1997 West Michigan Whitecaps

1997 > Class A > 1997 Midwest League (East)
Overall: 92-39
Scored 698 runs, Allowed 456 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 90-41

Affiliation: Detroit Tigers-AL
Manager: Bruce Fields
Represented: Grand Rapids, MI
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1996 / 1998

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	Kurt Airoso	22	14	44	37	6	11	5	0	0	2	0	0	6	15	.297	.386	.432	.819	16	0	0	0	1	0
2	Rene Capellan	19	100	424	383	61	110	26	4	4	48	7	9	25	60	.287	.348	.407	.755	156	13	11	4	1	0
3	Jesus Cedeno	21	110	458	429	42	116	24	3	8	63	13	5	18	77	.270	.300	.396	.697	170	9	3	2	6	0
4	Brian Dubose*	26	105	432	358	72	96	12	7	15	79	17	2	66	87	.268	.385	.466	.851	167	2	3	3	2	3
5	Robert Fick*	23	122	546	463	100	158	50	3	16	90	13	4	75	74	.341	.429	.566	.994	262	10	1	0	7	11
6	Jacques Landry	23	103	403	369	51	101	18	5	16	52	15	3	21	99	.274	.323	.480	.802	177	6	8	0	5	1
7	Chris Lemonis*	23	48	168	158	27	48	10	1	3	30	2	5	9	31	.304	.345	.437	.782	69	3	1	0	0	1
8	Derek Mitchell	22	110	419	353	47	70	14	2	1	31	11	8	50	91	.198	.304	.258	.562	91	5	5	8	3	1
9	Rich Ozarowski#	22	36	146	134	14	29	7	1	0	13	2	1	8	35	.216	.264	.284	.547	38	2	1	2	1	0
10	Pedro Santana	20	74	310	287	36	75	10	6	3	28	20	3	14	55	.261	.309	.369	.679	106	8	6	3	0	0
11	Scott Sollmann*	22	121	561	460	89	144	13	4	0	33	40	14	79	81	.313	.423	.359	.782	165	1	11	8	3	5
12	Franklin Sosa	21	57	218	195	24	50	4	0	0	16	2	3	10	24	.256	.319	.277	.596	54	3	9	2	2	1
13	Chad Stevenson	21	72	283	259	32	57	10	1	7	32	2	4	20	77	.220	.278	.347	.625	90	3	1	2	1	1
14	Chris Wakeland*	23	111	468	414	64	118	38	2	7	75	20	6	43	120	.285	.353	.437	.790	181	3	4	0	7	5
15	Alexis Zapata	20	64	223	206	33	46	8	3	6	27	4	0	11	54	.223	.267	.379	.646	78	8	2	2	2	0
	15 Players	22.0	131	5103	4505	698	1229	249	42	86	619	168	67	455	980	.273	.345	.404	.749	1820	76	66	36	41	29

