1997 Toronto Blue Jays Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 76-86
Finished 5th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 2,589,317, Avg. 31,967
Ballpark: Skydome
Manager: Cito Gaston (72-85)
Manager: Mel Queen (4-1)
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1997 Toronto Blue Jays Roster
1997 Toronto Blue Jays Results

The Toronto Blue Jays of the American League ended the 1997 season with a record of 76 wins and 86 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's East Division.

The Blue Jays scored 654 runs, worst in the league, and surrendered 694 runs. Carlos Delgado walloped 30 home runs for Toronto, while Shawn Green and Joe Carter swatted 20 or more also. Joe Carter drove in 102 runs. Carlos Delgado paced all regular batters by hitting .262. Roger Clemens topped the squad with 21 wins, plus Pat Hentgen, too added 15 or more wins, too Roger Clemens recorded a 2.05 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Cito Gaston and Mel Queen 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
Roger Clemens	21	7	.750	2.05	34	34	0	9	3	0	264.0	204	65	60	9	68	1	292	12	0	4	1044
Pat Hentgen	15	10	.600	3.68	35	35	0	9	3	0	264.0	253	116	108	31	71	2	160	7	2	6	1085
Woody Williams	9	14	.391	4.35	31	31	0	0	0	0	194.7	201	98	94	31	66	3	124	5	0	7	833
Paul Quantrill	6	7	.462	1.94	77	0	29	0	0	5	88.0	103	25	19	5	17	3	56	1	0	1	373
Robert Person	5	10	.333	5.61	23	22	0	0	0	0	128.3	125	86	80	19	60	2	99	5	0	7	566
Mike Timlin	3	2	.600	2.87	38	0	26	0	0	9	47.0	41	17	15	6	15	4	36	1	1	1	190
Kelvim Escobar	3	2	.600	2.90	27	0	23	0	0	14	31.0	28	12	10	1	19	2	36	0	0	0	139
Tim Crabtree	3	3	.500	7.08	37	0	16	0	0	2	40.7	65	32	32	7	17	3	26	2	0	4	199
Juan Guzman	3	6	.333	4.95	13	13	0	0	0	0	60.0	48	42	33	14	31	0	52	2	0	4	261
Chris Carpenter	3	7	.300	5.09	14	13	1	1	1	0	81.3	108	55	46	7	37	0	55	2	1	7	374
Marty Janzen	2	1	.667	3.60	12	0	6	0	0	0	25.0	23	11	10	4	13	0	17	0	0	0	105
Dan Plesac	2	4	.333	3.58	73	0	18	0	0	1	50.3	47	22	20	8	19	4	61	0	0	2	215
Omar Daal	1	1	.500	4.00	9	3	0	0	0	0	27.0	34	13	12	3	6	0	28	0	0	1	120
Ken Robinson	0	0		2.70	3	0	2	0	0	0	3.3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	11
Erik Hanson	0	0		7.80	3	2	1	0	0	0	15.0	15	13	13	3	6	0	18	0	0	1	65
Carlos Almanzar	0	1	.000	2.70	4	0	2	0	0	0	3.3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	12
Bill Risley	0	1	.000	8.31	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	3	4	4	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	18
Huck Flener	0	1	.000	9.87	8	1	3	0	0	0	17.3	40	19	19	3	6	0	9	0	0	2	97
Paul Spoljaric	0	3	.000	3.19	37	0	10	0	0	3	48.0	37	17	17	3	21	4	43	2	1	5	198
Luis Andujar	0	6	.000	6.48	17	8	5	0	0	0	50.0	76	45	36	9	21	1	28	0	0	2	244
Totals	76	86	.469	3.93	498	162	143	19	7	34	1442.7	1453	694	630	167	497	29	1150	39	5	54	6149

