2006 West Michigan Whitecaps Statistics

Midwest League (MWL) - Class: A
Team Record: 89-48
Finished 1st in the MWL's East Division
Manager: Matt Walbeck (89-48)
Affiliation: Detroit Tigers
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ballpark: Fifth Third Ballpark
Attendance: 356,155, Avg. 5,238 in 68 home dates

2006 West Michigan Whitecaps Roster

Playoffs - West Michigan Whitecaps 2 games, Fort Wayne Wizards 1
Finals - West Michigan Whitecaps 3 games, Kane County Cougars 1

The West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League ended the 2006 season with a record of 89 wins and 48 losses, finishing first in the league's East Division.

The Whitecaps paced the league with just 492 runs allowed. West Michigan scored 620 runs. Michael Hollimon led the squad with 15 home runs Matt Joyce drove in 86 runs. Cameron Maybin topped hitters with significant playing time with a .304 average. Burke Badenhop paced the team with 14 wins and a team-best 2.84 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Cameron Maybin, Michael Hollimon, Luke French, Burke Badenhop, Jay Sborz, Will Rhymes, Anthony Claggett, Matt Joyce and Dusty Ryan were all players from the 2006 West Michigan Whitecaps who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Matt Walbeck 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
Burke Badenhop	14	3	.824	2.84	27	27	0	3	0	0	171.0	170	59	54	6	31	0	124	14	0	6	702
Sendy Vasquez	13	6	.684	2.97	26	26	0	0	0	0	142.3	129	64	47	7	49	1	112	4	0	9	597
Luke French	11	8	.579	3.72	26	26	0	1	1	0	157.3	156	75	65	10	44	3	94	7	0	8	668
Matt Rusch	9	3	.750	1.79	39	3	9	0	0	1	80.3	63	19	16	5	10	0	66	3	0	1	308
Erik Averill	9	8	.529	3.73	28	28	0	0	0	0	171.3	171	89	71	12	48	1	111	8	0	12	725
Anthony Claggett	7	2	.778	0.91	51	0	30	0	0	14	59.3	35	7	6	0	20	3	58	0	0	0	224
Ramon Garcia	7	2	.778	1.92	12	12	0	2	2	0	75.0	51	17	16	5	11	0	55	0	1	2	278
Josh Rainwater	6	4	.600	3.84	14	10	1	0	0	0	63.3	69	34	27	4	12	1	53	5	0	5	271
Matt O'Brien	3	1	.750	2.25	4	4	0	0	0	0	24.0	24	9	6	0	5	0	11	1	1	3	100
Ricky Steik	3	4	.429	2.63	44	0	11	0	0	2	68.3	59	24	20	2	15	1	80	2	0	5	281
Andrew Kown	2	0	1.000	0.00	6	0	0	0	0	0	16.0	10	0	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	1	56
Josh Kauten	2	1	.667	3.24	20	1	9	0	0	1	41.7	32	16	15	1	19	0	27	3	0	2	173
Jose Fragoso	1	0	1.000	2.33	13	0	2	0	0	0	19.3	10	6	5	0	11	0	23	3	0	3	81
Jay Sborz	1	0	1.000	5.40	3	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	8	3	3	0	4	0	4	0	0	2	27
Loren Fraser	1	1	.500	2.65	8	0	4	0	0	0	17.0	14	5	5	1	3	0	17	0	0	3	67
Adriano Santos	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	9
Paul Hammond	0	0		0.00	5	0	3	0	0	2	6.7	3	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	23
Lavon Lewis	0	0		2.08	8	0	5	0	0	0	13.0	11	4	3	2	4	0	8	1	0	1	51
Phil Napolitan	0	0		5.18	17	0	7	0	0	1	24.3	24	15	14	1	8	1	17	2	1	2	107
Gibbs Wilson	0	0		5.68	8	0	2	0	0	0	6.3	4	8	4	1	6	0	8	4	0	0	37
Orlando Perdomo	0	2	.000	4.15	48	0	41	0	0	28	43.3	44	23	20	2	12	0	48	1	0	4	186
Jake Baxter	0	3	.000	3.21	16	0	6	0	0	0	28.0	27	15	10	5	12	1	22	1	0	1	119
Totals	89	48	.650	2.96	424	137	131	6	3	49	1235.7	1115	492	407	64	325	12	962	59	3	70	5090

