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1999 Cleveland Indians season

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The 1999 Cleveland Indians season was the 99th season for the franchise and the 6th season at Jacobs Field. They are the only team in Major League Baseball since 1950 to score over 1,000 runs during the regular season.[1] They were shut out only three times in 162 games. Five Indians scored at least 100 runs and four drove in at least 100 runs. Right fielder Manny Ramirez drove in 165 runs, the most by any MLB player since Jimmie Foxx in 1938.

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Offseason

Regular season

July 3, 1999: Against the Kansas City Royals, Jim Thome hit a 511 ft home run, the longest ever in Cleveland Indians history. It was hit to center field and cleared the outer gates onto Eagle Avenue outside of Jacobs Field.

Season standings

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AL Central
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
Cleveland Indians 9765 .599 — 47‍–‍34 50‍–‍31
Chicago White Sox 7586 .466 21½ 38‍–‍42 37‍–‍44
Detroit Tigers 6992 .429 27½ 38‍–‍43 31‍–‍49
Kansas City Royals 6497 .398 32½ 33‍–‍47 31‍–‍50
Minnesota Twins 6397 .394 33 31‍–‍50 32‍–‍47
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Record vs. opponents

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Team ANA BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC MIN NYY OAK SEA TB TEX TOR NL
Anaheim —3–91–95–51–95–57–56–46–48–46–67–56–63–96–12
Baltimore 9–3—5–77–31–95–56–48–14–95–75–55–76–61–1111–7
Boston 9–17–5—7–58–47–58–26–48–44–67–34–94–59–36–12
Chicago 5–53–75–7—3–97–56–68–3–15–73–74–86–45–56–49–9
Cleveland 9–19–14–89–3—8–57–59–33–710–27–35–43–75–79–9
Detroit 5–55–55–75–75–8—7–46–65–74–63–74–55–52–108–10
Kansas City 5–74–62–86–65–74–7—5–85–46–67–52–84–63–76–12
Minnesota 4–61–84–63–8–13–96–68–5—4–67–54–85–50–124–610–7
New York 4–69–44–87–57–37–54–56–4—6–49–18–48–410–29–9
Oakland 4–87–56–47–32–106–46–65–74–6—6–69–15–78–212–6
Seattle 6–65–53–78–43–77–35–78–41–96–6—8–45–87–27–11
Tampa Bay 5–77–59–44–64–55–48–25–54–81–94–8—4–85–84–14
Texas 6–66–65–45–57–35–56–412–04–87–58–58–4—6–410–8
Toronto 9–311–13–94–67–510–27–36–42–102–82–78–54–6—9–9
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Transactions

  • April 14, 1999: Jhonny Peralta was signed as an amateur free agent by the Indians.[6]

Roster

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Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

