BRIDGEWATER – Here comes the fighter.
If you didn’t know any better, you might think Mickey Gasper was a boxer; the 26-year-old Merrimack, New Hampshire native certainly has the look, a chiseled chin covered with dark stubble making him reminiscent of someone who likes to throw hands for a living.
Instead, he simply throws guys out.
But that’s not to say that the Somerset Patriots catcher hasn’t had to battle for everything he’s got in a different way, however. Taken in a round of the draft that no longer exists as a senior out of a smaller school, the 5-foot-10, 205-pound Gasper has had to earn everything along the way.