2007 Kane County Cougars Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 63-76
Finished 6th in the MWL's West Division
Manager: Aaron Nieckula (63-76)
Affiliation: Oakland Athletics
Location: Geneva, Illinois
Ballpark: Phillip Elfstrom Stadium
Attendance: 468,869, Avg. 7,213 in 65 home dates

2007 Kane County Cougars Roster

The Kane County Cougars of the Midwest League ended the 2007 season with a record of 63 wins and 76 losses, finishing sixth in the league's West Division.

The Cougars tallied 589 runs and surrendered 593 runs. Greg Dowling paced Kane County with 13 home runs and drove in 78 runs. Jermaine Mitchell topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .288 clip. Trevor Cahill and Jim Heuser led the squad with 11 wins each, while Jim Heuser recorded a 4.12 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.

Players from the 2007 Kane County Cougars who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Henry Rodríguez, Andrew Carignan, Andrew Bailey, Trevor Cahill, Sam Demel and Sean Doolittle.

Aaron Nieckula 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
Trevor Cahill	11	4	.733	2.73	20	19	0	0	0	0	105.3	85	38	32	3	40	1	117	9	0	8	437
Jim Heuser	11	8	.579	4.12	27	26	0	2	1	0	155.0	150	82	71	19	41	0	147	10	5	8	650
Jason Fernandez	8	2	.800	2.77	31	11	8	1	0	2	110.7	82	39	34	5	46	0	99	7	0	2	451
Scott Deal	7	10	.412	4.29	27	25	0	1	0	0	149.0	183	82	71	10	38	1	74	10	2	3	655
Henry Rodríguez	6	8	.429	3.07	20	18	1	1	0	0	99.7	75	38	34	2	58	0	106	4	0	13	419
Eric Sheridan	4	1	.800	3.91	15	0	6	0	0	0	23.0	23	11	10	3	18	1	30	2	0	4	109
Nick Walters	3	1	.750	1.78	13	0	5	0	0	1	25.3	25	12	5	2	4	0	23	2	0	2	107
Derrick Gordon	3	3	.500	2.10	30	0	18	0	0	7	51.3	28	15	12	5	20	1	52	2	5	2	203
Travis Banwart	2	1	.667	2.60	12	6	3	0	0	1	45.0	36	21	13	2	10	0	41	0	0	2	185
T. J. Franco	2	2	.500	2.67	17	0	8	0	0	2	33.7	33	12	10	1	7	0	24	1	0	2	138
John Herrera	2	8	.200	4.89	21	11	5	0	0	0	88.3	99	53	48	5	41	1	51	5	0	21	400
Andrew Carignan	1	1	.500	2.02	12	0	10	0	0	4	13.3	6	7	3	0	11	1	19	0	0	4	57
Joe Piekarz	1	3	.250	6.75	8	1	3	0	0	0	17.3	22	17	13	2	9	0	12	1	1	2	85
Andrew Bailey	1	4	.200	3.35	11	10	1	1	0	0	51.0	42	25	19	6	22	1	74	3	0	2	218
Scott Moore	1	4	.200	3.90	41	1	22	0	0	11	60.0	53	33	26	4	36	5	60	2	1	3	269
Haas Pratt	0	0		1.59	4	0	4	0	0	0	5.7	5	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	24
Pat Currin	0	0		3.14	8	0	2	0	0	1	14.3	11	5	5	0	6	1	17	2	0	1	61
Derek Tharpe	0	0		6.35	6	0	1	0	0	0	11.3	14	10	8	1	2	0	8	2	0	2	52
Shane Presutti	0	0		7.94	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.7	9	5	5	0	4	0	3	0	0	6	30
Branden Dewing	0	1	.000	0.64	19	0	8	0	0	2	28.0	25	3	2	0	8	1	24	0	0	2	119
Sam Demel	0	1	.000	0.96	9	0	8	0	0	4	9.3	3	2	1	0	4	1	10	0	0	2	34
Ronald Madej	0	2	.000	4.50	10	0	4	0	0	0	16.0	18	9	8	1	12	0	15	0	0	1	76
Joey Newby	0	3	.000	8.59	9	0	7	0	0	0	14.7	23	16	14	1	8	2	12	2	0	3	78
Craig Italiano	0	3	.000	12.71	6	6	0	0	0	0	17.0	32	25	24	3	16	0	24	2	0	1	97
Inoel Deaza	0	6	.000	6.65	13	5	7	0	0	0	43.3	57	32	32	8	13	1	36	5	0	1	197
Totals	63	76	.453	3.78	393	139	133	6	1	35	1193.3	1139	593	501	83	476	18	1078	71	14	97	5151

