TUCSON, Ariz. --Â After a successful 2019 season in which the Wildcats went 32-24 and boasted one of the highest-scoring offenses in the nation, 17 Arizona baseball players have spread out across the country to six leagues and 11 teams to continue their training with summer ball assignments.
2019 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
Austin Wells will join the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox of the prestigious Cape Cod League. He will be joined on the Cape by outfielder
Donta Williams - the 2019 Pac-12 All-Defensive team selection will play with the Cotuit Kettleers this summer.
Another top summer ball circuit, the Northwoods league, will host seven Wildcats. Right-handed pitcher
Nate Brown will report to the Green Bay Booyah. Outfielder
Branden Boissiere will spend his summer with the Willmar Stingers. The Mankato MoonDogs will feature a pair of Cats in outfielder
Tyler Casagrande and infielder
Dayton Dooney, while the La Cross Loggers carry three Arizona players in outfielder
Ryan Holgate, infielder
Tony Bullard, and infielder
Kyson Donahue.
Four Cats head north to join teams in the Alaska Baseball League: Left-handed pitcher
Randy Abshier (Mat-Su Miners), right-handed pitcher
George Arias Jr. (Mat-Su Miners), left-handed pitcher
Blake Peyton (Mat-Su Miners), and outfielder
Blake Paugh (Anchorage Bucs).
Catcher
Kobe Kato and outfielder
Tate Soderstrom will both see time with Bethesda Big Train of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League,
Gil Luna has been placed with the Bend Elks in the West Coast League, and
Jonathan Guardado rounds out the assignments with the Medicine Hat Mavericks in the Western Canadian Baseball League.
Below is a current list of the Arizona baseball players competing in summer ball, complete with links to team websites and Twitter accounts for easy following of our Cats this summer.
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| Player |
Team |
League |
Twitter |
| #44 Randy Abshier, LHP |
Mat-Su Miners |
Alaska Baseball League |
@ABLMiners |
| #6 George Arias Jr., RHP |
Mat-Su Miners |
Alaska Baseball League |
@ABLMiners |
| #50 Blake Peyton, LHP |
Mat-Su Miners |
Alaska Baseball League |
@ABLMiners |
| #28 Blake Paugh, OF |
Anchorage Bucs |
Alaska Baseball League |
@Anchoragebucs |
| #1 Kobe Kato, C |
Bethesda Big Train |
Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League |
@GoBigTrain |
| #33 Tate Soderstrom, OF |
Bethesda Big Train |
Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League |
@GoBigTrain |
| #16 Austin Wells, C/1B |
Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox |
Cape Cod League |
@YD_RedSox |
| #23 Donta Williams, OF |
Cotuit Kettleers |
Cape Cod League |
@CotuitKettleers |
| #15 Nate Brown, RHP |
Green Bay Booyah |
Northwoods League |
@booyahbaseball |
| #45 Branden Boissiere, OF/1B/LHP |
Willmar Stingers |
Northwoods League |
@WillmarStingers |
| #25 Tyler Casagrande, OF |
Mankato MoonDogs |
Northwoods League |
@MoonDogsBall |
| #8 Dayton Dooney, INF/1B |
Mankato MoonDogs |
Northwoods League |
@MoonDogsBall |
| #42 Ryan Holgate, OF |
La Crosse Loggers |
Northwoods League |
@LoggersBaseball |
| #3 Tony Bullard, INF/RHP |
La Crosse Loggers |
Northwoods League |
@LoggersBaseball |
| #29 Kyson Donahue, INF |
La Crosse Loggers |
Northwoods League |
@LoggersBaseball |
| #4 Gil Luna, LHP |
Bend Elks |
West Coast League |
@BendBaseball |
| #14 Jonathan Guardado, RHP |
Medicine Hat Mavericks |
Western Canadian Baseball League |
@mhmavericks |
*Last updated 7/2/2019
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