The latest guest on The Base Path Podcast is Bishop Feehan (Mass.) coach Joe Breen, who returned to the MIAA coaching ranks this spring. Breen’s Bishop Feehan squad is the cover subject for the spring edition of New England Baseball Journal.
Breen, who is also the travel ball director for GBG Northeast, is likely the envy of many coaches around the state, as his program recently unveiled a state-of-the-art turf surface on Beach Field. His pitching staff also has two starting pitchers with fastballs in the 90s — Texas commit Brody Bumila and Northeastern commit Andrew Shute.
Bishop Feehan (Mass.) coach Joe Breen is the first to admit his team is heavy on projection while being light on past performance. This year’s team is off to a 3-2 start after going 11-10 in 2024. Breen said Bumila and Shute and motivated to make an MIAA D1 championship run.
“This is their school,” Breen said. “These are their friends, these are their classmates. They see these guys hours and hours every day of the week. They’ve known each other at least two, three, and four years. There’s a sense of pride with trying to win with your friends and win with your teammates that you go to school with. And I think that’s a little bit different than the club scene, where you’re pulling kids from a bunch of different towns, a bunch of different communities together.”
