2008 West Michigan Whitecaps Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 72-65
Finished 3rd in the MWL's Eastern Division
Manager: Joe Depastino (72-65)
Affiliation: Detroit Tigers
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ballpark: Fifth Third Ballpark
Attendance: 367,532, Avg. 5,569 in 66 home dates

2008 West Michigan Whitecaps Roster

Playoffs - South Bend Silver Hawks 2 games, West Michigan Whitecaps 1

The West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League ended the 2008 season with a record of 72 wins and 65 losses, finishing third in the league's Eastern Division.

The Whitecaps scored 581 runs and surrendered 544 runs. Kody Kaiser led West Michigan with 11 home runs and drove in 57 runs. Justin Henry paced all regular hitters with a .295 average. Jon Kibler topped the team with 14 wins and a team-best 1.75 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Alex Avila, Thad Weber, Alfredo Fígaro, Magglio Ordóñez, Andy Dirks, Curtis Granderson, Brayan Villarreal, Casper Wells and Mauricio Robles were all players from the 2008 West Michigan Whitecaps who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Joe Depastino 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
Jon Kibler	14	5	.737	1.75	23	23	0	2	1	0	154.3	103	39	30	4	32	0	126	3	4	6	585
Alfredo Fígaro	12	2	.857	2.05	19	19	0	2	2	0	123.0	99	35	28	0	30	0	96	4	0	7	493
Wilton Garcia	9	4	.692	4.40	47	0	13	0	0	1	73.7	65	41	36	5	28	0	54	6	0	10	318
Mauricio Robles	5	3	.625	2.66	23	16	3	0	0	0	91.3	54	27	27	2	54	0	79	4	0	8	367
Paul Nardozzi	5	5	.500	3.95	32	11	6	0	0	0	93.3	105	51	41	9	30	0	76	4	3	3	409
Emmanuel Miguelez	5	6	.455	4.39	29	19	3	2	0	0	123.0	125	70	60	7	55	0	86	6	1	12	544
Rudy Darrow	4	2	.667	1.85	33	0	16	0	0	4	48.7	39	13	10	1	15	0	43	4	0	14	202
Ramon Garcia	4	3	.571	2.81	7	7	0	1	1	0	48.0	43	16	15	3	5	0	38	0	5	3	189
Noah Krol	4	3	.571	3.93	47	0	40	0	0	15	50.3	39	28	22	2	28	1	49	5	0	7	219
Kelvin Cedano	2	1	.667	5.35	25	0	9	0	0	0	37.0	43	25	22	5	31	0	41	2	0	6	181
Brett Jacobson	2	2	.500	1.52	21	0	7	0	0	1	29.7	26	7	5	0	5	1	31	2	0	3	120
Andrew Hess	2	3	.400	3.19	33	6	10	0	0	1	84.7	77	42	30	6	36	1	64	7	3	3	374
Scott Green	1	2	.333	3.57	15	0	10	0	0	2	17.7	14	9	7	1	5	1	15	1	1	4	73
Santo Mieses	1	3	.250	4.74	17	0	8	0	0	0	24.7	24	14	13	4	12	0	20	2	3	4	110
Thad Weber	1	4	.200	2.56	11	11	0	0	0	0	56.3	46	20	16	3	11	0	49	3	1	5	225
L. J. Gagnier	1	8	.111	4.42	14	14	0	0	0	0	75.3	71	48	37	4	33	0	79	2	1	7	326
Orlando Perdomo	0	0		3.52	9	0	4	0	0	0	15.3	21	10	6	2	3	0	6	0	0	3	67
Aaron Fuhrman	0	1	.000	4.22	3	2	0	0	0	0	10.7	18	7	5	1	3	0	11	0	0	1	52
Brayan Villarreal	0	1	.000	16.20	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.3	7	7	6	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	18
Matt Hoffman	0	2	.000	4.60	5	2	1	0	0	0	15.7	19	10	8	1	14	0	20	0	0	3	82
Brandon Hamilton	0	5	.000	5.01	8	6	0	0	0	0	32.3	34	25	18	2	28	0	22	0	0	1	151
Totals	72	65	.526	3.29	422	137	130	7	4	24	1208.3	1072	544	442	63	459	4	1005	56	22	110	5105

