Baseball Wisconsin Podcast

Game 8: 6th Inning sits down with Marty Pitts, who is managing a team in the Texas Rangers organization in the Dominican Summer League 

Game 8: 5th Inning sits down with Ryan Bishop, head baseball coach at River Falls HS. 

Game 8: 4th Inning sits down with Jake Paige, head baseball coach at Muskego HS, 2025 Division 1 state champions. 

Game 8: 3rd Inning sits down with Al Brisack, head baseball coach at Edgewood College in Madison. 

Game 8: 2nd Inning sits down with Eddy Morgan. Coach Morgan just recently took a job in the Milwaukee Brewers organization after spending 13 years at Concordia University- Wisconsin. 

Game 8: 1st Inning sits down with Mike Davenport, head baseball coach at Madison College. In 2026, Coach D was inducted into the WBCA Hall of Fame. 

Game 8: Ground Rules functions as a preview for the 2026 episodes. 

Game 7: 9th Inning sits down with Tony Gerharz, retired head baseball coach at Oshkosh West HS and Chairman of the WBCA All-Star Classic. 

Game 7: 8th Inning sits down with Joe Waite from the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association (WBCA). Joe can be reached at baseballwisconsin@gmail.com

Game 7: 7th Inning sits down with Jonathan Gelnar, host of the Ahead of the Curve Podcast. 

Game 7: 6th Inning sits down with Jake Morman, head baseball coach at Westosha Central HS. 

Game 7: 5th Inning sits down with Nat Richter, head baseball coach at UW-Stevens Point. 

Game 7: 4th Inning sits down with Bob Van Rens, head coach at DePere HS and 2024 Division 1 state champions. 

CJ Christianson, head coach of the Division 4 state champion baseball team at Eleva-Strum HS

Game 2: 7th Inning sits down with Rich Newton, head baseball coach at Edgewood High School in Madison, Wisconsin. Edgewood won the Division 2 state championship in 2024. 

Game 7: 1st Inning sits down with Jeff Levering from the Milwaukee Brewers 

Welcome to 2025! Join us for "ground rules" as we recap 2024 and look ahead to 2025. 

Game 6: 8th Inning with Brooks Braga from BRX Performance. For more information visit: https://brxperformance.com/ 

 

Game 6: 7th Inning sits down with Jay Wojcinski, current head baseball coach at Germantown HS and 2023 D1 state champion coach at Whitefish Bay HS. 

 

Game 6: 6th Inning sits down with Sal Bando Jr., head coach at Marquette University High School 

Game 6: 5th Inning with Matt Vold, head coach at St. Croix Falls and 2023 Division 3 state champions. 

Game 6: 4th Inning sits down with WBCA 2024 Hall of Fame inductee Greg Fetherston 

Game 6: 3rd Inning sits down with Tim Poock, head coach at Green Lake-Princeton. Tim is one of the five WBCA Hall of Fame inductees in 2024. 

Game 6: 2nd Inning sits down with Los Angeles Dodger minor league pitcher, Luke Fox 

Game 6: 1st Inning sits down with Shaun Wegner, head baseball coach at UW-Milwaukee. See his bio here: https://mkepanthers.com/staff-directory/shaun-wegner/147 

Welcome to 2024! Join us this season as we release episodes leading up to the season in 2024. Thank you to the WBCA for supporting this project as we highlight baseball across Wisconsin. 

Game 5: 8th Innings sits down with the new head baseball coach at Sun Prarie West High School, Quentin Travis. 

Game 5: 7th Inning sits down with John Matera, head baseball coach at Kenosha Tremper High School. John was inducted into the WBCA Hall of Fame in 2023. Coach Matera is a Tremper alumni and also serves as the athletic director. 

Game 5: 6th Inning sits down with Bob Johnson, retired head coach at Eau Claire North HS. Bob was inducted into the WBCA Hall of Fame in 2023 with one of the most impressive resumes in state history. 

Game 5: 5th Inning sits down with Kris Agnew, head baseball coach at Milton High School. Kris talks us through his 2022 season which ended with the Red Hawks hoising the gold ball in Appleton. Congrats again to Milton for winning the 2022 D1 state championship. 

Game 5: 4th Inning sits down with Chris Krepline, head coach at Lawrence University. To learn more about Coach Krep and his program visit their website here: https://vikings.lawrence.edu/sports/baseball 

Game 5: 3rd Inning sits down with John Hamilton from Westby High School. John was inducted into the WBCA Hall of Fame in 2023. John has served as the WBCA President over the past two years as well as a member of the WBCA executive board. 

