2008 Newark Bears Statistics

Atlantic League (AL) - Independent
Team Record: 72-68
Finished 2nd in the AL's Freedom Division
Manager: Wayne Krenchicki (72-68)
Location: Newark, New Jersey
Ballpark: Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium
Attendance: 181,240, Avg. 2,746 in 66 home dates

2008 Newark Bears Roster

The Newark Bears of the Atlantic League ended the 2008 season with a record of 72 wins and 68 losses, finishing second in the league's Freedom Division.

The Bears topped the league with 843 runs. Newark surrendered 814 runs. Keith Reed led the team with 26 home runs, while Rubén Mateo, José Herrera and Ramón Castro each walloped 15 or more also. José Herrera and Keith Reed each recorded 93 runs batted in. Ramón Castro paced batters with significant playing time with a .352 average. Mike Bumstead paced the squad with 14 wins, and Benito Báez recorded a 4.53 ERA, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Will Cunnane, Ramón Castro, Ramón Nivar, José Herrera, Rubén Mateo, Keith Reed, Raúl González, Edwin Almonte, Randall Simon, Al Levine, Benito Báez, Cory Aldridge, Steve Kent, J. J. Trujillo, Val Majewski, Frankie Rodriguez, Willis Otáñez, Bobby Hill and Frank Gracesqui were all players from the 2008 Newark Bears who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Wayne Krenchicki 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	WP	BF
Mike Bumstead	14	9	.609	5.37	29	29	0	2	0	0	177.7	203	120	106	26	70	2	143	7	7	803
Jose Garcia	10	4	.714	5.07	23	22	0	2	0	0	142.0	159	91	80	24	67	1	93	14	3	647
Pat Stanley	10	8	.556	4.90	25	23	0	2	1	0	139.7	127	82	76	21	86	1	151	7	11	617
Cory Willey	7	2	.778	2.96	64	0	15	0	0	1	76.0	77	31	25	7	29	2	71	3	3	329
Benito Báez	7	5	.583	4.51	20	20	0	2	1	0	127.7	146	71	64	22	32	0	93	6	2	558
Edwin Almonte	5	3	.625	4.96	42	0	17	0	0	4	61.7	62	39	34	6	23	1	55	2	3	271
Carlos Mirabal	3	2	.600	7.31	14	7	2	0	0	0	48.0	64	39	39	8	24	1	22	2	0	223
Will Cunnane	2	0	1.000	5.82	7	4	0	0	0	0	21.7	31	16	14	1	9	0	16	1	0	106
Jeffrey Blitstein	2	1	.667	6.35	6	5	1	1	0	0	34.0	50	27	24	10	12	1	24	0	2	159
Frankie Rodriguez	2	1	.667	7.79	9	3	2	0	0	0	17.3	19	15	15	1	9	1	9	3	0	81
Rich Scalamandre	2	1	.667	11.23	27	1	10	0	0	0	33.7	49	42	42	10	20	3	23	1	2	169
Roberto Giron	2	3	.400	5.49	13	5	6	0	0	1	41.0	44	27	25	5	9	0	38	2	1	176
Andy Shibilo	2	4	.333	3.38	25	0	21	0	0	7	32.0	27	17	12	2	24	4	28	1	10	147
J. J. Trujillo	2	6	.250	4.01	40	0	17	0	0	8	51.7	57	26	23	5	29	1	43	0	1	235
Shaun Babula	1	3	.250	8.04	22	0	5	0	0	1	31.3	55	29	28	6	11	1	21	2	0	152
Matt Sweeney	1	5	.167	6.22	20	9	5	0	0	0	72.3	97	50	50	12	30	1	50	3	1	334
Tim Sweeney	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	5
Keith Reed	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	6
Matt Petrusek	0	0		0.00	4	0	2	0	0	1	6.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	8	0	0	21
Cory Aldridge	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	8
Brian Burgamy	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	5
Al Levine	0	0		1.59	11	0	9	0	0	9	11.3	7	2	2	1	5	0	4	0	0	46
Ramón Nivar	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	6
Jon Connolly	0	1	.000	2.66	5	3	2	0	0	0	20.3	22	8	6	4	5	0	17	0	0	88
Josh Fields	0	1	.000	6.23	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	3	3	3	1	6	0	3	0	0	20
Matt Smith	0	1	.000	9.60	4	2	0	0	0	0	15.0	20	16	16	3	15	0	9	0	0	79
Steve Kent	0	2	.000	4.91	15	0	9	0	0	5	14.7	16	10	8	2	8	2	14	0	1	69
Dave Pellegrine	0	2	.000	10.50	9	3	5	0	0	0	18.0	25	28	21	3	21	0	9	3	0	101
Frank Gracesqui	0	4	.000	14.09	4	4	0	0	0	0	15.3	25	24	24	4	10	0	15	1	1	81
Totals	72	68	.514	5.45	446	140	131	9	2	37	1218.7	1389	814	738	184	565	22	961	59	49	5542

