Joe Girardi, Shane Victorino to manage top high school baseball talent at Perfect Game All-American Classic

Joe Girardi talks to Fox News Digital about how excited he is to be a manager in Perfect Game's All-American Classic.

The Perfect Game All-American Classic will have some star power leading the way in the dugouts.

The world’s largest youth baseball and softball platform announced Wednesday that World Series champion Joe Girardi and former All-Star outfielder Shane Victorino will serve as managers. The game will take place Sunday, Aug. 16, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.

The All-American Classic will feature many of the nation’s top high school baseball players. Girardi, who won three World Series as a player during his 15-year career, and one as a manager of the New York Yankees, said it is a "thrill" to be part of the game.

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Joe Girardi salutes the crowd during the New York Yankees Old Timers Day on Aug. 24, 2024, at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y. (Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"It's a thrill for me to be around so much young talent. I think the big leagues has a ton of young talent and this is going to give me an opportunity to see more and probably in like three or four years I'm going to say that young man in the big leagues I got a chance to manage him and I saw him when he was 17 years old, and you could just tell that he was going to be a big leaguer," Girardi told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.

"I'm really excited about that and just to be around so many great players and the biggest thing for me is that they go have fun and enjoy this and realize what they've accomplished so far, but this they're just scratching the surface."

The former Philadelphia Phillies manager said that he will tell the players they have a "gift."

"I would tell them