2014 West Michigan Whitecaps Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 82-58
Finished 2nd in the MWL's Eastern Division
Manager: Andrew Graham (82-58)
Affiliation: Detroit Tigers
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ballpark: Fifth Third Ballpark
Attendance: 391,653, Avg. 5,595 in 70 home dates

2014 West Michigan Whitecaps Roster

Playoffs - Fort Wayne TinCaps 2 games, West Michigan Whitecaps 1

The West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League ended the 2014 season with a record of 82 wins and 58 losses, finishing second in the league's Eastern Division.

The Whitecaps scored 574 runs and surrendered 513 runs. Jeff Holm led West Michigan with 11 home runs Raph Rhymes drove in 71 runs. Wynton Bernard paced hitters with significant playing time with a .323 average. Austin Kubitza, Kevin Ziomek and Buck Farmer topped the squad with 10 wins each, while Kevin Ziomek recorded a 2.27 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Players from the 2014 West Michigan Whitecaps who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Artie Lewicki, Joe Mantiply, Ian Krol, Domingo Leyba, Chad Green, Wynton Bernard, Harold Castro, Mike Gerber, Willy Adames, Buck Farmer, Andy Dirks, Zac Reininger, Luke Putkonen and Grayson Greiner.

Andrew Graham served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Austin Kubitza	10	2	.833	2.34	23	23	0	0	131.0	98	46	34	5	43	0	140	7	0	14	539
Buck Farmer	10	5	.667	2.60	18	18	0	0	103.7	91	37	30	6	24	0	116	3	1	7	420
Kevin Ziomek	10	6	.625	2.27	23	23	0	0	123.0	89	45	31	5	53	0	152	6	1	6	510
Jonathon Crawford	8	3	.727	2.85	23	23	0	0	123.0	93	41	39	3	50	0	85	10	0	10	494
Joe Mantiply	6	3	.667	2.40	38	0	17	8	71.3	57	19	19	2	19	0	76	3	0	2	282
Chad Green	6	4	.600	3.11	23	23	0	0	130.3	121	51	45	8	28	0	125	3	0	5	523
Montreal Robertson	6	5	.545	3.23	43	0	19	8	75.3	84	34	27	3	28	0	59	2	0	6	331
Jonathan Maciel	6	8	.429	4.07	27	20	2	0	128.3	138	66	58	10	26	0	91	3	2	6	536
Matt Davenport	5	6	.455	2.92	32	6	9	3	89.3	98	35	29	0	22	0	74	4	0	5	382
Zac Reininger	4	4	.500	2.54	33	0	26	11	56.7	42	18	16	3	17	1	58	3	0	2	230
Julio Felix	3	2	.600	3.38	44	0	24	13	77.3	70	31	29	2	15	1	71	4	0	3	312
Nate Fury	2	0	1.000	0.59	10	0	7	0	15.3	13	2	1	0	5	0	18	0	0	2	63
Will LaMarche	2	0	1.000	4.99	26	0	6	1	39.7	30	23	22	1	24	0	40	6	0	6	175
Artie Lewicki	2	2	.500	2.45	10	1	7	2	25.7	19	8	7	2	9	0	22	0	0	1	100
Scott Sitz	2	5	.286	5.31	29	0	17	2	42.3	49	31	25	6	10	0	40	1	0	0	182
Adam Ravenelle	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	9
Ian Krol	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3
Jeff Thompson	0	0		6.75	3	3	0	0	8.0	10	7	6	1	9	0	10	0	0	0	41
Jose Zambrano	0	0		27.00	1	0	1	0	0.3	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Ryan Longstreth	0	1	.000	2.08	7	0	2	0	13.0	16	3	3	0	1	0	10	0	0	1	55
Trent Szkutnik	0	1	.000	4.42	9	0	2	0	18.3	20	11	9	0	4	0	14	1	0	2	77
Luke Putkonen	0	1	.000	13.50	3	0	0	0	2.7	4	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	14
Totals	82	58	.586	3.06	428	140	140	49	1278.7	1143	513	435	59	389	2	1207	56	4	78	5280

