Coach Caliendo and Reggie Smith in Vancouver Canada for the ISG Baseball/BC
Baseball coaches conference. They sit down for over an hour to discuss
players development at the young levels as well as the professional level.
A major discussion is about how to take what you do in practice and transfer
it into a real game situation without thinking about it.
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Many areas are covered such as:
* Importance of being organized
* How important is knowing the player
* Personalizing training
* Pride: Personal, Responsibility In Daily Endeavors
* Young players playing to many games and not enough practicing
* Training in Japan
* What is different now then when Reggie coached with the Dodgers
* Discuss Launch Angles
* Hitting away from the shift, Reggie says it can be done if you train
properly
* Think: Truthful, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary and Kind.
* Importance of Scouting players and using analytics
* How you teach the different levels of players
* Dynamic of who is ready to move up the system
Reggie Smith <https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
Smith in 1969
Right fielder <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
fielder <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Born: April 2, 1945 (age 73)
Shreveport, Louisiana <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Batted: Switch
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 18, 1966, for the Boston Red Sox
Last MLB appearance
October 3, 1982, for the San Francisco Giants
MLB statistics
Batting average <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Home runs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Runs batted in <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Teams
* Boston Red Sox <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* St. Louis Cardinals
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* Los Angeles Dodgers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* San Francisco Giants
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* Yomiuri Giants <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Career highlights and awards
* 7× All-Star
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1972
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1974
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1975
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1977
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1978
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1980
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* World Series <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
(1981 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* Gold Glove Award <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
(1968)
* Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Carl Reginald Smith (born April 2, 1945) is an American
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
baseball <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Major League Baseball <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
as an outfielder <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
served as a coach <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
front office executive. He also played in the Nippon Professional Baseball
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
seasons at the end of his playing career. During a seventeen-year major
league career (1966-1982), Smith appeared in 1,987 games, hit 314 home runs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
switch-hitter <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
right-handed. In his prime, he had one of the strongest throwing arms of any
outfielder in the big leagues. Smith played at least 70 games in 13
different seasons, and in every one of those 13 seasons, his team had a
winning record.
Contents
* 1 Playing career <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* 2 Coaching career <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* 3 See also <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* 4 References <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
* 5 External links <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Playing career[edit
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Smith grew up in Los Angeles. He won the International League
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
with a .320 average while playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
He was called up to the major leagues late in that season and played for the
Boston Red Sox <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
St. Louis Cardinals <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
(1974-76), Los Angeles Dodgers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Francisco Giants <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
(1982). Smith appeared in four World Series
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1967 season <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Sox, and three (1977 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
1978 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
three home runs in the 1977 series.
In the 1978 season, Dodger pitcher Don Sutton
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Smith was a more valuable player to the Dodgers than the more-celebrated
Steve Garvey <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
infamous clubhouse wrestling match between Sutton and Garvey.
In the 1981 season as a member of the Dodgers, Smith was taunted by Giants
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
who then threw a batting helmet at him. Smith then jumped into the stands at
Candlestick Park <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
started punching him. He was ejected from the game, and Dooley was
arrested.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
later, Smith joined the Giants as a free agent
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Francisco, then moved on to Japan with the Yomiuri Giants
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
retiring in 1984 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Coaching career[edit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/in
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After his playing career ended, Smith rejoined the Dodgers, where he served
as a coach <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Lasorda <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
development official.
Smith became involved with USA Baseball in 1999 as hitting coach on the 1999
Professional Team at the Pan American Games
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
served as USA hitting coach in the 2000 Olympic Games
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
home Gold. He also served as hitting coach for the 2007IBAF Baseball World
Cup <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
coach for Team USA during the 2006 World Baseball Classic
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
hitting coach for the Bronze medal winning USA Baseball Olympic team at the
2008 Summer Olympics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
in Beijing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Smith runs a baseball academy in Encino, California
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
players, including Austin Wilson
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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