2021 Northwest Arkansas Naturals Statistics

Double-A Central League (AA Central) - Class: AA
Team Record: 64-55
Finished 2nd in the AA Central's North Division
Manager: Scott Thorman (64-55)
Affiliation: Kansas City Royals
Location: Springdale, Arkansas
Ballpark: Arvest Ballpark
Attendance: 150,473, Avg. 2,736 in 55 home dates

2021 Northwest Arkansas Naturals Roster

Finals - Northwest Arkansas Naturals 3 games, Wichita Wind Surge 0

The Northwest Arkansas Naturals of the Double-A Central League ended the 2021 season with a record of 64 wins and 55 losses, finishing second in the league's North Division.

The Naturals paced the circuit with 668 runs, sparked by 166 home runs. Northwest Arkansas surrendered 563 runs. MJ Melendez powered the team with 28 home runs, while Bobby Witt, Brewer Hicklen and Nick Pratto each walloped 15 or more, too. MJ Melendez drove in 65 runs. Clay Dungan led hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .288 clip. Jonathan Heasley topped the squad with 7 wins and a team-best 3.34 earned run average, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 2021 Northwest Arkansas Naturals who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Dairon Blanco, Collin Snider, Emmanuel Rivera, Jonathan Bowlan, Brewer Hicklen, Vinnie Pasquantino, Robert Garcia, Adalberto Mondesí, Blake Perkins, Austin Cox, Bobby Witt, Ronald Bolaños, Meibrys Viloria, Freddy Fermin, MJ Melendez, Alec Marsh, Angel Zerpa, Nick Pratto, Jonathan Heasley, Carlos Sanabria, José Cuas, Foster Griffin, Tyler Cropley and Dylan Coleman.

Scott Thorman 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
Jonathan Heasley	7	3	.700	3.33	22	21	0	1	1	0	105.3	95	42	39	18	34	0	120	7	0	4	433
Andrés Núñez	6	3	.667	2.94	30	0	13	0	0	4	52.0	46	21	17	5	15	0	58	8	0	1	220
Nolan Watson	5	3	.625	5.80	25	6	1	0	0	0	68.3	86	46	44	12	31	0	41	5	0	4	314
Drew Parrish	5	4	.556	3.36	18	17	0	1	1	0	83.0	65	34	31	8	25	0	95	4	0	5	336
Stephen Woods	5	7	.417	7.42	22	7	2	0	0	1	47.3	59	44	39	5	45	0	48	1	0	9	239
Austin Cox	4	1	.800	3.00	15	15	0	1	0	0	63.0	54	23	21	8	25	0	56	0	0	5	260
Josh Dye	4	2	.667	2.52	38	0	24	0	0	9	60.7	53	19	17	5	18	2	68	1	0	3	250
Robert Garcia	4	3	.571	5.62	33	0	8	0	0	1	48.0	49	31	30	7	23	1	60	2	2	3	216
Carlos Sanabria	3	0	1.000	2.61	20	0	6	0	0	2	31.0	14	10	9	4	18	0	30	5	0	3	130
José Cuas	3	1	.750	1.95	22	0	12	0	0	3	32.3	31	11	7	1	7	0	32	2	0	0	133
Holden Capps	3	2	.600	7.48	12	0	2	0	0	0	21.7	41	20	18	2	9	0	19	2	0	1	113
Jonathan Bowlan	2	0	1.000	1.59	4	4	0	0	0	0	17.0	13	3	3	0	3	0	25	0	0	0	66
C. J. Eldred	2	0	1.000	4.35	4	1	1	0	0	0	10.3	10	6	5	1	4	0	12	0	0	0	45
Collin Snider	2	1	.667	2.97	27	0	17	0	0	3	36.3	32	12	12	1	14	0	41	3	0	4	152
Derrick Adams	2	3	.400	8.40	22	3	2	0	0	0	50.3	72	52	47	10	34	0	47	4	1	5	262
Yefri Del Rosario	2	4	.333	5.99	26	11	1	0	0	0	70.7	79	51	47	12	35	0	78	6	2	9	325
Dylan Coleman	1	1	.500	2.92	18	0	14	0	0	4	24.7	19	8	8	2	5	0	37	0	0	2	95
Andres Sotillet	1	2	.333	4.94	21	0	7	0	0	0	31.0	29	18	17	4	13	1	32	2	0	2	136
Marcelo Martinez	1	2	.333	5.08	7	7	0	0	0	0	28.3	21	16	16	7	11	0	33	0	0	0	115
Peyton Gray	1	2	.333	6.28	8	0	4	0	0	0	14.3	16	12	10	3	8	0	22	0	0	1	67
Alec Marsh	1	3	.250	4.97	6	6	0	0	0	0	25.3	20	14	14	4	13	0	42	1	0	1	106
Garrett Davila	0	0		6.91	7	0	0	0	0	0	14.3	13	12	11	2	8	0	12	0	0	3	61
Ronald Bolaños	0	0		7.11	3	3	0	0	0	0	6.3	7	6	5	2	8	0	7	0	0	0	33
Brhet Bewley	0	0		45.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	5	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Foster Griffin	0	2	.000	3.55	3	3	0	0	0	0	12.7	12	5	5	0	2	0	13	1	0	1	51
Daniel Tillo	0	3	.000	4.63	17	2	1	0	0	0	23.3	21	12	12	1	15	0	22	1	0	6	102
Angel Zerpa	0	3	.000	5.96	13	13	0	0	0	0	45.3	51	30	30	7	19	0	54	1	1	8	200
Totals	64	55	.538	4.56	444	119	116	3	2	27	1024.0	1013	563	519	133	442	4	1104	56	6	80	4468

