InFlight Magazine No. 2019 Vol. 5

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WELCOME FROM OUR CHAIRMAN Dear Pelicans Fans, Welcome to the 21st season of Myrtle Beach Pelicans baseball at TicketReturn.

Com Field at Pelicans Ballpark for another evening of fun, affordable family entertainment in the most unique setting in all of professional baseball. Here, America’s favorite pastime meets both the beautiful beaches of the Grand Strand and the wonderful Midwestern tradition of the 2016 world-champion Chicago Cubs to create a truly one-of-a-kind experience for you, your family and your friends.

to carry that success, passion,and enthusiasm through the 2019 season!

The past 21 years of Pelicans baseball has also been marked with excellence on the field. Though the Birds just missed the playoffs in 2018, we had made the playoffs seven years in a row from 2011-2017, tying a Carolina League record. During this span, we captured the Mills Cup Championship in both 2015 and 2016, becoming the first Carolina League team to win outright back-to-back titles since 1985-86. As we embark on our We take tremendous pride when our fan ex- fifth season as a Cubs affiliate, I hope you are perience is recognized nationally. Our ball- as excited as I am to see yet another great park experience has been ranked amongst team here in Myrtle Beach. the Top Stadium Experiences in all of sports These past four years as a Cubs affiliate have

by Stadium JourneyMagazine in seven of the simply been amazing. It is an honor and a last eight years (coming in at No. 7 in their thrill to be a part of the Cubs family, espe2018 Minor League Baseball Stadium rank- cially when they made their historic postseaings). TicketReturn.Com Field at Pelicans son run two seasons ago that culminated in Ballpark also won a 2017 TripAdvisor.Com the organization’s first World Series ChampiCertificate of Excellence. These honors are onship since 1908. incredibly humbling and reaffirm why all of us with the Pelicans understand that your fan Thank you so much for joining us at the experience is our top priority. It is also testa- ballpark tonight. Now, please, sit back, rement to you, the amazing fans who bring the lax and enjoy the show. We appreciate you, stadium to life, filling it with energy and fun your friends and family for sharing the evening together and making so many wondereach year for the past two decades. ful memories with the Pelicans over the last Last season, we continued our commitment 21 seasons. to the Grand Strand community. It has been 6 years since announcing thecreation of

the Pelicans Community Fund; During that time, the Birds have raised more than $2.2 million for the community. In 2018 alone, the fund gave $331,323.87 back to the Grand Strand. We are excited

Chuck Greenberg Managing Partner & Chairman

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IN FOCUS FROM BEHIND THE MASK Cam Balego has played all over the field for the Pelicans in 2019, including behind the plate, first, second and third. No matter where he is, he always has a big smile on his face.

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IN FOCUS TWOSPORTMAN IN THE HOUSE Noah Cloonan (right) interviews Brian Jordan during his trip to Myrtle Beach for Braves Weekend on June 1. Jordan, a former star for the Atlanta Braves, took part in a Q & A with VIP Package members.

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STOP AND STARE Kevonte Mitchell has been a power threat for the Pelicans in the season. As of June 13, he leads the Pelicans and is third in the league with nine home runs. Five of the nine long balls have come at home for Mitchell.

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Luke Reynolds

Javier Assad

Position: Third Base Age: 24 (March 20, 1995) Birthplace: Flowood, MS

Position: Pitcher Age: 21 (July 30, 1997) Birthplace: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

MYRTLE BEACH PELICANS LP OWNERSHIP GROUP Chuck Greenberg Chairman & Managing Partner

Fernando Aguire Vice Chairman

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BALLPARK GUIDE Black’s Tire High Tide Seats Chair back seats: Sections 208212 Bleacher seats: Sections 206-207, 213-214

ATM There is an ATM located inside the Pelicans Pro Shop behind first base.

Luxury Suites Watch the game in style!

Suites available on an individual game basis. For more info call (843) 918-6000.

Pelicans Pro Shop Located on the main concourse, the Pro Shop houses official Pelicans merchandise.

