My favorite part about new MLB the shows is looking for prospects I like and getting offended when they have a D potential rating

The culmination of my 8th day by day simulation of the college basketball season

I wrote about the biggest series this weekend, including all of the classics and tournaments that are a pain to cover brendanstepek.substack.com/p/what-im-ke...

I wrote about the notable upsets and results from this weekend and an eventful Tuesday night in collage baseball, opening with a recap of UCLA’s beatdown of TCU brendanstepek.substack.com/p/upests-and...

I wrote about what I’m looking at and forward to this upcoming weekend in college baseball. open.substack.com/pub/brendans...

The age old question of “what is a catch” has reared its ugly head once again

know he’s making just his 8th start and he’ll still be a rookie in 2026, but I’m not sure he’ll have a bigger start in his entire career than tonight’s

HJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

Our yearly tradition of Greg unplugging from baseball a week before the deadline has come and gone. I reveal all the moves that did or did not happen on air and oh boy this was a fun one

Yeah, I’m a big Mason Miller guy but holy shit you have to take this deal if it’s offered.

Mason Miller AND J.P Sears are gone?

A return like this is the only thing that would make me move Mason Miller, and honestly that might not even be enough but I’d take it

There’s Nick Kurtz, then there’s everyone else who has ever played baseball. Genuinely we might have just watched the greatest offensive performance in MLB history

The Orioles now have four top-40 picks because Mike Elias just has to build teams the old fashioned way

We are doing our yearly mock draft today and I have to say, the top end of this class is far from what 2023 and 2024 had for us. It’s still a good, deep class but as far as immediate impact guys, I count maybe three

Ban screenshots of player comparisons between a guy who made the all star team and a guy who didn’t

I’m not fucking dying for Israel

I think I’ll be moving Gage Wood up to the 20s on my big board

Immaculate jerseys from Little Rock and Cal Poly tonight

Big night for us Wes Mendes believers

Georgia Tech is taking years off my life here

Regionals are here and we couldn’t be more excited. Here is 2+ hours of analysis and breakdowns of each regional with some picks and planets of players to watch.

I know I’m wrong on Kentucky, but I’ve been saying all year I don’t think 13 wins is going to be automatic this go around. With how the committee picked regional hosts, that tells me how they value each conference. I think ASU is in real danger of missing the field and Virginia has no shot

Your 2025 NCAA Regional Hosts

My hosts, in no particular order; Vanderbilt Texas LSU Arkansas Georgia Ole Miss Coastal Southern Miss Oregon Georgia Tech Florida State Oregon State North Carolina Clemson TCU Auburn

I didn’t not have Southern Miss imploding on defense on my bingo card

Views from the home office

I had Blake Gillespie as my National Pitcher of the Year and today he racked up 13 strikeouts in 8 innings of 1 run ball for Charlotte. He’s an absolute workhorse with the stuff to back it up

In some personal news, my wife and I bought our first house today in which I’m going to have to baby proof because we’re also expecting our first kiddo this winter

Troy baseball :(

Dave Van Horn saw Arkansas rally in the 8th to pull within 1 and decided to send a freshman with 0.2 IP under his belt out there in for 9th inning

It feels wrong to have Texas over LSU, but the Longhorns still have the most Q1 wins in the nation, only 1 bad loss, and they have a series win over LSU and better computer numbers. It’s really not close

This was the weirdest week for the top 16

Not to alarm anyone but Johnathan Thomas is hitting to a 117 wRC+ through 20ish games this year

Three things here; 1. Unless something changed, this is not the normal Fenway camera angle. Why? 2. Why is the radar gun off? I NEED to know how hard this Harvard righty is throwing. 3. The thought of a college player having to navigate the pesky pole and Green Monster brings me joy

The Royals are calling up Noah Cameron to start tomorrow. Cool. What’s cooler is his 58.5% GB rate this year in 22.1 IP. My kind of guy

This was the hardest week by far to put together a bracket. I had 19 worthy hosts for 16 spots and the line between a 2 and 3 seed was difficult for mid-majors, Kentucky, and Virginia Tech

We talked about this on the last pod; Texas baseball has the best mustache game in the country

Happy NFL Draft Day, it’s now time to engage in my least favorite tradition of watching the film Draft Day starring Kevin Costner

Brent Rooker get ready to learn the outfield again because HERE COME NICK KURTZ BABYYYY

My thoughts from a few weeks ago in the wake of Jackie Robinson's removal from the DoD website.

My cats broke the plastic cap on my whiskey bottle so I’ve been working through whisky-cokes all day and watching college baseball. Definitely onto something here

I drank a lot. Greg and I overreacted. One of our favorite episodes of the MLB season is up and oh boy, it was a fun one

Maybe that explains the Jurickson Profar breakout at 31

Brent Rooker is out here legging out infield singles? A’s are postseason bound

Done working for the day

I’m ready to get hurt again

Life isn’t worth living

It was a light week four slate, but there was still plenty to unpack in this episode with ACC play kicking off. open.spotify.com/episode/35il...