Today, we’re going to preview the college baseball season with former Northeastern University and Cape League pitcher Jordy Allard.

Allard's career accomplishments include:

Former Gatorade Vermont HS Player of the Year

Started college career at SNHU 

Transferred to Babson, where he earned 2021 New England Pitcher of the Year

Transferred to Northeastern, where he posted a 2.16 ERA over 50 innings in 2022.

Earned Cape League’s Top New England Prospect Award in 2022 with Hyannis Harbor Hawks

Finished career last spring in an injury-plagued final season at Northeastern

Anthony Giano was named the head coach of the varsity baseball program at Cheshire Academy in 2021.

Giano has worked at CA since 2015, including as assistant coach of the varsity and junior varsity baseball programs. He has nearly 30 years of coaching experience.

Philadelphia Phillies GM and New Hampshire native Sam Fuld joins the show to talk about offseason moves, the highs and lows of his playing career and the most exciting play in baseball.

Thayer Academy's James Pierce is the guest. Pierce recently finished his first season as head coach in 2023 after serving as a longtime assistant. 

The guest is Ryan Klosterman, who is entering his fifth season as the head coach of the Bryant Baseball program.

Klosterman was a 2021 Northeast Conference Coach of the Year, and his team is competing in the America East Conference for the second season.

MIT Pitching Coach Todd Carroll, a former 20 year college baseball coach, and more recently a pitching coordinator for a minor league affiliate for the Seattle Mariners, served as the MIT pitching coach from 2012 to 2022, a stretch in which the engineers won three local championships and advanced to five NCAA Regionals.

The Boston Pitching Congress is December 2nd, 8AM to 12:30PM at Donohue's bar and grill in Watertown MA.

Email Todd for more info at [email protected]

The guest is Wake Forest Coach Tom Walter. His squad went into the College World Series last year ranked number one. Last year's Demon Deacons finished the 2023 season with program records in regular season wins with 45, as well as overall wins with 54. This season's team made the program's third College World Series appearance and its first since winning the program's first national championship in 1955.

Bridgton Academy coach Aaron Izaryk discusses his team's fall schedule, which runs approximately eight weeks, including practices and games.

The guest is Nick Barese, who became head coach of UMass Lowell when Ken Harring resigned at the end of July.

Barese, the former head coach at Merrimack, spent the past two seasons as an assistant to Harring, whose exit came after the school authorized an independent investigation that cleared him from claims of racial discrimination toward a player.

Mavrick Rizy is one of New England's top prep prospects in the class of 2024, a right-handed pitcher from Worcester Academy. He joins the show to share his story while in the midst of finishing up a busy summer of showcases across the country.