{"id":3759,"date":"2019-01-11T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2019-01-11T20:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:26:36","slug":"play-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/2019\/01\/11\/play-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Player Signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-large wp-image-3760\" src=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/01\/Signings-700x368.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/01\/Signings-700x368.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27700%27%20height%3D%27368%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20700%20368%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27700%27%20height%3D%27368%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/01\/Signings-120x63.png 120w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/01\/Signings-250x131.png 250w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/01\/Signings-700x368.png 700w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/01\/Signings-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/thunder-bay-border-cats\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/01\/Signings.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>BORDER CATS ANNOUNCE PLAYER SIGNINGS FOR 2019 SEASON<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thunder Bay, Ont<b>. &#8211;<\/b><b> <\/b>The Thunder Bay Border Cats are pleased to announce the first player signings for 2019 Northwoods League season.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Manager Eric Vasquez has signed Canadian born infielder Thomas Grilli, outfielder Anthony Galati, pitcher Brendan Cindric and infielder Nathan Soriano. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grilli , who hails from Mississauga, Ont., is a high school graduate of St. Michael\u2019s College in Toronto and played in the Ontario Blue Jays baseball program.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The 6\u20190\u201d, 185 pound shortstop is currently in his freshman season at Panola College in Carthage, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Galati is entering his sophomore year at Sacramento City College in California, where he batted .279 in 43 games last season with two home runs and 22 runs batted in. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The 5\u201911\u201d, 180 pound left-handed hitter is a product of Reno, Nev.<\/p>\n<p>Cindric is a sophomore at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The 6\u20194\u201d, 185 pound lefthander played his high school baseball in the golden state at Monte Vista H.S. in Danville, where he recorded a 1.06 ERA in 24 2\/3 innings during his final varsity season. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Soriano, a native of Tucson, Ariz., attends Houston Baptist University in Texas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The 6\u20192\u201d, 190 pound junior previously played at San Diego\u2019s Palomar College and hit .352 last season with 22 runs batted in and 35 runs scored in 40 games. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Border Cats open the 2019 regular season on Tuesday, May 28, at 7:05 pm against the Duluth Huskies at Port Arthur Stadium. Fans can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordercatsbaseball.com\">www.bordercatsbaseball.com<\/a> to take advantage of the early bird season ticket special through February 28. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<div class=\"t pg-2m0 pg-2x0 pg-2h2 pg-2y1 pg-2ff1 pg-2fs0 pg-2fc0 pg-2sc0 pg-2ls0 pg-2ws0\"><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), World Series Champions Ben Zobrist (CHC), Brandon Crawford (SFG) and Chris Sale (BOS). As well as MLB All-Stars Jordan Zimmermann (DET) and Curtis Granderson (MIL). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website.<\/em> <em>For more information, visit\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\/\">www.northwoodsleague.com<\/a><em>or download the Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Pla<\/em>y.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BORDER CATS ANNOUNCE PLAYER SIGNINGS FOR 2019 SEASON Thunder Bay, Ont. &#8211; The Thunder Bay Border Cats are pleased to  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3760,"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":[57,41,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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