Episode 38: Midseason Awards and D-III Alumni in Pro Ball - a podcast by Cespedes Family BBQ
from 2019-04-07T22:12:05
Welcome to Episode 38 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. The regular season is in full swing, and there's a whole lot juicy D-III action to talk about. Here's what this episode includes:
- Top 25 spotlight (3:00)
- checking in on each of the top 10 teams in the latest Top 25 poll plus a couple bonus teams from 10-25 (Piedmont, Denison, Wheaton (Ma.), Salisbury)
- Midseason awards -- this is a silly conversation since some teams have played 30 games and some have played 15 but we do it anyway because there are no rules on this podcast
- Player of the Year candidates (at 17:35)
- Toby Welk (Penn State-Berks) and Davis Mikell (Castleton) are on a different planet
- Jake Martin (Trinity)
- Cole Beeker (Swarthmore)
- the Killer B's at Piedmont (Andrew Burden and Brady Ballstadt)
- Noah Payne (Howard Payne but no relation somehow lol)
- The East Texas Baptist dinger machine (Casey Combs and Seth Mikeska)
- Pitcher of the Year candidates (especially dumb because it is so innings-based but we did our best) (at 22:23)
- Expected contenders: Tyler Peck (Chapman), Danny Cody (Baldwin Wallace), Danny Serreino (Rowan)
- Surprising contenders: Casey Brown (Pacific), Tyler McDonald (Monmouth),
- Jake Dickmeyer and John Howard are awesome again
- Rookie of the Year candidates (at 26:43)
- It's Caleb Durbin's (WashU) to lose
- Player of the Year candidates (at 17:35)
- Shouts out to all the D-III alumni on full-season rosters (at 29:05)
- We list them all, but some of our favorites include Tommy Parsons, Josh Fleming, Tanner Nishioka, Jake Fishman, J.P. Feyereisen, and OH YEAH THAT JORDAN ZIMMERMANN GUY
- Bias ball -- now we get to talk about OUR SCHOOLS (at 34:30)
- 11 wins in a row for WashU as the Bears are scorching hot and Jake is feelin' damn good about that Pool B spot
- Wooster's offense is mostly back to its normal rampant run-producing ways -- will they mercy-rule every conference game? (probably not but Jordan hopes so anyway)
...then we say goodbye. Thanks for listening!
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