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
Clay Dungan	108	499	444	74	128	17	4	9	56	28	11	40	73	.288	.357	.405	.762	180	5	9	3	3	0
Brewer Hicklen	107	424	362	70	88	15	3	16	57	40	4	52	132	.243	.346	.434	.780	157	6	6	2	2	0
MJ Melendez	79	347	298	58	85	18	0	28	65	2	4	43	76	.285	.372	.628	.999	187	3	1	0	5	0
Dairon Blanco	79	329	291	62	84	11	5	9	38	32	9	25	64	.289	.360	.454	.814	132	2	8	4	1	0
Freddy Fermin	73	303	269	45	75	13	1	10	45	1	1	29	50	.279	.356	.446	.803	120	7	4	0	1	0
Bobby Witt	61	279	244	44	72	11	4	16	51	14	8	25	67	.295	.369	.570	.939	139	1	6	0	4	0
Vinnie Pasquantino	55	237	200	35	62	17	0	11	42	2	0	31	26	.310	.405	.560	.965	112	3	3	0	3	3
Nick Pratto	61	275	221	44	60	13	4	15	43	7	5	46	80	.271	.404	.570	.974	126	1	5	0	3	1
Blake Perkins	72	280	238	33	48	8	1	7	30	9	2	40	81	.202	.319	.332	.651	79	2	1	1	0	0
Brhet Bewley	56	225	204	29	47	7	1	6	34	1	4	15	55	.230	.284	.363	.647	74	6	2	0	4	0
Rudy Martin	43	165	129	31	41	7	0	5	31	10	4	28	38	.318	.450	.488	.938	63	1	3	5	0	0
Dennicher Carrasco	43	165	151	17	32	7	0	5	20	0	1	14	65	.212	.279	.358	.636	54	5	0	0	0	0
Jimmy Govern	44	163	144	19	31	8	0	6	23	2	1	11	34	.215	.281	.396	.677	57	6	3	3	2	0
Meibrys Viloria	31	130	109	18	28	5	0	3	13	1	1	18	32	.257	.369	.385	.755	42	5	2	0	1	0
Travis Jones	37	146	120	20	27	4	2	3	14	4	1	24	38	.225	.363	.367	.730	44	4	2	0	0	0
Jeison Guzmán	32	136	125	17	27	8	0	2	15	2	3	6	41	.216	.263	.328	.591	41	4	2	3	0	0
Kevin Merrell	41	135	119	15	22	5	0	3	9	5	0	13	39	.185	.271	.303	.573	36	3	1	2	0	0
Seuly Matias	23	93	83	14	16	4	0	7	14	2	0	8	35	.193	.280	.494	.774	41	1	2	0	0	0
Tyler Cropley	26	80	67	8	13	2	0	2	6	0	0	8	15	.194	.325	.313	.638	21	0	5	0	0	0
Angelo Castellano	14	49	45	10	12	1	0	1	4	0	0	4	13	.267	.327	.356	.682	16	1	0	0	0	0
Austin Dennis	18	46	39	3	7	0	0	1	5	2	1	5	14	.179	.283	.256	.539	10	0	1	0	1	0
Emmanuel Rivera	4	18	15	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.267	.333	.267	.600	4	1	0	0	1	0
Adalberto Mondesí	5	15	14	1	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	4	.214	.267	.429	.695	6	0	0	0	0	0
Gavin Stupienski	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1113	4540	3932	668	1012	181	25	166	619	164	60	488	1076	.257	.347	.443	.789	1741	67	66	23	31	4

