Joe Spina has been the head of the PA Chaos organization since 2000 and, not only does he oversee the 13 teams in the program, he also coaches the 18U Chaos Gold team which competes nationally in top tournaments.
In his more than two decades plus of leading the Chaos, Spina and his fellow coaches have helped develop players who have gone on to play softball at universities nationwide and in such prestigious conferences as the Big Ten, Big East, ACC and Ivy League.
On the home front, Coach Spina is kept equally busy dealing with eight grandchildren including his 3-year-old grandson, Rogan Daniel McMahon, who has big-time prospect written all over him.
As you’ll see in this short clip narrated by Rogan’s mother, Courtney McMahon—a pitching coach in the Chaos org—this impressive youngster is a sweet-swinging power lefty “out of South Jersey” and is projected already to be a Top 5 recruit in the Class of 2038:
Gender aside (who knows, our sport is growing so fast, perhaps in 16 years Extra Inning Softball may be covering intergrated fastpitch), Rogan is being represented by his agent and manager… yes, Grandpa Spina.
This is confidential (so don’t tell anyone), but already scouts from Athletes Unlimited and the U.S. Nation team for the 2040 XXXVII Olympic Games (site TBD) have expressed interesting signing the budding superstar.
And if the softball gig doesn’t work out for little “Rockin’” Rogan [our patented & licensed nickname for the slugger], he also has a nice backup plan: baseball.
That’s because his father, Dan McMahon, grew up good friends with a certain MLB star from Millville, New Jersey, whom you may have heard of: Mike Trout!
According to Coach/Grandpa/Rogan’s Handler Joe Spina:
“They were like best friends in grade school through high school and played youth sports together as well as high school baseball. Dan sees Mike a lot and he (Trout) has actually done meet-and greets with my team when we were at PGF Nationals.”
So there you have it… a future, bankable hitting prodigy who is already penned in for the upper echelon of our 2028 Extra Elite 100 Softball Rankings (unless he has to settle and play baseball… ugh).
And wait ‘til you see and hear about the prospects for the other seven grandkids of Coach Spina…
— Brentt Eads, Extra Inning Softball
