1998 Oakland Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 74-88
Finished 4th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,232,363, Avg. 15,600
Ballpark: Oakland Coliseum
Manager: Art Howe (74-88)
Location: Oakland, California

1998 Oakland Athletics Roster
1998 Oakland Athletics Results

The Oakland Athletics of the American League ended the 1998 season with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's West Division.

The Athletics scored 804 runs and yielded 866 runs. Jason Giambi led Oakland with 27 home runs, while Ben Grieve and Matt Stairs walloped 20 or more also. Jason Giambi drove in 110 runs and topped all regular hitters by hitting .295. Kenny Rogers paced the team with 16 wins and a team-best 3.17 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Art Howe 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
Kenny Rogers	16	8	.667	3.17	34	34	0	7	1	0	238.7	215	96	84	19	67	0	138	7	2	5	970
Jimmy Haynes	11	9	.550	5.09	33	33	0	1	1	0	194.3	229	124	110	25	88	4	134	5	0	11	875
Tom Candiotti	11	16	.407	4.84	33	33	0	3	0	0	201.0	222	124	108	30	63	2	98	9	0	14	878
T. J. Mathews	7	4	.636	4.58	66	0	15	0	0	1	72.7	71	44	37	6	29	3	53	4	0	1	319
Mike Oquist	7	11	.389	6.22	31	29	2	0	0	0	175.0	210	125	121	27	57	1	112	5	0	4	777
Blake Stein	5	9	.357	6.37	24	20	0	1	1	0	117.3	117	92	83	22	71	3	89	5	0	15	538
Billy Taylor	4	9	.308	3.58	70	0	58	0	0	33	73.0	71	37	29	7	22	4	58	3	1	0	311
Buddy Groom	3	1	.750	4.24	75	0	13	0	0	0	57.3	62	30	27	4	20	1	36	1	0	1	251
Gil Heredia	3	3	.500	2.74	8	6	2	0	0	0	42.7	43	14	13	4	3	0	27	3	0	0	175
Mike Mohler	3	3	.500	5.16	57	0	16	0	0	0	61.0	70	38	35	6	26	3	42	4	1	3	277
Mark Holzemer	1	0	1.000	5.59	13	0	4	0	0	0	9.7	13	6	6	1	3	0	3	1	0	1	44
Aaron Small	1	1	.500	7.25	24	0	4	0	0	0	36.0	51	34	29	3	14	3	19	3	0	4	174
Jay Witasick	1	3	.250	6.33	7	3	1	0	0	0	27.0	36	24	19	9	15	1	29	0	0	2	131
Mike Fetters	1	6	.143	3.99	48	0	22	0	0	5	47.3	48	26	21	3	21	2	34	1	0	3	214
Steve Connelly	0	0		1.93	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.7	10	1	1	0	4	0	1	1	0	0	28
Dave Telgheder	0	1	.000	3.60	8	2	4	0	0	0	20.0	19	12	8	4	6	0	5	2	1	2	91
Tim Worrell	0	1	.000	4.00	25	0	4	0	0	0	36.0	34	17	16	5	8	1	33	0	0	2	151
Ariel Prieto	0	1	.000	11.88	2	2	0	0	0	0	8.3	17	11	11	2	5	1	8	1	0	0	47
Jim Dougherty	0	2	.000	8.25	9	0	4	0	0	0	12.0	17	11	11	2	7	0	3	1	0	0	59
Totals	74	88	.457	4.83	570	162	150	12	3	39	1434.0	1555	866	769	179	529	29	922	56	5	68	6310

