The Players Podcast Australia

20/10/2021

We back baby!

With all of the crazy news in the last 24 hours surrounding the ABL we dropped a as we try to get our heads around everything going on in the league!

Hit the link in our bio and stay tuned as we have more exciting episodes in the works over the next few days.

11/08/2021

📣 Major Announcement 📣

Paul Latta has stepped out of his tanning bed and returned serve on Jez by banging him out at the plate on a close call in the Far North Coast Baseball competition over the weekend.

We here at the Players Podcast Offices can only believe this is in retaliation to numerous funny (hilarious) remarks the boys have made at his expense over the course of last seasons podcast.

Jez has been seen repeatedly muttering the words "He didn't tag me"

More on this story as it develops.

10/08/2021

📣 Major Announcement 📣

Our boy Miggy G aka Michael Gahan has signed with the Blue Sox for the 2021/22 season!

Everyone here at The Players Podcast Australia Head Office (Jez) is super excited to see Miggy G dealin’ in a Blue Sox uni this Summer🙌

ROSTER ANNOUNCEMENT: Former Adelaide Giants Rookie of the Year Michael Gahan, agrees to terms for 2021/22 season. Welcome to the organisation.
FULLS STORY - See Link in Bio

18/03/2021

🚨New Episode🚨

The boys are back with Part 2 of their chat with Baseball Australia CEO, Cam Vale!

There's so much in this chat as the boys try and ask all of the pointy questions as they get to chat with the top dog of BA.

The boys thank you so much for your support throughout the season, they have some exciting things planned for the next couple of months and can't wait to drop it all for you very very soon!

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Photo : SMP Images / ABL Media

11/03/2021

🚨New Episode🚨

The boys sit down with the CEO of Baseball Australia, Cam Vale and talk about everything that was the 2020/2021 season.

This is Part 1 of a two part interview with Cam. Find out all the goss from the guy at the top of the food chain.

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Photo : SMP Images / ABL Media

24/02/2021

🚨New Episode🚨

The boys sit with the new pitching sensation from Canberra, Dean Stoka!
Mick & Jez ask Dean what it was like being a 39 year old rookie in the ABL this season, how the Canberra Cavalry came about to signing him this year and what it was like in the clubhouse as the new guy!

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Photo : Andrew Green SMP Images / ABL Media

22/02/2021

🚨New Episode🚨
The boys from The Players Pod sit down with Steve Kent after the end of a stellar ABL career.

Mick & Jez ask Steve all about what really happened in Melbourne in the ABL Playoffs, they talk about his time throughout pro-ball and what the Atlanta Braves did in order to sign him early on, and the boys ask about Keith Ward and his bushman's beard and if he really doesnt like Jez after the Players Pod Breakdowns!

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16/02/2021

🚨New Episode🚨
The season might be over but the Players Podcast is only starting to heat up!

The boys sit down with the most decorated womens player in Australian Baseball history, Shae Lillywhite.

Mick & Jez ask Shae all about her 20 years in the Australian Womens Emeralds Team, they talk about her multiple world cups, her time in Japan, and of course the ABL Women's Showcase and the WABL!!

The boys also break down the ABL Championship series in their Around The Horn segment and talk about all of the crazy happenings of the final days of the 2020/2021 season.

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Apple Podcast:
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📸: Dean Anglin

09/02/2021

🚨New Episode🚨

The Players Podcast Australia are counting down to the big finals weekend and the historic ABL Womens Showcase this weekend with a chat with Maddi Tabrett.

Jez catches up with Maddi and finds out all about her time in the Emeralds team and they discuss things like her first ever National Team at the age of 15, as well as recently changing positions, and looking forward to the upcoming World Cup and the Womens ABL in 2021.

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Apple Podcast:
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09/02/2021

ABL BREAKDOWN - Who did it better?

08/02/2021

🚨New Episode🚨
Those boys are back with a brand new guest, the head coach of The Australian Emeralds womens program, Jason Pospishil.

Mick & Jez dive into the womens program and Pops' involvement and how they're tracking coming out of 2020, ramping up towards the Womens Showcase and looking forward to the Australian Team and the Women's ABL.

