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The Schoch Factor

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Join Stephen Schoch this fall as he takes his own unique look at the world of college baseball with special guests from around the game! The Schoch Factor Podcast is presented by Soldier Sports.
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"From Phenom to the Farm" is a bi-weekly 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. The competition jump, adjusting to life on their own for the first time, ...
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Candid comments from baseball players about the college recruiting process. Real Recruiting Stories benefits high school players and their families who are trying to navigate the journey to get "committed."
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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. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/from-phenom-to-the-farm/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch and Jake Mintz talk about the beautiful baseball they witnessed at Day 1 of the Men's College World Series. To kick things off, we had UNC walking off a really good school that did well all game too (UVA). Then, to cap it off, we had Tennessee and Florida State give us an absolute thrille…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch and Jordan Shusterman recap super regionals and look ahead to the College World Series. 00:29 Super Regionals Recap 03:22 Virginia's Performance and Highlights 11:25 North Carolina's Journey to Omaha 18:59 Florida State's Comeback 24:24 Tennessee's Road to Omaha 32:04 Tennessee's Powerhou…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, we have a special postseason version of the Schott Factor, where Stephen Schoch once again sits down with Texas A&M’s ever-exciting Hayden Schott to catch up on how he has been since they last talked. He has been able to do some fun things in the past couple of weeks, such as seeing the SEC Tournament i…
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On this week's episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast we take a look back at some of Steve's travels from the weekend and highlight some of the games he saw at the Charlottesville, Greenville and Chapel Hill Regionals. Also, to be very clear... Steve was in Greenville on Saturday all day and never in Chapel Hill until Sunday morning. Then, the guys g…
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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. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/from-phenom-to-the-farm/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/b…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman react to the selection show and do their best to highlight what they are excited about and looking forward to in each regional. First, however, they give a nod to some of the fellas who they felt earned themselves a spot in the Field of 64 but got snubbed…
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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." Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/from-phenom-to-the-farm/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & …
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss some of the key moments from college baseball's 14th weekend and preview some of this week's conference tournaments. The Schoch Factor is brought to you by Soldier Sports. Follow Stephen on Twitter: @BigDonkey47 Follow Jake and Jordan on Twitter: …
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch is joined by Kentucky closer Johnny Hummel. Johnny has had an awesome collegiate career that started back in 2019 at Erskine, where he was trying to become a catcher for the Flying Fleet. After a number of years, Johnny ultimately found his way to the mound and began finding out that's wh…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch and Jake Mintz go over some of the big series sweeps that caught their attention during Weekend 13. We are now officially at crunch time in the college baseball season, where every game feels like an entire years' worth of work is depending on it. But, as we navigate these high-stress gam…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, we are joined by one of the hardest working men in college baseball, UNC Greensboro two-way star Caleb Cozart. I say this for a multitude of reasons. He pitches and he hits – he actually is now the single-season home run record holder for UNCG after only his second full season of hitting at the college …
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On this week’s episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman start by talking a bit about the UNC Wilmington Seahawks and then stumble into facts about actual Seahawks that could be linked to UNCW’s success. Moving along, they go over some of the other big series that caught their attention during Weekend 12…
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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. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/from-phenom-to-the-far…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman go over some of the key moments from college baseball's 11th weekend, ranging from Hunter Hines disintegrating baseballs to Texas A&M scoring almost two decades' worth of runs. Following that, they get into some of their favorite moments of the weekend an…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch catches up with one of the Robinhoods of pirating in East Carolina's Carter Cunningham (Barter Bunningham). In terms of being an ECU Pirate baseball player, Carter does a phenomenal job, mashing home runs and being a leader both at the plate and defending it. In terms of being a nautical …
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On the final episode of The Boardroom live on WEGL, Connor, Nelson, Kyle and Griggs are back to talk about the world of sports. The guys talk about Auburn basketball and football, the NBA Playoffs, MLB, random NFL Draft pick reactions and to close out the show, the final Boardroom pick'em standings are revealed and the guys relieve their favorite m…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch and Jordan Shusterman discuss Stephen’s trip to Mississippi State, while touching on a few of the highlights from Weekend 10 of the 2024 college baseball season. In summation, if you have not been to Starkville, go. The Dude rocks. Following that, they go over some of the biggest performa…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, we are once again blessed by the presence of Texas A&M outfielder and tribal leader Hayden Schott for the Schott Factor. This was a big week for the Aggies, from picking out a new team song to being ranked No. 1 by our friends here at D1Baseball, so we had a lot to unpack. In this episode, we will get i…
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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 Francon…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss Weekend 9 of the 2024 college baseball season, beginning with Steve’s interesting visit to ECU. On this trip Steve, was able to catch the No. 1 club baseball team in the nation as ECU took on No. 3 NC State. Following that, he headed over to the C…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman break down Weekend 8 of the 2024 college baseball season, beginning with a discussion about the controversy in the Georgia-Mississippi State series. Moving along, they talk about more madness from the SEC and other games that caught their attention over t…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch is joined by Virginia Tech's Carson DeMartini and Arkansas' Will McEntire to share what has been going into their success this season, along with how they even got into college baseball in the first place. All too often we see people balling out at the college level, and it is easy to thi…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch and Jordan Shusterman discuss their respective trips to the Virginia-Duke and Bowling Green-Xavier series. Following the in-person baseball highlights, our hosts go over some of the biggest movers in the D1Baseball Top 25. They then go over some of the biggest moments, plays and storyline…