Game 5: 2nd Inning sits us down with Bill Miller, head coach at Denmark High School. Bill is the first repeat guest as his 2022 squad won back-to-back Division 2 State Championships. You can also hear from Coach Miller on stage at the 2023 WBCA Clinic on February 10th in Madison. 

Game 5: 1st Inning sits down with Andy Niese, head coach at Eau Claire Regis High School. Congratulations to Regis on winning the 2022 Division 4 state championship.

 

Game 5: Ground Rules starts off the 2023 campaign. A quick recap of 2022 and a look ahead to 2023! 

Game 4: 7th Inning sits down with Micah Thingvold, head coach at Waunakee High School and Brad Rindfleisch, head coach at West Bend West High School. Both first-year head coaches are taking over very successful and storied programs. 

Best of luck to everyone as the 2022 season gets underway! 

Game 4: 6th Inning sits down with Victor Herbst, head baseball coach at Janesville Craig High School.

 

Coach Herbst: vherbst@janesville.k12.wi.us 

Game 4: 5th Inning sits down with Chris Schwarz, head baseball coach at UW-La Crosse. To learn more about UW-LAX Baseball visit their website: https://uwlathletics.com/sports/baseball 

Game 4: 4th Inning sits down with Stein Rear, Head Baseball Coach at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. 

To learn more about Stein, see his bio here: https://gopios.com/staff-directory/stein-rear/57 

Game 4: 3rd Inning sits down with Trent Mongero. Trent will be speaking at the WBCA Clinic this weekend, February 11-12. He will also be running a one-day camp on Sunday the 13th, visit the website below for more details. 

You can find Trent on Twitter @CoachMongero and visit his website https://coachmongero.com/ 

Game 4: 2nd Inning sits down with Jerry Weinstein, who since 2012 has been working in the Colorado Rockies Organization. To learn more about jerry visit: https://weinsteinbaseball.com/ 

Follow him on Twitter @JWonCATCHING 

Game 4: 1st Inning sits down with Trevor Burmeister, minor league hitting coach in the Colorado Rockies organization. 

To contact Burm directly, you can message him @T_Burm on Twitter 

Recap of Game 3 and an introduction to Game 4

Game 3: 7th Inning sits down with 2021 WBCA Hall of Fame inductee, Rusty Tiedemann. During his career at Watertown High School, Rusty compiled a record of 328-152, including seven conference championships, three trips to the state tournament, one runner up and one state championship in 1999.  

Game 3: 6th Inning sits down with Shaun Wegner, assistant coach at UW-Milwaukee and Steve Bartlein, assistant coach at UW-Whitewater. 

E-mail for Coach Wegner: sawegner@uwm.edu 

E-mail for Coach Bartlein: bartleins13@uww.edu 

Game 3: 5th Inning sits down with Steve Warren, head baseball coach at Marathon High School. Steve was inducted into the WBCA Hall of Fame in 2019.  

To contact Steve directly, e-mail him at swarren@marathon.k12.wi.us 

Game 3: 4th Inning sits down with Harvey Knutson, Head Baseball Coach at Bay Port High School. Harvey had a historic first season as head coach as the Pirates took home the Division 1 Silver Ball from their trip to Appleton. Stop by and see Harvey speak at the WBCA Coaches Clinic on Friday, February 11th at 3:00 p.m. in Middleton, WI. He is one of many incredible coaches in this year's exceptional line-up. 

Thanks again to Coach Knutson for taking the time to sit down with us today. 

"Game 3: 3rd Inning" highlights Jim Wilkinson, Head Baseball Coach at Germantown High School and 2020 WBCA Hall of Fame inductee. Coach Wilkinson holds a career record of 367-187 including multiple conference and sectional championships as well as two state championships while at Marquette University High School in 2006 and 2008. 

A huge thank you to Wilk for sitting down with us today. 

"Game 3: 2nd Inning" highlights Spencer Lee, recently retired Head Baseball Coach at Waunakee High School. Coach Lee stepped down after 25 seasons as head coach. His teams won 10 conference championships, 5 sectionals, and the 2018 Division 1 State Championship. 

A huge thank you goes out to Spencer for taking the time to sit down with us today. 

"Game 3: 1st Inning" highlights Bill Miller, Head Baseball Coach at Demark High School. Coach Miller has a career record of 454-220 and is a 2021 state champion. Coach Miller dives deep into the Demark program, coaching his sons, the community support of Demark athletic, and much more. 

A huge thank you to Coach Miller for taking the time to sit down with us today. The Demark Viking are 2021 WIAA Division 2 State Champions.