2008 Asheville Tourists Statistics

South Atlantic League (SAL) - Class: A
Team Record: 83-56
Finished 2nd in the SAL's South Division
Manager: Joe Mikulik (83-56)
Affiliation: Colorado Rockies
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Ballpark: McCormick Stadium (new)
Attendance: 175,892, Avg. 2,625 in 67 home dates

2008 Asheville Tourists Roster

Playoffs - Augusta GreenJackets 2 games, Asheville Tourists 0

The Asheville Tourists of the South Atlantic League ended the 2008 season with a record of 83 wins and 56 losses, finishing second in the league's South Division.

The Tourists scored 693 runs and allowed 582 runs. Jeff Cunningham led Asheville with 18 home runs, while Kevin Clark and Brian Rike walloped 15 or more also. Darin Holcomb drove in 102 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .318 clip. Connor Graham paced the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 2.26 ERA, best among regular hurlers.

Ryan Speier, Shane Lindsay, Everth Cabrera, Matt Reynolds, Edgmer Escalona, Jhoulys Chacín, Christian Friedrich and Bruce Billings were all players from the 2008 Asheville Tourists who played in the Majors during their careers.

Joe Mikulik 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
Connor Graham	12	6	.667	2.26	26	26	0	2	2	0	147.3	99	50	37	3	83	0	138	2	1	8	617
Jhoulys Chacín	10	1	.909	1.86	16	16	0	2	0	0	111.3	82	30	23	3	30	0	98	12	0	8	447
Sheng-An Kuo	9	7	.562	5.16	24	21	0	0	0	0	113.3	132	83	65	15	65	0	79	4	3	8	526
Bruce Billings	9	11	.450	4.13	27	27	0	2	1	0	161.3	163	85	74	11	42	0	144	5	0	3	685
Cory Riordan	8	9	.471	3.65	26	25	0	2	1	0	167.7	185	91	68	18	29	0	160	8	1	13	722
Craig Baker	7	5	.583	2.22	52	0	23	0	0	6	56.7	49	16	14	5	11	1	70	5	0	3	233
Matt Reynolds	6	2	.750	2.53	42	0	14	0	0	2	57.0	49	19	16	4	14	0	53	1	0	7	237
Edgmer Escalona	6	2	.750	3.22	44	0	17	0	0	1	78.3	71	32	28	9	18	0	79	6	1	5	320
Joey Williamson	4	0	1.000	3.04	35	2	8	0	0	1	83.0	67	32	28	6	32	0	89	11	0	7	350
Craig Rodriguez	4	3	.571	2.59	42	0	8	0	0	1	59.0	51	19	17	2	22	2	61	1	0	1	247
Robinson Fabian	4	6	.400	5.38	17	13	0	0	0	0	72.0	89	54	43	10	22	0	59	8	0	6	331
Randall Taylor	3	1	.750	3.91	52	0	46	0	0	32	50.7	50	24	22	7	16	0	55	1	0	3	211
Shane Lindsay	1	2	.333	5.55	6	6	0	0	0	0	24.3	30	16	15	1	12	0	26	1	0	1	112
Ethan Katz	0	0		3.00	14	0	8	0	0	0	15.0	18	5	5	2	2	0	13	1	0	0	64
Andrew Groves	0	0		9.22	13	0	7	0	0	0	13.7	19	14	14	1	15	0	8	1	0	1	70
Ryan Speier	0	0		10.80	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	1	2	2	0	2	0	3	0	0	1	9
Christian Friedrich	0	1	.000	7.50	3	3	0	0	0	0	12.0	14	10	10	2	7	0	15	0	0	3	59
Totals	83	56	.597	3.54	441	139	131	8	4	43	1224.3	1169	582	481	99	422	3	1150	67	6	78	5240

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
Darin Holcomb	137	588	509	89	162	46	0	14	102	6	5	65	60	.318	.400	.491	.891	250	14	8	1	5	3
Mike Mitchell	127	570	500	93	150	24	5	4	45	55	9	37	118	.300	.365	.392	.757	196	9	15	17	1	1
Everth Cabrera	121	550	479	80	136	25	6	6	38	73	16	51	101	.284	.361	.399	.760	191	6	8	10	2	2
Brian Rike	120	519	445	67	110	13	2	15	75	13	7	62	161	.247	.346	.387	.732	172	6	7	1	4	0
Helder Velazquez	117	474	448	57	105	29	2	9	49	12	13	15	94	.234	.267	.368	.635	165	8	5	5	1	0
Kevin Clark	112	464	397	60	104	23	1	17	76	22	6	54	136	.262	.348	.453	.801	180	3	3	1	9	1
Jeff Cunningham	109	455	404	63	104	23	2	18	78	6	6	47	134	.257	.338	.458	.796	185	2	3	0	1	0
David Christensen	94	365	335	44	76	21	1	11	46	12	3	23	130	.227	.288	.394	.682	132	5	6	0	1	0
Lars Davis	81	318	296	29	74	10	3	5	27	8	5	15	77	.250	.291	.355	.646	105	4	3	2	2	0
Warren Schaeffer	92	319	287	38	65	16	1	3	33	6	2	20	63	.226	.283	.321	.604	92	10	4	5	3	0
Bo Bowman	31	136	126	15	41	7	1	2	16	5	2	9	19	.325	.375	.444	.819	56	1	1	0	0	0
Brian Lapin	55	208	191	25	40	7	3	6	23	1	1	12	44	.209	.264	.372	.636	71	2	3	0	2	0
Beau Seabury	51	187	170	18	30	7	0	1	14	3	2	11	56	.176	.228	.235	.464	40	4	1	3	2	0
Brian Aguailar	16	61	55	9	9	1	0	0	2	1	0	5	16	.164	.246	.182	.428	10	0	1	0	0	0
Spence Nagy	12	37	34	6	5	2	0	1	2	4	0	2	5	.147	.189	.294	.483	10	1	0	0	1	0
Totals	1275	5251	4676	693	1211	254	27	112	626	227	77	428	1214	.259	.328	.397	.725	1855	75	68	45	34	7

