2008 Connecticut Defenders Statistics

Eastern League (EL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 68-73
Finished 4th in the EL's Northern Division
Manager: Bien Figueroa (68-73)
Affiliation: San Francisco Giants
Location: Norwich, Connecticut
Ballpark: Senator Thomas J. Dodd Stadium
Attendance: 202,004, Avg. 3,015 in 67 home dates

2008 Connecticut Defenders Roster

The Connecticut Defenders of the Eastern League ended the 2008 season with a record of 68 wins and 73 losses, finishing fourth in the league's Northern Division.

The Defenders scored 620 runs and allowed 561 runs. Adam Witter led Connecticut with 20 home runs and drove in 77 runs. Olmo Rosario and Eddy Martinez-Esteve topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .298 average. Garrett Broshuis paced the squad with 13 wins, while Joe Martinez recorded a 2.49 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Members of the 2008 Connecticut Defenders who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Eliézer Alfonzo, Nate Bump, Travis Denker, Travis Ishikawa, Joe Martinez, Osiris Matos, Antoan Richardson, Ryan Rohlinger, Sergio Romo, Ryan Sadowski, Pablo Sandoval, Josh Sharpless and Jason Waddell.

Bien Figueroa served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Garrett Broshuis	13	9	.591	3.78	28	28	0	1	0	157.0	178	82	66	16	35	2	99	3	0	3	677
Joe Martinez	10	10	.500	2.49	27	27	0	0	0	148.0	131	58	41	6	37	0	112	4	0	3	611
Adam Cowart	8	7	.533	3.76	32	23	0	0	0	138.7	170	69	58	7	29	2	73	2	0	4	596
Dave McKae	8	9	.471	4.57	28	22	0	0	0	124.0	139	78	63	10	35	1	74	5	0	1	540
Ronnie Ray	6	4	.600	3.10	46	0	20	0	1	72.7	80	29	25	3	24	2	47	2	0	4	316
Steve Palazzolo	5	5	.500	3.56	23	0	4	0	1	43.0	30	19	17	1	29	4	40	5	1	7	185
Nate Bump	4	3	.571	2.64	17	10	0	0	0	58.0	47	19	17	2	22	0	28	7	0	1	241
Paul Oseguera	3	2	.600	4.58	19	8	0	0	0	57.0	54	33	29	7	29	0	45	1	0	3	246
Brooks McNiven	2	2	.500	1.84	18	8	3	0	0	58.7	42	15	12	0	14	1	22	0	0	1	229
Justin Hedrick	2	3	.400	1.37	43	0	26	0	9	65.7	41	12	10	4	21	0	74	0	0	3	256
Kelvin Pichardo	2	4	.333	2.48	46	0	20	0	7	61.7	49	18	17	4	33	3	62	6	0	4	271
Ryan Sadowski	1	0	1.000	3.27	9	0	0	0	0	11.0	13	5	4	0	9	2	9	2	0	3	55
Josh Sharpless	1	1	.500	3.51	24	0	8	0	0	33.3	23	17	13	3	29	2	30	1	0	4	151
Daryl Maday	1	1	.500	8.35	4	3	1	0	0	18.3	31	17	17	2	8	0	11	0	0	1	89
Sergio Romo	1	3	.250	4.00	24	0	21	0	11	27.0	22	15	12	1	7	2	30	2	0	0	108
Ben Snyder	1	6	.143	5.98	13	12	1	0	0	61.7	77	42	41	9	23	0	44	2	0	2	280
Osiris Matos	0	0		1.23	27	0	14	0	8	36.7	25	5	5	0	11	0	37	1	0	1	144
Simon Klink	0	1	.000		1	0	1	0	0	0.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Jason Waddell	0	3	.000	3.38	44	0	21	0	2	64.0	47	27	24	6	36	2	70	2	0	2	268
Totals	68	73	.482	3.44	473	141	140	1	39	1236.3	1200	561	472	81	432	23	907	45	1	47	5265

