What You Say After the Game Is Hurting Your Son

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If your boss tells you, if you don't get me a new client today, you're fired, do you think that you're going to perform well that day? Probably not. A lot of parents in the car ride home, what are they doing? They're ridiculing them. What message do you think that sends? I know for a fact parents don't knowingly do that. All right, guys, welcome back to another episode of the Most Valuable Agent Podcast. I am here today with my producer, Mike, and if you've watched this podcast before that, you know that we do these Q and A episodes where we answer questions from travel, baseball, families, specific questions that they email us. And these are very, very specific things that they're personally wrestling with. And so we have another one of those episodes. I am here with Mike. Mike, give me the meat. Give me the best one that you have for us today.

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I will give you the carnivore diet of version of today's episode, which is who's actually developing your kid? And there's a series of questions that we got submitted from all of you. So thank you for sending those in. The first question is from Giselle in Tampa. And Giselle, writes Matt, I'm seeing more parents reclassify their kids, essentially holding them back a grade to give them a perceived advantage in baseball. Is this actually helping young players long term? Or are parents creating academic, social, and developmental consequences they may not fully understand? How should a family decide whether reclassification is truly in their child's best interest or. Or simply an attempt to get ahead in sports?

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So, yeah, I actually saw this question that Gisele sent. So whenever you hear the term reclassification or reclassify, what that means is a player leaves their current, let's call it draft class, right, or senior year, and they go to a different age group. Now, that actually happens in a couple different ways. There are some people that reclass ahead, which means you go from, as an example being a 2026 draft to 2027 draft. And then there's a reclass, which is the opposite of that, which is we're going to hold you back a year. And instead of graduating in 2027, you're going to graduate in 2026. So that's, that's what it means when, when Giselle asks the question about the reclass. So let's talk about the specific example she gave, which is a bunch of different people are essentially holding their sons back. And let's talk about why they would do that. And so I, I do agree with Her. I think a lot of people are doing this now more than ever. It begs the question, why would they do that? But also, what would be the potential benefit of doing that? Or what's the potential cost of doing that? If you asked me, Mike, the number of players in any given year who should consider reclassifying, my answer would be less than 1%. I mean, we're talking about such a minuscule amount of people, and the only reason to do it is for a very, very specific reason. Okay, now let's talk about what that reason could be. So in this example, we're talking about a player who is reclassing down, meaning going to a class behind. One of the reasons to do that would be because. Let's just say that player was at a certain age where they were older for their class, or I'm sorry, younger for their class. And so they felt like, you know, when we signed him up for school at 6 years old or 5 years old, he got into kindergarten at 5. And so then naturally he's a little bit younger for his grade. And so holding him back would make him more of the age of all the kids that he's really playing with. Right. Like that would be a reason to do it. Now, strictly speaking, from a baseball standpoint, this is the mistake parents make is they don't ever think about it from the standpoint of like, how is it benefiting the kid from an educational component, or how is it betting benefiting a kid from maturity component? The only thing they're considering is how is it benefiting a kid from a physical component? Right. My son is really good, but if we hold him back, he's playing against younger players, he's going to be better than those players. So we want to capitalize on him being better. And so that's why we're doing this. I think you're making a mistake. Okay. That, that is the number one thing that I think a lot of parents who do this reclass make the mistake of doing is it's purely from that physical component. And that would be no different than me. You know, this is a bad example, maybe, but like, if I was playing basketball against like a 12 year old and I'm dunking on the 12 year old, like, does that mean that I'm a good basketball player? No. I'm playing against a kid who's inferior to me, who's