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re: My Non-travel ball playing nephew just made the HS baseball team
Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:14 pm to slackster
Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:14 pm to slackster
quote:Complete opposite experience on my end. The high school program in my area is very good. One of the best in the area. But that's because of the players. The coach is a hot-headed jackass.
In my own experience, the guys who were going to get personal instruction on the side while in high school had psycho parents and they were the epitome of all that is wrong with the travel ball culture. The parents didn't think the coaches were doing enough so they went out and found someone who would gladly take their money to dick around for an hour twice a week.
If you're at a good high school program and you're going to training on the side, you're probably going to piss off your high school coaches and rightfully so. If what you're getting from them isn't good enough, don't play.
The hitting coach at the baseball academy we went to in Houston is a former Astros hitting coach. These are real professionals.
Some MLB players like Carl Crawford go there for instruction during the summer. It was common to wait for Carl Crawford or Michael Bourn to get done with their lesson and you were up next. These aren't people who would take your money and "dick around" for an hour. The hitting coach was good to the point to where he could notice what you were doing wrong right away, calmly get you to fix it, and all of a sudden you can hit the ball again. He is really really good.
They are way more knowledgeable than your local high school coach.
This post was edited on 6/1/16 at 12:21 pm
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:22 pm to PrimeTime Money
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These aren't people who would take your money and "dick around" for an hour. The hitting coach was good to the point to where he could notice what you were doing wrong right away, calmly get you to fix it, and all of a sudden you can hit the ball again. He is really really good. They are way more knowledgeable than your local high school coach.
At an elite level academy, I can see it, but there are a ton of these guys running around the southeast changing up the mechanics of hitters and pitchers left and right and high school coaches are left to deal with the aftermath. I would have no qualms about a coach who instituted a rule about no outside instruction for his program to be honest. It's not worth the headache IMO.
If you want to practice on your own, be my guest. If you want to have your hitting coach consult with your high school coach, I can live with it. But the rest of that outside stuff rubs me the wrong way.
I probably sound like I'm some high school coach myself but I'm just relaying the experiences I had in high school and with guys I played with on travel teams and what not.
On another anecdotal tangent, I find the more people discuss their kid's hitting coach or pitching coach, the more likely their kid is to suck compared to his peers, or at the very least be a headcase to deal with when you include the parents.
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