2001 S e a s o n

In 2001, the WHAT? Men’s Softball Club had their worst winning percentage in franchise history. Thanks to being in the worst division in softball history, the WHAT? squad did only finish 18 games out of first place. Coming off a competitive season in 2000, the Club made up for losing Adam Miller and Brett McCollum by adding premium free agents Chris Minor and Dennis Wuorenma.

2001 was the ugly year caused partly by the many dry years of the WHAT? Sftbll farm system. With no real talent produced by the system since Miller and McCollum, the Club had a hard time transitioning to the next crop of young talent. While the team struggled, the future shone bright in Lake County, the WHAT? Sftbll’ younger affiliate.

Summer League Roster

Pitchers	Catchers	Infielders	Outfielders	Utility Players
Dennis Wuorenma	Billy Roiniotis	Izzy Solis	Carson Florio	Brian Sheehan
Jerry Vasquez	Jake Reichert	Jeff Wilson	Chris Minor	Jeff Reiher
	Tony J Cauvall	Joey Ratliff	Nestor Toro	Josh Bentivegna
		Jonathan Schumacher	Scott Wilson	Tim Sotomayor
		Mike Vela	Steve Guarini	Torre Garnder
		Tony Cauvall	Vince Bracheck

Summer League Stats

#	Poss	TEAM		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
2	SS	COUVALL	Tony	22	58	56	12	27	24	.466	23	0	1	0	.464	1	5	0	2	.429	.930	1	5	0	0	0.5	1.2	1.1	0.2
5	RC	FLORIO	Carson	18	35	30	7	15	10	.429	9	1	0	0	.367	1	5	0	5	.333	.795	0	2	0	0	0.4	0.8	0.6	0.3
22	LC	GUARINI	Steve	18	49	46	11	20	16	.408	14	1	1	0	.413	2	6	1	3	.348	.821	1	5	0	0	0.6	1.1	0.9	0.3
20	LF	MINOR	Chris	21	52	52	9	22	20	.423	13	5	2	0	.558	7	8	1	0	.385	.981	2	3	0	0	0.4	1.0	1.0	0.4
25	2B	SCHUMACHER	Jonathan	20	47	41	7	30	22	.638	19	1	2	0	.659	3	13	1	6	.537	1.297	2	5	0	0	0.4	1.5	1.1	0.7
30	3B	SOLIS	Izzy	19	44	43	9	26	23	.591	20	3	0	0	.605	3	12	1	1	.535	1.196	2	3	0	0	0.5	1.4	1.2	0.6
29	UP	VASQUEZ	Jerry	16	35	34	8	20	19	.571	16	3	0	0	.647	3	10	0	1	.559	1.218	0	1	0	0	0.5	1.3	1.2	0.6
4	1B	WILSON	Jeff	21	51	47	16	30	26	.588	23	2	1	0	.638	3	13	0	4	.553	1.227	0	3	0	0	0.8	1.4	1.2	0.6
37	RF	WILSON	Scott	20	50	47	10	24	19	.480	19	0	0	0	.404	0	3	0	3	.404	.884	2	4	0	0	0.5	1.2	1.0	0.2
3	P	WUORENMA	Dennis	8	20	18	2	11	9	.550	7	2	0	0	.611	2	7	0	2	.500	1.161	0	1	0	0	0.3	1.4	1.1	0.9
7	1B	BENTIVEGNA	Josh	5	15	15	2	5	5	.333	5	0	0	0	.333	0	1	1	0	.333	.667	0	3	0	0	0.4	1.0	1.0	0.2
54	C	COUVALL	Tony. J	8	21	21	5	12	12	.571	9	2	0	1	.810	3	3	1	0	.571	1.381	0	1	0	0	0.6	1.5	1.5	0.4
2	OF	LAURAITIS	R.J.	1	3	3	1	2	2	.667	2	0	0	0	.667	0	0	0	0	.667	1.333	0	0	0	0	1.0	2.0	2.0	0.0
14	OF	GARNDER	Torre	9	20	20	3	7	7	.350	6	1	0	0	.400	1	1	1	0	.350	.750	0	0	0	0	0.3	0.8	0.8	0.1
0	OF	LAMPOSE	Tony	4	9	9	2	4	4	.444	3	0	1	0	.667	1	2	0	0	.444	1.111	0	0	0	0	0.5	1.0	1.0	0.5
0	OF	LAMPOSE	Pete	3	8	8	2	3	3	.375	3	0	0	0	.375	0	1	0	0	.375	.750	0	0	0	0	0.7	1.0	1.0	0.3
12	OF	REIHER	Jeff	4	10	10	2	3	3	.300	2	1	0	0	.400	1	1	1	0	.300	.700	0	0	0	0	0.5	0.8	0.8	0.3
0	C	ROINIOTIS	Billy	16	44	41	7	19	13	.432	12	0	1	0	.366	1	9	2	3	.317	.798	3	1	0	0	0.4	1.2	0.8	0.6
32	UP	SOTOMAYOR	Tim	14	24	21	2	7	4	.292	3	1	0	0	.238	1	0	1	3	.190	.530	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.5	0.3	0.0
18	OF	TORRES	Louie	2	1	1	1	2	1	2.000	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1	0	0	0	0.5	1.0	0.5	0.0