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
Olmo Rosario	124	450	420	58	125	31	4	11	51	13	5	20	67	.298	.333	.469	.802	197	9	4	2	4	4
Eddy Martinez-Esteve	115	455	396	42	118	15	0	6	42	2	1	54	37	.298	.387	.381	.768	151	18	4	0	1	1
Carlos Sosa	122	464	411	55	104	25	1	10	53	2	2	46	101	.253	.326	.392	.718	161	11	1	1	5	0
Ben Copeland	103	423	372	54	97	17	13	5	42	21	5	39	64	.261	.334	.417	.751	155	3	3	7	2	2
Adam Witter	118	471	400	56	95	18	2	20	77	1	5	64	102	.238	.345	.442	.787	177	12	3	1	3	4
Kyle Haines	105	409	348	48	91	15	4	0	43	1	4	55	58	.261	.366	.328	.694	114	8	3	2	1	1
Antoan Richardson	123	445	365	63	88	5	6	5	31	33	6	55	82	.241	.356	.329	.685	120	3	12	10	3	0
David Maroul	108	392	366	46	84	26	0	10	35	2	4	21	110	.230	.274	.383	.657	140	10	2	2	1	1
Simon Klink	108	388	349	34	79	19	1	3	35	2	0	34	104	.226	.302	.312	.615	109	12	4	1	0	0
Travis Ishikawa	64	277	234	34	68	16	0	8	48	10	4	35	45	.291	.382	.462	.843	108	3	2	2	4	3
Pablo Sandoval	44	184	175	29	59	13	0	8	37	0	1	8	20	.337	.364	.549	.913	96	4	0	0	1	2
Ryan Rohlinger	44	179	159	27	47	12	1	6	19	1	1	13	20	.296	.358	.497	.855	79	8	3	3	1	0
Jake Wald	52	187	168	26	44	10	2	2	15	2	0	13	44	.262	.326	.381	.707	64	3	3	3	0	0
Eliézer Alfonzo	19	84	80	8	29	7	0	2	15	0	0	2	18	.362	.393	.525	.918	42	4	2	0	0	1
Travis Denker	25	91	76	4	14	4	1	0	6	1	1	14	25	.184	.308	.263	.571	20	1	0	0	1	1
Brad Boyer	12	55	50	6	12	3	0	0	5	0	1	3	2	.240	.283	.300	.583	15	1	0	2	0	0
Mike Mooney	20	69	66	7	11	3	0	4	15	1	1	1	15	.167	.174	.394	.568	26	3	0	0	2	0
Dayton Buller	11	30	29	5	6	2	0	1	3	0	0	1	12	.207	.233	.379	.613	11	0	0	0	0	0
Nestor Rojas	16	47	46	5	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	6	.130	.149	.130	.279	6	3	0	0	0	1
Julio Cordido	13	46	43	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	9	.116	.156	.116	.272	5	2	0	1	0	1
Paul Oseguera	19	7	7	1	2	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ben Snyder	13	9	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.286	.375	.429	.804	3	0	0	1	0	0
Adam Cowart	32	26	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.091	.167	.091	.258	2	0	1	2	0	0
Kelvin Pichardo	46	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Garrett Broshuis	28	17	13	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.077	.200	.077	.277	1	0	0	2	0	0
Joe Martinez	27	18	13	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.077	.143	.154	.297	2	0	0	4	0	0
Trey Webb	10	20	20	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	9	.050	.050	.050	.100	1	0	0	0	0	0
Josh Sharpless	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Waddell	44	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.667	.000	.667	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nate Bump	17	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Daryl Maday	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Ronnie Ray	46	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Palazzolo	23	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave McKae	28	18	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	0	0	0
Justin Hedrick	43	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Brooks McNiven	18	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1768	5293	4679	620	1192	244	35	101	581	92	42	490	990	.255	.330	.387	.716	1809	119	47	48	29	22

