2009 NORTHWEST ARKANSAS NATURALS

| Level: AA

Location: Springdale,AR
Team Record: 73-67 .521
Result: 2nd in Texas League - North Division
Affiliate: Kansas City Royals
Manager(s): Brian Poldberg
Stadium: Arvest Ballpark
Attendance: 318,056
Playoffs: Lost in Finals

Kansas City Royals affiliate history

Oldest Player: Vance Wilson (36)
Youngest Player: Dan Cortes (22)
Top Hitter: Corey Smith (8)
Top Pitcher: Anthony Lerew (1)
Top Prospect: Dan Cortes

Texas League Standings

North	W	L	Pct	GB
Tulsa	74	66	.529	--
NW Arkansas	73	67	.521	1.0
Springfield	71	69	.507	3.0
Arkansas	61	79	.436	13.0

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
16	Corey Smith	3b	8	27	2000-1-26	AAA	140	550	67	137	29	1	21	90	12	8	39	132	4	4	0	4	14	.249	.302	.420	0	231	597	439	67	4.1	.289
7	Kurt Mertins	3b-2b	22	23	2006-13-377	AAA	126	495	64	136	23	8	2	57	11	10	41	107	4	1	7	5	9	.275	.332	.366	0	181	552	390	60	4.2	.343
21	Ed Lucas	3b-2b	47	27	2004-8-235	MLB	103	355	61	103	22	2	10	58	18	2	53	75	7	1	4	5	6	.290	.388	.448	0	159	424	269	70	7.0	.338
26	Jose Duarte	cf	50	24	UDFA: 2005	AAA	93	326	50	81	14	3	4	39	18	10	47	67	0	1	6	1	4	.248	.342	.347	0	113	380	266	41	4.2	.301
8	Cody Strait	of	70	26	2004-12-348	AAA	87	320	59	89	22	1	4	38	14	4	31	65	0	0	5	2	7	.278	.340	.391	0	125	358	249	45	4.9	.336
-	Jeff Bianchi	3b-ss	74	22	2005-2-50	MLB	68	270	42	85	17	1	5	42	10	4	19	58	1	0	2	5	2	.315	.356	.441	0	119	297	198	45	6.1	.377
12	Jarrod Dyson	cf	34	24	2006-50-1475	MLB	63	248	38	64	7	4	0	14	37	6	27	54	0	0	8	0	4	.258	.331	.319	0	79	283	202	30	4.0	.330
15	David Lough	rf-lf	72	23	2007-11-336	MLB	61	236	41	78	13	2	9	31	13	4	12	30	3	0	2	0	2	.331	.371	.517	1000	122	253	166	49	8.0	.350
3	Jordan Parraz	of-rf	52	24	2004-3-94	AAA	64	226	35	81	17	3	7	42	4	8	29	25	11	0	1	2	10	.358	.451	.553	1000	125	269	166	57	9.3	.378
13	Vance Wilson	c	75	36	1993-44-1226	MLB	59	204	27	55	9	0	10	32	0	1	16	46	7	1	1	1	6	.270	.342	.461	0	94	229	158	32	5.4	.302
24	Brian McFall	1b	60	25	2003-3-72	AA	59	204	29	51	13	0	7	37	3	1	19	57	8	0	0	2	2	.250	.335	.417	0	85	233	158	30	5.1	.310
11	Jeff Howell	c	-	26	2005-10-292	AAA	62	195	22	51	10	1	4	24	0	2	16	36	1	0	1	3	4	.262	.316	.385	0	75	216	154	24	4.3	.297
17	Cody Clark	c	-	27	2003-11-316	MLB	66	191	33	58	13	0	8	32	1	2	15	27	5	1	2	2	5	.304	.366	.497	0	95	215	144	37	6.9	.316
9	Chris McConnell	ss	73	23	2004-9-265	AAA	59	169	25	37	7	1	0	11	6	5	14	40	1	0	6	2	5	.219	.280	.272	0	46	192	150	10	1.8	.282
-	Marc Maddox	2b	-	25	2006-9-257	AAA	44	149	20	25	6	0	4	17	4	2	20	23	4	0	1	0	8	.168	.283	.289	0	43	174	135	11	2.2	.172
29	Mario Lisson	1b-3b	-	25	UDFA: 2002	AAA	36	136	20	28	4	0	2	17	4	3	14	29	3	0	1	4	2	.206	.287	.279	0	38	158	118	10	2.4	.239
1	Josh Johnson	ss	-	23	2004-3-85	AAA	51	132	26	25	3	0	0	9	2	2	29	24	1	0	2	0	2	.189	.340	.212	0	28	164	113	11	2.6	.231
30	Joe Dickerson	of	-	22	2005-4-112	AA	34	126	15	29	7	2	0	13	5	1	18	19	3	2	2	1	3	.230	.338	.317	0	40	150	104	16	4.2	.269
15	John Suomi	c	-	28	2000-22-660	AAA	37	119	23	37	6	2	7	19	0	2	13	17	1	1	1	2	3	.311	.378	.571	1000	68	136	90	27	8.0	.309
4	Alex Gordon	lf	-	25	2005-1-2	MLB	8	30	4	11	3	0	2	10	0	0	5	5	0	1	0	0	2	.367	.457	.667	1000	20	35	21	9	11.1	.391
9	Yuniesky Betancourt	1b-3b	-	27	UDFA: 2005	MLB	3	13	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.385	0	5	13	11	1	2.3	.091
Totals: (21 players)							140	4694	703	1263	245	31	107	633	162	77	477	937	64	13	52	41	100	.269	.342	.403	745	1891	5328	3701	680	5	.313

