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2024 ANGLERS SEASON REVIEW & SEASON PREVIEW 2025

The Anglers finished the 2024 season with a 20-20 record, Gasparino, Cam Johnson, Daniel Jackson) most of our players
good for second place in the Cape League Eastern Division. will be arriving in Chatham for the first time. We’re confident
The Anglers second place finish allowed them to return to the Dennis has compiled an excellent roster of players from across
playoffs and host a playoff game for the first time since 2019. the country, players that will ensure our Anglers are again in the
Unfortunately, in a one game playoff format our Anglers fell to hunt for the Cape League title.
Harwich, ending our 2024 campaign. It was an exciting summer, As we go to press in early May the following new incoming
with our Anglers enjoying great fan support at Veterans Field, players are having outstanding seasons, which we hope will
where we again led the league in attendance, and there’s no translate to success in Chatham this summer. In the batters box,
doubt our great fans helped us win 13 of our 20 games at our Cade Belyeu, Auburn (.303 average, 4 HR’s), Sawyer Strosnider,
comfy Veterans Field home.
TCU (.368 average, 8 HR’s), Ace Reese, Miss. State (.336 average,
The 2024 Anglers were led on offense by USC’s Austin Overn 13 HR’s), Ethan Mendoza, Texas (.347 average), Roman Martin,
who boasted a .314 batting average out of the leadoff spot for UCLA (.317 average), Jake Hanley, Indiana (.348 average, 7 HR’s),
the first half of the season (before being drafted in mid-season), and Ryan Daniels, UConn (.337 average) are expected to lead our
Auburn’s Ike Irish (.325 team leading average), Washington’s offensive attack. On the mound, pitchers heading to Chatham
Aiva Arquette (.291 average, team leading 21 RBI’s), and LSU’s with impressive early May statistics include Trace Baker, UNC-
Ashton Larson (.316 average, team leading 39 games played). Wilmington (1.83 ERA), Ethan Calder, Baylor (3.23 ERA), Charlie
The Anglers pitching staff was led by Auburn’s Hayden Murphy Foster, Miss. State (2.57 ERA), Isaac Godard, McLennan C.C. (1.32
(2.89 ERA in a team high 9 outings), Tennessee’s Tanner Franklin ERA), and Connor Marshburn, UNC-Wilmington (3.22 ERA).
(0.75 ERA in 8 outings), and Austin Peay’s Titan Hayes who had a We hope the successes these hitters and pitchers have had in
perfect 0.00 ERA in six outings as our bullpen closer for the first their 2025 college seasons translates to continued success in
half of our season before he too was drafted. Chatham this summer.
While it’s enjoyable to talk about the successes of 2024, we’re We are excited that another Chatham Anglers Cape League
excited to turn our attention to the upcoming 2025 season season is about to unfold. The players have been selected,
where we look forward to former major league pitcher Dennis our new coaching staff is ready to go, so now it’s time to sit
Cook taking over the reins as our Anglers Manager. Dennis’ back and enjoy summer college baseball in Chatham. We are
former experience in Chatham (4 years as our pitching coach) confident the season will contain plenty of excitement, a great
will be very helpful to him in his inaugural Cape League deal of joy, and probably a few tears too. A typical Cape Cod
managerial season. While we expect to see a few returning Baseball League summer!
faces for at least part of the season (e.g. Ashton Larson, Will

CHATHAM ANGLERS THANK YOU TOWN OF CHATHAM 2025

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
SELECT BOARD
SHAREEN DAVIS, JEFF DYKENS, CORY METTERS, DEAN NICASTRO, STUART SMITH
RECREATION & BEACHES DEPARTMENT
AIMEE HOWELL, SUSAN MABILE
PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION
DAVID ELDREDGE, MEREDITH FRY, TANYA KHALIL, DAVE MALLOWES, KIMBERLY ROBBINS

The Chatham Anglers will hold a ‘Town of Chatham’ appreciation night on Thursday, July 17th.
Town personnel will be recognized prior to our game, and one will be honored with throwing out the first pitch prior to our game.

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