Sam wrote:The dirty little secret here is that there are at least as many travel coaches who have trouble finding their a$$ with both hands as there are HS coaches with the same affliction. You would be surprised at what we see during tryouts and during the season from travel players. We have to teach proper fielding of ground and fly balls, creeping during the pitch, taking leads from bases, tagging on fly balls, rounding bases on hits to OF, proper throwing technique,.....it goes on and on.
I don't work with hitters' techniques if they have an instructor, nor do I work pitcher mechanics...though I do tell the player to talk to their instructors about specific problems they are experiencing.
Bottom Line: There are a lot of over-promoted rec ball coaches out there in TB right now who are retraining your kids to suck.
right on Sam!!! I like the referring them back to their coaches
