Eric Gagne - 2003 N.L. Cy Young Award Winner & 3X All Star

Autographed Eric Gagne Official Atlantic League Ball and 2017 Long Island Duck Pocket Schedule

Setting a major league record by converting 84 consecutive save opportunities bridging the 2002-2004 seasons; Eric Gagne tied a National League record for saves in 2003 with 55 saves pitching as the closer for the Los Angeles Dodgers.  The performance that year, combined with a 1.20 ERA, was impressive enough to earn the right-hander the 2003 National League Cy Young Award – an award usually reserved for starting pitchers.

On May 5^th, 2017, the 41-year-old, three-time N.L. All-Star Gagne joined the Long Island Ducks as a relief pitcher to try to work on developing a new slider to aid his hopes of returning to the major leagues.

Brian Adams - 2007 Atlantic League Pitcher of the Year

Autographed 2007 Somerset Patriots Multi-Ad Team Set #1 (Pitch/YR Card)

Arguably the greatest left-handed pitcher in Atlantic League history, Brian Adams is inarguably the greatest starting pitcher ever to toe the rubber for the Somerset Patriots.

Pitching as a reliever in the Boston Red Sox and Milwaukee Brewers’ farm systems, Adams joined the Pat’s in 2007, and made an explosive transition into a starting pitcher role and the rotation by putting up a 15-2 season (incorporating a perfect 11-0 home record) with 117 K’s while seizing the Atlantic League Pitcher of the Year Award for that season.

Adams would follow up his 2007 campaign with two more back-to-back double-digit wins seasons for Somerset with records of 11-7 in 2008 and 13-8 in 2009. In these 3 seasons, Adams had close to a .700 winning percentage.

In his four-year tenure with Somerset, the Clemson alumnus was instrumental in leading Somerset to post-season berths in each year and a major contributor to two Atlantic League Championships for the franchise (2008/2009).

Adams finished his career as the Patriots all-time career win leader with 43 wins which also places him in 8th place on the Atlantic League all-time career wins list, but in first place for all-time career wins in the league by a southpaw.

Adams was voted the 6^rd greatest Patriot of all time in a 2012 polling of fans, players, coaches and team officials and was also so honored on the poll by having the highest ranking of any Somerset pitcher in their history.