2008 VSL Astros

2008 > Class Foreign Rookie > 2008 Venezuelan Summer League
Overall: 37-31
Scored 345 runs, Allowed 315 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 37-31

Affiliation: Houston Astros-NL-working agrmnt
Manager: n/a
Represented: Venoco, VE
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 2007

Team Batting

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

Rk		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	Luis Alvarez	18	61	255	207	44	69	17	0	7	33	4	2	32	32	.333	.443	.517	.960	107	4	11	2	3	0
2	Jan Baldee	17	13	47	43	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	19	.070	.130	.070	.200	3	2	2	1	0	0
3	Robert Blanco	19	39	121	106	12	26	4	0	1	11	3	0	10	15	.245	.333	.311	.645	33	3	4	1	0	0
4	Oscar Figueroa	20	64	281	235	40	63	13	2	5	33	9	3	34	24	.268	.372	.404	.776	95	6	6	4	2	2
5	Ricardo Garcia	19	48	181	142	37	45	12	3	0	21	11	4	29	17	.317	.453	.444	.896	63	3	7	2	1	0
6	Ernesto Genoves	17	52	216	177	21	41	4	2	2	24	1	1	21	26	.232	.343	.311	.654	55	8	10	6	2	1
7	Jose Lopez	18	62	261	229	33	54	8	0	0	26	3	2	20	40	.236	.305	.271	.575	62	5	4	5	3	1
8	Raymer Lopez	17	38	179	157	25	44	1	1	1	20	4	4	10	33	.280	.356	.318	.674	50	1	9	2	1	0
9	Angel Nieves	17	52	203	184	22	51	10	0	2	23	4	2	6	21	.277	.316	.364	.680	67	5	5	7	1	0
10	Wilder Parra	17	32	118	111	6	26	3	1	1	12	0	0	4	27	.234	.267	.306	.574	34	5	1	2	0	0
11	Saul Rojas	17	16	54	50	5	12	1	0	0	2	0	1	3	17	.240	.296	.260	.556	13	1	1	0	0	0
12	Nestor Santana	18	59	229	196	28	50	7	0	1	29	6	2	22	41	.255	.344	.306	.650	60	2	6	2	3	0
13	Luis Sumoza	19	47	189	148	27	27	7	0	1	16	9	2	38	35	.182	.356	.250	.606	37	6	2	1	0	0
14	Julio Torres	17	56	229	191	36	51	9	2	3	26	10	2	30	55	.267	.381	.382	.763	73	0	5	3	0	0
15	Joseph Valdes	17	32	116	95	9	23	4	0	1	14	1	1	18	13	.242	.371	.316	.686	30	4	2	0	1	1
	15 Players	17.9	69	2679	2271	345	585	100	11	25	291	66	26	278	415	.258	.355	.344	.700	782	55	75	38	17	5

Only players for whom we have stats are shown. See roster for more complete team list.

