Starting a college baseball team requires more than a love for the game. At its core, it demands a visionary blueprint. A clear mission and vision not only give direction but also inspire potential pl...
Ole Miss defensive tackle Tywone Malone becomes one of almost a thousand players to enter the transfer portal this offseason. It was first reported by Matt Zenitz of On3.com that the 6’4 run stu...
It was recently reported that the NCAA had voted to eliminate the voluntary coach role for both baseball and softball and make them official full-time hirings. This change will allow both sports to ha...
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. I can’t even begi...
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. Yesterday, I gave you W...
The 2022 MLB All-Star game was a huge success. Fans and players alike were treated to a great game and a great show. The night was filled with players that wore microphones, custom gloves, and some bi...
Trying to understand the New York Yankees fanbase is a colossal waste of time. Reading Yankees Twitter is a cesspool, and don’t even get me started on Yankees Facebook. But the one thing I’...
Baseball fans worldwide agree: Major League Baseball has plenty of explaining to do. From the seemingly non-existent progression of the lockout, to the treatment of minor league players, to the devast...
With the exception of some key guidelines, most college athletes were able to compete during the 2021 season. Meanwhile, Baseball for CCAA schools has been dormant for the past two years. Now in 2022,...
I had planned on this being about Oriole Park at Camden Yards’ 30th Anniversary. I wanted to talk about how it started a wave of new baseball-only parks with retro-classic designs, and then go t...
The USA Softball Women’s National Team will look to build off of their 2020 Olympic silver medal from Tokoyo as the prepare to compete in the 2022 World Games. The UNT revealed their 2022 World ...
Kelsie Whitmore has been playing baseball for as long as she could remember. Yes, that’s correct, baseball. At this time, she and many other female athletes are trailblazers in making the sport ...
Drew Knowles is a senior in high school with a passion for both card collecting and sports. For Drew, collecting sports cards was just a childhood hobby. But when COVID-19 hit in 2020, he decided to g...
The Little League World Series is in full swing on ESPN. As true baseball fan’s know, Little League displays the game at its purest and innocent form. The kids who participate play hard, dream b...
Mets owner, Steve Cohen, has been very active on Twitter since he bought the team in 2020. He wanted to connect with fans on a more personal level and what better way to do that than through social me...
As Kevin Costner wandered the fresh grass of a field built adjacent to the famous cornfield featured in Field of Dreams (1989), memories, dreams and aspirations returned to the minds of every person t...
The dust has settled over a chaotic trade deadline that saw many key players from teams switch uniforms. The Giants and Dodgers tacked on to their already-loaded rosters in an arms race for either div...
For the fourth edition of the stadium series, we’re going back to another old-school ballpark. Keeping with the Pennsylvania theme, this week’s edition is Forbes Field, home of the Pittsbu...
The oldest stadium to be featured so far, the Baker Bowl has all the oddities you could want from a ballpark that opened before the dead ball era. The Bandbox of Philadelphia The Baker Bowl originally...
It’s well documented that Major League Baseball has had a problem with pitchers that doctor baseballs for increased spin rate. This meant that pitchers were using various substances in order to ...
Our last featured park was Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, a football stadium that somehow shoehorned the Blue Jays in. For the next stadium, we have a bit of a similar situation. The Los Angeles Memor...
Since the start of last season, the Toronto Blue Jays have been unable to play at Rogers Centre, their home ballpark. The Jays spent 2020 at their Triple-A stadium, Sahlen Field in Buffalo, New York, ...
The year was 2017. Tejay Antone, a Reds draft pick, was rehabbing from Tommy John surgery while with the Daytona Tortugas, Cincinnati’s Advanced-A affiliate. The 23-year-old Antone typically sat...
Domingo Germán’s return to baseball was certainly not without controversy. After missing the 2019 postseason and all of 2020 due to a suspension for domestic violence, many fans didn’t wa...
Aroldis Chapman has long been one of baseball’s most feared relievers. The flamethrowing southpaw is known for his incredible velocity, including a 2010 pitch now measured at 105.8 mph. Of cours...
Minor League Baseball is officially back after a year loss due to COVID-19. Minor league baseball is in full swing as of yesterday (May 4th), with both teams and players eager to get things started ag...
