Columbus Clingstones
106 episodes listed below
Clingstones baseball before first pitch.
The Pregame Peach is a ballpark-close interview show built around the Columbus Clingstones before first pitch. Players, managers, and Braves development voices talk through hot starts, road series, prospect growth, and the daily work behind Double-A games.
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The Pregame Peach is built for the hour before baseball starts to count. Its world is the Columbus Clingstones, with conversations shaped by the previous night, the current series, and the long development path inside the Braves organization. The show favors access over polish. Guests talk from offices, road parks, and the edges of game preparation, so the details stay close to the field. A conversation with Luke Waddell turns a hot start into notes on Columbus crowds, a new ballpark, old teammates, and the simple goal of hitting the ball hard. Nestor Perez brings a manager's view of momentum. He talks about comeback wins, why winning a series matters, how power can change a game, and what it feels like to manage in front of big home crowds at Synovus Park. The player-development episodes widen the frame. Kevin Hooper discusses spring training, player plans, information overload, relationships, and the balance between data and trust. Those conversations make the minor league setting feel less like a waiting room and more like its own demanding workplace. The player interviews add texture. David McCabe explains switch-hitting, patience, 3-0 swings, Triple-A pitching, and the personal lift of becoming a father. Owen Murphy's Double-A debut becomes a conversation about resetting after early damage, breathing between pitches, and noticing the opening-day atmosphere. The show also has room for end-of-season reflection, including Cody Gabella on fight, young players, veterans, and what a club reveals over months of close games. The Pregame Peach is strongest when it stays modest and exact. It treats minor league baseball as daily craft: swings, starts, road trips, scouting reports, families, facilities, and the next chance to respond.
Made for: For Columbus Clingstones fans, Braves prospect watchers, and minor league baseball followers who want conversations beyond the box score. It also suits listeners interested in player development, clubhouse routines, and the texture of a Double-A season.
What sets it apart: Its strength is proximity: conversations happen around the ballpark, tied to the exact series, players, and decisions shaping Columbus baseball. The show blends immediate pregame context with development-level detail from players, managers, and Braves personnel.
The Pregame Peach is the official pregame podcast of the Columbus Clingstones, the Double-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves.Hosted by Clingstones play-by-play broadcaster Jack Johnson, the show features pregame conversations with players, coaches, Braves personnel, and voices encountered along the way throughout the Southern League. Recorded around the ballpark and leading up to first pitch, each episode offers insight into preparation, development, and the people who shape Clingstones baseball on and off the field.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A ballpark visit that becomes a practical look at modern player development.
Kevin Hooper turns this Columbus Clingstones stop into a sharp look at both the ballpark and the craft of player development. He leans into the old-school feel beneath the overhang and old beams, then balances that with the renovated clubhouse, the cage just across the sidewalk,…
Daily Blue Jays therapy after every swing.
Mets panic, patience, and prospects.
Tech news with the patience removed.
Mets anxiety, translated into roster logic.
NHL chaos, argued quickly.
Fort Myers to Fenway, one swing at a time.
Kevin Hooper, the Braves director of player development, joins Jack on the Columbus Clingstones pregame show and describes Columbus's ballpark as a place with old beams, an echoing crowd, and a $50 million facelift.
A season-ending pregame interview with manager Cody Gabella discussing the team's identity and development throughout the year.
Host Jack Johnson interviews pitcher Owen Murphy after his impressive Double-A debut for the Columbus Clingstones.
Amos Willingham says a steady wake-up-to-field routine made unfamiliar baseball roles and new environments easier to handle.
Kobe Kato discusses the Columbus Clinkstones' club-record 13-run game, his glove flip at second base, and the hitting process that produced 17 runs in the series.