younger, who's smaller, how is that putting me in the NBA? Right? It's not. Doesn't mean I'm an NBA player because I can do that. And the same applies to baseball. So that may be an extreme example, but the point is, is the decision needs to be much broader than that. So for the people out there that are considering this, I don't think holding a player back makes sense from a physical standpoint. It only makes sense when you take into account the age of the player. And if that player, let's just say, is going to be, let's say he's, he's going to graduate currently at 18 years old, and you want to hold them back, and now he's graduating at 19. Well, all that's doing, if your son actually has ambitions of playing at the next level, is you're slowing down his ability to ultimately be as valuable as he could be. Because in Major League Baseball, and I just went over this with a client of ours, we show him this graph. And what the graph essentially shows is the percentage likelihood that you can reach arbitration, that you can reach free agency, that you could make $20 million or more in your career based on the age at which you make your major league debut. And as you would imagine, you know, the graph starts at 18 to 19 years old. Now, that may be crazy, but we're talking about like the Bryce Harper's and the Manny Machados of the world, right? Getting to the big leagues at 18 or 19 years old. All that shows is that organization really values this player. But what, what the data shows us is that if a player gets to the big leagues at that age, the chances that he's going to make it and be able to make this a career and make money, that's going to change generations. The percentage chance goes higher, goes up. Now, if you make your debut later and much later, you know, as an example, if you get to like 28 years old, it's minuscule. The chances that you're going to get to arbitration, that you're going to reach free agency, it becomes less and less and less. And so the disparity is, you know, 90% of the guys who get to the big leagues at 18 years old get to arbitration. But like less than 1% of the guys who get to the big leagues at 25 years old or 26 years old gets arbitration. So what that tells us and it instructs us is the system is built to value players younger and younger. So the parent who is reclassing their kid who would have graduated at 18 and now he's graduating at 19, you've just taken a year away from him, where now he is less valuable to a major league organization. Now, it still happens, but the outliers are those kids are so physically gifted that the age really doesn't affect them. So if your son is not one of those guys, and let's just say he's fighting to get an opportunity to go to a D3 school in college and you're holding him back, that's going to have a negative effect, right? Him hitting homers off of a young freshman. And that's maybe a perfect example. It's like if this, if the varsity team played the freshman team and you were performing really, really well against the freshman, does that mean your son should be going to college and playing every day in college? I wouldn't draw that conclusion. I would say, well, he's doing it because he's playing against a bunch of 15 year old kids. And so think about that when you're making the decision on whether or not your son should reclass or not. Now, I do want to take a moment and I want to talk about the value of players who do the opposite, which is reclass ahead and want to enter pro ball or college a year earlier. Why would that happen? And we have a player who, who I'm representing by the name of Striker Pence. And Striker is a perfect example. Everybody is, you know, listening to this, probably knows the name. He's so physically gifted that staying an extra year in high school didn't make sense from a development standpoint. It was going to be better for him to get into pro ball or college a year earlier. So it ultimately would, will benefit him because of that. And the thing that not many people understand is Striker and a lot of parents, actually not even in Striker's case, but a lot of parents maybe held their kids back during COVID and if that's the case now, they're going back to what their original draft year would have been. And that was the case with Stryker. And so there are all these different reasons and various reasons why people do this sorts of thing. But don't let the physical piece be the thing that's leading your decision. It should be much more than that. And so I'm happy to talk through more specifics with any parent listening who's considering this and help really chew on the reasons as to why they either should or shouldn't. So if for some reason a parent's listening and wants to send me an email and ask me something specific, by all means you can do that. Send me an email at mattostvaluableagent. Com.

