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Trust Your Gut!

A family that I'm good friends with and whose son just finished his Little League career this past season recently joined a very well-known 13U club baseball team in the area. Being new to the organization, the Dad stuck around the few first official team practices earlier this Fall and was immediately struck by how […]

Let Kids Be Kids!

My buddy Chase d'Arnaud played in the Big Leagues for 8 seasons and now runs a world-class training facility in Long Beach; he's got a lot of truly elite High School and college players who workout with him on a regular basis. I'm talking about older teenagers who will play definitely D1 ball and college […]

A Heartwarming Week At Baseball Camp

We have a 10-year old camper with us this week in Palos Verdes who had literally never played a minute of baseball in his life until he stepped on the field on Monday morning. I absolutely LOVE getting to introduce the greatest sport ever invented to new players, no matter what age they are, and […]

Cal!

If you follow baseball, you know that Mariners' Catcher Cal Raleigh had an historic first half of the season. He has 38 Homeruns already, which is just 1 shy of the all-time record for most homeruns before the All-Star break set by Barry Bonds, and he has a shot to break Mickey Mantle's single season […]

“Baseball” in a Nutshell

I'm coaching Maddux's 10U All-Star team again this season and we had our 1st game on Saturday. The team played great and won 4-1 but the point of this blog has nothing to do with that win. Maddux, after absolutely crushing the ball in our 3 All-Star scrimmages leading up to our 1st real game […]

Winning In Youth Sports (hint: it’s not on the scoreboard)!

Over the past several years, the focus of youth sports has sadly shifted toward focusing on chasing plastic rings and preparing for the "next level," and away from the real wins of sports participation for kids: learning life lessons, creating lifelong memories, and spending quality time with friends. Despite this trend, I've witnessed some incredible […]

Who Loves It More?!?

Baseball has provided me with a lifetime of stories to tell, but one of my fondest` memories of my playing days didn't happen on the field. It was 1999 and I was Freshman at Brown. The Red Sox and Yankees were facing off in the playoffs and as if the oldest rivalry in baseball clashing […]

Post-Season Vibes

Hopefully, you've had a great Little League season with positive coaches and parents who have a healthy perspective on youth sports. Trying to win (and dealing with losing) in youth sports is definitely part of the learning process, but we all know how unnecessarily intense many coaches and parents can be...to the detriment of the […]

How To Protect Your Child’s Arm

As the amateur baseball world becomes more and more obsessed with velocity and almost all off-season youth baseball programs focuses on playing as many games as possible, we are seeing an epidemic of arm injuries at all levels of the game. The data is staggering. 36% of all MLB pitchers have had at least one […]