So I’ve been tinkering with this for awhile — After spending 4 years videoing @WoodrowBaseball and then a season working with @crestbaseball_ this is my DIY hack for Video equipment and a basic video program for HS teams that don’t have the resources of other schools. Around $2K if you have nothing to start with. One iPhone, Pocket Radar, Tripod, a free YouTube channel - Players that want to get better will take advantage and others won’t. review their own footage. With some parent donations it might be as lower a cost as the @PockeRadar And plenty of ways to film at lower costs. The benefits are obvious and follow @CoachBeede and learn how to use that footage for recruiting. Or send that footage to @Velo_doc if you are in N. Texas and schedule a visit. Or send that footage to @TreadHQ and hook up with their virtual program. Or your pitching coach, or grandparent or uncle that pitched at a high level. And take the initiative and learn the mechanics by learning how you move, not how you think you move. The full program, with the gear list and price sources - Hope it helps. PB drive.google.com/file/d/1U0H…

Pitch count by age is only half of it. Per MLB Pitch Smart, players 15-18 should take at least four months off competitive pitching every year and never pitch three days in a row. College coaches recruit healthy arms.

Somedays I miss being able to bow hunt.

Do you or your son want to pitch in college? I broke down some of the critical off-season decisions facing high school pitchers, along with some common pitfalls to watch out for. Check it out! - 0:00 Intro 3:58 Developing a plan 8:24 Setting focused goals 11:33 Nutrition 17:29 Fall ball / winter showcases 20:16 Playing multiple sports

I've watched incredibly talented baseball players never reach their potential. I've watched overlooked players become college stars. I've watched early bloomers plateau and late bloomers explode. After years of evaluating players, one thing has become crystal clear: Development is NOT linear. A 15-year-old's struggles don't define his future. A 16-year-old's lack of opportunities doesn't define his ceiling. And a 17-year-old's setbacks don't determine how his story ends. Talent matters. Exposure matters. Opportunity matters. But so do patience, development, work ethic, and perseverance. The biggest mistake players make in baseball is deciding what they CAN'T become before they've had the chance to show themselves what they CAN. Never stop believing. 🙌⚾️

VeloClass Alumni -17 district pitchers of the year in 2026 - 16 all state guys in 2026 33 no hitters across all 4 groups 2026 Team USA Coach assisting For previous years I’d have to dig it up but usually it’s close This program doesn’t just throw bullpens, we never throw weighted balls, we emphasize fixing the physical setbacks guys have to let their body do what it’s trying to do - and with those fixes we unlock velo/command/break On the mental side we absolutely bulletproof their minds with daily challenges to overcome, and utilized peer pressure to help guys become their best And in 4 of the last 5 years a “Pitcher of the year” for the state of Texas has been a VeloClass guy Go look it up on my page if you dont believe me By far my favorite part of the year turning young men into monsters

The reason there is a website at all: years ago the phone calls started coming to my kitchen table. Fathers I had never met, asking the questions I had just lived through with my own sons. The offer that was not an offer, the deadline that was not real, the money nobody explained. I answered them one at a time for years. At some point, you realize the answers should not depend on knowing my phone number or screen name. That is what launched this week. Not a product. A wider table.

Behind The Athletic’s paywall. But how can you not be a romantic about baseball… apple.news/AUdgKf1yvT4qKSskE…

The time it takes to hand write things out allows the brain to better absorb it and for emotions to cool down. Journaling in general is a good thing (Google “journaling studies and mental health”). At the start of this college this year I sent both my kids leather bound journals with a recommendation they use them to write down whatever. ncsasports.org/blog/benefits…

Just awesome!

If you aren’t watching the Padres/Brewers - you are missing it.

He threw for 298 yards and four touchdowns on Saturday. His father died on Friday. And until February, his father was the head coach of the team he plays for. His name is Dante Reno. He is the quarterback at Yale. His father was Tony Reno, and Tony Reno was 52 years old. Reno coached Yale for 14 seasons. He went 83-49 and won five Ivy League championships, in 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2025, second only to Carm Cozza in the history of the program. Before that he was a free safety at Worcester State, a Massachusetts kid who became the first native of that state to coach the Yale Bulldogs since 1910. His son was a four star quarterback out of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and he had his pick of schools. He chose South Carolina. The SEC. The biggest stage in the sport. Then in June of 2025 he left it. He entered the transfer portal and went to Yale, to play quarterback for his father. They got one season. In 2025 the Bulldogs went 9-3, shared the Ivy League title, beat Harvard to clinch it, and won a playoff game over Youngstown State 43-42. Dante threw for 2,943 yards and 24 touchdowns. Now look again at the list of his father's five championships. The last one is 2025. The final title Tony Reno ever won, he won with his own son playing quarterback. That was the whole thing. One year. A championship, a father on the sideline, a son under center. In February, Tony Reno stepped down. Health. He had been on medical leave since the end of that season. On Friday he died. The family has not shared a cause, and that is their business. On Saturday, his son played. Yale fell behind the Merrimack Warriors 21-7 in the second quarter. Then Dante went 22 of 39 for 298 yards and four touchdowns, and Yale outscored Merrimack 24-3 after halftime to win 41-24. Afterward he explained it without being asked twice. "I know him, and I know my dad, and he would want nothing less than for me to go out there and play. Not miss practice. Go to school. Be around the guys." Then he posted five words. "This one's for you pops." Yale athletic director Victoria Chun said that while Reno's accomplishments on the field were remarkable, it is the relationships he built and the lives he changed that will define his legacy. Be careful what you take from this. There is no correct way to grieve and this is not a standard. Plenty of people could not have put a helmet on Saturday, and they would be right not to. Dante Reno just happened to know exactly what his father would have said. He turned down the Southeastern Conference to spend one season with his dad. They won a championship. Then they ran out of time. And the day after they ran out of time, he went out and played anyway.

This is my new ring tone for my wife! How can you not be a romantic about baseball?

Dudes barrel speed is insane I’ve also seen him catch 20 bullpens in a row and not complain If someone needs a physical bat with tools behind the dish This guy

Mason Miller 103 mph 4S overlay against 88 mph SL. Dude throws the SL like he’s mad at it for being a slider.

Mason Miller - backing up every inch of walking out to Korn - Blind. instagram.com/reel/Dd-UdMBvB…

The sheer nerve it takes to stand in the box, much less swing a piece of wood, is part of what makes baseball awesome! instagram.com/reel/Dd8JP3gPg…

Of course velocity matters. The velo bros are right. Of course pitch movement and angles/deception matters. The stuff+ bros are right. Of course command is important. The Maddux-era boomers are right. Of course mental toughness is important. The Omaha Challenge we-are-navy-seals college coaches are right. Of course strength and power are important. The “that-was-all-you!” 1RM-testing-obsessed college S&C coaches are right. They’re all right. But they’re often only looking at one piece of the puzzle. How do you balance training demands and shift priorities as the athlete adapts, ages and hits plateaus? That’s the whole ballgame.