Coaches’ Corner Diamond Baseball

This entire episode is focused on the baseball statistics in youth baseball that can be used to teach players how to win and how to play the game right. Both team and individual hitting and pitching statistics are covered.

We focus on pitch selection - from a pitcher's perspective. Our guest is Matt Whiteside, former big leaguer with 17 years of professional baseball experience. Matt talks about the "on or out in 3" approach to pitching. This is a great interview for every youth coach and pitcher.

We focus the entire episode on pitch selection, from the hitter's perspective. Steve Hacker, former college baseball All-American and professional hitter with the Braves and Twins organizations, is our guest once again. This is a great interview, full of information that coaches can directly apply to help their hitters improve.

We discuss two great topics in this episode of Coaches Corner. First, we discuss coaching behavior during games. To be an effective coach, your behavior during needs to be consistent with your team mission and philosophy. A recipe for controlling your behavior is provided.
Second, we discuss how to use statistics to help you develop young baseball players. This is a controversial topic, because I recommend that you throw out the most common stats and develop an completely new language of statistics with your team. The shownotes of more details on this subject.

The listener feedback has caused me to re-think what is meant by “select baseball”.

We discuss what coaches and players need to do to have effective bullpen sessions - both practice bullpens and pre-game bullpens.
Matt Whiteside is our guest and provides another great interview, full of information for both coaches and players.