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Student of The Game

Doc Gooden And The Unconscious Mind.

If you got anything out of this post, I'd love to hear your feedback. Until you make your unconscious conscious, it will direct you and you will call it fate. -

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Coaching Advice

Hitting Philosophy

Train like a pro. Play like a kid.

From Willy Mays, we learned an important lesson... When we practice like a professional and play like a kid, good things happen. This, in essence, is the way to never stop getting

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Hitting Tips & Tricks

Swing Mechanics

It takes a village to raise a ballplayer.

If you have talent, but your talent isn't showing up on the field, I can guarantee you it's about mindset. Mental toughness can be learned through failure. More specifically, the lessons

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Motivational Advice

You Lost The Baseball Game?

Big Whoop. You can pull a ball and hit it over the fence. Who cares? That and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee. By a cup of coffee, I don’t

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Baseball Vision

Hitting Philosophy

The umpire was blind…

A fickle finger of fate... That's what we call things that are outside of our control. For example…a bad umpire. I once had an umpire who was not only blind as a bat

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Coaching Advice

Hitting Philosophy

Crush Your Enemy

Here's one lesson I learned during my baseball career. "You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry…" Get my drift? One day, it'll be your last day playing baseball. It could

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Motivational Advice

Mental Errors on Defense.

G'mornin. To play with the big boys, we gotta play the hand were dealt. While facing a pitcher, this means swinging at the strikes we're given. Sometimes, when we strike out, we don't strike

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Swing Mechanics are Overrated.

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Motivational Advice

Swing Mechanics are Overrated.

G'mornin. I've seen hitters with swings sloppier than a soup sandwich but still thrived in the batter's box because they had superior pitch recognition skills and the belief that they could beat

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Break these baseball rules.

Hitting Philosophy

Motivational Advice

Break these baseball rules.

If I had a dollar for every time someone emailed me last week about how they can see the ball better out of the pitcher's hand... ...I'd have 5 bucks. Yup. I counted

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Baseball doesn't have to be scary.

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Hitting Tips & Tricks

Baseball doesn’t have to be scary.

Understand. You can't walk up to the plate with your hitting coach in your back pocket. The moment you step into the batter's box, it's time to compete. You can't be

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