Coaches Corner

I wish my coaches had used the show and tell baseball coaching technique when I was playing baseball, as the knowledge of how and why I was doing baseball skills would have helped me make necessary adjustments, when things were not going so well. If I only knew then what I know now a coach's constant lament. It is difficult for coaches to know what ballplayers are really learning.

Best Baseball Coaching Method Available to Coaches

A good way to coach youth baseball players is with this stop, look, and check baseball coaching method. This may seem to be a time consuming and tedious process, and it is, initially, but the benefits far outweigh the extra time, and kids learn much faster with this baseball coaching method. So often, what players think they are doing and what they are doing are different, and the only way they know if their batting fundamentals are correct is by stopping, looking, and checking what is going on.

Switching Sides Hitting Trick

One of the better hitters I am currently working with was a terrible hitter last year. She knows it, so I am not hurting her feelings. No I am not a miracle worker, as to why she is an accomplished hitter this season, although I made one suggestion, and it worked. My exact words, after having her try one thing, "You are no longer a left handed batter, you are a right handed batter."

MLB Bad Message to Youth Sports

Breaking news Schoolteachers, principals, coaches, even parents, you no longer are responsible necessarily for teaching moral lessons to kids, MLB says so, or at least the ST, Louis Cardinals, and what better representative of MLB is there?

Necessary Baseball Hitting Questions

Talking Points for Opening Baseball Talk