LA CROSSE, WI — The La Crosse Loggers baseball club announced an addition to their 2012 roster and it’s another name that La Crosse area baseball fans are quite familiar with.  Tyler Servais, the son of former big league catcher and current Los Angeles Angels assistant general manager Scott Servais, will be dawning the Logger green in 2012.

Servais, currently a freshman at Princeton University, was a 36th round pick of the Colorado Rockies this past June but elected to pursue his collegiate career and a degree at Princeton.  The 6-2, 210 pound backstop played his high school baseball and football at Douglas County High School in Larkspur, Colo. where he was named to the 2011 Rawlings/Perfect Game Pre-Season All-Region West Team as a senior.  Perfect Game also listed Servais as the third ranked player coming out of the state of Colorado and placed him 264th nationally in the Class of 2011.  Servais possesses the ability to hit from both sides of the plate and can play first base in addition to working behind the plate.

Tyler’s dad Scott, a Westby (Wisc.) High alum, enjoyed a 11-year MLB career in which he played for four different clubs including the Houston Astros (1991-95, 2001), the Chicago Cubs (1995-98), the San Francisco Giants (1999-2000) and the Colorado Rockies (2000).   Servais batted .245 with 130 doubles, 63 home runs and 319 RBI in 820 games.  After serving as the Director of Player Development in the Texas Rangers organization, Scott recently accepted the position of assistant general manager/scouting and player development.