Motivational Mondays How to Apply the Motivational Hook I love working with young ballplayers because of the opportunity to apply the hook. As most amateur golfers know, it only takes one great golf shot to motivate them to want to come back to golf another day. Often, the same feeling occurs with youth baseball players. [...]
Sunday Setting Sights on Success Stress Reducing Coaching Tip – Don’t Forget Yourself Getting something off the mind and on to paper is a great first step to stress reducing behavior. The following stress reducing coaching method has helped me numerous times over the years. It is simply the letter, “Never to be sent and [...]
Saturday Secrets to Great Baseball Coaching Defensive Baseball Work Getting the most work accomplished in the shortest amount of practice time is always preferred, instead of having many players standing around inactive. The following defensive baseball practice is an easy way to keep the whole team busy at once. Taking normal infield practice is good [...]
Friday Base Running Tips Base Running Drills that Spur Excitement The first base running drill coaches should have players perform, besides working on the correct method of running through first base on ground balls, is to have players run home to third base or home to home. This running drill demonstrates that distance is a [...]
Thursday Throwing Tips Top Team Throwing Drills so Time is not Wasted It is important that coaches use throwing warm up time efficiently. Often, coaches waste this time, as they are busy doing other things, when players warm their arms up before games and practices. Once coaches stop supervising this time, players become bored and [...]
Wednesday Web Gems What is Straight Up Positioning and Why so Important to Defensive Baseball Strategy? I was in a conversation one day with the great, baseball Hall of Famer, Cal Ripken, and he mentioned how many youth ballplayers did not understand “straight up positioning.” Of course, I agreed with Cal Ripken, who would not? [...]
Tuesday Tips to Tattoo the Ball Striving for the Perfect Swing Hitting Drill Let me begin by saying that it takes the perfect swing to drive the outside pitch to the opposite field, with the key idea there, drive. In my 24 years of coaching baseball hitting, I am constantly striving to find the perfect swing [...]
Motivational Mondays Importance of Coaching Motivation Techniques There is no one way fits all, when it comes to motivating ball players, as all have different personalities and motivation levels. That is why it is important that coaches get to know players’ personalities, so they can figure out coaching motivation methods for each player. Coaching motivation [...]
Sunday Setting Sights on Success Necessary Coaching Training Tips A high school coaching friend of mine recently said that the biggest problem he has at the high school level is kids not knowing the game and especially with what to do with the ball on defense. My question to him was, “How can that be, [...]
Saturday Tips for Great Baseball Coaching Baseball Coaching Practices to Avoid Many ball players set personal goals for themselves. This is not a bad thing, when kids do it themselves, as it serves as self-motivation. However, I am not a great believer in short term goals or adults setting goals for youth baseball players, as [...]