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
Wynton Bernard	131	583	507	91	164	30	6	6	47	45	19	56	86	.323	.394	.442	.836	224	4	5	12	3	1
Javier Betancourt	134	612	558	67	150	18	3	6	54	9	6	26	81	.269	.307	.344	.651	192	7	7	15	6	0
Dominic Ficociello	134	580	530	66	146	25	6	6	53	11	8	40	116	.275	.334	.379	.714	201	13	8	0	2	0
Raph Rhymes	134	593	527	72	135	35	2	9	71	4	6	52	74	.256	.329	.381	.710	201	12	8	0	6	1
Willy Adames	98	400	353	40	95	14	12	6	50	3	6	39	96	.269	.346	.428	.774	151	4	3	4	1	0
Jeff Holm	80	345	299	50	77	12	1	11	48	7	3	39	64	.258	.352	.415	.766	124	5	5	1	1	3
Francisco Contreras	79	313	275	30	61	9	1	3	28	6	0	23	78	.222	.283	.295	.578	81	6	3	6	6	0
Jose Zambrano	58	230	215	16	50	2	0	1	14	4	0	11	25	.233	.270	.256	.526	55	13	0	4	0	0
Bennett Pickar	80	298	272	15	50	9	0	0	22	2	0	22	81	.184	.253	.217	.469	59	2	3	1	0	0
Austin Schotts	62	251	228	23	48	10	3	2	14	7	6	16	63	.211	.267	.307	.574	70	2	2	4	1	0
Domingo Leyba	30	124	116	20	46	7	0	1	7	1	2	6	13	.397	.431	.483	.914	56	2	1	1	0	0
Ben Verlander	56	229	216	16	45	7	1	1	23	3	3	9	45	.208	.236	.264	.500	57	7	0	0	4	2
Grayson Greiner	26	104	90	11	29	5	0	2	16	0	0	11	18	.322	.394	.444	.839	40	1	1	0	2	1
Tyler Gibson	28	109	92	14	25	6	0	0	9	4	4	16	33	.272	.385	.337	.722	31	0	1	0	0	1
Harold Castro	20	83	72	8	18	5	0	0	3	3	2	5	7	.250	.304	.319	.623	23	4	1	4	1	0
Pat Leyland	36	124	121	3	17	2	0	1	9	0	0	2	16	.140	.154	.182	.336	22	6	0	1	0	0
Arvicent Perez	14	50	46	7	16	2	0	0	6	1	1	1	5	.348	.375	.391	.766	18	0	1	2	0	0
Ross Kivett	19	76	65	3	14	2	0	0	7	3	0	6	8	.215	.297	.246	.543	16	1	2	2	1	0
Tim Remes	27	107	88	9	14	1	0	2	9	1	0	13	32	.159	.272	.239	.510	21	0	1	4	1	0
Brett Harrison	19	73	68	6	13	4	0	0	3	0	1	3	21	.191	.233	.250	.483	17	1	1	0	1	0
Mike Gerber	8	35	31	4	12	3	0	0	5	1	0	4	3	.387	.457	.484	.941	15	3	0	0	0	0
Curt Powell	8	34	34	1	9	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	4	.265	.265	.353	.618	12	3	0	0	0	0
Andy Dirks	5	17	14	2	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	.214	.353	.286	.639	4	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1286	5370	4817	574	1237	210	36	57	500	116	67	403	970	.257	.319	.351	.670	1690	97	53	61	36	9

