From Phenom To The Farm

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September 18, 2024 Former MLB Pitcher Matt Wisler On Life As A Journeyman Reliever
Former MLB pitcher Matt Wisler joins the podcast to discuss his life in baseball. After achieving success coming out of the 2011 draft, Wisler bounced around the big leagues as a journeyman reliever before settling into key bullpen roles with the Twins and Rays.

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52 min
September 04, 2024Jimmy Serrano On Defying The Odds To Reach The Big Leagues
Few players follow Jimmy Serrano's path to the majors. A short righthander, Serrano walked on at Mesa Community College after graduating high school with exactly zero scholarship offers. Yet 10 years (and one position change) later, he reached the big leagues with the Royals. Today's show covers all of that, including...
Going from a juco walk-on to a big leaguer
Things that are different about pitching in Korea
The unusual conversion from reliever to starter in the majors

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53 min
August 07, 2024 Iowa State Rep. J.D. Scholten On His Incredible Return To Pro Baseball
Former college pitcher and Iowa State Representative J.D. Scholten joins the podcast to discuss his career in politics and improbable return to the mound for the Sioux City Explorers.

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49 min
July 17, 2024 Justin Masterson On How Food Poisoning Changed His Career
Justin Masterson joins the podcast to discuss his path to the big leagues, including how an untimely bout of food poisoning altered his career path forever.

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1 hr 13 min
June 26, 2024 Derrick Loop On Finding His Baseball Home In Mexico
Derrick Loop joins the podcast to discuss the long and winding road through professional baseball that led the 40-year-old to finding a successful career in Mexico.

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51 min
June 05, 2024 Travis Snider On His Rapid Ascent To The Big Leagues
Travis Snider joins the podcast to discuss his rapid ascent to the big leagues and subsequent struggles, big league food culture, his thoughts on the word "bust" and his post-career journey working to change youth sports.

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1 hr 10 min
May 22, 2024 Pat Venditte On Becoming A Switch Pitcher
On this episode, Pat Venditte discusses becoming the first switch pitcher of the 21st century, the extra work involved with using both arms, deciding how to face switch hitters and "The Pat Venditte Rule."

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49 min
May 07, 2024 Stephen Schoch On His Viral 2021 Regional Postgame Interview
Former UVA closer Stephen Schoch joins the pod to discuss having one D1 offer out of high school, his experience in the transfer portal, his viral 2021 regional postgame interview, odd summer jobs, weird guys in bullpens and why the Cape Cod League is kind of like Gilmore Girls.

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1 hr 30 min
April 17, 2024 Mike Lieberthal On Being An Undersized Catcher
Longtime Phillies backstop Mike Lieberthal joins the pod to discuss surviving as an undersized catcher in the minor leagues, sitting behind Darren Daulton and Benito Santiago, facing Smoltz, Glavine and Maddux, having a front row seat to the 1999 Fenway Park ASG, seeing the rise of steroids in baseball and playing under Larry Bowa and Terry Francona.

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56 min
April 02, 2024 Nathan Kirby On Dealing With Multiple Surgeries As A Pro
Former UVA and Brewers lefthander Nathan Kirby joins the pod to discuss pulling his name out of the 2012 draft, throwing a no-hitter in college, closing out the 2015 CWS and dealing with multiple surgeries as a professional.

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"From Phenom to the Farm" is a monthly series presented by Baseball America featuring interviews with former & current professional players that made the jump from high school directly to pro ball, and whose experiences vary across the professional baseball spectrum. Players will chronicle their personal experiences in transitioning from high school graduation directly into the life of a professional baseball player.