Jennifer Mineau

Owner & Operator: @blackcatfp
Softball Pitching Coach - 20 Years
education, individualization, high level performance
@actiontypesedu

[Deepak Patel @x_deepakpatel]

Resilience grows differently when the child has skin in the game. “I chose this. I failed. I still want to try again” is a powerful experience.

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

Guys I beg of you

Proofread your ai slop before posting 😂

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

Great advice for a struggling pitcher/hitter

[Next Level Baseball @nextlevelbb]

Discussion for hitting coaches.
All players struggle at times.
Leo Mazzone said something years ago that has stuck with me.
He said when the Braves pitchers got in trouble.
He told them to do less.
Simplify and make better pitches.
Do not try to throw harder.
Do not try to spin the breaking ball harder.
Do not try to get the changeup to sink more.
Make a good pitch.
Not a great pitch.
When hitters struggle they have a commonality.
They try to do too much.
They press.
They get overanxious.
They lose discipline and swing too much.
They make something that is hard even harder.
Instead of simplifying and doing less.
Instead of trying to drive a ball off or over the wall with every swing.
They should be thinking about getting on base.
See some pitches and work deep in the count.
Do not help the pitcher get outs.
He wants you to be an overanxious mess that swings at everything he throws.
What else?

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

Nothing makes an “expert elite coach” feel smarter than saying “biomechanics” like they have a doctorate in astrophysics

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

One of the many things I will never understand

the US has this attachment to forcing our softball pitchers to follow rules that the college/pro/olympic levels don’t follow.

It’s silly on so many levels

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

This is totally normal

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

DraftKings developed an AI model to identify users most likely to lose money so that it could target them with promotions. When employees then developed a model that would have assigned “risk scores” based on users' likelihood to develop compulsive/addictive behaviors, the company sidelined it. https://t.co/MOqK3RSMXz

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

@rileysmith2027 @thealliancefp @PUSoftball @CoachSween @CoachDavis1321 @CoachAshleyMcD @coachsmith16 @DiamondAddicts @UnityMchale @D1Softball @ExtraInningSB @LineDsoftball @UnityCoachJosh Way to go Riley!!!

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

Podcasts have introduced us to fascinating people we ordinarily would never hear from

They have also given some idiots a microphone and license to talk

And both groups of people are equally available wherever you listen 😂

[Joey Cunha @_joeycunha]

“…entire industries can inherit bad assumptions.”

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

Being a better coach is going to require you to scorch your ego.

Are you ready for that?

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

Another classic stunt:

“I’m not going to hold this event this year unless you REALLY want me to

Tell me in the comments if I should 🥺”

😂😂😂

Come on now

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

Classic social media marketing tricks to know so you don’t get influenced:

➡️Creating insecurity, creating a false dichotomy, creating urgency

👀How it reads: “do YOU want to give your daughter the best chance possible next season by gaining 3-5 mph THIS MONTH?!”

😂I mean as a parent how are you supposed to even respond to that? It might as well be asking “DO YOU EVEN LOVE YOUR DAUGHTER?!”

Sidenote, if I do 5 of those programs all guaranteeing 3-5 mph, the obvious conclusion is I’ll throw 80. World record, here I come.

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

Very interesting

[Wendy @teachthemx3]

There's a new part time micro-school/ co-op in my area that teaches zero academics. Each age band spans 4 years and meets for 3 hours a day, Monday through Thursday. The students only work on life skills/projects.

It started 3 weeks ago and already has a waiting list. I can see this type of set up being very popular as more and more homeschooling platforms are rolled out.

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

This thread is great advice for 🥎 pitchers too

[Tex Detroyer @TexDetroyer]

I think the best recruiting advice I can give to pitchers in 2026 has 2 sides:

1. If you already throw a lot of strikes, go somewhere that you will likely be a regular player year 1.

2. If you don’t throw a ton of strikes, go to the best school you can get to based on your stuff

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

@drivelinekyle The delicate art of helping something think it was their idea all along 😂

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

@DTDSoftball For another $25 will you lie to coaches and tell them I don’t complain during exercise

😂😂😂

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

@open_command Is there any way to control for starting ERA?

8.25 > 5.25

Is a very different 3 than

5.25 > 2.25

[Jennifer Mineau @JenMineau13]

👀👀👀

[Zach Haigney @zach_haigney]

The training stimulus that happens w Low Intensity Sustained engagement is virtually unaccounted for in modern Exercise Science