As recently as 2018, Sunday’s outing from Corey Kluber would have been no surprise. 8 innings, no runs, and 10 strikeouts against one walk was a nearly routine outing for the righthander in his ...
The Yankees have long been fans of Jonathan Loaisiga. After being released by the Giants in 2015, he signed with the Bronx Bombers. Tommy John surgery delayed his development, and he finally made his ...
Well, they were certainly overdue. After a horrid, putrid stretch of baseball, the New York Yankees finally got their offense to wake up on Thursday night. In a 6-3 win in Cleveland, the Bombers recor...
It isn’t the World Series. It isn’t even October. But the series between the Dodgers and the Padres sure feels like playoff baseball, even in April. Right now, this is the most exciting ri...
If you don’t know the name Akil Baddoo by now, you need to pick your head out of the dirt. He’s a 22-year-old center fielder for the Detroit Tigers and is setting the league on fire. Throu...
Entering the 2021 MLB season, the Yankees were one of the favorites to win the World Series. The PECOTA projections also expected the Bombers to finish with the best record in the American League. How...
On Monday night, the New York Yankees did something that the franchise had never done before. They played a regular-season game at TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Florida. The temporary home of the Toronto Bl...
We’re less than a week into the 2021 MLB regular season, so naturally it’s time to completely overreact based on an extraordinarily small sample size. In the first five games of the season...
On Sunday night, Angels two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani did something he’d never done before: pitched and hit in the same major-league game. The Japanese-born star took the mound for the Angels, st...
Baseball is officially back! The Yankees have finished their opening series of the season, and there’s a lot to talk about here. The Toronto Blue Jays won the series 2-1, taking the first and fi...
Tomorrow is the big day. Wednesday has slowly crawled along, almost like it’s Christmas Eve. To pass some time, here are my predictions for the MLB awards in each league. On top of picking a win...
With the Rockies playing in what most consider to be a hitters ballpark, maintaining quality pitching can be a bit challenging. In the second episode of the Pretenders Or Contenders show, we discussed...
Can you believe it? The long, long months are over. Opening Day is almost here. Before the season begins, I decided to look around the American League and see where each team stands entering 2021. For...
Every week this spring, I’ve been recapping the latest news from the Yankees’ Spring Training camp. With just a week until the regular season begins, let’s see what has been happenin...
Just before Christmas of this past year, I had the pleasure of speaking with Arsel Giowou, the founder and operator of the Harmony Baseball Academy in Cameroon. Exploring the history of the game in Af...
The 2021 MLB season is only 10 days away. As it approaches, let’s take a look around the AL East and see who on each team could be break out and establish themselves as regular contributors at t...
Throughout the spring, Mike Tauchman has been fighting for a role with the New York Yankees. After struggling in 2020, Tauchman is currently battling against players like Jay Bruce and Derek Dietrich ...
For both New York baseball teams, the regular season is approaching fast. When it arrives, there will be fans in the seats of Yankee Stadium and Citi Field for the first time in well over a year. On T...
Another week of Spring Training is in the books. Let’s take a visit to Tampa, and see the latest news to come out of the Yankees’ camp. Gio Urshela: Shortstop? In my latest roster projecti...
I originally projected the New York Yankees’ roster for Opening Day nearly a month ago. Naturally, much has changed in that time. So it’s time to take another crack at it, this time with u...
Earlier this week, the MLB announced there would be new rules across their lower levels. The new rule changes that will be in affect once the minor leagues start will be different for all minor league...
Making it to Major League Baseball is very, very hard. Staying there is even harder. Just ask Lucas Luetge. The 33-year-old lefthander is currently at Spring Training with the Yankees, attempting to c...
As Spring Training rolls on, let’s take a look at the latest from the Yankees’ camp. Zack Britton Gets Surgery The Yankees recently got some bad news regarding their star reliever, Zack Br...
As the New York Yankees progress through Spring Training, one veteran is attempting to make a case to be on the roster come Opening Day. Here’s why Derek Dietrich could end up an important membe...
On Friday afternoon, all eyes were on Domingo Germán. The 28-year-old righthander took the mound for his Spring debut against the Tigers. He last pitched in an MLB game on September 18, 2019, after b...
