2009 West Michigan Whitecaps Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 81-59
Finished 3rd in the MWL's Eastern Division
Manager: Joe Depastino (81-59)
Affiliation: Detroit Tigers
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ballpark: Fifth Third Ballpark
Attendance: 356,642, Avg. 5,245 in 68 home dates

2009 West Michigan Whitecaps Roster

Playoffs - Great Lakes Loons 2 games, West Michigan Whitecaps 1

The West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League ended the 2009 season with a record of 81 wins and 59 losses, finishing third in the league's Eastern Division.

The Whitecaps scored 693 runs and allowed 560 runs. Billy Nowlin led West Michigan with 13 home runs and drove in 77 runs. Gustavo Nunez paced all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .315 average. Casey Crosby topped the squad with 10 wins, while Luke Putkonen recorded a 3.14 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Mauricio Robles, Casey Crosby, Adam Wilk, Brayan Villarreal, Melvin Mercedes, Jeremy Bonderman, Luke Putkonen, Hernán Pérez and Avisaíl García were all players from the 2009 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
Casey Crosby	10	4	.714	2.41	24	24	0	0	0	0	104.7	70	36	28	3	48	0	117	3	0	7	419
Mark Sorensen	8	2	.800	2.44	14	14	0	1	0	0	92.3	83	31	25	3	20	0	52	4	0	5	363
Erik Crichton	7	0	1.000	3.99	46	0	14	0	0	2	65.3	81	35	29	5	21	0	38	2	0	2	292
Anthony Shawler	7	5	.583	3.76	37	8	6	0	0	1	107.7	101	50	45	4	31	0	98	6	0	0	443
Luke Putkonen	7	8	.467	3.13	28	28	0	1	1	0	149.3	148	63	52	3	47	0	115	9	0	9	631
Tyler Conn	6	3	.667	3.21	39	0	22	0	0	4	70.0	65	26	25	3	18	1	62	1	1	6	281
Matt Hoffman	5	0	1.000	1.12	7	3	1	0	0	1	40.3	24	5	5	1	8	0	33	0	0	0	152
Jared Gayhart	5	3	.625	1.97	24	0	8	0	0	3	45.7	24	11	10	2	15	1	49	0	0	3	177
Brayan Villarreal	5	5	.500	2.87	26	16	3	0	0	2	103.3	85	40	33	5	34	0	118	13	0	6	429
Brandon Hamilton	5	5	.500	7.09	30	20	1	0	0	0	99.0	112	79	78	11	61	0	71	3	2	9	460
Victor Larez	5	10	.333	4.33	37	3	13	0	0	3	108.0	107	59	52	8	24	0	81	4	1	3	448
Mauricio Robles	4	4	.500	4.63	11	11	0	0	0	0	56.3	45	29	29	6	27	0	71	1	1	2	235
Tyler Stohr	3	4	.429	3.54	52	0	47	0	0	19	61.0	59	26	24	2	16	0	55	3	0	4	258
Adam Wilk	2	1	.667	1.49	7	7	0	0	0	0	36.3	30	7	6	2	2	0	33	1	0	1	138
Jeremy Bonderman	1	0	1.000	2.57	1	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	6	2	2	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	27
Rob Waite	1	1	.500	4.56	24	3	13	0	0	2	53.3	50	28	27	1	16	0	39	3	0	4	227
Nicholas Cassavechia	0	1	.000	2.61	10	0	5	0	0	1	10.3	6	3	3	1	8	0	7	0	0	0	43
Jade Todd	0	1	.000	4.41	6	1	2	0	0	0	16.3	16	10	8	0	10	0	7	1	0	0	72
Luis Sanz	0	1	.000	8.64	8	1	3	0	0	0	16.7	21	16	16	1	8	0	10	2	3	1	79
Melvin Mercedes	0	1	.000	11.57	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	1	4	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	12
Totals	81	59	.579	3.61	434	140	138	2	1	38	1245.3	1134	560	500	61	418	2	1061	56	8	62	5186

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
Gustavo Nunez	112	514	464	82	146	16	10	5	40	45	25	25	62	.315	.360	.425	.785	197	2	11	9	5	0
Billy Nowlin	112	480	418	69	130	29	2	13	77	2	0	37	67	.311	.390	.483	.873	202	10	20	0	5	3
Jordan Lennerton	119	505	433	56	122	30	0	12	71	1	2	64	127	.282	.370	.434	.804	188	12	1	0	7	7
Brent Wyatt	126	577	475	87	115	23	6	3	53	23	9	67	71	.242	.360	.335	.694	159	7	23	7	5	2
Ben Guez	104	438	404	64	111	34	7	12	64	11	4	18	95	.275	.320	.483	.802	195	7	10	3	3	0
Brandon Douglas	83	373	329	47	106	11	3	0	35	9	1	29	33	.322	.384	.374	.758	123	4	8	1	6	1
Bryan Pounds	97	417	341	55	97	27	2	3	60	2	2	57	87	.284	.399	.402	.801	137	7	12	1	6	0
Ron Bourquin	81	359	297	40	84	25	1	3	58	8	3	48	77	.283	.380	.404	.784	120	5	4	1	9	1
Avisaíl García	81	315	299	36	79	11	2	1	31	8	7	8	70	.264	.289	.324	.613	97	13	4	0	4	0
Joe Bowen	76	300	271	27	67	18	1	0	25	1	1	25	72	.247	.314	.321	.635	87	5	2	1	1	1
Luis Salas	74	271	254	33	61	11	4	4	27	6	3	11	96	.240	.280	.362	.643	92	4	4	0	2	0
Alden Carrithers	45	181	150	29	46	3	3	0	19	9	5	24	22	.307	.395	.367	.762	55	4	0	4	3	2
Mike Gosse	43	180	167	19	44	11	0	1	28	0	0	8	18	.263	.306	.347	.653	58	6	3	0	2	0
Angel Flores	52	198	182	14	37	4	0	1	12	1	2	13	27	.203	.268	.242	.509	44	3	3	0	0	0
Luis Palacios	40	142	135	16	26	7	0	2	11	1	0	1	39	.193	.211	.289	.500	39	1	3	0	3	0
Jordan Newton	11	49	44	11	17	3	2	3	9	0	0	2	9	.386	.438	.750	1.188	33	1	2	1	0	0
Chao Ting Tang	21	86	82	6	16	3	1	0	5	0	1	4	18	.195	.233	.256	.489	21	0	0	0	0	0
Hernán Pérez	12	45	44	0	10	0	1	0	5	2	1	0	8	.227	.227	.273	.500	12	1	0	1	0	0
Keith Hernandez	4	14	14	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.214	.357	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tyler Conn	39	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1332	5445	4804	693	1316	267	45	63	631	129	66	441	1001	.274	.345	.388	.732	1862	92	110	29	61	17

