1979 California Crusaders Index Page

1979 California Crusaders

Record: 94-68
Finish: 1st in JL Pacific Division
Runs Scored: 694
Runs Allowed: 603
Exp W-L: 91-71

Ballpark: South Pacific Field
Attendance: 3,638,677
Manager: Dennis Tank

Statistics / Schedule

Minor League Records:
AAA: 90-48, 1st in the Johnson League
AA: 55-83, 12th in the Johnson League
A: 74-64, 6th in the Johnson League

Postseason Results:
Won Landis Memorial Series 4-3 over Austin Riverbats
Won JL Cartwright Cup 4-2 over Phoenix Talons
Won Doubleday Series 3-2 over Valencia Stars

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
3B	Jon McNecirty	31	157	619	75	174	28	3	18	90	5	2	35	103	.281	.318	.423	.742	80.1	16.2	4.8
2B	Roy Weeb	32	154	603	74	160	37	3	6	50	2	0	38	81	.265	.309	.367	.675	64.7	11.1	5.5
SS	#Lewis Brundage	26	156	595	67	163	22	4	11	57	20	0	49	100	.274	.328	.380	.708	79.3	16.8	6.5
RF	*Robert Roten	28	156	581	86	164	39	3	22	92	0	0	59	73	.282	.351	.473	.825	91.1	22.1	2.7
C	Rube Baker	35	148	553	87	127	37	6	24	80	8	10	57	128	.230	.305	.448	.754	72.7	13.9	8.7
LF	Gene Howard	37	131	471	43	119	21	8	3	42	12	8	26	111	.253	.294	.350	.644	45.3	6.9	3.3
1B	*Bo Jordan	34	134	408	53	122	18	4	23	64	0	1	34	105	.299	.365	.532	.897	74.0	18.9	1.9
RF	*Dexter Camden	34	127	382	46	85	10	4	19	54	0	2	12	106	.223	.248	.419	.667	39.4	4.4	2.5
RF	Paxton Quigley	34	102	248	26	70	9	0	4	29	1	0	12	43	.282	.318	.367	.685	28.6	5.4	1.2
1B	Donald Silber	35	89	206	22	61	16	0	5	39	0	0	26	31	.296	.374	.447	.821	32.8	7.4	0.9
2B	Manuel Padilla	29	117	169	29	46	9	0	4	14	6	1	23	25	.272	.362	.396	.759	26.4	6.1	2.1
C	*Sandy Alvarez	32	118	171	25	53	6	0	5	18	0	1	12	38	.310	.359	.433	.791	24.8	6.0	1.1
RF	Koert Balke	24	77	101	17	27	6	1	1	8	5	1	17	22	.267	.370	.376	.746	14.9	3.1	1.0
2B	Gary Whitehouse	26	57	94	6	24	5	0	1	10	1	1	5	17	.255	.290	.340	.630	9.2	1.3	0.8
P	Paul Millbauer	33	33	72	6	6	1	0	0	4	0	0	3	43	.083	.118	.097	.216	-2.8	0.0	0.0
P	Kevin Bilford	24	35	77	7	10	3	1	0	6	0	1	2	35	.130	.152	.195	.347	0.4	0.0	0.0
P	Narciso Jarilla	34	36	66	7	10	1	2	0	5	0	0	1	29	.152	.164	.227	.391	1.0	0.0	0.0
RF	*Joel Olivares	30	28	62	8	14	3	0	0	4	0	0	12	18	.226	.351	.274	.626	6.2	0.8	0.2
P	*Sidney Vanfleet	24	30	62	3	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	33	.065	.094	.097	.191	-2.4	0.0	0.0
P	Johan Schmatzhagen	36	18	51	3	8	1	0	0	4	0	1	0	25	.157	.154	.176	.330	0.4	0.0	0.0
P	#Poncho Nieves	32	24	26	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	15	.115	.179	.154	.332	0.2	0.0	0.0
P	Douglas Jensen	36	13	20	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	3	11	.050	.174	.100	.274	0.2	0.0	0.0
P	#Jethro Wilbury	33	75	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.6	0.0	0.0
P	Neil Berkowitz	28	58	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.3	0.0	0.0
P	Ricky Earl	33	47	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750	0.4	0.3	0.0
P	*Cleo Mendoza	27	71	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0.1	0.0	0.0
P	Damon Lombardi	33	62	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2	0.0	0.0
C	Ellie Rodriguez	32	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	0.0	0.0
	Team Totals	31.1	2255	5656	694	1452	275	40	146	674	61	29	431	1200	.257	.311	.397	.708	685.8	140.2	43.3