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Travis Ishikawa	1B	59	520	58	4	60	.993	9.797
Simon Klink	1B	51	393	25	5	43	.988	8.196
Adam Witter	1B	17	131	20	4	23	.974	8.882
David Maroul	1B	10	79	6	1	9	.988	8.500
Pablo Sandoval	1B	8	65	6	0	9	1.000	8.875
Eliézer Alfonzo	1B	3	24	3	0	4	1.000	9.000
Olmo Rosario	2B	59	128	161	12	31	.960	4.898
Kyle Haines	2B	33	61	85	3	22	.980	4.424
Travis Denker	2B	21	47	62	5	19	.956	5.190
David Maroul	2B	19	31	63	3	16	.969	4.947
Brad Boyer	2B	10	18	29	1	6	.979	4.700
Julio Cordido	2B	5	9	15	1	4	.960	4.800
Trey Webb	2B	2	3	5	0	2	1.000	4.000
David Maroul	3B	67	40	148	18	13	.913	2.806
Ryan Rohlinger	3B	44	35	83	5	8	.959	2.682
Simon Klink	3B	28	22	46	4	2	.944	2.429
Julio Cordido	3B	4	0	7	1	0	.875	1.750
Olmo Rosario	3B	1	2	0	1	0	.667	2.000
Travis Denker	3B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brad Boyer	3B	1	0	3	1	0	.750	3.000
Adam Witter	C	79	498	39	5	2	.991	6.797	14	56	21	27.3
Pablo Sandoval	C	30	200	23	3	2	.987	7.433	2	11	7	38.9
Nestor Rojas	C	13	65	5	0	1	1.000	5.385	3	6	1	14.3
Eliézer Alfonzo	C	13	87	7	1	0	.989	7.231	2	3	4	57.1
Dayton Buller	C	11	64	3	2	2	.971	6.091	3	6	0	0.0
Antoan Richardson	CF	117	265	4	7	0	.975	2.299
Ben Copeland	CF	32	79	1	1	1	.988	2.500
Carlos Sosa	CF	6	12	0	0	0	1.000	2.000
Mike Mooney	CF	3	2	0	0	0	1.000	.667
Trey Webb	CF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Eddy Martinez-Esteve	LF	73	99	8	3	0	.973	1.466
Carlos Sosa	LF	55	85	2	0	0	1.000	1.582
Olmo Rosario	LF	20	20	0	1	0	.952	1.000
Ben Copeland	LF	15	24	0	0	0	1.000	1.600
Mike Mooney	LF	4	3	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Antoan Richardson	OF	117	265	4	7	0	.975	2.299
Carlos Sosa	OF	114	213	6	2	1	.991	1.921
Ben Copeland	OF	100	237	10	4	8	.984	2.470
Eddy Martinez-Esteve	OF	82	108	8	3	0	.975	1.415
Olmo Rosario	OF	23	26	1	2	1	.931	1.174
Mike Mooney	OF	17	27	2	1	0	.967	1.706
Trey Webb	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Ronnie Ray	P	46	8	9	1	0	.944	.370
Kelvin Pichardo	P	46	1	7	0	1	1.000	.174
Jason Waddell	P	44	8	8	1	2	.941	.364
Justin Hedrick	P	43	0	3	1	0	.750	.070
Adam Cowart	P	32	17	30	0	3	1.000	1.469
Dave McKae	P	28	16	14	1	4	.968	1.071
Garrett Broshuis	P	28	19	21	5	2	.889	1.429
Osiris Matos	P	27	1	3	0	1	1.000	.148
Joe Martinez	P	27	10	23	2	2	.943	1.222
Josh Sharpless	P	24	4	2	1	2	.857	.250
Sergio Romo	P	24	0	1	0	1	1.000	.042
Steve Palazzolo	P	23	2	6	0	1	1.000	.348
Paul Oseguera	P	19	2	8	2	0	.833	.526
Brooks McNiven	P	18	3	10	0	0	1.000	.722
Nate Bump	P	17	6	19	0	2	1.000	1.471
Ben Snyder	P	13	1	7	0	0	1.000	.615
Ryan Sadowski	P	9	1	2	0	0	1.000	.333
Daryl Maday	P	4	1	2	0	0	1.000	.750
Simon Klink	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Carlos Sosa	RF	67	116	4	2	1	.984	1.791
Ben Copeland	RF	67	134	9	3	7	.979	2.134
Mike Mooney	RF	12	22	1	1	0	.958	1.917
Eddy Martinez-Esteve	RF	9	9	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Olmo Rosario	RF	3	6	1	1	1	.875	2.333
Kyle Haines	SS	60	71	152	8	40	.965	3.717
Jake Wald	SS	52	84	165	10	38	.961	4.788
Olmo Rosario	SS	29	41	72	7	24	.942	3.897
Trey Webb	SS	5	8	15	1	4	.958	4.600
David Maroul	SS	3	4	5	4	1	.692	3.000
Julio Cordido	SS	2	3	5	1	1	.889	4.000
Totals		2151	4585	1553	163	427	.974	2.854	24	82	33	28.7

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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