A question that often comes up from coaches and parents of a good high school baseball player is how can I get my son or star player noticed by scouts. This is a very good question when you consider how difficult it can be for great players to get attention from college coaches and scouts. For this reason, I have put together a list of tips that can help you increase the chances that your player will get noticed:
1. Have the kid go to a professional major league try out in your state soon. This provides some exposure and allows him to get tested in a control environment for running, arm speed, hitting, etc.
2. Start to build a videotape of his performance for next couple of years. These tapes can be consolidated and sent to college coaches and/or major league scouts.
3. Send a letter introducing the player to area scouts. The letter should include basic stats like name, address, height, weight, position, age, grade, high school team and summer league team. Some scouts frown on letters being sent to them and others don't mind it at all. For this reason, it is best to send a letter and take your chances.
4. Have the kid join the best all star and top level travel teams in the area. This is a way to get some additional exposure. Many players have been discovered when scouts were checking out another player.
5. Have him take lessons with top baseball instructors who have ties to the major leagues. These tend to be more in the big cities, but this can be another way to get exposure. The kid can follow-up with the instructor on how to get noticed and they may be able to open some doors for him.
6. Recommend the kid go to a "showcase" event. These are events that have the best players in an area play in several games. Scouts come to these games and watch the games. If he does well here, this gives him more exposure.
7. Get started immediately on promotion of this kid. Scouts start looking at kids at age 14 and 15 so you can definitely get started beginning with high school.
By applying these methods, you have a very good chance of getting your son or star player noticed. Remember every little bit helps and so try to take a comprehensive approach to these methods as that extra letter may make all the difference.
Jack Elliott, is a former player and fan of the game. To read more tips and techniques like the ones in this article, please click here: http://www.baseballtrainingtechniques.com/Baseball-Strategy/ or Baseball Strategy
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
Another Great Article To Read For Baseball Tips
This is a great article about coaching. Enjoy!
You've probably seen it at the local ball field. A well-meaning, but overzealous parent-coach screaming at a team full of little kids as if the World Series was on the line. On the other field, another team is wandering around looking for directions from their coach who is trying to figure out who's up next. What does it take to be a good Little League coach?
The number one virtue Little League coaches need to develop is patience. Children do not have the attention span or the discipline of adults and need to be constantly reminded about technique and sportsmanship. Coaches need patience to work with a large group of children who may be at different levels of expertise. Many major league ball players have stories of making it to the majors because of a coach who never gave up on them.
Organizational skills are also helpful to a Little League coach. Balancing playing time can be a sensitive task and good record keeping can help avoid many a dispute. If you're coaching a team that travels you have to be able to organize travel arrangements and have systems to keep track of all your players while you're on the road.
Tact is essential when dealing with parents. Children are remarkably open to coaching and are not typically sensitive to constructive criticism about their skills. Parents, however, frequently stress about their child's amount of playing time, and the amount of individual coaching time their children receive. It takes finesse and sensitivity to deal with these problems. Parents may also become overly concerned about the competition and may need to be tactfully reminded about the importance of good sportsmanship.
If your child is on the team you're coaching, fairness may become an issue. It's important for coaches to be fair to all their players and to judge players on their skills rather than their personalities. At higher levels, it's important to continue to praise and offer second string players at least some playing time, to maintain their interest and help them continue to develop their skills even if they do not have a great career in sports ahead of them.
Finally, every Little League coach must have a deep and abiding love for children of all ages. Coaches are some of the most formative people in a child's life and can imbue children with values they will carry throughout their lives.
Jonathon Hardcastle writes articles on many topics including Baseball, Games, and Recreation
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jonathon_Hardcastle
You've probably seen it at the local ball field. A well-meaning, but overzealous parent-coach screaming at a team full of little kids as if the World Series was on the line. On the other field, another team is wandering around looking for directions from their coach who is trying to figure out who's up next. What does it take to be a good Little League coach?
The number one virtue Little League coaches need to develop is patience. Children do not have the attention span or the discipline of adults and need to be constantly reminded about technique and sportsmanship. Coaches need patience to work with a large group of children who may be at different levels of expertise. Many major league ball players have stories of making it to the majors because of a coach who never gave up on them.
Organizational skills are also helpful to a Little League coach. Balancing playing time can be a sensitive task and good record keeping can help avoid many a dispute. If you're coaching a team that travels you have to be able to organize travel arrangements and have systems to keep track of all your players while you're on the road.
Tact is essential when dealing with parents. Children are remarkably open to coaching and are not typically sensitive to constructive criticism about their skills. Parents, however, frequently stress about their child's amount of playing time, and the amount of individual coaching time their children receive. It takes finesse and sensitivity to deal with these problems. Parents may also become overly concerned about the competition and may need to be tactfully reminded about the importance of good sportsmanship.
If your child is on the team you're coaching, fairness may become an issue. It's important for coaches to be fair to all their players and to judge players on their skills rather than their personalities. At higher levels, it's important to continue to praise and offer second string players at least some playing time, to maintain their interest and help them continue to develop their skills even if they do not have a great career in sports ahead of them.
Finally, every Little League coach must have a deep and abiding love for children of all ages. Coaches are some of the most formative people in a child's life and can imbue children with values they will carry throughout their lives.
Jonathon Hardcastle writes articles on many topics including Baseball, Games, and Recreation
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jonathon_Hardcastle
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Use Small Frisbee Discs For Baseball Batting Drills And See Your Child Explode Their Hitting
Coach Joe Magno here from Mister Baseball training:
Did you know that Frisbees will improve anyone’s
Hitting?
