Season 2021 – WHAT?

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It is time to start a new season for the WHAT? Men’s Softball Club and for the first time in a long time, expectations are sky high and for good reason.

This has fans excited, not just because softball is back after the Covid-19 and player holdouts had things looking bleak this past offseason, but also because the WHAT? Squad enters the 2022 season as one of the top teams in not just the Waukegan, but across the entire Lake County.

The Club finished 9 – 11. They went 2 – 1 during Saturday playoffs.

Summer Roster

Pitchers	Catchers	Infielders	Outfielders	Utility Players
Aaron Archibald	Alex Rodgers	Alex Ahonen	Ben Hoyt	Bradley Daniel
Ralph Lozano		Connor Fitzgerald	Brad Callahan	Jake Munson
		Drake Larriuz	Jimmy Dubicki	Louie Torres
		Ryan Siembal	Kyle Risinger	Nick Krocker
			Tommy Dubicki	Warren Egan
			Mike Gould	Wyatt Gratz
			Tommy Dubicki

Summer League Standing

Summer League Stats

TEAM		#	Poss	Gm	PA	AB	Runs	OB	Hits	O.B.P	1H	2H	3H	4H	S.L.G	X.B.	RBIs	KO	BB	A.V.G	O.P.S	RE	RFC	SF	DP	R / G	OB / G	H / G	BI / G
ARCHIBALD	Aaron	8	P	26	95	87	40	55	46	.579	31	8	4	3	.816	15	39	1	8	.529	1.395	1	4	4	2	1.5	2.1	1.8	1.5
CALLAHAN	Brad	9	RC	21	82	77	28	47	40	.573	33	6	1	0	.623	7	28	1	5	.519	1.197	2	3	1	0	1.3	2.2	1.9	1.3
DUBICKI	Tommy	21	LC	10	32	30	10	17	15	.531	14	1	0	0	.533	1	14	1	2	.500	1.065	0	1	0	0	1.0	1.7	1.5	0.8
DUBICKI	Jimmy	2	OF	11	42	42	14	20	20	.476	18	1	1	0	.548	2	14	4	0	.476	1.024	0	4	3	0	1.3	1.8	1.8	1.5
FITZGERALD	Connor	3	1B	29	109	103	41	65	58	.596	40	16	1	1	.767	18	33	2	6	.563	1.363	1	8	3	1	1.4	2.2	2.0	1.2
GOULD	Mike	6	OF	23	78	70	27	47	39	.603	33	4	1	1	.686	6	21	3	8	.557	1.288	0	7	2	0	1.2	2.0	1.7	1.5
KROCKER	Nick	14	OF	25	84	69	23	39	24	.464	20	2	2	0	.435	4	18	3	15	.348	.899	0	6	0	2	0.9	1.6	1.0	1.5
LARRIUZ	Drake	34	SS	25	99	90	53	71	60	.717	32	12	3	13	1.300	28	52	3	9	.667	2.017	2	7	2	0	2.1	2.8	2.4	1.7
RISINGER	Kyle	13	RF	23	83	73	35	50	38	.602	25	7	6	0	.781	13	23	8	10	.521	1.383	2	7	2	1	1.5	2.2	1.7	1.3
RODGERS	Alex	22	C	27	82	74	24	39	29	.476	27	2	0	0	.419	2	24	2	8	.392	.895	2	2	2	3	0.9	1.4	1.1	2.0
SIEMBAL	Ryan	28	3B	29	102	92	31	61	51	.598	37	12	1	1	.739	14	43	3	10	.554	1.337	0	4	4	1	1.1	2.1	1.8	1.5
TORRES	Louie	18	UP	24	80	70	36	58	42	.725	36	3	2	1	.743	6	33	1	10	.600	1.468	6	5	2	0	1.5	2.4	1.8	1.4
DANIEL	Bradley	33	OF	4	11	10	5	5	4	.455	4	0	0	0	.400	0	1	0	1	.400	.855	0	2	0	1	1.3	1.3	1.0	0.3
HOYT	Ben	18	OF	5	18	17	5	8	7	.444	4	2	0	1	.706	3	9	1	1	.412	1.150	0	2	1	0	1.0	1.6	1.4	1.5
EGAN	Warren	50	OF	14	51	51	15	26	23	.510	14	7	2	0	.667	9	20	0	0	.451	1.176	3	5	5	0	1.1	1.9	1.6	1.4
LOZANO	Ralph	09	P	4	11	11	8	9	9	.818	1	0	2	6	2.818	8	15	1	0	.818	3.636	0	0	0	0	2.0	2.3	2.3	3.8
MUNSON	Jake	27	LC	2	9	9	5	6	4	.667	4	0	0	0	.444	0	3	0	0	.444	1.111	2	0	0	0	2.5	3.0	2.0	1.5
SANCHEZ	Jason	5	OF	4	12	11	3	7	6	.583	4	2	0	0	.727	2	8	0	1	.545	1.311	0	2	0	0	0.8	1.8	1.5	2.0
AHONEN	Alex	0	SS	3	11	10	7	7	6	.636	4	2	1	0	1.100	3	5	0	1	.600	1.736	0	0	0	0	2.3	2.3	2.0	1.7
BODDEN	Chuck	0	UP	2	5	3	1	3	1	.600	0	1	0	0	.667	1	1	0	2	.333	1.267	0	0	0	0	0.5	1.5	0.5	0.5
GRATZ	Wyatt	0	OF	4	12	11	5	8	7	.667	6	1	0	0	.727	1	5	2	1	.636	1.394	0	1	0	0	1.3	2.0	1.8	1.3
KUSTER	Kevin	0	OF	1	3	3	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
MOXLEY	Ryan	0	P	2	5	3	2	5	3	1.000	2	1	0	0	1.333	1	0	0	2	1.000	2.333	0	0	0	0	1.0	2.5	1.5	0.0
RUTZ	Matt	0	OF	2	5	4	3	3	2	.600	2	0	0	0	.500	0	1	0	1	.500	1.100	0	0	0	0	1.5	1.5	1.0	0.5
SIEMBAL	Darrin	0	C	2	9	9	4	7	6	.778	5	1	0	0	.778	1	7	0	0	.667	1.556	1	0	0	1	2.0	3.5	3.0	0.5
VASQUEZ	Jerry	29	C	1	3	0	1	3	0	1.000	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	3	.000	1.000	0	0	0	0	1.0	3.0	0.0	1.2

