In the first annual MiLB Awards Ethan Salas and Robby Snelling win awards. Friends of the pod make their MLB debuts. Snelling is Baseball America's Pitcher of the Year. Lot's of Arizona Fall league stuff. Roy and Donavan talk to Assistant Director of Player Development Mike Daly
AFL rosters are out and the Padres sent some breakout players. More MLB debuts. Graham Pauley and Robby Snelling are your Minor League players of the year. Roy and Donavan discuss when the big league club can expect support from the talent in the system. Final Affiliate Rundown.
Matt Waldron get's his first MLB win, "Sugar" hits his first MLB homer. Robby Snelling is MiLB Single-A ball pitcher of the year, Ethan Salas is the Single-A prospect of the year. Graham Pauley and Sammy Zavala are All Stars. High-A Nathan Martorella and Jacob Marsee are High-A All Stars. Affiliate Rundown: Ft. Wayne come up short in the playoffs, Snelling, Mazur and Iriarte have strong finishes.
Profar is back with the Big League club. MiLB teams lawsuit against the MLB can move forward. MadFriars Pete Zamora interview. Tincaps are going back to the post season. Affiliate Rundown: Storm come back in the ninth, Austin Krob spins a gem, Jairo Iriarte Keeps rolling, and You'd be amazed at the League performance in AAA
Victor Lizzaraga & Robby Snelling grab pitchers of the week in their respective leagues. The Affiliate Rundown is chalked full of Excellent pitching performances. Snelling Lizzaraga, Krob and Iriarte all have lights-out starts.
Donavan Travels up to Lake Elsinore to talk to Homer Bush Jr. and Storm hitting Coach Jed Morris. Homer discusses his falling in love with the work off the diamond. The work translating to better performance every year. He takes off in the MLB development League playing for the Greenville Flyboys. How the cape cod League is similar to pro ball. And how he hopes to be a example for other Black athletes to play baseball. Jed Morris talk about setting the Padres foundation of hitting philosophy. Ho...
Roy and Donavan go through the massive movement of players up the system. Should Ethan Salas do up to AA? Would bringing Jackson Merrill crush his development? The MiLB awards keep coming!! Jackson Merrill, Graham Pauley are MLB Pipeline players of the week. The Rundown!!
Ethan Salas and more move up!! Homer bush Jr. makes a splash in his debut in Lake Elsinore. Donavan and Roy discuss the new MLB Pipeline top 100, Salas rockets to #5!! and Jackson Merrill is #9 plus Robby Snelling, Dylan Lesko rise on the list and Sammy Zavala breaks into the top 100. Affiliate Rundown!!
Roy and Donavan talk about the Hello's and goodbye's of the trade deadline. Jairo Iriarte and Adam Mazur getting innings out of the bullpen. Baseball America's Carlos Callazo gives us the rundown on the Padres 2023 draft selections.
Jackson Wolf get's called up from AA and get's his first MLB win!! Daniel Johnson, Sammy Zavala get MiLB player of the week. Kai Murphy goes to Ft. Wayne and the Boys talk to Rosman Verdugo. Affiliate Rundown
Massive mid-season promotions and demotions. Campy rejoins the Big league Club. Taylor Kohlway is called up to The Show. The Senne Case goes final and is set to be funded and distributed. Donavan and Roy have a long conversation with RHP Henry Williams.
looking on the Brighter Side! The boys put the first half in the rearview mirror and look forward to the Padres to have a healthy second half. We summarize the Padres top 5 draft picks, Tirso Orneals, Marcos Castanon and Ethan Salas all win MiLB awards. MadFriars talks to Missions Manager Luke Montz. Affiliate Rundown.
Donavan and Roy discuss Matt Waldron's spot start and the changes he's made to make it to the Majors. With the draft coming up there's plenty of movement in the system. Some really exciting players are moving up including breakout prospect Robby Snelling, Albert Fabian and Tirso Ornelas is heading to El Paso. Affiliate Rundown has MadFriars reporting from San Antonio.
As frustration mounts with the Major League team Donavan talks Roy of the ledge from full blown fan meltdown. Donavan introduces the break up team concept to Roy. In system notes: Robby Snelling cracks MLB Pipeline's top100 prospects. Dylan Lesko makes his complex debut and in the Affiliate Rundown Jackson Merrill and Tirso Ornelas are tearing it up.
Roy and Donavan try to solve the Parent club woes and Donavan goes on a rant on Twitter. Robby Snelling is #10 left handed pitching prospect on MLB Pipeline. The boys discuss MadFriars Ryan Bergert interview. and Affiliate rundown has plenty of Ethan Salas content.
Donavan talks to Visalia Rawhide Director of Broadcasting and Media relations Jill Gearin. she talks about what she said during her 8th grade graduation and what happened 8 years later. We talk about the steps she took to get the Rawhide job. She lists all the things she does daily before the first pitch. We touch on her Sexual Assault and her filling in for at Dodger stadium for the parent club Arizona Diamond backs. In our second interview Donavan talks to Albert Fabian. He gives us insight to...