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
Justin Henry	120	532	475	74	140	24	2	1	46	27	7	44	36	.295	.356	.360	.716	171	14	3	7	3	2
Joseph Tucker	96	413	367	46	105	17	1	3	42	5	8	22	48	.286	.341	.362	.704	133	13	13	3	8	0
Kyle Peter	103	465	396	64	104	11	1	0	34	42	12	57	80	.263	.359	.295	.654	117	6	5	2	5	0
Kody Kaiser	110	446	392	55	102	24	6	11	57	30	6	45	114	.260	.342	.436	.779	171	9	4	5	0	2
Audy Ciriaco	107	444	417	47	100	12	5	7	50	12	6	16	68	.240	.269	.343	.612	143	19	2	5	4	1
Chris Carlson	94	398	358	37	99	17	3	10	49	1	1	29	71	.277	.334	.425	.759	152	14	5	0	6	0
Jordan Newton	95	397	363	48	97	21	10	7	48	8	2	20	97	.267	.310	.438	.748	159	3	5	4	5	0
Ron Bourquin	118	485	409	49	96	22	1	3	46	6	6	66	93	.235	.339	.315	.654	129	15	2	1	7	1
Roger Tomas	58	237	210	28	65	1	2	1	20	6	4	17	32	.310	.362	.348	.710	73	6	2	5	3	0
Alex Avila	58	244	213	21	65	14	0	1	22	0	1	27	41	.305	.383	.385	.768	82	8	1	1	2	0
Cory Middleton	76	279	247	33	48	9	0	6	25	2	1	24	61	.194	.280	.304	.583	75	2	6	0	2	1
Casper Wells	50	211	179	30	43	7	0	10	26	17	5	22	39	.240	.351	.447	.798	80	2	9	0	1	0
Chris White	23	79	74	11	21	8	0	2	5	5	0	5	13	.284	.329	.473	.802	35	0	0	0	0	0
Brandon Douglas	9	41	39	5	17	3	0	1	8	0	0	1	2	.436	.463	.590	1.053	23	1	1	0	0	0
Adrian Casanova	29	104	88	6	17	1	0	1	9	1	1	10	30	.193	.282	.239	.520	21	1	2	1	3	1
Mark McBratney	24	96	86	9	16	4	2	0	5	0	3	8	24	.186	.260	.279	.539	24	0	1	0	1	0
Angel Flores	26	99	89	5	16	1	0	0	8	0	0	8	18	.180	.242	.191	.433	17	2	0	0	2	0
Joe Bowen	22	86	74	4	13	2	0	0	6	0	0	12	27	.176	.291	.203	.493	15	0	0	0	0	0
Hayden Parrott	16	57	55	2	11	0	1	1	6	0	1	2	16	.200	.228	.291	.519	16	1	0	0	0	0
Curtis Granderson	3	12	11	1	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	2	.364	.417	.727	1.144	8	0	0	0	0	0
Keith Stein	13	51	43	3	4	0	0	1	6	0	0	6	12	.093	.216	.163	.378	7	1	1	0	1	0
Joaquin Guzman	4	12	11	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	2	0	0	0	0
Magglio Ordóñez	1	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Andy Dirks	3	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1258	5203	4610	581	1187	198	36	66	522	162	64	444	928	.257	.328	.359	.687	1655	119	62	34	53	8