As the spring continues, fans will get more insight into each team around baseball. Let’s take a look at each team in the AL East, and how they fare coming into the 2021 season. #1 New York Yank...
The New York Yankees have played their first three games of Spring Training, losing to the Blue Jays, while defeating the Tigers and Orioles. In these opening games, several things jumped off the page...
The New York Yankees opened Spring Training on Sunday, against the Toronto Blue Jays. One Yankee outfielder, Mike Tauchman, found himself in the starting lineup with something to prove. What You Tauch...
Spring Training is fully underway, with position players reporting at the beginning of this week. Here are some notes and takeaways from the Yankees’ camp so far. Aaron Judge Talks New Contract ...
The team from Queens has had quite an offseason. Under new owner Steve Cohen, the Mets have made several big splashes and acquisitions since the end of last season. Let’s break down what their O...
New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán is an interesting case. His tenure in the Bronx has been complicated, to say the least. With Spring Training 2021 officially underway, it seems that Germán ha...
Luis Severino received Tommy John surgery in February of last year. The typical recovery time for Tommy John is usually 12-18 months. Yankees GM Brian Cashman addressed the return of Severino a few we...
Coming into the 2021 MLB season, the Yankees still boast one of the strongest rosters in baseball. However, this does not mean they are without issue. With Spring Training officially underway, the Bro...
With exactly one week until pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training, it still appears as though many teams are not done acquiring new pieces. One of these teams could very well be the New Yor...
The Mets’ search for a true defensive center fielder has seemingly ended. Early on Sunday morning, Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic reported that the team has agreed to a deal with 26-year-old Albe...
On February 3rd, 1998, Brian Cashman was officially named general manager of the New York Yankees. In the 23 seasons since, the Bronx Bombers have won 4 World Series, 6 American League pennants, and 1...
A blockbuster trade, announced on Friday and officially finalized on Monday, sent shockwaves throughout the baseball world. Star third baseman Nolan Arenado has been sent to the St. Louis Cardinals, i...
The Suffer Index is back again, this time with America’s pastime. That’s right, we’re taking on the MLB this time around. Once again, I made a few changes, but I think it better enca...
There’s a new pitcher in the Bronx, and he throws sidearm. According to Lindsey Adler of The Athletic, the Bronx Bombers have agreed to terms with 38-year-old reliever Darren O’Day. It was...
The New York Yankees continue to bolster their pitching staff, as Jason Mackey reports that the Bombers have acquired righthander Jameson Taillon from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Taillon joins Gerrit Cole...
Henry Louis Aaron was born on February 5th, 1934. He was forced to overcome immeasurable obstacles throughout his life. By the time he left us on Friday morning, he had established himself as a true A...
Every year, we see young players burst onto the scene and make a name for themselves at the major league level. As we approach the 2021 MLB campaign, let’s take a look at five potential candidat...
Even with the acquisition of Corey Kluber, the New York Yankees are still dealing with a few potential question marks when it comes to pitching. Despite rave reviews from scouts and fellow players, it...
Throughout this offseason, the main focus of both the New York Yankees and their fans has been the campaign to resign D.J. LeMahieu. And with good reason, too. LeMahieu has hit .336 since joining the ...
There have been a handful of pitchers that could throw the elusive “Knuckle Ball” and even fewer that could throw it with dominance. Phil Niekro enhanced his career with the pitch, while a...
Late on Sunday night, the Tampa Bay Rays traded away 2018 AL Cy Young award winner Blake Snell, first reported by Dennis Lin. The Deal The Rays, coming off a World Series appearance in the shortened 2...
While Baseball is America’s pastime and growing in popularity in other countries around the world, some spots around the globe find themselves unfamiliar with the century and a half old sport. H...
Dominic Hann is a freshman pitcher for the Michigan State Baseball program. In the interview, we go over his recruitment process, high school baseball, the COVID situation for the baseball offseason, ...
One of the biggest sagas of the 2020 offseason is the free agency of infielder D.J. LeMahieu. The 32-year-old is on the open market after two phenomenal seasons with the New York Yankees. Phenomenal m...
Throughout various countries, competitive winter baseball leagues continue popping up, attracting new players around the globe. With minor league baseball leagues taking the regular season off due to ...