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
18	Anthony Lerew	1	26	2001-11-345	MLB	10	6	4.09	27	27	1	1	0	0	152.0	164	79	69	14	55	101	9	1	1.44	9.71	0.83	3.26	5.98	0.54
25	Matt Kniginyzky	12	26	2005-23-682	AA	5	10	5.48	26	24	0	0	0	0	134.2	157	98	82	21	57	68	11	2	1.59	10.49	1.40	3.81	4.54	0.84
32	Blake Johnson	27	24	2004-2-58	AAA	8	8	4.57	24	24	0	0	0	0	122.0	148	70	62	11	41	61	4	1	1.55	10.92	0.81	3.02	4.50	0.67
-	Everett Teaford	41	25	2006-12-347	MLB	3	7	5.11	16	16	1	0	0	0	81.0	86	53	46	12	34	42	2	1	1.48	9.56	1.33	3.78	4.67	0.81
28	Dan Cortes	-	22	2005-7-215	MLB	6	6	3.92	16	15	0	0	0	0	80.1	77	43	35	3	50	57	6	0	1.58	8.63	0.34	5.60	6.39	0.88
39	Blake Wood	43	23	2006-3-77	MLB	2	8	5.83	17	13	1	0	3	0	78.2	92	52	51	8	28	49	7	0	1.53	10.53	0.92	3.20	5.61	0.57
22	Gilbert De La Vara	-	24	2004-15-445	AAA	6	2	5.74	35	1	0	0	9	2	64.1	83	59	41	6	27	40	6	0	1.71	11.61	0.84	3.78	5.60	0.68
31	Chris Nicoll	-	25	2005-3-82	AAA	7	0	3.50	33	0	0	0	10	1	61.2	60	32	24	4	26	58	5	1	1.39	8.76	0.58	3.79	8.46	0.45
-	Rowdy Hardy	-	26	UDFA: 2006	AAA	4	4	3.43	11	10	0	0	0	0	60.1	59	28	23	5	20	39	2	0	1.31	8.80	0.75	2.98	5.82	0.51
-	Aaron Hartsock	44	25	2006-23-677	AAA	3	1	2.82	28	0	0	0	19	8	51.0	43	17	16	4	17	27	4	0	1.18	7.59	0.71	3.00	4.76	0.63
33	Carlos Sencion	-	24	UDFA: 2006	AA	3	1	6.02	25	1	0	0	9	1	46.1	58	34	31	5	30	43	4	1	1.90	11.27	0.97	5.83	8.35	0.70
23	Greg Holland	48	23	2007-10-306	MLB	3	2	3.18	29	0	0	0	19	8	45.1	46	16	16	2	19	49	6	0	1.43	9.13	0.40	3.77	9.73	0.39
-	Ben Swaggerty	-	26	UDFA: 2007	AAA	4	1	4.33	26	0	0	0	11	1	43.2	53	21	21	3	20	54	2	2	1.67	10.92	0.62	4.12	11.13	0.37
6	Chris Hayes	-	26	UDFA: 2006	AAA	3	0	0.98	18	0	0	0	12	3	36.2	33	11	4	1	6	17	0	0	1.06	8.10	0.25	1.47	4.17	0.35
-	Federico Castaneda	-	25	UDFA: 2009	AAA	0	3	4.28	12	2	0	0	6	1	27.1	20	13	13	2	11	27	1	0	1.13	6.59	0.66	3.62	8.89	0.41
