The Moose Jaw Miller Express have announced the signing of their first reliever for the 2023 Western Canadian Baseball League season.
Right-handed pitcher Rigell Robinson will join the local squad out of the University of Arkansas Monticello for the upcoming campaign after putting together a solid season with the Weevils in the NCAA Division II Great American Conference.
The 6-foot-3, 185-pound Carriere, Miss. product emerged as one of Arkansas Monticello’s top relievers in his junior season, putting up a 5.34 earned run average and 1.48 walks and hits per inning pitched while tossing 30.1 innings over 16 appearances.
Rigell showed impressive control in the process, and a propensity for generating swings and misses -- as his 40 strikeouts against only 14 walks would attest to. All told, Rigell would lead the Weevils with three saves in the 2022 campaign.
Rigell had an impressive four-game run with from the end of March into early April this past GAC season, allowing no runs and only two hits over three appearances and five innings of work. That all led to his longest outing of the season on Apr. 2 against Harding University, where Rigell would pitch four innings of scoreless relief before Harding scored in the top of the 14th and would take a 10-9 win.
Robinson won’t have to look very far if he has any questions about Moose Jaw or the Miller Express, either -- one of his Weevils teammates is infielder Parker Dorrance, who hit .313 through 48 games with the WCBL squad in 2022.
The GAC has one of the earlier starts to baseball season, as Arkansas Monticello kicks off their campaign on Friday, Feb. 3 when they travel to Mississippi College. Their regular season wraps up on Apr. 29.
The Weevils are coming off a 16-17 season in the GAC and reached the conference playoffs before falling in two close games.
You can follow along with Rigell’s exploits this spring by visiting www.uamsports.com/sports/baseball.
The Miller Express open their 2023 WCBL campaign on Friday, May 26 when they host the Weyburn Beavers at Ross Wells Park.
