Masters of Baseball

Helping players and parents navigate the youth baseball landscape through the insights of the game’s greatest leaders and storytellers.

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Masters of Baseball Livestream https://t.co/ZaBTWuSo66

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'Fun Over Fear' is the starting point: a clear, practical guide for the years (ages 3-9).

How to build confidence, protect joy, and let young athletes simply play, before youth sports gets complicated.

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Here is the math no one adds up for you. Across youth sports, the exposure circuit runs the same play: a few hundred dollars for a state event, more for regional, and more for national, on top of your club team and travel costs. The rankings exist to sell subscriptions, because every parent wants the report on their own athlete. You are not buying exposure. You are buying content.

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A plain-English primer on how college sports money actually works now , because most families are being sold a fantasy. Two minutes here saves you a lot of expensive mistakes. Save it.

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The Recruiting Advice Every Baseball Family Needs https://t.co/86APsXcbbL

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@Br0Dude @CoachBeede Anger management

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A pattern I have noticed in 35 years.
The families who choose their college well are not the ones who took the most visits. They are the ones who asked the right questions on the visits they took.
Most families ask polite questions. The families who choose well ask the uncomfortable ones , the ones that actually tell you what the next four years will look like.
Tomorrow night I am dropping a thread on the seven questions every family should ask on an official visit. The ones most families don't think to ask until it is too late.

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NCAA 5-in-5 Eligibility + Transfer Portal: Impact on HS Athletes https://t.co/frNj0JmTvB

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Parents : PLEASE READ 👇👀

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Memorial Day.A morning to remember that baseball is a game, and games are gifts.The men and women we honor today made the kind of sacrifice that puts every tournament, every showcase, every recruiting conversation into perspective.Hug your son/daughter today. Tell him why this day matters. The recruiting will be there tomorrow.

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Three things I wish every baseball family understood before junior year:
The first showcase is not the most important one. Coaches need to see consistency, not a single performance.
The first offer is not the best offer. The right offer is the one that fits, not the one that comes first.
The first commitment is not the final commitment. With the portal, "decided" is a starting point, not an ending.
Slow down. The good families do.

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Parents — what is the one question you wish you had asked on your son's official visit that you didn't think to ask? I will compile the best ones and share them back this week.

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Three things I have watched separate the student-athletes who get recruited from the ones who get overlooked. None of them are velocity or exit velo:

They answer their own emails.
They ask coaches better questions than their parents do.
They show up to camps with a plan, not a hope.

Recruiting rewards maturity earlier than most families realize.

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Sunday thought for baseball families:
You cannot scout your way out of a fit problem.
You can attend every showcase, hire every consultant, take every visit — and still end up at the wrong school if you skipped the honest conversation about who your son actually is.
Start there. Everything else gets easier.

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What D1 Pitching Coaches Actually Want | Elliot Glynn, Fordham https://t.co/ystMkpcIlq

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Is your athlete actually recruitable? 3 Key Signs Coaches Look For! https://t.co/5eIl2I3g6v

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🧵 The 7 things college baseball coaches evaluate that have nothing to do with your son's swing or velocity.
After 35 years on both sides of recruiting, here's what actually moves the needle:

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The Ivy League Recruiting Playbook: Frank Holbrook of Brown University https://t.co/ZADaNyD4bc

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Rise to the Challenge with Bates athletics on May 7th!

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The academic-athlete pathway is not about chasing prestige.

It is about finding the right environment for the athlete to grow.

The right school should challenge the athlete, support the person, and make sense for the family.

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Some legacies don’t come with trophies.

Sometimes they come with a coffee mug, a Miller can, and a set of keys under one hanging kitchen light.

My new book, There’s an E at the End, is out now.

It’s the story of growing up in working-class Massachusetts after my mother left and the father who stayed.

He didn’t say too much.

But through discipline, humor, work, baseball, and the way he showed up every day, he taught me how to endure.

Baseball was never just a game in our house.

It was our language for resilience, loyalty, and the lessons fathers pass down when words fall short.

If you were shaped by a dad, grandfather, coach, or mentor who loved quietly and showed up steadily, this book is for you.

Amazon:
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What quiet lesson did your dad or coach leave you?

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