36	Dan Cevette	-	25	2002-3-94	AAA	0	0	5.32	14	2	0	0	5	0	22.0	25	13	13	1	11	13	2	0	1.64	10.23	0.41	4.50	5.32	0.85
35	Victor Marte	-	28	UDFA: 1978	MLB	2	1	2.45	13	0	0	0	8	4	22.0	15	7	6	1	5	17	1	0	0.91	6.14	0.41	2.05	6.95	0.29
-	Juan Abreu	66	24	UDFA: 2005	MLB	2	2	5.75	16	0	0	0	11	4	20.1	19	15	13	3	22	25	2	0	2.02	8.41	1.33	9.74	11.07	0.88
-	Jason Godin	-	24	2006-5-137	AAA	0	2	6.48	8	2	0	0	1	0	16.2	23	15	12	1	13	9	6	0	2.16	12.42	0.54	7.02	4.86	1.44
-	John Bannister	64	25	UDFA: 2002	AAA	1	0	5.02	8	0	0	0	4	0	14.1	12	8	8	1	6	9	2	0	1.26	7.53	0.63	3.77	5.65	0.67
-	Chad Orvella	-	28	2003-13-368	MLB	1	1	1.64	8	1	0	0	1	0	11.0	7	2	2	1	0	6	0	0	0.64	5.73	0.82	0.00	4.91	0.00
19	Kyle Crist	-	26	2004-34-1015	AA	0	0	8.38	8	0	0	0	4	0	9.2	14	12	9	0	10	4	2	0	2.48	13.03	0.00	9.31	3.72	2.50
-	John Bale	-	35	1996-5-129	MLB	0	0	1.35	6	0	0	0	1	0	6.2	4	2	1	0	1	5	0	0	0.75	5.40	0.00	1.35	6.75	0.20
-	Chris Chavez	-	24	UDFA: 2006	AAA	0	1	3.86	3	0	0	0	1	0	4.2	3	2	2	0	5	3	0	0	1.71	5.79	0.00	9.64	5.79	1.67
-	Kyle Farnsworth	-	33	1994-47-1290	MLB	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.2	1	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.55	2.45	0.00	2.45	7.36	0.33
-	Robinson Tejeda	-	27	UDFA: 1998	MLB	0	1	4.91	2	2	0	0	0	0	3.2	3	2	2	1	2	5	0	0	1.36	7.36	2.45	4.91	12.27	0.40
17	Cody Clark	-	27	2003-11-316	MLB	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	0	2	0	1.1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1.50	6.75	0.00	6.75	6.75	1.00
16	Corey Smith	-	27	2000-1-26	AAA	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2.00	0.00	0.00	18.00	9.00	2.00
Totals: (21 players)						73	67	4.43	140	140	3	1	137	33	1,222	1306	704	602	107	520	833	84	9	1.42	9.62	0.81	3.83	6.13	0.62