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All right, next question that we have is Tim From Dallas. And Tim writes, hey, Matt, it feels like the more these coaches work my kid, the worse he gets. Burnt out and so mechanical. He's lost his natural athleticism. Is it possible to overcoach a young player? And how do I know if that's happening?

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Great question. I mean, naturally. My answer, of course, is going to be, yes, it's certainly possible that a coach can not only overcoach a player, but just do. Do harm to the player. I think what's important is the age of the player, right. If you know baseball, it can be mechanical. Sometimes I think parents think if a player isn't performing well, that it must be a mechanical reason. That's not often the case. You know, sometimes it's the mindset, sometimes it's just. It's other things. And so I think the key. The key thing that I want to kind of take a moment and acknowledge here is the player is being burnt out, right? Like, there's a. There's a negative effect that is happening to this player that will have an impact on his success in the future. And so if that's happening in any level for any reason, I think it's smart for every parent to kind of pause for a moment and really try to understand more about why that could be happening. Now in certain instances, maybe it's happening because of the coach, right? He doesn't like the coach. The coach is really hard on him. The coach doesn't really give him much instruction. The coach is wanting to change certain things about his develop or delivery if he's a pitcher or his hitting and his swing mechanics if he's a hitter, that doesn't always mean that those things are required. And so if you have a coach who's doing that and it's not having, you know, a positive effect, I think it's smart to pause. But with that being said, you also have to recognize how are you evaluating that if your son is. Is, let's just say 16, 17 years old and he's making a small swing adjustment and he goes to one game and he struggles with it, you don't hit the panic button and just eject and say, that didn't work. Right. It was never going to work that way. And I would tell you, you never should have assumed that the change was going to happen that quickly. It's a process and it's something that you need to continue to work through. So what I would encourage these families to hear is, like, when you're working with a coach, what are the reasons why this coach wants to make this adjustment. But more importantly, and this is what every family and every kid should understand, and I've done an episode about this before, you even sign up with a team, a travel ball program, or you work with any individual hitting coach or pitching coach, you want examples of guys that they've worked with in the past that have had success with. And I don't mean just one guy, hopefully it's multiple guys. And you get specifics around that. If your son, let's just say, is 13 years old, and he's never worked with 13 years old, he's only worked with 17, 18 year olds, well, then naturally working with a 13 year old and, and asking him to make this swing adjustment at 13, maybe it's asking him to do too much. And so as a parent, what you have to do is you have to be smart enough in the very beginning to get clarity on what are we trying to accomplish. More importantly, why are we trying to accomplish this? And can you give me specific examples that you can show me that other players were able to do this and who were those players and what was their skill set? Asking a player with a limited ability to do something mechanically related that he's incapable of doing well, then naturally that player is going to negatively be affected by it. And so I think a lot of parents don't have those conversations until it's too late. And so sometimes the damage is done and then you're really trying to peel back the curtain a little bit and figure out why in the midst of all of it. And hopefully what you did instead is you figured those things out in advance and you know, in your mind, all right, we're on board with this. More importantly, my son is on board with this. He's given us very specific things. He's told us the reasons why he supported this by showing us other guys who've done it as well. So I know that it's possible it's going to require a lot of work. And again, I think, you know, there's a piece to this where the player is responsible, you know, for being somebody who takes the time and energy to work on it. If he goes into a cage one time, the coach tells him all these things, asks him to make this. Excuse me, make this change. He makes the change one time in one cage session, and it didn't feel great. Well, think about this. If you were to go take a golf lesson and this, this golf instructor completely changes your swing, and you expected in that first range session that it was going to be like this miracle that happens and now you're able to shoot a 72. You've got to be smarter than that. You got to recognize it's a process. And so we all just need to look at this through the lens of like what's realistic. A lot of this stuff gets solved by the parent who has the, the understanding in advance of any change and, and gets clear on why. So hopefully Mike, that makes sense.

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It does make sense. A follow up question for you though is how often are you seeing or hearing about coaches over coaching these players? Because I'm an avid sports guy and I see some of the best coaches overcoach their player like they are making sure they master the fundamentals. They are, I mean NBA. Gregg Popovich, great example of fundamental basketballs, he was harping always on the same thing. Didn't matter if you were a 10 time All Pro or you were a rookie. At least from my perspective. I find most coaches that are really great do quote over coach their players. What does it mean to overcoach a player and when does it become more harm than good?

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So first I think what we need to do is acknowledge if a coach is trying to make a change. I think we first need to, you know, draw the conclusion that, or at least assume that the coach has positive intent. Right? He's, he's wanting to make a change because he thinks that the change is going to help your son be better. If for some reason the coach is making a suggestion and you don't believe it's in, in that spirit, then obviously don't make the change. But over coaching for me is basically doing too much. Right. It's taking a kid who's had success and it's really trying to elevate his game to a whole nother level, which sometimes is appropriate, but you have to gauge whether or not it's working. And so the only way to do that is to have a realistic view into when that change can start to manifest. One of the things a lot of the parents and players make the mistake of because they so badly want to get better is they make the assumption that any change that's recommended is going to be a quick fix. No change is going to be, you shouldn't assume anyways is going to be this quick fix. Right. It could take a lot of time and energy. And so you just need to kind of bake that in to what your expectation is. Overcoaching though for me is, is just, it's doing too much. And so what is too much? That's for every parent and every player to evaluate. If you're a player, you're a parent whose son has given it time, done it consistently, busted his tail, really tried to implement it into his swing or his pitching delivery, and it's just. It's still not working after that time. Then I think we need to hit the pause button and then reevaluate and say, all right, maybe it worked for another player, but it's based on our mechanics and based on how our body moves. We need to try other things because this isn't working. So part of any family needs to recognize anytime a swing change or a mechanical change is recommended, anytime some coaching component is recommended, there's also the potential that it doesn't work. And so what are you committed to? How much time are you committed to devoting to this to see if it does work? And if it does, great, then, you know, it was worth it. But if it doesn't, I don't think the answer is, let me just keep doing it forever, and then it will eventually work. I just think you need to, you know, pause at some point and say, all right, maybe this is the time we need to have the conversation and say, I understand, coach, that you. You know, you told us that this was the plan. You showed us the guys that it worked for, but we've given you a couple months. It's just not working. We. We've been committed to it. It's not a byproduct of us not being willing to. It's just not having the desired effect. And more importantly, now my son doesn't have the confidence and feels a little lost. Like, we really need to get back to the basics of just going out there and playing baseball, having fun. And let's start over from that perspective, from the foundation. And any coach who's in it for the right reasons will understand that if you have a coach who looks at you and says, you're giving up, that's it. I think you really need to, you know, analyze. Is this a coach that you think you can ultimately develop around? And I would argue that maybe the answer to that is no.

