Husband. Father. Scout for The Los Angeles Angels. MEd.
Houston, Texas
Joined May 2011
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With the 135th overall pick, the @Phillies select @UKBaseball right-handed pitcher Jaxon Jelkin, No. 166 on the Top 250 Draft prospects list.
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Coaches and Scouts,
The game will demand your eyes, your instincts, your expertise and your reports, but don’t let it take away your awareness of the people right in front of you.
It takes intention. It doesn’t happen by accident between innings or in the rush of evaluations. You have to decide ahead of time, that today won’t just be about tools, metrics, wins, losses or projections—it will be about people. You will be surrounded by them today.
Look around. There’s a player who’s hanging on by a thread of confidence. There’s an assistant coach who feels unseen. There’s a parent carrying quiet anxiety. There’s a scout who’s worn down by the grind.
Think of ways to encourage, build up and motivate.
Not grand gestures—specific ones. A word that rebuilds belief instead of just correcting flaws. A moment of patience when frustration would be easier. A conversation that goes beyond performance and into purpose. The extra minute you don’t “technically” have.
Love in this game looks like presence. It looks like honesty without abrasiveness. It looks like choosing to develop the person, not just evaluating the player.
Don’t wait for the “right moment.” The right moment is the one right in front of you—at the cage, on the bus, behind the backstop, in the stands, or in the parking lot. Those are the small spaces where impact actually happens.
You’re already influencing lives, whether you mean to or not. The challenge is to do it on purpose.
So today, as you track pitches, grade swings, or coach them up, ask yourself: Who needs encouragement from me right now?
Who needs to be seen?
Where can I turn a routine interaction into something that actually builds someone up?
Take advantage of every opportunity that God places in your path today, not just to advance the game, but to strengthen the people in it.
Because long after the stats are filed away, what remains is who you helped, how you led, and whether your presence made others better, not just as an athlete, but as people.
Think of ways….Then act on them today.
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We are bigger, faster, stronger than we’ve ever been as humans. We have tech to aid in creating the most efficient movement patterns that generate maximum velocity. I believe we have hit our evolutionary cap as far as the force the human body can tolerate in regard to the torque we are able to create.
We know how to build the engines but it feels like the frame just can’t handle the horsepower.
There’s a lot more nuance to this aside from “guys just throw too hard” which we will discuss on Mondays newest episode of @baseballisdead_
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Jake Knapp ran out of money while trying to qualify for the PGA Tour, so he spent 9 months working as a bouncer at a nightclub to keep his dream alive.
Now, just 2 years later, he has won the PGA Tour's Mexico Open, taking home $1.45 million.
It also got him into the Masters.
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Command problems are often not solved by practicing more command.
Here are other common solutions to get in the zone more often:
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AP's @RalphDRussoAP: "Was there ever a point where you thought this wouldn't be possible?"
Sark: "Yeah. Hell yeah, I did. Jeez. I was out of work. Couldn't get an interview.... We don't have to stay where we are in life."
Inspiring.
#HookEm | @KVUE
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I love this: Practice squad players usually are not on the sideline for games.
#Raiders HC Antonio Pierce changed that and made sure they were for his first game as head coach.
His explanation tells you all you need to know about why the players are all in for him.
This is a players coach. This is so good.
(📽️ @Raiders)
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Oct 15th NLDS clinchaversary. One of the greatest moments of Padres history. Let’s see a thread of all your vids so I can feel alive again. Here’s one of mine.
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This is an awesome look into Bryce Harper’s mentality and how he views pressure
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"Okay, y'all ready for a lecture?"
Pull up a chair for Nick Saban on the importance of NOTHING.
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In August 2017, I was traded to the @Mets AAA team and back in my old stomping grounds of Las Vegas. Their MLB team was very thin on outfielders and I had put together a solid bounce back season. I was told by a club employee I had made a short list for potential September call-ups as we hit the road to finish out the month.
After the game on August 30th, I sat at my locker in the Sacramento clubhouse anxiously waiting to get pulled into the managers office. I had worked so hard to overcome a brutal 2016 season and felt I had finally earned my shot at redemption. I checked @mlbtraderumors for the latest news and saw the Mets had claimed another MLB OF off waivers that day.
I watched as a handful of guys funneled into the managers office, but my name was never called. A flurry of emotions hit me as I showered, changed into my clothes, and loaded into the van back to the hotel. My dream had been crushed, and rage started to set in.
After an early morning team flight back to vegas, I had arrived back at my hotel. I did what most players do in this situation. I immediately picked up the phone to call my agent @joe_urbon to give him a piece of my mind. I bitched and complained about why I deserved to get called up, and finished the rant by saying I’m going to pack my bags and fly home that day. If they didn’t want to call me up, I wasn’t going to stick it out for the handful of games left on the AAA schedule.
Prior to the 2017 season, I had made a pact with him that I wasn’t going to play the victim. No more bitching and whining about being in AAA. No more excuses and blaming other people as to why I wasn’t back in the show. That mindset had absolutely consumed me in 2016, and it led to the worst season of my career.
Up until that point, I had held strong and been a great leader and teammate in the clubhouse. But, when the game ultimately punches you in the mouth, it’s easy to fall back into that victim mindset.
He paused and asked “Are you done?” Then he proceeded to absolutely lay into me. I have never been so grateful to get yelled at. I listened quietly as he delivered hard truth after hard truth. My ego had been deflated. Reality had been delivered.
As the old saying goes, you can’t control what happens to you, you can only control how you respond. And as my old skipper @ClintHurdle13 used to say, BE WHERE YOUR FEET ARE.
Baseball (life) is guaranteed to deliver some hay makers. Often times it’s when WE FEEL as if we have it all figured out, or we have earned that next opportunity. When it doesn’t happen the way WE EXPECTED, it’s easy to feel sorry for yourself, pack your things, and quit.
One of the proudest moments of my career was taking that conversation to heart and deciding to be a pro. To stick it out and honor what I had committed to before the start of the season.
I’m sure a lot of people reading this can relate this to a similar experience in their life. It’s not always easy to do the right thing in the moment, which makes it important to surround yourself with people who aren’t afraid to hold you accountable. It’s not always easy to recognize when your emotions are causing you to self-destruct in a moment where there is a greater lesson to be learned. Leaning into hard things is the catalyst for self-growth.
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