Coach Twinkle Toes, Ed. S

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[Coach Twinkle Toes, Ed. S @TwinkleToesSSI]

@FreddyLA7 You’re now an Ella Fella

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Thanks for the care package @astros

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@CoachBradley9 Best of luck in your search. We got a spot on the bench at @GATerrorPack if you wanna come have some fun with HS ball

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Baseball advice that many need to hear…

Don’t go to a showcase, until you have a tool to showcase.

Seeing rising juniors throwing in the low 70s ain’t it.

[Coach Twinkle Toes, Ed. S @TwinkleToesSSI]

As my son starts HS learning XC/Track recruiting

Very different from ⚾️ and 🏈

Weirdest thing so far is teams put out recruiting “standards” Makes it seem cut and dry Run a sub XX:XX & ur a recruitable runner Except u look at their roster & no 1 on the team ran that time in HS

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@drdawg1996 @TheCoachesBoxGA @OfficialGHSA Some of us play on full sized fields all season long.

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@TheOfficialBCM Not every school plays in a bandbox, some of us play on full sized fields year round

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@james_xond 25

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@Maris_Blanch @MSHSL Or get there early enough for BP, and beat the ticket taker to the gate 🤷

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@manuel_beltre09 Got a great opportunity for Enmanuel for 2026-2027. DM me, or open your DM’s.

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@manuel_beltre09 DM’s are closed

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@CollegeFBonX @TopTierUCF SMU, Indiana, Miami, UCLA

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@layxsnv D. They just misspelled Buttermilk

[Wendi A. Irlbeck MS, RDN, LD, CISSN @Wendi_Irlbeck]

Youth sports is on life support.

If you think it’s fine, you’re not paying attention.

Kids age 10-12 are playing way too many tournaments and travel ball. Parents treat it like the World Series. They need less travel, more rest, fueling, and actual development. They’re 12 YO.

The data backs it up:
❌70% of kids drop out of organized sports by age 13.
❌Professionalization (year-round single-sport focus, heavy travel/tournaments) drives overuse injuries, overtraining, and burnout.
❌Nearly 1 in 10 youth athletes experience burnout; up to 35% deal with overtraining.
❌Early specialization before 12-13 raises injury and burnout risks significantly.

Multi-sport kids who rest and play for fun stick around longer and develop better.

Let them be kids. Prioritize recovery, fun, and long-term health over trophies. The best athletes often sample multiple sports early and specialize later.

Who else sees this?

[Coach Twinkle Toes, Ed. S @TwinkleToesSSI]

@KinzieLikeABoss Trojan horse method! Love it. I like to add “make sure to include the words gorilla, giraffe, and gobsmacked”. Some kids catch the two animals, and edit it out, but gobsmacked makes it through a lot.

[Brent Pourciau, M.S. @TopVelocity]

The #1 predictor of a 90 mph fastball isn’t in your arm.

It’s not your long toss.
It’s not your bullpen count.
It’s not your weighted ball program.
It’s not even your vertical jump.

In a database of 1,500+ professional pitcher evaluations, the single strongest predictor of fastball velocity is a test you can run in your driveway tonight with a tape measure.

The standing broad jump.

Feature importance: 0.575 — higher than grip strength, higher than vertical jump, higher than total body strength, higher than 10-yard sprint.

Here’s what the numbers actually say 👇

📏 80” broad jump → 75 mph ceiling
📏 88” broad jump → 80 mph ceiling
📏 96” broad jump → 85 mph ceiling
📏 102” broad jump → 90 mph ceiling
📏 110” broad jump → 95 mph ceiling

A 2018 PRP Baseball study backed it up: 24 of 28 pitchers who cleared 100” threw 80+ mph. Sakurai et al. (2023) found fastball velocity correlates r=0.65 with drive-leg ground reaction force.

Translation: velocity isn’t thrown by the arm.
It’s launched by the ground.

So the real question isn’t how hard your kid throws today.

It’s how hard he’s CAPABLE of throwing — and what’s standing in the way.

Find out in 60 seconds.

Free. No credit card. Uses the exact same XGBoost model that evaluates MLB prospects, trained on 1,500+ professional evaluations:

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(link also in bio)

Drop a 🎯 in the comments if you’re going to measure tonight.
Tag a baseball dad who needs to see this.

— Brent Pourciau, M.S. Kinesiology, PhD Health Sciences
20 years. 10,000+ athletes. 100+ MLB draft picks.

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Humbabe

[Nic Castonguay @niccastonguay]

Glynn Academy standout, Jacob Sammis, (@JacobSammis) coming in at 284. A leader with an incredible work ethic and desire to win. A primary shortstop who has shown up to 95 MPH. Can really pick it and swing it at short and shows loud flashes on the mound. #WaveAve

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Tough to hit when you don’t know what’s coming

[Ian Steele @IanSteeleWMUR]

How do you fix strikeouts?

Alex Cora jokes: "I don't know, because I never struck out."

"You're not going to go from 28% strikeout rate to 18%. Impossible... If you've got that hitting coach, let me know. I'll give him my salary and I retire."

@WMUR9 #DirtyWater

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This is how you get the names for the Scooter Roulette!

[Rocky Hidalgo @CoachRock73]

Last day of school before spring break. This is me to the other PE teachers turning away the mongrel hordes who show up in the gym saying, "Mrs. "so-and-so said I could come down here and play basketball."

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