	Rank among 12 JL teams			2	7	4	5	10	3	7	12	1	9	9	5	6	3	4	6
* - 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
Kevin Bilford	24	13	12	.520	34	34	0	219.3	205	94	31	63	158	3.86	7.7
Narciso Jarilla	34	15	10	.600	36	36	0	214.7	204	73	23	55	255	3.06	14.4
Paul Millbauer	33	11	12	.478	29	29	0	212.7	195	98	7	114	184	4.15	5.5
*Sidney Vanfleet	24	13	9	.591	30	30	0	195.7	165	51	10	28	163	2.35	15.6
Johan Schmatzhagen	36	11	1	.917	18	18	0	143.7	93	27	11	28	159	1.69	16.6
Jethro Wilbury	33	8	5	.615	75	0	0	87.7	70	27	3	18	36	2.77	8.9
Poncho Nieves	32	5	5	.500	24	7	1	76.7	83	33	11	18	45	3.87	3.3
Neil Berkowitz	28	3	5	.375	58	0	1	67.7	56	28	2	23	66	3.72	4.5
Douglas Jensen	36	4	6	.400	12	4	0	64.7	68	36	11	19	42	5.01	0.2
Damon Lombardi	33	6	1	.857	62	0	38	63.0	46	14	1	20	72	2.00	15.5
Ricky Earl	33	3	1	.750	47	0	0	63.0	76	28	4	18	33	4.00	2.5
*Cleo Mendoza	27	2	1	.667	66	0	0	58.0	68	26	5	14	37	4.03	2.4
*George Smith	30	0	0	.000	9	0	0	8.0	6	1	1	0	7	1.13	1.1
Pedro Freitas	29	0	0	.000	1	0	0	2.0	3	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.3
Team Totals	30.9	94	68	.580	501	158	40	1476.6	1338	536	120	419	1257	3.27	98.5
Rank among 12 JL teams				2	2	4	2	1	2	7	3	4	1	3
* - 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	.990	26.7
R.Baker	1303.7	142	147	1167	65	10	3	.992	28.9
S.Alvarez	173.0	20	22	119	13	2	0	.985	42.1
Team Total	1476.7	162	169	1286	78	12	3	.991	30.4
First Basemen	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.992	9.89
B.Jordan	966.7	105	127	939	78	9	75	.991	9.47
D.Silber	474.7	57	66	460	36	1	35	.998	9.40
S.Alvarez	27.3	0	9	23	3	1	2	.963	8.56
C.Mendoza	5.0	0	1	4	0	0	0	1.000	7.20
G.Whitehouse	2.0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.50
D.Camden	1.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1476.7	162	205	1427	117	11	112	.993	9.41
Second Basemen	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.980	4.83
R.Weeb	1307.7	146	152	258	406	16	86	.976	4.57
M.Padilla	133.0	13	23	15	51	0	4	1.000	4.47
G.Whitehouse	29.0	3	6	3	15	0	2	1.000	5.59
K.Balke	7.0	0	1	4	1	0	1	1.000	6.43
Team Total	1476.7	162	182	280	473	16	93	.979	4.59
Third Basemen	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.946	2.63
J.McNecirty	1326.7	147	154	87	274	19	23	.950	2.45
G.Whitehouse	117.0	15	17	9	24	1	2	.971	2.54
D.Jensen	64.7	4	12	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.14
M.Padilla	19.0	0	9	4	6	0	1	1.000	4.74
S.Alvarez	7.0	0	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.29
Team Total	1534.3	166	196	100	306	20	26	.953	2.38
Shortstops	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.968	4.16
L.Brundage	1277.7	148	151	160	395	28	62	.952	3.91
M.Padilla	165.3	13	28	28	57	3	15	.966	4.63
G.Whitehouse	30.7	1	10	2	8	1	2	.909	2.94
R.Weeb	3.0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.00
Team Total	1476.7	162	190	190	461	32	79	.953	3.97
Left Fielders	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.987	1.99
R.Roten	1318.7	148	151	283	1	3	1	.990	1.94
P.Quigley	58.0	7	7	11	0	1	0	.917	1.71
K.Balke	52.0	4	11	14	0	0	0	1.000	2.42
J.Olivares	34.0	3	5	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.59
D.Camden	12.0	0	4	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.25
E.Rodriguez	2.0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1476.7	162	180	317	1	4	1	.988	1.94

