The Gaucho9 Podcast

Gauchos return home after a 2-2 weekend at the Sanderson Ford College Baseball Classic in Surprise, Arizona.  We start out with game highlights followed by pregame interviews with Associate Head Coach Donegal Fergus, 2b Nick Oakley, and Athletic Trainer Jake Saavedra.  Then Gaucho Analytics joins the podcast to introduce Devon Kost and Isaiah Ochoa, touch on some new tech, and make our picks for p...

This is the 2023 Gaucho Baseball season preview podcast!  We are joined by Head Coach Andrew Checketts to go over the schedule, talk recruiting landscape, and preview who will be in starting roles come February 17.  Then pitcher's Carter Benbrook and Alex Schrier stop by to discuss surgery rehab, haircuts and the upcoming season.  Games in Arizona will be streamed on flobaseball.tv and your host K...

We're 16 days away from Opening Day so here is some good old fashion baseball banter with some of your favorite Gauchos; Nick Oakley, Aaron Parker and Spencer Erdman.

We're one month away from Opening Day and the Gaucho9 Podcast has returned from a 6 month hiatus!  Our host Kevin Cannon shares his thoughts on the adventure that brought him back to Santa Barbara and Head Coach Andrew Checketts joins us to recap the Fall season for UCSB Baseball and check in on the status of the players (and Caesar Uyesaka Stadium) as they return from break.  

We are joined by Head Coach Andrew Checketts to recap another historical season for UCSB Baseball.  We discuss how the Gauchos arrived at their 2nd BigWest Championship in the last 3 seasons.  UCSB won 40+ games for the 3rd season in a row, broke the single season team home run and saves records, and set a program record with 14 All-Conference selections.  Another outstanding season of Gaucho base...

In part 1 of our 2022 season recap we talk to Coach Checketts about the Stanford Regional, top Gaucho performances, and the emotional finish to the season.  UCSB went 1-2 in the regional, losing to Texas St. in the opener, eliminating Binghamton, then being eliminated by Stanford on Sunday. Nick Vogt was named to the All-Regional Team after batting .308 and belting 2 homers while making outstandin...

UCSB is heading to Palo Alto and the Stanford Regional and will face Texas St. on Friday night.  We have playoff fever so we have a LOADED podcast this week starting with Bakersfield highlights and weekend interviews with Mason Eng, the 'closers', and Gaucho Analytics.  We talk to former Gaucho player and head coach Bob Brontsema (35:01) about the UCSB regionals in the 80's, 90's, and 00's plus so...

The Gauchos clinch the 2022 BigWest title on Saturday and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.  We are joined by Head Coach Andrew Checketts and the voice of the Gauchos Gerry Fall who both reflect on the exciting weekend and season as a whole.  UCSB walks-off on Friday, clinches the title Saturday, and enjoyed a fun Senior Day on Sunday.  One more week to go in the regular season before...

UCSB comes away with another series win on the road as they take 2 of 3 from UC Irvine and their magic number to win the BigWest sits at 2.  This week's podcast features a pregame interview with Friday's hero, Fr. Aaron Parker as well as a visit from Volunteer Asst. Coach Spencer Erdman who breaks down so big moments from the weekend and dives into the many elements of coaching college infielders.

Huge weekend in San Luis Obispo as UCSB sweeps Cal Poly for the first time since 1998 to take a commanding 6-game lead in the BigWest Conference.  This week we have game highlights plus player interviews with Gianni Bloom, Matt Ager, and Nick Oakley (15:30) and a breakdown of the weekend with Head Coach Andrew Checketts (37:01) - Blake Klassen wins BigWest Field Player of the Week.

Loaded podcast! I missed Justin Trimble's home run on Tuesday vs UCLA because of a sprinkler malfunction so I had to ask him about his at bat (5:50).  Then we welcome on a trio of veteran Gauchos (20:15) who have all played in over 120 division 1 games, Christian Kirtley, Bryce Willits & Jason Willow who discuss the progress of the season as we look forward to the Cal Poly series next weekend.  Pl...

This week we are joined by Assistant Coach Dylan Jones to talk about the success of the Gaucho pitching staff this year who lead the BigWest with a 3.76 team ERA.  We break down the importance of roles and how to stay level headed throughout the course of the season.  UCSB has won 6 games in a row after sweeping UC San Diego and remains in 1st place in the BigWest at 13-2 with a big week coming up...

