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"Kaier is a terrible communicator. Knee jerk reactions as a coach. Cant manage a bullpen or pitching staff. Has a losing mentality, gets out coached weekly and has no respect from his players. The fact that he's a D1 coach is disrespectful to the rest of D1 coaching staffs. Has capable coaches under him and tries to run the show himself. Game is too fast for him, horrible third base coach. Makes poor decision after poor decision. No character development whatsoever, he should not be around college kids at all."

"Although he is a great human being off the baseball field, he isn’t so great as a coach on the field. Let’s say from my experience coming into this program that he has stated in the first week of the fall semester that everyone will be given a fair chance to receive many opportunities to prove themselves and that there will be no favoritism whatsoever. Let’s just say that promise was broken within a week. He knew who he had as his “main starters” on the team the first week into the fall semester and made it obvious that he only wanted to build close personal relationships with those players. He loves it when his specific players that he likes will walk up to him just have full on conversations about anything during batting practice sessions where that takes time away from him doing actual coaching and observing of the players when hitting in BP. Not only that but there has been times where he himself would walk around the field to talk to those same specific players too during BP or even drill sessions leading to no direct coaching in any way. I for one would be lucky if he said something as simple as “hello” to me as that shows he only cared for a select amount of players and had little care for players like me. He always claims that he will be open and honest to all of his players while also stating that he cares for every player on the team when in reality he really doesn’t. For the players he mainly cared about he would coach them and go into very good detail about what they should work on, praise them for doing something good, and being laid back if they made an error or swing and miss during practice. For the players he cared little about it would be the exact opposite where he would go into bland, short detail of instruction on things to work on, wouldn’t make any compliments or praise on something that player did good on, and would be intense/criticizing that player for making an error or swinging and missing during practice. To sum it up, he has never stuck true to his word to most players. Although he has been around baseball for a long time knowing the game very well as he has a good reputation for playing high level collegiate baseball and playing pro-ball, all that knowledge from being around the game doesn’t make him a very good coach nor is he much of a good motivator for the team. His actions, along with his assistant coaches same actions, has led to a poor team culture with no leadership whatsoever and due to having multiple seasons in a row of very poor records, the team culture has turned into a bunch of selfish individuals where almost all the players don’t care whether they won or lost the game, players that played in the game would only care if they had a good or bad performance no matter the team outcome."

"Does not care whatsoever about player or team development. Now as of recently him being the head coach for a few years, he only cares for the players that he recruited from Arizona and California, which is roughly more than half of the entire roster, as he was born in the west coast and considering those players his “guys” and his “favorites”. On the development team (a.k.a. JV Team) at Midland, he could care less about most of the players on the team and cares so little about the the JV team itself that we would be lucky to get one team practice a week during the spring semester. He is very disorganized as a coach towards the JV team as there have been many times on days the team will travel for an away game that he won’t post the travel roster until 30 minutes before the bus is supposed to leave instead of sending one out the night before. Due to his obvious favoritism and lack of leadership as a coach, he holds no players accountable for actions off the field and has ultimately created a toxic environment on the baseball. Every year there have been a handful of times that players of his have gotten DUIs during the season that he was aware of but would not do any sort of punishment nor sit the player out for a few games. There have been many instances where he has allowed players that are ineligible to play due to having a low GPA receive some playing time on both the varsity and JV side and getting away with it. During JV games at home, him and his assistants will spend most of their time directed towards the varsity players attending the game where he will allow them to come into the dugout causing a distraction to the JV team and making the dugout more clustered and doing no coaching during JV home games. I would HIGHLY recommend not playing for this coach and his program and if you are getting recruited by him I suggest you consider your options carefully."

"My cousin passed away and I wanted to wear his number and coach bought me the jersey because we didn’t have it. Really energetic at all trainings and organized. Never felt a minute of practice was a waste. 10 out of 10"

"This man is manipulative and explosive. Gaslighting is his forte. He ruined our confidence and season with belittling and debasement. Verbal abuse was a constant. He coerced injured girls to play and became enraged if they couldn't. Many practices lacked water breaks in extreme heat. I believe him to be troubled with emotional/mental issues. He took pleasure in building us up and tearing us down, and with exerting his power over us. I was made to feel so worthless when I was injured. I was barred from practices and games solely because of my injury. I was froze out from the rest of the team. I remember the day he wanted me to run a fitness test on my sprained ankle. He humiliated me in front of my teammates, saying I was there just to call myself a d1 player and that real d1 players pushed through the pain. Nothing like being made to feel like a failure for just trying to do what I love. Dashed d1 dream."