“I think he leaves it a lot up to me to go and have fun,” Cantrelle added, “and I think his perspective is when I’ve gone out there and had fun playing my game is when I’ve been playing the best.” But most of our conversations aren’t even about ball. “I feel like for me to be deflective of what my dad’s advice is would be very naïve,” said Hayden Cantrelle, a first team All-Sun Belt Conference shortstop. So when the two do start talking baseball, Kevin’s voice comes with credibility and Hayden – who was barely beyond 10 years old when his mother, Heather Geisler, passed away – is mostly all ears. Kevin Cantrelle played for the Cajuns in the mid-to-late 1990s, following in his footsteps of Hayden’s uncle Lee Cantrelle. Hayden Cantrelle chose to go to UL even after the New York Yankees selected him out of Teurlings, which he helped lead to state championships in 2016 and ’17, in the 40th and final round of the 2017 MLB Draft. More: How to watch the 2020 Major League Baseball Draft picks on TV, live stream STUDENT OF THE GAME They’re just about life in general.”įor this father and son, however, two are intrinsically tied.
… Those are the conversations, quite honestly, that Hayden and I have. “That’s my job as a dad, is to make sure he’s got his head on straight. “But he’s a 20-year-old kid,” Kevin Cantrelle said shortly before the 2020 season opened in February, “and as much as he knows about baseball there’s still obviously a whole lot left for him to learn about everything in life. Hayden, his old man says, “kind of keeps things in perspective.” “I think he speaks from his heart, and from the education he’s put in, in and of itself, over time.” “He doesn’t really think about 'saying the right thing,'” Cantrelle added. “I think as a young person, a lot of players – and I know I was like this – sometimes you can get rattled when you engage with adults, and you don’t always know the right thing to say. “He doesn’t get rattled a whole lot,” said Kevin Cantrelle, also an ex-UL baseball television analyst.
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