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
Will Rhymes	126	578	506	80	132	19	2	3	39	23	6	53	53	.261	.332	.324	.656	164	4	3	12	4	0
Michael Hollimon	128	537	449	69	125	29	13	15	54	19	5	77	124	.278	.386	.501	.887	225	1	4	3	4	6
Justin Justice	112	472	414	51	122	22	9	6	67	15	5	41	101	.295	.360	.435	.795	180	8	6	3	8	1
Matt Joyce	122	530	465	75	120	30	5	11	86	5	4	56	70	.258	.338	.415	.753	193	7	3	1	5	2
Cameron Maybin	101	445	385	59	117	20	6	9	69	27	7	50	116	.304	.387	.457	.844	176	9	5	0	5	3
Pedro Cotto	108	471	421	61	117	19	1	0	34	7	3	39	29	.278	.343	.328	.671	138	11	5	2	4	0
Mike Hernandez	87	377	349	40	97	19	3	13	63	2	1	19	68	.278	.318	.461	.780	161	9	4	0	5	1
Dusty Ryan	98	375	322	49	79	13	2	6	35	3	4	44	102	.245	.344	.354	.698	114	6	5	3	1	2
Mark Haske	100	359	309	35	74	5	0	1	24	7	6	43	46	.239	.336	.265	.602	82	8	3	2	2	3
Jeramy Laster	75	282	253	31	59	11	4	9	31	4	4	21	107	.233	.305	.415	.720	105	4	6	0	2	1
Cory Middleton	80	306	278	24	50	14	0	3	29	3	4	20	73	.180	.243	.263	.506	73	2	4	2	2	1
Rafael Mendez	69	238	200	27	40	11	2	3	21	3	1	31	74	.200	.314	.320	.634	64	4	3	2	2	0
Ryan Roberson	34	142	133	11	31	5	1	0	13	3	1	8	42	.233	.282	.286	.567	38	1	1	0	0	0
Joel Roa	54	169	162	7	21	3	0	2	9	1	1	5	56	.130	.160	.185	.345	30	4	1	0	1	0
Maxwell Leon	6	13	12	1	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	.167	.231	.333	.564	4	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Kunkel	2	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1302	5302	4666	620	1186	222	48	81	575	123	52	508	1066	.254	.331	.374	.706	1747	79	53	30	45	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Rafael Mendez	1B	54	438	22	5	35	.989	8.519
Pedro Cotto	1B	51	453	27	2	34	.996	9.412
Ryan Roberson	1B	27	230	20	5	18	.980	9.259
Mark Haske	1B	6	61	4	0	10	1.000	1.833
Mike Hernandez	1B	5	38	2	2	4	.952	8.000
Maxwell Leon	1B	1	5	0	0	2	1.000	5.000
Will Rhymes	2B	122	220	316	17	80	.969	4.393
Mark Haske	2B	12	17	38	0	4	1.000	4.583
Maxwell Leon	2B	4	7	6	1	3	.929	3.250
Rafael Mendez	2B	3	3	7	1	0	.909	3.333
Cory Middleton	3B	78	55	160	19	16	.919	2.756
Mark Haske	3B	59	40	101	8	9	.946	2.390
Rafael Mendez	3B	7	4	8	0	0	1.000	1.714
Dusty Ryan	C	95	587	61	8	5	.988	6.821	7	73	45	38.1
Joel Roa	C	54	356	34	5	3	.987	7.222	5	33	13	28.3
Rafael Mendez	C	5	14	1	0	1	1.000	3.000	1	1	2	66.7
Jeff Kunkel	C	2	12	2	0	0	1.000	7.000	0	1	1	50.0
Cameron Maybin	CF	88	211	6	1	3	.995	2.466
Jeramy Laster	CF	28	40	3	2	0	.956	1.536
Justin Justice	CF	23	57	1	0	0	1.000	2.522
Matt Joyce	CF	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Pedro Cotto	CF	2	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.500
Mike Hernandez	CF	1	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.000
Justin Justice	LF	66	117	2	3	0	.975	1.803
Pedro Cotto	LF	29	59	2	2	0	.968	2.103
Mike Hernandez	LF	28	50	5	2	1	.965	1.964
Jeramy Laster	LF	18	37	3	2	0	.952	2.222
Ryan Roberson	LF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Matt Joyce	OF	109	222	7	6	4	.974	2.101
Justin Justice	OF	93	185	4	3	1	.984	2.032
Cameron Maybin	OF	88	211	6	1	3	.995	2.466
Jeramy Laster	OF	66	121	6	5	0	.962	1.924
Pedro Cotto	OF	37	82	3	2	0	.977	2.297
Mike Hernandez	OF	29	53	5	2	1	.967	2.000
Ryan Roberson	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Anthony Claggett	P	51	2	5	0	0	1.000	.137
Orlando Perdomo	P	48	2	2	0	0	1.000	.083
Ricky Steik	P	44	1	6	0	0	1.000	.159
Matt Rusch	P	39	4	13	0	0	1.000	.436
Erik Averill	P	28	7	27	6	0	.850	1.214
Burke Badenhop	P	27	24	31	2	3	.965	2.037
Sendy Vasquez	P	26	8	6	4	0	.778	.538
Luke French	P	26	5	32	2	0	.949	1.423
Josh Kauten	P	20	5	6	0	0	1.000	.550
Phil Napolitan	P	17	1	2	1	0	.750	.176
Jake Baxter	P	16	3	1	0	0	1.000	.250
Josh Rainwater	P	14	5	8	0	0	1.000	.929
Jose Fragoso	P	13	0	2	1	0	.667	.154
Ramon Garcia	P	12	3	8	2	1	.846	.917
Gibbs Wilson	P	8	0	0	2	0	.000	.000
Lavon Lewis	P	8	1	0	0	0	1.000	.125
Loren Fraser	P	8	0	1	0	0	1.000	.125
Andrew Kown	P	6	0	1	0	0	1.000	.167
Paul Hammond	P	5	0	0	0	0		.000
Matt O'Brien	P	4	3	4	0	0	1.000	1.750
Jay Sborz	P	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333
Adriano Santos	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Matt Joyce	RF	108	220	7	6	4	.974	2.102
Jeramy Laster	RF	23	44	0	1	0	.978	1.913
Pedro Cotto	RF	8	18	1	0	0	1.000	2.375
Justin Justice	RF	5	11	1	0	1	1.000	2.400
Michael Hollimon	SS	124	200	394	28	77	.955	4.790
Mark Haske	SS	16	19	47	1	5	.985	4.125
Cory Middleton	SS	1	0	1	1	0	.500	1.000
Totals		2003	4581	1469	161	328	.974	3.020	13	108	61	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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