Left side of the infield just to
the right, a little bit with
Dmitry batting high fly ball to
right center field and stares on
the road in a three home for, I
mean, Dmitri Young accomplished
a lot in his career.
I can't see anything getting
much better than a three dinners
on opening day for any human.
And there is this a managerial
announcement as Dimitri is going
to be skippering a club and the
still relatively new MLB draft
league and it's good to have him
on a stove with us, man.
Go ahead.
Grownups.
Yeah.
All grown up, all grown up.
Dimitri.
Good to see you, man.
Congratulations on this
managerial job.
Tell us about it.
Oh, thank you for having the on
gentlemen.
Um It came up over the fall,
Sean Campbell and Jeffrey
Hammonds contacted me about
possibly, you know, being a
hitting coach for the league.
And um I was more along the
lines of challenging myself
since I had a high school head
coach at chemical High School.
Um I just wanted to challenge
myself and c about managing and
I had three choices and I, And I
chose Mahoning Valley or Patrick
Mahomes Valley and I heard this
heard it's a nice area.
I talked to a couple of
reporters yesterday, I talked to
the GM two days before the and
they said they are full of
restaurants full of life for
former umpires live out their,
that the Barlow family lives out
there.
So they said that's kind of a
hidden sports method.
Well, the beauty of the draft
league demetrios you, well, no,
it's a developmental league.
You know, it's for guys to
increase their draft stock and
then it continues on throughout
the summer after those guys get
drafted, two, continue keeping
guys to develop.
So you are the perfect man for
helping develop.
You talk about being a high
school coach, but what would you
like if a player came to you?
What do you want at the end of
the summer when the draft comes
, what would be gratifying to
you as a manager?
Well, the gratifying thing for
me would be them improving there
games so that draft stock can go
up and teaching them the perils
of being a professional
ballplayer playing every day um
showing up on time and and more
importantly, no way here there
because you know, you've got to
have the temptations that are
out there that few of us have
fallen into.
But we got to keep the eye on
the prize and these kids our
young enough to understand that
this may be the only chance they
have the shine.
So my coaching staff and former
Big league ballplayers and, you
know, we had our ups and downs
and that's what we're gonna
teach these young man is to be
able to choose the right
direction, so to speak, as far
as playing and off the field.
And, you know, as Harold
mentioned, um and for folks
unfamiliar with your career, you
are the perfect guy for a jobs
like this Dimitri and I'm going
to walk you back to the Young
Bull that was drafted first
round out of Oxnard.
Uh You show up in Johnson City
in 1990 won.
I was telling Harold, I remember
your Carr back then with the D
Dy plates that you had.
Tell me how, how the
developmental league would have
helped somebody like you coming
out of high school.
You know what it's all about the
instruction and, and as you see
, I was drafted by the ST Louis
Cardinals.
So they were excellent in
instructing guys and, and
teaching them how to play the
game.
Everybody.
Hurd of George Kissell and, and
I got a big dose of Jorge
Kissell over today and where
this is beneficial is now you
have guys that have played that
are teaching the game because
the coaching staff that I have
are also doing stuff on the
amateur side, Bryant Nelson.
He's going to be the hidden
coach and he's been doing great
things out in the Arizona as
well as raking and we're
teammates back in Washington
along with Luis Robert Ficano
seven and, and just bringing
that experience to know how,
knowing how to separate the game
because you gotta have guys out
there that I'm just here to play
baseball and, and not enjoy, not
enjoy the process of actually
playing and, and then it's a big
community out there in
Youngstown, Ohio.
So I'm going to teach these guys
how to become fan friendly and
Bilde fan base, you know, a lot
of it is being approachable and
have a nice smile and, and then
of course, you got to perform on
the field, so, you know, is