Center Fielders	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.983	2.71
G.Howard	1125.0	127	131	309	4	4	0	.987	2.50
K.Balke	173.7	18	24	47	3	0	1	1.000	2.59
D.Camden	162.0	17	22	55	1	1	1	.982	3.11
P.Quigley	6.0	0	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	6.00
M.Padilla	5.0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.60
D.Silber	3.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
R.Roten	1.0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.00
J.Olivares	1.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1476.7	162	185	418	8	5	2	.988	2.60
Right Fielders	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.979	2.03
D.Camden	734.0	88	92	180	6	6	1	.969	2.28
P.Quigley	509.0	51	79	107	2	0	0	1.000	1.93
J.Olivares	143.0	17	19	29	0	4	0	.879	1.83
K.Balke	71.7	6	22	18	1	1	1	.950	2.39
S.Alvarez	9.0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.00
G.Whitehouse	5.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
R.Roten	3.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
M.Padilla	1.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
C.Mendoza	1.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1476.7	162	217	336	9	11	2	.969	2.10
Pitchers	Inn	GS	G	PO	A	E	DP	.961	1.93
K.Bilford	219.3	34	34	14	43	7	0	.891	2.34
N.Jarilla	214.7	36	36	6	33	1	0	.975	1.64
P.Millbauer	212.7	29	29	14	25	0	0	1.000	1.65
S.Vanfleet	195.7	30	30	10	25	2	1	.946	1.61
J.Schmatzhagen	143.7	18	18	11	19	3	2	.909	1.88
J.Wilbury	87.7	0	75	6	3	0	0	1.000	0.92
P.Nieves	76.7	7	24	6	10	0	1	1.000	1.88
N.Berkowitz	67.7	0	58	7	7	0	1	1.000	1.86
D.Jensen	64.7	4	12	3	10	0	0	1.000	1.81
D.Lombardi	63.0	0	62	4	6	0	0	1.000	1.43
R.Earl	63.0	0	47	6	11	3	0	.850	2.43
C.Mendoza	58.0	0	66	4	9	0	0	1.000	2.02
G.Smith	8.0	0	9	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.25
P.Freitas	2.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Team Total	1476.6	158	501	91	203	16	5	.948	1.79

Team Batting Leaders

Team Pitching Leaders

Batting Average	Roten	.282
On-Base Pct	Roten	.351
Slugging Pct	Jordan	.477
OPS	Roten	.825
XR	Roten	91.1
Games	McNecirty	157
At-Bats	McNecirty	619
Runs	Baker	87
Hits	McNecirty	174
Total Bases	Roten	275
Singles	Brundage	126
Doubles	Roten	39
Triples	Howard	8
Homeruns	Baker	24
RBIs	Roten	92
Stolen Bases	Brundage	20
Caught Stealing	Baker	10
Walks	Roten	59
Strikeouts	Baker	128

ERA	Vanfleet	2.35
Wins	Jarilla	15
Losses	Bilford, Millbauer	12
Winning Pct	Jarilla