High School Athletic Director. Head Varsity Baseball Coach, Public Education and Education-Based Athletics Advocate. Baseball Lifer. Golf Fanatic.
South Whitley, IN
Joined March 2016
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“The only difference between the Colts and General Custer is the Colts have to look at the film.” -Rick Venturi
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Coach Hisner retweeted
Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.
Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥
You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts.
Hard is the lesson.
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Coach Hisner retweeted
Jeter to Murphy...
“The Brewers play baseball the right way” ….
- Pat Murphy replies … “Guys today don’t understand that!”
We have gotten so far away from center as to what winning baseball is and looks like… the younger generation’s focus is on launch angle, spin rates, velocity and you only win by out slugging the opponent! Basically…. Hit more HR than the other team…. Then pimp the HR.
Well eyes have been opened. They have to be. It’s now a matter of … if pride will keep the other orgs from following. If they do… our game will skyrocket like never before.
It was literally the most beautiful baseball I have seen at the MLB level … electric!
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Coach Hisner retweeted
For those that missed it last night… Here is the 8 run inning! Zero HR, two out and two strikes hitting all over the place … vs elite WS pitching! Inject this into my veins!
The game of baseball played at its finest! Please, please, please 🙏 ALL MLB orgs.. take notice!
Baseball fans everywhere are telling you loud and clear that this is what we want! Not K or HR approach on every pitch. You can steal us all back from the college baseball world where winning team baseball is still played… only if … you start playing baseball league wide like the Brewers and Rays…
Video Credit - FOX
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Watching this World Series is a baseball coach’s dream.
Two-strike approaches. Two-out hitting. Cuts and relays. Baserunning. Situational baseball.
EVERYTHING we preach all year is on display.
I can practically hear my players’ eyes rolling when I bring up this series for the 37th time next season.
It’s gonna be awesome.
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Will the thrill !!! It’s counter intuitive to think that “up swinging” would lead to ground balls , you’d think definitely pop ups . More times than not it’s the exact opposite that’s why we see so many weak ground balls and strike outs . (Among other reasons) .
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There’s something underrated about a hitter who realizes he doesn’t need to do damage in every at-bat. Runner on second, nobody out, hard ground ball to the right side isn’t exciting, but moving that runner to third can completely change the inning.
Baseball got smarter in a lot of ways, but sometimes the simple play is still the right one.
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At some point, baseball has to get back to valuing ballplayers and not just numbers on a screen. Give me the Freddie Freemans, the Buster Poseys, Hunter Pences, Pablo Sandovals, Michael Youngs, Ian Kinslers of the world. Guys who just flat out know how to play the game. Everyone wants to talk launch angle and exit velo, but what happened to valuing a quality at bat?” The 9-pitch battle that might end in an out, but forces a pitcher to show everything he’s got.
The guy who hits behind the runner, takes what’s given, or just refuses to give a pitcher an easy inning. Those at-bats might not look sexy in the box score, but they show up in the 7th, 8th, and 9th. Some of these dudes could absolutely leave the yard too. That’s the point. They weren’t one-dimensional. Somewhere along the way, we confused measurable tools with knowing how to win baseball games.
I’m not against analytics or hitting the ball hard, but there is an art to winning that you can’t fully measure. We need more guys who know how to play baseball, not just hitters, not just athletes, ballplayers. And I promise you, those dudes never go out of style
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The Rays believe in Strike one. They hit the FB. They run the bases well. They play good defense. Bottom half of order know who they are and execute. Move runners if they need to. More importantly they don't strike out!! Sometimes people complicate this game. They keep it simple
Rutger is running out of bodies on defense. They never earned the “s” and they are on their way to losing the “r”.
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Coach Hisner retweeted
I watched some of this yesterday and I love the way Joey Votto talks about hitting the ball in the air to the pull side.
Unfortunately it’s being taught by a lot of people today who don’t understand how trying to pull the ball in the air is a recipe for failure!
I believe this approach is why we have seen batting averages plummet and strikeouts skyrocket.
The longer your swing is the less adjustability you have!
Joey Votto gets it!
Video courtesy of @jeff_suppan
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Call me old school, but this might be the greatest thing ever. boxscore.email/mlb
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Some of the best baseball players I ever coached spent their falls in shoulder pads or on a pitch. They arrived in the spring as competitors, not just players. The scoreboard pressure, the different locker room, the coach with a different voice. You cannot buy that at a showcase.
Coach Hisner retweeted
Nothing beats watching players compete in games. Showcases are for show. Games reveal who can actually play. One game isn’t enough, but I’d rather evaluate multiple games than one workout. There are game players, and there are showcase players & sometimes both.
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HS players: learn how to defend adequately at one/multiple positions. I love players that can hit as much as anyone, but there is one spot in the lineup for players that can’t defend. Lack of defensive ability is one of the biggest barriers to playing time, especially for FR.
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Highly functioning systems can withstand the natural ups and downs of talent that enter public high school programs. Good systems make good teams.
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Coaches who execute systems outperform coaches who rely on raw talent every single spring. Fix your backend program engine before opening day arrives.