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
Mike Massaro	129	554	490	62	140	17	1	1	35	13	11	58	81	.286	.362	.331	.693	162	6	2	2	2	0
Jermaine Mitchell	122	513	431	79	124	20	5	8	58	24	8	74	115	.288	.390	.413	.803	178	4	1	3	4	2
Greg Dowling	124	512	451	60	118	15	1	13	78	1	1	49	66	.262	.341	.386	.726	174	12	7	1	4	2
Alex Valdez	111	438	397	55	105	24	6	10	60	6	4	34	84	.264	.321	.431	.752	171	7	1	2	4	0
Todd Johnson	104	416	372	45	90	16	1	6	48	3	1	35	85	.242	.313	.339	.652	126	11	5	1	3	0
Michael Affronti	78	325	295	38	78	15	0	5	29	8	2	18	48	.264	.313	.366	.680	108	12	4	6	2	1
Christian Vitters	86	320	286	34	65	14	1	5	29	3	1	30	81	.227	.304	.336	.640	96	7	2	1	1	1
Larry Cobb	80	323	275	46	58	10	1	4	31	10	5	41	53	.211	.320	.298	.618	82	4	4	1	2	0
Haas Pratt	64	244	215	27	48	9	0	10	28	0	3	22	62	.223	.309	.405	.713	87	6	5	1	1	1
Gustavo Rosendo	68	241	222	11	48	8	0	1	18	2	2	14	32	.216	.264	.266	.529	59	13	1	2	2	0
Sean Doolittle	55	222	193	23	45	10	0	4	29	1	0	24	40	.233	.320	.347	.667	67	4	2	0	3	0
Jake Smith	37	153	133	14	39	10	0	1	6	0	1	16	23	.293	.382	.391	.773	52	3	3	1	0	0
Matthew Sulentic	56	222	206	14	36	6	0	1	16	2	0	13	37	.175	.234	.218	.453	45	4	3	0	0	0
Josh Horton	38	157	122	28	34	6	0	1	15	3	1	28	27	.279	.417	.352	.769	43	3	3	1	3	1
Matt Smith	38	149	122	16	25	6	0	1	8	1	0	21	29	.205	.338	.279	.617	34	2	4	1	1	0
Ramiro Mendez	37	132	120	15	24	7	0	2	15	0	0	11	33	.200	.265	.308	.573	37	4	0	0	1	0
Samuel Hernandez	31	113	95	13	21	5	0	0	7	3	2	15	25	.221	.339	.274	.613	26	3	2	1	0	0
Isaac Omura	33	122	108	6	21	4	0	0	11	0	0	10	20	.194	.264	.231	.496	25	3	1	1	2	0
David Castillo	13	56	46	3	14	1	0	0	3	0	0	9	9	.304	.429	.326	.755	15	0	1	0	0	0
Totals	1304	5212	4579	589	1133	203	16	73	524	80	42	522	950	.247	.329	.347	.675	1587	108	51	25	35	8

