Youth Baseball Talk

Jim welcomes in division one recruit and Oklahoma State signee, Trey Riley. This week we bring you the real story of the recruitment process for a high school age baseball player. There are too many rumors floating around about the process so we went straight to the source to find out the real process. Find...

Jim is back with his “Monday Morning Solutions” episode of Youth Baseball Talk. This week Jim bids farewell to the coaching ranks for now and discusses the decision process that should go into deciding the age old question “to coach or not to coach”, that is the question. Find Youth Baseball Talk at YouthBaseballTalk.com or...

Jim follows up last weeks introduction of the ‘ABCA” with part two of his interview with Jeremy “Sheets” Sheetinger. In part two of our interview Sheets talks about the “ABCA” and its increasing involvement in youth baseball. As always we here from our panel including Justin Stone and his Majestic Coaches Corner and Rick Strickland and...

Jim welcomes in Jeremy “Sheets” Sheetinger from the ABCA. We learn who the “ABCA” is and what it can teach us all as baseball fans, coaches, and parents. After listening in and learning what all the “ABCA” has to offer you just might find yourself heading to Anaheim, CA to attend this year’s ABCA convention....

Jim welcomes in current San Diego Padre, Adam Rosales. Adam has carved out a nice career for himself in the major leagues while also continuing his love to give back to the kids playing the great game of baseball. Adam and Jim discuss getting the game back to a “Sandlot”mentality and even talk about Adam’s...

Jim welcomes in professional hitting guru, Kevin Wilson. Coach Wilson helps players from the big leagues down to the youth leagues understand their swing along with what they need to do to be successful in the game of baseball. It doesn’t matter if Coach Wilson is helping a ten-year-old or working with one of his...

Episode 48 – Jim shares a recent interview with coach Darin Hendrickson from SLU Baseball. With all the recent talk of pitch counts, Jim and Darin think we need to look at the tournament formats the kids are playing in as they are a recipe for disaster. Pitch counts are important but kids need rest...

Jim tackles the newest pink elephant in the room “daddy ball”… What is it and how to avoid it whether you are a dad coach or a parent affected by it. Coaching should be a great time in you and your son’s life. Let’s make sure we are all in this for the right reasons....

Episode 47 – Jim welcomes in his good friend Ripken Baseball sales director, Joe Mulinaro. Ripken baseball has released their 2017 tournament schedule along with a great new promotion for all teams signing up before Sept. 30th, 2016. Every team that signs up before the end date will receive an autographed Cal Ripken Jr....

Join us this week as Jim asks the question, “when did college baseball coaches quit recruiting baseball players and start recruiting numbers?”. Jim has noticed more and more that kids that do nothing but get the job done often times get overshadowed by other players that have those “measurable numbers” next to their names. Yet...