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FORMER PELICANS Jason Heyward (2008-09)

half a season before a promotion to Double-A.

It was a fast rise through the Minor Leagues for outfielder Jason Heyward, reaching the Atlanta Braves before his 21st birthday. However, the Georgia prep star did spend parts of two seasons in Myrtle Beach.

On September 1, 2010, Freeman was a big leaguer at just 20 years old. He finished second in the 2011 National League Rookie of the Year voting.

Heyward was promoted to the Pelicans on August 25, 2008, where he appeared in seven games at the end of the season.

He returned to Myrtle beach in 2009, where he smacked 10 home runs in 49 games, earning a promotion to Double-A Mississippi before debuting with Atlanta in 2010.

Heyward quickly earned his spot in right field, playing in 681 games over five season. He posted a .781 OPS and won over fans with his spectacular defense and hometown charm.

In an effort to rebuild the farm system, Atlanta traded Heyward and reliever Jordan Walden to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for pitchers Shelby Miller and Tyrell Jenkins on November 17, 2014.

The change of scenery proved to be no issue for Heyward, who put together an outstanding season with the 2015 Cardinals, earning his third Gold Glove Award and leading St. Louis to a 100-win season and their third straight division title.

Following the season, the 26-year-old signed an 8-year, $184 million contract with the Chicago Cubs, the largest positionplayer contract of the 2015-16 offseason and 14th-largest in baseball history at the time. Heyward’s move to Chicago brings his Pelicans connection full circle, as he re-enters the team’s parent organization.

In the very first season of an eight-year contract with the Chicago Cubs, Heyward helped the North Siders win their first World Series since 1908. The Georgia native delivered an infamous speech with the score tied in Game 7’s rain delay that helped the Cubs regain their focus before coming out and winning the title in the 10th inning.

Freddie Freeman (2009) A second-round draft pick in 2007, Freddie Freeman was always a highly touted prospect. His introduction to pro ball, however, was a rough one.

The Braves newest 100-million dollar man hit just .268 and posted a .674 OPS in rookie ball in 2007.

That was the last time Freeman had any issues hitting professional pitching. Freeman was a mid-season and postseason South Atlantic All-Star in 2008 with Low-A Rome. He went on to crush Carolina League pitching in 2009 with the Pelicans.He led Myrtle Beach in batting average (.302) and clubbed 19 doubles and six home runs in just

In 2013, Freeman transformed from a good player to a great one. Earning his first National League All-Star selection, Freeman finished fifth in the NL MVP voting while setting career highs in batting average (.319) and RBIs (109). Freeman would make his next All-Star appearance in 2018 where he hit .309/.388/.505 on the year and led the National League in games played (162), hit (191) and doubles (44).

Kyle Hendricks (2012) Across four minor league seasons, Kyle Hendricks pitched his way into the big leagues in 2014. Not overpowering and often overlooked, Hendricks was considered the secondary piece in a trade that sent Ryan Dempster to the Texas Rangers in 2012, yet he has out-performed fellow trade-mate, third baseman Christian Villanueva (who also played for the Pelicans in 2012).

Hendricks posted a 2.69 ERA in the Minor LEagues, including a 3.28 mark at Triple-A Iowa before getting promoted to Chicago.

That was the beginning of a stellar second half in the majors.

Hendricks went 7-2 with a 2.46 ERA across 13 starts while walking just 13 in 80.1 innings. The Dartmouth alum was the National League Rookie of the Month in August and finished seventh in the NL Rookie of the Year voting.

The California native followed up his loud rookie season with a strong campaign as the newest member of the Cubs’ full-time rotation in 2015. Hendricks went 8-7 with a 3.95 ERA over 32 starts, helping the Cubs reach the National League Championship Series by defeating the Cardinals in Game 2 of the NLDS. He would one-up himself the following year. Hendricks led all of baseball with a sparkling 2.13 ERA while posting a 16-8 record and allowing 142 hits in 190.0 innings. The right-hander finished third in the NL Cy Young voting and helped the Cubs win their first World Series in 108 year, starting the decisive Game 7.