Team Pitching

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

Rk		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	Francisco Baso	17	1	2	.333	3.42	15	0	5	0	2	23.2	28	15	9	0	5	0	8	1	0	6	107	1.394	10.6	0.0	1.9	3.0	1.60
2	Julio Castellanos*	21	2	4	.333	5.26	15	1	8	0	2	37.2	44	26	22	1	20	0	24	5	0	4	175	1.699	10.5	0.2	4.8	5.7	1.20
3	Elias De Leon*	17	3	1	.750	1.24	14	1	3	0	2	36.1	31	10	5	1	5	0	24	1	0	1	145	0.991	7.7	0.2	1.2	5.9	4.80
4	Danilo Del Rio	17	0	0		3.13	10	4	2	0	1	23.0	23	13	8	3	8	0	11	8	0	5	102	1.348	9.0	1.2	3.1	4.3	1.38
5	Dayan Diaz	19	2	2	.500	1.85	13	8	4	0	2	48.2	42	14	10	2	5	0	36	4	0	5	189	0.966	7.8	0.4	0.9	6.7	7.20
6	Rafael Farias	18	1	1	.500	5.01	11	3	3	0	0	23.1	25	22	13	0	5	0	16	2	0	5	108	1.286	9.6	0.0	1.9	6.2	3.20
7	Gabriel Garcia*	19	3	3	.500	3.46	14	7	3	0	0	54.2	67	36	21	3	7	0	45	0	0	3	237	1.354	11.0	0.5	1.2	7.4	6.43
8	Pedro Gomez	17	2	2	.500	2.40	13	6	4	0	1	48.2	51	22	13	6	8	0	14	6	0	2	208	1.212	9.4	1.1	1.5	2.6	1.75
9	Roliner Iturralde	17	2	2	.500	1.77	14	0	9	0	1	20.1	12	7	4	1	5	1	10	0	1	0	78	0.836	5.3	0.4	2.2	4.4	2.00
10	David Martinez	20	4	3	.571	4.75	13	7	2	0	0	53.0	65	37	28	2	13	0	41	4	0	3	244	1.472	11.0	0.3	2.2	7.0	3.15
11	Ricardo Mendoza	19	1	0	1.000	4.24	10	0	5	0	1	17.0	18	8	8	1	7	0	10	2	0	6	76	1.471	9.5	0.5	3.7	5.3	1.43
12	Robert Moreno	18	2	2	.500	4.18	18	0	13	0	3	23.2	29	16	11	1	12	0	12	2	1	3	113	1.732	11.0	0.4	4.6	4.6	1.00
13	Erick Paracuto*	18	2	0	1.000	4.82	7	0	2	0	0	9.1	8	10	5	2	8	0	7	3	0	2	48	1.714	7.7	1.9	7.7	6.8	0.88
14	German Perez*	18	1	1	.500	3.86	9	3	1	0	1	25.2	28	12	11	1	9	0	13	1	0	4	113	1.442	9.8	0.4	3.2	4.6	1.44
15	Juri Perez	17	4	4	.500	2.68	12	11	0	0	0	57.0	43	22	17	2	19	0	28	7	0	2	236	1.088	6.8	0.3	3.0	4.4	1.47
16	Wladimir Pina	18	0	1	.000	4.22	5	4	0	0	0	10.2	16	11	5	0	11	0	4	4	0	8	63	2.531	13.5	0.0	9.3	3.4	0.36
17	Carlos Quevedo	18	4	2	.667	1.98	14	14	0	0	0	68.1	56	19	15	2	11	0	53	6	0	4	273	0.980	7.4	0.3	1.4	7.0	4.82
18	Gilberto Ulloa*	19	3	1	.750	7.00	13	0	5	0	1	18.0	29	15	14	1	9	0	9	0	0	0	90	2.111	14.5	0.5	4.5	4.5	1.00
	18 Players	18.2	37	31	.544	3.26	69	69	69	3	17	599.0	615	315	217	29	167	1	365	56	2	63	2605	1.306	9.2	0.4	2.5	5.5	2.19

Team Fielding--By Pos

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

C

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ernesto Genoves	27	123	25	3	4	.980	5.48	6	21	17	45%
Wilder Parra	21	84	18	2	1	.981	4.86	10	12	10	45%
Luis Alvarez	15	82	14	1	2	.990	6.40	6	5	6	55%
Saul Rojas	9	59	6	1	0	.985	7.22	0	10	1	9%
Joseph Valdes	6	20	3	0	0	1.000	3.83	1	1	1	50%

1B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Luis Alvarez	29	264	18	5	30	.983	9.72
Ernesto Genoves	25	208	12	8	14	.965	8.80
Joseph Valdes	9	68	6	0	4	1.000	8.22
Luis Sumoza	7	56	5	0	7	1.000	8.71
Oscar Figueroa	5	42	1	1	5	.977	8.60