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Greg Dowling	1B	73	536	39	6	56	.990	7.877
Sean Doolittle	1B	50	382	49	3	36	.993	8.620
Haas Pratt	1B	17	126	5	3	7	.978	7.706
Christian Vitters	1B	5	30	3	1	0	.971	6.600
Gustavo Rosendo	1B	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Larry Cobb	2B	71	141	164	14	42	.956	4.296
Isaac Omura	2B	27	39	66	5	15	.955	3.889
Alex Valdez	2B	21	32	46	2	7	.975	3.714
Samuel Hernandez	2B	11	14	19	0	4	1.000	3.000
Michael Affronti	2B	6	12	22	1	9	.971	5.667
Christian Vitters	2B	5	11	14	1	4	.962	5.000
Christian Vitters	3B	67	53	97	14	6	.915	2.239
Alex Valdez	3B	62	27	100	14	7	.901	2.048
Samuel Hernandez	3B	14	13	25	6	3	.864	2.714
Isaac Omura	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Gustavo Rosendo	C	62	482	37	12	4	.977	8.371	12	61	39	39.0
Matt Smith	C	38	278	14	4	1	.986	7.684	7	32	15	31.9
Jake Smith	C	31	242	21	4	4	.985	8.484	6	31	13	29.5
David Castillo	C	11	104	7	1	2	.991	1.091	0	4	3	42.9
Haas Pratt	C	2	6	1	0	0	1.000	3.500	1	4	0	0.0
Mike Massaro	CF	88	184	7	1	4	.995	2.170
Jermaine Mitchell	CF	45	83	2	1	1	.988	1.889
Larry Cobb	CF	4	8	0	1	0	.889	2.000
Todd Johnson	CF	3	9	0	0	0	1.000	3.000
Todd Johnson	LF	72	111	6	3	1	.975	1.625
Matthew Sulentic	LF	44	64	1	3	0	.956	1.477
Jermaine Mitchell	LF	17	29	0	1	0	.967	1.706
Ramiro Mendez	LF	7	6	2	0	0	1.000	1.143
Mike Massaro	LF	3	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.667
Mike Massaro	OF	124	257	10	1	4	.996	2.153
Jermaine Mitchell	OF	116	215	8	5	4	.978	1.922
Todd Johnson	OF	91	145	8	3	3	.981	1.681
Matthew Sulentic	OF	53	83	1	3	0	.966	1.585
Ramiro Mendez	OF	35	71	5	2	0	.974	2.171
Larry Cobb	OF	4	8	0	1	0	.889	2.000
Scott Moore	P	41	5	4	1	0	.900	.220
Jason Fernandez	P	31	9	13	1	1	.957	.710
Derrick Gordon	P	30	0	10	0	0	1.000	.333
Jim Heuser	P	27	3	30	2	0	.943	1.222
Scott Deal	P	27	14	14	5	2	.848	1.037
John Herrera	P	21	8	9	2	0	.895	.810
Henry Rodríguez	P	20	10	18	2	0	.933	1.400
Trevor Cahill	P	20	5	28	3	2	.917	1.650
Branden Dewing	P	19	1	4	0	0	1.000	.263
T. J. Franco	P	17	0	9	1	0	.900	.529
Eric Sheridan	P	15	2	5	1	1	.875	.467
Nick Walters	P	13	0	7	0	0	1.000	.538
Inoel Deaza	P	13	0	4	1	1	.800	.308
Andrew Carignan	P	12	2	1	1	0	.750	.250
Travis Banwart	P	12	5	5	1	0	.909	.833
Andrew Bailey	P	11	3	7	2	0	.833	.909
Ronald Madej	P	10	0	1	0	0	1.000	.100
Joey Newby	P	9	0	1	1	0	.500	.111
Sam Demel	P	9	1	1	0	0	1.000	.222
Joe Piekarz	P	8	2	0	2	0	.500	.250
Pat Currin	P	8	2	4	0	0	1.000	.750
Derek Tharpe	P	6	0	3	0	0	1.000	.500
Craig Italiano	P	6	2	0	0	0	1.000	.333
Shane Presutti	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Haas Pratt	P	4	1	0	0	0	1.000	.250
Jermaine Mitchell	RF	55	103	6	3	3	.973	1.982
Mike Massaro	RF	33	65	3	0	0	1.000	2.061
Ramiro Mendez	RF	28	65	3	2	0	.971	2.429
Todd Johnson	RF	16	25	2	0	2	1.000	1.688
Matthew Sulentic	RF	9	19	0	0	0	1.000	2.111
Michael Affronti	SS	70	114	216	13	46	.962	4.714
Josh Horton	SS	38	42	80	7	15	.946	3.211
Alex Valdez	SS	25	29	55	8	12	.913	3.360
Christian Vitters	SS	6	8	18	3	8	.897	4.333
Samuel Hernandez	SS	5	3	7	4	1	.714	2.000
Totals		1959	4359	1348	182	318	.969	2.913	26	132	70	34.7

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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