Mahoning Valley Scrappers

The Mahoning Valley Scrappers are a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League. They are located in Niles, Ohio, a city in the valley of the Mahoning River, and play their home games at Eastwood Field. From 1999 to 2020, they were a Minor League Baseball team that played as members of the New York–Penn League. The club was the Class A Short Season affiliate of the Cleveland Indians from its inception until Major League Baseball's reorganization of the minors following the 2020 season.^[1]

Mahoning Valley Scrappers
Founded in 1999 Niles, Ohio
Team logo Cap insignia
Minor league affiliations
Class	Collegiate summer (2021–present)
Previous classes	Class A Short-Season (1999–2020)
League	MLB Draft League (2021–present)
Previous leagues	New York–Penn League (1999–2020)
Major league affiliations
Team	Unaffiliated (2021–present)
Previous teams	Cleveland Indians (1999–2020)
Minor league titles
League titles (1)	2004
Division titles (6)	1999 2000 2004 2009 2017 2018
Team data
Name	Mahoning Valley Scrappers (1999–present)
Colors	Navy blue, cardinal, light gray, dark gray, gold
Ballpark	Eastwood Field (1999–present)
Owner(s)/ Operator(s)	HWS Group
General manager	Heather Sahli
Manager	Quinton McCracken
Website	mlbdraftleague.com/mahoning-valley

In 2004, the Scrappers won the New York–Penn League championship.

Season by season results

Regular season

Season	Affiliation	Manager	Record
1999	Indians	Ted Kubiak	43–33, 1st place McNamara
2000	Indians	Ted Kubiak	48–28, 1st place Pinckney
2001	Indians	Dave Turgeon	26–49, 7th place Pinckney-Stedler
2002	Indians	Chris Bando	46–30, 2nd place Pinckney
2003	Indians	Ted Kubiak	38–36, 2nd place Pinckney
2004	Indians	Mike Sarbaugh	42–34, 2nd place Pinckney
2005	Indians	Rouglas Odor	33–43, 3rd place Pinckney
2006	Indians	Rouglas Odor	36–34, 3rd place Pinckney
2007	Indians	Tim Laker	37–37, 2nd place Pinckney
2008	Indians	Travis Fryman	31–44, 5th place Pinckney
2009	Indians	Travis Fryman	49–27, 1st place Pinckney[2]
2010	Indians	Travis Fryman[3]	30–46, 6th place Pinckney
2011	Indians	David Wallace[4]	41–34, 3rd place Pinckney
2012	Indians	Ted Kubiak	30–45, 5th place Pinckney
2013	Indians	Ted Kubiak	30–44, 5th place Pinckney
2014	Indians	Ted Kubiak	33-42, 5th place Pinckney
2015	Indians	Travis Fryman	31-44, 6th place Pinckney
2016	Indians	Edwin Rodriguez	37-38, 4th place Pinckney
2017	Indians	Luke Carlin	44-29, 1st place Pinckney
2018	Indians	Jim Pankovits	42-33, 1st place Pinckney
2019	Indians	Jim Pankovits	37-39, 4th place Pinckney
2020	Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	None	Coco Crisp	27-28-2, 3rd place League
2022	None	Homer Bush	32-47, 6th place League[5]
2023	None	Dmitri Young	30-42, 5th place League

Post-season

• 1999: Defeated Batavia Muckdogs, 2 games to 0; lost to Hudson Valley Renegades, 2 games to 1, in NYPL Championship Series
• 2000: Defeated Batavia Muckdogs, 2 games to 0; lost to Staten Island Yankees, 2 games to 1, in NYPL Championship Series
• 2004: Defeated Auburn Doubledays, 2 games to 0; defeated Tri-City ValleyCats, 2 games to 0, in NYPL Championship Series
• 2009: Defeated Brooklyn Cyclones, 2 games to 0;^[6] lost to Staten Island Yankees, 2 games to 1 in NYPL Championship Series^[7]
• 2017: Lost to Vermont Lake Monsters, 2 games to 0
• 2018: Lost to Tri-City ValleyCats, 2 games to 0

Past and Present Affiliations

From 1999-2020, the Mahoning Valley Scrappers were affiliated with the Cleveland Indians as their Class A Short Season team.

In 2021, as a part of a series of cuts to many Minor League teams, they were terminated from Minor League Baseball. They were then assigned to the MLB Draft League where they continue to play to this day.

