Axcess Baseball's Podcast

On this episode, we are recording from Infiniti Sports Performance in Bellport, NY joined by Joe Wozny (UCONN-commit) and T.J. Wachter (Fordham-commit). Both are right-handed pitchers at The Stony Brook School. They explained their experience with the college recruiting process, why they decided to transfer to the private school and the unique schedule that they will play in school ball.

On this episode, we are filming from East End Baseball Academy in Medford, NY with Kyle Brennan. He is a 2012 graduate of Ward Melville HS and a five-year athlete at the University at Buffalo. He gives great insight on what it's like catching guys like Anthony Kay and Chris Cepeda. He also provides plenty of insight on the catching position in general, how the position has evolved, the most difficult aspects of playing Division-I, etc. He also runs the great IG page catchingmachine_performance

With Marcus Stroman making his debut for the New York Mets tonight, it is a good time to re-post our podcast with his father, Earl, from 2017. It's an insightful interview about Marcus' early days and some inside info on his recruiting process in which he was deciding between schools like Harvard, North Carolina and Duke. Check it out. 

On this episode, we are recording from East End Baseball Academy in Medford, NY with Suffolk CC Head Coach Jason Galbraith. He discusses his successful first season with the Sharks, and the inherent challenges of building continuity at a community college. He also spoke about his travel organization, the East End Aviators. Jason was 30-3 at Concordia College where he was All-American and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2002. He discussed pitching to Yadier Molina and his nerve-wracking pro debut in front of 4,800 people 

On this episode, we are joined by Joe Palumbo, owner of the Camelot Knights. We discuss the upward trajectory that the organization has taken in addition to their upcoming tournament with Gameday USA on August 17-18. Joe discusses their experience playing in Disney and what the future may hold for them.

On this episode, we are joined by our HCBL reporter Matt Weinstein to discuss the 2019 summer season for the Hamptons League. With the postseason beginning next week, we discuss last week's All-Star Game, Home Run Derby, first place Riverhead Tomcats led by Bobby Vath and Jason Coules and also some other developments around the league.

We have a special episode this week where we unveil our All-Decade team. With the help of Phillies northeast scout Tom Downey and legendary Shoreham-Wading River coach Sal Mignano we break down the list of players.

On this episode, we are recording live from Infiniti Sports Performance in Bellport, NY with 6x Umpire of the Year Rich Leonetti. We discussed how he broke into umpiring and we broke down the interpretation on several plays that have become prominent in the high school baseball game.

On this episode, we are joined by Bay Shore Head Coach Mike Herbst. We discussed his experience winning the 1998 New York State Championship with Longwood, following their incredible run from 9-9 to State Champs. He delves into his playing career which took him from Adelphi to Suffolk and finally to CW Post. Mike talks about how he developed his coaching style, his time coaching Brian Weissert and Hermes Abreu and also how his Bay Shore team went from No. 17 seed to one game away from the County Finals in 2018. He discusses his involvement with the East End Aviators and how they have quickly become a top program in just five years.

On this episode, we are live from East End Baseball Academy in Medford, NY with David Falco and Matt Alifano, fresh off winning back-to-back Class B New York State Championships. They discuss what the past few days have been like following completing the perfect season (26-0), how Coach Dennis Donovan has been able to maximize the talent on the roster, whether they could compete in League I, why Center Moriches has won Long Island Championships in baseball, soccer and basketball and also what it was like having scouts watching every pitch this season.