Former University of Minnesota Crookston baseball player Matt Dallas has signed to play for the New Jersey Jackals of the Canadian American Association, known as the Can-Am League. The organization is a professional, independent baseball league with teams in the Northeast United States and Eastern Canada.
Dallas has spent most of the last two seasons with the Birmingham Bloomfield Beavers of the United Shore Professional Baseball League (USPBL), a professional baseball league that helps develops players to go on to either Major League Baseball (MLB) or other professional leagues. During his time in the USPBL, Dallas was a two-time All-Star. He posted a 3.66 ERA in 15 appearances during the 2019 season. Dallas improved his strikeout-to-walk ratio immensely with 31 strikeouts to just 11 walks this season. In 2018, Dallas was 2-4 with a 3.59 ERA with 46 strikeouts to 37 walks.
Dallas had previously spent time in 2017 with the River City Rascals of the Frontier League.
He competed for Minnesota Crookston during the 2016 and 2017 seasons, helping the Golden Eagles to back-to-back appearances in the NSIC Tournament. Dallas posted a 1-1 mark with a 3.60 ERA in 10.0 innings pitched as a senior with 12 strikeouts to 14 walks. As a junior, he appeared in 6.2 innings with four strikeouts.
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