Right or Wrong?
Can a committee member win the award that the committee has gathered to vote on?
Coach
POP!
When I’m doing a coaching clinic, or breaking down infield play, we first review the steps an infielder takes AFTER fielding a ground ball.
No Excuses
Today, let’s highlight one of my favorite rules to life. One that I personally try very hard to follow, one that I use daily in my role as a parent, and one that I work very hard to enforce as a coach: NO EXCUSES
No Whining
It’s time for Rule #2 of the Big Three: NO WHINING
No Complaining
Taking a tour of the Big 3 in behavioral leadership, let’s example Rule #3: NO COMPLAINING
Mis-Takes
Let’s take the liberty to say M-I-S-S… T-A-K-E-S. As in, you missed on that take. Might have been a swing, might have been a throw… might have been an interview question, class final, or asking someone special to the prom. The fact of the matter is that it didn’t go well.
LEGS, LEGS, LEGS & HIPS
Get physical. Ground up. It’s all in the hips. Yep, they’re all true. We need ballplayers to be physical. We need to teach aggression. We need them to MOVE the baseball…
FRONT FOOT CLOSED, UP ON TOE
In our last Daily Dose, we discussed the keys of the Power Position. Moving around the body, there are four teaching points to the loaded, power, position
HITTER VS PITCHER COMPARISON
Truly, they are the same. The hitter and pitcher movement is the same. It’s about a baseball player using the body to make a ball move. It’s back to front, front to arms. Back leg, to front leg… front leg, to arms. It’s loading into the backside only to explode forward.
DO BIG LEAGUERS KNOW WHAT THEY DO?
I like the old guys. The third-contract pro’s. I’m a Dodger fan, so for me that’s Chase Utley reinventing himself year after year to continue to be valuable. Rich Hill pitching nearly into his 40’s. Clayton Kershaw adjusting to his “maturing” skill set with more sliders and less fastballs.