The Brushback Baseball Podcast

Tyler Rahmatulla & David Klein

The Brushback Baseball Podcast. Talking baseball, baseball, and more baseball with Tyler Rahmatulla & David Klein. Probably not the best baseball podcast, but definitely the most fun!

  1. Episode 17 - Talking baseball with Stanford Coach: Steve Rodriguez

    2020-05-15

    Episode 17 - Talking baseball with Stanford Coach: Steve Rodriguez

    Steve Rodriguez has quite the baseball resume... See below from Stanford Baseball's bio on Stevie: "Steve Rodriguez enters the 2020 season in his first season as a Stanford assistant coach after spending the previous three seasons with UCLA as the Director of Baseball Operations. A student-athlete for the Bruins from 2009-11, Rodriguez played six seasons as a member of the Arizona Diamondback and Atlanta Braves organizations (2011-16). A native of Lomita, California, Rodriguez played 147 games at catcher with UCLA, making 137 starts across three seasons. He finished with a career .215 batting average with 10 home runs and 64 RBI while serving as catcher for future first-round picks in the Major League Baseball draft Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer. During his three seasons, the Bruins pitching staff owned a 3.33 earned-run average with over 1,700 strikeouts. In 2010, Rodriguez was a member of the United States Collegiate National team. Rodriguez was selected in the 15th round of the of the 2011 MLB amateur draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks and made it to as high as Double-A with both the Diamondbacks and the Braves. He hit .221 in his professional career with four home runs and 79 RBIs. Rodriguez had one of his best seasons in 2014 when he was promoted to Double-A Mobile and hit .267 with a .352 slugging percentage and scored 11 runs in 60 games for the BayBears." Thanks for watching and listening!! Please like and subscribe for more content like this!! *Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brushback_baseball_podcast *Listen on Simplecast: https://the-brushback-baseball-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes *Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-step-brothers-baseball-podcast/id1495557153 *Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1vgY95Jt26aR2QRU0K1vo2

    1h 5m
  2. Episode 14 - DBAT franchise owner, former college coach, and Iowa Valley League legend: Casey Pauli

    2020-04-06

    Episode 14 - DBAT franchise owner, former college coach, and Iowa Valley League legend: Casey Pauli

    In this weeks episode, we sat down with Tyler's cousin-in-law Casey Pauli. Though Casey was born in Iowa, he graduated out of Scottsdale, Arizona's Saguaro High School. He was an awesome middle infielder who earned a scholarship to Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) where he was Second Team All-Region in 2004. Casey eventually transferred to Wartburg College (Waverly, Iowa) where he earned Third Team All-ABCA Region honors in 2006 & First Team All-ABCA Region honors in 2007. Upon graduating from Wartburg, Casey started his coaching career at both of his alma mater's: spending 1 year as assistant coach at Wartburg and 5 years as assistant coach at Kirkwood. Most recently, Casey spent the last 4 seasons as an assistant coach at Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids. He also met his wife Cari (formerly Cari Kinzenbaw) at Kirkwood and the two transferred to Wartburg together. Cari was also a decorated softball player as well: at Wartburg, she was and Academic All American and First team All-ABCA Region in 2006. Cari's father, Fritz Kinzenbaw, was long time owner of the Red Top baseball team of the semi-pro: Iowa Valley League. Casey (and Tyler) both played for the "Toppers" in the summer. Just recently, Casey became an owner of a DBAT baseball facility located in Marion, Iowa. They opened doors in early February 2020 and have about 21,000 sq. ft. of turf and 15 batting cages. If you're in the area and are interested, please go check them out!!

    1h 3m
  3. Episode 12 - Minnesota Twins AAA coach Robbie Robinson || His crazy path to becoming a Minor League coach

    2020-03-27

    Episode 12 - Minnesota Twins AAA coach Robbie Robinson || His crazy path to becoming a Minor League coach

    Robbie Robinson and Tyler first met in AA Springfield with the St. Louis Cardinals, and eventually ended up coaching together for the Battle Creek Bombers of the Northwoods League. Robbie has been to nearly every corner of the coaching world, leading him to his current position as coach for the Minnesota Twins Triple-A affiliate - Rochester Red Wings. He has spent time as a player or coach at all of the following levels: Brea Olinda High School, Irvine Valley College, Riverside City College, Point Loma Nazarene University, Valparaiso, Missouri State University, Mankato Moondogs (Northwoods League), Battle Creek Bombers (Northwoods League), Springfield Cardinals, Twins Dominican Summer League, Twins Gulf Coast League, Rochester Red Wings & time as a scout for the Baltimore Orioles. In this episode Tyler, David, and Robbie discuss topics like: - the amount of preparation required to become a successful manager/coach (learning under Mike Shildt, Dennis Rogers, etc...) - what scouts look for in a player, how they evaluate... - kids growing up playing baseball in the Dominican Republic - coaching MLB veteran players like (Nelson Cruz, Josh Donaldson...) - dealing with failure/mental game - How bad Tyler is at throwing batting practice... - How the Minor League guys are staying ready for as season during this postponement... - and more... Thanks for watching and listening!! Please like and subscribe for more content like this!! *Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brushback_baseball_podcast *Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC68A4FBydeLLvOkjjqwC11w *Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-step-brothers-baseball-podcast/id1495557153 *Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1vgY95Jt26aR2QRU0K1vo2

    49 min

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The Brushback Baseball Podcast. Talking baseball, baseball, and more baseball with Tyler Rahmatulla & David Klein. Probably not the best baseball podcast, but definitely the most fun!