New trend in high level pitchers isn’t a singular new pitch. (ie: sweeper, death ball, “seam shift”, etc) It’s having a large arsenal. Like 6+ pitches large. 2-3 high stuff pitches 3-4 average pitches The trend has already started but I bet it amplifies even further in 2025.

Next time you’re finishing up catch play, stay out at 60+ feet and play some rapid fire catch • cleaning up arm action ✅ • cleaning up glove transfer for position players ✅ • command work for everyone ✅ • developing arm speed ✅ • fun ✅ • waterbags ❌🙅‍♂️

Getting in the weight room is a good thing, and you most definitely should train in there. BUT. The strongest, most jacked/shredded person on any given baseball team probably isn’t the best player.

Probably a good idea for position players to train for velo in the offseasons. Can work from pure arm strength to more position specific velo work (ie: time constraints, command, different arm angles)

“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius The only thing in our control to outside events is how we respond to them. There’s no positive use in reacting negatively to something you can’t control. Let it go.

Don’t make excuses for yourself in training but understand there’s many factors at play if you feel great but ultimately didn’t hit a number you wanted to hit. Did you put that days 100% into the session? If yes, great. You did your job. Now go recover.

Lifting for dummies Move body. Move heavy weight. Move heavy weight fast. Move body super fast. Do arms.

National signing day. To all that signed to go play at the next level, congrats. You’ve graduated from being the big fish in a small pond to being a small fish in a big pond. The harder work starts now.

The goal of any drill in your throwing program is to ultimately make the finished product better (competition reps). “Mastering” any drill without it transferring to the end goal does nothing. Moral of the story, use drills appropriately and probably sparingly.

This day and age where instant gratification is everywhere, especially in the youth population. Explaining what delayed gratification is and how embracing it can help us is becoming more and more of a must.

Athletes from high schools (who want to play in college) and up, the goal your training should accomplish is to improve competition performance. How the training looks does not matter. If you got better in the training environment but worse in competition, the training failed.

Too many players and coaches excessively worried about the minutiae. Yeah, dive into the weeds every now and then but don’t make a habit of it. “You can’t see the forest for the trees”

Good days or even a good week doesn’t define the month and offseason Same goes for bad days or weeks. Stack your good days into weeks, and weeks into months. That’s where good offseasons happen. Reflect on bad days and move on, don’t let them ruin a month by fixating on them.

Probably a good idea to get your pitchers fielding and throwing from positions this offseason Light day could be from infield Higher intent day could be from outfield It’s okay to not use “pitching mechanics” when training pitchers We’re all throwers at the end of the day

Coaches planning out the winter development for their athletes, only to put shake bags of water around for everyone

Coaching kids makes you remember words have a huge impact on an athlete. It’s fine line of saying too much or not enough, giving too much information or not enough, using terms that are easily understood or using jargon. Words matter, use them wisely.

Build the culture, set the standards of the group, create buy in, and self correction within the group. Probably the most underrated and easiest things to make your program better and have it stand out from the others.

Now youth coaches, just because Yamamoto did it doesn’t mean your 10u players need to do it.

28 pulldowns later. Throw until you drop. Velo or physically drop.

High high low truthers rejoice! In the first full week of HHL this offseason we’ve hit a new PR. (99) It’s gonna take some time but there will be a video of all the throws I made today during pulldowns. It takes what it takes. Fun side note, Noon Group made shirts!

Stop over using “holistic” when describing your training services Quality coaching will ALWAYS be holistic. Everything matters when coaching athletes Everything influences the whole and the whole influences each part Just cause you say it doesn’t make it better or different