"I Have Failed You": What Augie Garrido's Rant Actually Teaches About Coaching Kids - Academy Youth Baseball Podcast EP 105 | Driveline Baseball

About this episode

Deven discusses coaching strategies and insights from Augie Garrido's rant, emphasizing accountability and the importance of multi-sport participation for youth athletes.

"I Have Failed You": What Augie Garrido's Rant Actually Teaches About Coaching Kids Deven recaps the ABCA Youth Summit in Austin, revealing Pitch Smart 2.0 is actively being developed by MLB with universal pitch counts and app-based reporting. The coalition includes PBR, Perfect Game, and Little League, with cross-platform tracking for workload, coach certifications, and ejection histories. New Aspen Institute data exposes the crisis: a 6.9% gap between new players (41% annually) and kids who quit (35%)—a dangerously thin margin. Deven connects this to travel baseball Instagram jokes and MLB injury data (60%+ UCL surgeries on high schoolers and younger), arguing the sport faces a death spiral if public perception remains "injurious and family-hostile." He shares insights from visiting UT Austin with Coach Schloss, Tulo, and Coach Box: multi-sport matters for solving different athletic problems not acquiring skills, SEC coaches "coach the PO out of pitchers" for athleticism, and "season logistics are your kid's growth plate." Deven introduces UT's hero-hardship-highlight trust-building exercise and unpacks Augie Garrido's famous rant…

People in this episode

Host: Deven

Topics covered

• coaching kids
• youth baseball
• pitch counts
• injury prevention
• accountability in sports
• multi-sport athletes
• feedback in coaching

Keywords

• Augie Garrido
• youth baseball
• pitch smart
• injury data
• accountability
• multi-sport
• feedback loops
• travel baseball
• UCL surgeries

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MLB, PBR, Perfect Game, Little League, Aspen Institute, UT Austin

Books & works: Don Mattingly

Places: Austin

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