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Jeff Cunningham	1B	102	851	74	17	76	.982	9.069
Bo Bowman	1B	21	171	15	5	19	.974	8.857
Warren Schaeffer	1B	17	103	9	1	15	.991	6.588
Spence Nagy	1B	4	27	2	1	3	.967	7.250
Everth Cabrera	2B	84	160	239	17	44	.959	4.750
Warren Schaeffer	2B	38	78	93	2	24	.988	4.500
Helder Velazquez	2B	18	40	48	3	10	.967	4.889
Spence Nagy	2B	2	11	6	1	3	.944	8.500
Darin Holcomb	2B	1	3	2	0	1	1.000	5.000
Darin Holcomb	3B	117	69	218	18	22	.941	2.453
Warren Schaeffer	3B	23	11	32	2	3	.956	1.870
Spence Nagy	3B	4	5	3	4	1	.667	2.000
Helder Velazquez	3B	1	0	3	1	0	.750	3.000
Jeff Cunningham	3B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Lars Davis	C	75	639	63	7	6	.990	9.360	5	41	31	43.1
Beau Seabury	C	51	407	45	1	7	.998	8.863	5	17	18	51.4
Brian Aguailar	C	14	104	13	2	0	.983	8.357	1	14	3	17.6
Mike Mitchell	CF	127	236	9	6	4	.976	1.929
David Christensen	CF	6	8	0	1	0	.889	1.333
Brian Rike	CF	5	13	1	2	0	.875	2.800
Kevin Clark	CF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Kevin Clark	LF	91	127	4	5	2	.963	1.440
David Christensen	LF	30	45	2	2	0	.959	1.567
Brian Lapin	LF	21	31	0	1	0	.969	1.476
Mike Mitchell	OF	127	236	9	6	4	.976	1.929
Brian Rike	OF	116	184	17	7	2	.966	1.733
Kevin Clark	OF	105	156	4	5	2	.970	1.524
David Christensen	OF	37	55	2	3	0	.950	1.541
Brian Lapin	OF	34	46	0	2	0	.958	1.353
Bo Bowman	OF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Randall Taylor	P	52	2	5	1	0	.875	.135
Craig Baker	P	52	6	8	2	2	.875	.269
Edgmer Escalona	P	44	4	10	1	2	.933	.318
Craig Rodriguez	P	42	4	6	3	1	.769	.238
Matt Reynolds	P	42	3	13	3	0	.842	.381
Joey Williamson	P	35	2	8	2	0	.833	.286
Bruce Billings	P	27	17	17	2	3	.944	1.259
Cory Riordan	P	26	15	24	4	2	.907	1.500
Connor Graham	P	26	21	24	1	3	.978	1.731
Sheng-An Kuo	P	24	16	32	1	3	.980	2.000
Robinson Fabian	P	17	3	1	2	0	.667	.235
Jhoulys Chacín	P	16	10	21	2	1	.939	1.938
Ethan Katz	P	14	1	0	0	0	1.000	.071
Andrew Groves	P	13	0	0	0	0		.000
Shane Lindsay	P	6	3	2	0	0	1.000	.833
Christian Friedrich	P	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333
Ryan Speier	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Brian Rike	RF	111	171	16	5	2	.974	1.685
Brian Lapin	RF	13	15	0	1	0	.938	1.154
Kevin Clark	RF	13	28	0	0	0	1.000	2.154
Bo Bowman	RF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
David Christensen	RF	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Helder Velazquez	SS	90	132	243	32	50	.921	4.167
Everth Cabrera	SS	34	50	104	9	18	.945	4.529
Warren Schaeffer	SS	15	25	37	2	7	.969	4.133
Spence Nagy	SS	1	2	3	1	1	.833	5.000
Totals		1997	4351	1489	196	343	.968	2.924	11	72	52	41.9

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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