Talking Hoosier Baseball from iubase.com

Cooper Malamazian | Ryan Kraft | Jeff Mercer By Carl James @jovian34 March 18th, 2025 Indiana extended their winning streak to five games on Tuesday. A typically shaky Purple Ace's pitching staff held Indiana's potent offense at bay much of the day with a high off-speed mix inducing a lot of week contact. Indiana ran out a lot of arms including senior Ryan Kraft, played excellent defense, and kept...

Cass, Carl, and Chris discuss a 4-0 week. By Carl James @jovian34 March 17th, 2025 Indiana Baseball swept the weekend including a home B1G series. Zach was perfect and moves into the lead in B1G Pick'em, and the crew has a roundtable discussing Jeff Mercer's announcement of going to a 1-starter pitching model. There are pros and cons to such a model. It mostly worked in 2023. Can it help the Hoosi...

Gavin Seebold | Korbyn Dickerson | Jeff Mercer By Carl James @jovian34 March 16th, 2025 Indiana completed a series sweep of Ohio State on Sunday, winning two of the three games by run-rules, including this one by a score of 14-3 in just 7 innings. Korbyn Dickerson became the first Hoosier since Matthew Ellis in 2023 to get to 10 season home runs before the end of March. Hoosier pitching struck out...

Cass, Carl, Zach and Chris discuss a 1-3 week. By Carl James @jovian34 March 10th, 2025 Indiana Baseball dropped a home midweek and a road B1G series. Chris takes the early lead in B1G Pick'em, and Zach is prepared with a lot of great points as always. YouTube: Audio:

Andrew Wiggins | TJ Schuyler | Jeff Mercer By Carl James @jovian34 March 5th, 2025 Indiana got in a huge 9-2 hole and just missed coming back late, losing to Northern Kentucky 13-11. Right fielder Andrew Wiggins, Catcher TJ Schuyler, and Head Coach Jeff Mercer took questions from the media following the game on Tuesday night. Indiana heads to Happy Valley to open up Big Ten play at Penn State Frid...

Cass, Carl, and Chris discuss a 3-2 week with a lot of offense. By Carl James @jovian34 March 3rd, 2025 Indiana Baseball followed up a disapointing home opener with a 3-1 weekend YouTube: Audio:

Media talks with Coach Mercer following 8-4 loss in home opener By Carl James @jovian34 February 26th, 2025 Indiana hit and pitched well, but struggled with men on base, and made several critical defensive mistakes, and dropped the home opener 8-4. Head Coach Jeff Mercer met with the media following the game. Indiana heads to DeLand, Florida for a 4-game pod with Mount St. Mary's and host Stetson,...

Cass, Carl, Zach, and Chris discuss a nice turnaround weekend at the USA Baseball complex. By Carl James @jovian34 February 25th, 2025 Indiana Baseball turned things around in Cary, North Carolina with a 3-0 weekend YouTube: Audio:

The whole gang is here to discuss a disappointing opening weekend. By Carl James @jovian34 February 17th, 2025 Indiana Baseball dropped all four games in the round robin in Surprise, Arizona over the weekend, two in extra innings. The Talking Hoosier Baseball crew and Zach "tear off the band-aid" and discuss what happened and what it means for the larger season going forward. We also preview the U...

Outfield and Pitching plus the first three opponents By Chris Feeny @iubase17 February 11th, 2025 Indiana Baseball is just 3 days away from opening the season in Surprise, Arizona. Zach Horwitz, Chris Feeny, and Cassady Palmer mix it up on the Hoosiers pitching and outfield, where there is talent but still a lot of questions on roles. YouTube: Audio:

Coach Mercer shows confidence in a "high floor" pitching staff as he and players take question after Wednesday practice. By Carl James @jovian34 February 5th, 2025 Indiana Baseball is just nine days away from opening the season in Surprise, Arizona. On Wednesday after practice at Mellencamp Pavilion (thanks to the rain) the media caught up with four players: sophomore second baseman Jasen Oliver,...

Podcast Season kicks off with lots of offense By Carl James @jovian34 February 3rd, 2025 Indiana Baseball is just 11 days away from opening the season in Surprise, Arizona. Carl James, Zach Horwitz, Chris Feeny, and Cassady Palmer mix it up on the Hoosiers position players, a group expected to score a lot of runs in 2025. The @SeeYouAtTheBart gang will record one more preview next Monday, this tim...

A mix of veterans and freshmen take questions By Carl James @jovian34 January 30th, 2025 Indiana Baseball is just over two weeks away from opening the season in Surprise, Arizona. On Wednesday after practice at Bart Kaufman field the media caught up junior shortstop Tyler Cerny, freshman first baseman Jake Hanley, senior pitcher Drew Buhr and freshman pitcher Brayton Thomas. Drew Buhr and Brayton...

