Episode 115: 2023 Mid-Atlantic (Region 4) Preview

Welcome to Episode 115 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. It's our second Mid-Atlantic preview pod, as we dig into the teams in Region 4. In order: CUNYAC (at 2:00) This isn't a relevant conference as long as they don't have an AQ but they are still playing baseball and that's cool MAC Freedom (at 5:35) Arcadia had one of the more surprising dominant seasons in recent D-III history and look poised to be a regional contender once again Misericordia finally got knocked off their MACF throne but look ready to re-claim it Stevens might be able to ride their always-excellent pitching staff back to the postseason but have a lot of offense to replace NJAC (at 18:00) William Paterson finally won the NJAC with one of the nation's best offenses despite extremely poor run prevention; they should be tremendously entertaining again in 2023 Rowan is as solid as it gets but may need to rely on some transfers on the mound to stay at the top of this loaded conference Montclair State can bang with the best of 'em but will need some pitching depth to step up to make noise in a regional Kean had a down year but still boasts some of the best pitching in a suddenly offense-friendly conference TCNJ leads the rest of the pack of several teams that could reasonably make noise in this annual gauntlet UEC (at 43:30) Penn State-Harrisburg has a loaded lineup coming back but a ridiculous amount of innings to replace that could make a title defense challenging Salute to Ryan McCarty but it's somewhat unclear what to expect from Abington moving forward UAA (at 53:55) NYU continues to baffle us but we can usually expect them to be solid even if the SOS is blah We conclude (at 57:10) with our player and pitcher of the year picks, and our teams to beat. Then we say goodbye.  Follow us on Twitter @d3baseballpod (DMs are open if you want to reach us there) and @CespedesBBQ.  Send us your best D-III stories or any other comments or questions to [email protected] Subscribe + rate/review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-podcast-about-division-iii-baseball/id1342691759  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uk8q4iUrMUZRriKM1Akfx?si=b6820eb311f847f1  Support us on Patreon -- this will never be behind a paywall but we appreciate any support to help cover our podcasting hosting fees and all the hours we put into making these pods possible! https://patreon.com/user?u=87461961&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link