There are plenty of laughs, some serious baseball chat, the first ever situational breakdown in Players Pod history as well as a look back at a nice little YouTube highlight from Pops' time as the manager of the Sydney BlueSox.

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Apple Podcast:
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05/02/2021

🚨New Episode🚨

On this episode of The Players Podcast Australia, the boys sit down with none other than former Big Leaguer, long time Team Australia member & ABL Veteran, Luke Hughes!

Mick & Jez chat with Hughesy about everything from his time in the Minor Leagues, making the Big Leagues and his debut home run off Max Scherzer, The ABL and how to make baseball mainstream, and lots more. Strap yourselves in this is going to be a fun and wild ride!!

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Apple Podcast:
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03/02/2021

ABL BREAKDOWN- Darryl Does Brisbane

We breakdown Darryl George’s 3 grand slam weekend in Brisbane against the Brisbane Bandits.

Video credit to Australian Baseball League

02/02/2021

🚨New Episode🚨
On this episode of The Players Pod Mick & Jez get to chat with Australian Emeralds Outfielder, Elodie O'Sullivan!

Them boys get to know Elodie and hear all about her road to the Australian Womens Team as well as a deep dive into the mental side of the game and what kind of approach both Elodie & Mick take come game time.

Jez breaks down all of the news from around the league and covers a massive weekend of ABL action.

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Apple Podcast:
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📸: Dean Anglin

30/01/2021

🚨New Episode🚨

On this episode of The Players Podcast Australia the boys chat with ABL Veteran, Australian player and Blue Sox leader, Trent D'Antonio.

Mick and Jez go around the league with all of the happenings in the ABL and also chat with league legend, Trent D'Antonio.

Theres heaps in this as Jez and Trent talk about Trent's 300+ Career Hits and his 350+ games in the ABL!
Trent gives us a few ideas into what he thinks might help take the ABL to that mainstream level of sport in Australia and he tells us what he sees in the future of his illustrious baseball career.

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Apple Podcast:
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📸: CSBaseballPhotos

29/01/2021

ABL BREAKDOWN- The World’s Slowest Stolen Base

-NSFW-We breakdown the Boss Moanaroa at bat with a mixed up count, the world’s slowest stolen base and all the drama around it.

Full video credit to Australian Baseball League

28/01/2021

🚨New Episode🚨

This episode the boys get to sit down with the guy that calls balls and strikes, Tom West!

Mick & Jeremy talk to Westy all about his journey from Redcliffe to the Minor Leagues and what it's like in the surprisingly cut throat world of baseball umpiring.

The boys pick Westy's brain about the use of sliding gloves (oven mitts) in todays game as well as talking about technology creeping into the modern game and where its going to end up.

No baseball podcasters got ejected in the making of this episode.

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Apple Podcast:
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📸: SMP Images

27/01/2021

🚨New Episode🚨

The boys are back with another huge podskie!

This episode Mick & Jez speak with big leaguer and worldwide leader in strikeouts for 2020, Dan Straily!

The boys ask Dan all about playing in the KBO, getting drafted, and his time in the minor leagues and so much more as they chat with the KBO K King.

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Apple Podcast:
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Check out Dan's podcast "The Journeyman" available anywhere you're getting your podcasts from!

19/01/2021

This episode the boys chat with Chavez Young from the Canberra Cavalry and discuss getting drafted and his time with the Toronto Blue Jays organisation.

The boys also discuss the hub games and all of the news around the league.

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Apple Podcast:
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13/01/2021

What else could we do for our 20th pod?

The boys decided it was best to call in the big guns and talk about nearly everything other than baseball!

Miggy G & Jez catch up with Darryl George from the Melbourne Aces and Boss Moanaroa from the Canberra Cavalry and talk about Boss and his home brewing side hustle, they go over the difficulties of playing 4 series in a row against each other and a whole lot more fun on the wildest episode of the Players Podcast you've heard.

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Apple Podcast:
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13/01/2021

What else could we do for our 20th pod?

