Latest Youthbaseball Podcast Episodes
CYB 084: Are They Laughing at You Yet?
Coaching Youth Baseball - April 18, 2024 20:05 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHave you been brave enough to bring up kid friendly modifations and variations to your local youth baseball leaders and travel ball coaches? Often new ideas are met with laughter and little interest. If they are not laughing at you then maybe it is time to step up your game and get prodding. Peo...
CYB 083: Are We Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
Coaching Youth Baseball - April 04, 2024 20:31 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIf we know the problems and issues then we can analyze the situations and find solid solutions that make the problems somewhat go away. Here we look at our known problems in youth baseball development and match solutions to fix them. Question: Are our youth ballplayers “getting their work in?” N...
CYB 082: What if I Had a 10 yr old Ballplayer
Coaching Youth Baseball - March 20, 2024 20:53 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsSomeone asked me recently, “Hey Coach Dave, What would you do in youth baseball if your son was 10 years old?” So, here is the six things that I would use to analyze the situation and come up with my answers. What is the best-practice methods and systems to help your kids maneuver through youth ...
CYB 081 Have We Been Duped?
Coaching Youth Baseball - February 21, 2024 20:58 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsYouth baseball leagues and travel tournament industry has a for-profit business model. And the models work very well to make money at our kids expense. Do you understand the business model? Once you know their methods then we soon realize the maybe, just maybe we have been duped. Come listen to ...
CYB 80: Measure Twice and Cut Once
Coaching Youth Baseball - February 01, 2024 21:08 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWood working carpenters have a saying, “Measure Twice – Cut Once”. Obviously the take away here is to slow down and carefully calculate your measuring prior to sawing a piece of wood. Careless measuring can cause a bad cut and a wasted piece of wood. We carry this same metaphor into youth baseba...
CYB 079: The Word of the Year: Baseball "Practice"
Coaching Youth Baseball - January 16, 2024 20:55 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWho needs to practice? What do we do during practice? When should we practice? Where can we practice? Why do we need to practice? Finally, how do practice? We are going to put the pedal to the medal this year and promote baseball practice this year. So, buckle up, here we go into all the reasons...
CYB 078: It Only Took Me 25 Years to Learn This
Coaching Youth Baseball - December 20, 2023 21:47 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsI have been working in baseball my whole life and in youth baseball for the last 25 years or more. I have always been perplexed at the lack of desire in the vast majority of youth baseball coaches in learning how to run better practices. And it just hit me the reason why coaches shy away from le...
CYB 077 #1 Thing Baseball Coaches Can Do for Their Players
Coaching Youth Baseball - November 13, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThere are certain skill sets that are beneficial for players to have in order to survive the game of baseball longer. Listen in and hear what you as coaches can focus on to help prep your players for the long haul. When you have a bunch of weapons in your arsenal you have lots more opportuniti...
CYB 076 How to Convert to High Tempo Baseball Player Development
Coaching Youth Baseball - October 23, 2023 20:28 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWe want to play less games and practice more with our youth baseball teams. But we are not sure how to put High Tempo Baseball to action. We are not sure our facilities will be able to provide enough practice times for our baseball teams. Well, this is the episode to tune in to and take a look a...
CYB 076 How to Convert to High Tempo Baseball Practice
Coaching Youth Baseball - October 23, 2023 20:28 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWe want to play less games and practice more with our youth baseball teams. But we are not sure how to put High Tempo Baseball to action. We are not sure our facilities will be able to provide enough practice times for our baseball teams. Well, this is the episode to tune in to and take a look a...
CYB 075: Player Development: The Big Lie
Coaching Youth Baseball - October 16, 2023 13:15 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhen we ask the ‘Big People’ how important is baseball player development to you? The response is overwhelmingly something like, “Yes, we are all about player development—definitely our #1 goal for our youth baseball players”. But, when we drill down and look at the body or work all we do is pla...
CYB 074: Baseball Practice, Practice, Practice
Coaching Youth Baseball - September 28, 2023 19:34 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhat would youth baseball look like if every single coach had a coaching guide that teaches them how to be in line with 100% concentration on player development? And, totally in on helping and preparing the most kids to reach the high school baseball funnel? Well, we might just have the tools to...
CYB 073 System is Not Going to Change But Here is an Off-Ramp
Coaching Youth Baseball - September 07, 2023 21:17 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsYouth baseball has a system in place whether it is local Rec-Leagues, All-Stars or Tournament Travel Ball on the weekends. These models are etched in stone and not going away. The question is if someone wants to opt out of this system and is there another off-ramp to get off the freeway? Well, l...
CYB 072 Report Card Time Yes Baseball Coaches Are Graded
Coaching Youth Baseball - August 03, 2023 20:39 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWe dive into some areas of your ballclubs season and do some assessment of what went pretty good during the season and maybe some areas that need some attention as we go into our next season. We look at five areas of importance and give our coaching selves a school yard grade and then we check...
CYB 071: Travel Ball: Truth or Myth? Chipper Jones Weighs In
Coaching Youth Baseball - July 12, 2023 20:27 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsFirst, we listen to an audio from HOF’er Chipper Jones on his take on youth baseball. We then look at travel baseball and discuss some topics to see if it is truth or myth. And then we talk about various possible youth baseball options to try to make our youth baseball experience make more sense...
