The Biggest Mistake Coaches Make

It is a fact in youth baseball that only 1 in 5 coaches receives any formal baseball coaches training. I’m sure my readers are the exception or one of the 20% er’s.

The lack of quality coaches training is really a hindrance to baseball player development here in America. We continue to circulate generation after generation of youth coaches over and over with the same mantra: ‘winning-at-all-costs’.

Why? Because this system is the only one any of the adults in youth baseball knows anything about, so everyone basically copies each other. Blind leading the Blind. Few if any mentors have ever been given the opportunity to explain to coaches what a real player development system should look like.

We only know what we know. What do we get? Poorly planned, boring practices or no practice at all. Often, most coaches provide poor game management or likely just yelling at the players across the field.

Rarely do we develop hitters because we would rather our kids get a walk. We stifle most of the aggressiveness out of our kids and keep most of them in a state of constant fear of making mistakes or swinging at a bad pitch.

Yes Parents, You Are the Problem

Just ask Mike Matheny in his just released Matheny Manifesto, “You say, 'the biggest problem in youth sports is the parents.” “Yes. When you ask kids who play sports at different levels, ‘what do you want your parents to do?’ the overwhelming majority say, ‘Nothing.’

So Mike, no yelling or cheering at practices or during games? “Even yelling positive things like, ‘You can do it!’ adds pressure. Especially with the youngest kids. They don’t need that. They know you’re there and that’s enough.”

SIDE NOTE Coaches: If you do not have the opportunity to attend a player development minded baseball clinic in your area please look at the options and info available here and pick up a copy of the Matheny Manifesto right away and share it around.

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MLB & USA Baseball New Pitching Guidelines

This is a must read for all folks in youth baseball today.

I remember Dr. Andrews, who was one of pioneers in the ‘Tommy John’ surgery, saying what he does to the parents when they come into his office with a young son with a sore arm.

He gives them a marker and a big white board on the wall and tells them to write everything their kid has done in baseball and all their accomplishments up to now. He leaves them and returns to a board full of the problem.

He tells the parents, “This is why you are here. Your kid has pitched and played too much baseball without proper rest and pitch limits.” The new guidelines should go a long way to prevent many arm injuries down the road. MLB & USA Baseball Pitching Guidelines

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