RBGB 4 - Juan Hillman Jr.

RBGB 4 - Juan Hillman Jr.

Juan Hillman Jr. is the featured guest of Red Black Green Baseball 4. Hillman is a left-handed starting pitcher who has played 6 years in the minor leagues, reaching Triple-A during the 2021 MiLB season with the Cleveland Guardians organization. He was drafted by the Cleveland Guardians in the second round of the 2015 MLB Draft out of Olympia High School in Orlando, Florida, foregoing a commitment to the University of Central Florida. He is currently a MiLB free agent. Juan Hillman's Twitter: @RealJuanHillman [https://twitter.com/realjuanhillman] Juan Hillman's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5L1y4IF-I1cvpOR6dv6jQg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5L1y4IF-I1cvpOR6dv6jQg] Juan Hillman's MiLB Page: https://www.milb.com/player/juan-hillman-663535 [https://www.milb.com/player/juan-hillman-663535] Background - 0:30 Choosing Between Football & Baseball - 4:40 His Relationship With Tom Gordon [https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gordoto01.shtml] & Nick Gordon [https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gordoni01.shtml] - 6:40 Juan's High School Baseball Career - 12:00 The Experience of Getting Drafted - 15:00 Juan's Relationship With Triston McKenzie [https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mckentr01.shtml] - 17:00 Juan's Experience As a Professional Baseball Player - 24:20 Going Through Tommy John Surgery - 35:00 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

RBGB 3 - Roger García

Roger García is the featured guest of the third episode of the Red Black Green Baseball Podcast, and the first Afro-Latino individual to make an appearance on the show. He is the great-grandson of Silvio García [https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/silvio-garcia/], one of the greatest Afro-Cuban shortstops in the history of professional baseball. He had an illustrious career that spanned over twenty years, playing in the Negro Leagues, Mexican League, Cuban Winter League, and all the other top professional baseball leagues that allowed Black baseball players from throughout the African Diaspora [https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/anthropology-and-archaeology/human-evolution/african-diaspora] to play. The shortstop was one of the candidates considered to break MLB's color line, although Branch Rickey deemed him unfit after García told him that he would kill a man in America if he disrespected him just for being Black. Roger and I talked about a list of topics, many of them revolving around his relationship with the game of baseball and how it intersects with his identity as an Afro-Cuban and his family history. 0:00 - Intro 0:45 - Background + Viral Tweet [https://twitter.com/iforgotmyname38/status/1367106370265370624?s=20&t=aMfG51A_sa5S9H15Neieig] 2:55 - His great-grandfather's complex relationship with Cuba 8:50 - Being Afro-Latino in baseball 10:00 - The new wave of young Black players in professional baseball 13:00 - Talking about the game within the game 19:00 - Baseball in Nashville 25:00 - Favorite Afro-Cuban players 26:30 - Travel ball story 30:00 Losing a family heirloom 32:00 Learning Spanish from Grandma 34:20 - Another discussion about the new wave of young Black talent in professional baseball 37:00 - Being a Black catcher 40:45 - Impromptu Michael Irvin praise 42:00 - Uptick in Black catchers in MiLB 44:15 getting Black people more engaged with baseball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

RBGB 2 - Shakeia Taylor

The Red Black Green Baseball Podcast - The Red Black Green Baseball Podcast's second episode is centered around my conversation with Shakeia Taylor is an avid baseball historian and freelance columnist from Youngstown, Ohio. Her main interests are the Negro Leagues and women in baseball, while also being a highly active advocate for diversity in sports journalism. As one of the best baseball writers today, her emotion-evoking prose writing has helped shine the light on race and culture in baseball. A 2021 winner of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Analytics Conference Research Award [https://sabr.org/latest/adams-davis-taylor-win-2021-sabr-analytics-conference-research-awards/#:~:text=Congratulations%20to%20Tony%20Adams%2C%20Bradford,the%20SABR%20Virtual%20Analytics%20Conference.] and Associated Press Sports Editors Award [https://www.apsportseditors.com/yahoo-sports-henry-bushnell-nick-bromberg-jay-busbee-jennifer-starks-cassandra-negley-lila-bromberg-and-shakeia-taylor-win-category-a-projects-in-2020-apse-contest/], her powerful writing has made appearances across many platforms and has been featured on SB Nation, FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, MLB dot com, and more. 0:00 - Origin Story & Background 7:30 - How She Got Into Writing About Baseball 10:00 - Being Black In Sports Media 21:00 - Supporting The Youth In Baseball 24:00 - The Intersection of History & Baseball 28:00 - Monthly SABR Event News Shakeia's Writing: https://www.hishakeia.com [https://www.hishakeia.com] Shakeia's Twitter: https://twitter.com/curlyfro [https://twitter.com/curlyfro] Pat's Writing: https://www.clippings.me/tangibleuno [https://www.clippings.me/tangibleuno] Pat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tangible_uno [https://twitter.com/tangible_uno] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

RBGB 1 - Tahnaj Thomas

The Red Black Green Baseball Podcast - The guest of the first episode is Tahnaj Thomas, a twenty-two-year-old starting pitcher who is a top prospect in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system from Freeport, The Bahamas. The former shortstop was one of the top Bahamian prospects who was eligible to be signed during the 2016 J2 Signing Period for international amateur prospects, but his path completely changed when a Cleveland Guardians scout named Koby Perez convinced Thomas that his future as a professional baseball player involved toeing the rubber. This is Tahnaj Thomas's story through his own words. 0:00-5:15 - Growing Up In The Bahamas 5:15-17:20 - The Transition From Being A Shortstop to Pitching 17:30-20:10 - Leading By Example, Hosting Pitching Camps, etc. 20:10-24:00 - Finding His Swagger As A Black Pitcher 24:00-30:57 - Just Be Yourself Pat's Twitter: @tangible_uno [https://twitter.com/tangible_uno?lang=en] Tahnaj's Twitter: @jbythomaskid [https://twitter.com/Jbythomaskid?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] Podcast Twitter: @rbgbaseball [https://twitter.com/rbgbaseball] Tahnaj's clothing brand: https://www.jbyclothing.com [https://www.jbyclothing.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]