It’s true, when you throw a Frisbee properly, you
reinforce the proper way to swing a bat.
How is this? Well, when you throw a Frisbee, you promote
a “V” in your front/lead arm exactly like when you swing
a bat.
When you throw a Frisbee, your arm angle of your hand
also equals the same arm angle of the bat going up
when you swing like this.
When you throw a Frisbee properly, you also come up
on your toes and shift your weight.
This exactly simulates swinging a bat correctly.
Therefore, by practicing throwing Frisbees, your son,
Daughter, or player(s)learn to:
-throw their hands through the ball as they should
-swing through the plane of the ball
-come up on their toes and shift weight properly
If you go to www.powerbatting.com, you will see how this
batting tool continually reinforces this EXACT type of swing
To help your child get more quality base hits every time.
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Did you know that Frisbees will improve anyone’s
Hitting?
It’s true, when you throw a Frisbee properly, you
reinforce the proper way to swing a bat.
How is this? Well, when you throw a Frisbee, you promote
a “V” in your front/lead arm exactly like when you swing
a bat.
When you throw a Frisbee, your arm angle of your hand
also equals the same arm angle of the bat going up
when you swing like this.
When you throw a Frisbee properly, you also come up
on your toes and shift your weight.
This exactly simulates swinging a bat correctly.
Therefore, by practicing throwing Frisbees, your son,
Daughter, or player(s)learn to:
-throw their hands through the ball as they should
-swing through the plane of the ball
-come up on their toes and shift weight properly
If you go to www.powerbatting.com, you will see how this
batting tool continually reinforces this EXACT type of swing
To help your child get more quality base hits every time.
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
Youth Baseball Drill #7: Avoid Having Your Back Elbow Up During Batting Drills--This Can Really Shortchange Your Hits
Hi everyone.
I hope you all are having a great week so far.
I’ve been busy running some of weekend baseball camps lately, but not too busy to share with you some baseball and softball drills and strategies that really prove effective for your teams out there.
Well, Here’s my tip of the day:
Does your child/player(s) “CHICKEN WING” their back elbow when holding the bat?
Please try to get him or her to not do this!
Did you know that holding a bat with your back elbow up—commonly called “chicken wing”, can work against your child’s success when it comes to hitting?
When your child or player(s) does this, it can really slow down their swing a little bit so they won't hit as hard and far as they can.
You see, there’s a lot of players in baseball and softball that are taught techniques or practice drills that really have been proven to be ineffective.
This is one of them. Unfortunately, many baseball and softball coaches—especially youth coaches that were either taught this when they were playing ball or followed the advice of others teach this incorrect way to their players or kids.
When players keep their back elbow up, they have a harder time of gripping the bat with their knuckles aligned properly.
You see, it is crucial that players grip the bat with their 'knocking' knuckles (the knuckles they use to knock on a door) LINED UP.
If they don't do this, each of their wrists are not bending together 'in sync'.
And if one wrist is bent one way, and another wrist is bending slightly another way, what will happen is that their wrists will "fight" against each other, causing a slower swing--and yes, a shorter hit.
Yet when their 'knocking knuckles' of both hands are lined up when they grip the bat, both wrists will be working perfectly together so they can maximize his or her bat speed, so that when they make contact, the ball will be hit harder.
To see a close up photo of this correct grip, go to http://www.powerbatting.com/ in the middle of the page. You will see from this photo how to have your knuckles lined up properly to add more feet to your hits.Please keep this in mind the next time your child/player(s) takes batting practice.Stay tuned for more upcoming tips, drills, and strategies, or go to http://www.baseball-softballdrills.com/ to learn more about innovative strategies that can make any player into an all-star
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I hope you all are having a great week so far.
I’ve been busy running some of weekend baseball camps lately, but not too busy to share with you some baseball and softball drills and strategies that really prove effective for your teams out there.
Well, Here’s my tip of the day:
Does your child/player(s) “CHICKEN WING” their back elbow when holding the bat?
Please try to get him or her to not do this!
Did you know that holding a bat with your back elbow up—commonly called “chicken wing”, can work against your child’s success when it comes to hitting?
When your child or player(s) does this, it can really slow down their swing a little bit so they won't hit as hard and far as they can.
You see, there’s a lot of players in baseball and softball that are taught techniques or practice drills that really have been proven to be ineffective.
This is one of them. Unfortunately, many baseball and softball coaches—especially youth coaches that were either taught this when they were playing ball or followed the advice of others teach this incorrect way to their players or kids.
When players keep their back elbow up, they have a harder time of gripping the bat with their knuckles aligned properly.
You see, it is crucial that players grip the bat with their 'knocking' knuckles (the knuckles they use to knock on a door) LINED UP.
If they don't do this, each of their wrists are not bending together 'in sync'.
And if one wrist is bent one way, and another wrist is bending slightly another way, what will happen is that their wrists will "fight" against each other, causing a slower swing--and yes, a shorter hit.
Yet when their 'knocking knuckles' of both hands are lined up when they grip the bat, both wrists will be working perfectly together so they can maximize his or her bat speed, so that when they make contact, the ball will be hit harder.
To see a close up photo of this correct grip, go to http://www.powerbatting.com/ in the middle of the page. You will see from this photo how to have your knuckles lined up properly to add more feet to your hits.Please keep this in mind the next time your child/player(s) takes batting practice.Stay tuned for more upcoming tips, drills, and strategies, or go to http://www.baseball-softballdrills.com/ to learn more about innovative strategies that can make any player into an all-star
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