Kline comes to the Crimson Hawks with 11 years of experience as a Major League pitcher and 15 years as a pitching coach and in player development at a variety of levels of professional baseball. 
Kline has spent his entire professional coaching career in the San Francisco Giants organization, coaching more than 100 players who would go on to appear in the Major Leagues. He’s won three World Series rings as an organizational coach and has been part of two minor league championship teams. 
Kline and the Hawks had a big turnaround during his first season at the helm of the program in 2022. IUP recorded an improvement of 25 victories, going 27-22 following a two-win season in 2021.

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Two-time National Coach of the Year Jim Schlossnagle enters his third season as the Texas A&M skipper as the Aggies embark on the 2024 campaign.
 
Schlossnagle has enjoyed tremendous success during his 22-year career as a head coach at Texas A&M, TCU and UNLV, amassing an 893-440 (.669) mark. 
In addition to leading the Aggies, Schlossnagle officially is currently serving as the president of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and began his presidency and leading the ABCA Executive Committee at the association's annual convention in January. 
He has been an ABCA member for 32 years and has consistently been involved in advancing the profession. Elected to the ABCA board in 2017, he is integral in shaping the association's legislative efforts and crafting the agenda for each year's convention. He served as the ABCA's Division I chairman in 2018, and in 2019 Schlossnagle began a string of four one-year stints as vice president, capped off by serving as the 1st Vice President in 2022.
 

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Division II veteran Rick O’Dette, who has amassed over 500 wins and led his teams to NCAA Regional play four times during his career, was named Saint Leo's new head baseball coach on June 15, 2017, ushering in a new era for Saint Leo baseball.

O’Dette made an immediate impact on the Saint Leo baseball program taking a team that had achieved just 23 wins in 2017 and amassing 38 victories in his first season at the helm. The Lions finished the year with an impressive 38-11 mark including taking two of three from Florida Southern on the road who was ranked No. 1 in the NCAA at the time.

Under O’Dette’s guidance, junior utility player Peyton Isaacson led the NCAA in saves with 14 in just 21 appearances on the mound. The junior tied the Saint Leo program record for saves in a season while also filling the role of starting catcher and first baseman throughout the season.

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In Part 2 Walter and Coach Tyner talk about the state of college baseball and advise for players and parents.

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We welcome Head Coach Matt Tyner to the podcast. In Part 1, we discuss the Towson University baseball program and recruiting.

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Blake Beemer was hired in June of 2022 to lead the Butler Baseball program as head coach. In his first season at the helm, Beemer guided the Bulldogs to conference series wins at Seton Hall and Georgetown, two of the four teams that made up the BIG EAST Championship Tournament field in 2023. Butler also won at #9 UConn (11-8) marking the highest win against a ranked opponent in program history!

After the 2023 regular season, Butler’s Joey Urban was named BIG EAST Freshman of the Year. The Bulldog outfielder was later added to Collegiate Baseball’s All-American Team for his outstanding efforts on the field. In the classroom, BU posted a team GPA of 3.38.

Before arriving at Butler, Beemer was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Ball State for four seasons (2019-22), Beemer helped the Cardinals to a 123-65 record.

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Brett Young joined the baseball staff in the fall of 2021 as an assistant coach. He was promoted to head coach in the summer of 2023. 

In his two years as Barry's recruiting coordinator, he helped lead the effort that saw the Bucs sign the top-rated class in NCAA Division II according to Perfect Game. The Bucs made the NCAA tournament in 2023 for just the fourth time in school history and won the South Region 2 title over host West Florida. Barry posted a 35-19 record and advanced to the Super Regional for the first time in program history.

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Walter answers questions about youth baseball on today's episode.

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A.J. Miller ‘11, a former Patriot League Player of the Year with the Leopards, begins his second season as the program's head coach.

In his first year at the helm of the Leopards program, Miller led the Maroon and White to the Patriot League Tournament, with Pete Ciuffreda, Michael Zarrillo and Alex Walsh all being selected to the All-Patriot League First Team. Also in 2023, Pete Ciuffreda broke Lafayette's single-season home run record, blasting 13 home runs.

Prior to returning to College Hill, Miller spent seven seasons on the coaching staff at Lehigh University, holding titles of assistant coach, recruiting coordinator and associate head coach, during his tenure in Bethlehem.

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Blake Dean has completed five seasons as the head coach at the University of New Orleans. In that span, he is 130-119-1. Dean picked up his 100th win against Louisiana on Mar. 12, 2019.
In 2021, Dean guided the Privateers to their highest finish since joining the Southland when they earned a 2-seed in the conference tournament. In that season, he coached six all-conference selections, tied for the most in a single season since 2008.
Dean also vaulted up to third in the all-time wins list and as of the end of the '21 season, was the fifth youngest head coach in Division I baseball. 
The Privateers started getting hot in 2020, winning 11 of 14 games before the season was shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. New Orleans swept Arkansas State in that span, won series against UConn and Nicholls, and defeated Tulane in the first game of the Pelican Cup.
That did not stop the streak Dean has been on in helping to produce draft picks. Eric Orze was selected in the fifth round of the 2020 Draft by the New York Mets. That marked the fourth consecutive year a Privateer has been drafted.

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