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As Spring Training's 2022 Fall Ball season enters the proverbial 9th inning, I thought I would share some thoughts on helping your ballplayer improve their defensive skills. I like to think of youth baseball games as a race to 18 outs and while everyone loves hitting at practice, defense too often gets overlooked. In Minors …
For decades now, I've been a very vocal advocate of the need for adults to be more proactive protecting young arms, and with baseball now a 12-month sport for many kids, coaches and parents need to work even harder to help prevent our young ballplayers from suffering potentially permanent arm damage. I had a conversation …
Year 18 (WOW!) of Spring Training Baseball Camp wrapped on Friday and it was the best Summer ever! From the 1st pitch of Week 1 to the last kid down the slip n slide in Week 10, Spring Training campers showed up to the field every day with a ton of energy, the motivation to …
I was lucky enough to go to the Home Run Derby yesterday - congrats to my man Juan Soto (I'm sure you're reading this Juan, so pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease take the $440M from the Nats!) but the star of the day was definitely Julio Rodriguez. Soto's 23 years old and Rodriguez is only 21...the future of the game …
Just call me "Captain Clickbait" :-)But stick with me here...I started Summer Camp in Palos Verdes in 2005 with just 2 weeks of camps only for players 7 and up. About 60 kids total signed up across the 2 weeks and they all had a blast (of course!) - word started to spread quickly about Spring …
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Besides baseball, the other major passion I've had in my life since I was a kid is playing music. I started teaching myself to play guitar when I was 11 by trying figure out Pearl Jam's "Ten," then made a lot of noise in our basement with my brother on drums, and finally played in …
My High School basketball coach unexpectedly passed earlier this week and, even though we hadn't seen each other in almost 2 decades, this news reminded me of just how influential coaches are in our lives. I played basketball at my school from 4th grade all the way through my Senior year. Coach Brown was one …
Can you guess what the #1 response is when I ask my lesson students what's going through their head during an at-bat or when they're on the mound in a game? "PRESSURE." Not, "This is fun!" Not, "I want to get a hit." But, "I feel pressure." There's a fine line between having game goals, working …
I got really really sick the other day (not Covid!) and struggled to walk across the room for a solid 24 hours. My wife took our son to school and then had to go straight to work so when our 5 year old daughter woke up, I was the only one home and under the …
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