{"id":7167,"date":"2019-02-18T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:42:46","slug":"moondogs-bring-four-back-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2019\/02\/18\/moondogs-bring-four-back-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonDogs Bring Four Back for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mankato, MN&#8211;\u00a0 The Mankato MoonDogs are bringing a few familiar faces back for the 2019 season.\u00a0 Jimmy Larson, Jacob Nagel, Jon Ludwig, and Nick Novak will be teammates once again when the MoonDogs kick off their upcoming season on May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Larson, a redshirt sophomore who will be traveling all the way across town from Minnesota State University, Mankato, joined the squad in late July last summer, but made an immediate impact. The right-handed pitcher posted a 0.75 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 12 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Nagel, a sophomore out of Bellarmine University, appeared in seven games the MoonDogs last season as a right-handed pitcher, coming away with a 2-2 record and a 3.25 ERA.\u00a0 He finished his season with 19 strikeouts in 19.1 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Ludwig, another MSU Maverick and a redshirt junior, earned an All-Star selection in 2018 for the MoonDogs.\u00a0 The right-handed pitcher accumulated 46 strikeouts over the course of 41.1 innings, as well as a 4-2 record and a 3.04 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Novak, a junior shortstop from Angelo State, hopes to have another solid season as a MoonDog.\u00a0 Seemingly always on base, Novak racked up 72 hits over the course of the season, adding 14 stolen bases and finishing with a batting average of exactly .300.<\/p>\n<p>To see some highlights of these four from their 2018 MoonDogs season, check out:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MankatoMoonDogs\/videos\/820658751600398\/?notif_id=1550525042547815&amp;notif_t=page_post_reaction\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MankatoMoonDogs\/videos\/820658751600398\/?notif_id=1550525042547815&amp;notif_t=page_post_reaction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. The 25-year old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 22 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, over 200 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist (CHC) and Brandon Crawford (SFG) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET) and Curtis Granderson (MIA). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\">www.northwoodsleague.com<\/a> or download the Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankato, MN&#8211;\u00a0 The Mankato MoonDogs are bringing a few familiar faces back for the 2019 season.\u00a0 Jimmy Larson, Jacob Nagel,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7168,"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":[25,27,1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-categories","category-announcements","category-archives","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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