“I’ll collect data and just try to be the voice of reason. “I will aid in the work load and try to make everybody’s job easier,” says DeYoung. He will be a bench coach for Barons manager Justin Jirschele, who will be 29 when the Southern League season opens. “It’s exciting to see the steps they’re talking and I’m just glad to be a part of it.”
“They’re moving in a really good direction. “The White Sox seem to be a really good fit for me,” says DeYoung. When Ryan Johansen became assistant hitting coordinator for the White Sox, he asked DeYoung to join the organization. He coached first base and third base, instructed players on catching and base running and assisted Suarez, hitting coach Nelson Paulino and pitching coach Bob Kipper. One of those hitters was Ryan Fitzgerald, who went to Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Ill., and played for the independent Gary SouthShore RailCats in 2017 and was signed by the Boston Red Sox and for the 2018 season.ĭeYoung spent the 2019 campaign in the Red Sox system with the Greenville (S.C.) Drive.Īs bench coach on a staff led by manager Iggy Suarez, DeYoung did many things.
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“It revives guy’s careers and helps them get back into or have their first shot at affiliated baseball,” says DeYoung of indy ball.ĭeYoung has pro hitters coming from all over Chicagoland to hit with him at the Omni 41 and Morris Baseball facility in Schererville, Ind. At the time, the league was predominantly a rookie league and has since consolidated with teams in the Can-Am League. In 20, DeYoung was bench coach/hitting coach with the Crestwood, Ill.-based Windy City Thunderbolts of the independent pro Frontier League. That meant a stretch of more than 80 days without time off. There were no days off for the Wisconsin Rafters staff with the league’s all-star game, showcase and postseason.
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“It’s best preparation for professional baseball there is,” says DeYoung. More than a dozen players on that team went on to sign professional contracts. He coached catchers, outfielders and hitters for a team that won both halves of a split season and the playoffs. In 2016, DeYoung was a coach with the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters in the Northwoods League, a college collegiate circuit. He finished out the 2015 season with the Pomona, N.Y,-based team as a player-coach. He went on to play two seasons at the College of Lake County in Graylake, Ill., and one at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn.Īfter that came a very brief stint as a player with the Rockland Boulders of the independent professional Can-Am League. John, Ind., DeYoung played catcher for head coach Todd Iwema. I try to model how I approach the game after them.īoth men are major league hitting coaches - Malee with the Los Angeles Angels and Iapoce with the Chicago Cubs.ĭeYoung will be a bench coach with the Double-A Birmingham Barons in the Chicago White Sox organization in 2020.Ī 2008 graduate of Lake Central High Schoolin St. They genuinely cared about every kid they worked with.
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“I learned how to relate to people and to empower people just by interacting with them. “(Mallee and Iapoce) had such an impact on me. “I knew from when I was 13 and hitting with John Mallee and Anthony Iapoce that’s what I wanted to do,” says DeYoung, 30.
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