Two strikes. The pitcher just showed you his best pitch and you were late on it by a hair. He knows he’s got you now. He’s not going to give you anything to hit. Everything from here is a strike that’s actually a ball, or a fastball at your hands, or the same pitch that…
Skip Bertman died August 14 at 88. Five national championships at LSU: 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000. Eleven trips to the College World Series across eighteen seasons, 1984 to 2001. Forty one of his players went on to Major League Baseball. His jersey number is retired. He is in the College Baseball Hall of Fame….
Rolling over the outside pitch is not a strength problem. It is a decision problem. Here are the three contact points, the two cues I use in every lesson, and a drill that gives you a number to retest.
Most screen printers quote a coach one to three weeks. We run a 2 day standard on team orders. Here is why fast turnaround is a coaching decision, not a logistics stat, and the honest list of what it takes.
Every day this week we paired a Psalm with a piece of the game. The Psalms ran 78, 81, and 82, and all three landed on the same idea: almost none of this is about you.
Hand ten players the same drill sheet and you get three different practices. Here is how Coach Trev studies the athlete before building the plan, and why it changes the way a rep gets coached.
Most young hitters do not get fooled by off-speed. They get early. Here is the sequencing fix, the two cues I say in every lesson, and a three-round drill that gives you a number to retest.
A kid on the mound before first pitch does not need a paragraph. He needs a sentence. Five short prayers for the moments this game actually puts a player in, and an honest word about what prayer is not.
Every pitcher knows the walk off the mound. Handing over the ball is not failure. It is the day a young man learns he is not the only one holding it together.
Every day this week we paired a Psalm with a piece of the game. The Psalms ran a stretch from 71 to 76, and they kept circling the same idea: you are not the steady thing in your own career.