Late Monday night, the Chicago White Sox made the biggest splash of the offseason so far, acquiring Lance Lynn in a trade with the Texas Rangers. In return, Texas received Chicago’s #5 prospect,...
There is no doubt that everyone is being affected by the pandemic and the athletic departments in community colleges are being hit hard. The baseball program at Paul D. Camp has set up a donation site...
Zack Greinke has had a phenomenal career. Since his debut in 2004, he has been a six-time All-Star and a six-time Gold Glove winner. In addition, he won the Cy Young award in 2009 and has finished as ...
On November 18th, 2020, the MLB announced that New York Mets’ Robinson Cano has been banned for the 2021 Season without pay. The 38-year old Second Baseman tested positive for PED’s for th...
Spells is a high school athlete that had to learn that there are moments in life that are bigger than sports. What Josh and his family had to go through all while doing his best on the field, is what ...
Robert Manfred was elected as the next commissioner of Major League Baseball in August 2014, succeeding longtime commissioner Bud Selig. The ironic thing about this? Manfred doesn’t seem to at a...
Free agency in baseball has long been difficult to navigate, for both players and teams alike. However, after a historically strange 2020 season, the upcoming free agency period could be unlike any ot...
It was Game 6 of the 2020 World Series, with the Tampa Bay Rays facing elimination. It was the bottom of the sixth inning, and the Rays led the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1-0. After Dodgers center fielder A...
Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers on winning their first World Series since 1988. However, we need to talk about what happened after the game. Actually, we need to talk about what happened be...
It is something that we have all heard many, many times. The “Clayton Kershaw chokes in the playoffs” narrative has permeated the baseball world, and has reached meme status for the past s...
Ian Anderson has pitched in elimination games before. In his senior year of high school at Shenendehowa in 2016, he threw a complete-game shutout, with 8 strikeouts, in the state semifinal game agains...
The Lecture Hall boys are back and this time with the first two time guest in show history! Danny Vietti of CBS Sports is joining the show once again to talk about the MLB playoffs this far as well as...
The All-Star Classic hosted by Baseball Factory is a showcase game that featured 40 of the top high school players in baseball. Both the National team and American team featured great hitters and pitc...
In an article from July, I said that Jordan Montgomery “will be a key depth piece in the Yankees’ chase for their 28th title.” Well, here we are. With the Bronx Bombers trailing two ...
The New York Yankees have arguably the most storied history of any professional sports team in existence. They have played in countless playoff series’, and experienced both triumph and heartbre...
There are many current and former student athletes that were left undrafted and unsigned during the 2020 MLB Draft. It looks as if this may be the new normal for many young players with dreams of play...
If you are like a lot of baseball fans, you were probably a little upset when Major League Baseball announced that the 2020 postseason would consist of 16 teams in total. You might have been even more...
The Cy Young race in the National League features some guys you’re probably familiar with. Jacob deGrom, Yu Darvish, and Trevor Bauer seem to be the consensus top three at the moment. However, B...
Last night, Ryan Braun hit his 350th career home run off of Johan Oviedo. The line drive that just got over the wall, joined Braun’s name with 95 others who have had that amount of power. As som...
Think of MVP candidates in the National League this year. There are a few obvious ones. The Dodgers’ Mookie Betts, Fernando Tatis Jr. of the Padres, maybe Freddie Freeman in Atlanta. Now think o...
In terms of elite relievers in the league, there are a lot of guys that likely come to mind before Devin Williams. In fact, you probably thought of Williams’ own teammate, that Josh Hader guy, b...
The 2020 MLB trade deadline was an unexpectedly eventful one. There was much uncertainty about how significant trades would factor into this season, with COVID restrictions and the like. However, this...
As the trade deadline approaches, “Slam Diego” continues to act as buyers. On Sunday afternoon, it was announced that the Padres have acquired Mitch Moreland from the Boston Red Sox. In re...
After this month’s fiasco regarding the Indians and two of their pitchers breaking COVID-19 protocol, the team is left with an interesting question in whether or not to trade SP Mike Clevinger. Brea...
The baseball gods are not known for being forgiving. However, they seem to have some sort of grudge against the New York Yankees in recent years. They have once again sent the injury bug to the Bronx....