Manager

Coaches

Game log

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1999 Game Log
April
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
1April 6@ Angels6–5Karsay (0–1)Percival (1)39,9360–1
2April 7@ Angels9–1Burba (1–0)Hill (0–1)21,6891-1
3April 8@ Angels9–1Colón (1–0)Sparks (0–1)25,0842–1
4April 9@ Twins14–5Nagy (1–0)Hawkins (0–1)16,3483–1
5April 10@ Twins12–7Karsay (1-1)Lincoln (0–2)18,8294–1
6April 11@ Twins9–8Wright (1–0)Radke (1-1)Jackson (1)12,4305–1
7April 12Royals5–2 (10)Shuey (1–0)Santiago (0–1)42,7986–1
8April 14Royals11–4Colón (2–0)Suppan (0–2)42,9267–1
9April 17Twins5–1Nagy (2–0)Radke (1–2)40,5828–1
10April 17Twins13–8 (11)Aguilera (2–0)Jackson (0–1)42,8608–2
11April 18Twins3–2Shuey (2–0)Wells (1-1)Jackson (2)42,3179–2
12April 20Athletics5–1Colón (3–0)Rogers (0–2)42,95410–2
13April 21Athletics5–4Reed (1–0)Taylor (0–1)41,93311–2
14April 22Athletics4–1Candiotti (2-2)Nagy (2–1)Taylor (3)42,93711–3
15April 23@ Red Sox7–6Karsay (2–1)Corsi (0–1)Jackson (3)29,92112–3
16April 24@ Red Sox9–4Harikkala (1–0)DeLucia (0–1)29,48112–4
17April 25@ Red Sox3–2Martínez (4–1)Shuey (2–1)30,47212–5
18April 26@ Athletics5–4 (10)Karsay (3–1)Taylor (0–2)Jackson (4)7,64613–5
19April 27@ Athletics8–5Nagy (3–1)Candiotti (2–3)Jackson (5)7,16114–5
20April 28@ Athletics4–1Wright (2–0)Haynes (1–4)Jackson (6)9,55515–5
21April 29@ Athletics8–3Burba (2–0)Oquist (2-2)10,11516–5
22April 30@ Rangers7–5Helling (2–3)Colón (3–1)Wetteland (8)36,55616–6
May
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
23May 1@ Rangers5–3Gooden (1–0)Sele (3–2)Jackson (7)45,57917–6
24May 2@ Rangers8–6Clark (2-2)Nagy (3–2)Wetteland (9)29,92117–7
25May 3@ Rangers10–4Wright (3–0)Morgan (4–2)31,18118–7
26May 5Mariners6–5Fassero (1–3)Burba (2–1)Mesa (7)42,99118–8
27May 6Mariners8–4Colón (4–1)Weaver (0–1)41,96219–8
28May 7Devil Rays20–11Wagner (1–0)Mecir (0–1)40,60120–8
29May 8Devil Rays7–6Rekar (3–1)Nagy (3-3)Hernández (12)40,59020–9
30May 9Devil Rays5–4Wright (4–0)Álvarez (1–2)Jackson (8)42,83521–9
31May 10Orioles6–4Burba (3–1)Guzmán (1–4)Jackson (9)40,61522–9
32May 11Orioles11–6Colón (5–1)Ponson (2–3)40,58723–9
33May 12Orioles6–5Assenmacher (1–0)Timlin (1–2)Shuey (1)42,93924–9
34May 14@ Tigers4–2Karsay (4–1)Brocail (1-1)Shuey (2)21,84425–9
35May 15@ Tigers12–7Burba (4–1)Mlicki (1–3)39,76926–9
36May 16@ Tigers9–3Weaver (4–3)Wright (4–1)Kida (1)29,73126–10
37May 17@ White Sox13–9Colón (6–1)Navarro (2–4)17,10127–10
38May 18@ White Sox13–0Gooden (2–0)Baldwin (2–4)13,42928–10
39May 19@ White Sox13–7Nagy (4–3)Parque (5–3)14,85429–10
40May 21Tigers9–6Nitkowski (1-1)Shuey (2-2)Jones (7)43,29029–11
41May 22Tigers6–2Weaver (5–3)Wright (4–2)40,99129–12
42May 23Tigers7–4Shuey (3–2)Jones (0–1)40,87430–12
43May 24White Sox10–3Lowe (2–0)Gooden (2–1)43,20830–13
44May 25White Sox3–1Nagy (5–3)Parque (5–4)Jackson (10)42,16131–13
45May 26White Sox6–2Burba (5–1)Sirotka (2–6)Shuey (3)43,22832–13
46May 28Red Sox12–5Wakefield (3–4)Wright (4–3)Lowe (3)43,28732–14
47May 29Red Sox4–2Martínez (10–1)Colón (6–2)Gordon (9)43,25532–15
48May 30Red Sox4–2Rose (3–0)Gooden (2-2)Gordon (10)43,20732–16
49May 31@ Yankees7–1Nagy (6–3)Hernández (5-5)46,60533–16
June
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
50June 1@ Yankees11–5Clemens (5–0)Burba (5–2)32,75933–17
51June 2@ Yankees10–7Karsay (5–1)Pettitte (3-3)Jackson (11)36,95534–17
52June 4Cubs5–4Aguilera (2–1)Jackson (0–2)Adams (2)43,01134–18
53June 5Cubs8–7 (11)John Cena (4-20)Sanders (1–4)43,08535–18
54June 6Cubs4–2Nagy (7–3)Trachsel (2–7)Shuey (4)43,01036–18
55June 8Brewers2–1 (10)Roque (1–4)Assenmacher (1-1)Wickman (11)42,30036–19
56June 9Brewers6–5 (10)Jackson (2-2)Roque (1–5)43,16037–19
57June 10Brewers15–9Nomo (3–1)Colón (6–3)43,19637–20
58June 11@ Reds8–6Shuey (4–2)Williamson (5–2)Jackson (12)42,92838–20
