Cornerstone Coaching Academy Podcast

In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

The approach we have taken to improve all areas of our team.

Why many players and parents don't agree with, or understand this method

Why we believe this is the best method of making players better.

Some of the methods we are using for our hitters and infielders

How you can set up your program in the same manner

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In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

What we did differently this year with our pre-practice throwing routine

Why we made the change we did

How our new throwing routine set the tone for practice

Why it was important to still do this routine pre-game.

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In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

Why a lot of the work we do in practice may not translate to games

How to know what protocol to use based on a player's skill level

What we focus on to make tee work translate to games

How we can make front toss translate to games

The strengths and weaknesses of using a pitching machine

Two innovative ways to get pitchers AND hitters realistic game work in practices.

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In this episode of the CCA Podcast:

I discuss how my view has changed on my hitting pyramid

What adjustments I will likely be making to the pyramid and why.

The two sections that may be more intertwined that I previously thought.

The experiment I did to see what was getting in the way of our success.

Resources of the Show:

The hitting pyramid episode - This podcast episode is the original podcast on what I think is most important for hitters to be successful.

Cornerstone Elite - Join Cornerstone Elite today and get over 50 chaos hitting drills to create a training plan for your players and individual hitters.

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In this Cornerstone Mini Podcast, we discuss how to make three wheel pitching machines more realistic by comparing spin and velocity.

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In this episode of the Cornerstone Coaching Academy Podcast, you will learn:

What the top six goals you should be for youth practices

Why these principals are the same for almost any age group

Why many players drop out of baseball by age 12

What a youth practice should look like

How to keep players more involved in your practice

What equipment you will need to run an effective youth practice

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In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

What data we are using to evaluate our players in 2019.

How we went about doing their assessments.

Why doing assessments with data is important.

Some of the major pitfalls we have found when collecting data for our 2019 assessments.

What we use to collect Blast and Rapsodo hitting data.

Why the data you collect may not be actually telling you if someone is good at baseball (hitting)

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In this episode of the CCA Podcast, you will learn:

Why we have made dramatic changes for to our practices for 2019

How we are color coding our spreadsheet for pitchers to help manage work load

The groups and segments we break our pitchers into to manage work load and in season development

The different protocols we use for each type of day for our schedules.

How we determine what day we our pitchers are on and why

Extension for Elite Members - Access to the spreadsheet we are using and video explanation of how we set up our program.

Resources of the Show

Podcast episode 145 - Designing pitcher first practices

Cornerstone Elite - The premier membership to help you bring cutting edge, modern baseball instruction to a team, large team, or program setting.

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In this Cornerstone Mini, I describe what I learned from a 9 year old about decision training. 

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In this episode of the CCCA Podcast, you will learn:

What should the pace of tryouts be?

Is the pace of tryouts the same for everyone?

Why it's important to measure and take numbers in tryouts.

What numbers we take during tryouts.

The difference between peak and average exit velocity and how we use them.

What we look for at the bottom of our roster.

Resources of the Show

Get our complete 3 day tryout plan with measurement tools and evaluation tool!

Join Cornerstone Elite and get full access to cutting edge baseball training that you can apply in a team setting!

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