2003 Akron Aeros Statistics

Eastern League (EL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 88-53
Finished 1st in the EL's Southern Division
Manager: Brad Komminsk (88-53)
Affiliation: Cleveland Indians
Location: Akron, Ohio
Ballpark: Canal Park
Attendance: 445,603, Avg. 6,651 in 67 home dates

2003 Akron Aeros Roster

Playoffs - Akron Aeros 3 games, Altoona Curve 1
Finals - Akron Aeros 3 games, New Haven Ravens 0

The Akron Aeros of the Eastern League ended the 2003 season with a record of 88 wins and 53 losses, finishing first in the league's Southern Division.

The Aeros scored 672 runs and yielded 555 runs. Eric Crozier led Akron with 19 home runs Grady Sizemore accounted for 78 RBI. Luis González paced hitters with significant playing time with a .318 average. Francisco Cruceta topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.09 ERA, best among regular hurlers.

Members of the 2003 Akron Aeros who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Chris Magruder, Eric Crozier, Blake Stein, Jeremy Guthrie, Ron Wright, Cliff Lee, Dusty Wathan, Jake Robbins, Paul Rigdon, Rafael Betancourt, Aaron Myette, Grady Sizemore, Héctor Luna, Bob Wickman, Jason Rakers, Kyle Denney, Jack Cressend, Luke Scott, Chad Durbin, Mark Wohlers, Francisco Cruceta, Luis González, Víctor Martínez, Ryan Church, Maicer Izturis, Kazuhito Tadano, Joe Inglett, Fernando Cabrera, Roberto Hernández and Matt Lawton.

Brad Komminsk served as manager.

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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
Francisco Cruceta	13	9	.591	3.09	27	25	1	6	0	0	163.3	141	70	56	7	66	0	134	2	4	3	684
Derrick Van Dusen	10	8	.556	4.92	28	26	0	1	0	0	139.0	183	100	76	11	51	0	77	5	1	13	645
Fernando Cabrera	9	4	.692	2.97	36	15	14	0	0	5	109.0	96	41	36	8	40	0	115	2	1	3	456
Kyle Evans	9	5	.643	3.59	28	19	3	0	0	1	133.0	140	72	53	3	37	0	69	7	1	2	572
Kyle Denney	7	3	.700	2.42	18	18	0	1	0	0	104.0	97	34	28	7	24	0	87	4	1	1	433
Jeremy Guthrie	6	2	.750	1.44	10	9	0	2	2	0	62.7	44	11	10	0	14	0	35	0	1	2	243
Jake Robbins	6	3	.667	2.16	34	0	16	0	0	8	58.3	44	18	14	1	24	0	38	2	0	8	234
Kazuhito Tadano	4	1	.800	1.24	31	0	9	0	0	3	72.7	62	15	10	4	15	2	78	2	0	4	294
Kenny Rayborn	4	1	.800	2.05	5	4	0	0	0	0	26.3	28	7	6	1	5	0	20	4	0	0	114
Paul Rigdon	3	0	1.000	3.23	6	6	0	0	0	0	30.7	27	12	11	2	5	0	16	2	0	0	125
Jose Vargas	3	2	.600	1.92	37	0	23	0	0	8	51.7	52	21	11	4	27	2	52	1	0	2	233
Jack Cressend	2	0	1.000	0.00	8	0	3	0	0	1	16.0	15	4	0	0	2	0	10	0	0	1	67
Chad Durbin	2	0	1.000	1.50	3	3	0	0	0	0	12.0	7	2	2	1	1	0	11	2	0	0	46
Oscar Alvarez	2	2	.500	4.09	13	6	4	0	0	0	33.0	33	19	15	2	13	0	20	1	2	1	144
Ryan Larson	2	6	.250	3.84	40	0	20	0	0	2	63.3	78	36	27	8	18	2	29	3	1	1	281
Cliff Lee	1	0	1.000	1.50	2	2	0	0	0	0	12.0	7	2	2	1	4	0	13	0	0	0	46
Todd Pennington	1	0	1.000	3.60	7	0	2	0	0	0	10.0	8	4	4	0	6	0	9	0	0	4	42
Keith Ramsey	1	0	1.000	6.35	2	2	0	0	0	0	11.3	15	8	8	1	3	0	4	0	0	0	52
Marcos Mendoza	1	0	1.000	10.67	9	0	2	0	0	0	14.3	16	21	17	0	13	0	14	1	0	1	77
Jason Rakers	1	1	.500	1.08	4	0	2	0	0	1	8.3	7	2	1	0	1	0	9	0	0	1	32
Aquiles Pinales	1	1	.500	7.00	6	0	2	0	0	0	9.0	5	7	7	0	8	2	8	1	0	2	42
Aaron Myette	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	7	0	0	0	18
Rafael Betancourt	0	0		1.39	31	0	20	0	0	16	45.3	33	10	7	0	13	2	75	0	0	1	183
Kevin Martin	0	0		4.50	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	3	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	10
Roberto Hernández	0	0		4.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	8	3	3	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	27
Mark Wohlers	0	0		5.40	2	1	0	0	0	0	1.7	5	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	10
Dan Neil	0	0		7.71	5	0	4	0	0	0	7.0	10	6	6	1	1	0	4	1	0	0	32
Ignacio Montano	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Bob Wickman	0	0		16.20	2	2	0	0	0	0	1.7	3	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	9
Shea Douglas	0	1	.000	2.70	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.3	3	1	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	14
Jim Ed Warden	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	6	4	4	0	5	0	1	0	0	1	21
Blake Stein	0	1	.000	27.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	6	8	8	1	4	0	4	0	0	0	18
Shane Wallace	0	2	.000	4.82	10	1	1	0	0	1	18.7	23	11	10	1	12	0	3	1	0	2	89
Totals	88	53	.624	3.19	416	141	131	10	2	46	1238.3	1208	555	439	65	420	11	952	42	12	53	5299

