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    How is JV high school ball supposed to work?

    Dad, would you mind sharing why you feel the experience was sour?
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    Request for situational video.

    Google wasn't my friend. Does anyone have a video that shows a runner going first to third on a run-and-bunt, where the play on the bunter goes to first but the 3B coverage is either blown or too slow to catch the speedy runner who rounded 2B in a dead sprint for 3B? PM if you wish. Link if...
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    Fundraising and cuts.

    ...... No option to delete post. Sorry.
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    Practical hitting question.

    Eric/Chris: Her HS workouts are under way and she is a senior. She has played TB since the early days. School conferences are based on enrollment numbers and we are grouped with the big schools. It is a strong region for travel ball and those kids make up the HS rosters in our conference. At...
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    Practical hitting question.

    I should add that being a LH hitter figures in significantly to this thread IMO. She knows very well from experience that she will see a far higher percentage of away pitches than the general population. This has proven to be true time and again and doesn't seem to make much difference when...
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    Practical hitting question.

    RD, that is one approach and I'd like to actually expose all three approaches that she uses routinely and then expand on those. 1. Hit the pitch hard where to the field that it was pitched. 2. Hit the pitch back up the middle. 3. Hit the ball to left field Beginning with #1 above, RDB I...
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    Practical hitting question.

    LH non-slapper is a line drive hitter. Routinely hits up the middle or at least middle 1/3 of field gap to gap. She also has an uncanny ability to hit for base hits or doubles at will to the left 1/3 of the outfield (oppo). VERY high BA and can literally put any pitch in the strike zone to...
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    Should HS seniors EVER play JV?

    Thank you all for the input. It is no wonder that the subject is a bit controversial. Just look at how many and varied the opinions are in this thread. Osric, I would have pegged you as HS coaching staff even if you hadn't said so up front. Your responses and perspective are particularly...
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    Should HS seniors EVER play JV?

    It was no problem putting their talent on jV as a frosh, soph, and Jr. Are you saying to go ahead and place them on jV as a senior too? Three years of school ball after weak rec league growing up doesn't make a senior nearly the player that some of the underclassmen with 6-7 years of tb are...
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    Should HS seniors EVER play JV?

    This is a follow up on a thread I started a while back about improving a HS team. Other coaches in the program: "Seniors are never on the JV team. That has always been the tradition." Me: "In the history of the program there has never been a single winning season. THAT has been the...
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    Advice for turning a HS program around.

    So, pitching, pitching, and pitching seems to be the recurring theme. The school has several pitchers for this year. Most have been with PC's for years. None have dominant velocity so strikeouts will be fairly rare with the competition on our schedule, but four of them are pretty decent and...
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    Advice for turning a HS program around.

    Hello. I have been asked to AC a HS team for this year. HC of 5 years is very open to ideas/suggestions. She has made real improvements over time. Current AC's are young and energetic, and they need another. The challenge as I see it is to take a program with a long history of losing and...
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    What level are we?

    At the young ages when teams roster twelve, the bottom third almost always takes care of the churning process. Many many teams post the same add every single year: "Looking to add a few talented players to our great 'core' of girls." LOL!
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    Playing up, Up, UP

    Just some more food for thought Me &MBM. It has already been established that there is little to be gained by beating up on inferior oppponants. Keep in mind that once you get rolled by double digits a couple of times, the competition adapts. Take into account that after a couple of...
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    Playing up, Up, UP

    The coaching staff may have good intentions, but they are overthinking this one. Losing (all the time) begets losing. The kids get accustomed to it and it becomes who they are as a team. They start saying things like "we suck." Does "we suck" sound like "fun?" This story smacks of coaching...
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