Jeremy A. Smith

Pacers 🏀 | Hoosiers 🏀 | Irish 🏈 | Bears 🏈 | Yanks ⚾️

[Fryedaddy/Frito @shegone03]

Dustin Pedroia nails it in this interview from Chasing Baseball Dreams Parent Advice!

How many good baseball players are being passed over in favor of Showcase Ponies who can light up the radar guns but can’t pitch or guys that can hit the ball 500 feet in batting practice but can’t actually hit in games?

This trend was created by non baseball people eliminating scouting positions in favor of interns with cameras and radar guns!

The game has suffered tremendously by thinking throwing Velocity and Exit Velocity are the most important tools in baseball players!

#shegone
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[Jeremy A. Smith @jallynsmith]

@TalkinYanks And he sucks playing CF — can we be done already?!

[Coach Swit @CoachSwit]

Baseball has become the only sport where someone can go 0-for-4 with 3 strikeouts and someone will still post his exit velo.

At some point, we might want to start caring about actually being good at baseball again in games.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.

Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.

“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.

“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.

It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: https://t.co/zHcKsPYfeC

[Paradigm Player Development @ParadigmPDS]

For 5 years, college baseball chased fastball velocity. That's changing. What's winning now?

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[The Yankee Report @YankeeReport_]

George Lombard Jr is incredible to watch on defense 🔥

[Bob Quillman @BQuillmanQcast]

You have to be really, really good to play in NCAA Division III.

[Ryan Garcia @RyanGarciaMLB]

George Lombard Jr. has +4 Defensive Runs Saved and +2 Outs Above Average at shortstop in 8 games

[Jeremy A. Smith @jallynsmith]

Chills …

[Baseball Dudes Inc. 🇺🇸⚾️ @BaseballDudes48]

Just my view…

All I care about is the kids getting better. Them enjoying the game and being excited for their next season.

I feel winning is a by-product of real development. Development is learning and then providing reps…Repeat. The process of growth varies by player and that’s part of the challenge of coaching. We as coaches need the skills and ability to help them all from all angles of the game. If we have weaknesses in our knowledge and ability, we either need to find those who have those different strengths and get their help or dig deep and get better ourselves.

The game is about them and them only. Once things start to get twisted and become more about a team’s name, a coaches name or adult emotions, drama will always be present. Most every problem there ever is out there can be trailed back to how the adults carried themselves. The kids end up being caught in the middle. And in some cases unfortunately take the brunt of those adult issues.

Keep it all in perspective. It’s their game. It’s their experience. Our playing days are long over. It’s time to give back and help them get the most out of this short phase in their life.

[BronxBmbrz @BronxBmbrz]

#We will always have the most dominant home run derby of the statcast era

[Felix | NYY.NEWS @_NYYNEWS]

JORGE POSADA: “I CAN’T WATCH TODAY’S BASEBALL.”

Yankees legend Jorge Posada, a 4-time World Series champion and one of the faces of the dynasty years, (The Core 4) did not hold back during his interview on Abriendo El Podcast.

Posada said today’s game has become too robotic, too obsessed with formulas, and too accepting of strikeouts.

“The baseball being played today is garbage,” Posada said.

He also pushed back hard on the analytics crowd trying to judge Derek Jeter’s defense strictly through modern numbers.

“You can’t judge Jeter through a computer.”

That line right there is pure old-school Yankees.

Posada came from an era where putting the ball in play mattered. Moving runners mattered. Taking pride in not striking out mattered. He said back then, striking out 100 times in a season felt like you were not doing your job.

Now? Guys can strike out constantly, hit 30 home runs, bat .202, and still get paid like stars.

His message was simple:

The game got smarter on paper, but dumber between the lines. #yankees #repbx

[Neural Derp @NeuralDerp]

"Give him a hand everybody!"👍

Star Wars + Jerry Springer | Luke Skywalker 
"WHO'S YOUR DADDY?!?!" - Part 2

Follow for more craziness!🤪

[Onyx Odds @OnyxOdds]

Aaron Judge really is one of a kind

[Dan Cevette @DanCevette]

HS Baseball Players ⚾️

I’ve been around this game a long time, and something’s changed...

We’re losing respect for the game.

• Chirping after every pitch.
• Celebrating routine plays like it’s Game 7
• Trying to embarrass opponents instead of beating them.

That’s not toughness. That’s insecurity. 💯

Somewhere along the way, being loud became more important than being good.

And the worst part? It’s being allowed.

When I came up…

• You showed up early.
• You handled your business.
• You played hard.
• You shut your mouth.
• If you had something to say…
you said it with performance.
• And if lines were ever crossed, the players took care of it.

The truth: 👇

• Baseball is hard.
• You’re going to fail.
• You’re going to struggle.
• The game doesn’t need more noise…
• It needs more respect.
• Nobody remembers who chirped.
• They remember who showed up.
• Who competed.
• Who handled adversity.
• Who left the game better than they found it.

Want to separate yourself?
Stop talking. Start working.

Respect the game.

💯⚾️

[Jeremy A. Smith @jallynsmith]

What the F was that horseshit play in CF Grish?! @TalkinYanks

[🅱️urt Cignetti @hoosiercommish]

This rule absolutely rocks. Keeping the human element but humiliation shaming umps into being better

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Wherever we go, The Jungle follows.

#RepBX

[Indiana On BTN @IndianaOnBTN]

1️⃣5️⃣ 3-pointers‼️

#OTD in 2002, @IndianaMBB shot 79% from downtown to beat Kent State and advance to the Final Four.

[Martha the Mop Lady @TheMopLady]

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