Goals for this Season

I like winning. Who doesn't. Part of why we play sports is to test ourselves against others, push ourselves, and win.

Coaching youth baseball is tricky, because on the one hand, I want to win. The kids say they want to win. But what the kids really want to do is play shortstop or pitch. Everyone says they want to win, but the important thing at this stage is teaching the kids so that they can play, and knowing that there will be times during the season when it is more important to let kids play different positions than to put your top players in critical positions.

My goal this season is to have every kid on the team learn the skills needed to play infield and outfield. I want them to be able to field ground balls, make the throw across the diamond, catch pop ups and fly balls, field outfield grounders and hit the cutoff man, and catch fly balls.

I want to teach a few kids how to pitch, instead of just throw the ball, and have one or two kids who are brave enough and skilled enough to play catcher.