ROCKLAND, Mass. (December 10, 2025) 一 As the 2025 calendar year draws to a close, the Futures League takes one final look back to its 15th season of summer baseball action in New England with the release of the 2025 All-Futures League Teams.
The All-Futures League First and Second Teams highlight players by position after being nominated and voted on by the league’s field managers. Each franchise is represented across the two lineups, which both include five starting pitchers, one relief pitcher, one player at each infield position, three outfielders, and spots for both a designated hitter and utility player.
A full listing of both teams can be found at the end of this release.
The winners of five of the league’s major awards garnered first-team status, including a pair of Vermont Lake Monsters: the dual recipient of Most Valuable Player and Top Pro Prospect in Shaun McMillan (St. John’s) and Pitcher of the Year John Delgado (Stevenson). McMillan hit 11 home runs and added his name to the Futures League record books with the third-most RBI in single-season league history with 52, while Delgado’s 53 strikeouts were tops among league pitchers.
Joining Delgado as first-team pitchers are the New Britain Bees’ Garret Garbinski (UConn) and Evan Mello (Wheaton), who took home Top Pro Pitching Prospect and Relief Pitcher of the Year honors, respectively. The championship-winning Norwich Sea Unicorns duo of Matt Wootton (Eastern Connecticut State) and Frank Spirito (UConn) and the Worcester Bravehearts’ Jake LeFranciois (UMass Lowell) round out the staff. Garbinski allowed just two earned runs and struck out 32 in 30.1 innings, helping the Bees make their first-ever championship appearance. Wootton and LeFrancois were among league leaders with five wins apiece.
The All-Futures League First Team sees New Britain’s Brennan Staubley (Southern Connecticut State) at catcher, McMillan at first base, Norwich second baseman Charlie Walsh (George Washington) and Nashua Silver Knights shortstop Patrick Shrake (Colby) covering the middle infield, and New Britain’s Colin Crowley (Winthrop) at third base. Shrake finished as the league’s qualified batting leader with a .342 average.
Two of the first-team outfielders are Westfield Starfires in Anthony Ruggiero (Northeastern) and Griffin Mills (Northwestern). Vermont returnee Sam Cavossa (Saint Michael’s) rounds out the trio, having led the league with 69 hits and 42 runs scored. Worcester designated hitter Jackson Marshall (UConn) and Casey Wensley (Bryant) complete the positional roster. Marshall reached base at a league-best .434 clip while ranking second in homers (9), RBI (44) and slugging (.541), while Wensley was fifth with 30 RBI despite playing in just 24 games.
Highlighting the second-team players are Futures League Defensive Player of the Year in Nashua outfielder Cole Patterson (American International) and Worcester’s Kaleb Woodward (Trinity of Texas), the latter who stole a league-leading 25 bases. Woodward and Vermont outfielder Hunter Kingsbury (Bryant) were both top-10 qualifying hitters, while Nashua second baseman Ernie Little (Fordham) hit .400 across his 23-game stint mostly early in the summer.
Six players from Worcester, Vermont and New Britain were named to the All-Futures League squads. Nashua and Norwich each had five, and Westfield had four.
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FIRST TEAM
P: John Delgado, Vermont Lake Monsters, Stevenson University (Pitcher of the Year)
P: Garret Garbinski, New Britain Bees, University of Connecticut (Top Pro Prospect – Pitcher)
P: Matt Wootton, Norwich Sea Unicorns, Eastern Connecticut State University
P: Frank Spirito, Norwich Sea Unicorns, University of Connecticut
P: Jake LeFrancois, Worcester Bravehearts, UMass Lowell
RP: Evan Mello, New Britain Bees, Wheaton College (Relief Pitcher of the Year)
C: Brennan Staubley, New Britain Bees, Southern Connecticut State University
1B: Shaun McMillan, Vermont Lake Monsters, St. John’s University (Most Valuable Player & Top Pro Prospect)
2B: Charlie Walsh, Norwich Sea Unicorns, George Washington University
SS: Patrick Shrake, Nashua Silver Knights, Colby College
3B: Colin Crowley, New Britain Bees, Winthrop University
OF: Sam Cavossa, Vermont Lake Monsters, Saint Michael’s College
OF: Anthony Ruggiero, Westfield Starfires, Northeastern University
OF: Griffin Mills, Westfield Starfires, Northwestern University
DH: Jackson Marshall, Worcester Bravehearts, University of Connecticut
Utility: Casey Wensley, Worcester Bravehearts, Bryant University
SECOND TEAM
P: Jack Kelleher, Vermont Lake Monsters, Northern Essex Community College
P: Matt Fitzgibbon, Nashua Silver Knights, Saint Joseph’s University
P: Cody Heselton, Westfield Starfires, Southern Connecticut State University
P: Ben Oliveira, New Britain Bees, Wheaton College
P: Damien Carter, Worcester Bravehearts, Eastern Connecticut State University
RP: Rob Gilchrist, Nashua Silver Knights, Pace University
C: Leandro Guevara, Vermont Lake Monsters, American International College
1B: Chace Chaplin, Norwich Sea Unicorns, Yale University
2B: Ernie Little, Nashua Silver Knights, Fordham University
SS: Evan Menzel, Westfield Starfires, University of Connecticut
3B: Jaylem Sepulveda, Worcester Bravehearts, Western Oklahoma State College
OF: Cole Patterson, Nashua Silver Knights, American International College (Defensive Player of the Year)
OF: Kaleb Woodward, Worcester Bravehearts, Trinity University (Texas)
OF: Hunter Kingsbury, Vermont Lake Monsters, Bryant University
DH: Aidan Stern, Norwich Sea Unicorns, Trinity College
Utility: Camden Righi, New Britain Bees, University of Connecticut