Pacific Northwest Fungo Banter

Anthony Claggett from Washington State University joins us to dive into the development of a pitching staff. How to coach each individual to get the most out of his players and creating a well rounded pitching staff. 

Coach Jackson talks team building and dives into the Washington State Coaches association and all they are doing for the game of baseball. 

Coach Kelly talks about the baseball culture at EDCC and talks about building championship culture 

Coach Thompson talks his journey to where he is now at Columbia Burbank. We dive into getting a coaching staff together, how to manage your coaching staff, and how to let the coaches create an identity while coaching for your program! 

Tanner Swanson joins us to talk about his path to New York, and his ties to the Pacific Northwest. We dive into catching and Coaches vs COVID. 

2 time State Champ, current Head coach of Auburn Mountainview High School, Glen Walker joins us for a great conversation on teaching how to coach Havoc Baseball! 

Coach Krustangel from YVCC joins us to talk about his program and how they structure practice at YVCC

Head coach Brian Green from Washington State University joins us to dive into the world of hitting, culture building, and Washington State Baseball. 

Another great episode talking building, and maintaining, a great high school program, how to get community involvement and keeping a top notch facility! 

Joined by hitting coach at LSU Eddie Smith, He has deep roots in the PNW. He dives into his core values of coaching hitters, his time climbing the coaching ranks, and his time as the head coach at Lower Columbia! 

Lucky to be joined by Billy Boyer from the Minnesota Twins. He covers with great insight infield play, talk baserunning, and cover the Northwest fraternity and Coaches vs Covid campaign 

We are joined by Hall of Fame head coach Mike Archer from Selah High School, Also head coach of the Yakima Valley Pepsi Pak. Great talk about coaching and how to build your program. Also tell some funny stories along the way. 

We are joined by Associate Head Coach at the University of Washington Elliot Cribby. We cover his career leading to UDub and dig deep into pitching.

Coach Kopple joins us talking about his carrier at George Fox as a player and as a coach. He digs deep into recruiting and offering some great insites that kids all over who are thinking about going onto college should hear! 

We welcome Jesse Benedetti from East Valley High School in Yakima Washington. He talks about his program, organizing efficient practices, and ends with talking about the great weekend of the All State series! 

An awesome interview with Head baseball coach from Biola University Jeff Calhoon, We talk about his path in baseball, current season he was having, and about how they are building the culture of his program. 

We’re joined by Head Coach at Tri Cities Prep and co host of Fungo Banter Jason Jarrett! Talk his carrier in baseball, how he is handling the shut down and the valuable lessons our kids are learning from all this

Episode 1 with Kelly Gau head coach at St Martins University  we talk about how our teams found out about the seasons being canceled and suspended. We cover how are players are handling it, along with us coaches. Talk about how great the PNW baseball coaching tree is a fraternity and excited to get more guys on and talk baseball during this off time we all have. 

This podcast is for all you baseball coaches out there trying to forget about all the bad happening, and get a mental vacation talking baseball! Lets find out what coaches are up to with this spring off. And lets tell some great stories along the way!