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
Ben Grieve	155	678	583	94	168	41	2	18	89	2	2	85	123	.288	.386	.458	.844	267	18	9	0	1	3
Jason Giambi	153	657	562	92	166	28	0	27	110	2	2	81	102	.295	.384	.489	.873	275	16	5	0	9	7
Matt Stairs	149	593	523	88	154	33	1	26	106	8	3	59	93	.294	.370	.511	.880	267	13	6	1	4	4
Rickey Henderson	152	670	542	101	128	16	1	14	57	66	13	118	114	.236	.376	.347	.723	188	5	5	2	3	0
Scott Spiezio	114	461	406	54	105	19	1	9	50	1	3	44	56	.259	.333	.377	.709	153	10	2	7	2	3
Mike Blowers	129	455	409	56	97	24	2	11	71	1	0	39	116	.237	.302	.386	.689	158	13	1	2	4	1
Ryan Christenson	117	421	370	56	95	22	2	5	40	5	6	36	106	.257	.321	.368	.689	136	1	1	10	4	0
Miguel Tejada	105	407	365	53	85	20	1	11	45	5	6	28	86	.233	.298	.384	.681	140	8	7	4	3	0
A. J. Hinch	120	391	337	34	78	10	0	9	35	3	0	30	89	.231	.296	.341	.638	115	6	4	13	7	0
Mike Macfarlane	78	227	207	28	52	12	0	7	34	1	0	12	34	.251	.301	.411	.712	85	3	4	1	3	0
Bip Roberts	61	201	182	28	51	11	0	1	15	10	3	15	24	.280	.340	.357	.697	65	4	2	1	1	0
Rafael Bournigal	85	229	209	23	47	11	0	1	19	6	1	10	11	.225	.265	.292	.556	61	6	2	6	2	1
Jason McDonald	70	212	175	25	44	9	0	1	16	10	4	27	33	.251	.359	.320	.679	56	2	3	6	1	0
Dave Magadan	35	123	109	12	35	8	0	1	13	0	1	13	12	.321	.390	.422	.812	46	5	0	0	1	1
Kurt Abbott	35	136	123	17	33	7	1	2	9	2	1	10	34	.268	.326	.390	.716	48	3	1	1	1	0
Kevin Mitchell	51	136	127	14	29	7	1	2	21	0	0	9	26	.228	.279	.346	.626	44	4	0	0	0	0
Eric Chavez	16	48	45	6	14	4	1	0	6	1	1	3	5	.311	.354	.444	.799	20	1	0	0	0	1
Ed Sprague	27	91	87	8	13	5	0	3	7	1	0	2	17	.149	.187	.310	.497	27	1	2	0	0	1
Jack Voigt	57	79	72	7	10	4	0	1	10	5	1	6	19	.139	.205	.236	.441	17	1	0	1	0	0
Mike Neill	6	17	15	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.267	.353	.333	.686	5	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Candiotti	33	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	1	0	0
Izzy Molina	6	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jorge Velandia	8	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Lesher	7	7	7	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.286	.429	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Bellhorn	11	16	12	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	3	4	.083	.313	.167	.479	2	0	1	0	0	0
Kenny Rogers	34	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Blake Stein	24	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Oquist	31	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Shane Mack	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Wood	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jimmy Haynes	33	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Taylor	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Worrell	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jay Witasick	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Telgheder	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Aaron Small	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Dougherty	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Fetters	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Buddy Groom	75	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gil Heredia	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
T. J. Mathews	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Mohler	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Holzemer	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ariel Prieto	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Connelly	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2323	6282	5490	804	1413	295	13	149	755	131	47	633	1122	.257	.338	.397	.735	2181	120	55	58	46	22

