Auburn, Blackstone Valley, Lunenburg, Shrewsbury, Tatnuck
All five clubs from the 2025 campaign returned for 2026: Auburn Rockets, Blackstone Valley Spinners, Lunenburg Phillies, Shrewsbury Dirt Dogs and Tatnuck Double Play of Worcester.
The league names the people running them. Blackstone's player-managers are Marshall Quinley and JP Lucier. Lunenburg's player-manager is Steve Lajoie with assistant coach Dave Salvatelli.
Player-manager is the correct title and a rare one to see published. In a league of college players and graduates, the man filling in the lineup card is also hitting third.
Rosters on High Cheese update as people sign and follow a player between clubs and seasons.
Central New England Baseball Association in detail
- Five clubs, nineteen and up with no ceiling, and rosters mostly made of college players.
- The full 2026 season posted in advance, and the playoff page kept current.
- Five clubs, four playoff places, and seeding that decided everything.
- Opening day 9-1 and 7-4, a play-in 7-1, and a championship clinched 3-2 and 8-1.
- Batting and pitching are kept as two separate sections.
- The free agent pool is the published route in; no person is named.
- A Free Agent Player Pool, and the league tells you to be specific about your skill set.
- Krock Field in Worcester, McLaughlin Park in Leominster, Shrewsbury High School.
- Unlimited age from nineteen, and a best-of-three postseason.
- Reports on the play-in, both semi-finals, opening day and the final, all dated.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Blackstone and Lunenburg meet in the final for the second year running, as three and four seeds.
- Blackstone's first title came in 2025, in their fourth year, and the managers are named.
- No officers are named, though the player-managers of two clubs are.
- Who plays, how good it is and how to get seen are all answered.
- No forms, waiver or bylaws render.
- Opening day May 27, regular season done July 23, championship in August.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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