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
Grady Sizemore	128	559	496	96	151	26	11	13	78	10	9	46	73	.304	.373	.480	.853	238	5	11	1	5	1
Luis González	116	493	431	72	137	22	4	7	62	1	0	46	41	.318	.385	.436	.821	188	17	6	2	8	2
Héctor Luna	127	522	462	87	137	19	2	2	38	17	5	48	64	.297	.368	.359	.727	166	10	5	5	2	1
Corey Smith	127	526	473	51	128	27	3	9	64	7	2	50	99	.271	.340	.397	.737	188	9	0	2	1	0
Ryan Church	99	409	371	47	97	17	3	13	52	4	3	32	64	.261	.325	.429	.754	159	17	4	0	2	1
Tyler Minges	122	457	422	49	94	18	5	10	44	6	4	27	65	.223	.270	.360	.630	152	11	2	1	5	0
Eric Crozier	108	404	347	52	85	10	3	19	52	5	3	51	92	.245	.344	.455	.799	158	3	3	0	3	3
Joe Inglett	71	322	276	41	78	16	1	4	25	1	2	37	36	.283	.377	.391	.768	108	8	6	1	2	0
Maicer Izturis	53	251	218	31	61	11	5	1	20	14	6	24	23	.280	.351	.390	.741	85	4	1	6	2	1
Brian Luderer	76	282	245	29	59	12	2	4	34	0	1	24	33	.241	.320	.355	.675	87	4	7	1	5	0
Vic Valencia	58	232	207	22	52	11	1	9	33	2	1	20	49	.251	.319	.444	.763	92	7	2	0	3	2
Luke Scott	50	202	183	21	50	13	1	7	37	0	1	11	37	.273	.317	.470	.787	86	2	2	3	3	0
Ron Wright	50	213	176	25	46	9	0	9	38	0	1	29	39	.261	.376	.466	.841	82	3	5	0	3	3
Nate Grindell	42	165	142	24	33	12	2	3	22	0	0	20	24	.232	.323	.408	.732	58	7	0	1	2	0
Alex Requena	50	166	150	18	27	2	2	1	5	6	3	10	39	.180	.245	.240	.485	36	0	3	3	0	0
Dusty Wathan	9	35	33	3	9	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	4	.273	.257	.333	.590	11	1	0	0	2	0
Chris Magruder	3	14	13	0	6	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	2	.462	.500	.462	.962	6	0	0	0	0	0
Víctor Martínez	3	12	12	1	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.833	6	1	0	0	0	0
Jim Goelz	6	16	15	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.200	.250	.267	.517	4	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Cotto	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Lawton	5	21	19	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.053	.143	.053	.195	1	1	0	0	0	0
Nathan Panther	3	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clint Chauncey	5	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1312	5327	4717	672	1259	230	45	111	616	74	41	479	804	.267	.339	.405	.744	1912	110	57	26	48	14

