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1998 St. Louis Cardinals Pitching Statistics

1997 Season 1999 Season

Record: 83-79-1, Finished 3rd in NL_Central (Schedule and Results)

Manager: Tony La Russa (83-79-1)

General Manager: Walt Jocketty

Scouting Director: Ed Creech

Ballpark: Busch Stadium II

Attendance: 3,195,691 (4th of 16)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 100
One-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 100

Pythagorean W-L: 84-78, 810 Runs, 782 Runs Allowed

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Team Pitching
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Kent Mercker*	30	11	11	.500	5.07	30	29	1	0	0	0	161.2	199	99	91	11	53	4	72	3	4	6	716	84	4.17	1.559	11.1	0.6	3.0	4.0	1.36
2	SP	Todd Stottlemyre	33	9	9	.500	3.51	23	23	0	3	0	0	161.1	146	74	63	20	51	0	147	4	2	4	674	121	3.95	1.221	8.1	1.1	2.8	8.2	2.88
3	SP	Matt Morris	23	7	5	.583	2.53	17	17	0	2	1	0	113.2	101	37	32	8	42	6	79	3	0	3	468	168	3.85	1.258	8.0	0.6	3.3	6.3	1.88
4	SP	Donovan Osborne*	29	5	4	.556	4.09	14	14	0	1	1	0	83.2	84	42	38	11	22	2	60	1	0	1	358	104	4.24	1.267	9.0	1.2	2.4	6.5	2.73
5	SP	Manny Aybar	26	6	6	.500	5.98	20	14	1	0	0	0	81.1	90	58	54	6	42	1	57	2	0	2	369	71	4.32	1.623	10.0	0.7	4.6	6.3	1.36
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
6	CL	Juan Acevedo	28	8	3	.727	2.56	50	9	29	0	0	15	98.1	83	30	28	7	29	2	56	4	0	3	394	166	3.93	1.139	7.6	0.6	2.7	5.1	1.93
7	RP	Mark Petkovsek	32	7	4	.636	4.77	48	10	7	0	0	0	105.2	131	63	56	9	36	3	55	8	1	1	476	89	4.45	1.580	11.2	0.8	3.1	4.7	1.53
8	RP	John Frascatore	28	3	4	.429	4.14	69	0	15	0	0	0	95.2	95	48	44	11	36	3	49	3	0	2	415	103	4.83	1.369	8.9	1.0	3.4	4.6	1.36
9	RP	Jeff Brantley	34	0	5	.000	4.44	48	0	33	0	0	14	50.2	40	26	25	12	18	3	48	1	0	1	209	96	5.45	1.145	7.1	2.1	3.2	8.5	2.67
10	RP	Lance Painter*	30	4	0	1.000	3.99	65	0	9	0	0	1	47.1	42	24	21	5	28	3	39	4	0	2	207	107	4.89	1.479	8.0	1.0	5.3	7.4	1.39
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
11		Kent Bottenfield	29	4	6	.400	4.44	44	17	11	0	0	4	133.2	128	72	66	13	57	3	98	4	2	3	578	96	4.31	1.384	8.6	0.9	3.8	6.6	1.72
12		Darren Oliver*	27	4	4	.500	4.26	10	10	0	0	0	0	57.0	64	31	27	7	23	1	29	0	3	1	256	100	4.93	1.526	10.1	1.1	3.6	4.6	1.26
13		Rich Croushore	27	0	3	.000	4.97	41	0	15	0	0	8	54.1	44	31	30	6	29	2	47	4	0	6	243	86	4.67	1.344	7.3	1.0	4.8	7.8	1.62
14		Curtis King	27	2	0	1.000	3.53	36	0	11	0	0	2	51.0	50	20	20	5	20	4	28	3	0	0	218	121	4.67	1.373	8.8	0.9	3.5	4.9	1.40
15		Bobby Witt	34	2	5	.286	4.94	17	5	8	0	0	0	47.1	55	32	26	7	20	1	28	2	1	1	217	86	5.27	1.585	10.5	1.3	3.8	5.3	1.40
16		Mike Busby	25	5	2	.714	4.50	26	2	7	0	0	0	46.0	45	23	23	3	15	0	33	5	0	3	202	95	3.86	1.304	8.8	0.6	2.9	6.5	2.20
17		Cliff Politte	24	2	3	.400	6.32	8	8	0	0	0	0	37.0	45	32	26	6	18	0	22	1	1	2	172	68	5.60	1.703	10.9	1.5	4.4	5.4	1.22
18		José Jiménez	24	3	0	1.000	2.95	4	3	0	0	0	0	21.1	22	8	7	0	8	0	12	0	0	0	94	146	3.14	1.406	9.3	0.0	3.4	5.1	1.50
19		Brady Raggio	25	1	1	.500	15.43	4	1	2	0	0	0	7.0	22	12	12	1	3	0	3	1	0	0	43	29	5.85	3.571	28.3	1.3	3.9	3.9	1.00
20		Bryan Eversgerd*	29	0	0		9.00	8	0	2	0	0	0	6.0	9	7	6	1	2	0	4	1	0	0	31	50	5.47	1.833	13.5	1.5	3.0	6.0	2.00
21		Sean Lowe	27	0	3	.000	15.19	4	1	2	0	0	0	5.1	11	9	9	1	5	0	2	0	0	0	31	30	7.64	3.000	18.6	1.7	8.4	3.4	0.40
22		Braden Looper	23	0	1	.000	5.40	4	0	3	0	0	0	3.1	5	4	2	1	1	0	4	0	0	1	16	87	5.54	1.800	13.5	2.7	2.7	10.8	4.00
23		Gary Gaetti	39	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5		3.14	2.000	18.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	28.8	83	79	.512	4.31	163	163	157	6	2	44	1469.2	1513	782	703	151	558	38	972	54	14	42	6392	99	4.40	1.409	9.3	0.9	3.4	6.0	1.74
		Rank in 16 NL teams		7	9		8				12	5	6	4	12	9	9	6	10		14
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W