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Jeff Francoeur, in his own words, “Know[s] Baseball back and forward. “”
A former first round choice formerly nicknamed “The Natural”, Francoeur is now an analyst for his former Atlanta braves while posing for athletes.
Expert in the game, it would be easy for him to take care of his children’s ball games. But he wants to let his children be children.
“Take the parents out of [youth sports] And children are usually having a good time, “Francoeur at PK Press Club Digital said in a recent interview.” I train a 12u travel softball team for my daughter – all parents think their child should strike third, play here. If you have withdrawn all the parents and ask these girls to place an order of striker, I bet that you can do a very good job to do what the order of striker should be. “”
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Jeff Francoeur (Brett Davis-USA TODAY SPORTS)
Francoeur knows that there are a ton of parents who choose to live by proxy through their children with regard to athletics (he even admitted that he could “get carried away”), and he is not afraid to put these parents to the test.
“The first question I ask a lot of parents is:” What do you want out of sport for your children? “My mother and father wanted me to learn to be a great teammate, how to have [a] Work ethics, overcome adversity, “he added.” Parents now, there are still many who look like him like that, but so many people consider him a “victory at all costs” at such a young age. [Former Braves pitcher John Smoltz] said the best on the podcast. He said, “I hope there are more coaches who have the bullets to worry about the development of victory, especially in the youngest. It gets lost, guy. So many people care about results and victory. Have you ever thought about “What could be better for my child?” “”
In fact, one of the children of Francoeur “hates baseball” and plays the butt.
“Even if I know baseball back and forward, and that I would like my son to play, is it his passion, is his dream. Who should I sit here? I had to drag him to the baseball training. Lacrosse, he can have practiced 6 to 8 years, he had his placed, he is pumped, guy.”
Among his involvement in sports for young people, he launched the “pure athlete” podcast, which highlights sports for young people, his parents and how all this can be pure again. His brand recently associated with D1 training to help these young athletes in sport for the right reasons.
“When we do this podcast with young athletes, you try to sail in this trip. There are so many ways, right? There are so many places you can train, to do this, people who sell you. For me, [D1 founder] Will [Bartholomew] And these guys, however, they do it in the right way, guy, and they got the right people related to them, “said Francoeur.” I love the way they personalize everything; Everything is specific to what you are trying to do.
“If you plan to try to get the next step in advance, it’s such a large part now. We are talking to all these athletes, guy, even for my career, if I look back, if there is one thing that I could have done better, it takes care of your body, right? Do you train, agility, nutrition, all that. I just think that D1 is at the point of what they are doing.”
The former Atlanta Braves player, Jeff Francoeur, is presented with a member of the boys and girls club before match 3 of the 2021 World Series between the Braves and the Astros of Houston. (Brett Davis-USA TODAY SPORTS)
‘Mixed feelings’
Pete Rose is now eligible for the fame of fame.
If, and probably when he does, he won’t see it. He died last September.
Rose was placed on the ineligible list of baseball in 1989 after the rumor said that he bet on baseball when he was with the Reds of Cincinnati. Fifteen years after the ban, he finally admitted to having done it as a manager.
He has since been reported that he played as a player, but he denied this.
It may be difficult for some to give “Charlie Hustle” the benefit of the doubt, but Francoeur said that he had spoken to more temple of fame which is on the side of letting him enter than not to let him in. “”
“I had so many mixed feelings on this subject. There is no right answer to that. It’s a bit like, guy, really? Are you going to wait until he died to do this?” Said Francoeur. “It’s so funny, because you remember that Pete Rose said before you die:” When I die, they will make me eligible. “Indeed, he called it.
Rose’s CoopStown’s fate will probably be decided in 2027 by the classical baseball era committee, which considers players whose careers ended more than 15 years ago. He would need 12 of the 16 votes to enter.
The Director of Reds of Cincinnati Pete Rose, on the right, in 1987 (Ricky Rogers / The Tennessean / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
MLB in danger?
The current collective negotiation agreement expired in December 2026, and the threat of a lockout is certainly real.
The players and the owners agreed with an agreement after a lockout of just over three months, from the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022.
After the lockout, many rules of rules that baseball purists can hate, but the figures do not lie. Attendance has increased in each of the last two seasons and the grades have been adequate.
Francoeur said “The pitch clock was the greatest thing [MLB Commissioner Rob] Manfred has never done. “But he said that the game could not escape the momentum he has taken in recent years.
“To be honest with you, the only thing that I think [to] Meanwhile for fans to look at baseball again. I still have 1,000 people in Atlanta [saying]”How to look at the brave?” “Said Francoeur.
But it seems that players and owners will fight even longer if an agreement is not concluded during the next year and a half.
“And the second, I hope that the union and the owners will be able to understand it, but that does not sound very well after 2026. I know that driving deadlines, but I want there to be more dialogue now. Let’s start to talk about it now. We have 18 months to understand what we have to do to ensure that there is not a work stopping.”
