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The Baseball America Podcast welcomes Dr. Nick Serio, founder and president of VeloU, a baseball performance and pitching development company focused on improving velocity, mechanics, strength and arm health through data-driven instruction.

Dr. Serio and J.J. Cooper discuss teenage Tommy John surgeries, the scary stats of what pitching injuries mean for future MLB success and what can be done to help prevent those injuries.

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On this week's Baseball America Draft Podcast, JJ Cooper and Carlos Collazo are taking an in-depth look at Roch Cholowsky's 2026 season. Is he living up to expectations or falling a bit short? We dive in to explain what we're hearing.

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• (00:00) Quick Look At How The Top Of The Draft Shapes Up
• (07:45) Looking At Roch Cholowsky's 2026 Season Compared To 2025
• (13:40) Digging Deeper Into Cholowsky's Underlying Analytical Data
• (15:00) A Way That Cholowsky Has Clearly Been Better
• (26:00) Looking At Cholowsky Defensively

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On this week's Prospect Podcast, Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper look at a trio of prospects off to great starts, plus we look at why the Nationals Class A teams are ones to watch.

(00:00) Franklin Arias Is Hitting For Power

(06:00) Colby Shelton Looks Like He's Combining Power And Contact

(10:00) Seth Hernandez Is Must-See MiLB.TV

(18:30) What Is Going Well For The Nationals, Including An Emerging Prospect

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On this week's Hot Sheet Show, Jacob Rudner, J.J. Cooper and Geoff Pontes shine a spotlight on early-season prospect performances that people should be watching. Are these players ready for the next step?

With the NCAA Tournament also drawing nearer, we break down teams that might be left on the bubble.

The Hot Sheet Show airs live on the BA YouTube channel every Tuesday at 3 p.m. Give us a sub, and we'll see you then!

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• (0:00) Introduction
• (0:55) Johnny Level and more early-season performances
• (3:30) George Lombard
• (5:00) Gage Wood
• (8:40) Robby Snelling
• (11:50) Ronny Cruz
• (14:45) Nationals' player development
• (17:40) Is Luis Lara for real?
• (19:45) When will Seth Hernandez get promoted?
• (22:00) NCAA powers on the tournament bubble
• (26:00) Rising college bats in conference play

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Baseball America national college reporter Jacob Rudner is joined by prospect writer Geoff Pontes to take a detailed look at the teams vying for host positions through 10 weeks. Rudner is also joined by Georgia junior third baseman Tre Phelps to discuss Phelps' decision to return to school instead of turning pro in 2025, what led to his breakout success and more.

(3:34) Can the Big Ten Produce Three Hosts?

(11:21) Host candidates from the ACC

(21:38) SEC dominating the host line

(32:10) Will the Big 12 produce a host?

(33:31) Sun Belt and Conference USA

(38:50) Georgia third baseman Tre Phelps joins

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The Baseball America Fantasy Podcast returns this week and hosts Geoff Pontes and Ian Cundall talk about six names to target in your dynasty leagues. These are players who are not only performing but they're impressing scouts and posting strong underlying data.

• (3:30) Taitn Gray
• (6:30) Ronny Cruz
• (12:30) Josiah Hartshorn
• (16:00) JT Quinn
• (21:00) Ben Jacobs
• (23:00) Mason Peters

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This week on the Baseball America Draft Podcast, Carlos Collazo, Jacob Rudner and JJ Cooper take a look at a 2026 MLB draft prospect each of us is intrigued by at three different levels: First Rounders, Top 100 Prospects and Non-Top 100 Prospects.

(04:30) Why Tyler Spangler Intrigues Carlos

(06:20) Why Logan Reddemann Intrigues Jacob

(11:00) Why Tegan Kuhns Intrigues JJ

(19:30) Why Ben Blair Intrigues Jacob

(25:30) Why Kaiden McCarthy Intrigues Carlos

(29:00) Why Tre Phelps Intrigues JJ

(37:30) Why Tre Broussard Intrigues Carlos

(44:00) Why Cam Johnson Intrigues JJ

(56:45) Why Caden Ferraro Intrigues Jacob

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This week on the Baseball America Prospect Podcast, Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper invite you to a pair of drafts. We each drafted a team from current rookies, as then we drafted prospect teams. And to make it harder on ourselves, we limited each picker to one player per org, and only six Top 100 Prospects among the 14 player rosters.

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(00:00) A little early season prospect talk

(07:00) Picking The Rookie Teams

(38:30) Picking The Prospect Teams

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On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes, Carlos Collazo and Jacob Rudner go all in on the 2026 MLB Draft, beginning with our latest 2.0 mock draft before answering a slew of viewer questions. We also break down Noah Schultz's highly anticipated MLB debut.

The Hot Sheet Show airs live on the BA YouTube channel every week on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Give us a sub, and we'll see you then!

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• (0:00) Introduction
• (1:30) BA's Mock Draft 2.0
• (3:45) Brody Bumila's rising draft stock
• (7:45) Why isn't Roch Cholowsky stealing bases?
• (9:30) Logan Reddemann's impressive profile
• (11:15) Steele Murdock has arrived
• (12:40) Derek Curiel and more bats in the college class
• (18:15) Answering viewer questions
• (24:15) Noah Schultz makes his MLB tonight

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Baseball America national college writer Jacob Rudner is joined by lead prospect analyst Geoff Pontes to discuss UCLA's historic 35-game start to the 2026 season and the milestones ahead for the Bruins. Rudner and Pontes also take a closer look at Florida's up-and-down season in the rankings, Oregon State's national championship hopes and more.

(3:20) UCLA's historic campaign

(12:23) Georgia Tech's dominance

(21:21) Where we stand on Florida

(30:06) How seriously should we take Oregon State?

(38:17) Non-Top 10 teams we love

(43:02) Ranked teams that scare us entering Week 10

(49:26) Two key Week 10 series to follow

(52:20) Unranked teams on our radar

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