2012 West Michigan Whitecaps Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 72-68
Finished 3rd in the MWL's Eastern Division
Manager: Ernie Young (72-68)
Affiliation: Detroit Tigers
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ballpark: Fifth Third Ballpark
Attendance: 362,554, Avg. 5,179 in 70 home dates

2012 West Michigan Whitecaps Roster

The West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League ended the 2012 season with a record of 72 wins and 68 losses, finishing third in the league's Eastern Division.

The Whitecaps scored 610 runs and yielded 576 runs. Aaron Westlake accounted for 69 RBI. Eugenio Suárez paced all regular batters with a .288 average. Wilsen Palacios topped the squad with 12 wins, while Tommy Collier recorded a 2.75 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Members of the 2012 West Michigan Whitecaps who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Steven Moya, Melvin Mercedes, Chad Smith, Guido Knudson, Eugenio Suárez, Warwick Saupold, Jeff Ferrell, Jason Krizan, Kyle Ryan and Curt Casali.

Ernie Young 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
Wilsen Palacios	12	9	.571	3.70	23	23	0	0	0	0	129.0	133	60	53	5	23	0	77	4	0	8	533
Tommy Collier	9	8	.529	2.74	24	24	0	1	1	0	124.7	112	44	38	5	37	0	84	5	1	6	503
Marcelo Carreno	9	8	.529	3.23	27	27	0	0	0	0	139.3	129	55	50	5	28	0	119	3	0	6	562
Jeff Ferrell	7	5	.583	3.91	23	16	4	0	0	1	92.0	76	44	40	9	29	0	81	3	0	6	377
Kyle Ryan	7	8	.467	3.74	28	28	0	1	0	0	158.7	176	85	66	11	29	0	105	6	1	6	669
Jade Todd	6	2	.750	1.65	44	0	13	0	0	2	60.0	39	11	11	3	19	1	71	5	1	2	232
Dan Bennett	5	2	.714	2.68	39	0	34	0	0	11	40.3	42	15	12	1	17	0	49	0	0	2	180
Michael Torrealba	5	5	.500	3.01	46	0	21	0	0	5	74.7	57	31	25	2	31	3	81	1	1	10	313
Brennan Smith	3	4	.429	3.86	19	15	1	0	0	0	84.0	78	37	36	8	22	0	58	6	1	9	344
Warwick Saupold	2	1	.667	2.79	28	1	8	0	0	2	58.0	58	25	18	3	10	1	58	4	0	2	242
Slade Smith	2	1	.667	3.59	20	0	3	0	0	1	47.7	60	22	19	2	15	1	34	3	0	2	211
Nick Avila	2	3	.400	5.37	34	0	8	0	0	2	68.7	90	46	41	5	24	2	47	0	0	2	317
Luis Sanz	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	5.3	3	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	19
Tyler White	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	9
Will Clinard	1	1	.500	2.96	14	0	8	0	0	2	24.3	27	10	8	1	7	0	20	0	0	1	105
Guido Knudson	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Ryan Woolley	0	0		1.23	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.3	4	1	1	0	2	0	8	0	0	0	27
Ramon Lebron	0	0		5.18	26	0	10	0	0	1	33.0	24	21	19	1	39	0	33	3	1	3	161
Shawn Teufel	0	1	.000	9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	7	4	4	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	20
Chad Smith	0	2	.000	4.38	8	5	1	0	0	0	24.7	23	12	12	2	6	0	17	0	0	3	99
Melvin Mercedes	0	3	.000	2.80	37	0	22	0	0	9	64.3	54	25	20	3	23	0	43	2	1	4	261
Tim Kelley	0	5	.000	12.00	10	1	2	0	0	0	18.0	29	27	24	1	11	1	14	3	0	1	97
Totals	72	68	.514	3.54	459	140	138	2	1	36	1263.0	1224	576	497	67	377	9	1007	48	7	73	5292