After the first official day of practice the media meets with Mercer and players By Carl James @jovian34 January 25th, 2025 Indiana Baseball is three weeks away from opening the season in Surprise, Arizona. Within the warm confines of Mellencamp Pavillion the program officially opened up the 2025 practice season. After practice concluded four players and head coach Jeff Mercer met with the media....

Media talks with Coach Mercer about solid defense, too many free passes, and struggles at the plate By Carl James @jovian34 October 6th, 2024 Indiana had some positives, but overall struggled in 18 inning of exhibition ball against Big 12 up-and-coming program Cincinnati at Bart Kaufman Field on Saturday. Media including IUBASE.com's Zach Horwitz and Carl James met with head coach Jeff Mercer foll...

Chris and Carl talk about what they saw as the Hoosiers opened up the fall season By Carl James @jovian34 September 27th, 2024 Indiana put a lot of new faces on display in a 16-inning fall exhibition at Jim Patterson Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday. IUBASE.com's Chris Feeny and Carl James discuss their reactions to the match-up. YouTube: Audio:

Chris Feeny talks with Coach Mercer about how the team is developing so far this fall By Carl James @jovian34 September 22nd, 2024 Indiana put a lot of new faces on display in a 16-inning fall exhibition at Jim Patterson Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday. IUBASE.com's Chris Feeny met with head coach Jeff Mercer following the game. Indiana next plays Saturday October 5th at 1pm, hosting Bi...

Media meets with Decker-Petty, Oliver, and Mercer following 8-4 to clinch the Michigan series in the season finale By Carl James @jovian34 May 18th, 2024 Indiana pitchers struck out 17 Wolverines and the bats ripped five homers on the way to 8-4 victory on Friday night. Righty sophomore Aydan Decker-Petty struck out 8 in 3.1 innings of work and freshman second baseman Jasen Oliver hit two long bal...

Media meets with Tonghini, Tibbitts, and Mercer following double header split to open the Michigan series. By Carl James @jovian34 May 16th, 2024 Indiana scored just two runs in its third consecutive game on Thursday afternoon before exploding for 11 runs in a nightcap they ran away with to start the Michigan series with a doubleheader split. In the second game Julian Tonghini pitched 4 innings st...

Carl and Chris discuss a series loss at Nebraska plus preview Michigan and discuss Seniors in advance of senior day. By Carl James @jovian34 May 15th, 2024 The Indiana University Baseball team competed hard in a tough road series, pitching really well, but fell short dropping the series to Nebraska two games to one. Seniors to be recognized: Sam Murrison Morgan Colopy Ty Rybarczyk Drew Buhr Nate B...

Carl, Cass, and Chris discuss a crazy comeback series win in West Lafayette By Carl James @jovian34 May 6th, 2024; WIUX radio call intro by Ben Haller; Probability overlay from 6-4-3 Charts and D1Baseball.com The Indiana University Baseball team accomplished something that has eluded the program since 2002 - they won a weekend series in West Lafayette. It is also the first road series victory in t...

Carl, Cass, and Chris discuss a home series sweep over the Scarlet Knights By Carl James @jovian34 May 3rd, 2024 The Indiana University Baseball team went 3-0, sweeping Rutgers at the Bart this past weekend. This is the second series sweep for the Hoosiers this season, the first at home and the first in conference play. Oh.. and the Hoosiers did this all without the services of ace starter Connor...

Media meets with Taylor, Decker-Petty, and Mercer following 18-6 win at home on Sunday to sweep the Rutgers series By Carl James @jovian34 April 28th, 2024 Indiana did the one thing that they struggled with on Saturday, they did damage right after a mid-inning pitching change and cashed in big on RBI opportunities. Devin Taylor continued his torrid weekend going 2 for 4 with a double and a homer....

Media meets with Buhr, Mitchell, and Mercer following 12-6 series clinching win at home on Saturday By Carl James @jovian34 April 28th, 2024 Indiana bats came alive against a quintet of Rutgers pitchers to clinch a fourth straight B1G series victory on Saturday. Drew Buhr got the win on the mound with 5.0 innings of scoreless relief. Devin Taylor had two home runs and a triple from the lead-off sp...

Media meets with Brenczewski, Tonghini, and Mercer following 8-3 win at home on Friday By Carl James @jovian34 April 27th, 2024 With Connor Foley still not ready to go from injury, Indiana had a bullpen day against Rutgers ace Justin Sinibaldi. A trio of bullpen arms put combined to put up ace numbers with 3.0 innings of work each, while the Hoosier hitters worked Sinibaldi, lead by Joey Brenczews...