Former Queensborough Community College baseball All-American Ryan Sandberg is currently playing his second season of professional baseball with the Quebec Capitales of the Frontier League.

Sandberg was a 2018 Third Team All-American for Queensborough as well as the Region XV Player of the Year and the CUNYAC Pitcher of the Year before transferring to NCAA  Division I Florida Atlantic University. After one season at FAU, Sandberg pitched his final two seasons at NCAA Division II Wilmington University, where he was a 2-time CACC All-Conference selection, the 2022 CACC Pitcher of the Year, and a 2022 unanimous First Team All-Region performer as selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA), the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA), and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA). 

In his junior season at Wilmington, he finished with a record of 4-1 with an ERA of 2.70. As a senior, Sandberg finished with a record of 8-3 in 13 starts, tossing 78.0 innings and throwing a pair of complete games. He broke the Wilmington single season record with 110 strikeouts in a season, averaging 12.7 strikeouts per nine innings. He only walked 19 batters and finished with a 3.35 ERA. His strikeout-to-walk ratio was an outstanding 5.79.

In the summer of 2022, Sandberg pitched for the Trenton Thunder of the MLB Draft League. The MLB Draft League, in its second year of existence at the time, was created by Major League Baseball and Prep Baseball Report to showcase top draft-eligible prospects. In 15.0 innings pitched for the Thunder, he struck out 21 batters, good for an average of 12.6 strikeouts per nine innings

Although Sandberg went undrafted, he signed with the Empire State Greys of the Frontier League for the 2023 season. The Frontier League is a professional baseball league that operates as one of four MLB Partner Leagues in the American independent baseball league system. After going 2-5 in eleven starts with 52 strikeouts in 49.1 innings pitched for the Greys, he was traded to the Quebec Capitales, where he helped them go on to win the 2023 Frontier League Championship.

In December 2023, he was re-signed by Quebec for the 2024 season and made his season debut on May 11th where he struck eight and did not allow a hit in three scoreless innings in relief.


Ryan Sandberg Frontier League Statistics


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