{"id":18749,"date":"2021-05-29T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T21:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/?p=18749"},"modified":"2021-06-17T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:26:04","slug":"season-preview-with-manager-donnie-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2021\/05\/29\/season-preview-with-manager-donnie-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Preview with Manager Donnie Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">After going 20 months without baseball due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mallards will start their long-awaited 2021 season at the Duck Pond at Warner Park against the Lakeshore Chinooks on Memorial Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cI don\u2019t know if I&#8217;ve ever been more excited for a season,\u201d Mallards Field Manager, Donnie Scott, said. \u201cThe place looks great, everybody\u2019s ready to go, i\u2019m just ecstatic right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Scott has been the manager of the Mallards since 2013, and takes a career 198-154 record in Madison with him into this new season. He\u2019s led the team to the playoffs three times in 2016, 2018 and 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">With baseball coming back to the Duck Pond, fans will be back in the seats as well. Following the recent announcement from the Dane County Health Department, the Duck Pond will be open to 100% capacity after June 2nd. The team will play two games with limited capacity prior to that date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cFor me, that\u2019s the most important thing. As a team, we feed off the fans,\u201d Scott said. \u201cHopefully we can get some packed houses pretty soon, I think it\u2019s gonna be really cool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">As for the players joining the team this season, Scott said he is grateful to have multiple players re-joining the team after having played with the Mallards in either 2018 or 2019. Joining as well are players that he coached last season in Kenosha after the Mallards sent their 2020 roster to play there as the K-Town Bobbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Former Mallards outfielder, Cam Cratic, and pitchers Theo Denlinger and Elliot Turnquist will be returning to Madison this season. Denlinger will serve as the team\u2019s closer once again this season, according to Scott.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cHe\u2019s a beast on the mound, gives the whole ball club the attitude that this ballgame is over,\u201d Scott had to say about Denlinger. \u201cI\u2019ve always said, if you give me a good leadoff hitter and a good closer, we got a shot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Cratic is a hometown product from Madison East high school, and is now at Missouri State University. Turnquist, from Sun Prairie, WI, is recovering from Tommy John surgery but has been throwing simulated games at Ball State University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">One of the players joining the team after playing in Kenosha in 2020 is the Mallards opening day starting pitcher, Ryan Lauk. Lauk, a senior from Wagner university, made 11 starts on the mound in his senior season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cRyan is special, he\u2019s really excited to pitch in Madison and he\u2019s got great stuff,\u201d Scott said. \u201cCharacter wise, he\u2019s a great guy off the field and in the clubhouse. I\u2019d have my daughter marry him if I could.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">As for the rest of the roster, there are 14 total players from the state of Wisconsin, and representatives of 32 different colleges. Players will report throughout the season, with the majority coming in the first few days of June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cEverybody is pretty much in the same boat, and they\u2019re excited to get here and get going,\u201d said Scott. \u201cEverybody starts out with some nerves especially if they got family or friends in the stands, but it\u2019s gonna be great to see them in game action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">A lot of the experience of going to a Mallards game will be familiar to returning fans, but one big change this season is the new logo the Mallards have introduced. The new look is a renewed commitment to the connection with the city of Madison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cI like it a lot, and I think there\u2019s a lot of people that do,\u201d Scott said. \u201cIt may take some getting used to for some people, but I think it\u2019s a great thing for the team and for the city.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After going 20 months without baseball due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mallards will start their long-awaited 2021 season at  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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