The Gauchos completed the sweep of CSUN on the road over the weekend and go 3-1 in week 8 improving to 21-8 (10-2 BigWest).  Fr RHP Ryan Gallagher was named BigWest Pitcher of the Week and 3b Bryce Willits had a career game on Friday belting 2 homers and driving in 7 runs.  This week we had a chat with 2 of the students behind all of the great social media content, Brandi Shin & Patrick Molin; plu...

Week 7 is in the books, Gauchos split the week after taking 2 games from Hawaii over the weekend and remain in first place in the BigWest Conference at 7-2.  Associate Head Coach Donegal Fergus is our guest as we recap a wild weekend and discuss the progress of the Gauchos over their first 25 games.  We have game highlights plus a pre-game interview with Ryan Gallagher from last Tuesday's game @ U...

The Gauchos return home with 4 wins after a 4-game 7-day road trip to St. Mary's and UC Davis, they improve to 16-5 (5-1 BigWest) and get set to finish the road stint Tuesday night vs UCLA.  This week we open with stats, figures and trends from this week and the season overall, a preview of UCLA and Hawaii, some dramatic game highlights and interviews with Jason Willow, Blake Klassen, Zander Darby...

This week we have game highlights plus a chat with the great Gerry Fall about the start of the season and his impressions on thie2022 squad.  Gauchos take 2 of 3 games from Cal State Fullerton to kick off BigWest Conference play.  Cory Lewis and Mikey Gutierrez provided another strong showing on the mound and they were led by Jordan Sprinkle and Jason Willow who had breakout weekends with the bats...

Gauchos win streak moves to 5 games after a 3-win week after defeating LMU at home on Tuesday and taking both games from UC San Diego in Lake Elsinore.  This week are are joined by Head Coach Andrew Checketts (28:02) who breaks down the first quarter of the season as the Gauchos improved to 10-4 on the year.  We have game highlights plus pregame interviews with OF Broc Mortensen and 3B Bryce Willi...

UCSB bounces back to split the series with the Oregon Ducks after 2 huge wins in the final 2 games.  In a tightly contested series where the games were decided by a grand total of 5 runs the Gauchos came through with clutch hitting and outstanding bullpen efforts.  We have game highlights plus interviews with Assistant Coach Dylan Jones and 2 Freshman heroes, Zander Darby and Matt Ager, plus a wee...

UCSB takes 2 of 3 from Nevada on opening weekend at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium and after an outstanding performance on the mound Cory Lewis wins BigWest Pitcher of the Week!  6ip 0h 0r 11k. We are also joined by Kyle Johnson for the second week in a row after KJ went 5-15 with 2 doubles a homer and 4rbi.  Finally Spencer Stewart stops by to drop some numbers from the week and say his farewell before h...

UCSB wins 2 of 3 in San Francisco this weekend with Nick Vogt and Mikey Gutierrez earning players of the week honors.  In this weeks recap we get our first highlights of the season followed by the pregame interviews with Coach Ferg, Gutierrez, and Kyle Johnson, then an in depth breakdown of the weekend from the host and a preview of the next 2 opponents, LMU & Nevada.

It's that time of year again, football is over and UCSB Baseball is ready to take center stage!  On this action packed season preview pod we breakdown the Gaucho's 2022 schedule (2:28) which features 4 Regional teams from 2021, then we talk to 5th year C Gianni Bloom (17:37) about the depth of the pitching staff and swing adjustments, finally we finish off with Head Coach Andrew Checketts (30:03)...

Opening day is less than 2 weeks away so we decided to bring on 3 first year Gauchos the gauge their excitement.  INF Zander Darby, OF LeTrey McCollum, and INF Justin Trimble are talented Freshman who will play important roles during the 2022 season.  In this hour long interview we get to know these young Gauchos and get a glimpse of how much they have already learned while at UCSB.

Gaucho Alumni Weekend is back!  Former Gauchos Tommy Jew and Jack Dashwood stop by to talk about their UCSB experiences and update us on their first full summers in professional baseball.  We look forward to seeing all the Gauchos young and old at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium AND the golf course this weekend.  Visit ucsbgauchos.com and head to the baseball page for details and tickets.

In this brief update, we stop by with Coach Checketts to preview whats on tap for the Gauchos in 2022

Before the Gauchos step aside for the Holiday's we had to visit with UCSB Baseball Analytics to check in on the player development progress from the Fall season.  We introduce Maxine Wang who interned for the Toronto Blue Jays over the summer and has been assisting on the pitching side with Sean Isaac.  If you were curious about negative induced break on a curveball, this is the podcast for you! ...