Luis Lopez - Bridgeport Bluefish and Atlantic League Great

Autographed 2007 Bridgeport Bluefish Team Set
Autographed 2013 Bridgeport Bluefish Printech Team Set
Autographed 2013 Bridgeport Bluefish Dot Generation Team Set 

Despite having a NCAA career at Coastal Carolina (1991-93) that would eventually land him in the Big South Conference Hall of Fame, Luis Lopez went undrafted in the 1994 MLB amateur draft. Lopez took increased determination with his professional baseball career from this snub by hitting .357 in Indy Ball for the Ogden Raptors (1995), and gained the attention of the Toronto Blue Jays organization, where in 1997 Lopez was awarded the South Atlantic League Most Valuable Player while playing for their Class A team in Hagerstown (.358/11/99).

Eventually achieving his goal of playing at the Major League level with both the Blue Jays (2001) and Expos (2004), Lopez entered the Atlantic League in 2006, as a member of the Riversharks, but found his home with the Bridgeport Bluefish in 2008.

The Brooklyn-born infielder spent the next 7 seasons at the center of the Bluefish lineup marking his tenure by reliability and productivity. Lopez would average over this span of these years 127 games played and 129 hits per season.

This consistency and compiling resulted in Lopez leading the Bluefish in nearly every career offensive category by the time he was done: AB’s (3,338); H’s (905); DB’s (149); Extra Base Hits (208), and RBI’s (460).

Lopez in one of five Atlantic Leaguers to compile more than 900 hits within the league (928); joining Jeff Nettles (1,052), Ray Navarrete (1,031), fellow-Bluefish Rolo Avila (933) and Bryant Nelson (active).

The Bluefish announced that Sept. 19^th, 2015, will be “Luis Lopez Day” at the Ball Park at Harbor Yard where his number 19 will be retired becoming only the second Bluefish player to be so honored (Espada).