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re: Need advice - coaching a 9-10 Y.O. baseball team
Posted on 2/29/16 at 7:04 pm to AHM21
Posted on 2/29/16 at 7:04 pm to AHM21
Just pray. Often.
If you need serious but concise help, I recommend the Kent Murphy video series on YouTube.
Bunting with Kent Murphy
Right Field with Kent Murphy
Catching with Kent Murphy
First Base with Kent Murphy
2nd Base with Kent Murphy
etc.
If you need serious but concise help, I recommend the Kent Murphy video series on YouTube.
Bunting with Kent Murphy
Right Field with Kent Murphy
Catching with Kent Murphy
First Base with Kent Murphy
2nd Base with Kent Murphy
etc.
Posted on 2/29/16 at 7:44 pm to AHM21
If you go in with the right attitude and willing to work you can do it. I bet I played less baseball than you and I was able to coach successful teams at this age and the next few years.
Some tips:
1- put the work in before practices to structure them so that each kid gets the maximum reps. As people said above - avoid having the majority of kids standing around while 1or 2 hit or catch at a time.
2- look on the net and ask experienced coaches for drills that maximize the time every kid is catching, throwing and hitting.
3- if you have a draft, bring your (girlfriend's) kid to tell you who can play if you can pull it off. Also, if the director is really short of coaches tell him you'll do it but you expect him to make sure you don't get screwed in the draft.
4- communicate your philosophy and expectations to the parents and kids before the season, preferably in a nice succicintly written handout. Put in there practice time, your goals (mine were to play the best baseball we can, to win as many games as we can and to have as much fun as we can). Put that you are available to talk to anyone at times which are NOT during practices or games, that you Will listen but that there can only be one person making the final decisions about positions, playing time, etc and that for better or worse that is you.
5- if leads/ base running is allowed, teach it and do it until teams can stop it regularly
6- End practices with a running drill. I liked a relay race after splitting the team evenly for speed - 1 team circling the bases clockwise, the other counterclockwise. Send them away tired but happy. If you have a really energetic team start practices with running too.
7- if you have parents that just can't avoid "giving advice". Put them to work throwing BP, hitting fungous, etc.
Some tips:
1- put the work in before practices to structure them so that each kid gets the maximum reps. As people said above - avoid having the majority of kids standing around while 1or 2 hit or catch at a time.
2- look on the net and ask experienced coaches for drills that maximize the time every kid is catching, throwing and hitting.
3- if you have a draft, bring your (girlfriend's) kid to tell you who can play if you can pull it off. Also, if the director is really short of coaches tell him you'll do it but you expect him to make sure you don't get screwed in the draft.
4- communicate your philosophy and expectations to the parents and kids before the season, preferably in a nice succicintly written handout. Put in there practice time, your goals (mine were to play the best baseball we can, to win as many games as we can and to have as much fun as we can). Put that you are available to talk to anyone at times which are NOT during practices or games, that you Will listen but that there can only be one person making the final decisions about positions, playing time, etc and that for better or worse that is you.
5- if leads/ base running is allowed, teach it and do it until teams can stop it regularly
6- End practices with a running drill. I liked a relay race after splitting the team evenly for speed - 1 team circling the bases clockwise, the other counterclockwise. Send them away tired but happy. If you have a really energetic team start practices with running too.
7- if you have parents that just can't avoid "giving advice". Put them to work throwing BP, hitting fungous, etc.
Posted on 2/29/16 at 8:18 pm to AHM21
quote:
The coach that we had last year was awful and we went 0-19 while keeping only one opponent within 5 runs
No way you could possibly do worse than this. So go for it.
Posted on 2/29/16 at 8:59 pm to CaptainBrannigan
do it. i took over coaching duties of my little brother's team when the original coach quit on them after starting 0-3. we went 12-2 the rest of the way and i'd have to admit i had as much, if not more, fun coaching those kids than any year i played.
Posted on 2/29/16 at 9:02 pm to AHM21
Does the league drug test? Cause if not...
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