Ever imagined what youth baseball might look like when we focus on everyone else besides the pitchers. What if we tried to develop the other eight players and the hitters and leave the pitchers on the sidelines. Can you visualize the amount of action, at-bats, fielding tries, baserunning turns, increased action all over the field with the pitchers staying out of the games and having machine and/or coach pitch all the time? You would have to be 'stuck on stupid' not to realize how much difference this would make. Coachandplaybaseball.com

Hitting is a huge skill to try and master. Coaches must be able to build a culture of hitting on your teams. The ability to hit will increase the players longevity for sure.

The kids that hit the best usually play the longest and have more enjoyment playing ball. Listen in to hear Dave's conversation on the importance of hitting development.

Where are the baseball "experts'? Where are the player development gurus? Why do we rely on non-baseball people to write the script, set up systems, make the rules, set up the programs and administer youth baseball policies? This is the discussion today when we look into the inter workings of youth baseball systems and realize this was all invented by non-baseball people for the most part.Coach and Play Baseball.com

What is it that slows down the baseball development of our kids? What is it that makes youth baseball so slow paced, lacks action, and dampens the enjoyment level? Well Dave discusses the 'elephant in the room' and give us a way to change the way we develop ball players. Coach and Play Baseball.com

Today's youth baseball world is afflicted with the notion that we have to play 'Real Baseball'. We have a better system to allow for increased action, more player development reps, more freedom for players to interact and more enjoyment for playing baseball. The 'Big-people' are often so 'stuck on stupid' they don't realize what they are missing. At least we have to try this!

Take a listen to this list of current youth baseball status topics and see if you are seeing the same things I am seeing. Asking the question, "Are our kids REALLY receiving the developmental skills needed at this age to become fundamentally sound ball players and gain a high level of enjoyment playing baseball? Lets compare this list of topics and see if we can answer these questions. Coachandplaybaseball.com

Chances are you are a youth baseball parent that has experienced the FOMO. Yes, we all want the best for our kids in youth baseball but we do need to put up some bumper guards to make sure we don't go off the rails into extreme fear that we might be missing out.

Jump in and listen as Dave goes over some ways to keep from getting overly fearful of some of the 'myths' going on around youth baseball. coachandplaybaseball.com

Let us go over and talk about a few ways that the 'Big-people' are notorious about stripping the joy from the ballplayers. Yes, the 'Big-people' have a lot to say about how much enjoyment we have in youth baseball. Here are 6 ways to help remind us how we can increase the enjoyment level for our kids. Coachandplaybaseball.com

Who will be the first to convert their entire league format to Accelerated Baseball Development? Most of us just follow the herd and keep doing what everyone else does even though we sense that something is not right.

We just will not stick our neck out of the turtle shell and go anywhere. Here are a few options on how to bring the awesome power of Accelerated Baseball to your own teams and stop following the herd. Be a turtle and stick your neck out.

Have you as one of the ‘big-people’ made it known to your kids and players that they are “allowed” to mess up? Yep, players are going to fail from time to time and we expect that. It is very important to talk to your kids about the difficulty of playing baseball well and there will be times of tribulation. As the adults we need to listen to Dave’s approach to give the some “room’ to mess up.