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I help athletes train their bodies and mind to reach their peak athletic potential.

Select ball kids have a hard time adjusting to HS where coaches actually get on you and sit you if you’re not performing. Complete opposite of a team your parents paid for your position

“D1 or bust” baseball mentality was sold to you by the select baseball organizations who profit off you believing it. The Univ of Tampa and many other DII programs would mop the floor with a lot of D1 teams. But HS kids are sold on a lie

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@shegone03 @RedSox Back in my day this was “good piece of hitting!” Now it only shows up on a spreadsheet of next Gen stats as poor exit velo, poor launch angle, hurts the hitters waR xyxajfssjr

The #nerds will tell you that this was luck! The knowledgeable baseball people will tell you that it’s skill! BAT TO BALL skills are developed over a lifetime of practice. I’m pretty sure playing whiffle ball during my childhood helped me hit this pitch! #shegone @RedSox @Rangers @notgaetti @BobFile @twuench @billdubs @iamrags @ClintHurdle13 @CRAIG_LAPINER @hittingguru7 @RVGDag @SalMarinello @AMBS_Kernan @artofhitting @CoachMunoz51

@brendancalahan But travel ball coaches who are paid to coach but then charge $70/hr for hitting lessons are ok? I thought paying to get my kid on the team included being coached. I was wrong. Instruction is a separate fee

Ah yes, these grossly overpaid, greedy high school coaches raking in *checks notes* SEVERAL CENTS an hour to give up months of their own time with their families for the benefit of others! About time someone called them out! Next up is those pilfering paras!

@TrustTrost HS coaches aren’t the criminals. The travel organizations are. HS coaches per hour pay is nothing compared to what they give. Travel ball coaches should be put in jail

High school coaches: Paid more than ever. Collecting camp money. Adding a percentage of that pay to their pension - in Illinois. More technology than ever to do their jobs and in most cases, a bigger budget to do things than decades of past. The result: More lazy high school coaches than ever. It’s something I hear consistently from their peers, parents, school leaders and I’ve seen it first hand. They play games with postseason seeding, literally screwing innocent kids. Years ago, high school coaches were volunteers, community leaders - yes leaders off the field - and then smaller stipends started to appear. High school coaches will nail club coaches or trainers saying it’s a business. I don’t see high school coaches doing it for free. In fact, I see high school coaches looking at ways to do things in the offseason. You can’t have it both ways. I also see high school coaches gaming the system as they near retirement, coaching lower levels of some sports they have no business coaching just to collect a check and pad that pension. You can’t have it both ways. I’ve been in and around high schools now nearing my fifth different decade, covering and working with school leaders locally in Illinois and nationally. Just as I say with parents, there are great coaches and there are bad ones. And trust me, you know the great coaches right away. You do - everyone knows this. But in the end, the adults in and around youth and high school sports are the problem. It’s not the kids. High schools need to figure out how to enhance or clean house. I’d rather have an adult who actually cares and knows nothing about the sport than one literally using kids to pad their personal gain. #MoreThanJUSTGames #IHSA

You want to talk toughness? Watch Northeast kids try out for High School Baseball in 30° weather. With numb hands. And still compete every pitch. Cold wind. Hard baseballs. No perfect conditions. Just baseball. No excuses.

@BaseballCentraI Travel ball culture.

Imagine watching a ball that doesn’t even hit the warning track 😭

Travel baseball is the easy path. Your spot is bought. High school baseball is the hard path. Playing time is earned. Serious players want to do hard things. Any kid who prefers travel ball is avoiding the hard path that has to be earned

Parents drive me nuts who’d rather their freshman son sit on varsity or struggle playing vs thriving on JV and developing positive successful habits. The parent and kid just want to say “I’m on varsity “

Cam Schlitter's average velocity freshman year of college at Northeastern was 88.8mph. By his junior year, it was 90.4mph. Last night, it was 98.9mph. So maybe don't worry if your 15-year-old son isn't already committed to a SEC program?

Agree 100% how do you get better at football if you don’t practice football?

@HPBAac Being in bed at 9 to get proper sleep is the commitment coaches are asking the player to make

Maybe an unpopular take but…stop making teenagers wake up at 5am to go lift/workout before school. Unless they’re asleep by 9pm, I promise you that them getting 8 hours of sleep will be more beneficial for them than some 45 minute workout before school.

@EricCressey @CresseySP Year round travel ball. Specialization way too young, 14 year old kids who are PO. But parents don’t want to challenge the idea because they are sold a dream of their little Bobby getting a D1 offer. We know the coaches don’t care about the kids health so it has to be parents

We opened @CresseySP in 2007 and didn't see a Tommy John surgery in our first five years even though we were training dozens - and sometimes hundreds - of baseball players daily. This week, I interacted with two 15-year-olds who've both already had Tommy John. Let that sink in.

@BLocsports I considered returning to coaching and working with catchers specifically. After seeing this is what’s taught now, I opted to stay out of it

This is not receiving with all do respect to this young man. Receiving is being soft and quiet with less movement. This video -he is catching pitches and then yanking them to the same spot in the strikezone. Should we pretend every pitch ends up in the same spot? Not Matty Appr!

No one can convince me travel ball is a positive for the sport or player. 14U teams flying kids in to form a super team at a PG tournament tells me the adults are compensating for their own failures as players.

@shegone03 Ya but the drip looked good and little Johnny earned a new sliding mitt. I hope the coach didn’t yell at the kid cuz his parents will be mad their son was singled out

We are failing these kids #shegone nation! They are more concerned with celebrating than playing the game. Both parents and coaches are to blame. It’s unfortunate that this great achievement by the hitter will forever be tainted because the celebration was more important to the base runner who clearly doesn’t know the rules. What happened to the mentors we all remember who taught us how to behave? Who taught us what was acceptable and what wasn’t. We desperately need them more than ever now! #shegone @JCraigFlowers @notgaetti @BobFile @twuench @billdubs @SliderDominate @ROXSystem @BLocsports @VictorRojas @RVGDag @AMBS_Kernan @SalMarinello @TheRealJHair @DMEASrecruiting @WillClark22 @mikepiazza31 @RealCJ10 @ToddPratt07 @GDBJr5

@shegone03 @gritnj In just a year, thousands of dollars spent and the kid has gone from being on base constantly, stealing bases, scoring runs to constant F-5, F-6, weak 4-3. It kills me cuz I have the answers but can’t speak up over the dad who has bought into this nonsense

@shegone03 @gritnj This has infected travel ball which has enough infections already. But it’s something to sell and create revenue with. My 14yr o stepson is an undersized speed guy who is being taught to swing up and hit fly balls. The dad has bought in and I am at a loss. I literally lose sleep

This won’t last I guarantee it! Hopefully the kid does well but standing on 1 leg and trying to wait out the pitcher is a recipe for disaster. Wanna bet @gritnj #shegone

The negatives of travel ball far outweigh the minimal positives. But the parents are brainwashed and don’t see it. They too far in