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Home >> Teams >> Minor Leagues >> Midwest League >> Michigan Battle Cats >> 1998 Team Capsule >>

1998 Michigan Battle Cats (A)

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Parent Organization:	Boston Red Sox
Nickname:	Battle Cats
W-L Record:	79-61 .564
Rank:	3^rd in Midwest League Eastern
Run Differential:	685-631 + 54
Manager(s):	Billy Gardner
Location:	Battle Creek, Michigan
Ballpark:	C.O. Brown Stadium
Attendance:	107,137 10/14
Playoffs:	Lost in 1st Round
Years Active:	1995-2002
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Coaching Staff

Hitting Coach: Bill Madlock
Pitching Coach: Larry Pierson

#1 Draft Picks

John Curtice (#17), Mark Fischer (#35)

Organization Affiliates

MLB:	Boston Red Sox (MLB-AL)	92-70
AAA:	Pawtucket Red Sox (IL)	77-64
AA:	Trenton Thunder (East)	71-70
A+:	Sarasota Red Sox (FSL)	76-61
A:	Michigan Battle Cats (Midw)	79-61
A-:	Lowell Spinners (NYPL)	32-44
Rk:	Gulf Coast Red Sox (GCL)	27-33

Organizational Player Roster
Boston Red Sox Affiliate History

Midwest League Eastern Standings
Team	W	L	WPct	GBL
West Michigan	83	57	.593	--
Fort Wayne	79	61	.564	4.0
Michigan	79	61	.564	4.0
Lansing	71	69	.507	12.0
South Bend	40	100	.286	43.0

Full League Standings

Batting Statistics

Batting Statistics

#	Player	Pos	Hi Lvl	Age	Diff	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	GDP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	secA	Babip	K/BB	AB/HR	TB	PA
-	Shea Hillenbrand	C	MLB	22	0.4	129	498	80	174	33	4	19	93	13	7	19	49	10	2	1	3	11	.349	.383	.546	929	.197	.247	.358	2.58	26.2	272	531
-	Aaron Capista	SS	AA	19	-2.6	127	471	58	123	25	5	5	68	5	3	23	47	6	0	2	6	16	.261	.300	.367	667	.106	.159	.278	2.04	94.2	173	508
-	Jess Graham	OF	AA	22	0.4	113	414	73	108	22	5	8	61	10	4	50	96	12	1	2	2	13	.261	.356	.396	752	.135	.271	.321	1.92	51.8	164	480
-	Alex Ahumada	3B	AAA	19	-2.6	111	390	45	108	22	2	0	35	4	7	25	91	8	0	3	4	9	.277	.330	.344	674	.067	.123	.356	3.64	--	134	430
-	Mark Fischer	OF	AA	22	0.4	102	379	52	96	19	2	8	50	9	6	36	93	1	2	0	3	5	.253	.317	.377	694	.124	.227	.313	2.58	47.4	143	419
-	Jeff Keaveney	1B	A	22	0.4	112	373	61	94	24	0	15	54	0	2	65	104	9	3	0	5	10	.252	.372	.437	809	.185	.354	.305	1.60	24.9	163	452
-	Carlos Leon	2B	AAA	18	-3.6	107	372	59	93	7	3	3	37	10	10	50	81	11	0	10	3	5	.250	.353	.309	662	.059	.194	.309	1.62	124.0	115	446
-	Rontrez Johnson	OF	MLB	21	-0.6	85	306	65	83	15	5	5	32	24	8	66	46	4	0	1	5	4	.271	.402	.402	804	.131	.399	.300	0.70	61.2	123	382
-	Danny Haas	OF	AA	22	0.4	96	299	39	70	14	1	3	29	1	2	22	55	5	1	2	2	7	.234	.296	.318	614	.084	.154	.276	2.50	99.7	95	330
-	Chad Alevras	C	A+	23	1.4	85	281	35	70	14	1	7	39	1	1	27	70	4	2	0	4	8	.249	.320	.381	701	.132	.228	.303	2.59	40.1	107	316
-	Joe Hamilton	OF-1B	AA	23	1.4	63	203	36	55	12	0	9	34	3	1	28	68	2	0	3	2	6	.271	.362	.463	825	.192	.340	.359	2.43	22.6	94	238
-	Gary LoCurto	1B	A	20	-1.6	60	188	20	35	8	0	0	15	1	3	31	52	0	0	2	1	2	.186	.300	.229	529	.043	.197	.255	1.68	--	43	222
-	Jorge DeLeon	3B-2B	AAA	23	1.4	50	185	23	49	8	1	2	19	4	0	15	19	0	0	3	2	4	.265	.317	.351	668	.086	.189	.283	1.27	92.5	65	205
-	Larry Marino	3B	A+	23	1.4	53	139	15	25	3	0	1	13	0	0	22	26	1	0	2	0	0	.180	.296	.223	519	.043	.201	.214	1.18	139.0	31	164
-	Marcus Howard	OF	A	22	0.4	30	94	7	19	1	1	1	10	2	2	8	24	2	0	0	0	2	.202	.279	.266	545	.064	.149	.261	3.00	94.0	25	104
-	Mike Gancasz	1B-C	A	24	2.4	26	46	7	12	1	1	0	3	0	0	5	17	4	0	0	1	0	.261	.375	.326	701	.065	.174	.400	3.40	--	15	56
-	Jeff Uccello	C-1B	A+	24	2.4	21	41	4	9	3	0	0	1	3	2	3	6	1	0	1	0	0	.220	.289	.293	582	.073	.171	.257	2.00	--	12	46
-	Paul McDaniels	OF	A	21	-0.6	12	29	4	5	1	0	0	1	2	0	4	11	1	0	0	1	1	.172	.286	.207	493	.034	.241	.263	2.75	--	6	35
-	Keith Habig	OF	A	24	2.4	6	12	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	.083	.083	.083	166	.000	.000	.100	--	--	1	12
Batting Totals						1388	4720	685	1229	232	31	86	595	92	58	499	957	81	11	32	44	104	.260	.328	.377	705	.117	.230	.307	1.92	54.9	1781	5295

