Missoula, MT – The Missoula PaddleHeads announced that outfielder and star hitter Adam Fogel has signed with the Chicago White Sox and will report to Spring Training with the team this month. Fogel joined the PaddleHeads after completing his collegiate career at Kentucky and took the Pioneer League by storm over his two seasons as a PaddleHead.<\/p>\n
In 2024 he was named Baseball America\u2019s Independent and Partner Leagues Player of the Year after his Pioneer League MVP season. It marked the first time a player from the Pioneer Baseball League has received this prestigious honor, making it an incredible milestone for both Adam Fogel and the Missoula PaddleHeads organization. That season, Fogel broke the Pioneer League Record for home runs in a season with 35 while leading the league with a .388 average which was also best in all of Independent Baseball.<\/p>\n
Not to be outdone, Fogel then followed up his Player of the Year season with another stellar campaign in 2025. He put up almost identical numbers with a .388 average and 34 home runs while playing 10 less games due to a minor mid-season injury. For his efforts, Fogel was named a Pioneer League All-Star as one of the top 3 outfielders in the league.<\/p>\n
Fogel becomes the 21st Missoula PaddleHead to sign with a Major League team since they became Independent in 2021 the highest total in the Pioneer League over that same period.<\/p>\n
Here is a list of all the MLB signings in PaddleHeads History.<\/p>\n
Missoula PaddleHeads MLB Signings \u2013 All Time (2021 to present)<\/p>\n
Luis Gonzalez \u2013 Miami Marlins – 2021Matt Warkentin \u2013 Chicago Cubs – 2021Andrew Bash \u2013 Toronto Blue Jays \u2013 2021Dean Nevarez \u2013 Chicago Cubs – 2021Kyler Castillo \u2013 Miami Marlins -2021Juan Diaz \u2013 Miami Marlins – 2022Mark Simon \u2013 Toronto Blue Jays – 2022Matt Mogollon \u2013 Seattle Mariners – 2022Palmer Wenzel \u2013 Houston Astros – 2022Nick Merkel \u2013 Milwaukee Brewers – 2022Joey Lancelotti \u2013 New York Mets \u2013 2022Lamar Sparks \u2013 Milwaukee Brewers – 2023Robert Brooks \u2013 Tampa Bay Rays – 2023Kamron Willman \u2013 Minnesota Twins \u2013 2023Mark Timmins \u2013 Los Angeles Angels \u2013 2023Zach Penrod \u2013 Boston Red Sox \u2013 2023Thomas Bruss \u2013 Detroit Tigers \u2013 2024Will Sandy \u2013 Washington Nationals – 2024Connor Schultz \u2013 Chicago Cubs \u2013 2024Hayden Travinski \u2013 Houston Astros \u2013 2025Adam Fogel \u2013 Chicago White Sox – 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Missoula, MT – The Missoula PaddleHeads announced that outfielder and star hitter Adam Fogel has signed with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[75223,5,10005,138,49,2561,2536,75222,4,10002,10004,16935,185,10006,10003,75224,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-571968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-adam-fogel","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-big-sky","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox","13":"tag-chicagowhitesox","14":"tag-local-sports","15":"tag-missoula-paddleheads","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-montana","18":"tag-montana-sports","19":"tag-pioneer-league","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-montana","22":"tag-swx","23":"tag-the-pioneer-baseball-league","24":"tag-white-sox","25":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116068465096297518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}