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November 1995
Hub Capps--TBN
Summary
The Legends placed their hopes for the future in a 23 y.o. CF Harold "Hal" McCoy who they made their #1 draft pick. He was an immediate hit with both Legends management and the fans as his work ethic and play on the field. He would contend along with Legends 1B Bartolo Depetris for the Southern League Diamond Award but both would lose out to St. Louis Aviators Juan Marin.

The Legends fueded with the Dallas Marshalls the entire year yet never was able to capture 1st place even for a day. The Legends pitching could never find any consistency as #2 starter Al Jenkins would miss a month with injury and Dewey Parker could never find the strike zone. The Legends found a gem in Mark Madison who went 8-0 in his first 8 starts. They received Madison from the NY Knights in exchange for the brooding Chet Goodman. Goodman was replaced as the starting SS with fan favorite Fraser Brewer in early May. GM Harrison fueded with Manager Sergio Lopez on Dewey Parker's play as Salas wanted him in the rotation and to be left alone to work out his kinks while Harrison was wanting him to work out the bullpen. Behind the scenes Harrison secretly blamed Parker for the fading of the team in late August.

In summary, Harrison knew he had a pitching staff that was going to cost him. He knew that for this team to win the South that he would have to have some outstanding pitching performances from average players and while it looked like he found it in Mark Madison and Robert Moore, they along with the rest of the team faded by late August. Harrison chose not to make any bold moves as he saw potential in the club even in players like Dewey Parker. He did get rid of clubhouse cancer Chet Goodman. The lineup looked like it potentially could be an All-Star lineup and Harrison went into the off-season knowing that the pitching staff and bullpen would need serious work if they were to be contender in 1996. The criticism over the Jose Delgado signing in late July seemed to start taking a toll on the team which was much beloved by the nation prior to his signing.


1995 Starting Lineup

C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF
Walker	Depetris	Stone	Roy	Brewer	Martin	McCoy	Dawson

1995 Starting Rotation and Bullpen leaders

Craighead	Moore	Jenkins	Parker	Madison	Rowe	McClery	Jones	Sharp
15-9, 4.59	12-6, 4.54	10-4, 4.64	7-11, 5.38	8-8, 4.73	23 SV, 5.91	63 G, 5.69	61 G, 3.63	59 G, 4.50

1995 Batting Stats

Pos	Player	Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	VORP
SS	Fraser Brewer	30	142	140	538	64	134	32	4	8	98	0	1	63	115	0.249	0.336	0.368	0.704	2.2
RF	Artie Cannon	28	8	1	11	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0.091	0.091	0.091	0.182	-3.1
SS	*Ángel Cardenas	24	43	7	62	8	15	4	0	0	10	1	0	5	9	0.242	0.304	0.306	0.611	-1.9
RF	*Beau Dawson	33	144	144	541	120	181	42	2	33	148	1	1	84	74	0.335	0.438	0.603	1.041	72.4
-	José Delgado	23	14	0	13	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0.231	0.231	0.308	0.538	-0.7
1B	#Bartolo Depetris	32	162	161	623	129	204	34	4	38	163	0	0	100	112	0.327	0.427	0.578	1.005	79.9
LF	*Kip Dorsey	22	30	10	58	7	7	2	0	1	13	0	0	4	16	0.121	0.215	0.207	0.422	-12.5
SS	*Chet Goodman	27	37	18	82	9	15	0	0	2	7	0	0	10	12	0.183	0.266	0.256	0.522	-6
RF	Pedro Gutiérrez	29	125	67	332	41	80	19	3	5	41	15	2	19	63	0.241	0.286	0.361	0.647	-24.6
LF	Will Martin	30	75	75	275	57	85	25	5	12	52	9	5	43	41	0.309	0.401	0.567	0.969	21
P	Jared McClery	38	63	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-0.2
CF	*Harold McCoy	24	149	149	553	160	189	52	13	23	113	29	10	135	93	0.342	0.482	0.608	1.09	93
RF	*Bill McLeod	26	35	9	55	7	8	2	0	1	7	0	0	8	11	0.145	0.273	0.236	0.509	-9.7
-	*Cooper Robertson	25	3	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.667	0.667	1	1.667	1.6
3B	Kyle Roy	22	150	146	613	134	190	33	2	24	84	5	6	89	111	0.31	0.399	0.488	0.887	59.8
C	Luis Salas	26	42	26	119	18	19	2	0	3	12	0	2	9	14	0.16	0.217	0.252	0.469	-12
2B	*Zach Stevenson	23	16	5	27	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	3	9	0.074	0.167	0.185	0.352	-4.9
2B	#Clarence Stone	35	137	136	521	128	148	25	2	24	69	0	0	149	48	0.284	0.445	0.478	0.923	46.6
3B	#Curtis Thomas	30	110	45	226	25	59	14	1	2	31	0	0	37	31	0.261	0.36	0.358	0.718	7.3
2B	George van Zandt	36	47	21	98	11	20	6	1	2	8	6	2	13	20	0.204	0.31	0.347	0.657	-5.2
C	Jim Walker	24	138	136	515	79	149	23	2	13	90	0	6	86	39	0.289	0.389	0.417	0.807	27.5
	Team Totals	28	2157	1458	5639	1029	1560	329	39	192	978	66	36	871	918	0.277	0.379	0.451	0.83	332

1995 Pitching Stats

Player	Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	VORP
Fraser Brewer	30	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quinn Craighead	26	15	9	0.625	30	30	0	198	226	101	20	50	149	4.59	26.1
Kurt Davis	27	1	6	0.143	14	9	0	55.2	95	60	12	31	29	9.7	-26
Dave Gallagher	38	0	0	0	24	0	1	37	56	31	7	22	25	7.54	-7.8
Pedro Gutiérrez	29	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	1.3
Al Jenkins	24	10	4	0.714	27	27	0	159	194	82	11	53	98	4.64	20.2
David Jones	31	2	5	0.286	61	0	0	69.1	67	28	9	28	65	3.63	16.9
Joe Lowry	24	0	0	0	10	0	0	14	14	11	3	10	11	7.07	-2.2
Jason MacNamara	23	2	2	0.5	10	6	1	35.2	41	24	3	33	8	6.06	-1.4
Mark Madison	30	8	8	0.5	20	20	0	125	125	66	12	52	76	4.73	14.6
Jared McClery	38	10	5	0.667	63	0	1	74.1	73	47	7	45	46	5.69	0.3
Robert Moore	34	12	6	0.667	29	29	0	172	182	87	12	94	85	4.54	24
Lonnie Morris	32	0	3	0	52	0	1	81.2	91	41	9	51	42	4.52	11.5
Dewey Parker	26	7	11	0.389	32	26	0	152	172	91	6	97	91	5.38	6.2
Miguel Ramírez	20	0	1	0	5	0	0	6.2	5	2	0	6	1	2.7	2.4
Jacob Rowe	35	4	8	0.333	45	0	23	42.2	48	28	2	33	36	5.91	-0.9
Justin Sharp	22	3	2	0.6	59	0	2	64	69	32	4	26	46	4.5	9.2
John Thomas	22	0	0	0	33	0	4	35.2	38	19	1	18	19	4.79	3.9
Jeff Walker	27	0	1	0	7	0	0	7.1	10	4	0	4	2	4.91	0.7
Dean Washington	32	10	6	0.625	27	15	0	96.2	128	77	17	62	60	7.17	-16
Team Totals	28.5	85	77	0.525	##	162	33	1430	1634	831	135	719	889	5.23	83.3