Top 20 Patriots Voting, Ceremony & Baseball Card Set

2017 AT&T Top 20 Somerset Patriots Baseball Card Set

(Updated 2/24/18) During the 2017 baseball season, the Somerset Patriots celebrated their 20th-anniversary by announcing their top 20 Somerset Patriots of all-time. This list was composed by a hybrid method having a panel of experts rate the top 20 players that were voted on by fans.

On August 31st, the Patriots invited 5 retired Top 20 Patriots players back to TD Bank Ballpark, joining 3 current roster Top 20 players, and celebrated this history.

The first 2000 fans that night got a complimentary SGA baseball card set of the Top 20 Patriots as determined by this process. This set will not be offered in the Patriot's shop, so it makes a nice collectible. The ranking of the Top 20 Patriots was as follows:

#20 Adam Donachie (Autographed)

#19 Corey Smith (Autographed)

#18 Casey Cahill (Autographed)

#17 David Vidal (Autographed)

#16 Jim Magrane (Autographed)

#15 Jake Fox

#14 Justin Jensen (Autographed)

#13 Elliott Ayala (Autographed)

#12 Matt Hagen

#11 Aharon Eggleston (Autographed)

#10 Travis Anderson

#9 Darrin Winston (d.)

#8 Michael Warner

#7 Brian Adams (Autographed)

#6 Ryan Radmanovich

#5 Emiliano Escandon (Autographed)

#4 Jon Hunton (Autographed)

#3 Jeff Nettles

#2 Billy Hall (Autographed)

#1 Josh Pressley (Autographed)

Somerset Patriots Top 20 Anniversary Signed Atlantic League Baseball

During the 2017 baseball season, the Somerset Patriots celebrated their 20th-anniversary by announcing their top 20 Somerset Patriots of all-time. This list was composed by a hybrid method having a panel of experts rate the top 20 players that were voted on by fans.

On August 31st, the Patriots invited 5 retired Top 20 Patriots players back to TD Bank Ballpark, joining 3 current roster Top 20 players, and celebrated this history.

Above is a 20th-anniversary official Atlantic League baseball with Steve Kalafer's director's signature imprinted on the sweet spot (the official baseball for 2017 Patriots) with 9 signatures of the 20 anniversary team members: Adam Donachie, Corey Smith, Casey Cahill, David Vidal, Justin Jensen, Elliott Ayala, Aharon Eggleston, Jon Hunton and Josh Pressley. This is a work in progress. I will post updates as signatures are added.

Josh Pressley - 2008 Atlantic League Player of the Year

Autographed 2010 Somerset Patriots MultiAd Sports Team Set # 22 - Isa 40:31

Autographed 2008 Somerset Patriots MultiAd Sports Team Set # 22 - Isa 40:31 (MVP Card )

Having reached the Triple-A level with the Tampa Bay Rays, New York Mets and Boston Red Sox, Josh Pressley found a home and success in joining the Somerset Patriots in 2007.

Through the next five years, Pressley served as one of the team leaders that led Somerset to four consecutive years of post season appearances and to back-to-back Atlantic League Championships in 2008 and 2009.

In 2008, the first baseman had one of the best offensive seasons in Atlantic League history batting .354, and slugging .605, all while establishing a Patriot single-season homerun record with 30 round trippers. For his efforts, Pressley was chosen the 2008 Atlantic League Player of the Year.  

Pressley left Somerset in 2011 and gained the distinction of being the first roster selection for the Sugar Land Skeeters in the 2012 Atlantic League Expansion Draft.

In 2014, upon his retirement, the Patriots organization in gratitude for all that Pressley meant to the franchise signed him to a one-game contract on August 9^th, to allow him to retire in a Somerset Patriot uniform.

Pressley was selected the second greatest Somerset Patriot of all time in a 2012 polling of fans, players, coaches and team officials.