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Key Tips for Beginner Gamechanger Scorekeepers
Accurate scorekeeping is essential for tracking player development, managing pitch counts, and ensuring fair play. For coaches, parents, and volunteers using GameChanger across Arkansas youth baseball leagues, keeping an accurate book makes a world of difference. Here are four essential best practices every scorekeeper should master. 1. Verify Batters and Pitchers Continuously Always confirm that…
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Inside Baseball’s Biggest Secrets: Jeff Passan on Ohtani, Lockouts, and the Youth Arm Epidemic
When ESPN MLB Insider Jeff Passan sits down to talk baseball, you listen. In a recent episode of All the Smoke Baseball, Passan peeled back the curtain on some of the sport’s most pressing issues, from blockbuster trades that almost happened to the alarming trends sweeping through youth travel ball. Here are the key takeaways…
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Respect the Calendar: The Real Secret to Managing Baseball Parents
A lot of coaches think parent drama stems entirely from playing time. Sure, that is part of it. But here is the reality: you cannot lock yourself into rigid promises about batting orders or defensive rotations in February anyway. You might change your mind in May. A player’s effort might drop, or a better strategy…
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The Umpire is Not the Enemy: A Coach’s Guide to Working with the Blue
It’s a scene that plays out at ballparks every weekend: a close play at the plate, a borderline strike three, and suddenly a coach is flying out of the dugout. But if we want to develop good baseball players and upstanding young men, that old-school approach of treating the umpire like an adversary has to…