A 10U player stepped in lefty for the first pitch, then switched after one pitch. What looked like confusion might actually have been instinct backed by neuroscience. Deliberate unfamiliarity might be a real tool for slumping hitters.
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Every parent coach reaches a day when someone else is making the decisions about their kid on the field, and that transition is harder than most people talk about honestly. But losing the clipboard doesn’t mean losing the role. The work you do at home, one on one, with a plan and a shared love of the game, is the most important coaching you will ever do.
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The baseball swag industry has studied MLB players and is now selling their look to their youth baseball player fans. Batting gloves, sliding mitts, elbow guards, and $600 bats are not player development tools. They are marketing tools, and the families buying them deserve to know the difference.
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Most people aren’t failing at their goals because they lack discipline. They’re failing because they were never taught how to build a system, and that gap is not an accident in a culture that profits from endless striving and quiet shame.
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Along with the rise of enrollment in travel sports leagues, travel baseball included, has come a...
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