Let the games begin.

Welcome, to the first edition of the Tiger Rundown for the 2023 season.  This is your weekly quick hitting email newsletter keeping you in the loop on players and teams inside the organization. The goal of this email is to allow you to read this in less than it takes to complete a rundown. 

We are publishing another newsletter called the Rundown which highlights the broader range of baseball and softball news outside of the club. If you want to subscribe to "the Rundown", please click here. 

What happened? We have three players in the last week commit to a college program. Congratulations to Jack Nobe, Aiden Moffet, and Ian Smith!

Jack Nobe committed to Xavier University 

Aiden Moffet committed to Mineral Area Community College

Ian Smith committed to Palomar College

Here are the top performers this past week in Tiger land. See the videos by clicking on the description:

Landen Smith: walk it off kid! 

Payne Kent: 4 for 5 with two doubles and 350ft tank

Mason Lee: Currently slashing .421 with 1 bomb

Ethan Willoughby (Alumni): 2 home run day against Tennessee Martin

Kyle Rehg: First game back and goes ya-ya

Nick Pappas: Pinch hit missile, the ball had its own rocket boosters

*Information sourced from Twitter

What happened? It's common to see a youth or even a high school player in full uni, but for some reason when you see a grown adult walking about the streets of Chicago you can't help but stare. It's almost as if Big Foot decided to come out from hiding. 

The coaching staff and veterans of the Milwuakee Brewers needed their Starbucks fix, so they had rookies: Garrett Mitchell, Gus Varland, Peter Strzelecki, and Brice Turang make the fateful journey into Wrigleyville in full uniform. 

Why it's important? It's almost like a rite of passage in the bigs. The author remembers his first time being a freshman and a rookie. Once we flew to New York and the veterans had all the rookies dress up like James Bond characters. Catching the 5:30am in a James Bond outfit was a site to see. It had the flight attendant wondering if we came straight from the dance clubs. Ma'm, can I get my orange juice shaken not stirred.