Kyle Maunus, who tied the Beach Bums single season homerun record with 10 in 2008, will return to the team in 2009 for his second season with the club...
Maunus will be an LS-2 this season after serving as the everyday first baseman last year...He hit .253 and tied for the team lead in RBI with 53 in addition to matching Aaron Garza's record homerun output from 2007...He posted 26 multi-hit games in addition to having 11 multi-RBI contests...Maunus was one of four players to have a four-hit contest in 2008 to equal the team record for most in a game...His four hits came at Chillicothe on August 30, and he also scored three runs while driving in a pair...Maunus totaled 12 hits in the final six games of the season...He drove in a season best four runs at Rockford on June 4 connecting on a homerun and a double in a three-hit effort...
Perhaps the most under rated facet of Maunus' game is his defense...As part of a team that equaled the team and Frontier League record for fielding percentage, Maunus led all Frontier League first baseman with a .996 fielding percentage, committing just four errors in 997 chances...
Formerly of Western Michigan University, Maunus was signed by the Reds before his senior season and spent one year in Cincy's system...
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