Baseball Coaching Info

Encouraging Players To Care

Creating an environment in which the players enjoy training and playing together is a coach’s first priority. If players enjoy the game, they will work harder, and take their own performance and progress, the team’s improvement, and the sport as a whole more seriously.

1. Individual Performance

The coach should continually evaluate each player. Even more important and more helpful is for players to evaluate themselves in a constructive manner. Successful people acknowledge their weaknesses and strive to improve upon them.

Let players fill out a self-evaluation form individually to rate themselves in the various skills and abilities of a player. The self-evaluation can be repeated each month, twice a year, or once a year. The important step is for the players to look honestly at their own games. Try to address the players individually on a regular basis to inquire if they would like (do not force) suggestions or feedback about their performance and progress.

2. Team Concepts

Sports are team-based. Games are won and lost by the team, not the individuals. The coach should continually reemphasize that working together is the key to winning. There are countless examples of teams that have risen to unimaginable heights because of a team’s discipline of selflessness and feeding off one another’s strengths.

Learning more about the sport outside of your team or club will make the player more than a passionate fan. It will affect players, and inspire them to train harder to be become better players.