Northwoods League

2018, he played 60 games, hit .289.

And that summer he played for something called the Wilmar Stingers of the Northwoods League.

Came back 2019 as a junior, hit .422, JJ, with eight home runs and 84 RBI.

And was one of the five finalists for the Brooks Wallace Award.

Last one, Aaron.

Which of these Northwoods League baseball teams plays its home games at historic Carson Park? Carson Park.

Is it the Kenosha Kingfish, the Eau Claire Express, or the Green Bay Rockers?

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Would you say that that was a pretty... defining moment for you playing against Team USA and being like...

Because, I mean, I've talked about on other people's episodes, but for me, playing collegiate summer ball in the Northwoods League was the biggest eye-opening moment for me because at that point, I was really just playing against... you know, division two players, like the competition, I finally got invited to play, you know, outside of my comfort zone.

And I walk into this clubhouse for the first time.

Teammates of mine are like UCLA, Vandy, Georgia.

That was my downfall.

and I'm trying to pull up my stats from the Northwoods league.

Uh, let's see if they can, I have a key component for pitching.

I don't know if anybody ever taught you this as you were growing up and coming through, like sometimes coaching is not good.

Yeah.

You know, it's usually pretty important.

Um, Okay, so I'm just trying to pull up my Northwoods League stats, and it's really annoying because I used to be able to look it up no problem, I feel like, and now it's not doing that.

Okay,

But there's a Stanford outfielder who took a slide, if you could explain that.

Yeah, you know, Teddy Tokheim, I think that it's maybe a weird faller on the surface because if you were to look at the production, both over the summer in the Northwoods League and as a 20-year-old freshman at Stanford, I think you would say, why is this guy moving in the wrong direction? He can clearly hit.

And there's a lot of data that would back that up as well.

But it's not always just can you hit that keeps you where you're at in the rankings.

It was an awesome space, but capacity was about 50 people.

We may or may not have gone over that a few times on Saturdays, but we got opportunities with the Northwoods League.

We partnered with the Lakeshore Chinooks up in Mequon.

We actually are now the sole producer of the custom beer of the entire league.

had to get our feet wet here at the new place and figure out what the hell was going on with COVID and all that stuff.

But it does feel like the worm's starting to turn a little bit.

And again, the Northwoods League stuff is really...

That'll be a game changer priority for us.