Jeff Perro

50 stater. Former minor league clubhouse manager. Dad of two little ones. Good Teammates Inc. @catchupbaseball

[Jeff Perro @MiLBClubbie]

Our “favorite restaurant “ used to have the BEST cheesy kids Mac and cheese for $8. The jacked up the price to $12 and we stopped coming as often. Now it’s Kraft Mac at $12.

[Jeff Perro @MiLBClubbie]

@danmendham Got me. I read through it too fast and missed Larry.

[Jeff Perro @MiLBClubbie]

Fascinating that there’s an equal number of MLB and NFL Hall of Famers on this list.

[Shane Lantz @ShaneMLantz]

I found a Tacoma Tigers program from 1990 while cleaning out my grandpa’s house.

It included @BaseballAmerica ‘s top 100 prospects from that year, and there are some definite big names.

[Mads @europemaxxed]

The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you're not careful it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.
- Norm Macdonald

[Hayden Collins @Hayden_Collins8]

Yesterday I wrapped up my college baseball career as well as my playing career. I was reflecting on some things that I wish I knew coming into college or somethings that I would tell younger players interested in playing college baseball. So here they are in no particular order⬇️

[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

I just watched the sandlot again a few days ago.

Remember Smalls?

Smalls couldn’t catch the ball.

Didn’t know who Babe Ruth was.

The kids laughed at him and called him a “goofus.”

He was embarrassed.
Uncomfortable.
Out of place.

But he kept showing up.

There’s a scene where his mom asks him if he made any friends yet…

Imagine if she stepped in and told the kids:
“You HAVE to be nice to him.”
“You HAVE to let him fit in.”
“You HAVE to make him feel comfortable.”

What would that have taught Smalls?

Without the struggle:
• he never improves
• never builds confidence
• never earns his place
• never builds real relationships
• never discovers who he is

And honestly…

he never becomes part of the group.
That’s what made the story powerful.

Sometimes kids need the chance to struggle, fail, feel uncomfortable, and figure out they’re capable of more than they thought.

[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

Some parents drove 3-5 hours today and spent hundreds of dollars…

just to watch their son walk 4 times.

Do this instead:

Pay a local kid $20 to throw to your son for an hour instead.

He’ll probably get more development from that than another travel ball weekend.

[Catch Up with JP Podcast @catchupbaseball]

My Marshall McDougall story: 2023, I’m at the Publix in Dade City, FL. A jacked 45-55 year old dude walks by me. He’s wearing a “______ High School Baseball” shirt, I forget the name of the school.

I think to myself, “Is that Marshall McDougall?” I hadn’t thought of that name or seen a picture of him in 20 years. I googled _____ High School and, yes, Marshall McDougall was their coach.

[The Chicago Pope @TheChicagoPope]

Texted my friend who works in a high level position in a MLB front office to ask him if he had any insight into why Trevor Bauer isn’t getting any traction in the MLB again. This is his verbatim response, copied and pasted with permission:

“No interest in him for yrs. PR nightmare, players don’t want him around, control freak and a diva, wants special treatment. League minimum talk on X is a desperation play for clicks, eyeballs. Every scouting dept monitors NPB, MEX. Velo+spin down, control diminishing. Workout programs took backseat to YouTube career, shows on field. Doesn’t have the stuff to make a 40man, wouldn’t make our LowA roster. Would be shocked if he ever gets even a minor league deal again. Def won’t with us, friends in other offices say same.”

Nature is healing. 🥰🥰🥰

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Feel like the Bible is quite explicit on this one

[Carlos Fernández @mrcarlos_]

Gimnasios en 1996:

- Pollo, arroz y huevos
- Rutinas escritas en papel
- Inspirarse en Arnold y Ronnie
- Entrenar al fallo
- Llevar una camisetas en desuso

Gimnasios en 2026:

[Carson Bowen @CarsBow910]

Ted Turner spent 20 years making sure a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB spent 20 years making sure a kid in Atlanta couldn’t

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Germans: Why are these grenades so accurate?
Americans on a Tuesday.

[Jeff Perro @MiLBClubbie]

@prescott_greg @NWLbaseball @KenoshaKingfish Thank YOU. That was fun.

[Jeff Perro @MiLBClubbie]

@prescott_greg @NWLbaseball @KenoshaKingfish Found an undated article about the Kingfish that shows that hat. https://t.co/OgoCm1MZbE

[Jeff Perro @MiLBClubbie]

@prescott_greg @NWLbaseball @KenoshaKingfish … they currently have is different. I suspect it’s an older version.

[Mike Hoffmann @MikeHoffmann]

Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:

Two kids. One rich. One poor.

Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.

The rich kid has two choices.

Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.

Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.

The poor kid has two choices too.

Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.

Or outwork everyone in the room.

Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.

Same choice for all of them.

Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.

The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.

The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.

Greatness doesn't come from where you start.

It comes from which kid you choose to feed.

Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.