The boys decided it was best to call in the big guns and talk about nearly everything other than baseball!

Miggy G & Jez catch up with Darryl George from the Melbourne Aces and Boss Moanaroa from the Canberra Cavalry and talk about Boss and his home brewing side hustle, they go over the difficulties of playing 4 series in a row against each other and a whole lot more fun on the wildest episode of the Players Podcast you've heard.

Click the show links below 👇

Apple Podcast:
https://apple.co/3mmkcLj
Spotify:
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This show was brought to you by The Baseball Experts Fielders Choice

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11/01/2021

🚨 New Episode 🚨

It's time for another Walk-Off!

The boys sit down with non other than Walk-Off Wingrove, Rixon Wingrove!

Rixon tells the boys all about playing in "The Fortress", He talks about coming to Adelaide and being involved in the youth movement the Giants Organisation has been developing as well as his time with the Philadelphia Phillies organisation and we uncover some interesting handball stories with Rixon & Mitch Edwards.

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Apple Podcast:
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08/01/2021

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This episode those boys chat with Perth Heat rising star, Ulrich Bojarski!

Mick & Jeremy also review the games from the big week of Hub Baseball in Brisbane and talk with Ulrich about his journey through the Minor League system with the Detroit Tigers and his what its like for him to be playing in The ABL

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Apple Podcast:
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04/01/2021

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This is huge!

The boys get to talk to the first ever female hitting coach in the MLB, none other than Rachel Balkovec!

Mick & Jez ask Rachel all about her path from the first ever female strength & conditioning coordinator with the Cardinals, to becoming the first ever hitting coach with the New York Yankees organisation. They talk about the struggles and discrimination Rachel had to face to get to where she is now, and how Rachel ended up down under with the Sydney Blue Sox this season and what’s next?

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01/01/2021

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This episode the boys talk to the first ever African born player in the MLB and all around good guy, Gift Ngoepe!

Mick & Jez talk all about Gift's grind through the minor leagues, what it was like adjusting culturally from South Africa to the United States and of course what it's like playing here in The ABL!

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29/12/2020

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This episode Michael & Jeremy get some time with Lisa Norrie!

The boys ask her all about her time in the Australian Womens program and looking after the Bandits Womens High Performance program. We also hear about Lisa and her trips to winter meetings and of course the Womens ABL Showcase coming up in Brisbane and Adelaide and a whole lot more!

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25/12/2020

Merry Christmas from those boys at The Players Podcast Australia 🎄

This photo was taken after Michael’s first ever ABL start. At that time, the boys didn’t have a podcast, Jeremy had a bad moustache, and Michael hadn’t uttered the famous words “hunter pence pants”. How things have changed.

We have enjoyed the last couple of months with all of the support from you the listeners and the players themselves 🙌

Stay safe, and look after each other!

Yours in baseball pods,
Mick & Jez

23/12/2020

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This episode the boys get to sit down and chat with the big hitting lefty from The Canberra Cavalry and all around great guy, Boss Moanaroa!

This episode is an absolute ball of fun as Boss tells Mick & Jez all about how he got signed to the Boston Red Sox organisation and we find out what Boss had to give up in order to keep playing professional baseball, as well as how his brother also signed a pro contract. Boss tells the boys all about the challenges he faced in pro-ball and The ABL.

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22/12/2020

🚨 New Episode 🚨

On this episode those boys are back with another awesome guest, none other than Captain Australia, Tim Kennelly!

Mick & Jez are excited to sit down with the veteran presence of the Perth Heat and talk all about this crazy 2020 season, as well as some golf chat, some Premier 12 chat, and the boys finally put a rumour to bed about a certain Atlanta Braves golf day.

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21/12/2020

🚨 New Episode 🚨

The Players Podcast sits down with long time Catcher for the Australian Womens Team, Tahnee Lovering.

Mick & Jez ask Tahnee all about her time in the Emeralds Womens team, they talk the upcoming womens showcase and they uncover probably the funniest baseball quote of all time!
"Might have been shot, might have the flu"

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Apple Podcast:
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