2B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Raymer Lopez	34	87	76	12	18	.931	4.79
Luis Sumoza	27	72	74	6	15	.961	5.41
Oscar Figueroa	8	13	20	3	4	.917	4.13
Ricardo Garcia	1	5	3	0	2	1.000	8.00
Nestor Santana	1	4	4	0	4	1.000	8.00

3B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Angel Nieves	32	27	71	10	5	.907	3.06
Luis Alvarez	18	11	43	8	3	.871	3.00
Oscar Figueroa	13	19	41	8	5	.882	4.62
Luis Sumoza	11	10	33	4	3	.915	3.91

SS

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Oscar Figueroa	37	68	127	15	23	.929	5.27
Angel Nieves	20	38	70	13	14	.893	5.40
Jan Baldee	13	16	20	14	4	.720	2.77
Raymer Lopez	3	4	17	1	1	.955	7.00

LF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Jose Lopez	55	98	3	2	1	.981	1.84
Robert Blanco	13	17	0	0	0	1.000	1.31
Luis Sumoza	3	6	1	1	0	.875	2.33
Joseph Valdes	2	3	1	0	0	1.000	2.00
Oscar Figueroa	1	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.00
Julio Torres	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.00

CF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Julio Torres	55	108	5	10	3	.919	2.05
Robert Blanco	10	18	1	0	0	1.000	1.90
Jose Lopez	5	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.40
Oscar Figueroa	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.00

RF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Nestor Santana	57	91	3	6	1	.940	1.65
Robert Blanco	21	16	1	2	1	.895	0.81
Jose Lopez	2	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.00
Joseph Valdes	2	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.50
Raymer Lopez	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00

P

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Robert Moreno	18	6	8	0	2	1.000	0.78
Francisco Baso	15	2	6	1	1	.889	0.53
Julio Castellanos	15	1	7	1	1	.889	0.53
Elias De Leon	14	1	4	1	0	.833	0.36
Gabriel Garcia	14	1	15	0	0	1.000	1.14
Roliner Iturralde	14	2	2	0	0	1.000	0.29
Carlos Quevedo	14	5	9	0	3	1.000	1.00
Dayan Diaz	13	7	13	0	3	1.000	1.54
Pedro Gomez	13	0	7	1	0	.875	0.54
David Martinez	13	4	4	1	0	.889	0.62
Gilberto Ulloa	13	2	0	2	0	.500	0.15
Juri Perez	12	3	13	1	0	.941	1.33
Rafael Farias	11	0	3	1	0	.750	0.27
Danilo Del Rio	10	4	2	0	0	1.000	0.60
Ricardo Mendoza	10	1	2	0	0	1.000	0.30
German Perez	9	0	6	1	1	.857	0.67
Erick Paracuto	7	1	1	0	1	1.000	0.29
Wladimir Pina	5	1	0	2	0	.333	0.20

