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

"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, focusing on the accountability line "I have failed you" rather than criminalizing kids' mistakes. The episode closes with self-assessment feedback loops using Jay Fletcher's viral 4-year-old videos, contrasting feedback-driven environments with forcing kids into Don Mattingly mechanics they lack the strength to execute.

Timestamps

00:00 – Intro, AxeBat code & new local training partnerships
02:56 – ABCA Summit recap: Pitch Smart 2.0 in progress with MLB
10:08 – Workload units, universal reporting & cross-platform coalition
17:45 – The 6.9% gap: 41% new, 35% quit—leaky bucket crisis
22:01 – Travel baseball moms, injury stats & death spiral threat
27:25 – Fastpitch 300+ pitches: fatigue doesn't care about gender
30:17 – Average umpire age 47: no next generation coming
31:57 – UT visit: Schloss, Box, Tulo on multi-sport & athleticism
38:52 – "They coach the PO out"—why 12U specialists are backwards
41:04 – "Season logistics are your kid's growth plate"
44:28 – Hero-hardship-highlight: vulnerability builds trust
47:00 – Augie Garrido: "I have failed you" accountability lesson
53:41 – Self-assessment feedback vs. criminalizing mistakes
01:02:11 – Don Mattingly mechanics vs. feedback-driven environments
01:05:01 – Outro: guest coming, training options

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