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Yeah, I think that's a great explanation around, specifically the. The coaching process just in general. So. Okay, let's go to our final question here, Matt. And this is Dave from Topeka. He writes, hey, Matt, my son's coach played at a high level, so everyone assumes he knows how to develop kids. He doesn't. Does playing at the top actually mean someone can teach it, or are those two totally different skills?

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Yeah. So I want to Call something out that I just heard you, that you asked Mike. So Dave says he doesn't know how to develop. I don't know that you can just draw the conclusion maybe because he hasn't developed your son, that he doesn't know how to develop players. If you have evidence to support that position, then I would almost ask the question, like, well, if he can't develop, then why are you playing for him? I think for the purpose of this, because development is such an important piece, we really need to talk about, like, what makes a. A coach a good coach? What. What makes a coach be a coach who has the ability to develop my son? And underneath that, I think there's this assumption that, well, if the coach played in pro ball, then he knows how to develop, or if the coach played at a high level, that he knows how to. How to develop or he knows what he's doing. And some of the time that, that, that is true. Right? Some of the best coaches are coaches who played at the next level. But that's not uniform. It's not 100% of the time. There are plenty of coaches who played who are not great coaches. There are plenty of coaches who didn't play, who are amazing coaches. And so you want to be open to the potential that there is a coach out there who maybe has less experience from a playing standpoint. Now, I'm not recommending that you go to a coach who's never played the game, but there are plenty of coaches out there who didn't play pro ball, who never played in college, but they have the education around, like they call them biomechanists, right? Like the, the way the body moves, who actually make fantastic coaches. And so all we're doing as parents by ignoring the coach who maybe doesn't have the playing experience is you're potentially missing out on an opportunity to get the right instruction merely because the coach didn't have the resume. And so I just think we, we need to have an open mind. And so I said it earlier on this podcast. If you're choosing a travel ball program or if you're choo. The same applies for a coach, or if you're choosing a coach to work for a hitting coach or a pitching coach, have a conversation early and understand what the plan is and how is he going to develop your son. And if that plan is really specific and buttoned up and the plan, in fact, is phenomenal, right? It. It is way better than the plan of a coach who, let's just say, played pro ball well, then maybe you're willing to say, we're going to give this guy a chance, we're going to try it out, we're going to see how it is. But I don't think that the answer to that is like, okay, we'll just commit to that coach forever. No, give him an opportunity to work for your. Work with your son and see if it works. And it might, and it might not. And if it doesn't, then we pivot and then maybe we try this other coach who has more experience, and maybe that's the guy who ultimately is able to make a bigger impact on your son. I think the thing that is assumed is, well, this coach who has experience has so much information to give my son because he played at the highest level. But I would also argue that that can, you know, he can have access to that person, maybe through a phone call, right? Like, what's the information that you're trying to gather or you're trying to give to your son? Or what's pro ball like? What's college like? Well, you don't have to sign up with him as a coach to do that. You can ask him to have a conversation with your son, and your son can ask him specific questions around college and pro ball. That doesn't mean you need to give him the authority to, to make you a certain type of hitter or a certain type of pitcher merely because he played pro ball. So the mistake that's made is we draw conclusions and then we're misled merely because the resume is, is nice and fancy. And we just assume, well, you know, if this guy played in pro ball, he definitely has the information. So we're just going to sign up with him, go a level deeper. And if you choose to sign up with him, it's going to be because we like the plan that he's putting in place, because we like the evidence that he's sharing with us and the data that he's showing us that says he not only has the experience from playing, he has also the experience from coaching at the highest level, too, and that's why we're going to him.

