CJ Beatty, St. Louis Cardinals Cardinals Coach/Scout and Founder and CEO of Motivational Nuggets joins us to discuss the impact that social media and baseball swag is having on players all the way from little league to the big leagues. We also share tips and strategies for how to successfully connect with today’s players, the generation Z and millennial aged athletes
Find out what it means to “connect before you correct”, it is a truly powerful message.
Also, CJ talks about making the transition to a professional scout, and shares some of the things that he looks for when evaluating players, and much, much more.
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CJ Beatty is the Baseball Motivator, the Founder and CEO of Motivational Nuggets, is a speaker, professional baseball instructor, life coach, song writer, rapper, producer, professional baseball scout, and former professional and division 1 baseball player.
And with almost 23K followers on Instagram and his motivational youtube videos receiving collectively over half a million views on youtube – it is safe to say that CJ is a pretty popular guy, especially among the game’s players. And if you don’t really know what Instagram and youtube are about, we can sum it up by saying it’s where your kids and players are hanging out.
Currently CJ is a professional scout for the St. Louis Cardinals, the organization that selected him in the 2009 draft. CJ played in parts of three seasons in the minor leagues, and also extended his professional career through playing in various independent leagues and played in Australia as well.
Prior to playing professionally, CJ attended North Carolina A&T, where he was a Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American, and a three time all-conference players as well.