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With winter break underway and us being home all the time, NOW is a great time to start getting into baseball mode!  Before offering a few tips, I want to explain why I believe it is important to prepare for the season in the first place...  ...simply put, baseball is CHALLENGING! The best players in the world are successful only 30% of the time! Because baseball has so much failure intertwined into the game, I have seen MANY kids lose interest after having a bad tryout or start to the season.  They start to shut down, disengage, lose confidence as they dont think they are good enough! This can make for a long, difficult season. It can even lead ...

We hear it all the time because its true, baseball is a game based on failure. Even the best hitters in the world still fail 7 out of 10 times (a .300 average is VERY good)! The failure aspect of baseball makes things difficult for youth ballplayers who do not have strategies to regroup and move on. Furthermore, unlike basketball or soccer where the game moves fast, if a player makes and error or strikes out he often needs to wait a significant amount of time (or a few innings) until his next opportunity. This dead time in between opportunities leaves a lengthy window for negative thinking, self doubt and anxiousness. Think of it like an internal traffic light: ...