Pitcher advice: A good curveball ⚾ isn't about forcing the spin, it's about the grip.
Guide the ball with your fingers, keep it centered, and let your mechanics do the rest. 🔥
Aaron Judge opens up on why he needed several years of development in college and the minors:
“I think you need that grind. I went to college. I got kicked around and beat around a little bit. I was terrible for a long time. Then you’ve got to learn how to get yourself out of that.”
“Every great athlete, you’ve got to figure out how… When you get kicked down… When you get beat down… Coach ain’t going to pick you up.”
“Your friend ain’t going to pick you up. You’ve got to pick yourself up and get yourself out of there.”
“‘It doesn’t matter if you’re in Low-A, Double-A or Triple-A.’ Treat this like the big leagues.’”
“‘Prepare every day like you’re about to go out on the field in the Bronx.’ It doesn’t matter if you’re in Charleston.’ It doesn’t matter if you’re in Trenton, New Jersey.’ You’re preparing to play for the New York Yankees.’”
“I know I just sat on a bus for 10 hours… And now we’re about to play a game… But I’m getting ready to play for the New York Yankees. I’m suiting up for the New York Yankees.”
“That helped me a lot… Instead of being like, ‘Poor me.’ ‘I should be in the big leagues.’ ‘I’m stuck here in Double-A.’”
Too many mechanical cues in your head when swinging? Stop swinging like a robot and learn to move athletically.
Here's 4 drills to help you do just that.
Every hitter I train learns to get behind the ball and why it helps them be more consistent.
It’s what turns weak rollovers into balls you actually drive with authority.
The cue I use the most for this: Keep your eyes behind it and finish all the way through the ball.
This helps you stay on the ball too. (There are many benefits)
These 4 MLB guys do it about as clean as it gets.
I've played professional baseball.
I've coached collegiate baseball.
I've evaluated thousands of high school players over the last 12 years.
Here are a few baseball truths I've learned:
• Failure is inevitable. How you respond to it is a choice.
• The game rewards resilience far more than talent gives it credit for.
• Body language is visibly LOUD.
• You never know who's watching.
• Talent gets you noticed. Consistency gets you recruited.
• Nobody cares how good you were last week.
• The players who blame others rarely improve.
• Confidence comes from preparation, not motivation.
• The game owes you nothing.
• Coaches trust competitors before they trust tools.
• Your teammates know if you're real.
• Baseball has a funny way of exposing excuses.
• The best players are usually obsessed with improvement, not attention.
• Nobody remembers your excuses. They remember your actions.
Build your floor. Chase your ceiling. ⚾️
Are you obsessed with positions or sequencing?
I think far too many people nowadays are obsessed with positions rather than sequencing. Chasing positions for positions' sake is a fool's errand.
Chase the sequencing and let positions emerge.
@ben_baggett
The thing I wish my 14-year-old self knew earlier.
I made everything bigger than it was.
(This is a life lesson, too)
Every at-bat felt like the whole season was on the line.
Game 7 of the World Series with 50k people watching.
And that's the thing that beat me. Not the pitcher. That exact feeling.
Self-imposed pressure.
You make it up in your head.
The pitch is the only real thing in front of you.
One pitch.
Simple, focused.
Everything else, let it go.
It's this pitch. Then the next one.
Just like you're in the backyard with the boys, where nothing exists but the ball coming in.
Not thinking about girls.
The chores you gotta do.
What's for dinner.
Compete like crazy on that one pitch. Give it everything you've got.
Just don't drag a hundred things into the box that don't need to be there.
One pitch. The only real thing.
Win it, then go win the next one.
That's the advice I've sent to hitters that struggle with the same thing, and it's worked really well.
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