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Jordan Lennerton	1B	95	839	74	4	78	.996	9.611
Ron Bourquin	1B	39	361	18	1	32	.997	9.718
Billy Nowlin	1B	5	51	2	1	5	.981	1.600
Bryan Pounds	1B	3	19	1	1	0	.952	6.667
Brent Wyatt	1B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Brandon Douglas	2B	81	131	222	6	49	.983	4.358
Alden Carrithers	2B	26	41	70	1	8	.991	4.269
Mike Gosse	2B	23	40	68	2	20	.982	4.696
Luis Palacios	2B	12	11	26	0	4	1.000	3.083
Brent Wyatt	2B	2	9	10	1	2	.950	9.500
Bryan Pounds	3B	86	44	156	16	12	.926	2.326
Ron Bourquin	3B	27	11	51	7	6	.899	2.296
Luis Palacios	3B	13	5	32	0	1	1.000	2.846
Mike Gosse	3B	11	7	21	4	0	.875	2.545
Brent Wyatt	3B	6	2	18	0	4	1.000	3.333
Joe Bowen	C	76	570	69	5	4	.992	8.408	10	78	35	31.0
Angel Flores	C	52	376	43	7	4	.984	8.058	6	52	24	31.6
Jordan Newton	C	11	108	9	2	0	.983	1.636	0	13	6	31.6
Keith Hernandez	C	3	22	0	1	1	.957	7.333	0	5	1	16.7
Ben Guez	CF	96	230	11	2	4	.992	2.510
Brent Wyatt	CF	42	100	10	0	0	1.000	2.619
Luis Salas	CF	7	11	0	0	0	1.000	1.571
Brent Wyatt	LF	70	98	2	2	0	.980	1.429
Billy Nowlin	LF	29	24	4	5	2	.848	.966
Luis Salas	LF	24	34	1	4	0	.897	1.458
Alden Carrithers	LF	17	36	1	0	1	1.000	2.176
Chao Ting Tang	LF	6	5	0	0	0	1.000	.833
Brent Wyatt	OF	110	201	12	2	0	.991	1.936
Ben Guez	OF	102	252	11	2	4	.992	2.578
Avisaíl García	OF	80	128	13	10	3	.934	1.762
Luis Salas	OF	71	101	6	5	0	.955	1.507
Billy Nowlin	OF	29	24	4	5	2	.848	.966
Chao Ting Tang	OF	21	28	2	0	0	1.000	1.429
Alden Carrithers	OF	17	36	1	0	1	1.000	2.176
Tyler Stohr	P	52	6	9	0	0	1.000	.288
Erik Crichton	P	46	5	5	0	0	1.000	.217
Tyler Conn	P	39	4	15	0	3	1.000	.487
Anthony Shawler	P	37	6	13	1	0	.950	.514
Victor Larez	P	37	12	9	0	0	1.000	.568
Brandon Hamilton	P	30	9	12	2	0	.913	.700
Luke Putkonen	P	28	10	18	1	0	.966	1.000
Brayan Villarreal	P	26	4	15	0	1	1.000	.731
Rob Waite	P	24	4	8	0	0	1.000	.500
Jared Gayhart	P	24	3	8	0	0	1.000	.458
Casey Crosby	P	24	6	20	1	0	.963	1.083
Mark Sorensen	P	14	8	19	0	3	1.000	1.929
Mauricio Robles	P	11	1	6	0	0	1.000	.636
Nicholas Cassavechia	P	10	0	2	0	0	1.000	.200
Luis Sanz	P	8	0	1	0	0	1.000	.125
Adam Wilk	P	7	6	4	0	1	1.000	1.429
Matt Hoffman	P	7	1	8	1	0	.900	1.286
Jade Todd	P	6	1	3	0	1	1.000	.667
Melvin Mercedes	P	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333
Jeremy Bonderman	P	1	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.000
Avisaíl García	RF	80	128	13	10	3	.934	1.762
Luis Salas	RF	40	56	5	1	0	.984	1.525
Chao Ting Tang	RF	16	23	2	0	0	1.000	1.562
Ben Guez	RF	7	22	0	0	0	1.000	3.143
Brent Wyatt	RF	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Gustavo Nunez	SS	112	184	340	23	69	.958	4.679
Hernán Pérez	SS	12	23	22	3	5	.938	3.750
Luis Palacios	SS	12	13	29	5	5	.894	3.500
Brent Wyatt	SS	6	9	20	0	6	1.000	4.833
Totals		2014	4506	1575	144	344	.977	3.019	16	148	66	30.8

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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