Jordan

JWill | WIAC Brotherhood Offensive Coordinator| Madison College + UWL ⚾️Alum/ @nwoodsllc @5toolperf_

[Kinnickz @kinnickz_]

Bennett Stirtz really went from no D1 offers to 16th overall NBA draft pick 🤯

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Another reason to pay @5ToolPerf_ :

There’s very few travel ball organizations that do it the right way these days. Let’s be real, it’s watered down and a fundraiser for the guy at the top at a lot of these orgs. Let’s also be real, you have to be really talented to play for the national team at the good organizations— most kids aren’t good enough. I also don’t think playing for the B and C team is a great option either especially if the player development isn’t good at said organization. It also costs a lot of money.

So what are we paying for? The ego boost as a parent to say your kid plays for the C team for a prestigious travel ball organization, but isn’t actually developing into the player he could be or desires to be?

I also don’t think playing for your local legion team is any better of an option, but it’s probably most kids only/best option. Patty cake baseball with zero development… you’re just running around playing lower/mid level talent for the most part and not developing as fast as you could.

Hitters do need to play and get at bats— 100%, but it does us no good if there is nobody developing these players and guiding them through how to actually get better at baseball/more athletic/talented— they’re just making the same mistakes over and over again. Most coaches just write the line up and go coach 3rd base and play manager w/ zero summer practices where kids can actually work on skills/tools/athleticism. The talent they’re facing should also be competitive and probably isn’t. Bottom line: Nobody is truly getting that much better/talented at baseball with either option. Low quality reps/ low quality development = no results. The needle isn’t being pushed.

Parents are totally blind to it too.

This is why you should pay @5ToolPerf_ . Maybe you’ll become good enough to play for the national team at xyz organization and not have to pay for it.

Take your career into your own hands.

You gotta want it for yourself. If you don’t want it, I don’t want it for you.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

High praise from the 🐐 that has more wins than I can count.

Also another reason why you should shop @5ToolPerf_ and not pay for an ego boost and be mislead at some other store.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Or you just make it life or death— get your A+ load and A+ move off like the ball isn’t even there and let your hand eye figure out how to strike the ball instinctually. It’s a sensory response.

And not force yourself to perform keeping your head down or holding a finish— or think about doing either of those.

[Xen Penny @XenPenny]

Holding your finish with your head down will clean up a LOT of things within your swing.

[AT @BaseballWRLD_]

Bryce Harper is Top 10 in MLB in:

HR: 20
SLG: .541
OPS: .916
wRC+: 148

I’ll go with still elite.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Zoomin

[Barstool Baseball @StoolBaseball]

First MLB hit being a triple is pretty sick

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Real

[Kirk Herbstreit @KirkHerbstreit]

THANK YOU!!!!!
Where did the athletic ability go?
Clutch hitting in the 8th and 9th inning?
Starting pitching that goes 8 or 9 innings?
Base stealing-hell just good base running and SPEED?!?
Sac bunts-moving runners over late in a game?
Where’s Tony Gwynn? Rod Carew?
Wade Boggs? Ichiro?
Those guys wouldn’t exist in today’s ridiculous HR or K “launch angle” game!
The game has been dying with the youth of America for YEARS and now is losing the core fanbase as well with this ridiculous product we’ve had to digest for the last 7-10 years.
Bring back Small Ball and athleticism…this shit dreadful!!!

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Something to take the edge off as we watch a generation of hitters/players get mislead by tik tok. @TJHannam10

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Jesus Christ. Nobody cares.

[Tripp Roakes @SCSportsReport]

Just when you think all the changing high schools and middle school graphics have jumped the shark - you see an announcement of changing travel teams at 12u and thanking old team for the memories

Blue Sox must be crushed. :)

Make it all stop.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Beisbol es dificil

[jack @Jolly_Olive]

how

[RTB 🧀🔥 @ST4RONYX]

no one will ever reach these heights again

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Need it. Would be sick.

[Jordan Moore @iJordanMoore]

The numbers from ESPN are out and they keep backing it up: college baseball is booming.

• Most-watched Regional ever
• Most-watched Supers in 17 years
• +25% postseason viewership YoY
• 3rd most-watched College World Series ever

The next step is obvious: invest in the regular season. A weekly College GameDay and more national coverage would only accelerate the growth.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Electric factory

[Matt Gerber @M_Gerber17]

You can’t make this up…in a matter of 10 min from walking into Lakepoint to watch a few games I saw:

- A line 30-40 deep at the Margarita Hut

- A kid hit a homer and his dad SPRINT to the dugout to give him a high five and then SPRINT behind the Left-field wall to retrieve the ball (athletic prowess for a 40 something)

- The pitcher, in a game, throwing from the mound as seen below

Phenomenal.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

It’s not pretty— amazing he can hang at a high level.

