Bat‘HER Up
Bat’HER Up is the podcast that puts the stories of the women in baseball at the forefront. Yup you read that correctly, none of this nonsense of only talking to dudes about the game, asking their opinions on what Aaron Boone is doing wrong, blah blah blah. Ya’ll know where to find that stuff and it is NOT here. What will be here though is the stories of incredible ladies who have spent part or perhaps their entire lives entrenched in baseball, doing the incredibly important work of sharing stories of other women and breaking the forever looming *glass ceiling.
Show episodes
Carrlyn Bathe- Ft Her Dogs, on Shohei Ohtani, Pandemic Video Game Hobbies and MLB’s Creators Cup
An episode that features pets! Between Carrlyn's dogs making a surprise appearance and Shannon's cat making her first cameo on the pod, it was a show full of our favorite fur friends. When the attention wasn't on them, which was shockingly a lot of the time, the girls talked about getting into Twitch during the pandemi
Sonja Chen on the Trade Deadline and if the Los Angeles Angels are a Long, Elaborate Performance Art Piece
Sonja Chen is a reporter and producer for MLB.com based in the Bay Area. She mostly covers the visiting teams, and most recently covered the spectacle that was the Astros getting swept by the Oakland A's. This weeks episode covered everything under the sun- how trading Shohei Ohtani for Juan Soto would be the fairest
Jean Fruth talks Grassroots Baseball, Why Coffee Table Books are Superior and Maybelle Blair
Jean Fruth is on this week. It was a long time coming and worth the wait. The girls chatted about everything under the sun- what to eat at Citi Field, the Midwest Baseball scene, and of course, her ever expansive career that spans from working with La Vida Baseball, the Baseball Hall of Fame, and of course, Grassroots
This weeks episode features Jennifer Mercedes, a producer and host at La Vida baseball and the founder of Chica Deportes. We spoke about why its important for players to have reporters who have similar backgrounds as them, success and of course, Chica Deportes. Jennifer's Twitter: @chica_deportes Jennifers Instagram:
Julia Kreuz Talks Covering the Yankees Beat, Baseball Friendships and Gabriel Moreno
Julia Kreuz makes a ton of podcast appearances, so its super lovely that she made the time for Shannon. When she's not on pods, she writes for MLB.com. She recently covered for Bryan Hoch on the Yankees beat, has an adorable dog that we somehow did not talk about and a very charming friendship with fellow baseball writ
Kelsie Heneghan does social media and features for Minor League Baseball and MLB Pipeline. In this weeks episode, Bat'HER Up's first in a hot minute, we talked about the upcoming draft, what some players from prior draft classes are up to now, what makes captivating picks and of course, how on earth she manages the Min