Tom Griffin

Catch, Block, Throw It instructional video. CATCH, BLOCK, THROW Catching Camp. Passionate about catching

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Part of prep work.

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Work ups with “going” for footwork for steals. One machine baseballs, other X-treme training balls from Catching-101

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Variations for tennis ball catches. Bare hand. Glove. On the bounce. Mix in runner going

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Side blocks to receive combo work.

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Receiving drills with tag plays from machine

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@CoachRodrigues2 @JWonCATCHING 👍👍. Thanks for sharing

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Ickey shuffle with catch and picks

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@PPL_Main @PPL_Lou Travis Tingle will also develop the mindset needed to compete on the level your at and where you want to go!! Outstanding pitching coach and person

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Warm up for receiving. Tennis balls. Wiffle balls also can be used

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Fall Catching Camp covering all areas of catching at Carson-Newman University Drills and Fundamentals!!! Oct 31 from 9am-2pm and Nov 1 from 8am-Noon. You can sign up at www.carsonnewmanbaseball.totalcamps
For more information email [email protected]

[Tom Griffin @catchblockthrow]

Mark I like this tool for strengthening the glove movement to the ball. Our guys have felt like this has worked the shoulder and the levers of receiving. Now how we receive pitches I agree that on the glove side pitch, kids chicken wing the arm too much and do get thumbed in moving the ball.

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The Anchor! Great new device from Xan Barksdale. We have gotten great feedback from using it in training. Resistance training helping to build muscles/ move glove faster but also help in receiving and feeling how to move to various pitch locations! A must to coaching tool box. @xanbarksdale https://t.co/SsGxcckaLZ

[Xan Barksdale @xanbarksdale]

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Please help by 1) seeing if you're an eligible donor, and/or 2) sharing Zac's story to help get as many eyeballs on this as possible!

🙏 Praying you find an eligible donor soon Zac! @Rogue_Baseball

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[Tom Griffin @catchblockthrow]

CJ Stroud shown doing similar exercises before his game. Video sped up, movements done slower. Part of early work. Train and warm up eyes!!! Goalies do the same thing

[Tom Griffin @catchblockthrow]

CJ Stroud shown doing similar exercises before his game. Video sped up, movements done slower. Part of early work. Train and warm up eyes!!! Goalies do the same thing

[Tom Griffin @catchblockthrow]

Great week at USA baseball NTDP with these C’s. Lot of talent and high character guys!!. Highlight is also working with Michael McKenry @theFortMcKenry. Passionate, Loves teaching, Lot
of knowledge!!!

[Tom Griffin @catchblockthrow]

Outstanding week of baseball in Cary with USA Baseball NTDP. Surrounded by amazing coaches, staff and players. 1st class. Icing on the cake was working alongside Steve Cishek and Mark Gibbs on Navy team. Great group of players!!! #NTDP26

[Tom Griffin @catchblockthrow]

Great chart that Tanner Swanson put out years ago. Great visual on location of throws to bags. Tag time is something to keep in mind when timing C’s throw downs.

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Some ideas on controlling the running game

[Jerry Weinstein @JWonCATCHING]

SEMI RANT
I have been reading INSIDE THE BOX by David Epstein. It’s about how constraints are not obstacles to creativity and performance—they are often the very conditions that produce them. In today’s game of baseball we have all kinds of data to help us develop players or at least to evaluate our processes because we are able to quantify the outcomes. Take pitchers & pitching coaches for example. Some become overly reliant on the data. If they don’t have their Trackman data, their Edgertronic videos & KineTrac graphs they are often at a loss in the development process. My suggestion is restrict( constrain) the use of all those aids during a % of the development process in order to force the coaches & players to become more creative. As a coach, be able to evaluate ball flight/shape by using your eyes. Same for the pitcher’s movement pattern(s). Same for pitchers but also more in touch with FEEL(Kinesthetic Awareness). You MIGHT come up with some training methodologies that you would not have when you just lean on the data. This is not a revolutionary concept & I think many of the best players & coaches follow this path. Obviously this applies to hitters as well. I’m not suggesting that all the tools we have are not valuable because I truly think they are. They reinforce what our eyes tell us & often tell us what we think we are seeing is not really accurate. In the strength field measurable data is invaluable. IMO there is a need for both to maximize the development process & provide for maximum transfer into the game. In the game you are making pitch by pitch adjustments without access to any data so why not make that a part of your preparation plan. Just a thought worthy of considering. The bottom
line is to find the sweet spot/balance point in the process to produce the best version of the athlete most consistently.