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Eric Crozier	1B	100	771	66	12	62	.986	8.370
Luis González	1B	43	362	27	2	34	.995	9.047
Ron Wright	1B	2	12	0	0	1	1.000	6.000
Nate Grindell	1B	2	7	1	1	1	.889	4.000
Brian Luderer	1B	1	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.000
Joe Inglett	2B	66	112	172	10	33	.966	4.303
Maicer Izturis	2B	41	66	110	9	19	.951	4.293
Luis González	2B	32	57	71	3	17	.977	4.000
Jim Goelz	2B	2	3	4	0	0	1.000	3.500
Héctor Luna	2B	1	2	3	0	0	1.000	5.000
Luis Cotto	2B	1	2	4	1	0	.857	6.000
Corey Smith	3B	122	77	204	44	9	.865	2.303
Luis González	3B	12	9	18	4	1	.871	2.250
Nate Grindell	3B	11	3	16	1	2	.950	1.727
Brian Luderer	C	73	462	41	2	5	.996	6.890	11	55	20	26.7
Vic Valencia	C	57	441	30	3	3	.994	8.263	5	47	10	17.5
Dusty Wathan	C	9	59	9	0	1	1.000	7.556	0	9	4	30.8
Clint Chauncey	C	5	26	2	0	0	1.000	5.600	0	1	1	50.0
Víctor Martínez	C	1	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.000	0	0	0
Grady Sizemore	CF	112						.000
Ryan Church	CF	16						.000
Alex Requena	CF	11						.000
Tyler Minges	CF	3						.000
Tyler Minges	LF	60						.000
Alex Requena	LF	24						.000
Nate Grindell	LF	21						.000
Luke Scott	LF	17						.000
Luis González	LF	14						.000
Grady Sizemore	LF	13						.000
Joe Inglett	LF	2						.000
Chris Magruder	LF	1						.000
Eric Crozier	LF	1						.000
Ryan Church	LF	1						.000
Grady Sizemore	OF	125	283	6	4	0	.986	2.312
Tyler Minges	OF	118	268	18	6	5	.979	2.424
Ryan Church	OF	98	245	11	6	2	.977	2.612
Alex Requena	OF	35	57	3	1	2	.984	1.714
Nate Grindell	OF	21	33	4	1	0	.974	1.762
Luke Scott	OF	17	34	2	2	0	.947	2.118
Luis González	OF	15	21	1	0	0	1.000	1.467
Nathan Panther	OF	2	6	1	0	0	1.000	3.500
Joe Inglett	OF	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Jim Goelz	OF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Eric Crozier	OF	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Chris Magruder	OF	1	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.000
Ryan Larson	P	40	5	15	1	0	.952	.500
Jose Vargas	P	37	1	7	0	0	1.000	.216
Fernando Cabrera	P	36	4	13	1	1	.944	.472
Jake Robbins	P	34	4	18	2	5	.917	.647
Kazuhito Tadano	P	31	2	13	0	0	1.000	.484
Rafael Betancourt	P	31	1	3	0	0	1.000	.129
Derrick Van Dusen	P	28	5	18	3	1	.885	.821
Kyle Evans	P	28	15	25	2	2	.952	1.429
Francisco Cruceta	P	27	10	25	1	2	.972	1.296
Kyle Denney	P	18	6	11	1	0	.944	.944
Oscar Alvarez	P	13	0	11	0	0	1.000	.846
Shane Wallace	P	10	0	4	0	0	1.000	.400
Jeremy Guthrie	P	10	3	15	1	1	.947	1.800
Marcos Mendoza	P	9	0	2	0	0	1.000	.222
Jack Cressend	P	8	1	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Todd Pennington	P	7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.143
Paul Rigdon	P	6	2	8	0	0	1.000	1.667
Aquiles Pinales	P	6	1	0	0	1	1.000	.167
Kenny Rayborn	P	5	1	3	0	0	1.000	.800
Dan Neil	P	5	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Jason Rakers	P	4	0	0	0	0		.000
Aaron Myette	P	3	1	0	0	0	1.000	.333
Chad Durbin	P	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.000
Mark Wohlers	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Bob Wickman	P	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Blake Stein	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Keith Ramsey	P	2	0	3	0	0	1.000	1.500
Kevin Martin	P	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Cliff Lee	P	2	0	1	0	1	1.000	.500
Shea Douglas	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Jim Ed Warden	P	1	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.000
Ignacio Montano	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Roberto Hernández	P	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Ryan Church	RF	82						.000
Tyler Minges	RF	59						.000
Nathan Panther	RF	2						.000
Jim Goelz	RF	2						.000
Luis González	RF	1						.000
Eric Crozier	RF	1						.000
Héctor Luna	SS	126	188	319	35	73	.935	4.024
Maicer Izturis	SS	9	15	20	3	0	.921	3.889
Luis González	SS	6	8	15	0	3	1.000	3.833
Corey Smith	SS	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Jim Goelz	SS	1	1	4	0	1	1.000	5.000
Totals		2021	3715	1385	164	288	.969	2.524	16	112	35	23.8

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

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