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2022 ANGLERS SEASON REVIEW & SEASON PREVIEW 2023

The Chatham Anglers finished the 2022 Cape League season as While it’s enjoyable to talk about the successes of 2022, let’s
one of the hottest teams, going 9-3-2 over their last 14 games. turn our attention to the upcoming 2023 season. We are excited
During that final stretch the Anglers averaged almost five that Tom Holliday is returning for his fifth season at the Anglers
runs per game, allowing them to string together a five game helm. Tom has revamped his coaching staff, bringing in 10 year
winning streak in late July. Unfortunately the Anglers strong major leaguer Mike Henneman as his pitching coach, former
conclusion to the season couldn’t offset the 4-13-3 record the Washington State University head coach Mike Lees as his third
Anglers recorded to start the season and the team’s final 15-20- base/defense coach, and Todd Shelton, long-time head coach
9 record kept them out of the 2022 Cape League playoffs. at perennial Juco powerhouse Panola JC as his hitting coach.
While we expect to see several returning faces for at least part
The 2022 Anglers were led on offense by Georgia Tech’s Jake of the season (e.g. Tommy Molsky, Aidan Meola, Tanner Witt,
DeLeo (4 HR’’s) and Rice’s Guy Garibay (5 HR’s) who were the Hayden Durke, Brian Holiday) the vast majority of our Angler
co-recipients of the Anglers Silver Slugger award. The Anglers roster will be comprised of new faces. To augment any returning
two middle infielders from Oklahoma State (Marcus Brown & players Coach Holliday has assembled a highly talented group
Roc Riggio) also provided significant offensive spark, especially of new players to wear the Angler blue pinstripes. Offensively
during the Anglers second half offensive surge. Clemson’s Chatham will be bolstered by 4 players hitting over .300 late
Cooper Ingle had the Anglers leading batting average (.252) in their college seasons. They are Carson Benge (Oklahoma
for the summer, which is a clear indicator that pitching again State), Kyson Donahue (Hawaii), Chris Maldonado (Vanderbilt),
dominated in the 2022 Cape League summer season. and Nolan Schubart (Oklahoma State). On the mound the
Anglers are bringing several top prospect pitchers to Chatham
Chatham’s pitching staff was led by Ben Hampton (West Virginia) including Maxx Yehl (West Virginia), with an ERA under 3.00 to
who had 11 outings, including 5 starts, covering 42 innings. The join power pitchers Brody Brecht (Iowa), 79 K’s in 53 innings and
42 innings was a Cape League high for the summer and Ben Matt Becker (South Carolina) 50 K’s in 34 innings.
also became the first Cape League pitcher since 2017 to throw
a complete game. Chatham also had four hurlers with at least There you have it, the coaches are ready, the players have been
four outings; Caden Grice (Clemson), Alex McFarlane (Miami), carefully selected, and now it’s time to watch the 2023 season
Roman Kimball (Notre Dame), and Cy Nielson (BYU) all with unfold. We are confident the season will contain plenty of
ERA’s under 2.00. When Chatham had a late inning lead it was excitement, a great deal of joy, and probably a few tears too. A
almost certain Brian Holiday (Florida Southwestern) would be typical Cape Cod Baseball League summer!
on the mound at the end of the game to get the save for the
win.

CHATHAM ANGLERS THANK YOU TOWN OF CHATHAM 2023

The Chatham Athletic Association and the Chatham Anglers extend a sincere thank you to the residents of the Town of Chatham
and to the following individuals for their support in helping us provide a fantastic
Angler game day experience:

TOWN MANAGER JILL GOLDSMITH
BOARD OF SELECTMAN SHAREEN DAVIS, JEFF DYKENS, CORY METTERS, DEAN NICASTRO, MIKE SCHELL

RECREATIONS & BEACHES DEPARTMENT AIMEE HOWELL, SUSAN MABILE

PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION DAVID ELDREDGE, MEREDITH FRY, TANYA KHALIL, DAVE MALLOWES, KIMBERLY ROBBINS

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