MANAGING PLAYING TIME
Managing the playing time of your players is one of the most important jobs you have as a youth coach. Outside of whatever your league rules are in regards to playing time, you have a [...]
BASEBALL SCRIMMAGE STRUCTURE
We want to scrimmage at the end of most every practice. It is important to remember that kids age 5-12 sign up to PLAY baseball and softball, not to practice. They understand that practicing skills [...]
NuStarz Baseball with Battitude Video
ANYONE CAN ENTER, ONLY ONE WILL WIN Our annual Endurance Challenge takes place at the end of the year and is open to any member of the Avada Gym. Got what it [...]
Youth Hitting Drills
Place different colored baseballs in a bucket on the pitcher’s mound and choose a player to practice hitting. Without the batter seeing the color of the ball, have the pitcher select a ball from the [...]
Youth Player Development Approach
Baseball? Hmmmmmm.....yes, there are bases, and the players are hitting the ball with a bat, but really, Tee-Ball is a bunch of kids in the park playing a different version of tag. Sports, especially baseball, [...]
BASEBALL PITCHING AIDES
There are many different baseball pitching training aids that are available right now. So many, in fact, that most people would say there are way too many out there, and most of them promise huge [...]