February 24th, 2021
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The Phillies are expanding the team’s Mental Performance department in a continued effort to support players and staff throughout all levels of the organization, Vice President and General Manager Sam Fuld announced today.
The department will be led by Ceci Craft, who has been hired as director of mental performance. Additionally, Hannah Huesman has been elevated to mental performance coordinator. Rounding out the department are returning members Manuel Antuna, Frances Cardenas and Geoff Miller, all of whom will serve as mental performance coaches.
In her new role with the Phillies, Craft will work closely with manager Joe Girardi and his coaching staff to provide mental performance training for major league players. Prior to joining the Phillies, Craft spent six years as the major league mental performance coach for the Cleveland Indians, where she worked with players and staff at the major league and triple-A levels of the organization
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i have wanted him to weigh in on ever since he left office. so very excited. that s the interview tonight, former attorney general eric holder here in studio with me for his first live television interview since the election. before we bring on the former attorney general, though, we do have some breaking news that i want to start with tonight. part of this was probroken by n news tonight. part of it was broken by voice of america. we have nbc news s national security and military reporter standing by. but what this is about is the deadliest combat incident since president trump has been in office, the loss of four u.s. army special operations soldiers in niger on october 4th. now, our understanding of this story and the loss of these soldiers has evolved on sort of two parallel tracks since we first learned about the ambush that claimed these soldiers lives. there s been these two tracks. domestically it has been strange to the point of perplexing and is now a major story of the trum
psychological or emotional toll that this had on you and other members of your unit that, what you went through, and what would you like the american public to know about that side of the war? just the resilience of our special operations soldiers, as well as the wives and families that have borne the brunt of deployments over the last 16 years. all right. we will leave it there. thank you so much, mark, and scott. appreciate it. thank you. and don t forget to watch the cnn film leagues of brothers premiers sunday night 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. well, thank you so much for joining me on this friday. i m pamela brown filling in for my colleague brooke baldwin. the lead with jake tapper