Dartmouth Baseball CONTENTS QUICK FACTS Quick Facts . .1 Location . Hanover, N .H . Head Coach . Bob Whalen (Maine ’79) 2009 Season Outlook . 2-3 Founded . .1769 Office Phone . .603-646-2477 2009 Team Roster . .4 Enrollment . 4,200 Record at Dartmouth (Years) . 349-377-1 (19) Coaches and Support Staff . 5-7 Nickname . .Big Green Overall Record (Years) . 349-377-1 (19) Head Coach Bob Whalen . .5 Colors . Dartmouth Green and White Assistant Coaches . Assistant Coach George Roig . .6 Conference . Ivy League, Division I .George Roig (Florida Atlantic,’00 . 3rd year) Assistant Coach Nicholas Enriquez . .6 President . James Wright . Nicholas Enriquez (Menlo ’01, fifth year) Volunteer Assistant Tom Carlson . .7 Athletics Director . .Josie Harper Volunteer Asst. .Tom Carlson (National ’85) Baseball Support Staff . .7 Stadium (Cap.) . Rolfe Field at Biondi Park (2,000) Strength & Conditioning . Bob Miller N 2009 Big Green . 8-15 Surface . FieldTurf Athletic Trainer . .David Turro C Co-Captain Jack Monahan . .8 Dimensions . LF - 325, CF - 402, RF - 340 Team Manager . Chris Jenny ’12 A Co-Captain Robert Young . .8 Dir. of Varsity Athletics Communications/ 2008 Record/Ivy . 25-17/15-5 (1st in Rolfe Div .) A Ray Allen, Kyle Evans . .9 Baseball Contact . .Rick Bender Letterwinners Returning/Lost . .20/8 Mike Pagliarulo, Johnathon Santopadre . .10 Office Phone . .603-646-1030 Positional Starters Returning/Lost . .6/3 R Zach Cheaney, Brett Gardner . .11 Fax . .603-646-1286 Pitchers Returning/Lost . .6/4 e Ezra Josephson, Ben Murray . .11 E-mail . .rick .bender@dartmouth .edu First Season . .1867 g Nick Santomauro, Jim Wren, Sam Bean . .12 Press Box Phone . .603-359-3909 All-Time Record . .1709-1721-22 ( .498) i Colin Britton, Jason Brooks . .13 Mailing Address . .6083 Alumni Gym Rolfe Division Titles . 4 (2000, ’01, ’04, ’08) o Jeff Onstott, Brandon Parks . .13 . Hanover, NH 03755 Ivy/EIBL Championships . 10 (1930, ’35, ’36, n A .J . Pendleton, Jake Pruner . .14 Web Site . www .DartmouthSports .com . ’38, ’48, ’63, ’67, ’69, ’70, ’87) a Ryan Smith, Dan Ternowchek . .14 NCAA Regionals . 5 (1958, ’67, ’69, ’70, ’87) l Freshmen . .15 College World Series . 1 (1970) s 2009 Opponents . 16-17 Boston College, Brown, Cal Poly . .16 • Columbia, Cornell, Duke . .16 Hartford, Havard, Hofstra . .16 1 Holy Cross, Pacific, Penn . .17 CREDITS Editor and Designer . Rick Bender 9 Princeton, San José State, Santa Clara . .17 Editorial Assistant . Cindi Mansell 5 Siena, Vermont, Yale . .17 Contributors . Jake Adams 8 2008 in Review . 18-20 . Matt Faulkner Dartmouth Statistics and Results . .18 . Jack DeGange • Ivy Leaders, Stat Breakdown . .19 . Dara Ely Ivy Standings, Stats and Awards . .20 . .Heather Croze 1 Dartmouth History . 21-29 . .Rick Adams 9 Big Green Honors and Awards . .21 Photographers . Mark Washburn, 6 Record Book . .22 . .Beverly Schaefer, Gil Talbot, 7 Professional Players . .23 . David Silverman (DSPics .com), Roster, 1945-2009 . 24-25 . Joseph Mehling, Rick Bender • Game-by-Game Results Under Whalen . 26-28 . Dartmouth College Library, MLB Year-by-Year Results, Coaching Records . .29 Printer . Whitman Communications, Inc . 1 Dartmouth College . .30 . Lebanon, N .H . 9 Athletic Administration . .31 6 Athletic Facilities . .32 9 • 1 9 7 0 • 1 9 8 7 www.DartmouthSports.com 2009 Big Green Baseball 2009 Season Outlook When a team has a great season, people have a Last year as a freshman, Parks only got 19 Another option at third base is junior tendency to wonder what that team will do for an at-bats, but he showed the potential to warrant Jim Wren . He certainly has the bat to play encore the following year . But an encore implies an more playing time . He has improved in all facets the position, having hit .346 as a sopho- ending, a finality, to a performance. Head coach Bob of the game, and Coach Whalen has no more almost exclusively as the DH . Whalen and the rest of his Big Green baseball team qualms about turning to Parks to ease A line-drive hitter with develop- have no such plans for this season to be the ending of the workload behind home plate . ing power, Wren will likely find anything, rather the start of something better . himself somewhere in the Dartmouth got a jump start to the season of sorts INFIELD middle of the order on a with a trip in December to the Dominican Republic . Not much is up in the air regular basis . With the combined efforts of Dartmouth grads Dave at the infield positions, with the That leaves the Howard ’82, the executive vice president of business right side cemented with re- most demanding in- r operations for the New York Mets, and Sandy