Welcome to the bullpen.....

Throughout 2024, the Prep Baseball Illinois staff hosted podcasts to update players and parents with news around the state's amateur baseball landscape.

The end of 2023 and beginning of 2024 featured a podcast that was called 'Around the Bases', where we talked with college coaches, college players, and current pros. We discussed the challenges baseball brings, with the hope that these people could provide insight to current high school baseball players about the mental side of the game, recruiting process, and much more.

Throughout the spring of 2024, we hosted a weekly series titled the 'IHSA Podcast'. We discussed all things spring baseball around the state, which included Power 25 updates, prospect talk, and recaps from games that our staff attended the previous week.

Sprinkled throughout it all, we hosted podcasts discussing player ranking updates, the Future Games, the Illinois State games, and plenty more. Moving into the final stretch of 2024 and into 2025, our staff looks to provide a more consistent branded podcast, where viewers and listeners alike can look forward to on a weekly basis, which brings us to 'The Bullpen'.

Viewers and listeners can expect a weekly podcast from the Prep Baseball Illinois staff bringing all of our podcasts into one, with different segments featured throughout the show, coach interviews, and much more. 

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On this week's episode...

The Bullpen News

  • The Dodgers are World Series Champions, defeating the Yankees 4-1 in the series.
    • World Series MVP: Freddie Freeman. .300 BA, 4 HR, 12 RBIs - walk off Grand Slam in Game One. 
    • Did you know? Freddie Freeman hit a home run in six consecutive World Series games, which is the most in MLB history.
      • Freeman is the first player in MLB history to hit a home run in the first four games of the World Series.
      • Freeman's 12 RBIs are tied for the most in a single World Series.
  • The Illinois State Games has officially hit 127 commitments.
    • 27 Division 1 commitments
    • 19 Division 2 commitments
    • 26 Division 3 commitments
    • 53 Junior College commitments
    • 2 NAIA commitment
    • Lake Land JC has committed the most players since the event concluded (8).