Napoleon graduates Art Warren and Zach Willeman earned recognition for their 2026 seasons to date in the independent American Association as the pitchers were named to the East and West Division pitching staffs, respectively, for the league\u2019s All-Star game.<\/p>\n
Warren, a 33-year-old righthander and Kane County Cougars\u2019 reliever, was named to the East Division All-Star team while Willeman, 30, garnered a nod after racking up a league-high 66 strikeouts as a starter for the Sioux City Explorers (3-4, 49.2 innings, 66 strikeouts, 25 walks, 5.07 ERA). The 2026 American Association All-Star Game will be held on Wednesday, July 15 at Haymarket Park in Lincoln, Neb.<\/p>\n
Willeman wins for Evansville<\/p>\n
EVANSVILLE, Ind. \u2014 Napoleon product Landon Willeman evened his season record for the independent-league Evansville Otters on Wednesday, earning the win in an 8-4 triumph over the Washington Wild Things.<\/p>\n
Willeman, 24, nabbed his second victory of the season for the Otters (Frontier League), pitching six innings and allowing just two runs on two hits while striking out five with three walks. The former Wildcat and BGSU pitcher has made 10 starts with Evansville this year with a 2-2 record, 41 strikeouts, 21 walks and a 4.74 ERA in 49.1 innings pitched.<\/p>\n
Warren scoreless in eighthGARY, Ind. \u2014 Art Warren recorded another scoreless outing for the independent Kane County Cougars on Wednesday as his squad defeated the Gary SouthShore RailCats 8-6.<\/p>\n
The Napoleon product came on for the eighth inning in the win for Kane County, allowing one hit with zero walks and one strikeout, retiring the four batters he faced on a total of 11 pitches.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old righthander and former Reds and Mariners pitcher has six holds and two saves in 18 total appearances this year for Kane County with 34 strikeouts, eight walks and a 1.00 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Napoleon graduates Art Warren and Zach Willeman earned recognition for their 2026 seasons to date in the independent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[30640,5,2323,2314,2317,2313,2413,92259,40980,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,90674,2327,1039],"class_list":["post-742507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-american-association-of-professional-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-evansville-otters","tag-kane-county-cougars","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-napoleon","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742507","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=742507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}