All About Baseball with Byron Copley

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 day. This podcast supports that decision as a gesture to a person who was only attempting to exercise his right — and…

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 to even be more catastrophic than the Tigers’ losing 12 of 13 game from July 9 to July 26 could…

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 in substance and thick in deception. I think that this is merely about making the TV package negotiations in progress…

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 discussion about the time-space continuum, which, unlike the “catcher’s balk,” definitely does exist. bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Pavkin https://media.blubrry.com/3739195/content.blubrry.com/3739195/Catcher_s_Balk.mp3Podcast: Play…

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 a second listen — or a first if you have never heard it. bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Music: “Field Grass,”…

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 event would be better served if everyone dismissed her gender and acknowledged that measuring her performance at the same standards of…