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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. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/from-phenom-to-the-farm/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.co…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Texas A&M’s Hayden Schott joins Stephen Schoch for Episode 2 of the Schott Factor! Now that Hayden has had a few SEC weekends under his belt, it was time to pick his brain on what it's like playing baseball in the SEC. For those who may not know, Hayden is a grad transfer into A&M from Columbia, where h…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman highlight some of the top series from Weekend 6 of the 2024 college baseball season. They start by going over Clemson’s huge sweep of previously undefeated Florida State, then take a closer look at some more series. Moving along, they go over which teams …
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On this episode of The Boardroom, the guys are back after almost a month off to talk about all the madness in the month of March. The guys talk about Auburn winning the SEC Tournament last week in Nashville, the Tigers matchup vs Yale, some of the other March Madness games and their Final Four predictions as well as their low seed sleeper team.…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch is joined by Duke's Ben Miller and Maryland's Eddie Hacopian. Miller recently transferred to his hometown school after spending his undergrad years at Penn. This week, Ben went back to his old elementary school and read to some of their students and had them all come out to a game where h…
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Kevin Cron joins the podcast and discusses setting the Arizona high school record for home runs, turning down the Mariners as a third-round pick, playing in the 2014 CWS at TCU, going from the big leagues to playing in Japan and more. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/from-phenom-to-the-farm/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://re…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman try to make sense of what is going on with the Top 25 in college baseball after the biggest shake-up we have had in recent memory. Then, the guys talk through some of the baseball they took in this weekend, highlighted by the Florida and Texas A&M series.…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch sits down and interviews Coastal Carolina Chanticleer Blake Barthol. Blake is coming off an insanely hot week in which he went 11-for-23 with seven home runs, earning himself numerous player of the week honors. Blake talks to us about his recruiting process, how going to camps helped him …
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman begin with what baseball they watched this weekend, including what we witnessed between Wake Forest and Duke. The Blue Devils taking the series definitely caused some chaos in the D1Baseball Top 25. Moving along, they cover the teams that remain unbeaten …
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch is joined by Winthrop starting pitcher Riley Huge, who currently leads the nation in strikeouts with 37. Hear about how his approach to the game and just life in general has helped him have success on the bump. Following that, we introduce a brand new segment called the Schott Factor, whe…
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Former MLB Agent Josh Kusnick joins the latest episode of 'From Phenom to the Farm' to discuss becoming an agent as a college student, signing future big leaguers out of junior college and why he doesn't like the draft. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/from-phenom-to-the-farm/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bra…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, we go into what college baseball we saw last weekend, with Stephen Schoch being at the Palmetto Series between Clemson and South Carolina and Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman being locked into the Astros Foundation College Classic. The guys then dive into the five teams that are still undefeated and who…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch is joined by the ever-dangerous Michael Patrick Rooney to talk about some of the madness that has been brought about in midweek baseball games this season. Coach Rooney gives us a look back at one of the less-than-ideal midweek coaching situations he put himself in, and Coach Schoch share…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz kick off with some initial reactions to the action seen at the Jax Classic. Virginia went home with the title belt, but there were a ton of bright spots for Auburn, Iowa and Wichita State – there truly wasn’t a dull game. Moving along, the guys talk throu…
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Kyle, Nelson, Griggs and Connor are back once again for an exciting episode of The Boardroom. On this episode, the guys talk about Auburn basketball, Auburn baseball, the new MLB jerseys, their ideas to fix NBA All Star weekend and their weekly picks for the weekends biggest events.By Griggs Blankenburg, Connor Greenberg, Kyle Davis, Nelson Earley
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch is joined by three guys who had big moments during Opening Weekend to get some insight into what was going through their heads as they kicked off the 2024 season with a bang. We lead off with Sacramento State's Matt Masciangelo, who was plunked eight times over the course of three games a…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz talk about what they saw live and in person during Opening Weekend. Following that, they get into some of the weekend's top performers and best moments! You won’t want to miss it! The Schoch Factor is brought to you by Soldier Sports. Follow Stephen on Tw…
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Longtime Lansing Lugnuts broadcaster Jesse Goldberg-Strassler joins the podcast to discuss his two decades working in all levels of pro baseball, crafting a broadcasting style, his 2022 big league call-up and seeing great players like Bo Bichette, Vlad Jr. and Mike Trout come through the Midwest League. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.c…
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On this episode of The Boardroom, Griggs, Connor, Nelson and Kyle are joined by Stephen Schoch of the Schoch Factor podcast for the first segment to discuss college baseball, with a focus on the Auburn Tigers, SEC baseball, college baseball as a whole, and some of Stephen's work he did while in school. Next on the show, the guys talked about Auburn…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch, Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz each draft 10 college baseball teams based on the following scoring system: 1 point for each regular-season win 5 points for making a regional 10 points for winning a regional 20 points for reaching Omaha 25 points for winning the Men's College World Seri…
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On this episode of The Schoch Factor Podcast, Stephen Schoch reunites with Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman to discuss 10 storylines they're looking forward to following during the 2024 college baseball season. The Schoch Factor is brought to you by Soldier Sports. Follow Stephen on Twitter: @BigDonkey47 Follow the podcast on Twitter: @SchochFactor…
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*Trigger warning for drug abuse* Former Blue Jays farmhand Clinton Hollon joins the podcast to discuss going from second-round pick to life as a drug addict, and how he’s working his way back to life and baseball. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/from-phenom-to-the-farm/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Pr…
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