10/30/2026
Nobody in baseball wants to talk about the yips.
It started in a batting cage in high school. Chad hit the top of the cage a couple of times, bounced the next one at the pitcher's feet, and for a couple of months after that he couldn't get the ball back to the mound without it bouncing or ending up in center field. Throws to second were no problem.
Chad tells Ken Ravizza that very seldom a day went by that it didn't pop into his brain. They talk about fear, why closing his eyes helped, and why so many players feel like they're the only one.
You're not. A lot of people fight it.
From the archives with Ken Ravizza. The full Ken Ravizza mental game library is on our site: chadmoellerbaseball.com