{"id":6425,"date":"2017-09-27T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2017-09-27T14:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:34:50","slug":"amaral-claims-nwl-big-stick-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2017\/09\/27\/amaral-claims-nwl-big-stick-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaral Claims NWL Big Stick Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Amaral (UCLA) has won the Northwoods League Big Stick Award, given to the player with the best batting average at each position. \u00a0Amaral led all center fielders with a .347 average, contributing 30 walks and 23 stolen bases along the way. \u00a0He will return to UCLA for his junior season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Mankato MoonDogs are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League.\u00a0The 23-year-old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff,\u00a0more than\u00a0170 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball,\u00a0including two-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champion Ben Zobrist (CHC) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM) and Lucas Duda (NYM).\u00a0\u00a0All league games are viewable live via the\u00a0<\/em><em>Northwoods League portal<\/em><em>. For more information, visit\u00a0<\/em>[www.mankatomoondogs.com]<em>or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the MoonDogs as your favorite team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>##<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. The 23-year old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 180 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champion Ben Zobrist (CHC) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM) and Lucas Duda (NYM). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. For more information, visit\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\/\">www.northwoodsleague.com<\/a><em>\u00a0or download the Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Amaral (UCLA) has won the Northwoods League Big Stick Award, given to the player with the best batting average  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6421,"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":[27,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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