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Nick Pratto	1B	61	438	36	1	33	.998	7.770
Vinnie Pasquantino	1B	54	400	31	4	42	.991	7.981
Dennicher Carrasco	1B	3	19	3	0	3	1.000	7.333
Kevin Merrell	1B	2	6	0	0	1	1.000	3.000
Travis Jones	1B	2	11	0	0	0	1.000	5.500
Clay Dungan	2B	71	92	162	2	30	.992	3.577
Brhet Bewley	2B	23	46	51	3	17	.970	4.217
Kevin Merrell	2B	19	36	46	1	13	.988	4.316
Austin Dennis	2B	7	13	13	1	6	.963	3.714
Jimmy Govern	2B	4	8	10	0	3	1.000	4.500
Jimmy Govern	3B	40	20	90	3	8	.973	2.750
Dennicher Carrasco	3B	32	21	48	9	3	.885	2.156
Brhet Bewley	3B	23	13	30	10	2	.811	1.870
Bobby Witt	3B	8	4	10	0	1	1.000	1.750
Kevin Merrell	3B	6	2	5	2	1	.778	1.167
Angelo Castellano	3B	6	4	6	0	0	1.000	1.667
Travis Jones	3B	5	7	6	0	0	1.000	2.600
Emmanuel Rivera	3B	4	0	5	0	2	1.000	1.250
Clay Dungan	3B	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.000
Austin Dennis	3B	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
MJ Melendez	C	52	499	35	10	2	.982	1.269	3	34	17	33.3
Freddy Fermin	C	32	286	16	3	3	.990	9.438	3	17	7	29.2
Meibrys Viloria	C	21	172	17	0	1	1.000	9.000	1	7	6	46.2
Tyler Cropley	C	21	152	9	0	1	1.000	7.667	0	7	5	41.7
Dairon Blanco	CF	58	126	4	1	1	.992	2.241
Blake Perkins	CF	48	98	1	0	0	1.000	2.062
Rudy Martin	CF	8	10	1	1	0	.917	1.375
Jeison Guzmán	CF	5	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.400
Brewer Hicklen	CF	3	10	0	0	0	1.000	3.333
Brewer Hicklen	LF	63	86	8	1	1	.989	1.492
Dairon Blanco	LF	21	25	2	0	0	1.000	1.286
Travis Jones	LF	14	23	0	0	0	1.000	1.643
Kevin Merrell	LF	9	14	0	0	0	1.000	1.556
Brhet Bewley	LF	6	12	0	1	0	.923	2.000
Austin Dennis	LF	4	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Angelo Castellano	LF	4	2	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Rudy Martin	LF	3	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.667
Blake Perkins	LF	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	.500
Gavin Stupienski	LF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Josh Dye	P	38	2	7	0	0	1.000	.237
Robert Garcia	P	33	3	3	0	1	1.000	.182
Andrés Núñez	P	30	4	4	1	0	.889	.267
Collin Snider	P	27	0	3	0	0	1.000	.111
Yefri Del Rosario	P	26	3	1	4	0	.500	.154
Nolan Watson	P	25	5	6	0	0	1.000	.440
Stephen Woods	P	22	1	4	0	0	1.000	.227
Jonathan Heasley	P	22	7	17	3	1	.889	1.091
José Cuas	P	22	2	11	0	1	1.000	.591
Derrick Adams	P	22	0	7	0	0	1.000	.318
Andres Sotillet	P	21	1	5	0	1	1.000	.286
Carlos Sanabria	P	20	0	1	0	0	1.000	.050
Drew Parrish	P	18	3	9	1	0	.923	.667
Dylan Coleman	P	18	3	3	0	1	1.000	.333
Daniel Tillo	P	17	2	3	0	0	1.000	.294
Austin Cox	P	15	2	2	0	0	1.000	.267
Angel Zerpa	P	13	3	6	1	1	.900	.692
Holden Capps	P	12	0	2	1	0	.667	.167
Peyton Gray	P	8	0	0	0	0		.000
Marcelo Martinez	P	7	1	2	0	1	1.000	.429
Garrett Davila	P	7	1	4	0	1	1.000	.714
Alec Marsh	P	6	1	1	1	0	.667	.333
C. J. Eldred	P	4	1	0	0	0	1.000	.250
Jonathan Bowlan	P	4	2	3	0	0	1.000	1.250
Foster Griffin	P	3	0	2	0	0	1.000	.667
Ronald Bolaños	P	3	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.333
Brhet Bewley	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brewer Hicklen	RF	37	75	2	2	0	.975	2.081
Rudy Martin	RF	32	52	3	2	0	.965	1.719
Blake Perkins	RF	22	40	2	2	1	.955	1.909
Seuly Matias	RF	21	37	3	3	0	.930	1.905
Travis Jones	RF	9	10	1	1	0	.917	1.222
Kevin Merrell	RF	1	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.000
Austin Dennis	RF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Bobby Witt	SS	50	49	107	4	20	.975	3.120
Clay Dungan	SS	35	37	92	5	15	.963	3.686
Jeison Guzmán	SS	27	33	66	4	12	.961	3.667
Angelo Castellano	SS	6	8	9	1	2	.944	2.833
Adalberto Mondesí	SS	4	2	7	0	0	1.000	2.250
Kevin Merrell	SS	4	5	10	1	2	.938	3.750
Austin Dennis	SS	1	0	4	0	1	1.000	4.000
Totals		1443	3072	1063	90	235	.979	2.866	7	65	35	35.0

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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