Texas Tailgaters – Roster, Schedule, Standings & Results
The Texas Tailgaters are one of six teams in the Banana Ball Championship League (BBCL), the professional exhibition baseball league created by the Savannah Bananas organization. Announced on October 3, 2024 as the league’s fourth team, the Tailgaters were the first Banana Ball team built specifically around a regional Texas identity.
They remain the only team in the league without a fixed home stadium. Instead, their “home games” rotate through Texas and Oklahoma venues each season, including stops in Frisco, San Antonio, Round Rock, College Station, and Arlington.
On the field, the Tailgaters have quickly become one of the league’s strongest teams. They enter the closing stretch of the 2026 season — the BBCL’s first year as a formal championship league rather than a barnstorming tour — sitting atop the overall standings, having already clinched a playoff spot by winning the inaugural Banana Ball Open.
Off the field, the team leans hard into Texas culture. The uniforms use Texas state flag colors, manager Joseph Mikulik works games in Western chaps and a cowboy hat, and the team has built a reputation for high-energy, crowd-driven games wherever it tours.
Texas Tailgaters Roster
The Tailgaters’ 2026 roster blends competitive baseball talent with the entertainment-first personalities that define Banana Ball. Rather than a fixed lineup in the traditional sense, the squad mixes pitchers, infielders, outfielders, and utility players.
Alongside them are team members who take on dedicated crowd-engagement and performance roles during games. Banana Ball rosters shift throughout the season with call-ups and trades, so the roster below should be treated as a living document rather than a fixed list.
Texas Tailgaters 2026 BBCL Standings
The 2026 season marks the first year the BBCL has operated as a true championship league with a formal standings table, rather than a touring exhibition schedule. Teams are ranked by win percentage rather than total wins, since not every club plays the same number of games over the course of the season.
| # | Team | W | L | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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152 | 107 | 58.69% |
| 2 |
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128 | 121 | 51.41% |
| 3 |
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28 | 28 | 50.00% |
| 4 |
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39 | 48 | 44.83% |
| 5 |
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24 | 31 | 43.64% |
| 6 |
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34 | 70 | 32.69% |
As of mid-August 2026, the Texas Tailgaters sit atop the overall standings, narrowly ahead of the Savannah Bananas, with the Loco Beach Coconuts also inside the projected playoff line. The top four teams by win percentage at the end of the regular season will advance to the league’s first-ever postseason in October.
The Tailgaters have already secured their place in that field by winning the inaugural Banana Ball Open earlier in the season. That gives them a guaranteed berth regardless of how the rest of the regular season plays out, meaning their remaining games are now primarily about improving playoff seeding rather than qualification itself.
Texas Tailgaters Upcoming Matches
The Tailgaters continue their 2026 tour with a series of high-profile stops through the remainder of the regular season, including a matchup against the Party Animals at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas.
The marquee date on the schedule is a three-game series against the Savannah Bananas at Globe Life Field in Arlington in late September. It will be the Tailgaters’ first-ever home game inside an MLB stadium, and it coincides with the final weekend of the MLB regular season.
With playoff seeding still to be decided, every remaining matchup carries added weight heading into the league’s first postseason in league history.
Texas Tailgaters Recent Results
The headline result of the Tailgaters’ 2026 season so far is their outright win of the inaugural Banana Ball Open in April. That tournament victory clinched the team’s automatic playoff berth before the regular season had even reached its midpoint.
Since then, the club has maintained form well enough to hold the top spot in the overall BBCL standings through mid-August. Highlights include a notable win over the Savannah Bananas and a rare feat behind the plate: the fourth triple trick-play double play recorded in Banana Ball history.
Texas Tailgaters Player Stats
Banana Ball does not publish a centralized statistics leaderboard in the way traditional baseball leagues do. That’s largely because its scoring system — points earned per inning rather than total runs — doesn’t map cleanly onto conventional stat categories like batting average or ERA.
Individual player performance data, where available, is tracked through the league’s official roster and player profile pages rather than a single stats hub. Because of that, this section is best filled in manually as verified figures become available, rather than populated with placeholder or estimated numbers.