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Jason Giambi	1B	146	146	1237.0	1255	73	14	120	.990	9.662	9.096	0	0	0
Jack Voigt	1B	27	3	63.7	73	2	1	8	.987	1.602	2.778	0	0	0
Mike Blowers	1B	8	5	47.3	47	0	0	3	1.000	8.937	5.875	0	0	0
Matt Stairs	1B	6	5	46.7	45	8	0	6	1.000	1.221	8.833	0	0	0
Dave Magadan	1B	7	2	29.0	33	3	0	3	1.000	11.172	5.143	0	0	0
Kevin Mitchell	1B	2	1	7.3	5	0	0	1	1.000	6.136	2.500	0	0	0
Ed Sprague	1B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Brian Lesher	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Scott Spiezio	2B	112	110	955.7	198	316	13	72	.975	4.841	4.589	0	0	0
Rafael Bournigal	2B	48	26	268.3	56	81	0	20	1.000	4.595	2.854	0	0	0
Bip Roberts	2B	30	25	201.0	38	58	3	18	.970	4.299	3.200	0	0	0
Jorge Velandia	2B	1	1	8.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	4.500	4.000	0	0	0
Mark Bellhorn	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Blowers	3B	120	99	895.3	66	174	19	15	.927	2.413	2.000	0	0	0
Dave Magadan	3B	30	26	204.0	15	52	6	7	.918	2.956	2.233	0	0	0
Ed Sprague	3B	23	22	192.7	23	37	6	2	.909	2.803	2.609	0	0	0
Eric Chavez	3B	13	11	95.0	11	21	0	2	1.000	3.032	2.462	0	0	0
Mark Bellhorn	3B	5	2	24.0	3	7	0	0	1.000	3.750	2.000	0	0	0
Bip Roberts	3B	3	2	18.3	3	3	0	0	1.000	2.945	2.000	0	0	0
Jack Voigt	3B	2	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Kurt Abbott	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jason Wood	3B	1	0	0.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.000	0	0	0
A. J. Hinch	C	118	109	940.3	602	47	9	8	.986	6.212	5.500	8	68	35	34.0
Mike Macfarlane	C	70	53	485.3	355	20	4	6	.989	6.954	5.357	5	33	13	28.3
Izzy Molina	C	5	0	8.3	8	1	0	0	1.000	9.720	1.800	0	2	0	0.0
Ben Grieve	OF	151	150	1280.7	262	7	2	0	.993	1.890	1.781	0	0	0
Rickey Henderson	OF	151	144	1239.0	327	3	4	1	.988	2.397	2.185	0	0	0
Ryan Christenson	OF	116	101	909.0	284	7	5	2	.983	2.881	2.509	0	0	0
Jason McDonald	OF	60	44	420.0	122	7	6	1	.956	2.764	2.150	0	0	0
Bip Roberts	OF	22	14	130.0	40	0	2	0	.952	2.769	1.818	0	0	0
Jack Voigt	OF	20	10	111.3	29	2	0	0	1.000	2.506	1.550	0	0	0
Matt Stairs	OF	12	11	93.0	22	3	0	0	1.000	2.419	2.083	0	0	0
Kevin Mitchell	OF	10	6	49.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.837	1.000	0	0	0
Mike Neill	OF	6	3	33.0	14	0	0	0	1.000	3.818	2.333	0	0	0
Kurt Abbott	OF	5	1	21.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.571	1.200	0	0	0
Brian Lesher	OF	4	2	16.0	4	2	0	1	1.000	3.375	1.500	0	0	0
Kenny Rogers	P	34	34	238.7	20	66	2	4	.977	3.243	2.529	0	0	0
Tom Candiotti	P	33	33	201.0	16	39	1	2	.982	2.463	1.667	0	0	0
Jimmy Haynes	P	33	33	194.3	11	19	1	1	.968	1.389	.909	0	0	0
Mike Oquist	P	31	29	175.0	7	15	0	3	1.000	1.131	.710	0	0	0
Blake Stein	P	24	20	117.3	0	15	1	1	.938	1.151	.625	0	0	0
Billy Taylor	P	70	0	73.0	4	8	0	2	1.000	1.479	.171	0	0	0
T. J. Mathews	P	66	0	72.7	4	7	1	1	.917	1.362	.167	0	0	0
Mike Mohler	P	57	0	61.0	1	7	1	1	.889	1.180	.140	0	0	0
Buddy Groom	P	75	0	57.3	1	6	0	0	1.000	1.099	.093	0	0	0
Mike Fetters	P	48	0	47.3	2	10	1	1	.923	2.282	.250	0	0	0
Gil Heredia	P	8	6	42.7	1	9	0	0	1.000	2.109	1.250	0	0	0
Tim Worrell	P	25	0	36.0	0	5	0	0	1.000	1.250	.200	0	0	0
Aaron Small	P	24	0	36.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	1.250	.208	0	0	0
Jay Witasick	P	7	3	27.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	1.000	.429	0	0	0
Dave Telgheder	P	8	2	20.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	.900	.250	0	0	0
Jim Dougherty	P	9	0	12.0	1	5	0	2	1.000	4.500	.667	0	0	0
Mark Holzemer	P	13	0	9.7	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.862	.154	0	0	0
Ariel Prieto	P	2	2	8.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.080	.500	0	0	0
Steve Connelly	P	3	0	4.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.667	0	0	0
Miguel Tejada	SS	104	104	915.0	173	327	26	75	.951	4.918	4.808	0	0	0
Rafael Bournigal	SS	38	29	265.7	53	89	0	18	1.000	4.811	3.737	0	0	0
Kurt Abbott	SS	28	28	232.0	40	70	11	16	.909	4.267	3.929	0	0	0
Jorge Velandia	SS	7	1	12.0	3	7	1	1	.909	7.500	1.429	0	0	0
Mark Bellhorn	SS	2	0	6.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jason Wood	SS	2	0	3.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	9.000	1.500	0	0	0
Totals		2089	1458	12906.0	4302	1654	141	426	.977	4.153	2.851	13	103	48	31.8

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