		STARTERS		22	441	414	91	225	188	.510	163	18	7	0	.531	25	82	4	27	.454	1.042	10	32	0	0	4.1	10.2	8.5	3.7

		T O T A L S		22	597	564	118	289	242	.484	209	23	9	1	.507	33	102	11	33	.429	.991	14	37	0	0	5.4	13.1	11.0	4.6

Most Valuable Player

Jerry Vasquez, the Rebels’ catcher and team leader, won the most-valuable-player award batted .559 with 3 doubles, 19 base hits and was second in runs created, but many of his contributions were intangible–on and off the field. Vasquez, who almost won a triple crown led his Squad in six offensive categories and was in the top four in three others. If you look at sheer numbers, there are guys with more home runs and RBIs, but it was great that the voters looked at more than statistics and picked Vasquez on the basis of most valuable. He’s was definitely the leader on our team. The fact that he was among the top producing players in the league both offensively, as well as defensively, all while playing with aches, pains and injuries, it’s fairly difficult to understand on how he was able to crack the top 10 in the MVP voting.

Rookie of the Year

Chris Minor, for his part, turned in a legendary rookie season in which he hit .385 with 7 extra base hits, 8 RBIs, 9 Runs. He accumulated 22 total bases, had a .423 OBP, .558 slugging percentage, .981 OPS. As he had throughout his career, Minor produced a fine defensive display in left field, posting an estimated 2.2 WAR season with his defense alone, which was the second-highest mark on the squad.

Chris Minor made his team debut on May 5th, 2001 against Clover’s Softball at Belvidere North, going 0 for 2. Collected his home run on Tuesday September 11th, 2001 against Hit Men Club, Gm.1, at Dugdale Park.

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In order for the WHAT? Sftbll club to have a successful season, they pretty much have to win a championship. The playoff failures of the recent past are fresh in the minds, and the expectations for this year’s team are rightfully inflated.

The WHAT? club came closer to a championship than almost any other team during Fall Ball in Waukegan so the team by purchasing the contracts of Joey Ratliff, Dennis Wuorenma and Josh Bentivejna. With outfielder Nestor Toro making his team debut on October 17th, the team rebounded on October 28th, to clinch their first ever softball pennant by winning the Sturtevant fall league, at Fielder’s Choice Sports Complex. Their offseason focused on keeping the gang together.

