WESTFIELD, Massachusetts (October 28, 2024) – The Futures Collegiate Baseball League named its 2024 All-FCBL Teams on Monday, October 28. Five members of the Westfield Starfires were among the selections.

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Four Starfires were First-Team selections in pitcher Jake Jachym, first baseman Aidan Redahan, outfielder Gianno Merlonghi, and designated hitter Trey Cruz. Jackson Haker was named Second-Team at third base.

Jachym, a Westfield native who pitches at Keene State College, set Westfield’s franchise wins record in a season and a career. The lefty went 5-1 in the regular season with 46.2 innings of work across 12 appearances, six of which were starts. He held the opposition to just 14 earned runs in those 12 games. He capped the season with a tremendous postseason showing, fanning six across eight shutout frames in New Britain to clinch Westfield’s first-ever trip to the FCBL Championship Series.

Redahan was a workhorse for the Starfires, mostly at first base. The Central Connecticut State University star hit .306 with 11 extra base hits, driving in 29 and scoring 25 times. He far and away led the league in putouts at first, collecting 248 while also compiling 23 assists against just five errors. He went 2-for-3 in the 2024 FCBL All-Star Game, and was 8-for-18 in the team’s four postseason games.

Merlonghi, another Central Connecticut State student-athlete who was also named the FCBL Defensive Player of the Year, dominated center field in a way few others in league history have. Offensively, he hit .314 with 11 extra base hits, driving in 33 and scoring 40 times thanks as well to 16 stolen bases. He became the first outfielder in FCBL All-Star history to be involved in 10 outs in the 2024 All-Star Game, with nine putouts and an outfield assist, one of his league-high 11 on the year if that and his postseason outfield assist are included.

Cruz, who completed his transfer to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi over the summer, mashed the baseball for Westfield, leading the FCBL with eight home runs and representing the team in the All-Star Home Run Derby. Overall, he hit .353 and drove in 31 while scoring 25 times himself.

Haker, who transferred to Central Connecticut State over the summer, led the Starfires at the hot corner and earned his first FCBL All-Star selection in his third season with the team, hitting .252 with four home runs and 23 RBI, adding an additional five hits in 14 postseason at-bats. He concluded his Westfield career second in franchise history in games played, and was named the team’s Adam Keenan Award winner.

In total, the four First-Team selections matches a franchise high set in 2021 when Jaden Brown, Peter DeMaria, Hunter Pasqualini, and FCBL MVP Cole Bartels all garnered selections, while the five total picks ties the franchise’s record set in 2022 with the quintet of Jackson Hornung, Noah Campanelli, Justin Sinibaldi, Brendan Jones, and Luca Giallongo having earned laurels.