LOCAL PRO BASEBALL UPDATE: Hall set for Arizona League; Kaminska prepares for return
Former Bartlesville High School and Doenges Ford Indians pitcher Jakob Hall attends a game at Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium in Bartlesville last summer. Hall is headed to Peoria Javelinas in Arizona Fall League (AFL) play.
BECKY BURCH/Bartlesville Area Sports
By Mike Tupa
Oct. 5, 2025
BARTLESVILLE AREA SPORTS REPORT
Following is a look at the current news for the area's two pro baseball pitchers.
JAKOB HALL
Following a full summer rookie season, Bartlesville High School graduate Jakob Hall is scheduled to spend the next six-plus weeks with the Peoria Javelinas in Arizona Fall League (AFL) play.
The AFL schedule begins next week and lasts through mid-November.
Hall — who was picked in the 2024 Baseball Draft on the eighth round by the Minnesota Twins — played from April through late summer for the Fort Myers (Fla.) Mighty Mussels.
The imposing right-hander (6-foot-2, 195 pounds) made 28 pitching appearances — three as a starter — and finished with 54 innings, 45 strikeouts, a 3-1 record and 6.83 earned run average.
On September 10, the Twins assigned Hall to Peoria.
Hall graduated in 2021 from Bartlesville and pitched three seasons for Oral Roberts University, putting up strong numbers as an ace starter in 2023 and 2024. In 2023, he played an important role in ORU’s advancement to the College World Series.
Hall also starred for the Bartlesville Doenges Ford Indians in American Legion Summer Baseball and became one of the top players in the Bartlesville Amateur Area Baseball 14-and-under league.
He is part of a small list of area high school products the past several years that have played at least one full season of Major League-affiliated minor league baseball. Some of them include Drew Phillips (Copan), Chris Reddout (Bartlesville), Carson LaRue (Dewey), James Teague (Bartlesville) and Jace Kaminska (Caney, Kan.).
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Former Caney Valley (Kan.) High School pitcher Jace Kaminska is preparing for next season after the Fresno Grizzlies placed him on a 60-day disabled list in March.
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JACE KAMINSKA
One of the greatest high school pitchers in Kansas high school baseball history, injury appears to have sidelined Jace Kaminska from his 2025 season in pro baseball.
Kaminska — who set the Sunflower State high school record for the most consecutive strikeouts (29) as a junior in 2019. He was deprived of his senior campaign due to the COVID-caused 2020 spring sports lockdown. He also excelled in basketball for Caney Valley (Kan.) High School.
The muscular (6-2, 235-pound) right-hander sculpted a perfect earned run average (0.00) as a junior and finished his high school career with a 14-1 record, 0.51 ERA and 229 strikeouts in 96 innings.
Wichita State signed Kaminska out of high school. He later transferred to the University of Nebraska.
In 2023 the Colorado Rockies drafted him in the 10th round.
After seeing very limited action in 2023 in rookie league ball, Kaminska pitched in 2024 for Fresno in Class A ball in the California League.
To put it simply, he put together an outstanding true rookie season in 2024 — a 2.78 ERA, 5-5 record, 16 starts, 87.1 innings, 104 strikeouts, only 12 walks, and an opposing batting average of .238.
Those powerful numbers were enough to earn him the California League Pitcher of the Year honor for 2024, as well as being named one of four California League Starting Pitchers of the Year.
Prior to that, his 2024 season had ended slightly prematurely with his going on the injury list and eventually requiring surgery.
In March 2025, the Fresno Grizzlies placed him on the 60-day disabled list and he missed the 2025 campaign. According to his father, Kaminska has been rehabbing and preparing for his return next season.