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“After I asked him about three times, he’s like ‘All right! If I don’t have to do conditioning, I’ll do it.’ I’m like, ‘Kannon, if you get in the car seat, nobody does conditioning.’ So we didn’t do conditioning on Monday because Kannon got in the car seat and [we] took a picture of it.”

There is a picture of it on the team’s website, estanciabaseball.com. There is Kannon smiling while buckled up.

“[He] showed us the proper way to sit in a car seat,” said Redding, who’s also shown what it takes for a struggling program to bounce back. He has contributed in many ways to creating a positive atmosphere.

Those early 9 a.m. weekend duties to the field in the off-season are paying off. Redding even helped to pour wet cement in the dugout. He helped redo the pitching mound, making it higher to give him, and the rest of the staff, Tomasek, junior Troy McClanahan, sophomores Marc DeFrenza and Ryan Boselo and freshman Victor Trujillo, a better chance to stop hitters.

“We’ve redone the entire field,” said Redding, adding that it wouldn’t have been possible without the support from the coaching staff, the school, the booster club, the parents, and the players. “We put new benches in [the dugouts], the shelves, we repainted the dugouts, we repainted the backstop, everything. It looks like it’s supposed to. [It feels] like an actual program.”

There’s one thing missing.

The advertising sign on the outfield fence Redding said he sold to a company that has allowed, along with other money raised by the program, Sorensen to purchase three new sets of Nike jerseys, cardinal, black and white, for the team, to go with cardinal-colored New Era hats.

Gone are those $7 gray hats Redding said were from Bangladesh and arrived late last season.

“I don’t see mine up yet,” Redding said of his banner. “Fundraising is fun. We had to go around [telling] companies, ‘We’re here from Estancia. Would you like to sponsor our baseball program?’ ”

Redding made sure to close the deal with a business-like handshake and not his convoluted one.

DAVID CARRILLO PEÑALOZA may be reached at (714) 966-4612 or at david.carrillo@latimes.com.