Pitching Statistics

Pitching Statistics

#	Player	Hi Lvl	Age	Diff	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BK	HB	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	K/BB
-	Justin Duchscherer	MLB	20	-1.6	7	12	4.78	30	26	0	0	2	0	142.2	166	87	76	9	47	106	7	1	0	1.49	10.45	0.57	2.96	6.67	2.26
-	John Curtice	AAA	18	-3.6	6	6	3.36	25	25	1	0	0	0	133.2	96	61	50	7	79	146	14	3	0	1.31	6.45	0.47	5.31	9.81	1.85
-	Joe Thomas	A+	23	1.4	12	5	3.25	20	20	1	1	0	0	130.1	126	52	47	6	36	100	1	3	0	1.25	8.72	0.42	2.49	6.92	2.78
-	Rafael Arias	A	21	-0.6	7	7	5.07	34	12	0	0	3	1	109.2	130	68	62	8	31	69	6	0	0	1.46	10.64	0.65	2.54	5.65	2.23
-	Marty McLeary	MLB	23	1.4	5	7	4.15	37	7	0	0	11	0	88.2	99	58	41	4	35	54	5	1	0	1.51	10.01	0.40	3.54	5.46	1.54
-	Brian Partenheimer	A+	23	1.4	7	5	3.62	60	0	0	0	23	6	82.0	79	35	33	5	21	61	5	0	0	1.22	8.67	0.55	2.30	6.70	2.90
-	Jeff Taglienti	AA	22	0.4	4	2	1.89	57	0	0	0	49	30	76.1	54	19	16	0	17	111	3	0	0	0.93	6.39	0.00	2.01	13.14	6.53
-	Jon Lyons	A+	23	1.4	3	4	2.77	41	0	0	0	17	3	65.0	63	29	20	2	27	57	3	0	0	1.38	8.72	0.28	3.74	7.89	2.11
-	Lance Surridge	A+	21	-0.6	3	3	2.81	18	8	0	0	5	2	64.0	59	26	20	2	27	43	4	0	0	1.34	8.30	0.28	3.80	6.05	1.59
-	Pedro Santana	A	20	-1.6	5	3	5.08	15	9	0	0	2	0	61.2	77	41	35	3	19	39	3	0	0	1.55	11.18	0.44	2.76	5.66	2.05
-	Kenny Rayborn	AAA	23	1.4	4	2	4.59	17	8	0	0	5	0	49.1	62	27	25	5	13	34	8	0	0	1.53	11.39	0.92	2.39	6.24	2.62
-	MIke Rupp	A+	20	-1.6	6	1	5.06	11	11	0	0	0	0	48.1	51	28	27	2	30	48	3	0	0	1.69	9.56	0.38	5.63	9.00	1.60
-	Jason Norton	AA	22	0.4	3	1	1.93	7	7	0	0	0	0	42.0	34	14	9	1	12	36	3	0	0	1.10	7.29	0.21	2.57	7.71	3.00
-	Terry Hayden	A+	23	1.4	2	2	7.84	20	0	0	0	5	1	31.1	46	29	27	5	10	30	1	0	0	1.81	13.35	1.45	2.90	8.71	3.00
-	Germaine Hunter	A+	24	2.4	2	0	1.20	22	0	0	0	9	2	30.1	23	5	4	0	14	31	1	0	0	1.23	6.90	0.00	4.20	9.30	2.21
-	Byron Tribe	A+	23	1.4	0	0	5.04	5	5	0	0	0	0	25.0	17	15	14	1	15	25	0	0	0	1.28	6.12	0.36	5.40	9.00	1.67
-	Michael Rahilly	A+	21	-0.6	2	0	9.00	12	1	0	0	2	0	18.1	25	18	18	2	9	19	4	0	0	1.89	12.50	1.00	4.50	9.50	2.11
-	Tom Miller	A+	23	1.4	0	0	6.35	11	0	0	0	3	0	17.0	28	13	12	2	7	10	1	0	0	2.06	14.82	1.06	3.71	5.29	1.43
-	Mark Cisar	AA	23	1.4	1	1	5.14	6	0	0	0	2	1	7.1	8	4	4	0	8	4	2	0	0	2.29	10.29	0.00	10.29	5.14	0.50
-	Rick O'Dette	A	22	0.4	0	0	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	2	2	0	6	2	1	0	0	3.00	0.00	0.00	27.00	9.00	0.33
Batting Totals					79	61	3.98	449	140	2	1	138	46	1225	1243	631	542	64	463	1025	75	8	0	1.39	9.13	0.47	3.40	7.53	2.21