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I think the other thing is, is that with Major League Baseball players, I would assume a lot of them transition from playing pro into high school baseball, into the college ranks, even into travel baseball. What really makes a great pro player into a great coach?

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I don't. I don't think it's like, uniform. I don't think there's. There's one thing I think any coach,

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Kurt Suzuki, comes to mind. Kurt Suzuki Who's a former client of yours. You've had him on the podcast a bunch. He's now the manager of the Angels. Clearly, the organization saw a lot of these leadership intangibles that Kurt possesses. Sure. To hire him as the manager. And I know that's like a pretty big no, but it's.

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It's.

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It's.

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For the purpose of this question, I think it's a good one. The reason I say it's not uniform is because, you know, we're human beings, right? There's a. There's a relational component to everything. I may have all of the information in my mind as to what makes a really good hitter, okay? But if I don't have the personality or the ability to articulate that well, then that's probably not going to make me a good coach. That's why sometimes the best hitters in the world don't make the best coaches. And the reason for that is because maybe one of the reasons why they were such a good hitter is they were just so physically and naturally gifted. So, you know, again, what makes them a bad hitting coach, let's say, is they're expecting that other players have the same ability. Well, just do it. Like, you should just be able to recognize you should have the right approach. You should be able to, you know, do the things that I was able to do. Well, no, just because you were able to do it doesn't mean that someone else who doesn't have your talent or your. Or your physical ability is able to do the same thing. And so specifically, as it relates to Kurt, and I remember this because even when he played, whether it was Alex Anthopoulos, the GM of the Braves, or Perry Manasian, the. The GM of the Angels, they both told me the same thing when Kurt was a player. Like, this guy's going to make a great manager one day. And I think what they recognized is, you know, Kurt was a catcher, number one. And if you look at some of the most successful big league managers, they were catchers. And so the catching position means this. This particular person sees the game at a different level, right? They analyze the game, you know, kind of on a totally different. Like they're almost playing a different game that other people aren't playing. They're seeing certain things. They're seeing ahead in the game. But more importantly, one of the biggest benefits of having an example big league player as a manager is oftentimes big league players want to know that their manager knows what they're going through, right? So. But the same would Apply in college if you're a college player and you're playing in the College World Series. Yeah, I'm sure if you had a coach who also played in the College World Series. Yeah, he knows what you're going through. But does that replace his ability to articulate how you, you know, personally need to change your game or make adjustments? No, not necessarily, because maybe his explanation isn't any good, or maybe he's making assumptions about what you should be doing, or maybe he's just a difficult guy and his personality isn't one that is somebody that can, you know, rally the troops and motivate people. And so Kurt was one of those rare guys, as is Stephen Vogt, who not only played the game at the highest level, they won at the highest level, but also they have the ability to do more than one thing really, really well. They don't just communicate well. They know the game well. They don't just know the game well. They. They can articulate the game well. Right. They don't just articulate the game well. They actually have empathy for what you're going through as a player, and they're giving you opportunities, and that player recognizes that that coach or that manager actually cares about them. And so if you ask me what the number one thing that every coach or manager needs is, it's empathy. That coach really needs to care about the player. I was just watching a video. The College World Series is going on right now, but Georgia was just eliminated. And I heard it was Trey Phelps with Georgia who was talking about Wes Johnson. And then I heard also Ishikawa was another one of their players, Kenny Ishikawa, who was also talking about West Jordan or West Johnson. And what they were essentially saying that west did is before their last game, west came up to him and he said, hey, man, no matter what happens today, just know that I love you. Wes could have done that, and the player would have been like, nah, whatever. But the fact that these players talked about it after a loss and that. And the. The question that was asked to both guys wasn't, why is Wes Johnson so good? The question was, what is it about this team that makes you guys play the way that you've been and to have this season that you've had? And their answers were, I mean, here's an example. Wes Johnson literally came up to me before my first at bat, and he didn't tell me, hey, I want you to do this with the P. He didn't tell me, this is what I'm expecting of you today. It had Nothing to do with baseball. He said, no matter what happens today, I just want you to know that I love you. And so as that relates to parents, if that is having the impact on the college player at that level, what impact does that have on the player at let's just say 9, 10, 11, 12, or 13. Right. And I've talked about this on the podcast before, and I'm going to pivot here a little bit. But part of what every player needs to experience is, is a safe environment where they don't believe that the love that their parent has for them is directly attached to their performance. They want to know that if they're over four with four strikeouts or they walk 10 batters, that they go home, that their dad and mom, they're the same, they love them all the same, they talk to them the same. Their parent hasn't lost confidence in them. Right. And so many parents, what happens in the car ride home? What are they doing? They're ridiculing them. Right. They're criticizing their performance. They're asking them, like, what the hell were you doing? What message do you think that sends? That's the opposite. That is sending a message to the player that if I go four for four, my dad loves me and he's, like, praising me, but if I struggle, oh, man, this car ride home is going to suck. Now, the player who already doubts his abilities because he had a bad game, you're just reinforcing it. So think about it at work for you mom and dad, if you're going to work, and your boss tells you, if you don't get me a new client today, you're fired. And I don't think you're any good. Do you think that you're going to perform well that day? Probably not. And you may be hearing that saying, well, yeah, but I'm not telling that. Telling him that before a game. No, but your actions after the game have already done the work. Your actions after the game already have laid the foundation that your performance that day will dictate whether my parent actually has confidence in me, loves me, or cares about me. And I. The reason I talk about this is I know for a fact parents don't knowingly do that. But it's as if after a bad game, something is, like, eating up at them, and they think, I have this thing that I have to get off my chest, and so I'm just gonna do it. And my kid, he's gotta deal with it. That is doing damage. And so I'm not asking you to be to raise a soft kid. I'm not asking that you don't have those hard conversations when necessary. All I'm saying is be mindful of what is the natural byproduct of having those conversations at the wrong time. Right. If you're doing it because you want to scratch the itch, that's not a good enough reason. The sole focus for every parent needs to be, am I putting my son in a position to have success or am I not? And I know that instinctively, every parent says, that's exactly what I want. But your actions have to match your words. Is your behavior doing the same thing? Because oftentimes it's not what you say, it's what you do that is going to show that player how they. How they feel. It's going to show that player whether or not you actually believe it. And so here's the thing. A lot of parents are like, okay, got it, Matt, I'm going to do that. And you do it twice. And then the third game you're like, nope, that's it. Eject. I'm going back to the way I used to do it. You do that, and all the things that you did in the last two instances where your son really appreciated how you were is out the window. Now that player's like, oh, that was just an act. Oh, you were just doing that because you thought it was going to work. And what do you think that does? Just causes them to resent you. And so that's where, again, how does that relate to coaching? If it matters to a player for their coach to be that way, then it undoubtedly matters to them that their parent is that way.

