The Gaucho9 Podcast

Ep100: 2023 Fall Preview; Assoc. HC Matt Fonteno, Matt Ager & Zander Darby

The Gaucho9 Pod is back celebrating our 100th episode!  And kicking off the fall slate with a big pod featuring the return of Associate Head Coach Matt Fonteno as well as a very candid interview (32:54) with 2 stars of the summer in Jr RHP Matt Ager and Jr 3b Zander Darby.  Coach Fonteno returns to the Gaucho coaching staff after spending the last 2 years at USC and Cal Poly, we talk recruiting strategy and catch up on some Bay Area sports chatter.  Matt Ager spent the summer with the USA Collegiate National Team in Cary, North Carolina while Zander Darby held down the hot corner for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox in the Cape Cod League.

Ep99: Barry Zito & 2023 Season Recap

It's your Gaucho9 Podcast Summer Special featuring MLB All-Star, World Series Champ & Cy Young award winner, Barry Zito!  Barry recalls his time at UCSB playing with Coach Brontsema and breaks down some marquis moments in his MLB career and even gives a shoutout to fellow Gaucho Jim Rome.  Plus we finally conclude the players of the week draft season with UCSB Analytics, it was a close race to the finish!

Ep98: Bob Brontsema, Gauchos on Fire

The final week of the regular season is upon us as the Gauchos head to the Islands for a 3 game set with Hawaii.  The BigWest title is up in the air and UCSB continues to push for a postseason bid so we brought in former Gaucho HC Bob Brontsema to try and read the tea leaves for the upcoming week and share some memories about the 1983 Regional Team, the Hammerheads, and Gauchos on Fire.  Check out Mark Patton's article about the 1983 Gauchos on Noozhawk.  We finish up with the Week 14 Draft with Gaucho Analytics and Gianni Bloom.  Broc Mortensen ties the all-time career home run record on Saturday with a solo shot to right field.

Ep97 Mother’s Day, Dylan Jones, Animated Movies & Baseball

It was a busy week for the Gauchos who went 3-2 vs LMU, Long Beach St and Cal Baptist, Corey Nunez capped off the week with walk off single in the 10th inning on Monday night against the Lancers.  On this week's episode we ask a number of players about their favorite animated movies, we sit down with Pitching Coach Dylan Jones and the players say hi to their Mom's on Mother's Day.  We finish the pod with our player of the week draft with UCSB Analytics and Gianni Bloom.  Through 49 games UCSB is 33-16 (16-8 BigWest) 42 RPI.

Ep96: Riverside Week, Matt Ager, Pro Ball Report

Gauchos split the week 2-2 against Cal Baptist and UC Riverside, move to 30-14 (15-6 BigWest) with 3 weeks to play in the regular season.  UCSB sits 2 games behind 1at place Cal State Fullerton with 9 conference games remaining.  Jonah Sebring earned BigWest Player of the Week after an outstanding week hitting .444 with 2HR 9RBI 4SB, Matt Ager and JD Callahan each set career highs in K's, and Broc Mortensen hit his 41st career home run and is now 1 away from tying the school record.  Today we have Matt Ager interviewing the host (apologies for the faulty audio), a report on current Gauchos in the Pros, and our week 12 draft with Gaucho Analytics and Gianni Bloom.

Ep95: Chex 400th Win, JD Callahan, Week 11 Draft

The Gauchos sweep UC Davis at home over the weekend to move into sole possession of 2nd place in the BigWest at 13-5, 28-12 overall.  Friday's walkoff win was the 400th career victory at UCSB for Head Coach Andrew Checketts.  Gauchos RPI sits at 32 as they get ready for 4 road games this week at Cal Baptist and UC Riverside.  This week is a road pod production as we talked to resurgent starter JD Callahan about his starting role and draft our players of the week with Gianni Bloom and Gaucho Analytics.

Ep94: Trolley Power, LeTrey McCollum, Week 10 Draft

The Gauchos complete the sweep against UCSD over the weekend to jump back in the BigWest title race, now 25-12 (10-5).  This week Gaucho Analytics and Gianni Bloom share their experience of Jared Sundstrom's home run that struck a moving trolley beyond the left field fence, plus we draft our players of the week.  We also have game highlights, an interview with LeTrey McCollum, and I asked the players who their favorite players are.

Hudson Barrett's 0.72 ERA ranks #1 in NCAA D1

Broc Mortensen hits career homer #40, 3 away from breaking Matt Wilkerson's school record of 42

Ep93: Christian Kirtley, Matt Ager & Michael Marsh

This week we have 3 separate interviews with some outstanding Gauchos, 5th year Senior OF Christian Kirtley who earned Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's National Player of the Week honors, Matt Ager who took home BigWest Pitcher of the Week honors last week after his performance against Cal State Fullerton, and Michael Marsh who's dominating the 1st base coaching box as well as the Jiu Jitsu competition.

Ep92 Player Groceries, Fullerton & San Jose St, Week 8 Draft

Gauchos go 3-2 over the long weekend against Cal St Fullerton and San Jose St to move to 21-9 (6-3 BigWest) on the season.  This week I asked a variety of players one question; what did you buy at the grocery store for the road trip? Gianni Bloom and UCSB Analytics also stop by for an in-person version of our players of the week draft.  Go vote on twitter @SBBaseballData.

Ep91: Corey Nunez, Josh Williams, Week 7 Draft

UCSB has an off week going 1-3 on the weekend v Fresno St and Santa Clara but still sit in great position at 18-7 (5-1) as we approach the half way mark of the season.  This week we have interviews with Freshman SS Corey Nunez and Soph OF Josh Williams plus our week 7 players of the week draft with Gianni Bloom and Gaucho Analytics.  UCSB travels to Fullerton to resume BigWest play this weekend Thursday/Friday 6p and Saturday at 1p before returning home for 2 midweeks Monday/Tuesday v San Jose St.  Follow UCSB Analytics on Twitter @SBBaseballData