My story continuously makes me want to give back to baseball and help others who maybe in the same or similar situation as I once was. I was never a guy who was the biggest on the team, in fact a majority of my career I was underdeveloped physically and as a result often on the smaller end of the spectrum for my teams. As a result this brought me continuous frustration, and fear. The biggest fear was not playing or not making a team. After my passion to get better at baseball continued to push me to work harder, I was able to scrape together an opportunity at a small Junior College in Iowa Called Indian Hills Community College. Indiana Hills was a Division1 NJCAA Junior College and I was never so excited to start my baseball career. However the highs soon became lows after a few months at the program I decided to return home to pursue a different baseball opportunity as the program didn't feel like the right fit for me.

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Davenport University-NAIA

In 2015 I received a scholarship offer from Davenport University in Grand Rapids Michigan. During my visit at Davenport University my arm was back feeling healthy again and I showed a fastball that was consistently around 88 MPH. I was ready to pitch again and pitch a lot.. at least this is what I thought. By the end of the 2015 season when it was all said and done I finished with a disappointing 5 innings pitched. This once again lead me to confusion, and frustration. I had no choice but to develop in many different aspects of my game to get better and improve my chances to pitch more.

 

Utica Brewers- Perfect Game Colligate Baseball League

The Perfect Game Colligate Baseball League is one of the most recognized Colligate summer leagues in all of baseball. The purpose of these summer leagues are necessarily to win games or championships (although it was a bonus if you did). The real purpose of these leagues are strictly for player development. A guy like me who converted to be a pitcher my freshman year of college, had limited experience pitching on a mound before. The limited experience showed the season prior at Davenport University. When I signed to Utica the goal was to get innings under my belt to learn the craft of pitching and being in those moments, as well as to develop my (stuff) a.k.a pitches. That summer season in Utica I was able to develop my fastball up to 90 MPH fairly frequently as well as develop a really good second pitching- being my curveball. The experience and player development showed as I was able to really get a taste of my first real success as a pitcher, I left that season pitching 24 innings striking out 42 batters. This ranked me #1 in all of the Perfect Game Colligate Baseball League in strike outs per 9, with a 15.8 k's/9 rate. 

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Davenport University-NAIA

2016, where things begin to shape up. Going into the 2016 season I earned a spot as a conference starter along side 2 other future professional pitchers Grant Wolfram and Andrew Click. This season was a really special season for all players and for the Davenport University program. Myself, Jonathon Cheshire and Grant Wolfram all broke the Davenport University single season strike out record... and by a large margin. Due to the quality season I was able to be have I was awarded WHAC all conference; with a record of 7-2, a 2.56 Era in 70.1 innings with 85 strikeouts. With the success came more opportunity; that opportunity came in the form of being selected to play in the #2 college summer league called the Northwoods League.

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The Northwoods League

In 2016 I signed a contract with the Battle Creek Bombers of the Northwoods League. It was the first time I played along the likes of players from some of the biggest Colligate Baseball Programs in the country. I had great confidence going into this Summer League knowing that I had now pitched over 70 innings during my 2016 season at Davenport. It was also comforting knowing that my fastball command had really developed and I could now regularly maintain pitching velocity between 90-92 MPH.  I was able to put up some of the best numbers in the Northwoods League as a reliever, I posted a record of 5-2 with 37 innings pitched and a 2.43 ERA. I was soon selected to be a part of the Major League Dreams Showcase event held by the Northwoods League, myself as well as Cody Puckett, and Daniel Jipping were the 3 players from our team that was hand picked by MLB scouts to participate in the Showcase Event. I must say a big factor for the accelerated player development during my time on the Battle Creek Bombers was a large part due to the players that I was surrounded by.  The players on my team all came from different programs and each player had various individual strengths which allowed us as a team to get better collectively by learning from each other. In total 16 players from that Battle Creek Bombers team played professionally in the minor leagues at one time or another.

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Kokomo Jackrabbits- Prospect League

My experience in Kokomo may have been among my favorites from my baseball career. Kokomo was part of a Colligate summer league called the Prospect League, I was signed half way through the season as a starter with Kokomo, where I joined my team mate (Jacob Buchberger). We had previously played 2 seasons together at Davenport University. During my time in Kokomo I quickly became a important part of the pitching staff as a starter, posting a record of 3-0 with a 1.65 Era in 4 starts with 27.1 innings pitched. As a result of the tremendous effort during my time with Kokomo I finally was given a great opportunity to play for the Milwaukee Milkmen

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Milwaukee Milkmen- American Association of Professional Baseball

In 2019 I signed as a free agent to the Milwaukee Milkmen, where I received a 3 year P1 work visa. On May 17, 2019 I pitched in, and also won my first ever professional baseball game in front of 8000+ people that night. I was 1/132 players in all of Canada to play professional baseball that year in 2019.

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