If you are a boomer and hate young people having fun, then this is not the article for you. Late Monday night, Fernando Tatis Jr., one of the young faces of baseball did something that had the ‘...
Campus Cover Episode 44: New Beginnings and a New MLB Season. The Campus Cover is making its triumphant return! The former Student Union podcast has risen from the dead. Campus Cover is back and bigge...
Joon Lee hops on the podcast to talk about the MLB restart, some unique opportunities that arise from it and his early World Series predictions. Then I dive into Patrick Mahomes’ contract and wh...
As part of the rule changes for the upcoming MLB season, National League teams will feature a DH in their lineups for the first time in history. This leaves all 15 teams with several intriguing option...
BREAKING: Tik Tok heartthrob and Oregon Softball superstar, Haley Cruse, appears to be off the market. Well fellas, we tried. For months we’ve awkwardly tweeted, dm’ed, commented, along wi...
In the fast-paced world that is the Backyard Baseball universe, the reviews were in after my coaching debut. I had many viewers chirping at my inability to generate offense without the benefit of the ...
The Little Wombats geared up for their inaugural game as a franchise and nerves were running rampant in the clubhouse. Expectations for the team are sky high. Stars Sammy Sosa and Pablo Sanchez lead w...
Mike Fiers publicized the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal that polarized the sports world over four months ago. The Commissioner’s office and Rob Manfred punished the 2017 World Series ch...
The season is still young for the Hawkeyes baseball team, but after being swept by Indiana in the first conference series of the season, Iowa needed a confidence booster. The Hawks got just that. They...
Last week, the NCAA put a video on Twitter that took the internet by storm. The video showed a “student-athlete” going through his daily routine. The video received a lot of criticism from...
The first weekend is complete, and the Bearcats have some work to do. Their first series of the year was at Florida Atlantic, a team who finished last year with a 43-19-1 record while making the NCAA ...
Baseball season is upon us! College baseball has started today, and man am I excited. The Bearcats had a decent season last year going 28-28 and leading the entire nation with the most double plays. T...
Baseball season is just around the corner. The opening weekend of college baseball kicks off this Friday, February 15th. Major league pitchers and catchers are beginning to report to their respective ...
Kyler Murray has officially made his choice. Since his last football game at Oklahoma and declaring for the draft in January, it has seemed more clear that the Heisman Trophy winner was going to choos...
Not a great travel guide. To start this off, I just want to point out that the trip from Starkville, Mississippi to Omaha is a bitch, and I don’t think I will ever make it again unless I am bein...
In an early candidate for game of the year, Mississippi State fought off elimination, beating host Florida State thanks to a walk-off 3-run homerun from star junior outfielder Elijah MacNamee. Followi...
Host: No. 12 East Carolina Match-ups: No. 1 East Carolina vs. No. 4 UNC Wilmington (Friday, 7 pm EST), No. 2 South Carolina vs. No. 3 Ohio State (Friday, 2 pm EST) East Carolina vs. UNC Wilmington Ea...
We have entered the best time of the year. Classes are done for the summer, most students have returned to their hometowns, some for the first time since winter break, and the weather is finally heati...
The Campus Cover (@TheCampusCover) is a Student Union Sports podcast featuring Cody Goggin (@CodyGoggin) and PJ Guippone (@pjguip1) primarily focusing on college sports gambling and pure nonsense. Gra...
The greatest series you are not currently watching is available only on YouTube. The Season: Ole Miss Baseball provides intermittent updates on the Ole Miss Baseball team (hence the title) but in a fo...
March Madness has begun, but with all the attention focused on college basketball, now is not the time to forget about college baseball. Conference play begins shortly, and before we all know it, it w...
As college basketball begins its ascent to the national spotlight with March Madness, college baseball should not be pushed to the back-burner. This past week featured a matchup between two top-15 tea...
“College Baseball Is Fun” – PJ Guippone College Baseball is here, and oh boy we are off to a very hot start. Perfect Games, more No-No’s than a Mutumbo Finger Wave, and now we ...
What a week in college baseball. This weekend in particular featured a ton of no-hitters, some Top 25 action, and one perfect game. The pitching award was particularly tough to pick, with so ma...