59June 12@ Reds4–3Nagy (8–3)Harnisch (5–6)Jackson (13)52,80439–20
60June 13@ Reds7–3Burba (6–2)Avery (3–6)Karsay (1)45,59340–20
61June 15Athletics8–3Wright (5–3)Haynes (4–6)43,23141–20
62June 16Athletics9–8Karsay (6–1)Taylor (0–4)43,16342–20
63June 17Athletics10–6Shuey (5–2)Worrell (1-1)43,26243–20
64June 18Mariners9–4Halama (5–2)Nagy (8–4)43,12643–21
65June 19Mariners10–6Burba (7–2)Watson (0–1)Jackson (14)43,20544–21
66June 20Mariners13–5Wright (6–3)Rodriguez (2–1)43,07045–21
67June 21Mariners4–3 (12)Karsay (7–1)Mesa (0–2)43,09346–21
68June 22@ Blue Jays4–3Escobar (7–4)Gooden (2–3)Koch (7)22,19746–22
69June 23@ Blue Jays9–6Nagy (9–4)Quantrill (0–1)23,27147–22
70June 24@ Blue Jays3–0Halladay (6–3)Burba (7–3)Koch (8)26,11747–23
71June 25@ Royals8–2Suppan (4-4)Wright (6–4)32,14747–24
72June 26@ Royals11–7Montgomery (1–3)Rincón (0–1)29,35847–25
73June 27@ Royals6–5Reed (2–0)Byrdak (0–1)Jackson (15)17,09448–25
74June 28@ Royals6–1Nagy (10–4)Witasick (3–6)23,42949–25
75June 29Twins5–4Reed (3–0)Trombley (1–5)43,15950–25
76June 30Twins5–3Milton (3–7)Wright (6–5)Trombley (12)43,06150–26
July
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
77July 1Twins7–5Colón (7–3)Carrasco (0–1)Jackson (16)43,01051–26
78July 2Royals9–7 (10)Whisenant (3-3)Shuey (5–3)43,17251–27
79July 3Royals9–8Candiotti (1–0)Pisciotta (0–2)Jackson (17)43,08652–27
80July 3Royals9–5Langston (1–0)Wengert (0–1)Jackson (18)40,70753–27
81July 4Royals10–9Appier (8–6)Burba (7–4)Byrdak (1)43,01853–28
82July 6@ Twins3–1Wright (7–5)Milton (3–8)Jackson (19)12,57954–28
83July 7@ Twins4–3Trombley (2–5)Reed (3–1)12,71054–29
84July 8@ Twins9–2Nagy (11–4)Lincoln (3–9)14,11855–29
85July 9Reds3–2Avery (6–7)Burba (7–5)Williamson (11)43,20855–30
86July 10Reds11–10Jackson (3–2)Williamson (7–4)43,12756–30
87July 11Reds9–4Graves (6–3)Shuey (5–4)43,16756–31
88July 15@ Pirates2–0Colón (8–3)Schmidt (8–7)Jackson (20)39,62057–31
89July 16@ Pirates11–3Córdova (5–4)Burba (7–6)43,51957–32
90July 17@ Pirates13–10Benson (7-7)Nagy (11–5)Williams (14)43,29957–33
91July 18@ Astros2–0Hampton (12–3)Wright (7–6)50,29957–34
92July 19@ Astros3–2 (11)Cabrera (3–0)Candiotti (1-1)34,27657–35
93July 20@ Astros7–1Colón (9–3)Reynolds (11–7)41,13358–35
94July 21Blue Jays4–3Frascatore (5–0)Jackson (3-3)Koch (16)43,21858–36
95July 22Blue Jays4–3Wells (11–6)Nagy (11–6)Koch (17)43,13858–37
96July 23@ Yankees9–8 (10)Grimsley (7–1)Jackson (3–4)52,70458–38
97July 24@ Yankees21–1Irabu (7–3)Langston (1-1)54,87058–39
98July 25@ Yankees2–1Mendoza (4–6)Rincón (0–2)54,94458–40
99July 26Tigers6–3Burba (8–6)Thompson (9-9)Jackson (21)43,15759–40
100July 27Tigers14–5Nagy (12–6)Borkowski (0–1)43,04260–40
101July 28Tigers7–2Gooden (3-3)Moehler (8–10)43,16261–40
102July 30White Sox10–2Colón (10–3)Sirotka (7–10)43,18162–40
103July 31White Sox13–10Shuey (6–4)Castillo (1-1)Jackson (22)43,20963–40
August
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
104August 1White Sox6–3Baldwin (5–11)Nagy (12–7)Howry (17)43,06763–41
105August 2@ Red Sox7–5Karsay (8–1)Garces (0–1)Jackson (23)33,21864–41
106August 3@ Red Sox5–4Shuey (7–4)Wakefield (3–8)Jackson (24)33,65065–41
107August 4@ Red Sox7–2Portugal (7–8)Colón (10–4)33,28265–42
108August 6@ Devil Rays4–2Yan (3–2)Burba (8–7)Hernández (29)34,62365–43
109August 7@ Devil Rays15–10Nagy (13–7)Witt (6–8)39,51266–43
110August 8@ Devil Rays5–3Álvarez (6-6)Wright (7-7)Hernández (30)33,05266–44
111August 9@ Angels4–0Colón (11–4)Hill (4–11)22,01367–44
112August 10@ Angels2–1 (10)Rincón (1–2)Petkovsek (9–4)Jackson (25)25,77768–44
113August 11@ Angels4–3Burba (9–7)Sparks (5–9)Jackson (26)26,39969–44
114August 13Orioles6–3Rincón (2-2)Erickson (8–10)Jackson (27)43,07370–44
115August 14Orioles7–1Karsay (9–1)Johnson (3–7)43,10371–44
116August 15Orioles5–1Colón (12–4)Ponson (11–8)43,02072–44
