2000 Waterbury Spirit Statistics

Northern League-East (NLE) - Independent
Team Record: 40-46
Finished 4th in the NLE's North Division
Manager: George Tsamis (40-46)
Location: Waterbury, Connecticut
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium
Attendance: 33,501, Avg. 957 in 35 home dates

2000 Waterbury Spirit Roster

Playoffs - Elmira Pioneers 3 games, Waterbury Spirit 0

The Waterbury Spirit of the Northern League-East ended the 2000 season with a record of 40 wins and 46 losses, finishing fourth in the league's North Division.

The Spirit plated 338 runs, worst in the circuit, and surrendered 364 runs. Rafael Guerrero accounted for 54 RBI. Nelson Samboy led all regular batters by hitting .327. Finley Woodward topped the team with 9 wins, while Mike Bertotti recorded a 2 ERA, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Members of the 2000 Waterbury Spirit who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Erik Plantenberg, Jim Bullinger and Mike Bertotti.

George Tsamis 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
Finley Woodward	9	4	.692	2.72	20	18	0	1	1	0	119.0	111	45	36	0	53	3	94	10	0	10	517
Jarod Juelsgaard	7	5	.583	2.77	16	16	0	2	2	0	104.0	99	50	32	5	46	3	61	4	0	6	455
Jon Hand	6	1	.857	3.77	37	0	9	0	0	2	57.3	54	28	24	3	22	5	42	10	4	5	257
Ricky Casteel	5	6	.455	3.16	16	16	0	0	0	0	85.3	69	39	30	5	31	0	59	7	0	2	352
Mike Bertotti	5	7	.417	1.99	12	12	0	5	1	0	81.3	53	27	18	3	35	0	86	2	0	6	324
Erik Plantenberg	2	2	.500	3.60	6	6	0	0	0	0	35.0	34	21	14	1	22	0	24	4	0	2	162
Brian Schwalm	2	4	.333	7.30	9	3	2	0	0	0	24.7	34	23	20	3	16	3	9	4	1	2	118
Josh Bradford	1	1	.500	3.18	3	3	0	0	0	0	17.0	14	6	6	0	8	1	9	2	0	1	69
Antwoine Anderson	1	2	.333	4.89	22	2	6	0	0	0	35.0	38	23	19	2	20	1	25	8	0	4	166
Jim Bullinger	1	3	.250	3.96	5	5	0	0	0	0	25.0	29	19	11	3	13	0	20	1	0	1	118
Todd Meady	1	6	.143	4.85	27	1	13	0	0	0	42.7	54	32	23	1	18	3	29	2	0	0	201
Ken Denney	0	0		5.27	5	3	2	0	0	0	13.7	18	8	8	1	7	0	7	1	0	2	62
Tim Belcher	0	0		9.00	4	0	3	0	0	0	6.0	7	7	6	1	6	0	5	0	0	3	32
Darin Grimmett	0	1	.000	3.78	19	1	6	0	0	1	33.3	32	18	14	3	18	2	25	0	0	1	150
Mike Huffaker	0	4	.000	2.61	39	0	37	0	0	18	38.0	25	18	11	1	32	3	40	3	0	6	173
Totals	40	46	.465	3.41	240	86	78	8	4	21	717.3	671	364	272	32	347	24	535	58	5	51	3156

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
Rafael Guerrero	86	351	323	41	96	26	1	2	54	2	3	23	41	.297	.345	.402	.747	130	10	2	0	3	4
Tom Russin	74	294	270	33	84	20	2	4	44	1	0	15	43	.311	.364	.444	.808	120	5	8	0	1	2
Nelson Samboy	64	278	248	41	81	16	1	2	26	16	8	22	30	.327	.389	.423	.812	105	7	4	3	1	1
Richie Benes	77	294	255	34	62	11	3	0	17	3	5	22	70	.243	.311	.310	.621	79	4	3	14	0	0
Jason Herrick	57	233	201	30	61	12	4	4	32	9	5	26	61	.303	.388	.463	.851	93	2	3	1	2	8
Willie Oropeza	70	245	226	22	51	5	0	2	26	0	0	12	32	.226	.261	.274	.536	62	9	0	4	3	0
Gregg Maluchnik	64	213	185	16	44	5	0	1	14	0	3	14	51	.238	.299	.281	.580	52	4	3	9	2	0
Steve Reintjes	62	206	166	24	36	4	1	2	14	0	0	33	38	.217	.359	.289	.648	48	6	5	0	2	4
Tim Belcher	54	165	133	22	34	5	0	1	13	4	0	27	26	.256	.387	.316	.702	42	3	2	2	1	3
Rafael Martinez	44	160	139	14	32	7	0	2	16	0	0	18	25	.230	.325	.324	.649	45	4	2	0	1	1
Juan Penalver	24	100	81	15	20	5	1	0	7	2	2	12	18	.247	.358	.333	.691	27	2	2	5	0	0
Aaron Fera	21	76	64	7	17	2	0	0	6	2	1	8	16	.266	.338	.297	.635	19	3	0	2	2	0
Scott Pinoni	21	78	71	5	16	5	0	1	12	0	0	6	17	.225	.282	.338	.620	24	4	0	0	1	0
Eric Rossy	29	76	67	6	14	1	0	0	7	1	3	5	16	.209	.257	.224	.481	15	1	0	2	2	0
Jeff Keaveney	21	79	70	5	14	3	0	1	5	0	0	7	30	.200	.291	.286	.577	20	2	2	0	0	1
Ron Maurer	20	86	75	6	14	3	0	0	5	0	0	7	18	.187	.265	.227	.492	17	2	1	3	0	0
Nick Spera	15	54	40	10	13	4	0	0	1	2	3	11	9	.325	.481	.425	.906	17	1	1	2	0	0
Ken Craddox	12	21	21	2	4	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	6	.190	.190	.190	.381	4	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Packin	11	21	20	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.150	.190	.150	.340	3	1	0	0	0	0
Billy Rich	5	17	15	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.133	.235	.200	.435	3	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Passe	2	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	1	0	0	0	0
Greg Reynes	5	11	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.143	.455	.143	.597	1	0	1	0	0	0
Kiko Reyes	3	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.125	.222	.125	.347	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Regan	5	21	12	4	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	6	6	.000	.350	.000	.350	0	0	1	1	1	0
Franklin Torres	2	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	848	3099	2706	338	701	135	13	22	304	46	34	283	572	.259	.336	.343	.679	928	71	40	48	22	24