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Luis Alvarez	18	R	R	5' 11.0"	230	Feb 28, 1990	Barquisimeto, Lara, VE	2008-05-12	2008-08-02
Jan Baldee	17	R	R	6' 2.0"	170	Dec 8, 1990	Rotterdam, NL	2008-06-07	2008-07-21
Francisco Baso	17	R	R	6' 0.0"	190	Jan 12, 1991	Arraijan, PA	2008-05-13	2008-08-02
Robert Blanco	19	R	R	5' 11.0"	177	Apr 18, 1989	Maracay, Aragua, VE	2008-05-30	2008-08-02
Julio Castellanos	21	L	L	6' 2.0"	170	Jun 11, 1987	Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, VE	2008-05-12	2008-08-02
Elias De Leon	17	L	L	5' 11.0"	185	Jul 8, 1990	Aguadulce, Cocle, PA	2008-05-12	2008-07-30
Danilo Del Rio	17	R	R	5' 11.0"	180	Sep 28, 1990	Cartagena, CO	2008-05-14	2008-08-02
Dayan Diaz	19	R	R	5' 10.0"	190	Feb 10, 1989	Cartagena, CO	2008-05-15	2008-08-02
Rafael Farias	18	R	R	6' 3.0"	160	Sep 27, 1989	Cumana, Sucre, VE	2008-05-15	2008-07-26
Oscar Figueroa	20	R	R	5' 11.0"	160	Jan 10, 1988	Caracas, Distrito Federal, VE	2008-05-12	2008-07-29
Gabriel Garcia	19	L	L	5' 11.0"	140	May 11, 1989	Charallave, Miranda, VE	2008-05-13	2008-07-31
Ricardo Garcia	19	R	R	5' 9.0"	142	Jan 20, 1989	Guacara, Carabobo, VE	2008-05-12	2008-07-26
Ernesto Genoves	17	R	R	5' 11.0"	203	Jun 4, 1991	Baruta, VE	2008-05-12	2008-08-02
Pedro Gomez	17	R	R	6' 3.0"	205	May 10, 1991	Ocumare del Tuy, Miranda, VE	2008-05-13	2008-07-31
Roliner Iturralde	17	R	R	5' 11.0"	167	Nov 23, 1990	Panama, Panama, PA	2008-05-14	2008-08-02
Jose Lopez	18	R	R	5' 11.0"	172	May 8, 1990	Cumana, Sucre, VE	2008-05-12	2008-08-02
Raymer Lopez	17	R	R	5' 10.0"	145	Mar 31, 1991	Maracay, Aragua, VE	2008-05-13	2008-07-19
David Martinez	20	R	R	6' 2.0"	180	Aug 4, 1987	Cumana, Sucre, VE	2008-05-16	2008-07-29
Ricardo Mendoza	19	R	R	6' 0.0"	162	Jun 28, 1989	Cartagena, CO	2008-05-14	2008-07-28
Robert Moreno	18	R	R	5' 11.0"	169	Sep 20, 1989	Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, VE	2008-05-15	2008-07-29
Angel Nieves	17	R	R	5' 11.0"	175	Jul 11, 1990	Caracas, Distrito Federal, VE	2008-05-12	2008-08-02
Erick Paracuto	18	L	L	5' 9.0"	181	Jan 14, 1990	Miranda, VE	2008-05-12	2008-06-16
Wilder Parra	17	R	R	6' 0.0"	175	Mar 2, 1991	Guigue, Carabobo, VE	2008-05-13	2008-07-31
German Perez	18	L	L	5' 11.0"	147	Sep 21, 1989	Monteria, CO	2008-06-11	2008-07-26
Juri Perez	17	R	R	5' 11.0"	203	Aug 8, 1990	Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, VE	2008-05-14	2008-07-21
Wladimir Pina	18	R	R	6' 2.0"	197	Oct 9, 1989	Sanare Lara, VE	2008-05-16	2008-06-16
Carlos Quevedo	18	R	R	6' 1.0"	222	Sep 30, 1989	Valencia, Carabobo, VE	2008-05-12	2008-07-30
Saul Rojas	17	R	R	5' 11.0"	182	May 3, 1991	Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar, VE	2008-05-14	2008-08-02
Nestor Santana	18	R	R	6' 0.0"	190	May 30, 1990	Maracay, Aragua, VE	2008-05-12	2008-08-02
Luis Sumoza	19	R	R	5' 10.0"	186	Jun 9, 1989	Maracay, Aragua, VE	2008-05-13	2008-08-02
Julio Torres	17	R	R	5' 11.0"	166	Jul 28, 1990	Guigue, Carabobo, VE	2008-05-12	2008-08-02
Gilberto Ulloa	19	L	L	5' 11.0"	182	Apr 28, 1989	Caracas, Distrito Federal, VE	2008-05-13	2008-08-02
Joseph Valdes	17	R	R	6' 1.0"	197	Jul 17, 1990	Maracay, Aragua, VE	2008-05-12	2008-08-02

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