Roster

Mahoning Valley Scrappers roster

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Players				Coaches/Other
Pitchers 33 Noah Czajkowski 43 Mitch Dye 34 Kamden Edge 30 Adam Falinski 45 Nick Falter 54 Brady Fuller 26 Seth Graham-Pippin 50 Adam Hayes 44 Mike Joyce 28 Drew Lafferty 51 Austin Newton 39 Kenji Pallares 36 Garrett Peters 35 Cory Ronan 15 Tommy Szczepanski 7 Zion Theophilus 41 JJ Tylicki 2 Carter Wilcox 40 Nate Williams 10 Jalen Worthley		Catchers -- Chase Heath 12 LJ Layhew 48 Keegan Rodin 38 Daniel Stewart Infielders 24 Trey Fenderson -- Carson Garner 8 Max Johnson 29 Kendrey Maduro 11 Ty Powell 37 JC Vanek 34 Ben Watson Outfielders 17 Seth Farni -- Daniel Harden 27 Max Hartman 22 Khi Holiday 47 Michal Sindelka		Manager  7 Quinton McCracken Coaches -- Roosevelt Brown (batting) 32 Ron Mahay (pitching) 7-day injured list ~ Development list # Rehab assignment ∞ Reserve list ‡ Restricted list § Suspended list † Temporarily inactive list Roster updated June 25, 2025 → More MiLB rosters

Broadcasters and radio

Youngstown, Ohio station WBBW (1240 AM) originally broadcast Scrappers games from 1999 to 2001 with John Batcho calling the games.^{[citation needed]}

Youngstown station WNIO (1390 AM) broadcast Scrappers games from 2002 to 2009.^{[citation needed]} Mike Pilch called their games in 2006 and 2007 while the broadcasts right were with Clear Channel.^{[citation needed]}

Warren, Ohio station WHTX (1570 AM) broadcast Scrappers games from 2010 to 2012.^[8]

Warren station WHKZ (1440 AM The Word) broadcast Scrappers games in 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Austin Pollack was named the play-by-play broadcaster in January 2015. Pollack will broadcast all 76 games for the Scrappers.^{[citation needed]}

As of the 2015 season, the Scrappers' flagship radio station was again WBBW (Sportsradio 1240 AM). All of the games were be carried live.^[9]

Scrappers games from 2021-2022 were broadcast by Your Sports Network (YSN) digitally on YSNLive.com. Ron Potesta covered play by play duties in 2021 before Richie Juliano assumed the responsibilities of the "Voice of the Scrappers" in 2022.^{[citation needed]}

Former Channel 27 news anchor Robb Schmidt, is the current^[when?] P.A. announcer. Schmidt took over the position from John Brown, who was a communications student at Youngstown State University and served as announcer in 2009 and 2010. Brown replaced current Cleveland Indians announcer Ryan Pritt.^{[citation needed]}

Alumni

• Greg Allen (Indians)
• Josh Bard (Mariners)
• Shane Bieber (Indians)
• Jordan Brown (Indians)
• Asdrúbal Cabrera (Indians)
• Fausto Carmona (Indians)
• Lonnie Chisenhall (Indians)
• Ryan Church (Diamondbacks)
• José Constanza (Braves)
• Trevor Crowe (Indians)
• Chad Durbin (Indians)
• Ben Francisco (Phillies)
• Ryan Garko (Rangers)
• Chris Gimenez (Indians)
• Erik González (Indians)
• David Huff (Indians)
• Joe Inglett (Astros)
• Josh Judy (Indians)
• Jason Kipnis (Indians)
• Kevin Kouzmanoff (Athletics)
• Aaron Laffey (Mariners)
• Jensen Lewis (Indians)
• Francisco Lindor (Mets)
• Héctor Luna (Marlins)
• Víctor Martinez (Tigers)
• John McDonald (Blue Jays)
• Francisco Mejía (Indians)
• Eli Morgan (Indians)
• Tyler Naquin (Indians)
• Cord Phelps (Indians)
• Jose Ramirez (Indians)
• CC Sabathia (Yankees)
• Anthony Santander (Toronto Blue Jays)
• Tony Sipp (Indians)
• Mitch Talbot (Indians)
• Brian Tallet (Cardinals)
• Josh Tomlin (Indians)
• Wyatt Toregas (Pirates)
• Joey Wendle (Athletics)
• Tony Wolters (Rockies)
• Bradley Zimmer (Indians)