Episode 62: 2020 New York Region Preview

Feb 22, 2020

Welcome to Episode 62 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This is our seventh of eight regional preview pods -- this one covers the New York region and its four conferences. Topics include:

• SUNYAC
  
  • Cortland (at 1:15) is Cortland, so obviously they're gonna win a lot of games and play a ludicrous schedule
  • Oswego State (at 6:05) is still the Lakers, so we made more Lakers jokes (but also they are legit and we should stop sleeping on them)
• Liberty
  
  • Rochester (at 9:35) impressed us a lot at the regional last year, and now look like the favorite to repeat
  • Ithaca (at 14:30) is joining this conference from the Empire 8 but have a ton to replace after a huge graduating class
  • Other teams (at 17:25) like Union, Clarkson, RIT are usually relevant in this conference race
• Empire 8 (or uh, the Empire 4?)
  
  • St. John Fisher (at 20:00) might have the most all-region talent returning of any team in the country, but now they're in a barren wasteland of a conference...should be interesting!
• Skyline
  • Farmingdale State (at 23:00) is always a rock solid bet to lead the Skyline pack
  • Other teams (at 27:00) like Manhattanville, St. Joseph's (Long Island) and Old Westbury could be in the mix
• CUNYAC (at 29:40) doesn't have its own auto-bid but maybe they'll win the weird split one with the NAC again!
• UAA
  • NYU (at 30:40) is finally playing a more respectable schedule, but will it be enough to put them in the Pool B conversation?

We concluded (at 33:20) with a few other notable player shout outs, our player and pitcher of the year picks for the region, and our teams to beat. Then we say goodbye. Thanks for listening!

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