Ep 135: The Long Game: Two-Way Prospect Noah Franco on the Road to MLB Draft

In this episode, Garrett sits down with Noah Franco -- a 6'3", 240-pound two-way player at TCU and one of baseball's most intriguing prospects -- for an unusually candid conversation about the road that got him here and where he is headed. Noah walks through his California-to-IMG-to-TCU path, explains the MLB draft rules that most baseball fans do not understand, and gets into the daily discipline behind training as both a pitcher and a hitter at the highest level of college baseball. In this episode, we get into: Why leaving home for IMG Academy at fourteen was the first time Noah "banked on himself," and how that single decision reshaped his career trajectory The draft rule most fans do not know: why signing with a four-year college takes you off the draft board until after your junior year, and how NIL is changing the math for the next generation Choosing TCU over real pro money out of high school, and trusting the moment to develop rather than cash in early Two-way life at TCU: pitching AND hitting, how the coaching staff builds his weekly workload, and how Shohei Ohtani has opened the door for players like Noah at every level The physical transformation from 189 pounds to 240 pounds, and the shift from focusing on raw strength to new areas like lateral stability and rotational efficiency What we worked on in the clinic: thoracic mobility, teaching the nervous system to safely occupy new range of motion, and rebuilding the eccentric "breaking force" behind a healthy pitching follow-through The mindset that keeps Noah moving forward through pressure and outside noise Whether you follow baseball, work with elite athletes, or just want to understand how the best young players actually make decisions and train their bodies, this conversation is a rare inside look at what it takes to bet on yourself and play the long game.