Which Prospects Have Bounced Back, Which Ones Are Slumping
On this week's Prospect Podcast, Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper take a look at prospects who got off to awful starts, but have turned it around in the past two months. And we also look at prospects who were off to fast starts, but have seen their seasons start to get derailed in June and July. Prospects Who Are Turning It Around (01:00) Colson Montgomery, White Sox (07:40) George Wolkow, White S...
57m Jul 30, 2025
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Breaking Down The 2025 MLB Trade Deadline & New No. 1 Prospect | Hot Sheet Show Ep. 66
On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes, Jesús Cano and Scott Braun talk all things MLB trade deadline. We discuss Spencer Jones' hot streak and wonder if he could be moved before Thursday's trade deadline (https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2025-mlb-trade-deadline-tracker/) . We also break down the latest Top 100 Prospects (https://www.baseballamerica.com/rankings/2025-t...
31m Jul 28, 2025
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Fantasy Podcast: First Year Player Draft Rankings For 2025 With Jacob Rudner
This week on the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast Dylan and Geoff welcome on Jacob Rudner to discuss the 2025 draft class. We debut our first FYPD ranking of the season, talking through a muddled top ten and much more. (5:00) Kade Anderson and the benefit of the for with the Mariners. (8:00) Liam Doyle's upside and question marks. (14:00) Is Aiva Arquette a safe bet? (20:00) Ethan Holliday has...
57m Jul 24, 2025
57m
MLB Trade Deadline: Matching Fascinating Teams, Prospects
On this week's Prospect Podcast, Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper take a look at some of the prospects, buyers and sellers that could make news over the next week and a half until the MLB Trade Deadline. (00:00) JJ feels back for what he did last week (09:00) Will a Top 100 Prospect be traded? (11:30) Will A Top 25(ish) Prospect be traded? (16:00) Analyzing a viewer's Reds-Red Sox trade proposal ...
1hr 36m Jul 23, 2025
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College Podcast: Best Portal Classes, Way Too Early 2026 Preview
Baseball America college writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty review the 2025 college baseball offseason from MLB draft winners and losers to best and most-underrated transfer portal classes and more. Rudner and Flaherty also look way ahead at the 2026 season and talk early contenders. (2:10) Draft winners (11:27) Draft losers (19:07) Top portal players (26:00) Best portal classes (34:3...
1hr 2m Jul 22, 2025
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Recapping MLB Draft Signings & Looking Ahead To 2026 | Hot Sheet Show Ep. 65
On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Carlos Collazo, Ben Badler, Geoff Pontes and Scott Braun look back on the 2025 MLB Draft (https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2025-mlb-draft-live-analysis-scouting-reports-for-every-first-rounder/) and look ahead to the 2026 player crop (https://www.baseballamerica.com/rankings/2026-top-mlb-draft-prospects/) . We also discuss which top prospects ...
33m Jul 21, 2025
33m
Reviewing EVERY 2025 MLB Draft Class | Future Projection Podcast
The Future Projection pod goes deep on the 2025 MLB Draft. Check out each team below. Looking for more deep dives like this? Subscribe to Future Projection where you get your podcasts. Get 20% off your first Slab Pack or card purchase by going to ArenaClub.com/FOUL (http://arenaclub.com/foul) and use code FOUL Time Stamps: (12:00) Nationals (21:00) Angels (29:00) Mariners (34:00) Rockies (39...
2hr 48m Jul 19, 2025
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Fantasy Podcast: Reviewing The 2025 Draft For Fantasy
This week on the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast we dive into the Futures Game. As Geoff talks about the standouts from Futures Game Bp and other observations. We then jump directly into MLB draft talk in preparation for our first FYPD list of the season. We run through the Top 10 in the draft teasing our FYPD 1.0 rankings next week. (2:00) Futures Game recap (9:00) Draft review (11:00) Kade ...