Hendricks’ success should come as no surprise to Pelicans fans. The Californian dominated Carolina League teams in 2012.

Before departing in the trade, he logged 130.2 innings in Myrtle Beach with nearly a 10-to-one strikeout-to-walk ratio, hurled two complete games and tossed a shutout frame in the 2012 California/Carolina League All-Star Game in Winston-Salem. His 2.82 ERA from that season is good for 10th on the franchise’s career record list.

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FORMER PELICANS Joey Gallo (2014) The Texas Rangers first-round pick (39th overall) in 2012, Gallo quickly rose through the Rangers farm system putting up monstrous home run totals in the process before making his debut with the big club in 2015.

Gallo’s 2014 stint in Myrtle Beach was a short one but it was impactful. The Las Vegas native blistered 21 homers in just 58 games with the Pelicans while hitting .323/.463/.735. He was named the Carolina League Most Valuable Player despite only spending half the season in the Grand Strand. Gallo was promoted to Double-A Frisco midway through the year and the power continued. Gallo blasted 21 more homers for the RoughRiders bringing his season total to 42 which was second to Kris Bryant (43) in all of Minor League Baseball.

in the league and went on to finish third in the AL Rookie of the Year voting.

David Bote (2016) David Bote etched his name into Chicago Cubs history with his pinch-hit, walk-off grand slam on August 12th, 2018 but before skyrocketing to stardom on the mainstage, Bote made waves in the Carolina League with the Pelicans.

Originally the Chicago Cubs 18th round selection in the 2012 draft, Bote toiled his way through the Cubs system before breaking out with the Pelicans during the 2016 season. Bote became an instant fan favorite as he smashed Carolina League pitching to the tune of a .337/.410/.518 slash with six homers and 41 RBI.

Gallo made his major league debut on June 2, 2015 for the Rangers and continued what he had done in the minors by going deep in his first two major league starts. After spending most of the 2016 season in Triple-A, Gallo has been an everyday player for the Rangers over the last two seasons and his finished topfive in the league in homeruns both years hitting 41 in 2017 and 40 in 2018.

After two more seasons of bouncing around the Cubs’ system, Bote made his major league debut on April 21, 2018 in a start against the Colorado Rockies. He finished his first year in the majors hitting .239/.319/.408 while hitting six homers and driving in 33 runs.

Gleyber Torres (2015-16)

The Chicago Cubs’ first-round pick (ninth overall) in 2015, Happ maneuvered quickly through the organization to reach the major leagues in 2017. The former Cincinnati Bearcat made his presence felt immediately by launching a home run in his big league debut on May 13, 2017 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

Signed as an undrafted free agent in 2013 by the Chicago Cubs, Gleyber Torres immediately became on of the Cubs top prospects. At just 17 years old, Torres made his debut for the Arizona Cubs in 2014 and hit .279/.372/.377 and was promoted to Boise for the final seven games of the year and went 11 for 28 with an OPS of 1,255.

Torres broke camp in 2015 with the South Bend Cubs and dominated the league hitting .293/.353/.386 and was named to the Midwest League All-Star Team and was named the League’s Prospect of the Year. He was promoted to Myrtle Beach on September 2, 2015 and finished the year with the Birds helping them to the 2015 Carolina League title.

Torres opened 2016 as the Chicago Cubs No. 1 overall prospect, according to Baseball America, and he did not disappoint. The 19-year-old hit .275 with nine homers and 47 RBI in 94 games for the Pelicans before being traded to the Yankees in a deal that brought Aroldis Chapman to the Cubs.

Ian Happ (2016)

Happ finished eighth in the rookie of the year voting in 2017 after batting .253/.328/.514 with 24 homers and 68 RBIs in 115 games. He followed that up in 2018 by hitting .233/.353/.408 with 15 home runs and 44 RBIs in 142 games, all while being the youngest position player on the Cubs’ roster.

