{"id":508544,"date":"2026-01-11T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/508544\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:02:09","slug":"trey-gregory-alford-finds-redemption-in-pro-debut-with-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/508544\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Gregory-Alford Finds Redemption In Pro Debut With Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trey Gregory-Alford<\/strong> was watching it snow when he received a text just before the first spring game of his senior season at Coronado High in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou sure the game isn\u2019t canceled?\u201d Angels area scout <strong>Jayson Durocher<\/strong> asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still playing,\u201d Gregory-Alford replied.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory-Alford pitched three innings through snowfall that day, striking out six of the 10 batters he faced. He sat in the mid 90s with his fastball.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels did not miss that game, or the 10 other starts his senior year in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In the finale, Gregory-Alford pitched into the seventh inning of the Colorado 4A region semifinal without allowing a hit. Later, a run-producing double not only ended his no-hit bid, but also his prep career.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, the Angels drafted the Rocky Mountain-sized righthander in the 11th round and signed him to a post-10th-round record $1,957,500.<\/p>\n<p>Making his pro debut in 2025, Gregory-Alford pitched a combined 2.86 ERA across the Arizona Complex League and Low-A Inland Empire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to be able to pitch at the premium velocities, but it\u2019s also another thing to sustain that through outings,\u201d Angels assistant GM <strong>Joey Prebynski <\/strong>said. \u201cIt\u2019s a credit to Trey and all the work he put in . . . and the routine that he created for himself since he\u2019s come into pro ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen months removed from his prep semifinal loss, Gregory-Alford found redemption. He allowed one run over seven innings in the ACL semifinals to help propel the Angels to the league finals, which they won.<\/p>\n<p>Promoted to the California League for six starts, Gregory-Alford allowed just five runs while striking out 20 in 25.1 innings. Inland Empire advanced the the league championship series, though they were swept by San Jose. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn high school, we never won anything, so going for one championship was already cool enough,\u201d Gregory-Alford said. \u201cAlmost getting two championships in a single season is something you aren\u2019t going to forget.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trey Gregory-Alford was watching it snow when he received a text just before the first spring game of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,12453,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-508544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-organization-reports","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115876603237367329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}