51m Jul 18, 2025
51m
Why The Nationals Drafted Eli Willits No. 1 Overall & More MLB Draft Reactions | Hot Sheet Show Ep. 64
On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Peter Flaherty and Scott Braun react to the 2025 MLB Draft (https://www.baseballamerica.com/mlb-draft-tracker/) . We share thoughts on a number of picks, including the Nationals' selection of Eli Willits (https://www.baseballamerica.com/players/1354517-eli-willits/) in the 1-1 spot. Time Stamps (0:30) The state of the game—Futures Game & MLB Draft ...
33m Jul 14, 2025
33m
2025 MLB Draft Day 1 Reaction
Baseball America Editor-In-Chief JJ Cooper, Prospect Writer Ben Badler, National Reporter Peter Flaherty and National College Reporter Jacob Rudner break down Day 1 of the 2025 MLB Draft, including a surprising first overall pick, intriguing selections and much more. Our Sponsors: * Check out Indeed: https://indeed.com/BASEBALLAMERICA * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com * Chec...
1hr 49m Jul 14, 2025
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The Ultimate 2025 MLB Draft Preview Show
Ben and Carlos are joined by Peter Flaherty in a hybrid Future Projection/draft podcast for our annual draft preview episode. The three work down the draft board and talk about all the latest rumors, profiles and players attached to each team. The group talks through most of the players we expect to see early on the first day of the draft, discuss different draft strategies and work through pla...
2hr 50m Jul 11, 2025
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MLB Draft Stats To Know
Do you know which MLB team almost never drafts lefthanded pitchers? Are you aware there is a team that drafts almost entirely lefthanded and switch hitters? Want to know which teams focus on picking pitchers and which teams stick to draft hitters? On a special draft preview podcast, Pramana Labs CEO Corey Patton and Baseball America's JJ Cooper use Pramana's Shift AI tool to fuel their regular...
51m Jul 11, 2025
51m
Prospect Podcast: True Sleeper Prospects To Know
Everyone's definition of a sleeper prospect is different. But we want to make sure when we talk about "sleepers" we aren't talking about prospects on the back half our Top 100 Prospects list. Having just updated our Top 30 Prospects rankings for all 30 MLB teams, Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper discuss some sleeper prospects who are moving up on Top 30s. (03:00) An Astros Sleeper (05:45) A Rays Pi...
42m Jul 09, 2025
42m
Nationals Fire Manager, GM Before 2025 MLB Draft & Staff Draft 3.0 | Hot Sheet Ep. 63
On this week's Hot Sheet Show Carlos Collazo, Peter Flaherty and J.J. Cooper react to the Nationals dismissing Mike Rizzo and Dave Martinez (https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/with-draft-decision-looming-nationals-fire-mike-rizzo/) a week before selecting first overall in the MLB Draft. We also discuss the Baseball America Staff Draft 3.0 (https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2025-mlb-...
31m Jul 07, 2025
31m
Baseball America Staff Draft
With the 2025 MLB Draft just days away, Baseball America's staff held a mock draft with staff making the picks for the first 40 picks, at least one for each and every MLB team. We provide plenty of analysis as well, so this should be a very useful preview for the MLB Draft. (00:00) Setting The Stage (01:55) No. 1 Nationals (03:00) No. 2 Angels (05:15) No. 3 Mariners (06:30) No. 4 Rockies ...
1hr 30m Jul 07, 2025
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2025 Draft Prospects Who Could Move Quickly & Our Favorite Tools
Carlos and Peter hop on the draft podcast to talk about players they’re now more excited about than they were before finalizing draft reports. They talk about a few names then pick out a few candidates to be the quickest to the majors. Finally the two go back and forth and talk about some of their favorite individual tools or player traits in the class. — Time Stamps (2:00) Players we are mo...
40m Jul 04, 2025
40m
Fantasy Podcast: Young Prospects In The Majors Buy Or Sell
The Fantasy Podcast is back nestled in between Canada Day (Dylan) and the Fourth of July (Geoff) we bring you a patriotic rundown of the top happenings in dynasty baseball. The majority of the show is spent focusing on young prospects in the major leagues and whether they are a buy or sell. (2:30) Spencer Schwellenbach injury (5:00) Christian Moore Injured (7:30) Futures Game rosters Prospect ...