Totals				29	1121	1018	423	659	534	.588	391	89	27	27	.745	143	409	36	103	.525	1.332	22	68	31	12	14.6	22.7	18.4	14.1

STARTERS				29	906	824	331	519	427	.573	314	73	20	20	.728	113	318	32	82	.518	1.301	10	55	24	10	11.4	17.9	14.7	11.0

The Chicago Tournament was epic. WHAT? Sftbll defeated the Good Wood club, 11-8 in the Championship game on Saturday April 3rd. Pitcher Ralph Lozano batted .818 with 15 RBI’s. First basemen Connor Fitzgerald batted .900 with 5 Runs.

It’s tough to call outfield the “deepest” offensive position in softball because every team in your league has two or three OF slots to try to fill every week. However, it might be tougher not to call it the deepest when you see outfielders Tommy Dubicki and Wyatt Gratz dominated in the outfield. As is always the case, the sheer number of viable options seems overwhelming at first glance. But it was clear from the start that both outfielders Tommy Dubicki and Wyatt Gratz could run balls down in the outfield as good as anybody has ever known.

Most Valuable Player

Infielder Drake Larriuz was named the 2021 Lake County League’s Most Valuable Player by the Softball Writers Associated of America. He received 19 of 30 first-place votes.

Larriuz, 27, was the Rookie of the Year two years ago and is now the MVP. In 2021, he hit .667 / 2.017 with 13 home runs, 52 RBI, 53 runs scored, and 9 base on balls. Among qualified position players in the Lake County, Larriuz and Connor Fitzgerald tied in Wins Above Replacement at 7.8, according to FanGraphs.

Rookie of the Year

Right fielder Jimmy Dubicki was named the 2021 Rookie of the Year as voted on by the Softball Writers Association of America. He received 29 of 30 first-place votes.

Dubicki, 20, made the WHAT? Sftbll club debut on June 22nd, 2021 going ( 1 for 2, 2 Runs ) against the Big O’s Softball club. He finished the season with 20 base hits over an 11 game span while also knocking in 14 runs, scoring 14 runs, and batting .476 over 42 trips to the plate. FanGraphs listed Dubicki with 4.8 WAR, by far the most among rookies.

Team Memorabilia

This is a 2021 authentic softball trading card of WHAT? outfielder’s Brad Callahan and Mike Gould. There is a certificate of authenticity from the CEO of Softball Trading Cards on the back of the card.

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Summer Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders