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Off to Worcestor for the Gatemen's away game tonight!
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A Summer Sunday Rhode Island Baseball Photo Caption Extravaganza
A Summer Sunday Rhode Island Baseball Photo Caption Extravaganza
Happy Summer Sunday in July everyone. Wow, we have Ocean State Waves vs Newport Gulls in the Pell Bridge Series to chat about. Rachel and I attended a Cape Cod Baseball League game last night featuring the Wareham Gatemen vs the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox (with RIC’s Shaun Gamelin in the bullpen.) Rhode Island District All Star games were played all over the state yesterday. Boston Open 2022 has a…
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Connecticut Cape Cod Classic Returns to Dunkin’ Donuts Park
The Wareham Gatemen defeated the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox 3-2 in the Connecticut Cape Cod Classic Tuesday.
from NBC Connecticut - Connecticut News http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Connecticut-Cape-Cod-Classic-Returns-to-Dunkin-Donuts-Park-513120861.html
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Don Sneddon at Fenway Park in July. Photo by Caroline O’Connor via Gatemen.org. Don Sneddon, Field Manager for the Wareham Gatemen from 2017-2018, was quoted in a Wicked Local Marion article saying that the season is too long and the league must make changes. From the article: “It’s up to the administration of this league to make sure they are making some changes or this league will see hard times, in my opinion.” One fascinating point…
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SPRINGFIELD, MA – College Summer Baseball Daily’s National Rankings were released earlier this morning and the Valley Blue Sox debuted at #3 in the country, trailing only the Wareham Gatemen and Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod League. A full list of the rankings can be viewed here.
The Blue Sox (11-3) are off to their best start in franchise history and are riding a five game winning streak heading into tonight’s Northern Division tilt with the Winnipesaukee Muskrats. They currently sit atop the Northern Division with the best record in the NECBL.
“It’s a tremendous accomplishment for our organization to not only crack the top five, but debut at #3,” said Blue Sox General Manager Hunter Golden. “The first people who deserve credit are our coaching staff and players. We have some guys who’ve come out really swinging it and maintained it. Some guys who we had a ton of confidence in who struggled a bit out of the gate – but have made the adjustments and have stepped up. Our pitchers have really held things together and taken pressure off the offense by performing consistently. It’s been an organization-wide effort.”
When the Blue Sox won their first NECBL Championship in 2017, they finished #7 nationally, with this week’s ranking being the highest ranking the organization has achieved.
“To see where we were at as an organization five years ago – and now to see where we are – not just on the field but off it has been a really rewarding experience,” said Golden. “The players and coaches made it happen on the field – but so much goes into this that people don’t see. It’s the long hours our interns, office staff and volunteers put in. It’s the host families who really set the tone and help to create the kind of experience that helps to draw talent here because they want to experience what we’re all about. It’s the sponsors stepping up and helping us get the resources that we need to do everything we do – and then it’s our fan base who show up and make our park the most exciting one to play in in the league. It’s everyone – and a proud moment for everyone.”
The Blue Sox are at home Sunday night to take on the Winnipesaukee Muskrats at 5:05pm. Gates open at 4pm and Sunday will be the team’s first ever television giveaway. The Sox will have two road games this coming week before closing out the month of June at home on Thursday and Friday night here at Mackenzie Stadium. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for kids and seniors and can be purchased online at www.valleybluesox.com or via phone at (413) 533-1100.
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Summer Catch
Walking up to the baseball field behind Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, you hardly would believe that Chris Sale, Buster Posey, Justin Turner, and a host of others called it their summer home on the way to the majors.
Red Wilson Field features a wooden press box, a chain-link outfield fence (with no marked dimensions), a snack bar, and some scattered bleachers. There’s not even stadium lights so games can be played after dark.
But such is the essence of the Cape Cod Baseball League, with the unmatched combination of small-town charm and big-time prospects. For two months every summer, the country’s top college baseball players head to Cape Cod to play for the league’s 10 teams.
The league stretches some 60 miles across Cape Cod and along Route 6, from Wareham (Gatemen) and Bourne (Braves) in the west to Chatham (Anglers) and Orleans (Firebirds) in the east. The teams are split into East and West Divisions and play 44-game schedules.
For this year’s baseball trip, I headed to the Cape League for a June 17 game between the Harwich Mariners and Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox. It was the home opener for the three-time defending league champion Red Sox; admission was free (with donations gladly accepted). The drive from Boston to the town of South Yarmouth took about 75 minutes.
The Cape League’s history of producing future major leaguers is staggering. According to the league, 297 former Cape League players appeared in at least one major-league game in 2016—that would be the equivalent of almost 12 full 25-man rosters. The league has more than 1,100 former big-league alumni.
Among current Mariners, Dan Altavilla (Y-D), Taylor Motter (Harwich), Kyle Seager (Chatham), Danny Valencia (Orleans), Mike Zunino (Y-D), and Tony Zych (Bourne) all played in the Cape League.
This year, 10 of the 36 first-round MLB draft picks were Cape League alums, including top-10 picks Brendan McKay (Tampa Bay), Pavin Smith (Arizona), and Adam Haseley (Philadelphia).
Not surprisingly, the Cape League is heavily scouted. We counted four or five scouts sitting behind home plate at the Y-D park armed with radar guns, with several scouts packing up and leaving at 6 p.m. to presumably catch a second game on the Cape that night.
My interest in the Cape League grew from Jim Collins’ fantastic book “The Last Best League,” which followed the Chatham A’s (now Anglers) for one summer in 2002. Tim Stouffer and Chris Iannetta both became big-league regulars from that Chatham team.
But the book also focuses as much on the players who got so close to the big-time, yet failed to make it for one reason or another. (Collins updated the book 10 years later after the A’s players all had either established or finished their baseball careers.)
We originally planned to see a game in Chatham, but those plans changed after a rainout. Y-D was a great second choice—a 5 p.m. game that ended three hours later with the fog from the ocean rolling in across the field.
The Cape League is small-time enough that the homeowners beyond the right-field fence pulled up yard chairs and enjoyed dinner with the game. One man walked his dog through the Harwich bullpen mid-game (he later talked about watching Posey and Kyle Schwarber both play on the Cape, and claimed Cotuit has the best park).
One of the Y-D players was in charge of selling tickets for the 50/50 raffle (Cape League teams must raise $200,000 annually). And at the neighboring football stadium, the high school was holding a walk-a-thon dedicated to cancer support, with music blasting the entire evening.
The Red Sox and the other Cape League teams each employ squadrons of interns, who handle everything from marketing to running the concession stand. The teams additionally air their games online using broadcasting students.
Some of the players still work part-time during the summer, while playing baseball in the afternoons and evenings, although this has become less common as players focus on getting scouted. First-round bonus values now range from $7.8 million to $2.2 million.
I assume that I saw at least one future major leaguer--the Cape League’s slogan is “Where the stars of tomorrow shine tonight!”--but I’m not sure who that would be. We went on the season’s first weekend, when several players whose college teams made deep NCAA Tournament runs had yet to arrive (according to the league, 62 players this season went to NCAA super regionals and 39 went to the College World Series).
Harwich third baseman Ryne Ogren had the game’s biggest hit, belting a two-run double to cap a four-run fifth inning for the Mariners. I thought Harwich outfielder Dwanya Williams-Sutton and pitcher Matthew Frisbee also seemed like potential prospects, along with Y-D outfielder Carlos Cortes, who had three hits.
The Mariners also got 4 2/3 scoreless innings in relief from Austin Hansen, Brian Christian, and Theodore Rodliff. The teams combined for 22 hits, but the players were still in their first week and seemingly adjusting to the wood bats of the Cape League after the metal bats of college.
(According to Collins’ book, MLB allows Y-D and Harwich to use the Red Sox and Mariners names, provided they order merchandise through MLB’s licensees. The Red Sox cap actually uses the White Sox logo against an outline of Cape Cod; the Mariners use a compass logo just like Seattle).
The featured event for the season is the annual All-Star Game (held this year on July 22) and the championship series in mid-August. There’s a game of the week broadcast on Fox College Sports as well. Or you can just wait a couple of years to catch the league’s biggest stars in the majors.
I’m looking forward to checking this post in about five years to see which of the players below ended up making it. We saw all of them play in the Mariners’ victory.
From Harwich: Joey Bart C (Georgia Tech); Brian Christian (P) (Northeastern); Nick Dalesandro (RF) (Purdue); Brad Debo (DH) (N.C. State); Matthew Frisbee (P) (UNC Greensboro); Austin Hansen (P) (Oklahoma); Owen Miller (SS) (Illinois State); Kyler Murray (PR) (Oklahoma); Ryne Ogren (3B) (Elon); Teddy Rodliff (P) (Stony Brook); Cameron Simmons (CF) (Virginia); Cobie Vance (2B) (Alabama); Jordan Verdon (1B) (San Diego State); Dwanya Williams-Sutton (LF) (East Carolina).
From Yamouth-Dennis: Cameron Beauchamp (P) (Indiana); Karl Blum (P) (Rutgers); Michael Cassala C (Jacksonville); Charlie Concannon (DH) (St. Joseph’s); Carlos Cortes (LF) (South Carolina); Kole Cottam C (Kentucky); Jake Crawford (1B) (Furman); Jonah Davis (RF) (California); Tyler Depreta-Johnson (SS) (Houston Baptist); Tanner Graham (P) (Alabama-Birmingham); Nico Hoerner (2B) (Stanford); Kyle Isbel (CF) (UNLV); Christian Koss (3B) (UC Irvine); Hunter Parsons (P) (Maryland); Carter Pharis (1B) (Alabama-Birmingham); John Rooney (P) (Hofstra); Christopher Sharpe (CF) (UMass Lowell).
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@rangers prospect @kylecody23 shows us his leather 👀💯🔥😍 Swipe➡➡➡ .. ☝University of Kentucky Easton Mako ✌Rawlings Heart of the Hide .. Thanks for sharing Kyle! Good luck bro👊 .. Kyle started for 4 years at the University of Kentucky. He was also a member of the Wareham Gatemen of the historic Cape Cod Baseball League. .. @rawlingssg @eastonbaseball1 @nbbaseball @mlb @kentuckybaseball @officialccbl @warehamgatemen #relaceme (at Surprise Stadium)
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The Wareham Gatemen season starts soon. Even though my dad is moving to Marion, after 14 years in Wareham.
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Holy crap, there's a Wareham Gatemen tag? Sweet! Hope to see y'all in the summer!
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Just a little downtime after setup, getting ready for the Gatemen Game!
It will be live on Verizon ch 30, Comcast ch 9 at 6pm. Also streaming on our website!
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The Baseball Journey Of Rhode Island's Multi-Sport, Multi-Talented John Toppa
The Baseball Journey Of Rhode Island’s Multi-Sport, Multi-Talented John Toppa
A few mornings ago, I was watching the MLB Network and they had a special program showcasing the top 100 prospects for the 2022 MLB Draft. It was a cool show, a lot of talent of course, some high school players, some prep school level players, mostly collegiate athletes who this panel of writers projects to go 1 to 100 in the 2022 MLB Draft. After the special, I went to my computer to look up…
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Wareham Gatemen win 2018 Cape Cod Baseball League championship
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SPRINGFIELD, MA – College Summer Baseball Daily’s National Rankings were released earlier this morning and the Valley Blue Sox debuted at #3 in the country, trailing only the Wareham Gatemen and Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod League. A full list of the rankings can be viewed here.
The Blue Sox (11-3) are off to their best start in franchise history and are riding a five game winning streak heading into tonight’s Northern Division tilt with the Winnipesaukee Muskrats. They currently sit atop the Northern Division with the best record in the NECBL.
“It’s a tremendous accomplishment for our organization to not only crack the top five, but debut at #3,” said Blue Sox General Manager Hunter Golden. “The first people who deserve credit are our coaching staff and players. We have some guys who’ve come out really swinging it and maintained it. Some guys who we had a ton of confidence in who struggled a bit out of the gate – but have made the adjustments and have stepped up. Our pitchers have really held things together and taken pressure off the offense by performing consistently. It’s been an organization-wide effort.”
When the Blue Sox won their first NECBL Championship in 2017, they finished #7 nationally, with this week’s ranking being the highest ranking the organization has achieved.
“To see where we were at as an organization five years ago – and now to see where we are – not just on the field but off it has been a really rewarding experience,” said Golden. “The players and coaches made it happen on the field – but so much goes into this that people don’t see. It’s the long hours our interns, office staff and volunteers put in. It’s the host families who really set the tone and help to create the kind of experience that helps to draw talent here because they want to experience what we’re all about. It’s the sponsors stepping up and helping us get the resources that we need to do everything we do – and then it’s our fan base who show up and make our park the most exciting one to play in in the league. It’s everyone – and a proud moment for everyone.”
The Blue Sox are at home Sunday night to take on the Winnipesaukee Muskrats at 5:05pm. Gates open at 4pm and Sunday will be the team’s first ever television giveaway. The Sox will have two road games this coming week before closing out the month of June at home on Thursday and Friday night here at Mackenzie Stadium. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for kids and seniors and can be purchased online at www.valleybluesox.com or via phone at (413) 533-1100.
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