48m Jul 03, 2025
48m
Who Will Be Baseball America's Next No. 1 Prospect?
Over at BaseballAmerica.com we have a new and fully updated Top 100 Prospects rankings. Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony remains the No. 1 prospect in the new rankings, but he is soon to graduate. With that in mind, Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper take a look at who is the new No. 2 prospect, who will soon climb to become the new No. 1 prospect on this week's Prospect Podcast. (00:00) Futures Games...
56m Jul 02, 2025
56m
Breaking Down MLB Mock Draft 5.0 & Top 500 Draft Prospects Update | Hot Sheet Show Ep. 62
On this week's Hot Sheet Show Carlos Collazo, Ben Badler and J.J. Cooper break down the latest Baseball America MLB mock draft that published on Monday. We discuss names to know, how we could see history atop this year’s draft and how players opting out of the draft thanks to new NIL opportunities will add a new wrinkle in the draft landscape. Time Stamps (0:55) Who's going 1-1 to the Nation...
33m Jun 30, 2025
33m
Fantasy Podcast: Chase Burns vs Jacob Misiorowski
On this week's episode of the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast we play "choose your fighter" between Jacob Misiorowski or Chase Burns. Dylan stumps for Burns while Geoff argues Misiorowski's merits. We dive into some of the recent injury news and discuss a pair of names Roboscout thinks you need to know. (3:00) Jacob Misiorowski vs Chase Burns (11:00) Corbin Carroll wrist injury (16:00) Chris ...
44m Jun 26, 2025
44m
AL East Prospect Check-Ins
In the first of a six-week series on the Prospect Podcast, Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper take a look at the farm systems of the five AL East teams at the midpoint of the season. Who has taken steps forward? Who's backing up? (00:00) We're excited by the young pitching prospects reaching the majors (05:00) Chase Burns/Jacob Misiorowski talk (19:00) Baltimore Orioles farm system analysis (28:00)...
1hr 10m Jun 25, 2025
1hr 10m
Orioles RHP Trey Gibson Joins, Chase Burns Ready For Debut & MLB Draft News| Hot Sheet Show Ep. 61
On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes, Carlos Collazo and Scott Braun welcome Orioles 10th-ranked prospect Trey Gibson to the show. We also break down Reds top prospect Chase Burns making his MLB debut on Tuesday and discuss the latest whispers surrounding the top of the MLB Draft. Time Stamps (0:50) Chase Burns set to make MLB debut on Tuesday (10:00) Orioles RHP Trey Gi...
34m Jun 23, 2025
34m
College Podcast: 2025 Season in Review
Baseball America college baseball writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty convened to look back on the rollercoaster of the 2025 college baseball season, LSU's march to glory and Coastal Carolina's historic season. Rudner and Flaherty also broke down their final Top 25 of the season and made way-too-early predictions for the 2026 national title. (2:57) LSU's incredible run (13:50) What made C...
52m Jun 23, 2025
52m
Rising And Falling Farm Systems
On this week's Prospect Podcast, JJ Cooper and Geoff Pontes take a look at three farm systems that have made strides in the first half of the season and one that's headed in the wrong direction. 00:00 JJ's back from a baseball vacation 03:15 The Blue Jays are better and deeper 09:00 The Tigers are rolling at every level 19:30 The Mets pitching development has made strides 24:30 It's been b...
54m Jun 18, 2025
54m
Red Sox Trade Rafael Devers To The Giants | Hot Sheet Show Ep. 60
On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes and Scott Braun unpack the Red Sox trading Rafael Devers to the Giants. Time Stamps (0:30) Initial reactions to the trade (7:45) Digging into the prospect return: James Tibbs & Jose Bello (13:15) Did the Red Sox get enough back in the deal? (17:50) Breaking down the trade from the Giants' perspective (21:10) How Devers fits with SF ...
