Chief? No, Coach. Chad Cordero is back in D.C. and helping out at the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy.
Former Nationals closer Chad Cordero is now a full-time coach at the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy. His brim is still flat, his smile still sneaky. Only his title has changed. Chad Cordero is no longer “Chief,” the Washington Nationals’ OG of a closer. As a slew of lanky teenage baseball players trickled into the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy on Wednesday afternoon, they greeted him with a “Wassup, Coach?” and bumped fists.
He’s here, and it’s kind of stunning. This year represents the 10th anniversary of the academy, and it now has its own story to tell. Among Cordero’s coaching brethren this summer will be kids — many of them from the District’s poorest neighborhoods in Wards 7 and 8 — who began as players in the academy’s after-school and summer programs and blossomed into high school graduates, some of whom played college ball.
“The fact that he’s a down-to-earth baseball coach who cares about young people, that’s what matters,” Alter said. “But the cool factor is real.”That June, the Nats went 20-6, and when Cordero locked down the Pirates — completing a month in which he appeared 16 times and didn’t allow an earned run, in which opposing hitters managed a .180 average against him — Washington led the National League East by 4½ games.
Whether the kids who cracked pitches in the academy’s batting cages Wednesday realize, in full, that the coach with the clipboard — making out the lineups for a scrimmage — had such a history with their team isn’t relevant to the guidance Cordero can provide. But it matters at this point in the development of the Nationals and the academy.
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