Former B-R baseball standout Casey Wensley signs with Angels

Brody Bumila isn't the only Raynham resident heading off to play professional baseball.

On Monday, July 13, former Bridgewater-Raynham standout infielder and 2023 Taunton Daily Gazette Baseball All-Scholastic Casey Wensley signed with the Los Angeles Angels as an undrafted free agent per a release by Bryant University Athletics. No details of the contract were made readily available.

The 2023 B-R graduate is coming off a stellar junior season for the NCAA Division 1 Bulldogs, whom he transferred to last year following two successful seasons with D3 Wheaton College. This past spring, Wensley batted .319 with 33 RBIs and an America East Conference-best 57 runs on 14 doubles, 5 triples and a home run. He also led the conference with 30 stolen bases, becoming only the second Bryant baseball player to do so since the program moved up to the D1 level in 2009.

Wensley was the only Bulldog to start all 52 games this season, playing primarily at first base as well as left field. He started his Bryant career off with a bang, going 7-for-11 with 5 runs and 5 RBIs across an opening three game series with Davidson. He also finished off the season on a high note, going 2-for-6 with a team-best 3 RBIs in an 11 inning, 7-5 America East tournament loss to UMass Lowell. The River Hawks featured fellow 2023 All-Scholastic and former Taunton High standout Brayden Cali, who recorded a single in the game.

During his two seasons in Norton with the Lyons, Wensley batted a combined .365 with 69 runs and 62 RBIs on 21 doubles, a triple and 6 home runs in 80 games. As a sophomore, he started all 41 games for Wheaton and was named to both the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) and American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-Region 1 Second Teams, as well as to the NEWMAC Baseball All-Academic Team. He was also teammates with a trio of 2023 First and Second Team All-Scholastics, including fellow former Trojan star Jack Ritchie and former Tiger standouts Dwayne Burgo and Jack Cali.

In his senior season at B-R, Wensley batted .325 with a team-best 3 home runs and 20 RBIs, including the go-ahead 3-run home run that handed eventual MIAA Division 1 finalist Franklin its first loss of the season. He also hit a walk-off grand slam against Lincoln-Sudbury and was named a 2023 Enterprise/Patriot Ledger First Team All-Scholastic.

He now will forgo his senior collegiate season and head off to an Angels farm system which was ranked 23rd overall by Baseball America in its midseason rankings. The Angels minor league affiliates, from lowest to highest, are the ACL Angels (Rookie), Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (A), Tri-City Dust Devils (Advanced A), Rocket City Trash Pandas (AA) and Salt Lake Bees (AAA).

Wensley is the first of a talent-laden batch of 2023 Taunton Daily Gazette Baseball All-Scholastics to turn professional. Former Taunton standout and rising senior Dawson Bryce, who has also attracted MLB scouts attention, transferred from UNC Charlotte to Arkansas for his final year. Fellow former Tiger, 2022 Taunton Daily Gazette Player of the Year and rising senior Ryan MacDougall is coming off a solid season for Dayton, where he hit a team second-best 12 home runs this spring, and is spending the summer with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League. MacDougall will be joined in Dayton next year by fellow former Taunton star and 2023 Player of the Year Johnny Escobalez, as the rising sophomore transferred to the Flyers after a year at Mississippi Valley State.

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