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2016 Mudcats Taken in 2019 MLB Draft

2016 Mudcats Stuka, Pavlica taken in MLB draft
By PAUL STURM, C-T Sports Editor
Two members of the 2016 Chillicothe Mudcats college-level summer baseball squad were among the more than 1,000 prospects selected by Major League Baseball organizations during last week’s 2019 MLB Draft of amateur players.
The first former Mudcat tabbed this year was a repeat choice from 2018. Big (6’7”, 225 pounds) righthanded pitcher Ted Stuka, a redshirt junior at the University of California-San Diego this past school year, was chosen by the Detroit Tigers in the 14th round – the 412th overall selection.
That was a much-higher position than a year ago when Baltimore chose him in the second-to-last (39th) round. The leap figures to give Stuka a significantly-higher financial offer to incentivize turning pro.
With Chillicothe in 2016 after his freshman year at UC-San Diego, Stuka started two games and relieved in eight others, posting a 2-1 won-lost record and 5.21 earned run average. In 19 innings, he allowed 19 hits and 11 earned runs, walking 19 and hitting five more while striking out only 13.
His size, however, is something pro teams increasingly covet with the belief that more-intensive professional instruction can refine things like control of his pitches.
Chosen later in last week’s draft was one of Stuka’s teammates, outfielder Preston Pavlica. The righthanded hitter, who just finished his career at Grand Canyon University in Arizona, was selected in the 24th round – 736th overall – by the Houston Astros
A teammate at GCU the past two years of 2018 Mudcats outfielder Nate Gawelko and playing under the guidance of GCU assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Gregg Wallis, an infielder with the original 2002 Mudcats, Pavlica batted .290 in 100 at-bats for the Fish three summers ago.
With this year’s selection of Pavlica, to the best of the local team’s knowledge, the number of former Mudcats either drafted by MLB organizations or signed by professional teams (either MLB minor-league affiliates or independent-league clubs) since the team’s 2002 inception now is 71. Several, like Stuka now, were drafted a second time after not signing the first time they were chosen. Not nearly all of those drafted signed and played professionally.
To date, two ex-Mudcats have reached the major leagues for regular-season play – catcher Caleb Joseph (2005-06) and pitcher Mike Mariot (2009). Several former Fish remain active in the minors at present, at last report, with Joseph – after four full big league seasons with the Baltimore Orioles – now with the Arizona Diamondbacks’ AAA (top minor league) farm club and Mariot, who has battled arm/shoulder trouble, having ended last season in the independent Atlantic League with the league-champion Sugar Land Skeeters.

Caleb Bounds will Return
to Coach 2019 Mudcats

Bounds will return to coach the Mudcats
Team’s career leader in wins to lead 2019 club
By PAUL STURM, C-T Sports Editor

Caleb Bounds, the Savannah High School graduate and former North Central Missouri College pitcher whose four wins in each of his three summers with the team from 2014-16 make him the Mudcats’ career leader in winning decisions with 12, has been hired by the team’s board of directors to build and lead the 2019 squad.
“We are excited to have Caleb back for the 2019 season” Doug Doughty, team general manager, said in announcing that Caleb will return.

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Welcome to the site of the Chillicothe Mudcats. The 2018 season will mark the seventeenth season of Mudcat baseball. The Mudcats participate in the MINK League (a wood bat league). The MINK League is made up of teams from Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. During the sixteen years the Mudcats have always had a winning record.

The Mudcats organization is run by Grand River Entertainment of Chillicothe. GRE is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to bring family type entertainment to the area. The Mudcats have been very successful and the community has been very supportive of the team.

Players from the Chillicothe Mudcats spent Thursday morning volunteering at Community Outreach. Here, they are packing bags of food to be distributed through Community Outreach of Nevada. Pictured are, from left: Chris Cabral, Josh Urps, Tyler Hansen, Bryce Bisenius, Tanner Baker and Kody Gardner.
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MLB Drafts Four Former Mudcats

Four former Chillicothe Mudcats were drafted in this year’s MLB draft. Shown here in their Mudcat uniforms (9) Todd Czinge to the Rockies in the 29th round, (13) Garrison Schwartz to the Braves in the 16th round, (31) Riley Echols to the Indians in the 24th round and (40) Blake Weiman to the Pirates in the 8th round. Congratulations to these young men!

Former Mudcat, Austin Kerns, Signs With
Houston Astros

Everything happens for a reason! Austin Kerns, a native of Owasso, Oklahoma, was 12 hours into his 25 hour drive to New Hampshire for summer ball when he got the call. Austin went home and signed with the Astros. Austin played with the Mudcats in the summer of 2014.

Another Mudcat, Sean Rackeski, Signs With MLB.

Former Mudcat Sean Rackeski signed with a MLB organization, the Toronto Blue Jays. Sean played for the Mudcats in the 2015 season. He is a RHP who played college baseball at the University of Kansas

Mudcats Host Baseball Camp

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Mudcats with their Host Families 2017

Former Mudcat Caleb Joseph, One of the First Mudcats to Make it to Major League Baseball, Hits a RBI Single vs the Royals August 25, 2015

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Mudcats to workout at the YMCA

The Chillicothe Mudcats have reached an agreement which will allow the Mudcats to workout at the Grand River Area YMCA.

The facility will be available to the Mudcats all summer for free.