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Cody Clark	C	65		371	38	3	2	.993	0.00
Jeff Howell	C	49		248	36	6	3	.979	0.00
John Suomi	C	24		137	26	2	3	.988	0.00
Vance Wilson	C	18		81	7	1	1	.989	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Corey Smith	1B	107		980	41	14	104	.986	0.00
Brian McFall	1B	35		291	22	6	32	.981	0.00
Ed Lucas	1B	5		24	4	0	2	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Kurt Mertins	2B	86		146	266	10	54	.976	0.00
Marc Maddox	2B	29		61	104	1	32	.994	0.00
Chris McConnell	2B	19		35	59	0	13	1.000	0.00
Josh Johnson	2B	7		14	23	2	9	.949	0.00
Jeff Bianchi	2B	2		7	4	0	2	1.000	0.00
Ed Lucas	2B	1		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Ed Lucas	3B	53		30	96	7	9	.947	0.00
Corey Smith	3B	27		15	35	6	4	.893	0.00
Kurt Mertins	3B	26		18	43	6	5	.910	0.00
Josh Johnson	3B	23		9	37	4	5	.920	0.00
Marc Maddox	3B	14		2	26	2	1	.933	0.00
Alex Gordon	3B	5		6	5	2	0	.846	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Jeff Bianchi	SS	60		95	191	8	46	.973	0.00
Chris McConnell	SS	39		47	117	5	26	.970	0.00
Mario Lisson	SS	32		53	98	10	20	.938	0.00
Josh Johnson	SS	12		18	31	0	9	1.000	0.00
Yuniesky Betancourt	SS	3		2	7	1	1	.900	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Joe Dickerson	LF	32		50	2	2	1	.963	0.00
Ed Lucas	LF	29		53	1	4	1	.931	0.00
Cody Strait	LF	26		53	0	1	0	.981	0.00
David Lough	LF	22		38	1	1	0	.975	0.00
Jose Duarte	LF	20		41	2	1	1	.977	0.00
Jarrod Dyson	LF	13		18	4	1	0	.957	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Jose Duarte	CF	53		146	7	2	2	.987	0.00
Jarrod Dyson	CF	49		131	6	3	0	.979	0.00
Cody Strait	CF	22		58	1	1	0	.983	0.00
David Lough	CF	18		39	0	1	0	.975	0.00
Joe Dickerson	CF	1		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Jordan Parraz	RF	63		124	9	4	2	.971	0.00
Cody Strait	RF	25		60	1	2	1	.968	0.00
David Lough	RF	18		38	3	2	0	.953	0.00
Ed Lucas	RF	18		38	5	4	1	.915	0.00
Jose Duarte	RF	17		25	1	0	1	1.000	0.00
Brian McFall	RF	1		3	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Gilbert De La Vara	P	35		2	8	0	0	1.000	0.00
Chris Nicoll	P	33		3	3	1	0	.857	0.00
Greg Holland	P	29		8	4	0	1	1.000	0.00
Aaron Hartsock	P	28		5	7	3	1	.800	0.00
Anthony Lerew	P	27		8	22	5	2	.857	0.00
Matt Kniginyzky	P	26		5	16	1	1	.955	0.00
Ben Swaggerty	P	26		0	6	0	1	1.000	0.00
Carlos Sencion	P	25		3	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Blake Johnson	P	24		7	23	3	0	.909	0.00
Chris Hayes	P	18		4	10	1	0	.933	0.00
Blake Wood	P	17		4	10	0	1	1.000	0.00
Juan Abreu	P	16		1	3	0	0	1.000	0.00
Dan Cortes	P	16		1	6	5	1	.583	0.00
Everett Teaford	P	16		2	12	1	0	.933	0.00
Dan Cevette	P	14		1	1	0	1	1.000	0.00
Victor Marte	P	13		1	1	1	0	.667	0.00
Federico Castaneda	P	12		2	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Rowdy Hardy	P	11		2	16	2	1	.900	0.00
John Bannister	P	8		0	5	0	0	1.000	0.00
Kyle Crist	P	8		1	1	1	1	.667	0.00
Jason Godin	P	8		0	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Chad Orvella	P	8		0	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
John Bale	P	6		1	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Chris Chavez	P	3		0	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Kyle Farnsworth	P	3		0	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Cody Clark	P	2		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Robinson Tejeda	P	2		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Corey Smith	P	1		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00

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