All About Baseball with Byron Copley

All About Baseball with Byron Copley


Latest Episodes

A Collapse of Epic Proportions (Reprise)
September 17, 2025

What a difference a week makes. On September 8, the Tigers were 9.5 games ahead of Kansas City. Now, the 2025 Detroit Tigers, as of this day, are in the EXACT same position as the 1964 Philadelphia Ph

Yankees’ Tribute to Charlie Kirk
September 12, 2025

The New York Yankees offered a moment of silence on September 10, 2025, prior to its game against the Detroit Tigers, to recognize the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which had occurred earlier that da

A Collapse of Epic Proportions
September 08, 2025

Prior to the game of Friday, September 5, 2025, the Detroit Tigers held a 9.5 game lead over the second-place Kansas City Royals in the American League Central. Only a total collapse that would have t

The Balkanization of Major League Baseball
September 01, 2025

Rob Manfred is at it again. He wants to expand MLB to 32 teams and organize them in divisions based solely on geographic proximity and dissolve the American and National leagues. His rationale is thin

What is the Catcher’s Balk? Answer: It Doesn’t Exist
August 25, 2025

A listener-request inspired me to dig into the mystery of the so-called "catcher's balk," a term commonly used, but found nowhere in the rule book. Naturally, my investigation lead me into a discussio

Replay: The Perfect One-Hit Game
August 20, 2025

Now that this podcast is approaching 100 episodes, with no intention of slowing down, I'm going to start working in past episodes from time to time. This one is one of my favorites to date, and bears

The Job of an Umpire is to Remain Anonymous
August 15, 2025

This rather clumsy podcast title was born out of the emergence of Jen Powol, the first woman to ever umpire a Major League baseball game in the regular season. The historical significance of this even

The Little League World Series Baseball Field Needs to Be Expanded in Size
August 10, 2025

The current size of the Little League World Series Baseball field, which features a 46-foot pitching distance from home plate, 60-foot bases, and 225-foot fences, is limiting the development of the 12

Microbetting is a Huge Problem in Major League Baseball
August 03, 2025

Are the scandals involving Cleveland Guardians' pitchers Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase, who suspiciously threw several pitches well out of the strike zone with the identical count of 0-0 on the leadof

Blasting Caps, Potato Chips, and Shakespeare
July 28, 2025

Baseball testimonials and endorsements are as old as the game itself. What used to make the good ones valuable and relevant to me was that the ballplayers featured didn't have to act: they could just