Baseball Outside The Box

  Throughout all of baseball, people, from players to coaches, like to blame others for their wrong doings. Caliendo says, “Coaches, I understand that umpires may make some bad calls, but, if you want to argue that much about their calls, … [Read more...]

Most only try to develop players and how they go about their games, most don’t think that coaches also always need to be developed and trained in new ways. There are always new ways to coaching, especially with the new technology to analyze … [Read more...]

Ryan Harrison talks about the importance of your eyes in baseball. Like hitting, fielding, and pitching, “your eyes should be trained just as much.” “The biggest factor in sight is actually how much you’re thinking. Overthinking can actually … [Read more...]

“Coaches need to stress [the importance of] knowing their players.” Johnson says, “Pitchers will pitch the way they live and its important to know that and you need to coach them accordingly.” He also stresses not to “make an 18 year old … [Read more...]

Baseball in Cuba is much like what you would expect it to be. Most fields are not well-maintained, and the players have little equipment. “But the difference is,” Siler says ,“that Cubans have a love of the game that most kids in the states don’t … [Read more...]

Unlike most sports, in baseball there is a lot of down time to think; a player can be consumed by his or her own mind and not even mean to do it. The one or two plays a player gets during the game can dictate how he or she plays the entire … [Read more...]

In today’s baseball society, most coaches, players, and parents have all separated the physical and mental parts of baseball. As Dr. Hanson says, “baseball is played by humans. It isn’t played by a brain and a body separately. They’re one thing, … [Read more...]