[Zona Baseball - Trent Otis @Zona_Baseball]

Ball was hit hard, good result. But not sustainable. Arms and bat out in front of his turn. He once had the arms and bat next to him. Lost that move, needs to find that again. Exit velo numbers mean nothing if it’s not consistent and if the move isn’t right.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

You’d think I make a lot of money doing this by the way I talk about this shit, but here we are.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Lemme spit some real game here. This is gold. I’m probably 1 of few that thinks/talks about hitting this way. If not the only one.

This doesn’t get talked about enough either because everyone is scribbling lines on a screen talking about X’s and O’s “breaking down” guys swings mechanically or spamming 1,000 different bullshit cues or drills at hitters thinking it’s helping. Really it’s all eyewash in my opinion.

To me a good hitter has this innate ability to “feel” pitches similar to a QB “feeling” out the pocket with a bunch of chaos around him and his eyes are down field or a WR having the ability to *feel* defenders around him and adjust/contort his body to make defenders miss while catching a pass. It’s a 6th sense and it’s really hard to explain if you’ve never played baseball at a higher level or QB in the past (I have done both) or simply had the brain capacity to ever think of this. Here’s another thing: we don’t always need to have a scientific explanation for something that happens in 0.4-0.45 seconds. Some athletic feats don’t need an explanation or can’t truly be explained and we can just leave it at that.

Regardless, to me, it’s the fact that they have a superiorly wired nervous system (hyperactive) and they just have this ability to have a high sense of spatial awareness, body control, coordination, and Proprioception while moving very fast through space. Think about this: everyone kinda has those senses when they can just *feel* someone walking behind them but their eyes are forward and can’t see behind them— at least I know I do. You can feel someone’s energy and presence. You can just feel it and you always have that *instinctual* response of looking over your shoulder and there really isn’t an explanation for it other than you have a very hyperaware nervous system that allows that 6th sense.

Good hitters feel the pitch and passively move their body really fast through space in relationship with the pitch and let their hand eye figure out how to impact the ball. They’re not actively aiming their barrel or performing a mechanic trying to calculate a math equation while shoving hands inside the baseball. Bad hitters do that. Good hitters are getting their best move off like the ball isn’t even there and letting their hand eye coordination figure it out. They’re feeling the pitch. It’s a sensory response.

This is why I barely train or talk about xyz mechanics or xyz cues. Let’s train that nervous system, Proprioception, coordination, and body awareness. Get that A move off.

@5ToolPerf_

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Had to drop some gold @TJHannam10

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Lemme spit some real game here. This is gold. I’m probably 1 of few that thinks/talks about hitting this way. If not the only one.

This doesn’t get talked about enough either because everyone is scribbling lines on a screen talking about X’s and O’s “breaking down” guys swings mechanically or spamming 1,000 different bullshit cues or drills at hitters thinking it’s helping. Really it’s all eyewash in my opinion.

To me a good hitter has this innate ability to “feel” pitches similar to a QB “feeling” out the pocket with a bunch of chaos around him and his eyes are down field or a WR having the ability to *feel* defenders around him and adjust/contort his body to make defenders miss while catching a pass. It’s a 6th sense and it’s really hard to explain if you’ve never played baseball at a higher level or QB in the past (I have done both) or simply had the brain capacity to ever think of this. Here’s another thing: we don’t always need to have a scientific explanation for something that happens in 0.4-0.45 seconds. Some athletic feats don’t need an explanation or can’t truly be explained and we can just leave it at that.

Regardless, to me, it’s the fact that they have a superiorly wired nervous system (hyperactive) and they just have this ability to have a high sense of spatial awareness, body control, coordination, and Proprioception while moving very fast through space. Think about this: everyone kinda has those senses when they can just *feel* someone walking behind them but their eyes are forward and can’t see behind them— at least I know I do. You can feel someone’s energy and presence. You can just feel it and you always have that *instinctual* response of looking over your shoulder and there really isn’t an explanation for it other than you have a very hyperaware nervous system that allows that 6th sense.

Good hitters feel the pitch and passively move their body really fast through space in relationship with the pitch and let their hand eye figure out how to impact the ball. They’re not actively aiming their barrel or performing a mechanic trying to calculate a math equation while shoving hands inside the baseball. Bad hitters do that. Good hitters are getting their best move off like the ball isn’t even there and letting their hand eye coordination figure it out. They’re feeling the pitch. It’s a sensory response.

This is why I barely train or talk about xyz mechanics or xyz cues. Let’s train that nervous system, Proprioception, coordination, and body awareness. Get that A move off.

@5ToolPerf_

[College Basketball Report @CBKReport]

Bennett Stirtz’s journey:

• 0⭐️ recruit
• DII Northwest Missouri State
• Followed Ben McCollum to Drake
• Led Drake to its first NCAA Tournament win since 1970
• Followed BMC to Iowa
• Led Iowa to its first Elite Eight since 1987

Now, he’s a first-round pick.

[Jordan @JWill__8]

Definitely. Tools and physicality are part of the puzzle but not the full picture in development. Some guys are blessed and have it like him at a young age. At the same time, he could be a bust for all we know, but he wins in the end— likely making 1st round money. There are far less physically gifted guys that are big leaguers.