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2024 La Crosse Loggers Baseball There ’ s No Place Like Copeland
Josh Frye is returning for his second stint as the field manager of the La Crosse Loggers in 2024 , marking his seventh season in the Northwoods League as both a player and a coach . Frye , a California native , led the Lumbermen to a 40-28 (. 588 ) mark in 2023 including a Great Plains East division championship and a return to the playoffs for the first time since 2020 . That postseason berth did not come easy for the Loggers as Frye navigated the 2023 team through a 12-game losing streak in June before going on to win a team-record 27 games in the second half of the season en route to capturing the division title . After starting the season 3-12 , La Crosse went 39-17 from June 16 through the end of the season and into the playoffs . The Loggers would sweep the Eau Claire Express in a best-of-three divisional series before eventually losing in walk-off fashion to the St . Cloud Rox in the Great Plains Divisional Championship Game . Frye , who played his collegiate baseball at Long Beach State , was a late summer addition to the Loggers in 2012 and helped them to their only NWL Championship that summer . He came back to La Crosse with a vengeance in the summer of 2013 , going 6-3 with a 3.31 ERA . Frye made 12 starts over the summer , pitching a team-high 76.0 innings , while striking out a league-high 79 . Frye was named a 2013 Northwoods League mid- and post-season All-Star , and the 2013 La Crosse Loggers Cy Young Award Winner . At Long Beach State , Frye was named a 2014 First Team Big West Pitcher and a 2014 second team All-American after going 8-1 with a 1.94 ERA . In addition to his time with the Loggers , Frye also played summer ball for the Long Beach Legends of the California Collegiate League , where he was their 2012 Pitcher of the Year and was inducted into the Long Beach Legends Hall of Fame in 2015 . Frye played professionally after college , spending two years in the Los Angeles Angels organization , a year in the Frontier League , and finishing his final two years in the Western Australia League . He began his coaching career in 2016 as the Assistant Pitching Coach at Long Beach State in 2016 , before becoming the pitching coach at Cypress College . The Long Beach , Calif . native has spent three previous summers coaching in the Northwoods League , including a stop with the Rochester Honkers during the summers of 2017-18 before re-joining the Loggers as the pitching coach in 2022 . Frye also currently serves as the pitching coach at Long Beach City College ( Calif .).
Twitter Handle : @ jfrye45
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