Matt Morris is the owner of The Baseball Warehouse, which provides “private instruction, camps, coaching clinics, college placement, showcase events and developmental teams for baseball players.” Morris played college baseball at Sinclair Community College and then signed a professional contract as a free agent in 2008. Morris is a member of the Association of Professional Ball Players of America, Minor League Alumni Association, and Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association. He has also coached at the high school level.
Trying to make it to the big leagues
Rick Dempsy: “I know you signed a professional contract for a while and how did that go?”
Matt Morris: “You get into that mid-twenty age and you're killing yourself trying to make 800 bucks a month.”
The Baseball Warehouse curriculum
Kelly Kleinman: “What kind of curriculum do you have there?”
Matt Morris: “I think these players need to learn the importance of understanding the fundamentals, understanding the mechanics, and then developing routines”
Starting a business in baseball
Rick Dempsy: “Tell me a little bit about the mistakes that happened to you early on that you've been able to overcome over the last couple of years.”
Matt Morris: “I think I trusted too many people early on.”
How The Baseball Warehouse does recruiting
Kelly Kleinman: “I do want to know a little bit more about the recruiting components.”
Matt Morris: “[The players] tell us what schools they want to come and then we target those schools.”
Coaching parents as well as the athletes
Rick Dempsey: “You brought us in to teach the parents what to look for in their own child.”
Matt Morris: “A lot of parents are only interested in baseball because their kid is interested in baseball.”
