2008 Northwest Arkansas Naturals Statistics

Texas League (TL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 75-65
Finished 2nd in the TL's North Division
Manager: Brian Poldberg (75-65)
Affiliation: Kansas City Royals
Location: Springdale, Arkansas
Ballpark: Arvest Ballpark
Attendance: 358,792, Avg. 5,200 in 69 home dates

2008 Northwest Arkansas Naturals Roster

Playoffs - Arkansas Travelers 3 games, Northwest Arkansas Naturals 0

The Northwest Arkansas Naturals of the Texas League ended the 2008 season with a record of 75 wins and 65 losses, finishing second in the league's North Division.

The Naturals scored 640 runs and conceded 628 runs. Kila Ka'aihue led Northwest Arkansas with 26 home runs, while Juan Richardson and Brian McFall walloped 15 or more, too. Juan Richardson accounted for 82 RBI and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .296 clip. Blake Johnson and Dan Cortes paced the squad with 10 wins each, and Dan Cortes recorded a 3.8 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Players from the 2008 Northwest Arkansas Naturals who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Ed Lucas, Carlos Rosa, Irving Falu, Blake Wood, Ángel Sánchez, Dusty Hughes, Cody Clark, Román Colón, Cory Aldridge, John Bale, Jeff Fulchino, Kila Ka'aihue, Dan Cortes, Devon Lowery, Tim Hamulack and Juan Carlos Oviedo.

Brian Poldberg 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
Dan Cortes	10	4	.714	3.78	23	23	0	0	0	0	116.7	103	51	49	13	55	0	109	8	0	3	497
Blake Johnson	10	9	.526	4.85	26	25	1	0	0	0	143.0	168	85	77	20	38	0	86	11	1	5	624
Julio Pimentel	7	13	.350	5.38	28	28	0	0	0	0	157.3	193	103	94	17	52	0	115	6	0	16	696
Rowdy Hardy	6	11	.353	4.97	28	27	0	0	0	0	155.7	195	97	86	14	31	2	87	20	0	2	694
Chris Hayes	5	2	.714	1.64	40	0	32	0	0	12	65.7	49	14	12	4	13	3	39	1	0	1	246
Dusty Hughes	5	2	.714	2.91	20	4	7	0	0	3	52.7	47	17	17	3	16	1	43	0	1	1	209
Blake Wood	5	7	.417	5.30	18	18	0	2	2	0	86.7	96	55	51	7	32	0	76	7	0	11	383
Chris Nicoll	4	1	.800	3.09	19	1	5	0	0	3	43.7	43	16	15	2	8	2	55	4	0	1	183
Kyle Crist	4	1	.800	3.89	42	1	24	0	0	6	74.0	67	33	32	11	33	1	56	5	0	6	317
Jarod Plummer	4	1	.800	4.19	29	0	11	0	0	3	58.0	57	27	27	12	15	0	65	1	0	0	243
Carlos Rosa	4	2	.667	1.20	8	8	0	0	0	0	45.0	30	8	6	2	7	0	42	0	0	3	166
Gilbert De La Vara	3	0	1.000	2.76	21	0	7	0	0	2	32.7	23	12	10	0	15	0	21	1	0	2	129
Greg Atencio	3	3	.500	3.81	27	0	10	0	0	3	54.3	44	29	23	4	25	0	63	3	1	6	226
Román Colón	2	0	1.000	5.29	10	0	3	0	0	1	17.0	18	10	10	1	4	1	8	0	0	2	72
Paul Mildren	2	6	.250	6.33	19	3	8	0	0	1	42.7	54	31	30	5	25	0	34	1	1	1	208
Devon Lowery	1	0	1.000	0.69	9	0	5	0	0	2	13.0	8	2	1	0	5	0	17	1	0	0	54
Juan Carlos Oviedo	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6
Aaron Hartsock	0	0		2.25	1	0	1	0	0	1	4.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	13
Matt Peterson	0	0		2.41	11	0	6	0	0	3	18.7	16	5	5	3	5	1	13	1	0	1	75
John Bale	0	0		5.40	2	1	0	0	0	0	1.7	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	7
Jeff Fulchino	0	0		5.40	2	0	1	0	0	1	3.3	3	3	2	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	15
Tim Hamulack	0	1	.000	1.96	18	0	8	0	0	6	23.0	13	5	5	2	1	0	23	0	0	0	83
Julio De La Cruz	0	1	.000	4.23	14	0	4	0	0	0	27.7	25	14	13	5	12	0	13	1	0	1	117
Patrick Green	0	1	.000	8.38	7	0	5	0	0	0	9.7	14	9	9	3	3	1	8	0	0	2	45
Totals	75	65	.536	4.15	423	140	138	2	2	47	1248.0	1270	628	576	129	396	12	989	71	4	64	5308

