The Kansas City T-Bones have made several roster moves recently.
Infielder Ryan Brett will return for the 2019 season. Brett is a key member of the 2018 championship club.
Kansas City also traded right handed pitcher Pasquale Mazzoccoli to Rockland (Can-Am League) for a player to be named later and signed catcher Roy Morales following the release of catcher Adrian Nieto.
Brett played the final 27 games of the 2018 championship season for the T-Bones. Brett went 24-for-61 during the final 13 games of the season, as the team made its run to the post-season. The T-Bones clinched its first playoff spot since joining the American Association in 2011 and its first since 2009. Brett scored 14 runs over the 13-game span for Kansas City. Then he went 15-for-37 in two post-season series with a home run and five RBIs, scoring six runs.
Pasquale Mazzoccoli spent the entire 2018 season with the T-Bones, posting a 4-2 record with a 4.52 ERA with 46 strike outs on the year. He made three spot starts for Kansas City and pitched another 24 in relief in 2018. Mazzoccoli would earn the name of “magic man” on Sept. 2 at Gary. The right-hander worked two scoreless innings where he got out of two jams with the winning run at third base to preserve a playoff-clinching win over Gary in 14 innings.
Roy Morales comes to Kansas City from the Miami Marlins organization where he was the 12th round pick in the 2014 June Amateur Draft out of Colegio Angel David High School in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. In five professional seasons, Morales is a career .272 hitter in 208 games with two home runs and 70 RBIs. Last season he played 46 games for Jupiter in the Florida State League, hitting at a .255 clip with 13 RBIs for the Hammerheads. Morales had his 2017 season shortened to 30 games because of a suspension by the commissioner’s office. He hit .288 in 2017 with a home run and 15 RBIs at Jupiter.
Adrian Nieto was one of only three position players for the T-Bones to spend the entire season with Kansas City and one of two starters from the opening night lineup to finish the season with Kansas City. His .313 average was fifth on the team, and he was fourth in RBIs (44) and walks (34) for Kansas City. His 91 hits were third on the club, and his .313 average was a career high. Nieto, born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Florida, came to the T-Bones following a 2017 season where he played 68 games between AA Pensacola and AAA Louisville in the Cincinnati Reds organization.
Full and half-season 2019 ticket packages, as well as mini plans, are on sale online, by calling 913-328-5618 or by visiting the Saint Luke’s Box Office between the hours of 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Group ticket sales are also on sale. Individual tickets also are on sale.
Opening day for the T-Bones is set for Friday, May 17, at T-Bones Stadium when the T-Bones play host to the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks to open the 2019 season.
- Information from T-Bones