The Pittsburgh native starred for Myrtle Beach in 2016, slashing .296/.410/.475 with 16 doubles, three triples, seven home runs and 43 RBIs in 69 games before forcing a promotion to Double-A Tennessee. At the time of his promotion, Happ was leading the entire Class A-Advanced level with 48 walks while ranking third in on-base percentage (.410) and routh in both average (.296) and OPS (.885) In June of 2016, Happ posted a .361/.461/.607 line in 19 games.

On April 22, 2018, Torres made his major league debut with the Yankees and went on to have an outstanding rookie campaign.

He hit .271/.340/.480 with 24 homers and 77 RBIs. He was named an American League All-Star as the third youngest player

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SUPER ‘STACHE BROS This season, a pair of middle of the or-

der bats in the Pelicans lineup have roots that stem from small Division II schools in the Atlantic Region. Tyler Payne and Cam Balego have quickly developed a close relationship on this years team, but their journeys to Minor League Baseball have had their fair share of similarities.

Despite his college career coming to a close, Payne’s time in baseball was just getting started. After playing 191 games for the Yellow Jackets and throwing out a record-setting 49 potential base stealers, Payne was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft.

For Payne, his passion for baseball On May 14, 2015, at Jerry Uht Park in stemmed from early on in his childhood.

Erie, PA, the pair squared off in the first round of the Atlantic Region tournament “I started watching my dad getting really passionate about baseball,” Payne said. at the Division II level.

It was a sunny day with temperatures hovering in the mid-50s under a midMay Pennsylvania sky and the Mercyhurst Lakers where getting ready to take on the West Virginia State Yellow Jackets in the first round of the tourney.

For Tyler Payne, it was a game that marked the conclusion of an illustrious career at West Virginia State, but for Cam Balego it was just the beginning of his at Mercyhurst University.

Mercyhurst defeated West Virginia State 3–1 that day, and Balego helped to secure the advancement of the Lakers with an RBI single in the game.

Balego ended up helping the Lakers make a run into the Division II College World Series that season and cemented himself in the Lakers future.

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BALEGO

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BALEGO & PAYNE “He never played but that was always something that he liked and he knew that I liked it and I started playing T-Ball behind Hurricane Middle School and then Hurricane Little League where my dad was the president of the league.”

After a successful high school career at Hurricane High school, Payne did just that.

Just 20 minutes to the east of Hurricane, was West Virginia State University, a Division II school with an enrollment of under 4,000, but for Payne in his youth it represented the pinnacle of the baseball world.

Payne’s impact as a catcher was immediate. After hitting .228 as a freshman, Payne broke out as a sophomore and hit .384 with eight homers and 31 RBIs, all while throwing out a program-best 17 potential baserunners.

“On the first day I was able to sign, [West Virginia State] called me and I said, ‘yes 100 percent,’” Payne said.

“It was close to home, it was comfortHurricane, West Virginia, is a small able that definitely had a lot of play in it town of just over 6,000 residents lo- and I knew that I could step into a procated to the west of Charleston. gram like that and make an impact.”

“As a kid, that was the best team around and I just know that my dad Despite the success, Payne’s name would always praise Cal Bailey and was not on many MLB team’s rawhat a great coach he was and that dars until after his senior year. always stuck with me,” Payne said.

“I just knew that I had to play my Payne did not just watch the Yellow game more so than playing for the Jackets play, he learned from them. scouts or at the scouts,” Payne said.

