Over the years, numerous CSM baseball players have made their mark in the major leagues and the tradition continued during the 2010 season. Among the many CSM alums in professional baseball, three in particular have had notable accomplishments this season.

Scott Feldman

Scott Feldman is a pitcher with the reigning American League Champion Texas Rangers. He played for CSM during the

2002-03 seasons and posted a remarkable 25-2 cumulative record, with his only two losses coming in the State Championship tournament. Feldman signed with the Rangers in the 30th round in 2003. Despite dealing with some major injuries he made his debut in late 2005. In 2008 he was converted from reliever to starter and in ’09 he was named the Rangers’ Pitcher of the Year with a 17-8 record. Although Feldman did not make his team’s active roster for the 2010 postseason, but he was part of the pitching staff throughout the regular season, helping them get to the playoffs. Feldman started 22 games in 2010 and made seven bullpen appearances, contributing wherever he could.

Daniel Nava

Daniel Nava who was an All-State player at CSM made an impression in his MLB debut with the Boston Red Sox earlier this year. The first pitch Nava saw as a big leaguer was hit for a grand slam off of Phillies right hander Joe Blanton, becoming just the second person to accomplish this feat off the first pitch of their major league career.

Although not a player, a CSM alum received baseball broadcasting’s most prestigious honor in 2010. Jon Miller, the San Francisco Giants and ESPN’s play-by-play announcer was this year’s Ford C. Frick award recipient. Miller has been delighting local baseball fans for more than two decades. This past spring, Miller took time from his busy schedule to return to CSM to tape a video clip for the college’s Support CSM campaign and was interviewed by broadcasting students for a segment of the student-produced news magazine The Bay Today.

Jon Miller