The youth baseball years are where the foundation of a player's relationship with the sport is built — and the decisions families make during those years, from travel teams and organizations to the conversations that happen after every game, have a lasting impact on whether a young player falls more in love with the game or slowly starts to pull away from it. In this episode of Dugout Dish, Andy and Keith have one of their most important and most personal conversations yet about youth baseball, parent mindset, and what it genuinely takes to help a young player develop a healthy, sustainable, and joyful relationship with baseball during the years that matter most.

What we cover:

Whether your son is just starting out in travel baseball or is deep in his development years — this episode will make you think differently about your role in his journey and give you practical strategies to be the parent he needs you to be.

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Private coaching, facility work, and off field development have never been more accessible or more popular in youth and high school baseball — and the results show up in the numbers. Velocity is up. Exit velocity is up. Metrics across the board are trending in the right direction for more players than ever before. But there is a gap that separates the players who get recruited from the ones who do not — and it has nothing to do with their facility numbers. It is whether or not all of that work actually shows up in games. In this episode of Dugout Dish, Andy and Keith tackle one of the most important transitions in the entire recruiting and development process — making the jump from performing in a facility to performing when the game is on the line.

What we cover:

Whether your son has great facility numbers and has not yet figured out how to make them translate — or is just beginning to understand what college coaches actually evaluate — this episode gives you the complete picture of what it takes to get recruited in today's game.

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Last week Andy told his story. This week it is Keith's turn. In this episode of Dugout Dish, Andy turns the tables on EMD Baseball Co-Owner Keith Glasser for one of the most personal and most honest conversations in the history of this podcast — his background in baseball, how he found his way into college coaching, what sixteen years on the sidelines taught him, and why every difficult moment along the way shaped him into exactly who he needed to become.

What we cover:

Keith's background in baseball and the experiences that set him on the path toward college coaching

How he got his start in college baseball coaching and what those early years in the profession actually looked like

What sixteen years of college coaching taught him about the game of baseball, about developing young men, and about navigating the real challenges of a life spent in college athletics

Why he stepped away from coaching after sixteen years and the journey that led him to become co-owner of EMD Baseball

What he appreciates now looking back on his college baseball experience with almost twenty years of hindsight and life experience that simply were not available to him at the time

What matters more in the college baseball process than players and families think it does right now — the things that seem small at the time but turn out to be everything

What matters far less than players and families think it does right now — and why it takes years away from the game to truly understand which things were worth worrying about

An honest and unfiltered conversation about how genuinely difficult it is to play college baseball and build a career in college coaching — what nobody tells you before you start

Why Keith would not change a single thing about his path despite how hard parts of it were and what that perspective means for every player navigating their own journey right now

The relationships and the people he met along the way — through coaching, through baseball, through life — and how those connections shaped him through both the best and hardest moments of his career

How the difficult things that happen to you in baseball and in life after baseball are not obstacles to your growth but the very things that prepare you to handle everything that gets thrown at you once you graduate

This episode is for every player who is in the middle of the hardest parts of their journey right now and needs to hear from someone who has been there — and come out the other side grateful for every bit of it.

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The financial side of college baseball recruiting is one of the most confusing and most consequential parts of the entire process — and most families do not fully understand it until it is too late to ask the right questions. In this episode of Dugout Dish, Andy and Keith break down what financial aid packages actually look like at every division level, with a focused deep dive into D3 baseball where the absence of athletic scholarships creates a financial aid landscape that is widely misunderstood but often surprisingly favorable for families who know how to navigate it.

What we cover:

If your family is trying to make sense of the financial side of college baseball — this episode gives you the framework to understand every offer on the table and make the most financially informed decision possible.

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Every week Andy Kiriakedes helps families navigate the college baseball recruiting process — but this week Keith turns the tables and puts Andy in the seat. In this episode of Dugout Dish, we get the full story of EMD Baseball Co-Founder Andy Kiriakedes — where he grew up, how he got recruited, what his college baseball experience was really like, and what eleven years of coaching at the D1 and D3 levels taught him before he walked away from coaching and eventually built EMD Baseball into what it is today.

What we cover:

This is a different kind of Dugout Dish episode — a personal, honest, and revealing conversation about the journey behind one of college baseball recruiting's most trusted voices. Stay tuned next week for Keith's interview.

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Most baseball families enter the recruiting process with one goal in mind — get as many offers as possible. But the families who navigate the process most successfully understand something that most people miss entirely — the recruiting process is not about accumulating offers, it is about using every opportunity you have to create the right options for your son and making the best decision along the way. In this episode of Dugout Dish, Andy and Keith break down exactly what that distinction means in practice and why shifting your mindset around offers and opportunities could completely change how your son approaches his recruitment.

What we cover:

Whether your son has zero offers or ten — this episode reframes the entire recruiting process in a way that will make every family a smarter and more intentional navigator of what lies ahead.

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Before Ryan Forrest was named the 17th head coach in Princeton Baseball's 127 year history, he was building Boston College into an NCAA Tournament program and coaching Paul Skenes — the number one overall pick and 2025 Cy Young Award winner — at Air Force. Now he is bringing that experience, that pitching knowledge, and that recruiting philosophy to one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. In this episode of Dugout Dish, Andy and Keith sit down with Coach Forrest to talk about his coaching journey, how Princeton finds and recruits the right players, and how he thinks about pitching development in the modern game.

What we cover:

Whether your son is a pitcher with Ivy League aspirations or is being recruited at any division level — this conversation with one of the brightest and most accomplished young head coaches in college baseball is packed with insight you will not find anywhere else.

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In this episode, we talk about the mindset surrounding the Division III and Junior College levels of college baseball. We can also argue that the NAIA level fits into this conversation as well because they are not "fall back" options if you do not get recruited where you like. Eight precent of high school seniors will play college baseball so there are limited spots and we dispel the myth that they are automatic options to call back to and not options that you must compete for.

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What does a program with 22 years of coaching experience behind it look for when recruiting players — and how do they make sure the fit is right for both sides before making an offer? In this episode of Dugout Dish, Andy and Keith sit down with Wesleyan University Head Coach Matt Reynolds, who is entering his first full season with his own recruiting class, to talk about how he and his staff identify and recruit the right players for their program during the summer evaluation period.

What we cover:

Whether your son is being recruited at the D3 level or any other level of college baseball — the insight and advice Coach Reynolds shares in this episode is universally applicable to every family navigating the process right now.

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In this episode, we talk about how to handle committing to a college program and the do's and do nots of the commitment process. We talk who to call, when to post, and when you should be doing it.

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