“It was a seed that started over a decade ago after my playing days…” About 3 weeks ago, D.J. Carrasco appeared on Coach Beede’s podcast and talked about his baseball brain child (his hat said it all). The ex-Mets pitcher shared losing his mother in New Zealand, and visiting the country only after his retirement with his wife. “Just taking in all the culture, all the people, we wanted to go back after we got home, and we said, ‘How can we go back?’… I went ahead and helped out for the next 10 years, from grassroots, from little league to Kiwi ball, which is taught in schools, all the way to a WBC competition, helping the Māoris and the Kiwis alike there. And that turned into the seed when I got back home.” And that was the beginning of a movement that could reshape America’s favorite

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