Casey Frawley

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Casey Michael Frawley

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Biographical Information[edit]

Infielder Casey Frawley was a 17th-round selection by the Cleveland Indians in the 2009 amateur draft, out of Stetson University, where he was a teammate of Jacob deGrom, who was actually his back-up at shortstop before being turned into a pitcher, after Frawley had graduated. Casey made the Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American team in 2007. He played in the minor leagues from 2009 to 2016, peaking in AA.

He split his first professional season between the AZL Indians and Mahoning Valley Scrappers of the New York-Penn League, hitting above .300 at both stops for a combined line of .301/.357/.404 in 53 games. In 2010, he played 129 games for the Lake County Captains of the Midwest League as their starting shortstop, batting .262/.332/.430, with 25 doubles, 9 triples and 13 homers. After the season, he was named an organizational All-Star and his future appeared to be bright. However, he never managed to reproduce these numbers.

In 2011, he was promoted to the Carolina League where he played 127 games for the Kinston Indians, once again as the starter at shortstop. His numbers were down significantly, however, as he hit .215/.291/.346. The highlight if that season came on June 12th, when he drove in the winning run with a single in the 23rd inning to end the longest game in Carolina League history, gving the Indians a 3-2 win over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. His game-ending hit came after 6 hours and 27 minutes of play. He went 2-for-11 that day and told a reporter: "It was just the strangest thing I've ever been involved in."

The Indians let him go the following spring and he had to wait until June 6th to find another team, joining the Colorado Rockies organization. He only appeared in 8 games with the Modesto Nuts, hitting .158 before being released on June 25th. An eye infection then forced him into temporary retirement. "I went to a good six or seven eye doctors who couldn't work it out, but I was able to find the right doctor to help me," he later explained. To keep his career alive, Casey then went to Australia in 2013-14, playing for the Canberra Cavalry of the Australian Baseball League, hitting .306 in 45 games. On December 1st, he became the second player in ABL history to hit for the cycle in a wild 18-13 win over the Melbourne Aces. The following summer, he played in the independent Atlantic League with the Lancaster Barnstormers but hit just .188 in 76 games. In 2015 however, he did well for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in that same league, hitting .264/.316/.387 in 119 games. That sparked the interest of the Detroit Tigers, who signed him as a free agent on February 2, 2016. He did well with the Lakeland Flying Tigers, batting .311 in 19 games to earn a promotion to the AA Erie SeaWolves, where he batted .231 in 35 games. By then he was just considered to be organizational depth, seeing time at shortstop, second base and third base. He was released on July 31st, then latched on for 6 games back in the Atlantic League with the New Britain Bees. He went just 1 for 19 (.053) during his brief stint which allowed him to play baseball only a half-hour from his home. He had been injured in a car accident just before his promotion to AA and never felt right afterwards.

After baseball, in 2018, he joined the staff of Yale University, where his brother Tucker Frawley was an assistant coach under head coach John Stuper, as a volunteer director of operations for the baseball program. Growing up in Connecticut, he was a childhood friend of Josh Zeid.

Further Reading[edit]

  • David Borges: "Casey Frawley’s baseball odyssey leads him back home", New Haven Register, August 6, 2016. [1]
  • Michael Lewis: "Ex-Hat Frawley ends 23-inning marathon", The Daytona Beach News-Journal, June 14, 2011. [2]
  • Jon Tuxworth: "Casey Frawley hits for cycle as Canberra Cavalry win 18-13 ABL thriller against Melbourne Aces", The Sydney Morning Herald, December 1, 2013. [3]

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