Nick Rickles
Nicholas "Scratch" Jay Rickles (conceived February 2, 1990) is an American expert baseball catcher in the Washington Nationals association.
As a secondary school senior, Rickles was voted Florida All-State. At Stetson University, he was named a TPX Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball, and in his lesser year in 2011 was named First Team All-Atlantic Sun Conference and a College Baseball All America Honorable Mention. Rickles was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the fourteenth round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft.
In 2011, he was voted a New York-Pennsylvania League mid-season All Star while playing for the Vermont Lake Monsters. He was voted Midwest League Player of the Week on July 29, 2013, while playing for the Beloit Snappers. He missed the whole 2014 season subsequent to agony a torn labrum in his tossing shoulder. In February 2016, Rickles marked a small time contract with the Washington Nationals. He played that season for the Class AA Eastern League Harrisburg Senators, and the Class AAA International League Syracuse Chiefs. Rickles played on the Team Israel amid the qualifying round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, and played again for Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic qualifier in September 2016.
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