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One gave me a shot and the other a PACK and home🤘🤘the 2026 World Champions and NYS AA Champions were unmistakably similar. Relentless wear down the opposing pitcher team at bats, dominate shut down pitching, and a bunch of “GAMERS” that knew their roles and took pride in them🤘
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I asked an MLB player what he wishes he knew earlier about hitting.
“Feel-good BP is backwards. You’re wanting to feel good when it doesn’t matter and you have a false sense of 'being ready'"
"Get your routine in. Then challenge yourself in the box every single day."
"Nobody’s ever gotten a hit that counts in a cage."
"All those barrels off a 47 mph fastball stay there. What comes with you is how you trained your eyes, your decisions, and your path at game speed.”
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I don’t have all the answers but I love baseball because of the ups and downs and constant grind. So here’s some thoughts for the “X hitting” war that is going on right now.
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Elite hitters walk in the box with 1 or 2 thoughts. Most hitters bring 8.
Grip, stance, hands, Dad’s tip, coach’s tip, don’t pull off. All real stuff. It just doesn’t belong in the box.
Here’s how I split it up with my hitters:
In the cage: Pick 2 things. A target and a feel.
On deck and in the box: Know the count and the outs. Time up the pitcher so you’re ready to fire. Then get a pitch you can drive.
If one of the 6 sneaks back in: Step out, breathe, say your pitch to yourself again.
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Your spring role is being earned right now.
Stack good days. Get stronger. Earn your coach’s trust. Become someone your teammates can count on.
Consistent work compounds.
October habits have a way of showing up in April. ⚾️
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Congrats Colin BeVard on this great honor. Thank you Coach Brown!! 🤘⚾️ThePACK⚾️🤘@CortBaseball
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One of the most dangerous lies in youth sports:
“He’s only 15. He has plenty of time.”
He does have time.
But time alone develops nobody.
Bad habits compound.
Weak standards harden.
Excuses become identity.
You don’t need to panic.
You don’t need to specialize 12 months a year.
But you do need to start building the body, skills, routines and mindset the future version of you will require.
Potential doesn’t disappear overnight.
It leaks away, one comfortable day at a time.
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FALL BALL is canceled today, Thursday, September 17th. We will lift at 3:00. See you this afternoon. 🤘⚾️ThePACK⚾️🤘
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STATE CHAMPIONS on the field and Highest GPA in baseball program history!! Great job PACK!! Student-athletes🤘⚾️📚🏆📚⚾️🤘 @ABCA1945
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Great example of how to aggressively run the bases:
• Be active w/ your lead
• Look for an advantage
• 100% commitment
⭐️ Expert runners study the pitcher long before they get on base. How many looks is he giving? How long is he holding? How quick is he to the plate?
The moment history was made. Chairs up for #2 Tanner Recchio🪑 @RecchioTanner @GopherBaseball @NWLbaseball
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Can’t throw and catch at an elite level… you can’t play. After coaching 35 years at HS level, I estimate 3 to 5% are elite throwers. Yet it you ask the HS players, they will say “50% are elite throwers.”
Big disconnect as to what an “elite thrower” looks like and what an elite thrower can do!
How do you know if you are close to an elite thrower? You should be able to execute a comprehensive catch play routine for 20 minutes and not throw a single ball away. Not one bad throw and/or miss. Period. And 80% or more of your throws hit your partner in his/her chest. Between the shoulders.
The vast majority have no catch play routine and spend a fraction of that time playing “fetch.”
Players.
How you warm up before a practice or game tells scouts and recruiters a lot about you.
Simply watching you play catch is very important.
Throwing and catching are the most important aspects of playing the game at a high level.
Move your feet, create momentum, use your front side, get your head over your front foot and throw something you would want to catch.
Be great at throwing and catching and you will have an advantage over your competition.
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My favorite memory as an athlete didn’t happen during my professional baseball career.
It happened in a tiny gym in Elkland, Pennsylvania.
Baseball gave me opportunities I never could have imagined growing up in a one stoplight, small town.
But nothing ever meant more to me than my senior basketball season. 🏀
We were blue-collar kids chasing something our program had never accomplished.
We practiced at 5:00 every morning.
Then we went to school and came back to practice again after school.
No shortcuts.
No excuses.
No attention.
Just a group of kids working as hard as we possibly could for one singular goal:
Win the first district championship in program history.
We went 27-1.
We won that championship.
And in the third round of the state tournament, our season ended in a three-overtime loss.
More than 20 years later, I can still feel that final buzzer.
The exhaustion.
The silence.
The pain of realizing it was over.
Baseball eventually took me much further as an athlete.
But I never found anything that could replace what it felt like to chase something with those guys.
Young athletes:
Someday, you won’t remember every stat.
But you’ll remember the teammates who stood beside you.
The bus rides.
The locker room.
The early mornings you thought you hated.
You’ll remember giving everything you had to something bigger than yourself.
Don’t rush through it.
Don’t waste it.
One day, you would give anything to walk into that gym with those guys one more time. @ntlathletics
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Players
You may have to put your so called best life on hold if you want to be the best athlete and baseball player you can be.
But if you really want to be the best.
Your best life is chasing it.
Because you love it.
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Upperclassmen
It's your team.
Your job is to be a leader.
Help the younger guys.
Your role is not to be the cool guy that makes the underclassmen miserable.
Represent yourself, your parents, your coaches, and your program the right way.
Show the underclassmen they can trust you.
Your team will either overachieve or underachieve because of your ability or inability to lead.
Immature selfish upperclassmen destroy teams and programs.
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Congratulations Colin Crinnin on being selected 1st TEAM ALL STATE!! 🤘⚾️ThePACK⚾️🤘@Colin_Crinnin
