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2026 Schedule. We start 7 weeks from today!

Arrived at Spring Training on 8 FEB and left Spring Training on 25 MAR. As we do each Spring Training for 45 days straight we asked anyone who came into the Mental Performance office about their thoughts on the most important High Performance Traits—we know there are more, but we dig this starting point!

🚨SCHEDULE UPDATE🚨 Tomorrow will be Varsity game only starting at 7:00. WOS will not have a jv tomorrow. We will update for Friday later on in the week.

If you say you want to play at the next level, your actions have to match your words. Spring break is part of our season. Games and practices during that time are just as important as any others. When you choose a vacation over being available for your high school team’s baseball/softball games, you are letting your team down—no matter the reason. Your teammates are counting on you. Coaches build lineups, strategies, and chemistry based on who is committed and available. If you’re serious about playing at the next level, you don’t disappear during the season. This doesn’t mean family trips are “bad,” but it does mean you must be honest about your priorities: If you choose vacation during the season, that is your choice—but it will affect your role, playing time, and how your commitment is viewed. If you choose your team, then be present. Be reliable. Be someone your teammates and coaches can trust. Don’t say you’re “all in” and then vanish when it’s inconvenient. Commitment is shown by what you do, not what you say.

Stay above the baseball & top hand strong are cues that cleans a lot of hitters up. Most misses are dumped barrels with weak top hands that turn into backside flares. When a hitter stays inside and above the ball it produces backspin line drives to the back top of the cage all day long.

Coach Robe said it best

Mike Leach shares a must-listen postgame message on resilience, adversity, and failure. "Nothing is really, really, really fun unless it's hard. Nothing is really fun unless it's hard." "We've got to embrace that things are gonna be hard. We've got to embrace to be excited when things are hard." Successful people don't fear obstacles - they embrace them. "You gotta embrace to be excited about it being hard and playing extremely hard." "Even if you get way up on somebody, you want to be as hard as you possibly can because you're pushing yourself. And all of a sudden you're making great plays, you're doing things that you've never done before." Growth requires discomfort. You have to be willing to look bad before you get better. Then he ended with one line: "Embrace the fact that it's hard. Never hope that it's easy." If you only chase what's easy, you'll never become great. Embrace the hard because that is where growth, success, and character are built. (🎥 Washington State)

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Overprotected kids become unprepared adults. Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥 You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts. Hard is the lesson. Watch. Share. Bookmark.

Sophomore game for this week. Easter week means short week for us.

HS Baseball Players ⚾️ You WILL go 0-3 You WILL make errors You WILL have bad outings Other teams WILL talk crap That’s baseball. It’s built to expose you, and it's built on failure. Don’t get emotional… get better. Because your RESPONSE is louder than anything they say 💯

Bunt practice sucks. (My experience is watching a lot of it). You know what doesn’t suck? Walking off a 15 inning game because you are really good at bunting. THBMB Talk

Baseball rewards the ones who keep showing up. The ones who put in the extra reps when no one’s watching. The ones who fail, adjust, and come back stronger. Hard work doesn’t always show up right away… But when it does — it’s everything you dreamed of. Keep going. The game always gives back. #BaseballDreams #HardWorkPaysOff #KeepGrinding #TrustTheProcess

During one of the worst losing streaks of my career, our team president walked into my office. Keli McGregor. One of the best men I've ever known. He could have come to vent. To question my decisions. To ask hard questions. Instead, he said: "Cut to the chase, Clint. What's next?" I looked him in the eye and gave him two words: "Shower well." The Colorado Rockies were struggling badly that year. Pregame preparation was solid. Scout meetings, early work, attention to detail. All of it was there. But at game time, the tires were flat. I told Keli: the game did everything it could to us today. We just couldn't meet its demands. Now it was time to reset. "Shower well" means exactly this: • Watch the frustration circle down the drain • Shampoo, rinse, repeat and get the grime of today completely off your mind • Walk out clean, go home, and actually rest Leave it at the ballpark. The game is over. There's nothing left to solve tonight. Keli nodded. Asked if he could share it with the whole organization. I said sure. And then it hit me. This isn't just for baseball. Bad day at the office. Grumpy boss. Missed deadline. Traffic on the way home. You can carry all of that through your front door. Or you can shower well. I've never seen a single problem get better because someone dragged it home with them. The reset is a discipline. Same as preparation. Same as showing up. Either we win. Or we learn. The only real loss? When you don't take a single thing out of a hard day. So tonight, whatever kind of day it was, shower well. Tomorrow is a new at-bat. What does your reset look like? I'd love to hear it.

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Sophomore Double header for this evening against Nederland has been canceled.

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. ⚾️

Due to impending weather, sub varsity practice is canceled for today. Varsity should report to fieldhouse immediately after school.

The fake bunt walk-off was a beautiful call

High school baseball season begins: Hope this advice is helpful to all of you. Good luck.

Velocity gets you recruited. Command decides if you stay. Throwing 90 opens doors. Winning 0–0 keeps you on the mound. High school radar guns track velo. College coaches track: • First-pitch strikes • Walk rate • Pitch efficiency • How quickly you get off the field Can you: • Land strike one? • Miss off, not middle? • Control counts when you fall behind? • Repeat your delivery in the 6th? Because hitters adjust. And weekends expose traffic. Velocity is loud. Command wins series. High school celebrates stuff. College rewards execution. That’s Pitching IQ. Built at 15. Proven at 20. Routine Over Flash. #3LeftsBaseball #BaseballIQ