After Vancouver split a Monday night double-header, and lost a rain-shortened game in Everett on Tuesday, it’s become obvious this team will go down as the least winning team in short-season C’s history.  With 28 wins with 8 games remaining, Vancouver needs to win 7 of those last 8 in order to tie their 2003 season season, when Dennis Rogers’ Canadians had 35 wins.

But, there are some reasons to come out to the ballpark this upcoming week, for the remaining three home games.  Records.  Here are some records that may or not be broken by September 3rd.

OF David Thomas currently has 17 doubles, good enough for a tie for fourth with three past Canadians.  Dan Hamblin holds the record of 21, with Matt Sulentic following with 19, and Corey Brown with 18.  Teammate Jeremy Barfield has 16, which puts him in a tie for 8th all-time.

Jeremy Barfield needs 7 hits to be put in a three-way tie for 9th for short-season hits.  Barfield has 63, while Dan Johnson and Greg Dowling each had 70.  The record was set by Javier Herrera, who had 84 in 2004.

Barfield is also one RBI away from tying Matt Allegra and two other C’s alum for 8th place on the all-time RBI list.  2007 Canadian Dan Hamblin holds the record of 62.

OF Jareck West is one triple away from tying four former Canadians for the season record, of 4.  Corey Brown is the most recent Canadian to reach 4 triples in a season.  West has 3, through 56 games.

DH Mike Lissman needs a home-run to be tied for 6th all-time.  Lissman has 6 on the year, good enough for a tie of 8th, but another one will put him tied with Casey Myers and Jorge Soto, who both had 7 in 2001.

SS Jason Christian finishes the year with 39 walks, which puts him in a tie for 8th place all-time.  1B Dusty Napoleon has 38, and is currently in a tie for 10th all-time.  JD Pruitt set the record of 50 last season, and has 35 this year. 

Christian will also hold the mark for the 8th most Stolen Bases in a single season, with 13.

Depending on how many more times he comes to the plate this year, JD Pruitt could set a record for On-base percentage.  The current record is .487, set by Jeremy Brown, and Pruitt’s is .500.  I don’t believe he qualifies yet though, with only 93 at-bats.

RHP Ronny Morla has two more starts in him this season, and unfortunately for him, he’s only one loss away from the short-season record, of 7 set by Inoel Deaza (left) and Christian Gonzalez.  Morla has 6 losses on the campaign, which puts him in a tie with Brad Hertzler and Edwin Minaya.  

If Morla surrenders 12 hits in his final two starts, he’ll hold the short-season record.  Currently it’s 90, set in 2001.  Ronny needs to give up only three more earned runs to break the record of ER in a season as well. 

Jose Guzman needs to appear in two more games this year, to break the record of most appearances in a season.  The current number was created when Dan Fyvie made 26 appearances in 2003.  Guzman has 25. 

Guzman needs one more save to tie Brad Kilby’s record of 14, and two more to break it.  I have a good feeling, that he will indeed smash the record.

Manager Rick Magnante has 104 wins as a Canadians manager, tops for a short-season boss, but is still more than a hundred wins from the C’s all-time lead.  Magnante needs 7 more wins to be tied with Tony Muser for 7th place.  Right now, Magnante is in sole position of 8th place.