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Yeah, I think that's an amazing take, especially because, you know, I think a lot of parents probably have ran into those situations where there's the notoriety and the reputation that comes with being a pro player and coaching at that level as well. So, Matt, awesome episode today, man. Take us home. And thank you guys again for. For all the questions. We really do appreciate it.

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Yeah, I mean, Mike, as you just said, guys, I know that these episodes can be long, and I know that we cover a lot of different things, but the intention that we have is to make a tremendous impact on you guys. And so I hope it is if you guys have, you know, specific things that you're really dying to ask that you want us to cover on this podcast, that's why we do this. Send me an email at Matt most valuable agent dot com. And Mike and I will definitely get to it in a future episode. But What I'm asking you to do right now is if this episode was meaningful and impactful for you, if you could share it with another family, that's just going to help us spread the word and really bring this podcast to more parents who ultimately will have their experience positively affected by it. So I mentioned it earlier and I've mentioned it on other episodes as well. Be on the lookout for a couple different things. Johan, Martinez, Kalilian and myself are putting together an event that is going to be called the Parents Playbook. We're going to be bringing this to various cities throughout the country. We're also going to bring to you guys an ebook that specifically addresses a lot of this same stuff. Really wanted to give you guys the power back. Basically, we want to make sure that you guys are armed with the tools that you need to have a really meaningful and positive impact in your son's life. A lot of the things that we talked about today hopefully will do the same. And then the second thing in a future episode, what we're going to be doing is we're going to be providing you guys with the summer baseball tournament and Showcase Survival Guide that will walk you through how to think about summer baseball, the various things that matter, also things that don't matter, and things that you need to be mindful of. So be on the lookout for both of those things. But lastly, I just wanted to say thank you, so we'll see you next time.