WELCOME TO THE GRBL HALL OF FAME
Players must have 5 years of service in the GRBL and voted into the HOF from their peers
2024
Brock Chaffin
Brock started in Season 3 wearing the green and white of the Sumit’s Hot Yoga Yogi’s, and retired wearing all black everything in 2023 for the back-to-back champion Springfield Metropolitans. This makes Brock only the second manager in GRBL history to lead his team to back to back GRBL titles.
Brock Chaffin managed the Springfield Mets for four seasons, winning two championships as a manager (2022, 2023), and making three GRBL final appearances…
Brock Chaffin Career batting: 45-of-142, .317AVG, 29RBI, 4HR, 31BB (he got walked A LOT), 6HBP, .458OBP
From Commissioner Tony Lewis –
“I had Brock as a camper at Missouri State years ago and he had a loud bat back then. It has been great watching you grow into a great baseball player, leader, and now father to a beautiful family. Congrats and welcome to the GRBL Hall of Fame”
Gerad Fox
Gerad broke into the league as an outfielder with the Sumit’s Hot Yoga Yogis in 2018.
He rose to prominence as a catcher and developed a reputation for delivering big RBI base hits in crucial situations. The engineer from Weyburn, Saskatchewan now calls Ozark, Missouri his home. Gerad Fox said he’s honored and that it’s hard for him to believe he’s been in the GRBL for seven seasons.
Gerad Fox career batting: 62-of-170, 29RBI, home run, 2 triples, 9double, 11BB, 10HBP, .365AVG, .435OBP
From Commissioner Tony Lewis –
“I knew immediately that Gerad was going to do great things in this league. He is a fierce competitor, excellent dugout guy, and I am lucky to have been able to call him a teammate. Congratulations Gerad and I look forward to future stats you will put on the board.”
2023
Justin Parker
Being a local product from Branson, Missouri, Justin feels very comfortable under the lights and performing under pressure. JP was a standout, two way athlete for the GRBL Director of Gameday Operations Steve Lael’s fighting Branson Pirates as a football and baseball player. He took his talents to Labette Community College in Kansas and finished up his career playing professionally for the original Ozark Mountain Ducks in the Frontier League in the late 90’s.
Justin has been making waves for the GRBL since the very beginning since Season I in 2015 and still managed to hit home run balls into the parking lot in 2023. He is a lifetime .330 hitter in the GRBL and winner of the inaugural GRBL Silver Slugger Award. He was inagurated as the sole member of the 2023 GRBL Hall of Fame Class on October 22nd, 2023.
2022
Schuyler Carter
Ozark, Missouri's own Schuyler Carter is batting 66-of-186 with 26 runs batted in, 15 doubles and 10 triples. He won the inaugural MVP award in 2016, and then a Gold Glove Award in 2018. His name is on the Howard Bell Trophy three times, and his lifetime batting average is .355.
Carter is the first Grip'N'Rip player to get 50 career hits, and is the only player to have more than 60 hits.
On behalf of everyone at the Grip 'N Rip Baseball League, we congratulate Schuyler Carter on being the top vote getter of the 2022 Hall of Fame class among his peers with at least five seasons of playing time in #TheGRBL.
Skyler Henson
Skyler Henson joined the GRBL in 2017 out of Arkansas Pine Bluff. In six seasons, he has 189 innings pitched with a 2.45 earned run average. Henson logged 167 strikeouts. In 2020, he became the first pitcher to amass 100 strikeouts in the GRBL. Henson also has 22 hits and a lifetime batting average of .324. His name is on the Howard Bell Trophy once for a league championship in 2020.
On behalf of everyone at the Grip 'N Rip Baseball League, we are proud to congratulate Skyler Henson on receiving enough votes from his peers with at least five seasons of playing time in #TheGRBL.
Andy Galle
In seven years of Grip 'N Rip Baseball, Andy Galle has pitched 147 innings with a career earned run average at 2.26. He's the league's all time leader in strikeouts with 167, and he has only walked 14 batters, the picture of power and precision. Galle was the GRBL Pitcher of the Year in 2016, and he won the award again in 2020.
Andy was also instrumental in the league's move from four teams to six teams in 2018, and he helped guide the league into the town team format in 2020, having managed teams in 2017, 2018 and 2019, then opting to step away from management to concentrate on pitching.
