2007 Scouting Report

Kane County Cougars

Profile

Unless otherwise indicated, all statistics are through the end of the 2007 season.

Season Summary

• Second Half: 39-31, .557 (4th place, 1.0 behind)
• First Half: 24-45, .348 (7th place, 19.5 behind)
• Pitching: 63-76, 3.73, 35 saves, 19 holds, 6 complete games, 1078 strikeouts
• Hitting: .247, 589 runs scored, 73 HR, 80 steals (65% success)
• Defense: 130 errors (0.94 errors per game)
• April: 4-17 (.190)
• May: 11-21 (.344)
• June: 11-15 (.423)
• July: 13-12 (.520)
• August: 22-9 (.710)
• September: 2-2 (.500)

• Position Players used: 19
• Pitchers used: 25
  • Includes one position player used as a mopup pitcher.
• Pitchers per game: 2.83

Leading Players

• Best Player on the Team: Starting Pitcher Trevor Cahill

• Best Starting Pitcher: Trevor Cahill (2.73, 11-4, 117 strikeouts)
• Bullpen Stopper: Scott Moore (3.90, 1-4, 11 saves, 3 holds, 60 strikeouts)
• Strikeout Pitchers: Andrew Bailey, Trevor Cahill, Derrick Gordon, Scott Moore, Henry Alberto Rodriguez, Eric Sheridan
• Control Pitchers: Andrew Bailey, Travis Barnwardt, James Heuser

• Best Hitter: Jermaine Mitchell (.285, 5 HR, 39 RBI)
• Home Run Leader: Greg Dowling (13)
• High Batting Average: David Castillo (.304)
• High On Base Percentage: David Castillo (.429), Josh Horton (.417)
• High Slugging Percentage: none
• Notable Baserunners: Michael Affronti, Larry Cobb, Josh Horton, Todd Johnson, Michael Massaro, Jermaine Mitchell, Christian Vitters
• Notable Batting Eye: Josh Horton

Pre-Season Profile

Manager

Based on his first managerial season, Aaron Nieckula's a fairly conventional MWL manager.

First Round Draft Selections

• none

Team Age Information

• Average Team Age: 22.7
• Pitchers: 22.9
• Hitters: 22.4

• Oldest Player on the Team: Haas Pratt (born 9/17/1981)
• Youngest Player on the Team: Matt Sulentic (born 10/6/1987)

The average player in the Midwest League this season is 22.0 years old. This information is based on opening day rosters as published on the team website and will not be updated.

Where they played last season

This summary is based on the team's opening day roster and will not be revised to reflect roster changes.

The Kane County team is basically last summer's Vancouver Canadians, with a few holdovers from the 2006 Cougars.

Team           League             W/L    Place    Hitters Pitchers
                                        (Teams)
Stockton       California (A+)    69/71  6(10)       1       0
Kane County    Midwest (A)        79/60  2(14)       4       7
Vancouver      Northwest (A-)     39/37  4(8)        9       9
Athletics      Arizona (R)        24/31  6(9)        0       0

Several players appeared on two teams and are counted twice in this table. One of the new Cougars played briefly at the Double-A level.