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Longtime Teammates Stick Together in the Cape League

Baseball is a sport that requires a lot of connectedness on the field. For players in the Cape Cod Baseball League, this connection doesn’t always come easy. For most, their in-season enemies become their teammates. But for three sets of players, this is another team they’ll play on together.

‘The Nicks,’ are a pitching-catching duo who play for the Harwich Mariners. While they were together early on in their careers, playing for the same team when they were 8 years old, they became rivals soon after going to competing high schools and colleges. Nick Feight describes what it’s like to see Nick Brown on the field from behind home plate instead of at it.

“Usually I see him up on the mound and I’m like great I gotta see Nick again cus he’s pretty tough to hit on him. It’s cool to see him on our side now, it’s good to see him on our team,” he said.

And Brown couldn’t agree more. He said having a familiar face behind the plate ups his game.

“It’s pretty exciting. It’s nice having him catching back there. Since we’ve known each other so long the chemistry is pretty much already there. He’s calling pitches and everything’s going pretty well, so it’s pretty awesome.”

Hyannis Harborhawks Tyler Stevens and Carl Stajduhar started off the same way as the Nicks. They live in the same town and started their baseball career together at a young age. But, as Stevens said, from there they stayed together.

“We went to high school together, hit right behind each other in the line up, and then we both committed to the University of New Mexico at the same exact time and have been playing together ever since.”

The years of playing together have created not only a brotherly bond between the two, but also have helped them on the field. Stajduhar said their time on the field together feels natural after all these years.

“It’s been really fun. I’ve known him forever, and you always have that guy you can talk to if there’s something wrong. Or you know what he’s gonna do, he knows what you’re gonna do so you’re just really comfortable on the field.”

For actual brothers, twins Beau and Bryce Jordan, they have never once played on a different team. Bryce said their first coach was their dad, and their first field, their backyard.

“My dad just getting us into baseball, and, I mean it just clicked and me and my brother just ended up loving it.”

Luckily the twins are able to keep their sibling rivalry off the field. While Beau admits they get competitive off the field, on it they help each other to become better players.

“I would say we’re more competitive off the field. Baseball is such a hard sport you try to encourage each other and like teach not teach him but show him what he’s doing wrong and he’ll show me what I’m doing wrong” he said.

And those are some of the perks of having a long time teammate on your Cape League team. Possibly the greatest, however, is sharing another huge step in your baseball careers.