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Rafael Martinez	1B	43	334	25	10	39	.973	8.349
Tim Belcher	1B	35	309	26	3	22	.991	9.571
Rafael Guerrero	1B	9	59	7	0	5	1.000	7.333
Brian Packin	1B	4	12	1	0	1	1.000	3.250
Scott Pinoni	1B	1	7	1	0	0	1.000	8.000
Nelson Samboy	2B	58	145	186	15	37	.957	5.707
Eric Rossy	2B	16	25	38	4	9	.940	3.938
Nick Spera	2B	8	9	13	2	2	.917	2.750
Ron Maurer	2B	7	7	10	0	0	1.000	2.429
Jason Regan	2B	3	4	3	1	1	.875	2.333
Juan Penalver	2B	2	1	2	0	1	1.000	1.500
Richie Benes	2B	2	5	1	0	0	1.000	3.000
Gregg Maluchnik	3B	51	37	89	13	4	.906	2.471
Juan Penalver	3B	22	23	56	5	2	.940	3.591
Ron Maurer	3B	10	6	15	1	3	.955	2.100
Jason Regan	3B	4	1	4	0	1	1.000	1.250
Tom Russin	3B	3	3	11	3	2	.824	4.667
Eric Rossy	3B	3	0	4	3	0	.571	1.333
Mike Passe	3B	2	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Richie Benes	3B	2	3	3	1	1	.857	3.000
Brian Packin	3B	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Willie Oropeza	C	70	439	66	8	3	.984	7.214	17	52	37	41.6
Gregg Maluchnik	C	21	99	14	0	2	1.000	5.381	1	10	9	47.4
Greg Reynes	C	5	20	1	2	0	.913	4.200	2	3	0	0.0
Eric Rossy	C	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Jason Herrick	CF	57						.000
Rafael Guerrero	CF	18						.000
Ken Craddox	CF	12						.000
Nelson Samboy	CF	4						.000
Tim Belcher	CF	3						.000
Nick Spera	CF	2						.000
Tom Russin	LF	48						.000
Steve Reintjes	LF	31						.000
Tim Belcher	LF	12						.000
Aaron Fera	LF	9						.000
Billy Rich	LF	3						.000
Nick Spera	LF	2						.000
Gregg Maluchnik	LF	1						.000
Rafael Guerrero	OF	79	126	5	3	1	.978	1.658
Jason Herrick	OF	57	112	5	2	2	.983	2.053
Tom Russin	OF	48	60	1	2	0	.968	1.271
Steve Reintjes	OF	37	43	6	2	0	.961	1.324
Aaron Fera	OF	19	28	1	1	0	.967	1.526
Tim Belcher	OF	15	20	0	3	0	.870	1.333
Ken Craddox	OF	12	17	1	0	0	1.000	1.500
Nick Spera	OF	5	3	0	0	0	1.000	.600
Nelson Samboy	OF	4	8	0	1	0	.889	2.000
Billy Rich	OF	4	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.500
Gregg Maluchnik	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Mike Huffaker	P	39	2	2	1	0	.800	.103
Jon Hand	P	37	6	15	0	0	1.000	.568
Todd Meady	P	27	4	7	1	1	.917	.407
Antwoine Anderson	P	22	2	3	0	1	1.000	.227
Finley Woodward	P	20	5	18	1	2	.958	1.150
Darin Grimmett	P	19	2	3	1	0	.833	.263
Jarod Juelsgaard	P	16	10	28	3	1	.927	2.375
Ricky Casteel	P	16	8	12	2	0	.909	1.250
Mike Bertotti	P	12	10	14	3	1	.889	2.000
Brian Schwalm	P	9	2	5	0	0	1.000	.778
Erik Plantenberg	P	6	2	7	0	0	1.000	1.500
Ken Denney	P	5	0	1	0	0	1.000	.200
Jim Bullinger	P	5	2	2	0	0	1.000	.800
Tim Belcher	P	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Josh Bradford	P	3	3	2	0	1	1.000	1.667
Rafael Guerrero	RF	69						.000
Aaron Fera	RF	17						.000
Steve Reintjes	RF	10						.000
Nick Spera	RF	1						.000
Billy Rich	RF	1						.000
Tim Belcher	RF	1						.000
Richie Benes	SS	75	98	194	30	35	.907	3.893
Ron Maurer	SS	7	16	17	0	4	1.000	4.714
Eric Rossy	SS	5	8	10	3	4	.857	3.600
Kiko Reyes	SS	3	0	5	2	1	.714	1.667
Franklin Torres	SS	2	0	8	0	1	1.000	4.000
Mike Passe	SS	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000
Totals		1298	2152	950	134	190	.959	2.390	20	65	46	41.4

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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