Professional players coaching....

[CallMeBlue]

sooo Its been awhile since i've come to this site, but I had a question and its unanswerable by my own association... i'm in washington state and Dan Wilson coaches his sons team.... they came to 1 of our tournaments... his son threw out like 6 people in 1 game, then hit a grandslam in another to win it...<---300ft fence. these are 12U...

question is, do you ever see ex-professionals coaching they're sons team, and the kids always insanely good?? or.... is this kid beast....

[KLAH316]

Im in AZ where there are ALOT of ex-players living. In our little league and club tournaments, quite a few former Major Leaguers are coaching teams and for the most part the kids are all well above average!!!!

[carolinablue]

There are alot of kids from 7-15 years old or so that look leaps and bounds above the rest. Sometimes they are just much more developed physically than the other kids and a ex-pro's kid probably has better coaching and more resources than most. I think it will even out at a later time, maybe HS. If ex-pro's kids were always better than MLB would be full of them. As I see it, there are a few second and third generation players but not that many.

[JaxRolo]

Alex Fernandez was one of the coaches at CDP when I was there. I Umpired his team 2 times.

[Rich Ives]

Jeff Burroughs and Mike Stanley both coached teams at the LLWS.

[noumpere]

question is, do you ever see ex-professionals coaching they're sons team, and the kids always insanely good?? or.... is this kid beast....

Its very common here but you dont always know who the ex-pros are and I almost never know who the kids are. Nor, I hasten to add, do I care about either, only about their actions during the game.

[stl_ump]

sooo Its been awhile since i've come to this site, but I had a question and its unanswerable by my own association... i'm in washington state and Dan Wilson coaches his sons team.... they came to 1 of our tournaments... his son threw out like 6 people in 1 game, then hit a grandslam in another to win it...<---300ft fence. these are 12U...

question is, do you ever see ex-professionals coaching they're sons team, and the kids always insanely good?? or.... is this kid beast....

Here in St Louis - Chesterfield we have:

Mike Matheny (former Cardinal and Giants catcher) has 3 or 4 kids playing and they are all pretty good. He hops from team to team helping out.

Albert Pujols and Ryan Howard's sons play but no coaching as they are pretty busy during the season. Every now and then (like during the All Star break) they will show up to watch and boy, does that create a "ruckus" They are really good and gracious about signing stuff for kids.

[dleavitt39]

I'm a hockey ref, I was watching a tournament out by me this year. Joe Sacic and Adam Foote had their 12 year olds on the same team. They went undefeated to the championship and won it, all games were no closer than 10 goal differentials.

DL

[Umpete]

Jeff Burroughs and Mike Stanley both coached teams at the LLWS.

So did Dante Bichette. His son is now in the Yankees farm system (Gulf Coast League).

[zm1283]

sooo Its been awhile since i've come to this site, but I had a question and its unanswerable by my own association... i'm in washington state and Dan Wilson coaches his sons team.... they came to 1 of our tournaments... his son threw out like 6 people in 1 game, then hit a grandslam in another to win it...<---300ft fence. these are 12U...

question is, do you ever see ex-professionals coaching they're sons team, and the kids always insanely good?? or.... is this kid beast....

Here in St Louis - Chesterfield we have:

Mike Matheny (former Cardinal and Giants catcher) has 3 or 4 kids playing and they are all pretty good. He hops from team to team helping out.

Albert Pujols and Ryan Howard's sons play but no coaching as they are pretty busy during the season. Every now and then (like during the All Star break) they will show up to watch and boy, does that create a "ruckus" They are really good and gracious about signing stuff for kids.

One of the Benes brothers coaches at Westminster Christian Academy. They won the Class 3 championship this year.