Baseball is back in Lowell! Spinners ready to run the bases once again following a five-year hiatus
This new generation of talent is commanding the field like they’ve already made it to the big leagues, according to franchise leaders.
The Lowell Spinners are on their way back to the field for the first time in years with a full franchise revamp. “Boy, it was a heck of a ride. We sold out 413 games in a row.
We had some amazing players come through here: Mookie Betts, Jonathan Papelbon, Kevin Youkilis, and Johnny Damon. So it’s fun to see this kind of comeback to life,” Tim Bawmann, the Chief Operating Officer of the Lowell Spinners, said. “....
oh my god, they are specimens. They are genuinely major league candidates,” John Croteau, the Chairman and CEO of the Spinners, described. Croteau is excited for the team’s potential and all that they’ll learn in Lowell.
“I view baseball as a classroom for life skills and the things they learn by playing baseball; leadership, teamwork, resilience, dealing with adversity, those carry you throughout your entire life,” he said. Shifting from minor league to collegiate, team leaders say it will be similar to what fans see coming out of the cape league and similar to the talent the Spinners have had in previous years. “You know, the talent on the field is going to be very similar to what it was before, and I mentioned Mookie earlier because when Mookie was here, he was 17-years-old.