Fall League Stats

#	Poss	TEAM		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
7	UP	BENTIVEGNA	Josh	34	116	110	45	60	48	.517	46	2	0	0	.455	2	21	1	6	.436	.972	6	10	6	10	1.3	1.8	1.4	0.6
22	LF	GUARINI	Steve	27	91	80	46	62	46	.681	29	7	5	5	.975	17	40	5	11	.575	1.656	5	7	5	7	1.7	2.3	1.7	1.5
20	RC	MINOR	Chris	38	135	132	58	83	77	.615	42	14	5	16	1.129	35	66	3	3	.583	1.744	3	4	3	4	1.5	2.2	2.0	1.7
24	3B	RATLIFF	Joey	35	125	124	54	71	64	.568	38	14	6	6	.871	26	56	3	1	.516	1.439	6	8	6	8	1.5	2.0	1.8	1.6
25	2B	SCHUMACHER	Jonathan	33	105	86	36	60	39	.571	38	1	0	0	.465	1	27	3	19	.453	1.037	2	8	2	8	1.1	1.8	1.2	0.8
21	LC	TORO	Nestor	10	32	30	19	24	20	.750	16	2	1	1	.900	4	12	0	2	.667	1.650	2	1	2	1	1.9	2.4	2.0	1.2
29	C	VASQUEZ	Jerry	35	116	109	36	68	60	.586	54	6	0	0	.606	6	39	5	7	.550	1.192	1	6	1	6	1.0	1.9	1.7	1.1
43	SS	VELA	Mike	34	125	108	47	79	54	.632	48	1	5	0	.602	6	35	2	17	.500	1.234	8	5	8	5	1.4	2.3	1.6	1.0
4	1B	WILSON	Jeff	27	85	77	34	52	39	.612	32	4	2	1	.649	7	23	2	8	.506	1.261	5	5	5	5	1.3	1.9	1.4	0.9
3	P	WUORENMA	Dennis	38	127	120	32	77	60	.606	50	10	0	0	.583	10	44	2	7	.500	1.190	10	4	10	4	0.8	2.0	1.6	1.2
44	OF	BRACHECK	Vince	24	78	67	27	43	26	.551	20	2	2	2	.567	6	23	3	11	.388	1.118	6	9	6	9	1.1	1.8	1.1	1.0
1	C	COUVALL	Tony. J	29	97	86	33	57	44	.588	29	8	3	4	.814	15	39	6	11	.512	1.402	2	4	2	4	1.1	2.0	1.5	1.3
2	UP	COUVALL	Tony	18	54	47	9	25	16	.463	16	0	0	0	.340	0	12	0	7	.340	.803	2	8	2	8	0.5	1.4	0.9	0.7
5	UP	FLORIO	Carson	28	83	69	35	45	25	.542	24	1	0	0	.377	1	17	1	14	.362	.919	6	10	6	10	1.3	1.6	0.9	0.6
14	OF	GARNDER	Torre	1	4	4	0	1	1	.250	1	0	0	0	.250	0	0	0	0	.250	.500	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0
22	C	JABLONSKI	Robert	1	4	4	2	3	2	.750	2	0	0	0	.500	0	0	0	0	.500	1.250	1	0	1	0	2.0	3.0	2.0	0.0
0	OF	LAMPOSE	Tony	6	20	19	7	11	8	.550	6	1	1	0	.579	2	5	1	1	.421	1.129	2	1	2	1	1.2	1.8	1.3	0.8
0	UP	REICHERT	Jake	12	44	36	17	26	15	.591	15	0	0	0	.417	0	10	4	8	.417	1.008	3	2	3	2	1.4	2.2	1.3	0.8
24	1B	SHEEHAN	Brian	11	38	34	18	21	17	.553	13	4	0	0	.618	4	10	2	4	.500	1.170	0	7	0	7	1.6	1.9	1.5	0.9

		T O T A L S		41	1479	1342	555	868	661	.587	519	77	30	35	.673	142	479	43	137	.493	1.260	70	99	70	99	13.5	21.2	16.1	11.7

This is an authentic card of the Go jo’s All-Star first basemen Chris Minor and Nestor Toro. There is a certificate of authenticity from the CEO of Softball Trading Cards on the back of the card. Chris Minor 2002 "Most Valuable Player".

WHAT?

2001 S e a s o n

Summer League Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Utility Players

Summer League Stats

Most Valuable Player

Rookie of the Year

Fall League Stats

This is an authentic card of the Go jo’s All-Star first basemen Chris Minor and Nestor Toro. There is a certificate of authenticity from the CEO of Softball Trading Cards on the back of the card. Chris Minor 2002 "Most Valuable Player".