CYB 070: The Only Way to Change Youth Baseball is to Change Youth Baseball
Coaching Youth Baseball - June 29, 2023 19:34 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsListen in to real life stories about the issues youth basebll coaches are experiencing as they deal with the “Big-people” in youth baseball today. Are kids really enjoying all the adult domination and drama? Doubt it. Listen in to hear Dave’s take on the problems and what might be a good way to ...
CYB 069: I Barely See 17u 18u Baseball Teams
Coaching Youth Baseball - June 09, 2023 19:58 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhat happens to kids when they reach the upper levels of high school? Are there Very many if any summer ball team options? Listen in with Dave as he dissects the timeline of kids playing baseball and how baseball starts running out of gas when kids reach 17 & 18. And then we get into how youth...
CYB 068: Youth Baseball: Rather Play Ballgames OR Have a Baseball Practice?
Coaching Youth Baseball - May 16, 2023 20:20 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsEver wonder why we constantly play ballgames but rarely if ever have baseball practices? Ya, me too. Let us take a look at why we are so enamored by the ballgames and go to great lengths to play ballgames but blow off opportunities to have team practices. Who is at fault? The ‘Big-people’ (adult...
CYB 067: Develop 8 OR Develop One?
Coaching Youth Baseball - May 02, 2023 20:33 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsEver imagined what youth baseball might look like when we focus on everyone else besides the pitchers. What if we tried to develop the other eight players and the hitters and leave the pitchers on the sidelines. Can you visualize the amount of action, at-bats, fielding tries, baserunning turns, ...
CYB 66: You Go As Far as Your Bat Takes You
Coaching Youth Baseball - April 19, 2023 20:19 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHitting is a huge skill to try and master. Coaches must be able to build a culture of hitting on your teams. The ability to hit will increase the players longevity for sure. The kids that hit the best usually play the longest and have more enjoyment playing ball. Listen in to hear Dave’s conve...
CYB 065: How Non-Baseball 'Big People' Stymie Player Development
Coaching Youth Baseball - March 27, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhere are the baseball “experts’? Where are the player development gurus? Why do we rely on non-baseball people to write the script, set up systems, make the rules, set up the programs and administer youth baseball policies? This is the discussion today when we look into the inter workings of yo...
CYB 064: Do You Know the 'Elephant in the Room?'
Coaching Youth Baseball - March 20, 2023 19:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhat is it that slows down the baseball development of our kids? What is it that makes youth baseball so slow paced, lacks action, and dampens the enjoyment level? Well Dave discusses the ‘elephant in the room’ and give us a way to change the way we develop ball players. Coach and Play Baseball....
CYB 063 Youth Baseball World is 'Stuck on Stupid'
Coaching Youth Baseball - February 23, 2023 22:42 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsToday’s youth baseball world is afflicted with the notion that we have to play ‘Real Baseball’. We have a better system to allow for increased action, more player development reps, more freedom for players to interact and more enjoyment for playing baseball. The ‘Big-people’ are often so ‘stuck ...
CYB 062: Are We REALLY Developing Players?
Coaching Youth Baseball - February 09, 2023 22:20 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsTake a listen to this list of current youth baseball status topics and see if you are seeing the same things I am seeing. Asking the question, “Are our kids REALLY receiving the developmental skills needed at this age to become fundamentally sound ball players and gain a high level of enjoyment ...
CYB 61 FOMO Sucks the Enjoyment Out of Youth Baseball
Coaching Youth Baseball - January 25, 2023 21:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsChances are you are a youth baseball parent that has experienced the FOMO. Yes, we all want the best for our kids in youth baseball but we do need to put up some bumper guards to make sure we don’t go off the rails into extreme fear that we might be missing out. Jump in and listen as Dave goes...
CYB 60 How to Bring the Joy Back to Mudville
Coaching Youth Baseball - January 12, 2023 21:39 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsLet us go over and talk about a few ways that the ‘Big-people’ are notorious about stripping the joy from the ballplayers. Yes, the ‘Big-people’ have a lot to say about how much enjoyment we have in youth baseball. Here are 6 ways to help remind us how we can increase the enjoyment level for our...
CYB 059: Turtles Cant Go Anywhere Until Its Head Sticks Out
Coaching Youth Baseball - November 02, 2022 21:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWho will be the first to convert their entire league format to Accelerated Baseball Development? Most of us just follow the herd and keep doing what everyone else does even though we sense that something is not right. We just will not stick our neck out of the turtle shell and go anywhere. Her...
CYB 058: Did You Tell em I've Got Your Back?
Coaching Youth Baseball - October 17, 2022 19:53 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHave you as one of the ‘big-people’ made it known to your kids and players that they are “allowed” to mess up? Yep, players are going to fail from time to time and we expect that. It is very important to talk to your kids about the difficulty of playing baseball well and there will be times of t...
CYB 057 The Baseball Road to Nowhere
Coaching Youth Baseball - September 15, 2022 20:37 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhere does the baseball road end for most youth ballplayers? Well it varies for sure. Dave take’s a look back to his kids that he worked with over the recent years and checks in to see where they are at. How many made it to high school baseball, or college level baseball? The game is very diffic...
CYB: 056 Fifty (50) At-Bats Per Week
Coaching Youth Baseball - September 06, 2022 19:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe template and format for Accelerated Baseball Development is now available for everyone in youth baseball and softball. This action packed, kid-friendly youth baseball practice system and competitive games formats is in a coaching course format for easy consumption for all youth baseball coac...
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