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
Eugenio Suárez	135	603	511	82	147	34	5	6	67	21	9	65	116	.288	.380	.409	.789	209	6	15	5	7	2
Chad Wright	131	591	523	73	134	19	4	4	40	21	13	44	68	.256	.323	.331	.654	173	7	9	12	3	0
Brandon Loy	134	566	499	71	120	21	5	2	39	21	4	45	119	.240	.301	.315	.616	157	4	1	15	6	1
Aaron Westlake	123	518	465	56	116	35	2	9	69	4	1	47	105	.249	.320	.391	.711	182	8	2	2	2	2
Jason Krizan	110	426	365	38	89	20	1	4	40	5	3	50	48	.244	.333	.337	.670	123	5	1	5	5	1
Jason King	90	378	340	43	86	25	2	7	37	4	1	25	53	.253	.307	.400	.707	136	9	4	4	5	4
Steven Moya	59	258	243	28	70	14	3	9	47	5	3	11	59	.288	.319	.481	.801	117	4	1	1	2	1
Dean Green	58	253	219	34	67	16	0	9	38	0	3	23	39	.306	.381	.502	.883	110	7	6	1	4	2
Pat Leyland	68	271	257	18	61	10	0	2	24	0	0	3	33	.237	.250	.300	.550	77	5	2	7	2	0
Jeff McVaney	56	239	220	34	55	13	4	4	29	1	0	11	39	.250	.298	.400	.698	88	2	5	1	2	0
Curt Casali	48	206	170	25	49	12	0	8	25	2	1	27	18	.288	.402	.500	.902	85	6	6	2	1	1
Lance Durham	51	206	164	21	39	12	3	5	25	1	0	40	64	.238	.388	.439	.827	72	1	1	0	1	3
Jeff Holm	40	140	118	15	30	4	1	1	11	4	0	19	9	.254	.362	.331	.693	39	4	1	2	0	0
Zach Maggard	40	147	135	17	26	8	1	4	20	0	0	6	52	.193	.238	.356	.593	48	5	2	4	0	0
Colin Kaline	41	137	117	12	20	1	0	0	3	0	1	15	29	.171	.271	.179	.450	21	4	1	4	0	0
Gabriel Purroy	34	120	110	5	19	4	0	1	12	0	2	7	22	.173	.235	.236	.472	26	2	2	1	0	0
Edgar Corcino	19	81	73	9	16	1	1	2	6	0	1	6	20	.219	.278	.342	.621	25	0	0	2	0	0
Danry Vasquez	29	112	99	5	16	3	0	1	7	0	0	7	20	.162	.218	.222	.440	22	4	1	2	3	1
Luis Castillo	12	57	50	12	14	4	2	2	11	0	1	3	6	.280	.309	.560	.869	28	0	0	2	2	0
Carlos De Los Santos	14	24	21	4	5	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	5	.238	.304	.333	.638	7	0	1	1	0	0
Jared Reaves	5	15	15	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.200	.200	.200	.400	3	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Perry	7	28	24	4	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	8	.125	.250	.125	.375	3	0	1	0	0	0
Patrick Smith	8	29	28	3	2	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	8	.071	.103	.179	.282	5	0	0	0	0	0
Jordan Guida	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1313	5407	4768	610	1187	256	35	81	554	92	43	459	946	.249	.320	.368	.688	1756	83	62	73	45	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Aaron Westlake	1B	96	873	60	12	73	.987	9.719
Dean Green	1B	15	123	14	2	10	.986	9.133
Pat Leyland	1B	13	112	9	3	10	.976	9.308
Jeff Holm	1B	12	84	6	0	7	1.000	7.500
Lance Durham	1B	9	81	9	0	5	1.000	1.000
Brandon Loy	1B	1	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.000
Brandon Loy	2B	111	145	318	11	64	.977	4.171
Eugenio Suárez	2B	15	19	44	0	5	1.000	4.200
Colin Kaline	2B	13	14	27	1	7	.976	3.154
Carlos De Los Santos	2B	5	5	6	0	2	1.000	2.200
Jared Reaves	2B	3	4	13	1	2	.944	5.667
Edgar Corcino	2B	1	1	3	0	0	1.000	4.000
