There was Trevor Bauer, now the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner and one of highest-paid players in baseball. There was Kyle Boddy, whose Driveline Baseball facility made data-driven development mainstream.
White didn’t have to hear much from Holt — who more than a year earlier had cut his own safety net to fully pursue being a pitching coach and was holding tight to that dream running a clinic in Florida — to know that he not only belonged on that stage, but belonged in an organization that was trying to redefine pitching instruction in modern baseball.