The Five Tool Baseball Podcast

It's draft season for Dustin and Drew and this episode features the third-annual Texas High School Baseball Player Draft. Teams were comprised of 2024 and 2025 prospects with each team also selecting two 2026 players. Who drafted the best roster? Vote on Twitter and Instagram @FiveToolPod. 

Dustin and Drew survived the freeze and are back to discuss the recently published preseason Texas high school baseball team rankings. Plus, they talk about some standouts from the recent MLB Texas/Louisiana showcase at Barbers Hill and sadly discuss their NFL teams.

Dustin and Drew are back to recap the ABCA convention and preview the upcoming 2024 baseball year with 24 players they're excited to follow. The guys picked a player each from the 2024, 2025 and 2026 classes from Texas, California, Arizona and a national prospect. Plus, Five Tool visited Tokyo and watched one of the country's best 2025 prospects who wants to play college baseball in America.

Before they head to the ABCA convention in Dallas later this week, Dustin and Drew take a look back at 2023 with five good things from last year and then look ahead to 2024 with five things they're excited about. Among the topics:

Five Tool's website
College baseball popularity and coaching staff expansion
2026 class
Five Tool's expanding coverage and new events
Recruiting calendar changes for the better
Jett Williams and Anthony Silva
Rangers winning World Series
The new Big 12
Great players they saw in 2023
and more... 

Dustin and Drew are joined by Five Tool SoCal Director Tim Arakawa, who previews the upcoming Hawaii Sandlot Classic. Arakawa, who is from and grew up in Hawaii, shares the continued growth of the special event, why it's so important to Hawaii players, the colleges attending, highlights some players to watch and more. 

Dustin and Drew are joined by HITFORTH Director of Hitting Kevin Kies. Kevin shares his unique baseball path that led him to HITFORTH, shares what it's like to work at HITFORTH and delivers outstanding insight about how HITFORTH develops complete hitters with individualized programs and a full-time staff dedicated to development.

Drew and Dustin dive into the 55 players who just missed the 2025 Five Tool Texas 55. The list is loaded with uncommitted players college coaches will want on their radars during the spring. But before the two give a report on each player on the list, Drew baits Dustin into an impassioned rant about Florida State missing the College Football Playoffs. 

Dustin and Drew are back with a jam-packed episode. The two go through the recently released 2025 Five Tool Texas 55 rankings with thoughts on each of the 55 players and also pull back the curtain some on the rankings process. And they end with some college football discussion... what is the committee going to do and will chaos unfold Saturday?

Dustin and Drew highlight some trends happening in college baseball recruiting right now and where the talent in the region is going and what it means. Plus, the two discuss the surprising amount of college baseball coaching turnover and what it means for recruits. The 2025 Five Tool Texas 55 is complete and the gang previews the debut of the list along with some football discussion and more.

Dustin and Drew are back with more signing class discussion during the Early Signing Period but first... THE RANGERS WON THE WORLD SERIES! The two then go into detail about A&M, Tech, LSU, OU, Sam Houston, UTA's recruiting classes and also discuss 10 more individual JUCO commits they like.