1998 Michigan Battle Cats Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 79-61
Finished 2nd in the MWL's East Division
Manager: Billy Gardner (79-61)
Affiliation: Boston Red Sox
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
Ballpark: C.O. Brown Stadium
Attendance: 107,137, Avg. 1,648 in 65 home dates

1998 Michigan Battle Cats Roster

Playoffs - West Michigan Whitecaps 2 games, Michigan Battle Cats 1

The Michigan Battle Cats of the Midwest League ended the 1998 season with a record of 79 wins and 61 losses, finishing second in the league's East Division.

The Battle Cats scored 685 runs and allowed 631 runs. Shea Hillenbrand paced Michigan with 19 home runs, and Jeff Keaveney walloped 15 or more, too. Shea Hillenbrand accounted for 93 RBI and topped batters with significant playing time with a .349 average. Joe Thomas led the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 3.25 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Players from the 1998 Michigan Battle Cats who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Marty McLeary, Justin Duchscherer, Rontrez Johnson and Shea Hillenbrand.

Billy Gardner 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
Joe Thomas	12	5	.706	3.25	20	20	0	1	1	0	130.3	126	52	47	6	36	0	100	11	3	1	551
Brian Partenheimer	7	5	.583	3.62	60	0	23	0	0	6	82.0	79	35	33	5	21	7	61	8	0	5	344
Rafael Arias	7	7	.500	5.09	34	12	3	0	0	1	109.7	130	68	62	8	31	0	69	6	0	6	486
Justin Duchscherer	7	12	.368	4.79	30	26	2	0	0	0	142.7	166	87	76	9	47	3	106	13	1	7	627
Mike Rupp	6	1	.857	5.03	11	11	0	0	0	0	48.3	51	28	27	2	30	0	48	2	0	3	220
John Curtice	6	6	.500	3.37	25	25	0	1	0	0	133.7	96	61	50	7	79	0	146	8	3	14	572
Junior Santana	5	3	.625	5.11	15	9	2	0	0	0	61.7	77	41	35	3	19	1	39	3	0	3	279
Marty McLeary	5	7	.417	4.16	37	7	11	0	0	0	88.7	99	58	41	4	35	2	54	5	1	5	396
Jeff Taglienti	4	2	.667	1.89	57	0	49	0	0	30	76.3	54	19	16	0	17	2	111	3	0	3	303
Kenny Rayborn	4	2	.667	4.56	17	8	5	0	0	0	49.3	62	27	25	5	13	0	34	1	0	8	217
Jason Norton	3	1	.750	1.93	7	7	0	0	0	0	42.0	34	14	9	1	12	2	36	1	0	3	173
Lance Surridge	3	3	.500	2.81	18	8	5	0	0	2	64.0	59	26	20	2	27	2	43	6	0	4	274
Jon Lyons	3	4	.429	2.77	41	0	17	0	0	3	65.0	63	29	20	2	27	4	57	7	0	3	294
Germaine Hunter	2	0	1.000	1.19	22	0	9	0	0	2	30.3	23	5	4	0	14	1	31	0	0	1	120
Mike Rahilly	2	0	1.000	8.84	12	1	2	0	0	0	18.3	25	18	18	2	9	0	19	0	0	4	87
Terry Hayden	2	2	.500	7.76	20	0	5	0	0	1	31.3	46	29	27	5	10	1	30	3	0	1	151
Mark Cisar	1	1	.500	4.91	6	0	2	0	0	1	7.3	8	4	4	0	8	0	4	0	0	2	37
Byron Tribe	0	0		5.04	5	5	0	0	0	0	25.0	17	15	14	1	15	0	25	0	0	0	110
Tom Miller	0	0		6.35	11	0	3	0	0	0	17.0	28	13	12	2	7	1	10	0	0	1	78
Rick O'Dette	0	0		9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	2	2	0	6	0	2	0	0	1	11
Totals	79	61	.564	3.98	449	140	138	2	1	46	1225.0	1243	631	542	64	463	26	1025	77	8	75	5330

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
Shea Hillenbrand	129	531	498	80	174	33	4	19	93	13	7	19	49	.349	.383	.546	.929	272	11	10	1	3	2
Aaron Capista	127	508	471	58	123	25	5	5	68	5	3	23	47	.261	.300	.367	.668	173	16	6	2	6	0
Alex Ahumada	111	430	390	45	108	22	2	0	35	4	7	25	91	.277	.330	.344	.674	134	9	8	3	4	0
Jess Graham	113	480	414	73	108	22	5	8	61	10	4	50	96	.261	.356	.396	.752	164	13	12	2	2	1
Mark Fischer	102	419	379	52	96	19	2	8	50	9	6	36	93	.253	.317	.377	.695	143	5	1	0	3	2
Jeff Keaveney	112	452	373	61	94	24	0	15	54	0	2	65	104	.252	.372	.437	.809	163	10	9	0	5	3
Carlos Leon	107	446	372	59	93	7	3	3	37	10	10	50	81	.250	.353	.309	.662	115	5	11	10	3	0
Rontrez Johnson	85	382	306	65	83	15	5	5	32	24	8	66	46	.271	.402	.402	.804	123	4	4	1	5	0
Chad Alevras	85	316	281	35	70	14	1	7	39	1	1	27	70	.249	.320	.381	.700	107	8	4	0	4	2
Danny Haas	96	330	299	39	70	14	1	3	29	1	2	22	55	.234	.296	.318	.613	95	7	5	2	2	1
Joe Hamilton	63	238	203	36	55	12	0	9	34	3	1	28	68	.271	.362	.463	.825	94	6	2	3	2	0
Jorge DeLeon	50	205	185	23	49	8	1	2	19	4	0	15	19	.265	.317	.351	.668	65	4	0	3	2	0
Gary Locurto	60	222	188	20	35	8	0	0	15	1	3	31	52	.186	.300	.229	.529	43	2	0	2	1	0
Larry Marino	53	164	139	15	25	3	0	1	13	0	0	22	26	.180	.296	.223	.519	31	0	1	2	0	0
Marcus Howard	30	104	94	7	19	1	1	1	10	2	2	8	24	.202	.279	.266	.545	25	2	2	0	0	0
Michael Gancasz	26	56	46	7	12	1	1	0	3	0	0	5	17	.261	.375	.326	.701	15	0	4	0	1	0
Jeff Uccello	21	46	41	4	9	3	0	0	1	3	2	3	6	.220	.289	.293	.582	12	0	1	1	0	0
Paul McDaniels	12	35	29	4	5	1	0	0	1	2	0	4	11	.172	.286	.207	.493	6	1	1	0	1	0
Keith Habig	6	12	12	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1388	5376	4720	685	1229	232	31	86	595	92	58	499	957	.260	.339	.377	.716	1781	104	81	32	44	11

