Sab Harbor Whalers cant complain about ideal summer baseball experience

These future baseball stars are stealing a summer on the East End. A-lister sightings, a pipeline to MLB, hanging with buds on boats are all guarantees in the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League on the forks of Long Island. “My friends are playing in leagues in the middle of nowhere.They’re pretty miserable.

But out here it’s awesome,” Seattle-born pitcher Lincoln Oelschlager of the Sag Harbor Whalers told The Post. “It’s probably the best place you’d be for summer ball,” added the pitcher for Southern California’s Pomona College. The Hamptons league is an MLB affiliate that’s a local alternative to Cape Cod’s iconic collegiate summer development league. Like its New England counterpart, the Hamptons has produced a bevy of major leaguers, including Diamondbacks pitcher Corbin Burnes, in addition to 600 MLB-drafted players — 112 of whom stepped onto a diamond in the majors. The LI league is instrumental in identifying talent that may otherwise be overlooked, Riverhead Tomcats manager Kyle McLaughlin said. “The Cape Cod League is the league where all of the high-end Division I players go, but here, you have more of a mix, you have anywhere from D-I to junior college guys,” he said. “This allows the opportunity for a lot of local Long Island players to kind of get into that same realm as the players that are in the Cape.” McLaughlin’s team, along with the Westhampton Aviators, is specifically designated for Long Island-based collegiate players from area schools such as Hofstra, Adelphi, LIU and Stony Brook. “I know my coach checks up on the league and the games and everything,” said Richie Hieder, an outfielder who will play for the Seawolves next season. “We have a couple of guys from the team here, so it’s definitely good that they always want you getting that next level, getting that work in, and just staying ready.” The rest of the league — the Whalers, the Southampton Breakers, the North Fork Ospreys and t...