Humboldt Crabs Baseball – Myles Standish in action for the Crabs last summer.

By Ray Hamill — The Humboldt Crabs pitching staff got a big boost this week with the addition of a player who played a key role with the team in 2025.

With a couple pitchers opting not to travel to Arcata at the last minute this summer, Crabs manager Jeff Giacomini was able to add to Myles Standish to his rotation, and the former Eureka Logger will be in uniform on Friday night.

Standish is coming off an outstanding spring season playing for Santa Rosa JC, where he earned second-team All-American honors.

He is expected to have an immediate impact on this summer’s Crabs team, one year after taking home team pitcher of the year honors.

“It’s great to get Myles back,” Giacomini said. “I’m really excited he chose to hop on. He was our pitcher of the year last year.”

Standish, who graduated from Eureka High in 2023, has excelled in a Crabs uniform.

Last summer as the team’s regular Friday night starter, he finished 6-1 with an ERA of 2.76 and also posted team-highs in innings pitched (52) and strikeouts (59).

He continued to impress for the Bear Cubs this spring, helping to lead the team to the NorCal Regional Finals.

He appeared in 16 games, including three starts, and compiled a record of 9-0 with an impressive ERA of 1.95 on his way to being named Big 8 Conference Pitcher of the Year.

He finished the season with 118 strikeouts in 101.1 innings, which was second best in the state, and was included as one of 20 players on the Northern California All-State team.

Last week, he was named to the 2026 American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings Pacific Association Division All-American Second Team.

He was not, however, expected to feature for the Crabs this summer because of how much he played at Santa Rosa.

But earlier this week, he informed Giacomini he would be available.

And the Crabs manager was quick to endorse the move.

“The guy’s great,” Giacomini said. “He was the best pitcher in league from the Big 8, and that’s a phenomenal junior college league.

“And to be All-American and just have the season he had, I know he’s going to do great things.”

As you would expect, Standish is in high demand.

“He’s got a lot of schools — some really big D-1 schools — contacting him,” Giacomini said. “The guy’s an absolute competitor, and we need him. We need that.”

Standish, who is expected to feature in six to eight games for the Crabs, will be in uniform when the team welcomes the Rocklin Stonecutters to the Arcata Ball Park for a three-game series this weekend.

However, Giacomini says he will likely see his first action of the summer when the Crabs travel to Lincoln next week for a key three-game Pacific Empire League series against the always-competitive Potters.

Santa Rosa JC Athletics