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
Joe Carter	157	668	612	76	143	30	4	21	102	8	2	40	105	.234	.284	.399	.683	244	12	7	0	9	5
Carlos Delgado	153	595	519	79	136	42	3	30	91	0	3	64	133	.262	.350	.528	.878	274	6	8	0	4	9
Shawn Green	135	471	429	57	123	22	4	16	53	14	3	36	99	.287	.340	.469	.809	201	4	1	1	4	4
Ed Sprague	138	562	504	63	115	29	4	14	48	0	1	51	102	.228	.306	.385	.691	194	10	6	0	1	0
Otis Nixon	103	464	401	54	105	12	1	1	26	47	10	52	54	.262	.343	.304	.647	122	10	0	6	5	0
Alex Gonzalez	126	478	426	46	102	23	2	12	35	15	6	34	94	.239	.302	.387	.689	165	9	5	11	2	1
Orlando Merced	98	420	368	45	98	23	2	9	40	7	3	47	62	.266	.352	.413	.765	152	6	3	0	2	1
Benito Santiago	97	366	341	31	83	10	0	13	42	1	0	17	80	.243	.279	.387	.667	132	10	2	1	5	1
Carlos Garcia	103	381	350	29	77	18	2	3	23	11	3	15	60	.220	.253	.309	.562	108	7	2	10	4	0
Jose Cruz	55	244	212	31	49	7	0	14	34	6	2	28	72	.231	.316	.462	.778	98	2	0	0	4	2
Charlie O'Brien	69	267	225	22	49	15	1	4	27	0	2	22	45	.218	.311	.347	.657	78	6	11	3	6	1
Shannon Stewart	44	193	168	25	48	13	7	0	22	10	3	19	24	.286	.368	.446	.814	75	3	4	0	2	1
Mariano Duncan	39	176	167	20	38	6	0	0	12	4	2	6	39	.228	.267	.263	.531	44	4	3	0	0	0
Jacob Brumfield	58	191	174	22	36	5	1	2	20	4	4	14	31	.207	.268	.282	.550	49	4	1	1	1	0
Tilson Brito	49	139	126	9	28	3	0	0	8	1	0	9	28	.222	.281	.246	.527	31	2	2	0	2	0
Juan Samuel	45	108	95	13	27	5	4	3	15	5	3	10	28	.284	.364	.516	.880	49	2	2	1	0	0
Tomas Perez	40	138	123	9	24	3	2	0	9	1	1	11	28	.195	.267	.252	.519	31	2	1	3	0	0
Robert Perez	37	78	78	4	15	4	1	2	6	0	0	0	16	.192	.192	.346	.538	27	2	0	0	0	0
Tom Evans	12	41	38	7	11	2	0	1	2	0	1	2	10	.289	.341	.421	.763	16	0	1	0	0	0
Ruben Sierra	14	52	48	4	10	0	2	1	5	0	0	3	13	.208	.250	.354	.604	17	0	0	0	1	1
Felipe Crespo	12	31	28	3	8	0	1	1	5	0	0	2	4	.286	.333	.464	.798	13	1	0	1	0	0
Rich Butler	7	16	14	3	4	1	0	0	2	0	1	2	3	.286	.375	.357	.732	5	0	0	0	0	0
Julio Mosquera	3	8	8	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.375	.625	3	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Clemens	34	3	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.667	1.000	1.667	2	0	0	0	0	0
Woody Williams	31	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Robert Person	23	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Spoljaric	37	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Quantrill	77	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Hentgen	35	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sandy Martinez	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Andujar	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Timlin	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Carpenter	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Crabtree	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Carlos Almanzar	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Robinson	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Risley	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Omar Daal	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Plesac	73	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kelvim Escobar	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Huck Flener	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Juan Guzman	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Erik Hanson	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Marty Janzen	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2095	6109	5473	654	1333	275	41	147	627	134	50	487	1138	.244	.310	.389	.699	2131	102	59	38	52	26

