Five players from the Chicago Youth Academy Aces travel ball team — including Justyn Hart and Sir Jamison Jones — are together once again for the DREAM Series.
The DREAM Series is an event hosted during Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend focused on highlighting and diversifying the talent pool of pitchers and catchers — two positions that lack much Black representation at the Major League level.
For this group of Chicago-area players, they’re excited to go through the DREAM Series together and experience an event like this geared toward Black players like themselves.
Zion Rose is well aware of how few big league catchers have been Black, but he is doing his best to help change that as one of the top high school catchers in the 2023 Draft class.
Six years after Dizzy Dean retired, he was a radio announcer for the Browns when he said he could pitch better than the guys he was watching. So he came out of retirement to attempt to prove it.