Episode 200!! We brought back our beloved friend and woman warrior Emily Waldon. She tells her battle with Cancer and she get's to ring the bell at the Cancer ward!! We discuss the origins of her article on Minor League pay and lifestyle and the reverberations of it to drive the Unionization of the Minor Leagues. We then go over the CBA for the Minor Leagues and the impact that it will have on the lives of players.
A Buscone offers $80,000 for a 10 year-old player, Padres DSL team will have two teams. Ft. Wayne No-Hitter!! Jairo Iriarte, Alan Mundo and Adam Smith combine for a no hitter!! Plenty of audio from that! Kobe Robinson and Tyler Robertson talk to Donavan. Nathan Mortarella and Robby Snelling are starting to get national attention.
Stop dragging our heart around!! The big league team is struggling. Robby Snellling is getting some national attention. Ethan Salas update. Donavan talks to Lake Elsinore Storm Graham Pauley.
MiLB awards for Storm players, Madfriars talks to Anthony Vilar. Sam Blum covers the Angels for The Athletic and talks about his article on the "Enhanced Baseball" being tested in The Southern League where the Angels AA team plays. He also gives his thoughts on Ohtani and what he might do. There is also great audio from The Storms broadcaster Jacob Kronberg from Albert Fabians Walk off 3-Run homer!!
Brett Sullivan get's his first MLB hit, Tom Cosgrove get's called up. Get's a win in his first MLB appearance. Madfriars talks to El Paso Chihuahua's manager Phillip Wellman. The Affiliate Rundown.
New Segment Major League Minute or Five, Espy get's fined and suspended 10 games for second substance offense. We discuss Max Scherzer's offense and the similarities to Andersons. Affiliate Rundown, and Donavan talks to Lake Elsinore's Griffin Doersching. He talks about no plan B, transferring to Oklahoma State, plus quick hits.
The boy's discuss the Big League clubs weak start, who goes to the bullpen when Joe Musgrove comes back, what's the issue with Soto but Manny's not worried. MiLB News: Weird and Wacky the Trash Pandas make history. MLB will try new rules in the Indy league. Affiliate Rundown,
Roy and Donavan discuss the historic MiLB players CBA with MLB. Padre Fans can exhale. Affiliate Rundown, Storm media day: Donavan talks to Robby Snelling and Jagger Haynes.
Roy and Donavan talk about John Conniff's notes from the backfields. Jairo Iriarte, Ethan Salas, Carter Loewen and more. Then The boys talk to San Antonio Missions play by play announcer Stu Paul. He talks new ownership and the possibility of bringing a new Stadium. Stu talk's about the new coaching staff and more.
The Lake Elsinore Storm do major renovations to The Diamond. MLB Pipeline's Sam Dykstra who covers the Padres system comes on and talks about several of the players on the list. He goes deep on Robby Snelling, Adam Mazur, Henry Williams. He discussed how he ranks players that haven't pitched in affiliate ball. We also touch on Jackson Merrill, Ethan Salas. In the second half we talk about the WBC and his co-host on The Show before the Show podcast Tyler Maun who broadcasted the games in Pool D.
In the first half of the show MLB Pipeline's Jonathan Mayo talks about Jack Merrill, Ethan Salas, Jackson Wolf and goes in depth with Jay Groome's development, maturing and a player and why he can be a solid back end of the rotation starter for the Padres for years. In the second half Jonathan talks about his book Smart Wrong and Lucky: The Origin Stories of Baseballs Unexpected Stars. How some of today's biggest names almost didn't get noticed. You'd be surprised where some played positions tha...
Donavan and Roy wonder if this is real life? They talk about the Manny Machado contract and what Peter Seidler has done to turn this team into a powerhouse!! Then the boys talk to El Paso Chihuahua play by play broadcaster and Author of Tales from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous, Inspirational & Wild Anecdotes from Minor League Baseball Tim Hagerty. He talks about several players and the Chihuahua's season. Then goes through the book writing process and some of the funniest stories' he's witnesse...
Donavan is now Mr. Robtoo with a second new hip. Eguy Rosario is out with a broken ankle. Padres Sign Michael Wacha to a interesting deal. MadFriars Mark Wilkens discusses His Padres top 30 prospects, the method, the reasoning.
Donavan talks about his week at Padres Fantasy Camp. The former Padres are coaches, Kangaroo Court, the gear you get. The camaraderie with the fellow campers and coaches. Breakout prospect for the Padres is Alek Jacob per MLB Pipeline. Baseball America names Jackson Merrill and Dylan Lesko as the top Padre prospects. Then the boys discuss the depth pieces signed to Minor League deals.