| Player | GP | AB | H | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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19 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .500 |
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52 | 186 | 67 | 38 | 8 | 34 | 0 | .360 |
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29 | 107 | 38 | 29 | 14 | 34 | 0 | .355 |
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11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
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66 | 235 | 76 | 48 | 7 | 34 | 0 | .323 |
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44 | 134 | 40 | 24 | 3 | 12 | 0 | .299 |
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34 | 37 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .270 |
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66 | 163 | 41 | 12 | 6 | 33 | 0 | .252 |
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59 | 156 | 39 | 24 | 0 | 19 | 0 | .250 |
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35 | 92 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 0 | .239 |
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76 | 214 | 50 | 40 | 8 | 29 | 0 | .234 |
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83 | 125 | 28 | 15 | 3 | 16 | 0 | .224 |
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12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .222 |
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79 | 232 | 51 | 30 | 4 | 47 | 0 | .220 |
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64 | 81 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .173 |
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37 | 19 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .158 |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
Pitching
| Player | TEAM NAME | G | GS | IP | IP | H | R | ER | B4S | K | FAN | ERA | ERA | MPI | W | L | SV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Mann | Texas Tailgaters | 16 | 0 | 16.4 | 16.4 | 24 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 7.27 | 7.13 | 4:48 | — | — | — |
| Brett Allen | Texas Tailgaters | 22 | 0 | 19.3 | 19.3 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 0 | 10.341818 | 5.13 | 6:53 | — | — | — |
| Brett Carson | Loco Beach Coconuts | 26 | 0 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 11.168462 | 7.31 | 4:36 | — | — | — |
| Brett Sanchez | Texas Tailgaters | 23 | 0 | 79.1 | 79.1 | 97 | 54 | 37 | 18 | 69 | 7 | 2.438696 | 4.21 | 6:57 | — | — | — |
| Brian Trepanier | Firefighters | 16 | 0 | 13.9 | 13.9 | 18 | 26 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 4.00875 | 10.36 | 5:52 | — | — | — |
| Chris Clarke | Texas Tailgaters | 19 | 0 | 57.1 | 57.1 | 60 | 36 | 19 | 16 | 66 | 0 | 2.162632 | 2.99 | 4:44 | — | — | — |
| Christian Davis | Texas Tailgaters | 39 | 0 | 134.8 | 134.8 | 165 | 92 | 73 | 50 | 81 | 7 | 4.532821 | 4.87 | 4:40 | — | — | — |
| Jimmy Lewis | Texas Tailgaters | 35 | 0 | 23.2 | 23.2 | 45 | 50 | 34 | 35 | 13 | 3 | 9.618857 | 13.19 | 6:00 | — | — | — |
| Joe Sperone | Texas Tailgaters | 34 | 0 | 28.3 | 28.3 | 38 | 23 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 6.876765 | 6.36 | 6:17 | — | — | — |
| Jon Reid | Texas Tailgaters | 26 | 0 | 28.6 | 28.6 | 28 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 27 | 0 | 6.115385 | 5.35 | 5:32 | — | — | — |
| Jonathan Hughes | Texas Tailgaters | 22 | 0 | 45.3 | 45.3 | 60 | 42 | 31 | 23 | 38 | 0 | 7.036818 | 6.16 | 4:31 | — | — | — |
| Reese Miller | Texas Tailgaters | 36 | 0 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 36 | 24 | 21 | 14 | 35 | 2 | 6.556389 | 5.68 | 8:35 | — | — | — |
| Zach Blankenship | Party Animals | 46 | 0 | 32.4 | 32.4 | 57 | 37 | 26 | 17 | 28 | 4 | 7.095652 | 7.22 | 5:15 | — | — | — |
Fielding
| Player | TEAM NAME | G | TPO | TPM | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brett Carson | Texas Tailgaters | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| Brett Sanchez | Texas Tailgaters | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Clarke | Texas Tailgaters | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| Indiana Stanley | Texas Tailgaters | 50 | 68 | 8 | 4 |
| Jonathan Luders | Texas Tailgaters | 67 | 194 | 7 | 6 |
| Jordan Barth | Texas Tailgaters | 45 | 82 | 12 | 3 |
| Kyle Martin | Texas Tailgaters | 13 | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| Mac Danford | Texas Tailgaters | 20 | 27 | 1 | 2 |
| Marcos Castillo | Texas Tailgaters | 14 | 14 | 3 | 1 |
| Taylor Justus | Texas Tailgaters | 51 | 108 | 11 | 7 |
| Travis Moniot | Texas Tailgaters | 23 | 29 | 3 | 2 |
History
The Tailgaters were announced on October 3, 2024, becoming the fourth team in Banana Ball history. Their debut 2025 season saw them tour the country against the league’s other three teams at the time — the Savannah Bananas, the Party Animals, and the Firefighters.
They played at MLB stadiums including Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia before closing the year at Houston’s Daikin Park. A signature early moment came when a Tailgaters player hit his first home run for the team in Round Rock, triggering the team’s now-known “keg stand at home plate” celebration.
The league expanded to six teams for 2026 with the addition of the Loco Beach Coconuts and the Indianapolis Clowns, and the Tailgaters were given their own dedicated slate of home games for the first time. The 2026 season also introduced the Banana Ball Open, an early-season tournament that the Tailgaters won outright — clinching the first automatic playoff berth in league history.
The League
The Banana Ball Championship League was formally founded in 2026 under commissioner Jesse Cole, growing out of the original Savannah Bananas barnstorming tour that began in 2018. The league’s six teams are the Savannah Bananas, Party Animals, Firefighters, Texas Tailgaters, Loco Beach Coconuts, and Indianapolis Clowns.
The Clowns are a revival of the historic Negro league team of the same name, done in partnership with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
The league plays under its own rule set rather than standard baseball rules. Games are decided by points scored per inning rather than total runs, there’s a two-hour time limit, bunting is banned, and batters can’t step out of the box. Walks are replaced by “ball-four sprints,” and fans who catch foul balls in the stands record an out.
The league’s championship game has been named the Banana Bowl, with the inaugural edition scheduled for October 10, 2026 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.