1997 WEST MICHIGAN WHITECAPS

| Level: A

Location:
Team Record: 92-39 .702
Result: 1st in Midwest League - Eastern Division
Affiliate: Detroit Tigers
Manager(s): Bruce Fields
Stadium: Old Kent Park
Attendance: 536,029
Playoffs: Lost in 1st Round

Detroit Tigers affiliate history

Oldest Player: Willie Blair (31)
Youngest Player: Rene Capellan (19)
Top Hitter: Robert Fick (1)
Top Pitcher: Clay Bruner (3)
Top Prospect: Dave Borkowski

Midwest League Standings

Eastern	W	L	Pct	GB
West Michigan	92	39	.702	--
Michigan	70	67	.511	25.0
Fort Wayne	68	67	.504	26.0
Lansing	69	68	.504	26.0
South Bend	54	83	.394	41.0

BATTING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
-	Robert Fick	1b-rf	1	23	1996-5-131	MLB	122	463	100	158	50	3	16	90	13	4	75	74	1	11	0	7	10	.341	.429	.566	994	262	546	326	122	10.1	.374
-	Scott Sollmann	of	6	22	1996-7-191	AA	121	460	89	144	13	4	0	33	40	14	79	81	11	5	8	3	1	.313	.423	.359	782	165	561	342	83	6.6	.377
-	Jesus Cedeno	of	77	21	UDFA: 1995	A+	110	429	42	116	24	3	8	63	13	5	18	77	3	0	2	6	9	.270	.300	.396	697	170	458	335	53	4.3	.309
-	Chris Wakeland	rf	21	23	1996-15-431	MLB	111	414	64	118	38	2	7	75	20	6	43	120	4	5	0	7	3	.285	.353	.437	790	181	468	312	68	5.9	.378
-	Rene Capellan	ss	81	19	UDFA: 1995	A+	100	383	61	110	26	4	4	48	7	9	25	60	11	0	4	1	13	.287	.348	.407	755	156	424	300	55	4.9	.331
-	Jacques Landry	of	78	23	1996-12-341	AAA	103	369	51	101	18	5	16	52	15	3	21	99	8	1	0	5	6	.274	.323	.480	802	177	403	282	59	5.7	.328
-	Brian Dubose	of	25	26	1989-53-1326	AA	105	358	72	96	12	7	15	79	17	2	66	87	3	3	3	2	2	.268	.385	.466	851	167	432	271	72	7.2	.314
-	Derek Mitchell	if	70	22	1995-32-882	AAA	110	353	47	70	14	2	1	31	11	8	50	91	5	1	8	3	5	.198	.304	.258	562	91	419	307	26	2.3	.261
-	Pedro Santana	if	-	20	UDFA: 1994	AAA	74	287	36	75	10	6	3	28	20	3	14	55	6	0	3	0	8	.261	.309	.369	679	106	310	226	34	4.1	.314
-	Chad Stevenson	c	-	21	1994-13-361	A+	72	259	32	57	10	1	7	32	2	4	20	77	1	1	2	1	3	.220	.278	.347	625	90	283	212	21	2.7	.284
-	Alexis Zapata	of	-	20	UDFA: 1996	A+	64	206	33	46	8	3	6	27	4	0	11	54	2	0	2	2	8	.223	.267	.379	646	78	223	172	19	3.0	.270
-	Franklin Sosa	c	-	21	UDFA: 1996	A	57	195	24	50	4	0	0	16	2	3	10	24	9	1	2	2	3	.256	.319	.277	596	54	218	155	18	3.1	.289
-	Chris Lemonis	2b-ss	-	23	UDFA: 1995	AAA	48	158	27	48	10	1	3	30	2	5	9	31	1	1	0	0	3	.304	.345	.437	782	69	168	118	23	5.2	.363
-	Richard Ozarowski	ss	-	22	1997-30-895	A+	36	134	14	29	7	1	0	13	2	1	8	35	1	0	2	1	2	.216	.264	.284	547	38	146	111	8	2.0	.290
-	Kurt Airoso	if	-	22	1996-29-851	AAA	14	37	6	11	5	0	0	2	0	0	6	15	0	0	0	1	0	.297	.386	.432	819	16	44	27	7	6.5	.478
Totals: (15 players)							131	4505	698	1229	249	42	86	619	168	67	455	980	66	29	36	41	76	.273	.345	.404	749	1820	5103	3496	666	5.1	.328