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Carlos Delgado	1B	119	116	1035.7	962	67	12	98	.988	8.942	8.647	0	0	0
Joe Carter	1B	42	42	372.0	325	22	1	24	.997	8.395	8.262	0	0	0
Juan Samuel	1B	7	4	32.0	21	1	0	4	1.000	6.188	3.143	0	0	0
Orlando Merced	1B	1	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
Carlos Garcia	2B	96	93	821.7	168	253	8	50	.981	4.611	4.385	0	0	0
Mariano Duncan	2B	39	39	332.3	74	111	3	24	.984	5.010	4.744	0	0	0
Tilson Brito	2B	25	22	198.7	28	65	1	14	.989	4.213	3.720	0	0	0
Tomas Perez	2B	8	7	63.0	15	32	2	3	.959	6.714	5.875	0	0	0
Juan Samuel	2B	4	0	18.0	7	6	0	1	1.000	6.500	3.250	0	0	0
Felipe Crespo	2B	1	1	9.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	4.000	4.000	0	0	0
Ed Sprague	3B	129	129	1120.3	106	202	18	19	.945	2.474	2.388	0	0	0
Tom Evans	3B	12	11	98.0	9	24	3	1	.917	3.031	2.750	0	0	0
Tilson Brito	3B	17	8	91.0	12	14	0	3	1.000	2.571	1.529	0	0	0
Juan Samuel	3B	9	7	71.3	3	7	0	2	1.000	1.262	1.111	0	0	0
Felipe Crespo	3B	7	7	55.0	8	6	1	1	.933	2.291	2.000	0	0	0
Carlos Garcia	3B	4	0	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Benito Santiago	C	95	93	819.3	621	40	2	10	.997	7.261	6.958	7	48	31	39.2
Charlie O'Brien	C	69	66	592.3	543	41	3	8	.995	8.873	8.464	4	25	31	55.4
Julio Mosquera	C	3	2	18.3	11	1	0	0	1.000	5.891	4.000	0	1	1	50.0
Sandy Martinez	C	3	1	12.7	12	2	1	0	.933	9.947	4.667	0	3	1	25.0
Otis Nixon	OF	102	102	892.0	254	1	1	0	.996	2.573	2.500	0	0	0
Orlando Merced	OF	96	94	827.0	190	10	3	4	.985	2.177	2.083	0	0	0
Shawn Green	OF	91	81	731.3	173	6	3	3	.984	2.203	1.967	0	0	0
Jose Cruz	OF	55	55	485.7	98	3	2	1	.981	1.872	1.836	0	0	0
Joe Carter	OF	51	51	430.7	104	1	3	0	.972	2.194	2.059	0	0	0
Jacob Brumfield	OF	47	35	354.7	87	6	0	1	1.000	2.360	1.979	0	0	0
Shannon Stewart	OF	41	41	352.7	97	1	2	0	.980	2.501	2.390	0	0	0
Robert Perez	OF	25	16	153.0	35	0	0	0	1.000	2.059	1.400	0	0	0
Ruben Sierra	OF	7	7	65.0	13	0	1	0	.929	1.800	1.857	0	0	0
Rich Butler	OF	3	3	27.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.667	1.667	0	0	0
Juan Samuel	OF	2	1	9.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.500	0	0	0
Pat Hentgen	P	35	35	264.0	19	34	1	1	.981	1.807	1.514	0	0	0
Roger Clemens	P	34	34	264.0	11	39	1	1	.980	1.705	1.471	0	0	0
Woody Williams	P	31	31	194.7	9	10	1	0	.950	.878	.613	0	0	0
Robert Person	P	23	22	128.3	4	8	1	1	.923	.842	.522	0	0	0
Paul Quantrill	P	77	0	88.0	1	17	3	3	.857	1.841	.234	0	0	0
Chris Carpenter	P	14	13	81.3	7	5	1	1	.923	1.328	.857	0	0	0
Juan Guzman	P	13	13	60.0	1	7	3	0	.727	1.200	.615	0	0	0
Dan Plesac	P	73	0	50.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.179	.014	0	0	0
Luis Andujar	P	17	8	50.0	1	7	0	0	1.000	1.440	.471	0	0	0
Paul Spoljaric	P	37	0	48.0	4	10	0	1	1.000	2.625	.378	0	0	0
Mike Timlin	P	38	0	47.0	5	8	0	2	1.000	2.489	.342	0	0	0
Tim Crabtree	P	37	0	40.7	3	8	0	1	1.000	2.434	.297	0	0	0
Kelvim Escobar	P	27	0	31.0	0	2	0	1	1.000	.581	.074	0	0	0
Omar Daal	P	9	3	27.0	3	4	0	0	1.000	2.333	.778	0	0	0
Marty Janzen	P	12	0	25.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	1.440	.333	0	0	0
Huck Flener	P	8	1	17.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Erik Hanson	P	3	2	15.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bill Risley	P	3	0	4.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ken Robinson	P	3	0	3.3	1	2	0	1	1.000	8.100	1.000	0	0	0
Carlos Almanzar	P	4	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Alex Gonzalez	SS	125	125	1102.3	209	341	8	77	.986	4.490	4.400	0	0	0
Tomas Perez	SS	32	32	270.7	43	91	1	22	.993	4.456	4.188	0	0	0
Tilson Brito	SS	8	5	51.0	13	13	2	6	.929	4.588	3.250	0	0	0
Carlos Garcia	SS	5	0	18.7	3	3	2	1	.750	2.893	1.200	0	0	0
Totals		1878	1458	12984.0	4328	1536	94	390	.984	4.065	3.122	11	77	64	45.4

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