VOLfrombama
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I coach my sons 9-10 baseball team. We lost last night 15-1. I blamed myself post game, but really our kids suck. We had 4 pitchers walk a total of 13 kids. I have worked with them for weeks now on hitting the strike zone. All 4 of them did it well in practice. As soon as we got under the lights it’s like they forgot what to do. I even had to bench my son because he wasn’t mentally there. So what you’re all saying is that was all my fault and had nothing to do with execution. Got it.
This is a badly coached team with players who make critical errors at the worst time possible. It is really news that they cant get along? JP is a mistake, but we have already started over too many times. We must just take the pain for 2-3 years. AS bad as that sounds, it is the best way forward. JG has never been the same since he was trucked in the Mo game last year... No confidence since then- it is time to play the young guy and start getting better.
we work on techniques and consistency mostly. , how you hold the ball, foot placement, leg kick, and arm motion/finish. If you can get them to do it the same way every time, they become much more consistent. We actually had some coaches from Samford U (Casey Dunn is the most famous one) come and show us some things that I had no idea were so important. So we as parents/coaches learned basic technique for hitting, pitching, and running bases. then we do the same drills with the kids.I have a serious question for you. How do you develop your pitchers in practice? What all do the pitchers do in practice?
we work on techniques and consistency mostly. , how you hold the ball, foot placement, leg kick, and arm motion/finish. If you can get them to do it the same way every time, they become much more consistent. We actually had some coaches from Samford U (Casey Dunn is the most famous one) come and show us some things that I had no idea were so important. So we as parents/coaches learned basic technique for hitting, pitching, and running bases. then we do the same drills with the kids.
They dont allow live pitching during practices. It’s a safety thing according to the league, pitching net be derned. So this is the next best thing we can do.
We do everything else you mentioned, including scrimmage, the problem is they have a hard pitch count (60 per 48 hours) so we are really limited on how much we can work with them. Scrimmage pitches count too. So we scrimmage Saturday and play Tuesday night. We can average 2 innings per kid assuming he can throw strikes
I also have 4 kids that can pitch at all. The rest aren’t good enough. This is all but one of the kids first season to pitch, so we are starting from the bottom. Its really painful to watch.
We have 6 games left and 3 scrimmages. Thanks for the input.
We couldnt the first year ...can you really coach a 7/8 girls' softball team?