PITCHING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO
-	Clay Bruner	3	20	1995-4-98	AA	15	3	2.38	24	24	3	2	0	0	166.1	134	52	44	11	48	135	9	1	1.09	7.25	0.60	2.60	7.30	0.36
-	Dave Borkowski	5	20	1995-11-294	MLB	15	3	3.46	25	25	4	2	0	0	164.0	143	79	63	15	31	104	7	0	1.06	7.85	0.82	1.70	5.71	0.30
-	Craig Quintal	6	22	1996-8-221	A+	11	6	1.96	23	23	3	2	0	0	156.1	133	48	34	3	31	88	2	0	1.05	7.66	0.17	1.78	5.07	0.35
-	Greg Romo	10	22	1994-25-697	AA	12	6	3.54	24	24	0	0	0	0	139.2	128	65	55	7	51	124	14	3	1.28	8.25	0.45	3.29	7.99	0.41
-	Russ Spear	16	19	UDFA: 1995	A+	11	6	2.96	23	23	1	1	0	0	139.2	126	63	46	9	61	112	9	0	1.34	8.12	0.58	3.93	7.22	0.54
-	Romulo Martinez	-	20	UDFA: 1995	AAA	6	4	2.39	36	0	0	0	12	2	79.0	73	28	21	3	21	51	4	3	1.19	8.32	0.34	2.39	5.81	0.41
-	Apostol Garcia	-	20	UDFA: 1992	AA	7	2	3.02	33	5	0	0	10	1	65.2	48	26	22	2	31	52	10	2	1.20	6.58	0.27	4.25	7.13	0.60
-	Francisco Cordero	25	22	UDFA: 1994	MLB	6	1	0.99	50	0	0	0	47	35	54.1	36	13	6	2	15	67	5	0	0.94	5.96	0.33	2.48	11.10	0.22
-	John Foran	-	23	1995-10-266	A+	2	2	3.71	29	0	0	0	6	1	53.1	51	27	22	2	29	45	12	0	1.50	8.61	0.34	4.89	7.59	0.64
-	Dave Darwin	-	23	1996-26-761	AAA	1	0	0.89	21	4	0	0	10	3	40.1	23	7	4	2	20	31	0	1	1.07	5.13	0.45	4.46	6.92	0.65
-	Mark Zamarripa	-	22	UDFA: 1996	AA	3	1	2.12	20	0	0	0	9	2	29.2	13	17	7	0	18	41	3	4	1.04	3.94	0.00	5.46	12.44	0.44
-	Chad Schroeder	-	23	1996-30-881	AA	2	3	3.71	18	0	0	0	8	0	26.2	22	14	11	0	16	24	3	1	1.42	7.42	0.00	5.40	8.10	0.67
-	Derek Dace	-	22	1994-8-220	AAA	1	0	0.72	10	2	0	0	3	2	25.0	23	2	2	0	4	24	0	0	1.08	8.28	0.00	1.44	8.64	0.17
-	Chris Bauer	-	23	1996-6-161	A+	0	2	4.07	18	0	0	0	15	1	24.1	30	15	11	1	10	11	1	0	1.64	11.10	0.37	3.70	4.07	0.91
-	Willie Blair	-	31	1986-11-289	MLB	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0.20	1.80	0.00	0.00	12.60	0.00
Totals: (15 players)						92	39	2.68	131	131	11	7	120	47	1,169	984	456	348	86	386	916	79	15	1.44	7.57	0.44	2.97	7.05	0.42

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Chad Stevenson	C	70		486	48	6	3	.989	0.00
Franklin Sosa	C	57		369	32	5	1	.988	0.00
Robert Fick	C	9		69	5	2	1	.974	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Robert Fick	1B	96		970	60	10	88	.990	0.00
Brian Dubose	1B	33		314	22	1	26	.997	0.00
Jacques Landry	1B	4		20	1	0	2	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Rene Capellan	2B	77		141	245	16	50	.960	0.00
Pedro Santana	2B	45		84	155	19	27	.926	0.00
Richard Ozarowski	2B	11		17	30	1	3	.979	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Jacques Landry	3B	92		60	173	31	9	.883	0.00
Chris Lemonis	3B	26		14	42	8	4	.875	0.00
Richard Ozarowski	3B	20		14	51	6	5	.915	0.00
Rene Capellan	3B	3		2	6	0	0	1.000	0.00
Robert Fick	3B	3		4	3	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Derek Mitchell	SS	110		156	380	23	73	.959	0.00
Pedro Santana	SS	19		36	50	13	12	.869	0.00
Richard Ozarowski	SS	4		2	8	3	2	.769	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Scott Sollmann	OF	119		264	6	5	1	.982	0.00
Chris Wakeland	OF	111		169	7	5	3	.972	0.00
Jesus Cedeno	OF	109		163	10	7	1	.961	0.00
Alexis Zapata	OF	51		76	2	4	0	.951	0.00
Kurt Airoso	OF	10		11	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Rene Capellan	OF	1		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Richard Ozarowski	OF	1		3	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Francisco Cordero	P	50		2	8	3	0	.769	0.00
Romulo Martinez	P	36		6	17	2	2	.920	0.00
Apostol Garcia	P	33		5	8	1	1	.929	0.00
John Foran	P	29		7	5	0	0	1.000	0.00
Dave Borkowski	P	25		5	28	3	2	.917	0.00
Clay Bruner	P	24		9	33	3	5	.933	0.00
Greg Romo	P	24		3	25	1	1	.966	0.00
Craig Quintal	P	23		9	39	1	2	.980	0.00
Russ Spear	P	23		4	19	1	3	.958	0.00
Dave Darwin	P	21		3	13	0	4	1.000	0.00
Mark Zamarripa	P	20		2	4	2	0	.750	0.00
Chris Bauer	P	18		3	3	0	1	1.000	0.00
Chad Schroeder	P	18		2	6	0	1	1.000	0.00
Derek Dace	P	10		3	5	0	0	1.000	0.00
Willie Blair	P	1		0	1	0	0	1.000	0.00

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