Emphasize a quick and accurate release versus Soft hands. After all isn’t it about getting outs. I witness too many players looking pretty, following the ball into their glove, collapsing their glove and ball into their stomach [ensuring soft hands] only to shuffle, shuffle, tap, tap the ball into their glove then throw. It does […]

We have all heard baseball is a mental game, yet very few players understand what it means, much less how it will benefit them. Instead, too many players transfer blame or spend way too much time explaining why something did not happen, which is why I liked the way Amy Morin defined Mentally Strong People. […]

In the past Most Valuable Player organized a team of players from all over the country to participate in the USA Baseball National Tournament [formerly Junior Olympics]. My main purpose is for each player is to walk away realizing the game of baseball is, “An Individual Sport in a Team Concept!” Too many players today never […]

Anyone around the game of baseball for any length of time knows exactly what I am talking about, but before I go on, I need make sure everyone knows: I have coached Select Teams I have coached at a Private High School My teams were outfitted to the hilt My teams travelled to national tournaments […]

I realize superstitions are in contrast to religion, but I have seen some very religious individuals apply them, dare I say it, religiously; Grown men jumping across the baseline as they go on and off the field, or expressing their ingenuity showing off their unique rally cap approach. I would even go as far to […]

Have an iPad, Kindle, or some other tablet, here’s something for every baseball player in your family. Here’s a chapter from, “Hitting is Simple, Have Your Figured it Out Yet?” Learning To Talk To Yourself The re-occurring theme of what it takes to become a successful hitter is, recognizing your brain as a powerful tool. […]

The players who know how to dive and make a play Stand Out! Unfortunately the ones who don’t “do too!” Dive wrong and you risk injury, which is why so many players fake it. They wait until the ball is passed and, kind of falling down, they simulate a dive. It’s there way of showing effort while […]

My son turned ten just the other day He said, “Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let’s play Can you teach me to throw,” I said, “Not today I got a lot to do,” he said, “That’s ok” And he walked away but his smile never dimmed And said, “I’m gonna be like him, […]

In 2016 eligibility requirements for Division I are changing, but in my honest opinion these changes have very little to do with your son’s ability to play college in baseball. Before you say, “What the heck?” I need to explain. Eligibility Requirements ONLY determine whether your son Qualifies at Division I. More specifically they are the […]

Most pitchers miss why they are throwing the pitch in the first place by defining a change by what happens to the hitter . To get the hitter swinging on his front foot. To get the hitter to be out-in-front. To screw up the hitter’s timing. Is this the outcome we are looking for; YES, but as […]