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	CG	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	Chris Bauer	23	0	2	.000	4.07	18	0	15	0	0	1	24.1	30	15	11	1	10	1	11	3	0	1	111	1.644	11.1	0.4	3.7	4.1	1.10
2	Willie Blair	31	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	16	0.200	1.8	0.0	0.0	12.6
3	Dave Borkowski	20	15	3	.833	3.46	25	25	0	4	2	0	164.0	143	79	63	15	31	0	104	7	0	7	670	1.061	7.8	0.8	1.7	5.7	3.35
4	Clay Bruner	20	15	3	.833	2.38	24	24	0	3	2	0	166.1	134	52	44	11	48	1	135	4	1	9	664	1.094	7.3	0.6	2.6	7.3	2.81
5	Francisco Cordero	22	6	1	.857	0.99	50	0	47	0	0	35	54.1	36	13	6	2	15	2	67	0	0	5	208	0.939	6.0	0.3	2.5	11.1	4.47
6	Derek Dace*	22	1	0	1.000	0.72	10	2	3	0	0	2	25.0	23	2	2	0	4	0	24	1	0	0	100	1.080	8.3	0.0	1.4	8.6	6.00
7	Dave Darwin*	23	1	0	1.000	0.89	21	4	10	0	0	3	40.1	23	7	4	2	20	2	31	2	1	0	164	1.066	5.1	0.4	4.5	6.9	1.55
8	John Foran	23	2	2	.500	3.71	29	0	6	0	0	1	53.1	51	27	22	2	29	0	45	6	0	12	242	1.500	8.6	0.3	4.9	7.6	1.55
9	Apostol Garcia	20	7	2	.778	3.02	33	5	10	0	0	1	65.2	48	26	22	2	31	0	52	4	2	10	275	1.203	6.6	0.3	4.2	7.1	1.68
10	Romulo Martinez	20	6	4	.600	2.39	36	0	12	0	0	2	79.0	73	28	21	3	21	0	51	0	3	4	329	1.190	8.3	0.3	2.4	5.8	2.43
11	Craig Quintal	22	11	6	.647	1.96	23	23	0	3	2	0	156.1	133	48	34	3	31	0	88	13	0	2	634	1.049	7.7	0.2	1.8	5.1	2.84
12	Greg Romo	22	12	6	.667	3.54	24	24	0	0	0	0	139.2	128	65	55	7	51	0	124	0	3	14	595	1.282	8.2	0.5	3.3	8.0	2.43
13	Chad Schroeder	23	2	3	.400	3.71	18	0	8	0	0	0	26.2	22	14	11	0	16	2	24	0	1	3	120	1.425	7.4	0.0	5.4	8.1	1.50
14	Russ Spear	19	11	6	.647	2.96	23	23	0	1	1	0	139.2	126	63	46	9	61	0	112	11	0	9	605	1.339	8.1	0.6	3.9	7.2	1.84
15	Mark Zamarripa	22	3	1	.750	2.12	20	0	9	0	0	2	29.2	13	17	7	0	18	2	41	2	4	3	128	1.045	3.9	0.0	5.5	12.4	2.28
	15 Players	21.3	92	39	.702	2.67	131	131	120	11	13	47	1169.1	984	456	347	57	386	10	916	53	15	79	4861	1.172	7.6	0.4	3.0	7.1	2.37

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%
Chad Stevenson	70	486	48	6	3	.989	7.63	11	76	24	24%
Franklin Sosa	57	369	32	5	1	.988	7.04	7	46	14	23%
Robert Fick	9	69	5	2	1	.974	8.22	2	11	3	21%

1B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Robert Fick	96	970	60	10	88	.990	10.73
Brian Dubose	33	314	22	1	26	.997	10.18
Jacques Landry	4	20	1	0	2	1.000	5.25

2B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Rene Capellan	77	141	245	16	50	.960	5.01
Pedro Santana	45	84	155	19	27	.926	5.31
Rich Ozarowski	11	17	30	1	3	.979	4.27

3B

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Jacques Landry	92	60	173	31	9	.883	2.53
Chris Lemonis	26	14	42	8	4	.875	2.15
Rich Ozarowski	20	14	51	6	5	.915	3.25
Rene Capellan	3	2	6	0	0	1.000	2.67
Robert Fick	3	4	3	0	0	1.000	2.33

SS

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Derek Mitchell	110	156	380	23	73	.959	4.87
Pedro Santana	19	36	50	13	12	.869	4.53
Rich Ozarowski	4	2	8	3	2	.769	2.50

LF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Chris Wakeland	111							0.00
Alexis Zapata	21							0.00
Kurt Airoso	5							0.00
Rene Capellan	1							0.00

CF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Scott Sollmann	119							0.00
Jesus Cedeno	12							0.00
Kurt Airoso	1							0.00
Rich Ozarowski	1							0.00

RF

	G	CG	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	lgCS%	PO
Jesus Cedeno	99							0.00
Alexis Zapata	30							0.00
Kurt Airoso	4							0.00

OF

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Scott Sollmann	119	264	6	5	1	.982	2.27
Chris Wakeland	111	169	7	5	3	.972	1.59
Jesus Cedeno	109	163	10	7	1	.961	1.59
Alexis Zapata	51	76	2	4	0	.951	1.53
Kurt Airoso	10	11	0	0	0	1.000	1.10
Rene Capellan	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.00
Rich Ozarowski	1	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.00

