Justin Ouellette is like a lot of other high school team managers. He’ll go above and beyond the call of duty.

He’ll run laps with the team during warm-ups. If they’re short-handed at practice, he’ll jump in and run the bases during situational drills.

But the St. Dom’s junior also takes his job a little more seriously than your average manager.

Working for the varsity baseball team this year, Ouellette kept meticulous stats at every game. After each game, he would spend about an hour-and-a-half logging the numbers into an Excel program.

It wasn’t an easy task, considering the Saints ran roughshod over the competition on their way to a 17-1 record and the Class C state championship. There were a lot of hits to chronicle, a lot of runs and RBIs to tally, and, because the Saints were involved in a lot of blowouts, a lot of substitutes to chart in and out of games.

But Ouellette didn’t just keep track of the runs, hits and errors. At the team’s awards get-together Thursday, Ouellette handed each player and coach a bound collection of statistics from the past season (collected in binders he bought himself, incidentally). The packet contained linescores from each of the Saints’ regular season and post-season games, even listed what the weather was for each game. It also listed the team leaders in numerous statistical categories, and even had stats broken down between home and away games, lefty vs. righty, and just about any other split you can think of.

Bill James would be proud.

“I’ve never seen anybody keep stats like this,” Saints coach Allan Turgeon said. “He’s been incredible. He’s like a third coach.”

“I’m a huge baseball fan. I especially like the statistics,” said Ouellette, who lives in Poland and is a devout fan of the best-selling baseball book “Moneyball”. “I just enjoy the numbers and spending hours at the computer doing it.”

Team manager isn’t the most thankless of sports-related jobs. That distinction still has to go to the coaches and officials. Team managers don’t have to field angry phone calls from selfish parents if someone doesn’t get enough playing time or listen to personal insults from fans if a call goes against the home team.

But it’s certainly the least glamorous job. Depending upon the sport, the team manager has to hand out equipment before the practice or game, collect the equipment afterwards, fill the water bottles, rinse out the water bottles, help the players stretch, fold the warm-ups, hand out towels, collect the towels once they’re drenched in sweat, cheer for the team, keep the book, and do anything and everything else the coach or players ask at the drop of clipboard or mouthpiece.

What do they get for it? They don’t have the scrapbooks filled with newspaper clippings and box scores like the players do. They can’t brag about being the manager on the 1997 Class B champions at the first class reunion or regale everyone around the bar with stories about the time they helped find the star center’s contact lens before she sank the game-winning free throws.

They get to experience and participate in some of the bonding that make team sports what they are. Ask any ex-high school athlete what they miss the most about playing and they’ll probably tell you it’s the camaraderie with their teammates. Ask any ex-manager and they’ll probably tell you the same thing.

At the end of the year, they get a certificate and a polite round of applause at the sports banquet. If the team makes the regional or state finals, they get the same little medal as the players, and the same golf clap they get at the banquet.

The coaches and the players appreciate the time they put in, and that’s what’s important. Ouellette may be the most popular member of the Saints after every game. Players don’t like to admit it, but they love to look at their own stats, and Justin’s the guy to see at St. Dom’s.

“It’s nice that he does all of this stuff and he doesn’t really have to,” said junior catcher Mike Carpenter.

Ouellette wouldn’t mind taking his skills as a statistician to the next level. He hopes to attend college in Boston and intern with the Red Sox, maybe even become a scout or front office employee when he finishes school.

“I’m hoping I’ll find a way,” he said.

Statistically speaking, he’s got a better than average chance.