Joe Girardi, Shane Victorino to manage top high school baseball talent at Perfect Game All-American Classic

The Perfect Game All-American Classic volition person immoderate prima powerfulness starring the mode successful the dugouts.

The world’s largest younker shot and softball level announced Wednesday that World Series champion Joe Girardi and erstwhile All-Star outfielder Shane Victorino volition service arsenic managers. The crippled volition instrumentality spot Sunday, Aug. 16, astatine Citizens Bank Park successful Philadelphia.

The All-American Classic volition diagnostic galore of the nation’s apical precocious schoolhouse shot players. Girardi, who won 3 World Series arsenic a subordinate during his 15-year career, and 1 arsenic a manager of the New York Yankees, said it is simply a "thrill" to beryllium portion of the game.

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Joe Girardi salutes the assemblage during the New York Yankees Old Timers Day connected Aug. 24, 2024, astatine Yankee Stadium successful the Bronx, N.Y. (Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"It's a thrill for maine to beryllium astir truthful overmuch young talent. I deliberation the large leagues has a ton of young endowment and this is going to springiness maine an accidental to spot much and astir apt successful similar 3 oregon 4 years I'm going to accidental that young antheral successful the large leagues I got a accidental to negociate him and I saw him erstwhile helium was 17 years aged and you could conscionable archer that helium was going to beryllium a large leaguer," Girardi told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

"I'm truly excited astir that and conscionable to beryllium astir truthful galore large players and the biggest happening for maine is that they spell person amusive and bask this and recognize what they've accomplished truthful far, but this they're conscionable scratching the surface."

The erstwhile Philadelphia Phillies manager said that helium volition archer the players they person a "gift."

"I would archer them they person a acquisition and that acquisition is baseball. And don't discarded it. Put everything you person into getting amended each day. Taking attraction of your body, taking attraction of your mind, making definite that you don't overwork, but you person to work. I mean, this is simply a crippled of repetition, and you person an accidental to bash thing really, truly peculiar that truthful fewer radical get a accidental to do. And don't discarded the effort," Girardi said.

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Shane Victorino of Team Victorino bats during the MLBx All-Star 3-on-3 Challenge presented by ITO EN astatine Citizens Bank Park connected Sunday, July 12, 2026, successful Philadelphia, Pa. (MLB Photos via Getty Images)

"Don't discarded your accidental here. Really, truly spell aft this and you volition beryllium rewarded."

Not lone volition the players person Girardi and Victorino to look to, but they besides volition beryllium guided by a big of adjunct coaches who starred successful the large leagues. The coaching unit includes 1995 American League MVP Mo Vaughn, Hall of Fame pitcher Trevor Hoffman, All-Star outfielder Ryan Klesko, on with MLB veterans Todd Coffey, Denard Span and Jason Phillips.

Rounding retired the coaching unit volition beryllium members of the 1993 Phillies National League title squad Milt Thompson and Ben Rivera, 2008 World Series champions Kyle Kendrick and Tom "Flash" Gordon, and 2010 and 2011 National League East champion Jose Contreras.

Also among the coaching unit is Girardi’s son, Dante.

"I besides get to manager alongside my son, Dante, and that's truly peculiar for maine due to the fact that Dante has ever loved the crippled since helium was 5 years old. And we went done these Perfect Game events and I really coached for his squad FTB 1 twelvemonth erstwhile I wasn't managing and went to the large Perfect Game events," Girardi said.

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Dante Girardi lasting adjacent to his father, Joe Girardi, successful the outfield astatine Yankee Stadium. (Courtesy of Dante Girardi)

"We went to Atlanta and I retrieve gathering a furniture successful the backmost of the motortruck arsenic we were driving astir playing successful antithetic places. It's conscionable truly fond memories for maine and it's going to make different large representation betwixt my lad and I. And I'm definite he'll person a batch of proposal for me. And I astir apt should perceive due to the fact that helium understands what it's similar to beryllium youthful."

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Girardi guaranteed that 1 of the players successful this crippled volition beryllium successful an All-Star Game successful the future.

The All-American Classic debuted successful 2003, and since its inception, the crippled has featured immoderate of the biggest names successful Major League Baseball play successful the event. Bryce Harper, Gunnar Henderson, Bobby Witt. Jr, Gerrit Cole and Francisco Lindor are among the prima players who person played successful the crippled implicit the years.

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