CHIPS Performance Training

Most front toss looks like dad throwing rainbows from 15 feet while the kid swings tired. That’s not BP, that’s babysitting.

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Step with your back foot and throw on a line. The arm swing is the timing cue. Get behind the L-screen. Mix up locations and tempo. Up, down, in, out, step and pause, step and rush. The pitcher in a game isn’t throwing at one tempo either.

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Mix in bounced balls. Now he has to read the pitch instead of timing your arm.
Switch sides for bat path. Set up on his opposite side of the cage and throw at an extreme angle. He drives the ball low back at you, builds bat path and teaches him to stay through it.

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Every 6 to 8 swings, give him a break. Don’t fill the silence with coaching. Make the cage a place he wants to be.

Coaches, we need to talk. The umpire missed one. Your player is fired up. Every instinct says to stand up and defend your guys. Don’t.

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When you blow up over a borderline pitch, you just lost the umpire for the rest of the game. The next 50/50 call is going against you. You don’t need the umpire on your side in the first inning. You need him in the last one. Your players are watching every reaction you have. They take on your personality. Flip out at every bad call and they flip out at every bad call. Crash on every error and strikeout and so do they. Players who play for roller-coaster coaches play roller-coaster baseball.

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And when you blow up in front of everyone, the other dugout sits back, stays quiet, and lets you make their team look more composed by default. You did their job for them. Stay composed. The umpire matters. Your players matter more.

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I love a cage bomb as much as the next guy, but if you’re trying to get to the next level, every rep should be moving you toward who you want to be in a regional, a super regional, and a College World Series start.

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Watch those guys on TV in June. The way they handle themselves between innings. The way they communicate. The way they reset after a bad at-bat. None of that shows up in a “look at me hit one into the back of the cage” video. Practice with intent 99% of the time. That 1% of cage bombs is your cardio, not your training. If you want to default to your best self when the lights come on, you have to build that version on a Tuesday in April.

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Regionals have started and if you want to play in Omaha one day, watch these games differently than the regular season.

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Don’t watch the highlights. Watch the entire game. At this level, every team is talented. The difference between going home Saturday and playing for a national title isn’t talent. It’s the small stuff. How they communicate. How they move after each pitch. How the dugout handles a bad call. Pay extra attention when the best pitcher gets in trouble. It always happens. Bases loaded, nobody out, and you find out what makes him different. He gets a pop-up, a strikeout, a double play. That’s his default setting.

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When the lights come on, your body has to know what to do without you thinking about it. You don’t get to wish you’d worked harder in March when you’re on the mound in June.

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Catching is tough, but it would have been a lot easier if I knew these things when I first started catching.

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1. Use the finger loop. Two and one in the finger slot. Hand stays secure, you don’t blow it up on a fastball, and you still get a clean pocket out of a smaller mitt. Secure beats big every time.
2. Weight in the middle of your foot. The only time you’re on your toes is flashing signs. After that, sit back, chest square to the pitcher, target up.
3. Drive your thumb under the ball. Almost every pitch is moving down. Sliders, curveballs, sinkers, splitters. Come up through the ball with your thumb under it. Your hands work up, not stabbing down.

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4. Don’t lock your front leg. A stiff front leg in a one-knee setup blocks you off the high fastball. Most youth and high school catchers lose the top of the zone and the corners way more than the low pitch.
5. Get the ball back fast. The biggest underrated catching habit. No double pumps, no strolls. Keep your pitcher in rhythm. The faster you work, the faster the inning ends, and the sooner you can go hit like a real position player.

Stop yelling at your hitter on every pitch. The kid up there has to hit one pitch, not every pitch. Let him take a few. Let him gauge the speed. Hitting is the hardest thing in sports. If you don’t believe me, come in the cage and we’ll throw you 75 with a slider.

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The problem isn’t that we mean well, we do. The problem is we send mixed signals every pitch. “Be aggressive.” “Don’t swing at the dirt.” “Make it a strike.” “Stop looking, swing the bat.” By the third strike the kid has no idea what to do. You’re literally yelling him into striking out.

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If your kid goes 0 for 3 and doesn’t swing the bat once, say something. After the game, when everything has cooled down. Not from the third base coach’s box when his heart rate is at 180. The sooner you chill out, the sooner they have fun.

I get these questions every week. Here’s the short list of things every travel ball parent can stop obsessing over right now.

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1. Exit velocity and throwing velocity before high school.
2. Being on the best 9U or 10U team in the state.
3. Rankings before high school.
4. Showcases before he’s ready.
5. Obsessing over one bad tournament.
Bonus: Stop buying a new $500 bat every five months. The bat isn’t going dead. And specializing in baseball at 10 looks great until 14, when the multi-sport athletes hit puberty and catch up overnight.

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The fundamentals haven’t changed. Be athletic. Outwork your weaknesses. Trust the process. Save your money for things that actually move the needle.