

Del Heaven

George Kobayashi

Player Salaries
David Clyde	$ 12,500,000
Leroy Jeffcoat	$ 8,500,000
Fernando Huertas	$ 7,000,000
Ryoko Masaki	$ 6,000,000
George Kobayashi	$ 5,000,000
Vernon Meyer	$ 5,000,000
Tom Laverriere	$ 4,642,857
Del Heaven	$ 4,000,000
Dave Roberts	$ 3,025,000
Jose Higa	$ 3,000,000
Mike Madorin	$ 3,000,000
George Thrilkil	$ 2,500,000
Ryan Dunne	$ 1,500,000
Glenn Miller	$ 492,857
Eric Dahlen	$ 350,000
John Dilbeck	$ 350,000
Andrew Backstrom	$ 350,000
Jon Furlow	$ 350,000
Pedro Baez	$ 300,000
Melvin Daly	$ 300,000
Dick Davis	$ 300,000
Ted Striker	$ 300,000
Kurt Stallwith	$ 300,000
Michael Yates	$ 300,000
Fok-Han Leung	$ 300,000
Pedro Martinez	$ 300,000
Mike Schreier	$ 300,000
Peter Sanborn	$ 300,000
Victor Ramirez	$ 300,000
Lance Houston	$ 300,000

Player Transactions
Date	Action	Losing	To	Getting
2/3	Traded	Ronald Wasser	Marquette	Hank Metters
2/3	Released	Lance Houston
2/3	Released	Digs Baxter
2/21	Signed			Steve Kemp
2/24	Signed			Lance Houston
3/1	Signed			Lance Albano
3/1	Signed			Bobby Valentine
3/1	Signed			Aus Mlber
5/1	Traded	Davey Cantoni Lynn Eaves Nathaniel Ortiz Gregory Guin $1,000,000	Greenville	David Clyde Melvin Daly Kevin Bilford
5/1	Released	Miguel Meneses
5/1	Released	Santos Demarco
5/1	Released	Warner Almond
5/1	Released	Benjamin Via
5/1	Released	Abel Cordoba
5/1	Released	Edward Mitchell
6/1	Traded	Quentin Rolando	Valencia	Glenn Miller Tatewaki Kuno
7/21	Traded	Kevin Bilford	Manhattan	Andrew Backstrom
7/21	Traded	Steve Kemp John Kardos	Las Vegas	Tom Laverriere Dave Roberts
7/21	Released	Bobby Valentine
7/21	Traded	James Araiza	Baltimore	Bobby Valentine Benito Aguilera
7/21	Traded	Benito Aguilera	Baltimore	James Araiza
7/31	Traded	Tatewaki Kuno Maximo Vargas	Las Vegas	Meat Poplowski Timothy Delosreyes
8/11	Signed			Kurt Stallwith
8/11	Released	Kurt Stallwith
8/21	Signed			Kurt Stallwith
9/21	Released	Alphonso Aguilera
10/9	Released	Woodrow Wilhoite
10/9	Released	Lance Albano
10/9	Released	Hans Heywood
10/9	Released	Meat Poplowski
10/9	Released	Bobby Valentine