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Gary Locurto	1B	59	463	30	6	32	.988	8.356
Jeff Keaveney	1B	26	205	18	5	25	.978	8.577
Joe Hamilton	1B	21	188	15	5	9	.976	9.667
Chad Alevras	1B	20	145	6	6	14	.962	7.550
Michael Gancasz	1B	14	74	7	1	6	.988	5.786
Shea Hillenbrand	1B	12	88	5	0	5	1.000	7.750
Jeff Uccello	1B	6	26	0	0	4	1.000	4.333
Carlos Leon	2B	107	209	254	17	55	.965	4.327
Alex Ahumada	2B	26	45	52	6	13	.942	3.731
Jorge DeLeon	2B	18	32	42	3	9	.961	4.111
Larry Marino	2B	1	2	0	1	1	.667	2.000
Alex Ahumada	3B	81	38	153	14	8	.932	2.358
Larry Marino	3B	52	25	86	3	8	.974	2.135
Jorge DeLeon	3B	26	17	49	6	4	.917	2.538
Shea Hillenbrand	3B	2	0	1	1	0	.500	.500
Keith Habig	3B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Shea Hillenbrand	C	87	612	58	13	5	.981	7.701	20	106	34	24.3
Chad Alevras	C	49	331	32	6	4	.984	7.408	4	51	16	23.9
Michael Gancasz	C	12	50	2	1	0	.981	4.333	1	5	2	28.6
Jeff Uccello	C	9	63	5	0	1	1.000	7.556	1	13	4	23.5
Rontrez Johnson	CF	81						.000
Mark Fischer	CF	36						.000
Joe Hamilton	CF	24						.000
Marcus Howard	CF	7						.000
Jess Graham	LF	72						.000
Danny Haas	LF	70						.000
Paul McDaniels	LF	4						.000
Jeff Uccello	LF	3						.000
Joe Hamilton	LF	3						.000
Keith Habig	LF	3						.000
Marcus Howard	LF	1						.000
Jess Graham	OF	109	170	13	4	1	.979	1.679
Mark Fischer	OF	95	177	5	9	0	.953	1.916
Rontrez Johnson	OF	82	175	3	3	1	.983	2.171
Danny Haas	OF	71	110	8	10	1	.922	1.662
Joe Hamilton	OF	41	62	2	1	0	.985	1.561
Marcus Howard	OF	29	49	1	1	0	.980	1.724
Paul McDaniels	OF	12	22	0	0	0	1.000	1.833
Jeff Uccello	OF	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Keith Habig	OF	3	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667
Brian Partenheimer	P	60	5	16	0	0	1.000	.350
Jeff Taglienti	P	57	5	8	0	1	1.000	.228
Jon Lyons	P	41	5	6	0	0	1.000	.268
Marty McLeary	P	37	6	19	0	0	1.000	.676
Rafael Arias	P	34	7	11	0	1	1.000	.529
Justin Duchscherer	P	30	7	34	1	4	.976	1.367
John Curtice	P	25	6	10	4	0	.800	.640
Germaine Hunter	P	22	1	7	0	1	1.000	.364
Joe Thomas	P	20	6	20	3	1	.897	1.300
Terry Hayden	P	20	1	4	0	0	1.000	.250
Lance Surridge	P	18	4	10	0	1	1.000	.778
Kenny Rayborn	P	17	7	3	0	0	1.000	.588
Junior Santana	P	15	3	8	1	0	.917	.733
Mike Rahilly	P	12	0	1	0	0	1.000	.083
Mike Rupp	P	11	2	4	0	0	1.000	.545
Tom Miller	P	11	1	1	0	0	1.000	.182
Jason Norton	P	7	3	6	1	0	.900	1.286
Mark Cisar	P	6	1	0	0	0	1.000	.167
Byron Tribe	P	5	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.200
Rick O'Dette	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Mark Fischer	RF	59						.000
Jess Graham	RF	45						.000
Marcus Howard	RF	22						.000
Joe Hamilton	RF	16						.000
Paul McDaniels	RF	9						.000
Rontrez Johnson	RF	1						.000
Danny Haas	RF	1						.000
Aaron Capista	SS	126	188	329	24	58	.956	4.103
Alex Ahumada	SS	15	26	49	4	7	.949	5.000
Jorge DeLeon	SS	5	5	16	0	3	1.000	4.200
Carlos Leon	SS	1	1	1	0	1	1.000	2.000
Totals		2127	3675	1415	160	284	.970	2.393	26	175	56	24.2

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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