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
Juan Richardson	133	559	494	90	146	36	2	16	82	2	5	54	93	.296	.370	.474	.844	234	17	7	0	4	2
Jose Duarte	133	585	528	68	132	19	2	10	47	28	8	50	91	.250	.313	.350	.663	185	8	0	3	4	0
Marc Maddox	127	518	453	69	128	30	0	4	30	15	12	48	73	.283	.363	.375	.738	170	14	10	5	2	0
Irving Falu	101	405	362	57	109	11	2	5	42	11	9	38	31	.301	.367	.384	.751	139	7	0	4	1	0
Mario Lisson	130	531	476	57	107	23	3	14	65	31	6	33	105	.225	.284	.374	.658	178	17	9	7	6	1
Kila Ka'aihue	91	376	287	64	90	11	0	26	79	3	2	80	41	.314	.463	.624	1.086	179	3	4	0	5	7
Brian McFall	106	404	348	42	84	16	2	18	61	7	6	39	103	.241	.329	.454	.783	158	6	9	3	5	0
Ovandy Suero	98	363	328	39	83	12	5	2	24	42	16	19	61	.253	.302	.338	.641	111	8	5	9	2	0
Ed Lucas	79	303	270	38	82	10	4	4	30	14	7	29	47	.304	.372	.415	.787	112	4	1	2	1	0
Geraldo Valentin	70	275	256	19	64	10	1	3	19	1	4	10	25	.250	.277	.332	.609	85	12	1	4	4	1
Ángel Sánchez	63	277	241	28	63	7	2	1	23	4	4	28	40	.261	.338	.320	.658	77	5	1	5	2	0
Adam Donachie	91	308	264	30	56	8	0	5	29	1	1	37	71	.212	.310	.299	.609	79	4	1	5	1	0
Cory Aldridge	49	195	167	23	45	6	1	10	40	2	4	25	37	.269	.361	.497	.858	83	2	0	1	2	2
Cody Clark	40	112	103	9	19	3	0	4	14	1	1	5	19	.184	.234	.330	.564	34	1	2	1	1	0
Kiel Thibault	31	109	100	7	16	6	0	0	9	5	0	5	23	.160	.196	.220	.416	22	3	0	2	2	0
Totals	1342	5320	4677	640	1224	208	24	122	594	167	85	500	860	.262	.337	.395	.731	1846	111	50	51	42	13

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Kila Ka'aihue	1B	70	617	38	8	66	.988	9.357
Juan Richardson	1B	67	546	35	6	58	.990	8.672
Ed Lucas	1B	5	26	3	0	2	1.000	5.800
Geraldo Valentin	1B	3	28	1	0	4	1.000	9.667
Adam Donachie	1B	1	7	1	0	0	1.000	8.000
Cody Clark	1B	1	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.000
Marc Maddox	2B	119	231	340	10	89	.983	4.798
Irving Falu	2B	20	51	52	0	17	1.000	5.150
Ed Lucas	2B	3	8	11	1	1	.950	6.333
Mario Lisson	3B	68	48	150	11	16	.947	2.912
Ed Lucas	3B	47	24	80	7	5	.937	2.213
Juan Richardson	3B	20	18	38	1	4	.982	2.800
Irving Falu	3B	12	12	15	0	2	1.000	2.250
Geraldo Valentin	3B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Adam Donachie	C	90	570	84	7	9	.989	7.267	3	81	48	37.2
Cody Clark	C	39	239	24	2	3	.992	6.744	2	27	8	22.9
Kiel Thibault	C	27	198	11	1	0	.995	7.741	3	25	9	26.5
Jose Duarte	CF	131	330	18	5	7	.986	2.656
Ovandy Suero	CF	11	32	1	0	0	1.000	3.000
Irving Falu	CF	5	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.400
Ovandy Suero	LF	85	129	6	5	0	.964	1.588
Geraldo Valentin	LF	32	36	1	1	0	.974	1.156
Irving Falu	LF	17	22	0	1	0	.957	1.294
Cory Aldridge	LF	10	15	0	1	0	.938	1.500
Ed Lucas	LF	9	19	1	0	0	1.000	2.222
Jose Duarte	OF	131	330	18	5	7	.986	2.656
Brian McFall	OF	99	170	8	2	2	.989	1.798
Ovandy Suero	OF	91	161	7	5	0	.971	1.846
Geraldo Valentin	OF	52	82	3	2	0	.977	1.635
Irving Falu	OF	45	65	4	2	1	.972	1.533
Cory Aldridge	OF	14	21	0	1	0	.955	1.500
Ed Lucas	OF	9	19	1	0	0	1.000	2.222
Kyle Crist	P	42	0	10	0	0	1.000	.238
Chris Hayes	P	40	2	15	1	2	.944	.425
Jarod Plummer	P	29	0	5	1	0	.833	.172
Julio Pimentel	P	28	3	19	4	1	.846	.786
Rowdy Hardy	P	28	9	32	1	1	.976	1.464
Greg Atencio	P	27	2	8	3	1	.769	.370
Blake Johnson	P	26	8	15	3	1	.885	.885
Dan Cortes	P	23	7	4	0	0	1.000	.478
Gilbert De La Vara	P	21	4	5	0	1	1.000	.429
Dusty Hughes	P	20	2	14	0	1	1.000	.800
Chris Nicoll	P	19	2	4	0	0	1.000	.316
Paul Mildren	P	19	0	3	0	0	1.000	.158
Blake Wood	P	18	5	11	1	1	.941	.889
Tim Hamulack	P	18	1	2	0	0	1.000	.167
Julio De La Cruz	P	14	4	1	1	0	.833	.357
Matt Peterson	P	11	2	0	0	0	1.000	.182
Román Colón	P	10	0	0	0	0		.000
Devon Lowery	P	9	0	0	0	0		.000
Carlos Rosa	P	8	5	5	0	1	1.000	1.250
Patrick Green	P	7	1	1	0	0	1.000	.286
Jeff Fulchino	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
John Bale	P	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Juan Carlos Oviedo	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Aaron Hartsock	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brian McFall	RF	99	170	8	2	2	.989	1.798
Irving Falu	RF	24	36	4	1	1	.976	1.667
Geraldo Valentin	RF	23	46	2	1	0	.980	2.087
Cory Aldridge	RF	4	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Ángel Sánchez	SS	61	80	207	11	40	.963	4.705
Mario Lisson	SS	60	97	176	12	52	.958	4.550
Irving Falu	SS	21	30	59	2	10	.978	4.238
Ed Lucas	SS	2	3	3	0	0	1.000	3.000
Totals		2051	4592	1567	128	408	.980	3.003	8	133	65	32.8

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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