29m Jun 16, 2025
29m
College World Series Day 3 Reactions: Arizona Eliminated, Coastal One Win From Title Series
Baseball America national college reporter Jacob Rudner breaks down Day 3 of the College World Series from Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, where Louisville defeated Arizona 8-3 to eliminate the Wildcats and Coastal Carolina beat Oregon State 6-2 to advance to the semifinals. (1:34) Louisville vs. Arizona (4:04) Coastal Carolina vs. Oregon State (7:20) A look ahead at Day 4 Our Sponsors: * Ch...
15m Jun 16, 2025
15m
College World Series Day 2 Reactions: UCLA Freezes Murray State Run, Kade Anderson Dazzles
Baseball America college baseball writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty offer their reactions to the Day 2 action at the 2025 College World Series in Omaha, where UCLA defeated Murray State 6-4 and LSU beat Arkansas 4-1. (0:58) Day 2 in Review (4:13) UCLA vs. Murray State recap (8:43) Breaking down UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky (13:01) Answering viewer questions (18:21) Kade Anderson's d...
39m Jun 15, 2025
39m
College World Series Day 1 Reactions: Oregon State, Coastal Carolina Open With Wins in Omaha
Baseball America college baseball writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty break down Day 1 action from the College World Series in Omaha. Oregon State and Coastal Carolina advanced to the winner's bracket with victories over Louisville and Arizona, respectively. (4:23) Coastal Carolina vs. Arizona (11:16) Oregon State vs. Louisville (18:08) Louisville outlook (20:37) Answering viewer questi...
32m Jun 14, 2025
32m
Mock Draft 4.0: Uncertainty, Helium Names & Pool vs. Pick Capital
Carlos and Peter hop on the draft podcast to talk about the fourth edition of the BA mock draft for the 2025 class. The two talk about the process, the players moving up, the challenging plates to place and a fun theoretical question about whether teams would prefer pick capital or bonus pool capital if they had the choice. — Time Stamps (4:00) Kade Anderson up top (6:30) The uncertainty of ...
58m Jun 13, 2025
58m
Roman Anthony and Jacob Misiorowski Called Up, ACL Standouts and Red Sox Breaking Ball Usage
This week on the Prospect Podcast Geoff Pontes fills in for J.J. Cooper and is joined by fellow prospect writer Jesus Cano. The two discuss the recent promotions of Roman Anthony and Jacob Misiorowski, before diving into a trio of players that have the Arizona complexes buzzing. It's a packed show this week! (4:30) Roman Anthony callup (12:00) Is Bubba Chandler next? (14:00) Chase Burns ETA ...
48m Jun 11, 2025
48m
College Podcast: College World Series Preview and Predictions with Chris Lemonis
Baseball America college writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty are joined by 2021 national champion head coach Chris Lemonis to break down super regional action and make College World Series prediction. Rudner, Flaherty and Lemonis talked the eight team field, scouting top draft prospects and much more. (0:35) Super regional review with Chris Lemonis (7:15) College World Series preview with...
52m Jun 10, 2025
52m
Roman Anthony Called Up, MLB Mock Draft 4.0 & Brody Hopkins Joins | Hot Sheet Show Ep. 59
On this week's Hot Sheet Show, Geoff Pontes, Carlos Collazo, Jacob Rudner, Jesús Cano and Scott Braun welcome Rays pitching prospect Brody Hopkins. We also break down BA's Mock Draft 4.0 and explain why competing college pitchers still have room to improve their draft stocks during super regionals and the College World Series. Plus, we offer some live reaction to the Red Sox calling up basebal...
36m Jun 09, 2025
36m
The 2025 Super Regionals Are Loaded With Draft Prospects
Carlos and Peter talk about the insane quality and quantity of draft capital in this year’s super regional round of the NCAA tournament. The two talk about the matchups with the most talent, the best individual pitcher-batter matchups to keep an eye on and then discuss a number of different players who have performed or who have an opportunity to continue moving the needle in the postseason. —...
41m Jun 06, 2025
41m
Who's Moving Up In The June Top 100 Prospects Update?