Alder- turning veterans . The left side field position of short- o son ’69, the CEO of the San Diego Padres, the Big could see some intriguing stop, and it wouldn’t l Green played five games against the academy teams battles for playing time with be a stretch to have a f of those two organizations, winning four . several possible candidates freshman win the job . e “Not only was the trip a great cultural experience vying for a starting job . Rookie Joe Sclafani for everyone, it was invaluable as a tool to evaluate Senior Mike Pagliarulo, out of Palm City, d our own players,” stated Coach Whalen . “You can’t son of the former major leaguer of the Fla ,. has impressed the i underestimate the impact of playing games com- same name, blossomed his junior year into coaching staff with v pared to practices . Plus, having a new and different a unanimous All-Ivy first baseman. After his poise and actions i experience as a team really brings a team together . struggling at the plate his first two seasons, in the field. A two-time s Seeing the style and passion the Dominicans have for Pags pounded the ball to the tune of a .370 all-state shortstop at i the game of baseball gave our guys a new perspective average with eight doubles, six homers Nick Santomauro Jensen Beach High o on how to play the game .” and 30 RBIs . On top of that, he has School, Sclafani n Back home, the Big Green are anxious to begin developed into a very good fielder over is simply a terrific a new season and vie for the Ivy crown to earn their at the first sack. athlete, having been c first trip to the NCAA Regionals since 1987. “Mike has become a very good his school’s team h first baseman, both offensively MVP twice in a CATCHER and defensively,” Coach Whalen basketball as well . m Returning for his senior year as a co-captain is complimented . “He is an im- Competing for p catcher Jack Monahan . A defensive specialist with a portant bat in the middle of that starting role at s knack for delivering key hits, Monahan has the inside the lineup, and impact force short will be junior walk-on Ezra Josephson . He is a track and getting the bulk of the playing time wear- offensively .” heady player with good instincts for the game, and • ing the tools of ignorance . His .207 batting average Depth is not a performs whatever role is assigned to him with con- last year belies the fact that he hit .271 when runners problem at first base, viction . His greatest value, though, is his versatility 2 were on base . But his real value comes in handling a with senior Ray Allen and ability to play second, third and shortstop . 0 pitching staff and limiting the running game . and sophomore Jason 0 Spelling Monahan behind the dish will be senior Brooks waiting in the wings . Allen showed quite a bit OUTFIELD 0 Kyle Evans and sophomore Brandon Parks . Evans of promise early in his career, hitting .382 as a fresh- Two of the three regulars that roamed the out- provides a little extra pop with the bat, slugging .560 man, but he has been searching to regain his stroke field in 2008 graduated, and one — Damon Wright • a year ago with an on-base percentage over .500 the past two seasons . — was taken by the San Francisco Giants in the in limited playing time . A versatile player, Evans’ Brooks, at 6-3 and 210 pounds, has the size and 25th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year 2 offensive prowess may force Coach Whalen to find a strength to be a plus-power performer during his Player Draft . Replacing the .397 average, nine hom- 0 spot for him in the lineup, possibly as a DH or even a career, as evidenced by the home run in the second ers and 39 RBIs Wright supplied is not an easy task . 0 corner outfielder on occasion. at-bat of his career last season . With continued disci- The options at Coach Whalen’s disposal make doing 1 pline at the dish, he could see some playing time as a so a less daunting task . pinch hitter or DH . First, though, one must take note of what is • Over at the keystone corner is sophomore Jeff returning, and that is a large piece of the outfield Onstott, a 356. hitter during his inaugural campaign puzzle . Junior Nick Santomauro, a career .378 hitter, 2 for the Big Green . In addition, he led the team with patrols right field for the Big Green. One of the 0 11 doubles and showed a good eye at the plate, walk- purest hitters in the Ivy League, he began to develop 0 ing 23 times for an on-base percentage of 444. An his power last year, launching 11 bombs, plus led the 4 added bonus is his defensive prowess at second base as league with 45 RBIs and a .691 slugging percentage .