2007 Scouting Report

Clinton LumberKings

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

Season Summary

• Second Half: 29-41, .414 (8th place, 11.0 behind)
• First Half: 41-26, .612 (2nd place, 1.5 behind; Playoff Qualifier)
• Pitching: 70-67, 3.51, 39 saves, 33 holds, 1 complete game, 1044 strikeouts
• Hitting: .248, 590 runs scored, 77 HR, 144 steals (74% success)
• Defense: 158 errors (1.15 errors per game)
• April: 12-10 (.545)
• May: 19-11 (.633)
• June: 15-9 (.625)
• July: 9-16 (.360)
• August: 11-20 (.355)
• September: 2-1 (.667)
• Playoff Round One: 2-1 (.667)
• Playoff Round Two: 0-2 (.000)

• Position Players used: 22
• Pitchers used: 26
• Pitchers per game: 3.12

Leading Players

• Best Player on the Team: Starting Pitcher Omar Poveda

• Best Starting Pitcher: Omar Poveda (2.79, 11-4, 120 strikeouts)
• Bullpen Stopper: no bullpen stopper
• Strikeout Pitchers: Brennan Garr, Tim Gudex, Kasey Kiker, Zach Phillips
• Control Pitchers: Michael Ballard, Brennan Garr, Tim Gudex, Josh Lueke, Zach Phillips, Omar Poveda, Glenn Swanson

• Best Hitter: K.C. Herren (.276, 6 HR, 49 RBI) or John Whittleman (.271, 14 HR, 57 RBI)
• Home Run Leader: Mauro Gomez (21)
• High Batting Average: none
• High On Base Percentage: none
• High Slugging Percentage: John Whittleman (.476)
• Notable Baserunners: Craig Gentry, Grant Gerrard, Jay Haefner, KC Herren, Marcus Lemon, David Paisano, Chad Tracy, Jose Vallejo
• Notable Batting Eye: none

Pre-Season Profile

Manager

Last season, at Spokane, Mike Micucci didn't show any unusual management tendencies.

First Round Draft Selections

• none

Team Age Information

• Average Team Age: 21.5
• Pitchers: 22.2
• Hitters: 21.5

• Oldest Player on the Team: Timothy Gudex (born 9/23/1982)
• Youngest Player on the Team: Marcus Lemon (born 6/3/1988)

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.

Last summer's Clinton, Spokane, and the Rangers' AZL squad all contributed about equally to the new nine. Quite frankly, none of those look like a good foundation.

Team        League             W/L    Place    Hitters Pitchers
                                     (Teams)
Bakersfield California (A+)    58/82 10(10)       2      2
Clinton     Midwest (A)        45/94 14(14)       6      6
Spokane     Northwest (A-)     26/50  8(8)        5      5
Rangers     Arizona (R)        19/37  9(9)        4      5

Only a few of the new L'Kings appeared at two levels last summer; those are counted twice in this table. Everyone here was somewhere in the Rangers' farm system last year. One of these players appeared briefly at the Double-A level.