Episode 114: 2023 New York (Region 3) Preview

The Podcast About Division-III Baseball

Welcome to Episode 114 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. If you can make it in Region 3, you can make it anywhere. We do a random tangent on the Netflix series "Blown Away" and then we preview the four conferences in the New York region, in order:

• Empire 8 (at 4:00)
  • St. John Fisher should continue to dominate this league with an elite offense that is mostly intact from 2022
• Liberty (at 10:26)
  • Ithaca re-emerged as a legit regional contender and has an intriguing player returning to their roster in 2023
  • Rochester was also a strong regional team last year and has a good chunk of that team returning as well
  • Keep an eye on Skidmore as a program trending up that could challenge the Bombers and Yellow Jackets sooner rather than later
• Skyline (at 27:55)
  • St. Joseph's (Long Island) looks like the team to beat in this conference but we've seen a bunch of different teams come out on top in recent years so who knows?
• SUNYAC (at 41:30)
  • Cortland has a lot of familiar faces to replace but we know they have the talent to do just that and make the postseason for the bajillionth year in a row
  • Oswego State is gonna need a whole new lineup but at least almost the entire pitching staff is back!
  • Brockport finally broke through and returned to the postseason in 2022 and now has one of the oldest rosters in D3 gunning for a SUNYAC title

We conclude (at 55:00) with our player and pitcher of the year picks, and our teams to beat. Then we say goodbye.

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