We have the June update of the Baseball America Top 100 Prospects rankings up now at BaseballAmerica.com. Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper analyze some of the big movers in a great crop of young shortstop prospects on this week's Prospect Podcast. (00:00) It is a great time for teenage shortstop prospects (04:00) Why Blue Jays SS Arjun Nimmala is moving up (10:00) Comparing Pirates SS Konnor Griff...
42m Jun 04, 2025
42m
College Podcast: Breaking Down Regionals, Super Regional Predictions
Baseball America college writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty offered their thoughts and reactions to the 2025 NCAA Tournament regional round and made super regional predictions. Rudner and Flaherty also discussed Mississippi State’s hiring of former Virginia coach Brian O’Connor, the transfer portal and picks to click. (2:35) The SEC’s big face plant (9:04) Vanderbilt and Texas make histo...
57m Jun 03, 2025
57m
Jac Caglianone, MLB Callups & NCAA Regionals Reactions | Hot Sheet Show Ep. 58
romoting top prospect Jac Caglianone to the big leagues, as well as two other callups from over the weekend in Cole Young and Jacob Melton. Plus, Jacob Rudner offers a look at how the SEC’s dominance heading into the tournament has already come undone. Time Stamps (0:40) When is the Super Two deadline? (3:00) Jac Caglianone called up KC (7:45) Jac's swing data (12:30) Cole Young called up Se...
33m Jun 02, 2025
33m
The Best Tools In The 2025 Draft Class
Carlos and Peter hop on the podcast after a busy week on the site to talk about the recently dropped BA 500, the difficulty of putting together their Golden Spikes Award finalists vote and the NCAA tournament. Half the show is spent going through the best tools categories for the 2025 draft class and talking about the best options for each category along with a handful of other players with str...
46m May 30, 2025
46m
Fantasy Podcast: Valuing Jac Caglianone For Fantasy And Early Roboscout Standouts
With domestic complex leagues in full swing and a solid sample of games at the four full-season levels of the minors Roboscout is honing in on some top names to target. We talk through some news early on in the show before we discuss how Jac Caglianone should be valued for fantasy. The show closes with five players Roboscout thinks you should target. (2:00) Jobe velocity was down on Wednesday,...
45m May 29, 2025
45m
Breaking Down 2025 NCAA Basement Tournament Winners & Losers| Hot Sheet Show Ep. 57
On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Peter Flaherty and Jacob Rudner recap Selection Monday. We discuss winners and losers and debate which teams are on upset alert in Regionals. Plus, we take a look at Texas A&M failing to make the tournament after being crowned preseason No. 1. Time Stamps (0:45) Baseball America's impressive bracket predictions (1:45) Winners from the bracket reve...
35m May 28, 2025
35m
Prospects On The Verge Of The Big Leagues
In today's Prospect Podcast, Geoff Pontes, Josh Norris and JJ Cooper take in-depth looks at Royals 1B/OF Jac Caglianone and Brewers RHP Jacob Misiorowski. They have been two of the best prospects in the minors in the first two months of the season. What are their timetables and what more do they have to work on? (00:00) What we have been seeing in the minors this week (07:05) Breaking down Ja...
50m May 28, 2025
50m
College Podcast: 2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament Bracket Breakdown
Baseball America college writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty and Editor-In-Chief JJ Cooper convened to break down the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket in the immediate aftermath of selection Monday, Rudner, Flaherty and Cooper discuss this year’s top-eight national seeds, the hosting picture, tournament snubs and more, plus offer their postseason picks to click. (0:50) Initial reactions to the...
52m May 26, 2025
52m
Draft Prospects Who Could Elevate Their Stock In Postseason Play
Carlos and Peter talk about a handful of 2025 draft prospects who have opportunities to seriously boost their draft status. Pitchers like AJ Russell (Tennessee), Anthony Eyanson (LSU), JB Middleton (Southern Miss), Gage Wood (Arkansas) and James Ellwanger (DBU) could jump into a second-round vacuum of college starters. On the hitting side, Carlos is intrigued by the tools of Cincinnati outfield...
