Youth baseball now celebrates the kid in sixth grade and he coasts on reputation for six years. Meanwhile the overlooked one keeps getting better. The game never lied. We did. Stop building pedestals. Build hungry players.
The rotation is set!
Tonight - Maverick Herring
Friday Game 1 - @Case_Childers
Saturday - @TylerBergsten
Conners State Summer Showcase - We are ready!!
You yelled at your 10 year old to "get low" on a ground ball during a game. Your high schooler now waits in the field for you to yell it again. That's not development. That's dependency.
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You're teaching your 10-year-old that his brain doesn't matter. Every time you yell the correction before he feels the mistake, you're saying: "Don't think. Just listen to me." Then wonder why he's lost at 16. Let him fail. Say nothing.
@LandryBurdine We get caught up in the next level and scouting and people forget we need to prepare them for life too. This years class has 2 firefighters, an engineering and a finance major and a nurse. Baseball is temporary to most.
A tournament jersey doesn’t equal player development.
Reps do. Relationships do. Consistency does.
If you’re going to say “our guy,” be able to point to the work you invested, not just the weekend you wrote his name on a lineup card.
Your son won the award. Now what? Did it fix anything? The meal is the work itself. The vitamin is everything else. Read why coaches miss this.
This week's Substack. Link in bio.
You're celebrating the five-tool kid and overlooking the senior who never missed a practice. Then you wonder why your season falls apart. The game doesn't reward highlights. It rewards consistency you chose not to see.
@BradleyGloves I caught a lot of heat from parents over the years that I wanted to go .500 in the youth ages. That meant we got a good combination of winning and losing. All I had to do was teach them how to do both. Now those guys are moving into college ball and had great HS careers
We're teaching kids to perform for audiences instead of for themselves. A trophy shelf means nothing if he won't show up alone in the garage, backyard, or batting cage. What are you actually building: an athlete or an Instagram post?
@Seth_3773 Set up training at my field the last two years in the offseason. Start with 20 end with 6. Outside, in the dirt, flipping tires and slamming med balls doesn’t look cool on social media.