1997 New York Mets

88-74 • 0.543 Win% • 3rd in NL E

📊 Season Record

88 Wins
74 Losses
0.543 Win %
3rd Rank
777 R 709 RA
Diff +68

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777 Runs Scored
709 Runs Allowed
+68 Run Diff
1,775K Attendance

📈 vs. 1997 NL Average

Batting Avg .262 equal to the 1997 league average (.262)
OBP .328 equal to the 1997 league average (.329)
SLG .345 1% below the 1997 league average (.346)
Team ERA 3.95 6% better than the 1997 league average (4.20)
Runs Scored 777 4% above the 1997 league average (746 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumShea Stadium
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 1,775,201
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Avg per Game 21,916

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Edgardo Alfonzo 0.315 2 Lance Johnson 0.309 3 John Olerud 0.294 4 Butch Huskey 0.287 5 Todd Pratt 0.283

Home Runs

1 Todd Hundley 30 2 Butch Huskey 24 3 John Olerud 22 4 Bernard Gilkey 18 5 Carl Everett 14

RBI

1 John Olerud 102 2 Todd Hundley 86 3 Butch Huskey 81 4 Bernard Gilkey 78 5 Edgardo Alfonzo 72
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
John Olerud 154 524 90 154 0 0 22 102 85 67 0 0.294
Edgardo Alfonzo 151 518 84 163 0 0 10 72 63 56 11 0.315
Bernard Gilkey 145 518 85 129 0 0 18 78 70 111 7 0.249
Butch Huskey 142 471 61 135 0 0 24 81 25 84 8 0.287
Carlos Baerga 133 467 53 131 0 0 9 52 20 54 2 0.281
Carl Everett 142 443 58 110 0 0 14 57 32 102 17 0.248
Todd Hundley 132 417 78 114 0 0 30 86 83 116 2 0.273
Rey Ordonez 120 356 35 77 0 0 1 33 18 36 11 0.216
Lance Johnson 72 265 43 82 0 0 1 24 33 21 15 0.309
Alex Ochoa 113 238 31 58 0 0 3 22 18 32 3 0.244
Luis Lopez 78 178 19 48 0 0 1 19 12 42 2 0.270
Matt Franco 112 163 21 45 0 0 5 21 13 23 1 0.276
Manny Alexander 54 149 26 37 0 0 2 15 9 38 11 0.248
Brian McRae 45 145 23 36 0 0 5 15 13 22 3 0.248
Todd Pratt 39 106 12 30 0 0 2 19 13 32 0 0.283
Steve Bieser 47 69 16 17 0 0 0 4 7 20 2 0.246
Bobby Jones 30 62 4 8 0 0 0 4 3 18 0 0.129
Alberto Castillo 35 59 3 12 0 0 0 7 9 16 0 0.203
Rick Reed 33 57 6 10 0 0 1 5 3 18 0 0.175
Jason Hardtke 30 56 9 15 0 0 2 8 4 6 1 0.268
Dave Mlicki 33 48 3 9 0 0 0 3 3 22 0 0.188
Mark Clark 23 43 1 2 0 0 1 2 2 19 0 0.047
Brian Bohanon 21 33 0 6 0 0 0 4 0 15 0 0.182
Armando Reynoso 16 29 3 7 0 0 1 3 2 15 0 0.241
Shawn Gilbert 29 22 3 3 0 0 1 1 1 8 1 0.136
Roberto Petagine 12 15 2 1 0 0 0 2 3 6 0 0.067
Carlos Mendoza 15 12 6 3 0 0 0 1 4 2 0 0.250
Joe Crawford 19 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.000
Pete Harnisch 6 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Jason Isringhausen 6 7 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0.143
Andy Tomberlin 6 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0.286
Juan Acevedo 25 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.000
Gary Thurman 11 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.167
Cory Lidle 54 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0.000
Greg McMichael 73 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.667
Barry Manuel 19 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Turk Wendell 13 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ricardo Jordan 22 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Takashi Kashiwada 35 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Kevin Morgan 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Yorkis Perez 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Toby Borland 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
John Franco 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mel Rojas 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ricky Trlicek 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 John Franco 2.55 2 Rick Reed 2.89 3 Greg McMichael 2.98 4 Joe Crawford 3.30 5 Cory Lidle 3.53

Wins

1 Bobby Jones 15 2 Rick Reed 13 3 Mark Clark 8 4 Dave Mlicki 8 5 Cory Lidle 7

Strikeouts

1 Dave Mlicki 157 2 Bobby Jones 125 3 Rick Reed 113 4 Greg McMichael 81 5 Mark Clark 72
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Rick Reed 13 9 2.89 33 31 0 208.1 31 113
Dave Mlicki 8 12 4.00 32 32 0 193.2 76 157
Bobby Jones 15 9 3.63 30 30 0 193.1 63 125
Mark Clark 8 7 4.25 23 22 0 142.0 47 72
Brian Bohanon 6 4 3.82 19 14 0 94.1 34 66
Armando Reynoso 6 3 4.53 16 16 0 91.1 29 47
Greg McMichael 7 10 2.98 73 0 7 87.2 27 81
Cory Lidle 7 2 3.53 54 2 2 81.2 20 54
John Franco 5 3 2.55 59 0 36 60.0 20 53
Juan Acevedo 3 1 3.59 25 2 0 47.2 22 33
Joe Crawford 4 3 3.30 19 2 0 46.1 13 25
Takashi Kashiwada 3 1 4.31 35 0 0 31.1 18 19
Jason Isringhausen 2 2 7.58 6 6 0 29.2 22 25
Ricardo Jordan 1 2 5.33 22 0 0 27.0 15 19
Mel Rojas 0 2 5.13 23 0 2 26.1 6 32
Pete Harnisch 0 1 8.06 6 5 0 25.2 11 12
Barry Manuel 0 1 5.26 19 0 0 25.2 13 21
Turk Wendell 0 0 4.96 13 0 1 16.1 14 10
Toby Borland 0 1 6.08 13 0 1 13.1 14 7
Ricky Trlicek 0 0 8.00 9 0 0 9.0 5 4
Yorkis Perez 0 1 8.31 9 0 0 8.2 4 7

👥 Roster (45)

Juan Acevedo Manny Alexander Edgardo Alfonzo Carlos Baerga Steve Bieser Brian Bohanon Toby Borland Alberto Castillo Mark Clark Joe Crawford Carl Everett John Franco +33 more

45 players

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