The Barrie Baycats, a local baseball team in the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL), have hired a new general and field manager.
Josh Matlow will take over the Baycats for the 2020 season.
“First of all, it feels obviously great, but it’s extremely humbling that such an amazing organization unanimously decided that I would be the best fit,” Matlow told Global News Wednesday.
“My baseball knowledge, obviously that’s what they loved, but I think what they really loved is that not only am I now local, but I understand the Baycats culture.”
Matlow was a member of the Baycats from 2005 — when the team won its first IBL championship — to 2009, according to a news release from Chris Gariepy of the Baycats’ ownership group.
He also attended Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., as a freshman on a baseball scholarship and has international baseball experience in Australia and Israel, Gariepy added.
“The management of the Barrie Baycats is pleased to announce that we have brought Josh Matlow back,” Gariepy said in a statement.
Matlow said the Baycats have won six championships in a row.
“My job is to keep that brand, to keep that winning culture and bring in new guys who want to be there, not just playing for a season or two but for long term.”