Baseball parents: Here's what's WRONG with travel baseball ⚾ The gloves are off 🥊 In today's newsletter, I expose the BU$INE$$ of youth baseball 💰 Retweet and comment "Expose" I'll DM you the link Must be following me

Generosity is not a quest for appreciation. It’s an act of care and contribution. The point of giving is not to seek gratitude or receive recognition. It's to live by your principles. True kindness isn’t motivated by how others will react. It’s an expression of who you are.

Kicking off our Player Spotlight series, meet our 16U player, Madyson Bryan (Madyson Bryan).

There’s a difference in taking credit for a player’s development & being a small part of their overall development. The people who know they’re only a part of it do it to help players & don’t have egos that need to be fed. It’s not about you. It’s about the player & his/her work!

Player Spotlight! Nothing gets past our 16U Shockwave player, Breanna (Bre) Fontes (Breanna Fontes-2025). This girl has game offensively & defensively and is a strong leader in our organization.

Kids need Mentors. Not a a guy who feeds them cliche advice. Kids need Leaders. Not people they are forced to comply with. Kids need Coaches. Not a person they call coach. Many adults love the titles, but few love the consistent actions their titles’ definitions call for.

An MLB owner told Rob Manfred "analytics is an arms race to nowhere." The commissioner agrees. Manfred: “Once everybody’s doing it, that little margin that maybe you’re getting… it sure as heck is not worth the damage that was done to the game" theathletic.com/4368996/2023/0…

14u Emma D’Angelo Emma DAngelo with a big day going 3-4 with an inside the park HR, triple and double vs Whitman-Hanson. 💪💪💪!! Nice work Emma, keep it going!

Situational awareness. We focus so much on drills and fundamentals that we over look situations. Knowing what to do if a ball is hit can quite literally make or beak a game. Coaches- make sure you are carving out time at practice to go over situations!

You don’t need Cleans to become explosive I took them out 5 years ago and our program only got better I have a free guide on why and how to train Power without Cleans With a sample week you can use To get it: 1 Retweet this 2. Reply “POWER” below And I’ll send it to you

If I can add? Stop teaching kids to catch with two hands. Thank you in advance!

Player development is looking at a 14yr old's swing & saying yeah I know you're hitting HRs right now, but that swing won't play in college. Training in the present & future is key. Good travel HR Hitters sitting in college cuz somebody didn't understand the assignment.

Pitch calling: It’s at the heart of competition for the pitcher and catcher. It’s a game. It’s knowing the situation at hand. It’s reading swings. It’s noticing a hitter’s tendencies in the box. It’s knowing what feels right. It’s knowing what’s not working and what is. It’s

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Get your whole team in the habit of acknowledging your catcher every time they block balls in the dirt. I guarantee the balls that hit the backstop (Wild Pitches & Passed Balls) go down.

Jack hitting 💣s

Jack went up to get this pitch for a 2 RBI 💣 double. He continues to mash on the big field. Jack DAngelo

Jared Carrabis It is sad, but expected. Like Casas, if you get fired up for him there is a high likelihood you will be let down. I hope I’m wrong, but his track record isn’t good.

You will strike out. You will make errors. You will pitch bad. That’s baseball. The separator isn’t talent - it’s response. The way you handle failure… The way you reset… The way you compete on the next pitch… 👉 That’s the game. ⚾️