Had an itch for professional
Develop a winning program, a winning culture
College baseball pays better
Coaching is coaching
- Relationships
- Accountable
- Routines
Good players are routine driven
- Daily routine
- Game prep routine
- Post game routine
- Finding the right data
- Stick to it, tweek it, and it gets you through the season
Work through drills to help work through the drill
Defensive sequences
Hitting routines
Individual development complimented by team development
Ins the framework make it competitive
How will we know if our drills are working?
Game comes down to pitching and hitting
Its a game of 1-1
Game called 1 pitch
- Script pitches
- Script counts
- Scripts situations
Live defense work
Time clock when doing defense work
- 8 seconds to 2b
- Change up times to 1b
Situations
Define the game
8 different situations
- What happens the most
  - No runners
  - Runners on 1B
Played against the clock with all defenders out
Clips video of plays good and bad to go over in meetings
Utilize video to catalog when they are swinging the bat good
Video the pitcher on 3 sides of pitcher to see if we are missing anything
Get a person facing a batter on your game mound more they will get better
How do you know how the player will respond when it gets tough?
Prior to stretch we would go through mental routines.
- Runners on base
- Pre pitch
- Post pitch
- Infielders step in
- In the box
- On deck
- Visual, self talk, and breathing
For all physical skills you need to train your mental routines
Meditations are good
Breath and meditate to relax
Some guys are better at 70% what they are
Find the level of flow that you feel comfortable to allows you to execute consistently
If you expect them to do mental routines, you have to practice
Quality vs quantity
Before defensive we would do baserunning techniques then do baserunning reads, situations, BP live reads
Is it right for this player? (in terms of the weather)
- Not putting players at risk
Would we play in this weather?
Teaching is done in classroom or locker room if needed
Work and repetitions in cold weather
Modified intersquad when its cold
Pitches outside and then finish inside
Concerns with the ups and downs and how many pitches
red , yellow, green pitching communication for pitchers to get ready (warm up, get hot, go in)
Get good players to buy into what you want to do
Good players that fit your system
Continuity in the coaching staff
Work hard, work smart
All about relationships that improve communication
Communicate and collaborate with the player
You create the bond and trust you can get more out of the player
Get athletes - they will grow and improve
You have to be able to adapt to the game
The game is the game, teach the game the way its supposed to be played
Synthesize the information for all the information that the player can consume.
I’m going to coach you the way you need to be coached!
I’m a learner
I’m going to let you do it, and we will collaborate it