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Chris Carlson	1B	76	635	53	10	58	.986	9.053
Ron Bourquin	1B	40	380	15	4	40	.990	9.875
Joseph Tucker	1B	19	143	12	1	11	.994	8.158
Cory Middleton	1B	6	59	4	0	7	1.000	1.500
Justin Henry	2B	115	213	332	19	78	.966	4.739
Joseph Tucker	2B	17	35	40	1	10	.987	4.412
Roger Tomas	2B	4	5	10	1	4	.938	3.750
Kody Kaiser	2B	3	1	11	1	2	.923	4.000
Joaquin Guzman	2B	1	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.000
Ron Bourquin	3B	57	54	98	14	6	.916	2.667
Roger Tomas	3B	42	27	75	5	10	.953	2.429
Cory Middleton	3B	21	22	48	6	5	.921	3.333
Kody Kaiser	3B	15	11	22	3	2	.917	2.200
Joseph Tucker	3B	4	0	6	0	1	1.000	1.500
Joaquin Guzman	3B	2	1	3	2	0	.667	2.000
Alex Avila	C	42	313	30	3	1	.991	8.167	4	37	18	32.7
Adrian Casanova	C	29	180	15	1	0	.995	6.724	1	19	11	36.7
Angel Flores	C	26	169	14	2	1	.989	7.038	2	29	5	14.7
Joe Bowen	C	22	185	13	0	0	1.000	9.000	4	20	5	20.0
Jordan Newton	C	21	157	19	7	2	.962	8.381	2	32	8	20.0
Kyle Peter	CF	101	235	10	4	2	.984	2.426
Chris White	CF	13	23	0	0	0	1.000	1.769
Keith Stein	CF	11	16	1	1	0	.944	1.545
Jordan Newton	CF	4	9	1	0	0	1.000	2.500
Mark McBratney	CF	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Curtis Granderson	CF	3	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Casper Wells	CF	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Joseph Tucker	CF	2	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.500
Kody Kaiser	CF	2	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.500
Jordan Newton	LF	52	100	4	2	0	.981	2.000
Joseph Tucker	LF	33	51	4	3	2	.948	1.667
Mark McBratney	LF	21	29	2	0	1	1.000	1.476
Kody Kaiser	LF	13	25	1	1	0	.963	2.000
Cory Middleton	LF	11	18	0	0	0	1.000	1.636
Hayden Parrott	LF	4	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.250
Chris White	LF	3	1	1	0	0	1.000	.667
Keith Stein	LF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Kyle Peter	OF	101	235	10	4	2	.984	2.426
Kody Kaiser	OF	76	128	6	2	2	.985	1.763
Jordan Newton	OF	56	109	5	2	0	.983	2.036
Casper Wells	OF	48	92	8	1	3	.990	2.083
Joseph Tucker	OF	39	69	5	3	3	.961	1.897
Cory Middleton	OF	26	36	2	0	0	1.000	1.462
Mark McBratney	OF	24	32	2	0	1	1.000	1.417
Chris White	OF	22	34	1	0	0	1.000	1.591
Keith Stein	OF	13	18	1	1	0	.950	1.462
Hayden Parrott	OF	11	15	0	0	0	1.000	1.364
Curtis Granderson	OF	3	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Andy Dirks	OF	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Noah Krol	P	47	11	14	1	3	.962	.532
Wilton Garcia	P	47	7	6	1	1	.929	.277
Andrew Hess	P	33	5	13	4	1	.818	.545
Rudy Darrow	P	33	2	7	2	1	.818	.273
Paul Nardozzi	P	32	11	6	0	2	1.000	.531
Emmanuel Miguelez	P	29	5	16	3	0	.875	.724
Kelvin Cedano	P	25	2	7	1	1	.900	.360
Mauricio Robles	P	23	3	26	1	0	.967	1.261
Jon Kibler	P	23	2	29	4	2	.886	1.348
Brett Jacobson	P	21	3	3	0	0	1.000	.286
Alfredo Fígaro	P	19	9	18	2	1	.931	1.421
Santo Mieses	P	17	0	5	1	0	.833	.294
Scott Green	P	15	1	3	0	0	1.000	.267
L. J. Gagnier	P	14	4	12	1	0	.941	1.143
Thad Weber	P	11	2	3	1	0	.833	.455
Orlando Perdomo	P	9	0	3	0	0	1.000	.333
Brandon Hamilton	P	8	1	2	1	1	.750	.375
Ramon Garcia	P	7	0	2	0	0	1.000	.286
Matt Hoffman	P	5	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.200
Aaron Fuhrman	P	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333
Brayan Villarreal	P	1	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000
Kody Kaiser	RF	61	98	5	1	2	.990	1.689
Casper Wells	RF	46	89	8	1	3	.990	2.109
Cory Middleton	RF	15	18	2	0	0	1.000	1.333
Chris White	RF	7	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.429
Hayden Parrott	RF	7	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.429
Joseph Tucker	RF	4	13	1	0	1	1.000	3.500
Andy Dirks	RF	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Keith Stein	RF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Audy Ciriaco	SS	107	134	335	41	69	.920	4.383
Joseph Tucker	SS	12	15	23	4	7	.905	3.167
Roger Tomas	SS	11	18	24	0	4	1.000	3.818
Brandon Douglas	SS	8	20	18	1	4	.974	4.750
Joaquin Guzman	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Totals		1966	4402	1484	175	357	.971	2.994	13	137	47	25.5

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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