37m May 23, 2025
37m
What Farm Systems Have Stood Out So Far
We're six weeks into the MiLB season, so it's time to look at which organizations are standing out (both for good and bad) so far on this week's Prospect Podcast with Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper. (02:00) The Twins Are Sneakily Impressive (09:45) The Mets Have Plenty Of Arms (16:00) The A's Have More Depth Than They've Had In A Long Time (20:30) Why the Orioles and Nationals Have Work To Do ...
44m May 21, 2025
44m
Pitching Prospects Making Instant Impacts & Top 5 Prospects To Watch In 2025 | Hot Sheet Show Ep. 56
On this week's Hot Sheet Show, we talk about pitchers expected to make the biggest impacts in 2025 while picking some need-to-know players to keep an eye on. Time Stamps (1:20) Pitchers who can make an instant impact in 2025: Bubba Chandler, Joe Boyle & Jacob Misiorowski (11:25) How concerning is Noah Schultz's start to the season? (14:20) How to handle young pitchers' innings (16:45) Coul...
32m May 20, 2025
32m
Fantasy Podcast: Is It Time To Sell On These Slumping Dynasty Stars?
Now that we're almost two full months into the season it's time to examine some of these slumping dynasty stars. Hosts Geoff Pontes and Dylan White dive into ten names and give you their recommendation to sell or to hold. (1:00) Dalton Rushing debut and expectations. (6:00) Matt Shaw recalled by the Cubs (9:00) Jared Jones UCL injury, likely to have Tommy John surgery (12:00) Mick Abel looks p...
49m May 20, 2025
49m
College Podcast: The NCAA Tournament Picture One Week From Selection Monday
Baseball America college writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty go in-depth on the Field of 64 picture one week out from Selection Monday, including their picks for top eight national seeding, the top projected two-seeds and an extensive look at the bubble, plus Picks to Click. (2:32) The race for a top eight national seed (7:06) Is the No. 1 overall seed battle still murky (13:49) The host...
1hr May 19, 2025
1hr
Draft Mailbag: Shortstop Defense, Draft Strategy, A Sleeper College Bat & More
Carlos and Peter hop on the draft podcast to dig deeper into reader draft questions. What’s our degree of confidence in the top shortstops sticking at the position and how would we line them up? Which are our favorite prospects in each major demographic? Would a team tank on a top 10 pick this year to get one in the 2026 class? Will the Orioles draft a pitcher in the top 30? Should the Mariners...
45m May 16, 2025
45m
Fantasy Podcast: Ten Players With Eye-Popping Data Per Roboscout
This week on the Fantasy Podcast hosts Dylan White and Geoff Pontes return to talk about 10 players with outstanding data. They cover highly rated Top 100 Prospects to some under-the-radar sleepers to target on your waiver wires in deeper leagues. (2:00) How to handle Roki Sasaki for 2025 and beyond. (11:00) Moises Ballesteros called up, what does Roboscout think? (15:00) Cade Horton called up...
57m May 14, 2025
57m
Prospect Podcast: Best Teenage Shortstops In The Game
It's a great time for shortstop prospects, and today we're looking at the best of the best. There are three teenage shortstop prospects who have climbed into the top 10 of our Top 100 Prospects list, and all three have a case to be the No. 1 prospect in baseball next year. Geoff Pontes, Josh Norris and JJ Cooper take a deep dive into what makes Jesús Made, Leo De Vries and Sebastian Walcott sta...
45m May 14, 2025
45m
College Podcast: Can LSU Stick at No. 1, Picking Eight for Omaha
Baseball America college writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty discuss whether LSU can hold onto the No. 1 spot as the postseason nears. Rudner and Flaherty also picked eight teams to reach the College World Series, debated Texas A&M’s future and made their final Picks to Click of the 2025 regular season. (2:10) LSU’s rise to No. 1. Can it stay? (6:40) What’s ahead for Texas A&M (16:10) Pi...
1hr 4m May 13, 2025
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