EP97 – Velo or Command for Young Players? Journaling & Yoga for Baseball Players

If a young pitcher has command but is way below average on velocity, is that at least a bit of solace? Is journaling a good, reasonable thing to ask a young player to do? And, what about yoga – is it effective for baseball players? To submit a question for the Q&A segment, email a voice recording to Dan at hello@danblewett.com . Want to support the show? Buy a copy of Dear Baseball Gods on Kindle or Paperback , or listen on audiobook . Or, pick up Pitching Isn’t Complicated , his advanced-but-understandable pitching manual. Enroll in one of Coach Dan’s online pitching courses or his mental skills course . Use code BASEBALL GODS to save 20% on any course, just for being a listener. Sign up for Dan’s Email list and get a free pitching checklist, and follow up with him on the interwebs: YouTube Channel | Twitter | Danblewett.com EP97 – Velo or Command for Young Players? Journaling & Yoga for Baseball Players Hey, welcome back to dear baseball gods. I’m Dan Blewett. And on today’s episode, I’m going to cover three topics. And to be perfectly honest, I’m going to kind of do away with a 92nd mindset, which was never really a thing. Um, I’m gonna continue to sort of, uh, answering questions on the third segment. But today we’re basically just going to hit three topics. Some weeks we’ll hit two. I just want to cover short quality informative and a topical ideas. So number one today, is it better to have Vilo or command at a young age? So this is from a question I got on the web recently. Um, a parent asked me, he said, Hey, my son doesn’t throw real hard. Uh, but you know, parents have kind of remarked that it’s good, that he can throw strikes that that’s probably a better thing to do I have now. So, you know, we’ll talk about through whether or not that is actually the case. Number two, we’ll talk about journaling and the idea I’ve seen this a kind of, I kind of roll my eyes out. I see it on the web coach is like, Hey, you know, players, if you’re not keeping a journal, then blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Talk about the idea of whether young athletes should be using a journal to track their progress, track their workouts, all that stuff. Or if it’s unrealistic, lastly, we’ll talk about yoga for baseball. Um, this is something I talked about on my softball podcast. Yoga can be really important, but we’ll talk about whether it’s actually good for baseball players or not. So let’s get started, uh, first here tonight, uh, velocity or command. So if your son is a young pitcher and he’s, you know, 12, 13, 14,

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EP97 – Velo or Command for Young Players? Journaling & Yoga for Baseball Players is an episode from Dear Baseball Gods, by Dan Blewett.

This episode is 00:21:29 long.

This episode was published on Sep 17, 2020.

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