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Dominic Ficociello	1B	109	998	67	8	94	.993	9.771
Jeff Holm	1B	22	197	12	1	21	.995	9.500
Pat Leyland	1B	10	60	8	3	7	.958	6.800
Francisco Contreras	1B	3	22	1	0	2	1.000	7.667
Javier Betancourt	2B	104	201	312	14	75	.973	4.933
Jose Zambrano	2B	13	21	44	3	8	.956	5.000
Domingo Leyba	2B	13	28	45	2	14	.973	5.615
Harold Castro	2B	11	23	29	0	7	1.000	4.727
Francisco Contreras	2B	1	2	1	0	1	1.000	3.000
Francisco Contreras	3B	75	40	145	15	17	.925	2.467
Jose Zambrano	3B	37	16	65	5	2	.942	2.189
Brett Harrison	3B	18	9	48	5	2	.919	3.167
Dominic Ficociello	3B	11	10	23	1	5	.971	3.000
Javier Betancourt	3B	4	2	11	1	0	.929	3.250
Bennett Pickar	C	80	620	73	6	2	.991	8.662	16	56	36	39.1
Tim Remes	C	27	246	22	6	1	.978	9.926	4	21	10	32.3
Grayson Greiner	C	26	211	14	2	0	.991	8.654	1	21	7	25.0
Arvicent Perez	C	14	105	12	4	0	.967	8.357	1	8	7	46.7
Austin Schotts	CF	62	153	4	0	2	1.000	2.532
Wynton Bernard	CF	61	131	3	2	0	.985	2.197
Ross Kivett	CF	18	49	2	0	0	1.000	2.833
Tyler Gibson	CF	6	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.167
Raph Rhymes	LF	109	148	4	1	0	.993	1.394
Jeff Holm	LF	14	21	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Tyler Gibson	LF	14	22	3	0	0	1.000	1.786
Andy Dirks	LF	3	1	0	0	0	1.000	.333
Francisco Contreras	LF	3	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.333
Mike Gerber	LF	2	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.500
Ben Verlander	LF	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Wynton Bernard	OF	129	246	7	4	0	.984	1.961
Raph Rhymes	OF	111	153	4	2	0	.987	1.414
Austin Schotts	OF	62	153	4	0	2	1.000	2.532
Ben Verlander	OF	48	63	1	0	0	1.000	1.333
Tyler Gibson	OF	28	50	3	0	0	1.000	1.893
Jeff Holm	OF	19	27	1	0	1	1.000	1.474
Ross Kivett	OF	18	49	2	0	0	1.000	2.833
Mike Gerber	OF	8	21	0	0	0	1.000	2.625
Andy Dirks	OF	3	1	0	0	0	1.000	.333
Francisco Contreras	OF	3	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.333
Julio Felix	P	44	9	7	0	1	1.000	.364
Montreal Robertson	P	43	7	13	2	0	.909	.465
Joe Mantiply	P	38	3	11	1	0	.933	.368
Zac Reininger	P	33	0	4	0	0	1.000	.121
Matt Davenport	P	32	5	19	4	0	.857	.750
Scott Sitz	P	29	2	11	0	1	1.000	.448
Jonathan Maciel	P	27	8	12	0	1	1.000	.741
Will LaMarche	P	26	4	3	1	0	.875	.269
Kevin Ziomek	P	23	1	21	1	1	.957	.957
Austin Kubitza	P	23	8	21	3	0	.906	1.261
Chad Green	P	23	9	15	0	1	1.000	1.043
Jonathon Crawford	P	23	5	16	1	0	.955	.913
Buck Farmer	P	18	6	9	0	1	1.000	.833
Artie Lewicki	P	10	1	3	0	0	1.000	.400
Nate Fury	P	10	1	1	1	1	.667	.200
Trent Szkutnik	P	9	0	1	0	0	1.000	.111
Ryan Longstreth	P	7	1	3	0	0	1.000	.571
Jeff Thompson	P	3	0	0	0	0		.000
Luke Putkonen	P	3	0	2	0	0	1.000	.667
Adam Ravenelle	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Jose Zambrano	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Ian Krol	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Wynton Bernard	RF	73	115	4	2	0	.983	1.630
Ben Verlander	RF	47	61	1	0	0	1.000	1.319
Tyler Gibson	RF	8	15	0	0	0	1.000	1.875
Raph Rhymes	RF	6	5	0	1	0	.833	.833
Mike Gerber	RF	6	16	0	0	0	1.000	2.667
Jeff Holm	RF	5	6	1	0	1	1.000	1.400
Willy Adames	SS	97	132	289	21	63	.952	4.340
Javier Betancourt	SS	18	26	53	5	9	.940	4.389
Domingo Leyba	SS	17	24	50	3	11	.961	4.353
Curt Powell	SS	7	5	14	2	2	.905	2.714
Jose Zambrano	SS	2	1	4	1	3	.833	2.500
Totals		2014	4603	1558	134	359	.979	3.059	22	106	60	36.1

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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