I have watched a lot of games, and not sure i have harped enough on the need for a good pre-game warmup. First of all, players need to stretch before they throw — WARMUP to THROW, do not THROW to WARMUP. Next, it builds team chemistry to have a good warmup...
And so I watched our league’s home run Derby yesterday. So interesting to me to watch everyone’s swing. Kids have same type of bats, have had the same coaches for years, all teaching the same basic mechanics and some kids hit the ball really far and some...
Postseason baseball is one of the best classrooms kids will ever experience. The pressure, excitement, mistakes, momentum swings, and emotional highs and lows force young players to learn something far bigger than baseball: resilience. In youth sports, momentum can...
As a new baseball season begins, I thought I’d share my thoughts on one of the oldest debates in youth sports: playing time. If you’re a volunteer coach—especially a coach with your own kids on the team—it’s easy to feel like you’ve earned a little privilege. After...
I hope I have this written up somewhere on the web site, but today at practice I brought a bucket full of whiffle balls and some pickle balls and some tennis balls and a Swiftstick and I threw to some of our players. I was just 15 feet away on one knee and it...
I’m on a coaches’ forum where people ask questions and coaches give answers in a very amicable way, but I just had to share more about a question I saw recently. It was something like, “I have a 7-year-old and I wonder if my son needs a special hitting coach.” I’m...
