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33 - JUSTIN CRISAFULLI (OF) Medford, MA (Central Missouri St. / Cleveland Indians)
Posted by Chiefs Baseball at May 18, 2009 5:00PM PDT
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Chiefs team captain is considered one the best power hitters in ICL history......Returns to the Chiefs for his 15th season in 2010 at age 34......Appeared in 33 games as DH last year with 14 RBI......Had a banner 2008 season hitting a whopping .414 overall with 23 RBI's.....Is atop many of the Chiefs career batting records, including leading the franchise in career home runs with 86... .Has been part of many Chiefs championships and pennants.....Begins the 2010 season with 380 RBI's and 492 hits in his illustrious Chiefs career...13 time Intercity League all-star has a .351 career batting average in 1,417 plate appearances.......Led the ICL in homers for seven consecutive seasons from 1995-2001 and hit a career best 13 home runs three times (1997, 1999 & 2000)....Was drafted in the 17th round by the Boston Red Sox in the 1994 major league draft as a high school senior, eventually signing with the Cleveland Indians in 1997...Started 2001 ICL all-star game in left field at Fenway Park for manager Chuck Andre ....Played in JUCO World Series with Arizona Western and NCAA Division 2 College World Series with Central Missouri State....
KEITH FORBES (RHP) Newton, MA (Troy State / San Diego Padres)
Posted by Chiefs Baseball at May 18, 2009 5:00PM PDT
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Was the Chiefs ace in 2007 and 2008 and will make comeback attempt this season after missing all of the 2009 campaign.... Had a 9-2 record with an ERA of 1.66 in 2007 & 2008 with 180 K's in just 114 innings while leading the ICL....Set Chiefs single season strikeout record in 2008 recording 101 K's....Pitched the Chiefs first no-hitter since 1995 against Wakefield on June 13, 2007 ...Named to the ICL all-star team in both 2007 & 2008... Signed with the Sussex Skyhawks of the Can-Am League at the conclusion of the 2007 campaign where he made two starts...Pitched for five seasons in the San Diego Padres system and led all of minor league baseball in 2000 with 74 appearances for the Single A Rancho Cucamonga Padres.... Also pitched for the Double AA Mobile Bay Bears.. The Troy State University product was a 1998 draftee of the Padres after going 9-2 with a 3.28 ERA.... Began his pro career with Idaho Falls of the Pioneer League in 1998.... Originally from Malden MA, now resides in Newton, MA, with his wife Misssy and two children.....Keith is considered one of the leading baseball instructors in the New England area....Son of the late Rodney Forbes, an outstanding local athlete in the mid 1960's who was inducted into the UMass-Boston Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006...
37 - ROB MACHADO (RHP) Everett, MA (UMass-Amherst)
Posted by Chiefs Baseball at May 18, 2009 5:00PM PDT
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Will begin his second season as part of the Chiefs pitching staff....Was the hottest pitcher in the ICL in late July and early August of last summer surrendering just 11 hits and four earned runs in his last 24.2 innings of work....Was one out away from a no-hitter against Lexington on August 9th.... Finished his rookie year with an overall 2-3 mark with an ERA of 2.35 in nine appearances and 38.2 innings of work....Big 6' 2, 205 righty from Everett, MA, via Malden Catholic....Made first collegiate appearance for UMass-Amherst, starting against Connecticut on April 8, 2009....A three year pitcher at Malden Catholic and a member of Steve Freker's Catholic Conference Championship team his senior year ... Named to the Catholic Conference All-Star team as a senior ... Also played football and basketball in high school ... Was named to the Catholic Conference All-Star team for basketball as a junior....
29 - TIM DUNPHY (LHP) Cambridge, MA (Brandeis / Namur Angels)
Posted by Chiefs Baseball at May 18, 2009 5:00PM PDT
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Southpaw joins the Chiefs pitching staff for the 2010 season.....Was a huge part of the Cassell Club rotation in 2006 and 2008.,,,,,In 2007, he pitched professionally for the Namur Angels in Belguim where he posted a 7-7 record with an ERA of 1.68 in 118 innings......Went 7-1 overall for Cassell in 2006 throwing 65.2 innings while striking out 56......Returned to the Intercity League in 2008 and posted a 5-1 record, which included a complete game shutout of the Chiefs on June 26....As a senior at Brandeis University in 2006, Tim went 10-3 for Judges, capping an outstanding collegiate career....He was fifth in the ICL’s MVP award balloting and finished second behind Lexington’s Bill Cooke in the Outstanding Pitcher category when the Cassell Club won the ICL title in 2006.....Resides in Cambridge, MA......
42 - DYLAN ELLIS (LHP) Gloucester, MA (Merrimack College)
Posted by Chiefs Baseball at May 18, 2009 5:00PM PDT
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Lefty has made 27 starts for the Chiefs over the last three years...... Has posted a career 2.38 ERA in 155 innings... ..Put up a 5-2 record with an ERA of 1.81 and 50 K's last season while being named to the ICL all-stars......Threw a complete game victory in his college debut for Merrimack to beat Rollins in Winter Park, FL on March 14, 2007....Completes his Merrimack career second all-time in innings pitched (215.1), strikeouts (185) and ERA (3.05) ... This spring he led the Warriors with 80.2 innings pitched ...Struck out 71 batters (7th in NE-10) while holding the opposition to a .209 batting average (10th in NE-10) and recorded a 4-4 record, including a Northeast-10 Championship 4-0 complete game win over New Haven on May 7, allowing just two hits and striking out eight ... Had a season-high 12 strikeouts against New Haven on April 18 in a complete game effort... Pitched four complete games while finishing the season with a 2.01 ERA, good for 7th in the NE-10... A finalist for the Merrimack Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year. ...Son of Mike and Kim Ellis of Gloucester, MA, he graduated from Merrimack in 2010....