117August 16Rangers13–5Munoz (2–1)Rincón (2–3)43,22672–45
118August 17Rangers15–4Sele (13–7)Langston (1–2)42,98772–46
119August 18Rangers6–1Burkett (4–6)Nagy (13–8)42,99772–47
120August 19Rangers8–0Karsay (10–1)Morgan (12–8)43,26373–47
121August 20@ Mariners7–4Colón (13–4)Halama (9–5)Jackson (28)44,91574–47
122August 21@ Mariners6–0Burba (10–7)Meche (4–3)44,89175–47
123August 22@ Mariners7–4 (10)Riske (1–0)Mesa (1–5)Jackson (29)44,94176–47
124August 23@ Mariners4–1Abbott (5–0)Nagy (13–9)Mesa (28)44,68976–48
125August 24@ Athletics11–10Mathews (8–3)Shuey (7–5)17,41776–49
126August 25@ Athletics12–4Colón (14–4)Oquist (9-9)21,32877–49
127August 27Devil Rays2–1Burba (11–7)Arrojo (4–9)Jackson (30)43,30378–49
128August 28Devil Rays3–0Nagy (14–9)Witt (7–11)Jackson (31)43,19079–49
129August 29Devil Rays6–4Álvarez (9–6)Haney (0–1)Hernández (36)43,15179–50
130August 30Angels7–5Colón (15–4)Levine (1-1)Jackson (32)43,29580–50
131August 31Angels14–12Poole (1–0)Percival (3–4)Shuey (5)43,28481–50
September
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
132September 1Angels8–1Burba (12–7)Washburn (0–3)43,39982–50
133September 2Angels6–5Nagy (15–9)Sparks (5–11)Jackson (33)43,36983–50
134September 3@ Orioles7–6Assenmacher (2–1)Reyes (0–3)Jackson (34)41,52184–50
135September 4@ Orioles3–1Linton (1–2)Colón (15–5)Timlin (19)47,09584–51
136September 5@ Orioles15–7Brower (1–0)Ponson (11-11)44,21485–51
137September 6@ Orioles7–6Burba (13–7)Johns (4–3)Jackson (35)40,54086–51
138September 7@ Rangers4–3Sele (16–7)Reed (3–2)Wetteland (40)26,01186–52
139September 8@ Rangers3–0Burkett (7-7)Haney (0–2)Wetteland (41)29,88986–53
140September 10@ White Sox14–6Colón (16–5)Wells (2–1)19,13287–53
141September 11@ White Sox4–3Burba (14–7)Parque (9–13)Jackson (36)34,40088–53
142September 12@ White Sox4–3Sirotka (9–13)Wright (7–8)Howry (22)20,48188–54
143September 13Red Sox11–7Nagy (16–9)Wakefield (5–10)Shuey (6)43,26489–54
144September 14Red Sox12–3Lowe (6–3)Gooden (3–4)43,20389–55
145September 15Red Sox6–4 (13)Wasdin (8–3)Brower (1-1)43,22489–56
146September 16Yankees9–5Irabu (11–6)Burba (14–8)43,05489–57
147September 17Yankees9–4Clemens (13–9)Wright (7–9)43,02989–58
148September 18Yankees5–4Nagy (17–9)Hernández (16–9)Jackson (37)43,00290–58
149September 19Yankees11–7Watson (4–1)Martin (0–1)42,96990–59
150September 20@ Tigers4–3 (10)Jones (4-4)Riske (1-1)26,10690–60
151September 21@ Tigers6–1Burba (15–8)Borkowski (1–5)24,15591–60
152September 22@ Tigers9–1Wright (8–9)Moehler (9–16)27,35592–60
153September 23@ Tigers7–5Blair (3–11)Nagy (17–10)Jones (26)34,97092–61
154September 24@ Blue Jays18–4Brower (2–1)Munro (0–2)26,62093–61
155September 25@ Blue Jays9–6Colón (17–5)Spoljaric (2–1)Jackson (38)32,02994–61
156September 26@ Blue Jays11–7Shuey (8–5)Koch (0–5)34,25395–61
157September 28@ Royals2–1Brower (3–1)Witasick (9–12)Jackson (39)11,00996–61
158September 29@ Royals5–2Rosado (10–14)Nagy (17–11)11,81496–62
159September 30Blue Jays9–2Colón (18–5)Spoljaric (2-2)43,20197–62
October
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
160October 1Blue Jays8–6Quantrill (3–2)Karsay (10–2)Koch (30)43,04097–63
161October 2Blue Jays7–3Hentgen (11–12)Wright (8–10)Koch (31)43,04997–64
162October 3Blue Jays9–2Wells (17–10)Burba (15–9)43,01297–65
American League Division Series
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceSeries
1October 6Red Sox3–2Shuey (1–0)Lowe (0–1)45,1821–0
2October 7Red Sox11–1Nagy (1–0)Saberhagen (0–1)45,1842–0
3October 9@ Red Sox9–3Lowe (1–0)Wright (0–1)33,5392–1
4October 10@ Red Sox23–7Garces (1–0)Colón (0–1)33,8982–2
5October 12Red Sox12–8Martínez (1–0)Shuey (1-1)45,1142–3
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Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

