Longtime New Orleans Crawdads outfielder Monte Perry has made the jump to the EBA, joining the Munchen Brauers. At one time the Crawdads has high hopes for Perry, but he never reached his peak 2013 season totals again, serving as a part time player the last couple of years. Lots of promise resulted in a largely disappointing career .279 average over his eleven years with New Orleans.
Mack Milholm was one of the MBBA's workhorse starting pitchers for years and years. Over a eighteen year MBBA career spent largely with Greenville, he started 445 games en route to a 182-164 career record. Last year with Birmingham it was clear he wasn't the Mack Milholm of old, but through smoke and mirrors still managed to win 10 games, finishing with double digit wins for the eleventh time in his career. Now, he'll join the Paris Patriots to try and extend his career at age 37.
Two years ago, slugging outfielder Kyle Stanley was an MBBA All-Star and one of the building blocks to the Baltimore/Brooklyn rebuild. Fast forward to the 2018 season- scouts noted his contact had slipped a little bit and the results were atrocious: .197/.241/.349/.591 with just 24 homers and a whopping 199 whiffs. Now, Stanley waves goodbye to the struggles of the MBBA and joins the Brauers along with Perry, where he might challenge for records with his powerful bat. Stay tuned, because this storyline will be a lot of fun to watch.
Once upon a time, Mario Pagan was viewed as a building block for the Bandits future pitching staff. He showed a lot of promise in his first full season, 2013, going 12-9 with a 3.43 ERA over 32 starts. Lingering injuries in 2014-2015 were frustrating, and knocked Pagan out of his game. He came back strong to finish 16-4 in 2015, and it looked like he might be getting back on track. But, from 2016-2018, he never had an ERA lower than 5.29. At age 28, he now finds himself in exile with the Belfast Northstars needing to resurrect his career. What a shame.
