Reflecting back on the past year is a productive way to see what went well and what could have been better. Consider doing that with your own team to get your own specific lessons learned! In the meantime, Rob shares seven lessons that he learned this past year that may help you for the upcoming year.
Plus Rob answers the Question of the Week (25:40) about whether to strictly train your kid to hit against the travel tryout pitching machine speed for the upcoming tryout or let the kid hit faster speeds.
In this 40-minute episode, you'll learn from my lessons learned:
- track your team’s defensive outcomes (2:38)
- practice bunting and bunt defense (5:25)
- optimize your team’s batting order but try a couple different variants (7:21)
- have kids repeat drills until they “get it” (11:50)
- break up cliques by having a season-long small group competition (14:39)
- don’t dumb down drills (18:54)
- encourage your parent helpers to “push” the kids (21:26)
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Resources and links mentioned in this episode
- How To Calculate Relevant Defensive Stats For Youth Baseball (with free spreadsheet)
- How To Optimize Your Batting Order Lineup
- YBE 134: Start With A Plan with Bo Ashabraner
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