Jason King	3B	90	61	157	18	9	.924	2.422
Colin Kaline	3B	26	14	43	1	2	.983	2.192
Edgar Corcino	3B	19	18	28	5	1	.902	2.421
Matt Perry	3B	7	4	11	1	1	.938	2.143
Aaron Westlake	3B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Carlos De Los Santos	3B	1	3	6	0	1	1.000	9.000
Curt Casali	C	46	358	27	2	1	.995	8.370	1	42	20	32.3
Zach Maggard	C	40	244	37	4	5	.986	7.025	5	36	27	42.9
Gabriel Purroy	C	34	261	20	11	1	.962	8.265	3	23	13	36.1
Pat Leyland	C	23	150	9	5	1	.970	6.913	3	31	10	24.4
Jordan Guida	C	1	6	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	1	0	0
Chad Wright	CF	119	309	6	1	2	.997	2.647
Luis Castillo	CF	12	28	1	1	0	.967	2.417
Jason Krizan	CF	9	14	0	0	0	1.000	1.556
Jeff Holm	CF	3	6	0	1	0	.857	2.000
Jason Krizan	LF	81	144	5	3	1	.980	1.840
Danry Vasquez	LF	28	43	2	3	0	.938	1.607
Chad Wright	LF	11	22	1	0	0	1.000	2.091
Jeff Holm	LF	11	18	1	1	0	.950	1.727
Patrick Smith	LF	8	16	1	0	0	1.000	2.125
Lance Durham	LF	4	5	1	1	0	.857	1.500
Brandon Loy	LF	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Chad Wright	OF	130	331	7	1	2	.997	2.600
Jason Krizan	OF	106	195	7	4	1	.981	1.906
Steven Moya	OF	57	98	6	1	0	.990	1.825
Jeff McVaney	OF	55	81	1	0	0	1.000	1.491
Danry Vasquez	OF	28	43	2	3	0	.938	1.607
Jeff Holm	OF	27	35	1	3	0	.923	1.333
Luis Castillo	OF	12	28	1	1	0	.967	2.417
Patrick Smith	OF	8	16	1	0	0	1.000	2.125
Lance Durham	OF	4	5	1	1	0	.857	1.500
Brandon Loy	OF	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Michael Torrealba	P	46	3	10	1	3	.929	.283
Jade Todd	P	44	2	12	0	0	1.000	.318
Dan Bennett	P	39	2	3	1	0	.833	.128
Melvin Mercedes	P	37	2	11	1	1	.929	.351
Nick Avila	P	34	5	12	0	0	1.000	.500
Warwick Saupold	P	28	5	14	2	0	.905	.679
Kyle Ryan	P	28	5	35	8	3	.833	1.429
Marcelo Carreno	P	27	9	13	3	0	.880	.815
Ramon Lebron	P	26	2	2	1	0	.800	.154
Tommy Collier	P	24	6	24	0	1	1.000	1.250
Wilsen Palacios	P	23	12	14	2	1	.929	1.130
Jeff Ferrell	P	23	7	12	1	0	.950	.826
Slade Smith	P	20	6	8	1	2	.933	.700
Brennan Smith	P	19	2	12	1	0	.933	.737
Will Clinard	P	14	0	3	1	0	.750	.214
Tim Kelley	P	10	1	4	0	0	1.000	.500
Chad Smith	P	8	5	6	0	0	1.000	1.375
Ryan Woolley	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Luis Sanz	P	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Tyler White	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Shawn Teufel	P	1	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000
Guido Knudson	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Steven Moya	RF	57	98	6	1	0	.990	1.825
Jeff McVaney	RF	55	81	1	0	0	1.000	1.491
Jason Krizan	RF	18	37	2	1	0	.975	2.167
Jeff Holm	RF	13	11	0	1	0	.917	.846
Eugenio Suárez	SS	119	257	349	18	80	.971	5.092
Brandon Loy	SS	24	36	68	4	13	.963	4.333
Jared Reaves	SS	1	1	3	0	1	1.000	4.000
Totals		2045	4623	1520	150	318	.976	3.004	13	132	70	34.7

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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