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
Ramón Castro	117	542	480	102	169	30	0	23	84	9	0	42	86	.352	.417	.558	.975	268	10	15	0	5	2
José Herrera	119	520	478	80	158	26	7	16	93	4	0	30	50	.331	.367	.515	.881	246	19	2	2	8	3
Keith Reed	132	577	533	90	157	36	3	26	93	13	7	29	100	.295	.338	.520	.858	277	10	8	3	4	1
Randall Simon	100	399	380	45	122	21	1	11	62	0	0	14	27	.321	.346	.468	.814	178	21	2	0	3	5
Mike Just	102	378	340	71	94	15	0	2	20	21	4	32	27	.276	.347	.338	.686	115	9	5	1	0	0
Bobby Hill	100	461	362	78	86	22	1	3	35	2	1	80	63	.238	.386	.329	.715	119	7	9	8	2	0
Cory Aldridge	62	266	230	43	84	17	4	7	54	0	0	33	49	.365	.440	.565	1.005	130	3	0	0	3	1
Vic Gutierrez	65	254	239	41	72	11	1	0	22	5	1	12	26	.301	.333	.356	.689	85	0	0	2	1	0
Raúl González	59	244	227	33	71	15	0	8	35	4	0	12	33	.313	.350	.485	.834	110	15	2	1	2	0
Val Majewski	50	206	182	38	67	13	1	8	47	0	0	21	22	.368	.437	.582	1.019	106	4	2	0	1	0
John Pachot	70	274	259	23	67	10	2	8	42	1	0	6	18	.259	.274	.405	.679	105	7	1	4	4	0
Willis Otáñez	48	211	192	32	64	14	0	8	29	0	0	17	32	.333	.393	.531	.925	102	7	2	0	0	0
Ramón Nivar	55	206	196	37	64	17	2	4	24	19	3	7	13	.327	.353	.495	.848	97	5	1	2	0	0
Rubén Mateo	50	219	198	35	59	14	0	16	44	2	0	14	45	.298	.352	.611	.963	121	5	4	0	3	0
Scott Knazek	69	249	219	27	48	9	2	1	23	0	0	21	58	.219	.297	.292	.589	64	6	4	3	2	0
Gerard Haran	41	151	133	15	37	9	0	4	25	0	0	13	36	.278	.344	.436	.780	58	3	2	0	3	0
Manny Mejia	35	129	118	17	31	7	0	9	25	0	0	9	33	.263	.326	.551	.876	65	5	2	0	0	1
Tim Sweeney	37	111	99	11	27	3	0	0	12	0	2	8	17	.273	.345	.303	.648	30	3	3	1	0	0
Brian Burgamy	30	134	102	25	27	6	0	3	14	5	1	27	22	.265	.420	.412	.832	42	3	1	3	1	0
Totals	1341	5531	4967	843	1504	295	24	157	783	85	19	427	757	.303	.363	.467	.830	2318	142	65	30	42	13

