After losing the final 39 games of the 2020 Southern Miss baseball season due to COVID-19, what’s waiting just one more day for Opening Day of the 2021 campaign. Originally slated for 4 p.m. Friday, first pitch against Northwestern State…
The 2021 Southern Miss baseball season is less than 72 hours away and the team’s leadership appears to be in good hands as we approach Opening Day. Hunter Stanley and Will McGillis are the co-captains of this…
From the Big Apple to the Windy City, Jonathan Holder will have already pitched for two of the biggest brands in Major League Baseball before his 28th birthday. The former New York Yankee signed with the Chicago Cubs back in…
The Biloxi Shuckers might have been robbed of their entire 2020 season due to COVID-19, but as of today, their future on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is more secure than ever before. Major League Baseball has officially announced that 120…
There is no reigning Conference USA Baseball champion from the COVID-shortened 2020 season, but Southern Miss is still getting plenty of respect as the last team to win the league crown in 2019. Today, the Golden Eagles were picked to…
Today, Major League Baseball announced its health and safety protocols for the upcoming season as it pertains to COVID-19. How are college baseball programs like Southern Miss going to handle the ongoing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic? Coming off a…
Considering it once snowed in Hattiesburg on Southern Miss Baseball Media Day, this year’s first-ever virtual session wasn’t as weird as you might think, but it does shed some light, or snow, on just how different things are for the…
The Southern Miss baseball team has had at least one player hailing from Gulfport High School on the roster every year dating back to 2015, starting with Daniel Keating and Alex Nelms, now Cade Crosby and Blake Johnson. As it…
Whereas most sports teams got at least some semblance of a 2020 season, the Biloxi Shuckers did not. That still hasn’t taken away the most consistent presence in their dugout. Today, the Shuckers announced their coaching staff for the 2021…
Baseball great Hank Aaron has died at the age of 86.
SEC baseball schedules rolling out earlier today and there’s one glaring omission for both Ole Miss and Mississippi State. That’s a game against one another, better known as the Governor’s Cup, played annually at Trustmark Park in Pearl. But not…
By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mets general manager Jared Porter was fired Tuesday after sending graphic, uninvited text messages and images to a female reporter in 2016 when he was working for the Chicago Cubs…
Batter up! The 2021 Biloxi Shuckers season is on. The Shuckers’ season was canceled last year to keep players and fans safe from COVID-19. However, this year, the Shuckers are expected to play a full season of baseball. Games are…
The Southeastern Conference has approved a normal 2021 baseball schedule comprised of 10 three-game conference series as voted on by the league’s athletic directors earlier today. According to reports, there were talks of going to a four-game series model, similar…
After a 2020 season with barely any college baseball, just about any schedule format sounds good for 2021 even if it is a little different. As first reported by Kendall Rogers of D1 Baseball, Conference USA athletic…
Southern Miss right-handed pitcher Walker Powell has been named a second-team pre-season All-American by Collegiate Baseball. A rare sixth-year senior for the Golden Eagles, Powell was dominant in his first four starts of the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign, going 3-0 with…
After playing his first five major league seasons with the New York Yankees, Gulfport and Mississippi State alum Jonathan Holder is heading to the Windy City. It’s Go Cubs Go for the former Admiral, having signed a one year non-guaranteed…
As far as professional athletes are concerned, perhaps none were hit harder by the coronavirus pandemic than minor league baseball players. The Biloxi Shuckers missed out on an entire 2020 season, but thankfully it’s just one season. Today, the Milwaukee…
Former Southern Miss closer Bradley Roney has a new home in the minor league baseball ranks with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The USM alum was an eighth-round draft pick of the Atlanta Braves in 2014, reaching Triple AAA as quickly as…
Two more Pearl River Community College baseball players signing on Wednesday, those being West Harrison alum Kasey Donaldson and Memphis signee Landon Gartman. How about teammates three times over with Donaldson putting pen to paper with South Alabama, linking up…
You play with heart when you play for a purpose and that’s exactly what one local baseball team did this weekend for a loving family member. The ten years olds on the underclassmen baseball team are playing…
MGCCC Pitcher Hayden Robb is heading to the division I level, having signed a national letter of intent with Southeastern Louisiana. Robb is actually a Bulldog twice over, having won a 4A state championship with Vancleave back in 2018. He…
For a team that was in the NJCAA World Series as recently as 2019, it’s no surprise to see Pearl River Community College produce five four-year college signees on the same day. Three of them being local, starting with Pearl…
Former Biloxi Shucker Devin Williams burst onto the scene in 2020, having already won the National League Reliver of the Year and now the Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year award in the NL. Only the seventh relief pitcher to…