I watch a lot of HS and Travel Baseball and here’s what gets evaluated that most players/coaches/understand:
1. Catch Play - how do you treat “getting loose” before a game? Is there meaning to it or are you just throwing to throw….
2. Ground Balls between innings - 7-3-21
7 inn, 3 GBs/inn, 21 reps/game. How do you treat those? How are your throws?
3. On Deck Reps - What are you doing to prepare for your AB? You have three responsibilities. 1. Time the Pitcher, 2. Communicate w/base runners 3. Relay location to hitter. You’re not there to “get loose”
4. Response to Failure - how do you respond to a Strikeout, an error, a bad call, giving up a bomb?
5. Communication - Are you talking between pitches, directing cutoffs, helping teammates w/ pitcher tendencies, etc.
6. Competitiveness In Non Game Situations sprinting on and off the field, backing up bases, prep steps, moving with hitters tendencies, does every pitch matter?
These are the aspects of the game that are often taken for granted but make a huge difference for your evaluation.
Pete Crow-Armstrong is ruled out at second base after initially contacting second base and losing possession of the base.
Crow-Armstrong had initially advanced to second base on a walk.
Cubs manager Craig Counsell has been ejected.
@corneliusomall@PaulPabst not disagreeing, but just a voice from the other angle. once the TOP TOP guys are taken, why take that next level of QB knowing that they will still be available later on? i’d take the best players at other positions after probably the first 8-10 QBs
just a reminder, these guys hired a Driveline guy as a hitting voice
the dip and rip over the back leg doesn’t work people, but for most it’ll be far too late before they realize it and they will be replaced
any player or young person who thinks this is “tuff” or the coach is just an “old head” and hates players, come back to this when your brain is properly matured and you’ll realize this is the exact behavior that probably got him kicked off the team anyways. bet it’s not 1st issue
This High School baseball coach sounds like has his hands full. I feel for him. He kicked this senior off the baseball team.
Listen to the senior laugh and then try to degrade the coach.
When asked why he was kicked off he said the reason was they took him out of the game (for who knows what) and they didn’t speak to him about it. So, he got on his phone in the dugout and was texting with his mom telling her to not bother to come to the game. Everyone knows you aren’t to be on your phone in high school during a game.
Just by listening to the student and also the fact the coach had an officer present, I can tell what I already need to know. Sounds like the coach is trying to turn a program around.
Do you think the coach made the right decision? Context is everything I know, but listening to him, can’t you kind of gather what the issue is? Who thinks this is exactly what is wrong with our younger generation?
is anyone surprised we are suddenly getting all these super close calls all of a sudden? MLB is like “look at us, we have things that are so accurate it gets just a single lace in the zone”
i’m not buying this crap