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Randall Simon	1B	80	645	57	7	70	.990	8.775
Val Majewski	1B	24	175	11	5	20	.974	7.750
Tim Sweeney	1B	17	106	5	2	12	.982	6.529
Willis Otáñez	1B	12	75	4	1	13	.988	6.583
Gerard Haran	1B	11	89	5	2	9	.979	8.545
John Pachot	1B	5	25	4	1	3	.967	5.800
Manny Mejia	1B	5	36	3	1	1	.975	7.800
Vic Gutierrez	1B	2	7	3	0	2	1.000	5.000
Ramón Castro	1B	2	3	1	0	1	1.000	2.000
Scott Knazek	1B	1	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.000
Bobby Hill	2B	85	167	190	5	56	.986	4.200
Vic Gutierrez	2B	31	53	80	1	24	.993	4.290
Mike Just	2B	21	24	38	0	11	1.000	2.952
Ramón Nivar	2B	7	14	17	0	4	1.000	4.429
Brian Burgamy	2B	7	12	19	0	4	1.000	4.429
Tim Sweeney	2B	1	0	3	0	0	1.000	3.000
Mike Just	3B	73	50	130	8	6	.957	2.466
Willis Otáñez	3B	37	20	70	5	4	.947	2.432
Vic Gutierrez	3B	13	7	24	3	4	.912	2.385
Brian Burgamy	3B	13	7	12	3	1	.864	1.462
Tim Sweeney	3B	12	7	22	6	2	.829	2.417
Ramón Nivar	3B	6	5	8	1	0	.929	2.167
Scott Knazek	C	65	427	44	7	4	.985	7.246	7	45	19	29.7
John Pachot	C	63	430	41	3	3	.994	7.476	8	31	12	27.9
Manny Mejia	C	22	122	6	2	0	.985	5.818	4	7	4	36.4
Gerard Haran	C	4	13	1	0	0	1.000	3.500	0	1	0	0.0
Keith Reed	CF	117						.000
Ramón Nivar	CF	12						.000
Raúl González	CF	8						.000
Val Majewski	CF	4						.000
Brian Burgamy	CF	4						.000
Cory Aldridge	LF	51						.000
Rubén Mateo	LF	33						.000
Ramón Nivar	LF	27						.000
Raúl González	LF	23						.000
Val Majewski	LF	8						.000
Brian Burgamy	LF	6						.000
Ramón Castro	LF	4						.000
Keith Reed	OF	117	308	7	4	1	.987	2.692
José Herrera	OF	102	181	13	4	3	.980	1.902
Cory Aldridge	OF	51	66	3	0	1	1.000	1.353
Raúl González	OF	47	90	2	1	0	.989	1.957
Ramón Nivar	OF	41	73	4	1	0	.987	1.878
Rubén Mateo	OF	33	55	4	2	1	.967	1.788
Val Majewski	OF	28	40	1	0	0	1.000	1.464
Brian Burgamy	OF	14	25	2	0	0	1.000	1.929
Ramón Castro	OF	5	7	1	1	0	.889	1.600
Cory Willey	P	64	0	11	2	2	.846	.172
Edwin Almonte	P	42	5	10	1	0	.938	.357
J. J. Trujillo	P	40	4	6	1	0	.909	.250
Mike Bumstead	P	29	16	23	6	1	.867	1.345
Rich Scalamandre	P	27	2	5	0	0	1.000	.259
Pat Stanley	P	25	11	14	3	0	.893	1.000
Andy Shibilo	P	25	2	4	1	0	.857	.240
Jose Garcia	P	23	11	17	2	1	.933	1.217
Shaun Babula	P	22	3	6	0	2	1.000	.409
Matt Sweeney	P	20	6	9	1	0	.938	.750
Benito Báez	P	20	9	22	2	3	.939	1.550
Steve Kent	P	15	0	1	0	0	1.000	.067
Carlos Mirabal	P	14	2	7	0	1	1.000	.643
Roberto Giron	P	13	2	6	1	0	.889	.615
Al Levine	P	11	0	1	0	0	1.000	.091
Frankie Rodriguez	P	9	2	2	0	1	1.000	.444
Dave Pellegrine	P	9	3	1	0	0	1.000	.444
Will Cunnane	P	7	1	2	0	0	1.000	.429
Jeffrey Blitstein	P	6	3	8	1	0	.917	1.833
Jon Connolly	P	5	4	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Matt Smith	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Matt Petrusek	P	4	0	0	0	0		.000
Frank Gracesqui	P	4	1	5	1	1	.857	1.500
Josh Fields	P	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333
Tim Sweeney	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Keith Reed	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Ramón Nivar	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Brian Burgamy	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Cory Aldridge	P	1	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.000
José Herrera	RF	102						.000
Val Majewski	RF	19						.000
Raúl González	RF	16						.000
Brian Burgamy	RF	5						.000
Ramón Nivar	RF	3						.000
Ramón Castro	RF	1						.000
Ramón Castro	SS	111	155	318	17	76	.965	4.261
Vic Gutierrez	SS	19	23	47	6	13	.921	3.684
Bobby Hill	SS	16	22	33	1	10	.982	3.438
Mike Just	SS	2	2	1	0	1	1.000	1.500
Totals		2094	3656	1398	122	373	.976	2.414	19	84	35	29.4

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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