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Oct 17, 2024 | baseballamerica.com | Jaden Hamm Joins |Ben Badler

Skip to content College teams have been busy building out their 2026 recruiting classes since August 1 arrived. Among the top 150 players in the 2026 class, 54 players remain uncommitted, including eight of the top 25. This month, we saw four of the top 25 players in the class announce their commitments.

Oct 16, 2024 | baseballamerica.com | Jaden Hamm Joins |J.J. Cooper |J. J. Cooper

Seven games into his MLB postseason career, Shohei Ohtani is hitting .222/.344/.333. He has six hits, one home run, a caught stealing and a 37.5% strikeout rate (12 strikeouts in just 32 plate appearances). He’s been underwhelming, at least by his exceptionally lofty standards. So what’s happened? The easiest answer is probably nothing. We’re talking about a seven-game stretch. From August 4-11 this year, Ohtani had a seven-game stretch in which hit .138/.161/.448.

Oct 16, 2024 | baseballamerica.com | Jaden Hamm Joins |Tim Newcomb

The Virginia baseball team will have a fresh look in 2025. Well, fresh looks, to be more specific. And all the new uniform options come thanks to new uniform partner EvoShield, a Wilson-owned brand making a foray into the world of elite-level Division I baseball. Long known for protective equipment, EvoShield has been making uniforms for minor league teams, travel ball teams and small colleges. Signing Virginia opens up a new world and one that the Cavaliers are ready to embrace.

Oct 16, 2024 | baseballamerica.com | Jaden Hamm Joins |Ben Badler |Carlos Collazo

This week on Future Projection, Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo discuss the four teams left standing this postseason and think through the scouting and player development lessons that can be learned from them.

Oct 16, 2024 | baseballamerica.com | Jaden Hamm Joins

On this week’s Hot Sheet Show, we welcome a pair of special guests: Ethan Salas and Tre Phelps. Salas, MLB’s No. 17 prospect, joins us live from the Arizona Fall League to talk hitting, the Padres’ playoff run and how he’s preparing to one day join them. We also talk to Georgia star Tre Phelps, one of the better prospects in the 2025 draft, about the Bulldogs’ stadium renovations, the longest home run he ever hit and why he thinks former teammate Charlie Condon is on a hall of fame trajectory.