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Jackals’ fans are in for a treat when the Frontier League season opens on May 11. One of the new players in the New Jersey dugout is a real showstopper – a good hitter, a great fielder and true terror on the basepaths.
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When the Jackals joined the biggest, most successful independent baseball league in the country in 2020, it was monumentally bad timing. The entire Frontier League season was wiped out because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The following year was much better, the show would go...
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Little Falls, NJ -- The New Jersey Jackals announced today a major resigning that will bolster the middle of the lineup. Outfielder Josh Rehwaldt has signed a contract extension to return to the Jackals for his third season in New Jersey.
The 6'6" Rehwaldt has become a...
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Pitching was the glaring weakness for last year’s Jackals. Or, to be more precise, it was lack of pitching. That’s why a good chunk of this offseason is being spent revamping a new-look pitching staff under new manager P.J. Phillips.
The 36-year-old skipper is...
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Big League pitchers and catchers report for spring training this week, and the first Yankees and Mets games on television from Florida will begin in just a few days. It’s February and baseball is in the air. You can smell it. It’s beautiful....
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The game of baseball won’t be quite the same this year, not in the Big Leagues and not in the Frontier League, either.
From now on, forget about pitchers taking their own sweet time on the mound in between pitches. And forget about hitters...
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Little Falls, NJ -- The New Jersey Jackals announced today one of the first non-Frontier League events to take place at the renovated Hinchliffe Stadium will be the First Annual Johnny Briggs High School Classic. Featuring five games in one day, Sunday May 7th will feature...
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Sauget, IL -- The Frontier League of Professional Baseball has announced that their 30th annual Tryout Camp and Draft will be held on Monday, April 24 and Tuesday, April 25 at GCS Credit Union Ballpark in Sauget, Illinois, home of the Gateway Grizzlies.
All 16 Frontier League...
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Little Falls, NJ -- Pitching and catching have become priorities for the New Jersey Jackals, as the team announced two additions to its roster late Thursday. Rusber Estrada, a catcher most recently with the Lexington Legends of the Atlantic League, and Roniel Raudes, formerly of the...
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Little Falls, NJ -- Last week, the Jackals announced the signing of Vin Mazzaro, who becomes the first member of the 2023 pitching staff. Today, the team signed the man Mazzaro will likely be throwing to for most of his outings. Isaias Quiroz joins the Jackals...
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Little Falls, NJ -- The adage is true throughout all levels of baseball. If you want to win games, you need starting pitching. The New Jersey Jackals checked that box in a major way today, signing veteran pitcher Vin Mazzaro to a 2023 contract.
This will be...
Posted at 20:21h
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Little Falls, NJ -- The holidays are upon us and for the Frontier League, that means taking the first steps towards building a championship roster for 2023. The Player Option deadline has come and gone, in which teams exercise a clause in Frontier League contracts that...
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There will be a very new look to the Jackals when they take the field at Hinchliffe Stadium for the 2023 baseball season.
The team’s 66-year-old manager, Brooks Carey, resigned in October. Now, it’ll be a 36-year-old running the club.
Yes, it’s true that P.J. Phillips will...
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Bobby Jones Named Jackals Vice President and Chief Business Officer
When the Jackals move to Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson for the 2023 season, it will open the door to a new chapter in the life of Bobby Jones. It will also offer him a meaningful link...
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On Friday, October 7th, 2022, Jackals Manager Brooks Carey tendered his resignation from the New Jersey Jackals, a ball club he had managed since 2018. The team will begin its search for a new bench boss immediately as they prepare to move to Hinchliffe Stadium...
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Paterson, NJ -- On Monday, October 3rd, the Frontier League announced its 2023 schedule for all 16 teams, the League’s 30th Anniversary campaign. The season marks the first for the New Jersey Jackals in their new home of Hinchliffe Stadium and features many special matchups...
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The baseballs were flying all over the place at Yogi Berra Stadium in 2022 as the Jackals led the entire Frontier League in team batting average. They were also No. 2 in the league in hits, No. 3 in runs, No. 3 in home runs,...
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When the New Jersey Jackals take the field for their 26th season in May of 2023, they will step into American baseball history.
After 25 years at Yogi Berra Stadium on the campus of Montclair State University, the team is moving to Hinchliffe Stadium...
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It was one for the record books. And it knocked an arch-rival out of the playoff race. And it was on the road in front of a hostile crowd. And it was a 150-pound pitcher with a modest record and an even more modest ERA.
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The past weekend proved two things:
First, the Garden State Rivalry is alive and well and red hot, as the Jackals took two of three games over the Sussex County Miners, including Sunday’s 7-5 victory, and, at least temporarily, knocked the Miners out of third place...
Posted at 11:54h
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Up and down – this past week, the entire season.
First, the Jackals sweep the first-place Quebec Capitales, who are enjoying a dream season on top of the Frontier League’s East Division. Then, they get swept by the barely-.500 Tri-City ValleyCats.
Just when it looked like New...
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Little Falls, NJ — August started off well for the New Jersey Jackals (34-34), taking their first two games of the new month against their oldest rivals in the Quebec Capitales (45-23). Thursday night served as an opportunity for the team to make history. Thanks...
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Little Falls, NJ – It was another hot and sunny Waggy Wednesday at Yogi Berra Stadium, where the New Jersey Jackals gained another walkoff victory, 5-2 against the Quebec Capitales in the second game of the three game series after a 11-5 win last night.
The...