🎙️NEW EPISODE | CLEARING THE BASES ⚾️ What separates a kid with great tools from a REAL baseball player? My latest guest is Drew Briese — Head Baseball Coach at Centre College and longtime USA Baseball coach and evaluator. And this conversation went well beyond wins and losses. Drew shares what USA Baseball is REALLY watching when evaluating some of the best young players in the country — and a lot of it has nothing to do with exit velocity, pop times or 60-yard dashes. We get into: ⚾️Why tools don't always make a baseball player ⚾️What evaluators notice when players think nobody is watching ⚾️Why metrics should be an indicator — not the “North Star” ⚾️Coachability, body language and responding to failure ⚾️The good AND bad of today's travel baseball environment ⚾️Building a championship culture at Centre College ⚾️Why becoming a father changed Drew as a coach ⚾️What parents of young players may need to hear most And Drew delivers one message that every baseball parent should think about: Your son's strikeout isn't your strikeout. His error isn't your error. Let him experience it. Let him learn from it. And let him move on. This is a conversation about baseball — but even more, it's about developing the PEOPLE who play it. Drew Briese | Centre College & USA Baseball 🎧 theCTBshow.net #ClearingTheBases #Baseball #YouthBaseball #CollegeBaseball #USABaseball #BaseballDevelopment #BaseballCoaching #CentreBaseball