If you’ve been wondering how the Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball team has turned around their season, there are a couple of reasons, but you certainly can’t look past catcher Carson Tinney. He’s having the kind of season that suddenly catapults a team into the postseason and himself into the high rounds of the MLB Draft.
D1Baseball.com recently out out its list of the 50 best catchers in college baseball and Carson Tinney placed third on that list. That’s hardly surprising considering that Tinney is hitting .364 with 15 home runs, 49 RBI, 12 doubles, and has a .795 slugging percentage.
He’ll show off what he can do again this weekend in the very rare this time of year non-conference series against Bowling Green. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish should be able to sweep that and should if they want to keep their at-large hopes alive.
💥NEW PLAYER RANKINGS: TOP 50 CATCHERS💥
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) May 6, 2025
Our Updated @NCAABaseball Player Power Rankings are OUT with the Top 50 Catchers, headlined by:
1. Rylan Galvan @TexasBaseball
2. Luke Stevenson, @DiamondHeels
3. Carson Tinney, @NDBaseball
FULL LIST: https://t.co/LUoGysBE9W
Former Notre Dame Fighting Irish teammates feuding?
Olivia Miles and Hannah Hidalgo were spotted over the weekend having a reunion of sorts at a WNBA game. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there’s any love lost there.
The two were seen first simply greeting each other, but the ex-Notre Dame teammates then seemed to get a bit heated to the point where some people, including security, had to come over and break up the convo. Perhaps Niele Ivey isn’t given enough credit for keeping all those personalities together as long as she did this past year.
Playing Clemson every year
The Irish and the Clemson Tigers worked out a deal on Tuesday that will have the two teams play easy other over year over a 12-year period. The deal will start in 2027 and run through 2038 and deepen ND’s ties to the ACC.
The deal does in some places, include games that Notre Dame already had on the schedule against Clemson. That includes the 2027 game in South Carolina.
Tobias Merriweather finds a new squad
A former Irish star has officially found his third home in three years. Wide receiver Tobias Merriweather transferred to Cal last season but caught just 11 passes and looked for a new team this spring.
In 2025, the former Notre Dame Fighting Irish receiver will be playing in the Big 12 for the Utah Utes. That certainly seems like a good fit for him as the Utes are having to almost completely rebuild their wide receiver corps.