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Pos Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG SB
CEinar Díaz11939243110211332.28111
1BJim Thome14649410113727233108.2770
2BRoberto Alomar15956313818240324120.32337
3BTravis Fryman8532245821621048.2552
SSOmar Vizquel144574112191364566.33342
LFDavid Justice133429751231802188.2871
CFKenny Lofton120465110140286739.30125
RFManny Ramirez14752213117434344165.3332
DHWil Cordero541943558150832.2992
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Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

More information Player, G ...
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG SB
Sandy Alomar Jr.371371942130625.3070
Carlos Baerga22574130015.2281
Harold Baines288552320122.2710
Pat Borders620260103.3000
Russell Branyan1138482016.2110
Jolbert Cabrera3037671000.1893
Jacob Cruz3288142951317.3300
Tyler Houston1327241013.1480
Jesse Levis1026040003.1540
Jeff Manto1225550012.2000
John McDonald1821270000.3330
Alex Ramírez4897112961318.2991
Dave Roberts41143263440212.23811
Richie Sexson1344797212217731116.2553
Chris Turner1221340000.1901
Mark Whiten825241014.1600
Enrique Wilson1133324187221224.2625
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Note: Pitchers' batting statistics are not included above.

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

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Player W L ERA G GS IP H R ER BB K
Dave Burba1594.253434220.021111310496174
Bartolo Colón1853.953232205.0185979076161
Charles Nagy17114.953332202.023812011159126
Jaret Wright8106.062626133.214499907791
Dwight Gooden346.262622115.012790806788
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Other pitchers

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

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Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER BB K
Mark Langston125.25255061.26940362943
Chris Haney024.69134040.14322211622
Jim Brower314.5692025.22713131018
Tom Candiotti1111.0572014.2191818711
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Relief pitchers

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

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Player W L ERA G SV IP H R ER BB K
Mike Jackson344.06723968.26032312655
Paul Shuey853.5372681.268403732103
Steve Reed324.2363061.26933292044
Ricardo Rincón234.4359044.24122222430
Paul Assenmacher218.1855033.05032301729
Steve Karsay1022.9750178.27129263068
David Riske118.3612014.0201513616
Sean DePaula004.6311011.2866318
Rich DeLucia016.75609.1137797
Tom Martin018.68609.1139938
Dave Stevens0010.00509.010101086
Paul Wagner104.15304.154230
Jerry Spradlin0018.00403.066632
Jason Rakers004.50102.021110
Jim Poole1018.00301.022230
Jeff Tam0081.00100.123310
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