P

	G	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G
Francisco Cordero	50	2	8	3	0	.769	0.20
Romulo Martinez	36	6	17	2	2	.920	0.64
Apostol Garcia	33	5	8	1	1	.929	0.39
John Foran	29	7	5	0	0	1.000	0.41
Dave Borkowski	25	5	28	3	2	.917	1.32
Clay Bruner	24	9	33	3	5	.933	1.75
Greg Romo	24	3	25	1	1	.966	1.17
Craig Quintal	23	9	39	1	2	.980	2.09
Russ Spear	23	4	19	1	3	.958	1.00
Dave Darwin	21	3	13	0	4	1.000	0.76
Mark Zamarripa	20	2	4	2	0	.750	0.30
Chris Bauer	18	3	3	0	1	1.000	0.33
Chad Schroeder	18	2	6	0	1	1.000	0.44
Derek Dace	10	3	5	0	0	1.000	0.80
Willie Blair	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.00

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Kurt Airoso	22	R	R	6' 2.0"	190	Feb 12, 1975	Tulare, CA, US
Chris Bauer	23	R	R	6' 1.0"	180	Dec 28, 1973	Joliet, IL, US
Willie Blair	31	R	R	6' 1.0"	185	Dec 18, 1965	Paintsville, KY, US
Dave Borkowski	20	R	R	6' 1.0"	200	Feb 7, 1977	Detroit, MI, US
Clay Bruner	20	R	R	6' 3.0"	180	Oct 16, 1976	Weatherford, OK, US
Rene Capellan	19	R	R	5' 11.0"	160	Apr 24, 1978	Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, DO
Jesus Cedeno	21	R	R	5' 11.0"	160	Jun 24, 1976	Higuey, La Altagracia, DO
Francisco Cordero	22	R	R	6' 3.0"	245	May 11, 1975	Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, DO
Derek Dace	22	L	L	6' 7.0"	200	Apr 11, 1975	Rolla, MO, US
Dave Darwin	23	L	L	6' 0.0"	185	Dec 19, 1973	Charlotte, NC, US
Brian Dubose	26	L	R	6' 3.0"	208	May 17, 1971	Detroit, MI, US
Robert Fick	23	L	R	6' 1.0"	189	Mar 15, 1974	Torrance, CA, US
John Foran	23	R	R	6' 1.0"	185	Oct 22, 1973	Okinawa, JP
Apostol Garcia	20	R	R	6' 0.0"	155	Aug 3, 1976	Las Matas de Farfan, San Juan, DO
Jacques Landry	23	R	R	6' 3.0"	200	Aug 15, 1973	Bryan, TX, US
Chris Lemonis	23	L	R	5' 11.0"	185	Aug 21, 1973	Brooklyn, NY, US
Romulo Martinez	20	R	R	6' 1.0"	170	Dec 5, 1976	Santiago, Santiago, DO
Derek Mitchell	22	R	R	6' 2.0"	170	Mar 9, 1975	Waukegan, IL, US
Rich Ozarowski	22	S	R	5' 9.0"	175	Oct 19, 1974	Boca Raton, FL, US
Craig Quintal	22	R	R	6' 0.0"	190	Jan 21, 1975	Metairie, LA, US
Greg Romo	22	L	R	6' 2.0"	175	May 14, 1975	Bakersfield, CA, US
Pedro Santana	20	R	R	5' 11.0"	160	Sep 21, 1976	San Pedro de Macoris, San Pedro de Macoris, DO
Chad Schroeder	23	R	R	6' 1.0"	195	Sep 21, 1973	Grand Rapids, MI, US
Scott Sollmann	22	L	L	5' 10.0"	167	May 2, 1975	Cincinnati, OH, US
Franklin Sosa	21	R	R	5' 11.0"	170	Feb 27, 1976	Los Llanos, San Pedro de Macoris, DO
Russ Spear	19	R	R	6' 3.0"	190	Aug 30, 1977	Perth, Western Australia, AU
Chad Stevenson	21	R	R	6' 4.0"	215	Feb 3, 1976	Covina, CA, US
Chris Wakeland	23	L	L	6' 0.0"	185	Jun 15, 1974	Huntington Beach, CA, US
Mark Zamarripa	22	R	R	6' 0.0"	175	Jul 28, 1974	Los Angeles, CA, US
Alexis Zapata	20	R	R	6' 3.0"	190	May 20, 1977	Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, DO

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