“I just knew that if I played my game I “Whenever I was a little kid there was knew that it’s in there somewhere.” always West Virginia State University baseball camps and their head coach Payne got the call from the Chicago was Cal Bailey at the time and Sean Cubs that they were going to take him Lloyd was the assistant,” Payne said. with the 893rd pick in the 2015 draft “I just remember going to one of the and for Payne it was a dream come true. camps, I might have been like eight or ten years old and [coach Bailey] said “It was awesome,” Payne said. “ It was ‘one day you’re going to play for us’.” one of the most memorable moments I’ve ever had. Just like calling my dad FB: MyrtleBeachPelicans • IG: pelicansbaseball • twitter: pelicanbaseball

BEACHBOWND & DOWN and the baseball coaches I have had in but he love quickly turned from the rink the past. It was almost surreal because I to the diamond. had dreamt about it so long.”

“Baseball came out of nowhere,” Balego After spending two years with the Short said. “But it was something I was kinda Season Eugene Emeralds and two years good at and me and my dad took a liking with the South Bend Cubs (although to it....

2018 was shortened by injury), Payne opened 2019 in Myrtle Beach where he teamed up with Cam Balego for the first time in his career.

Balego’s story, although similar, differs from Payne’s in the fact that he did not grow up in a baseball home.

“In the first grade I had a bunch of buddies who said they were gonna play baseball and I came home one day and I said ‘Dad I think I want to play baseball’ and I think my dad almost fell out of his chair,” Balego said.

TYLER

PAYNE

Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Balego was raised in a hockey household

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PELICANS IN THE COMMUNITY

Pelicans Host Special Olympics Games By: Noah Cloonan

For the fifth year in a row, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans teamed up with the Special Olympics to host the Area 16 Special Olympics Spring Games at TicketReturn. com Field at Pelicans Ballpark on Friday, April 26.

Over 350 athletes and 350 buddies flooded the field to partake in the annual games. Twenty-six schools from around the area came out to show their support as well during the event

athletes, volunteers, and organizers in the ballpark that day it makes for an exciting and incredible event.”

The Pelicans and Special Olympics first formed a relationship in 2012, when the Pelicans hosted a fundraising night at the ballpark. Since then, the relationship has morphed into what it is today, which includes the games being hosted at the field along with ‘Special Olympics Night’ which was held at TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark on April 13.

Students were able to participate a 50 and 100 meter run, baseball throw and The event was made possible by 150 there were many other games for young- volunteers that took time out of their schedules to make the games special for er athletes (6 and under). all who participated.

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Sandwich • 1/2 lb. Hamburgers • Buffalo Chicken Sandwich • Chicken and Philly Cheesesteaks • Chick Fil A Chicken Sandwich • Chicken Tender Plate • Shrimp Plate • Clam Plate • Fish Plate • French Fries • Sweet Potato Fries • Corn Dog • Fried Pickle Chip • Bacon Cup

Sandwich • Deep Dish Pizza Burger • Italian Sausage • Bratwurst • Grilled Chicken Sandwich • 1/2 lb. Hamburger • Turkey Dog • Chicken Bog Balls

Ice Cream • Hand-dipped Ice Cream • Root Beer Floats

Whole Pizza • Mellow Mushroom Pizza Slice • Supreme Nachos • Pretzel Bites

Pork Sandwich • Boar’s Head Wraps • Pulled Pork Nachos

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Other Traditional Ballpark Fare and Drink Options!

Other Traditional Ballpark Fare!

Other Tradtional Ballpark Fare and Drink Options!

PORTABLE UNITS

• Dippin Dots (located on 1B & 3B side of concourse) Various Flavors of Dippin Dots • Pretzels • Bottled Drinks • Windy City Wieners (located on 1B by First Aid) Variety of Hot Dogs and Sausages • Chips • Bottled Drinks • Popcorn Cart (located on 1B by the Pro Shop) Variety of Popcorn • Cotton Candy • Boiled Peanuts • Fresh Lemonade • Del’s Frozen Lemonade (located down left field line) • Pelican’s Perch (located down left field line)

Sandwich ers • Buffalo Chicken Sandwich • Chicken and Philly Cheesesteaks • Chick Fil A Chicken Sandwich • Chicken Tender Plate • Fish Plate • Corn Dog • Chicken Waffle Bites • Funnel Cake • French Fries • Sweet Potato Fries

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