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PSA:
GameChanger stats…
Pitch counts, strike outs, walks and runs scored are the only basic stats that can’t be manipulated. Unless of course the person running GC forgets to change pitchers or has the lineup wrong.
If the person running it struggles to differentiate between hits and errors, passed balls and wild pitches, stolen bases and indifference, almost everything you see will be inaccurate. Batting average, ERA, hits, hits allowed, earned runs, RBI’s, they will all be skewed and sometimes in a big way.
GC has become a source of tension in our youth game. If this is happening on your team, the easiest solution is to stop using it. If parents and coaches want stats, let them keep their own book.
Blinded by love:
• Obsessing over your bigger and more productive players while ignoring what the lesser need to grow and develop.
• Acknowledging and focusing on other players mistakes, weaknesses, and errors while downplaying those of your child’s.
• Keep giving your harder throwers more mound time even though they throw too many balls, walk too many batters, and throw too many pitches per inning, when you have other arms that aren’t as strong but compete in the zone much better.
• As head coach placing your child in positions on the field or in the lineup even though they keep struggling, when you have other players who are showing they have earned those same opportunities but aren’t getting them.
• Thinking your child isn’t part of the problem even though everyone else can see it.
Coaches:
For the love of player development and preparing kids for the next level, please stop allowing them to stroll into first base on a ball hit to the outfield and barely make a turn. Instill habits their coaches at the next level will be looking for.
Hard down the line, good turn and aggressive past the bag ready for a mistake so they can maybe advance.
Doesn’t matter that they do it on TV, stop allowing lazy baseball.
GameChanger stats…
Pitch counts, strike outs, walks and runs scored are the only basic stats that can’t be manipulated. Unless of course the person running GC forgets to change pitchers or has the lineup wrong.
If the person running it struggles to differentiate between hits and errors, passed balls and wild pitches, stolen bases and indifference, almost everything you see will be inaccurate. Batting average, ERA, hits, hits allowed, earned runs, RBI’s, they will all be skewed and sometimes in a big way.
GC has become a source of tension in our youth game. If this is happening on your team, the easiest solution is to stop using it. If parents and coaches want stats, let them keep their own book.
September is behind us, but we're still looking ahead.
Whether it's Childhood Cancer Awareness Month or not, we're working on a future where no child dies from cancer.
🎗️ On average, more than 290 children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer every week.
🎗️ In the U.S., 1 in 5 will not survive.
🎗️ With your help, St. Jude has helped improve the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% in 1962 to over 80%.
Jaguars DE Josh Hines-Allen’s 7-year-old son, Wesley, rang the bell today after beating cancer🙏
Wesley was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia earlier this year and is now in complete remission after seven months of treatment.