Hitters:
K? 👉🏼 Move on!
Pop out? 👉🏼 So what!
Bad AB? 👉🏼 Get em next AB!
Mentally tough hitters have emotional control, move on from failure, don't waste time feeling sorry for themselves & understand the power of staying confident no matter the previous result!
#BaseballTruth
Teammate support is supposed to be conditional.
If you're doing everything in your power to be the best you can be to help the team win.
You earn support.
If you're lazy and immature and care less about winning.
You shouldn't get support and should get treated like the outcast you are.
Support is earned.
Great teams hold each other accountable.
Someone is seeing you play for the first time every time you play.
You owe it to yourself to make a great first impression.
You want them to walk away and say that kid plays like he loves the game and competition.
A lot of young hitters don’t actually have a swing problem.
They have a fear problem.
Fear of looking bad. Fear of striking out. Fear of disappointing people.
So they become careful.
Tense. Guided. Late.
Parents try to fix mechanics...
Parents:
Your son doesn’t need a perfect baseball journey.
He needs adversity.
Bad games. Failure. Pressure. Disappointment.
That’s where confidence, toughness, and maturity are built.
Don’t rescue him from every hard moment.
Too many people get caught up in “my son is going D1.”
Then it doesn’t work out, they hit the portal, and suddenly D1 isn’t D1 anymore.
Pick the school that FITS YOU.
Pick a coach you trust and connect with.
Level means nothing if you’re miserable or buried on a roster.
The problem with travel baseball now?
Anybody can start a team.
Get 12 kids, order uniforms, enter tournaments, call yourself “elite”…
and suddenly you’re a travel organization.
That doesn’t mean the development is good, arms are handled right, or kids are actually improving.
My 2 biggest regrets looking back at my playing career:
#1 NOT taking the weight room/
lifting/diet seriously
#2 THINKING that I was actually
working hard, but really NOT
putting the work needed to be
great
DON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY REGRET IT!
#BaseballTruth
Re: Heliot Ramos' spiked throw
Melvin said Ramos was supposed to throw to second base, but no one was occupying the bag.
"It wasn't his fault. It was more how we were positioned for the cut off."