Youth Baseball Talk

This week Jim asks you the question, “is your team challenging itself enough”. Are you a AAA team playing AA? If so, what do you hope to gain? Take a step back and look at the big picture. You may realize you have an opportunity to challenge your team and who knows what you may...

Episode 46 – Jim welcomes in legendary coach and USA baseball’s own, Pete Caliendo. Coach Caliendo has been all over the world promoting the game of youth baseball with some of the most talented players the USA has to offer. The two discuss the different perspective gained by players when the represent their country playing...

This week on our “Monday Morning Solutions” episode of Youth Baseball Talk, Jim asks the question, “why not use BBCOR bats for the youth levels too?”. While probably not a popular theory for some, the question of “who it really benefit”s vs. the safety aspect of the game is an interesting question. Send us your...

Episode 45, Part 2 of 2 – Listen in as Jim airs part two of his enlightening discussion with baseball lifer, Coach Dave Holt. This week Jim and Coach Dave dive in a little deeper to Coach Holt’s wonderful instructional website, coachandplaybaseball.com. As always we here from our panel including Justin Stone and his Majestic Coaches...

Jim welcomes in his long time friend, and highly respected Division 1 baseball coach from Saint Louis University,  Darin Hendrickson. Coach Hendrickson sent out an interesting tweet while attending his own sons 10U baseball tournament this past weekend that has these guys thinking, “what are we doing with these baseball tournaments?”. Is less more?

Episode 45, Part 1 of 2 – Jim welcomes in baseball lifer, Dave Holt, as they discuss Coach Holt’s wonderful career in the game of baseball that led him from professional player and coach to now as he shares some of the best information you will find anywhere for our youth players and coaches. Coach Holt...

Episode 44, Part 2 of 2 – This week Jim continues his interview with Elite Baseball’s Travis Kerber. They discuss the hot button topic, velocity. How to get it? How to get it properly? What can you do with it? As always we here from our panel including Justin Stone and his Majestic Coaches Corner and...

This Monday Morning Solution tackles the unnecessary huge strike zone in select baseball at the youth level. It is doing more harm than good and actually makes no sense. Youth Baseball Talk is powered by Baseball Youth – the nation’s youth baseball network! Find Baseball Youth at BaseballYouth.com on Twitter at @BaseballYouth and on Facebook at facebook.com/baseballyouthmagazine.  You can...

Episode 44, Part 1 of 2 – This week Jim sits down with Elite Baseball’s Travis Kerber. They tackle the ever challenging rules of pitching in tournaments vs. common sense. As always we here from our panel including Justin Stone and his Majestic Coaches Corner and Rick Strickland and the Sandlot recruitment tip of the week. Find...

On this Monday edition of Youth Baseball Talk Jim rants a little about kids pitching too much and risking injuries and long term damage. Youth Baseball Talk is powered by Baseball Youth – the nation’s youth baseball network! Find Baseball Youth at BaseballYouth.com on Twitter at @BaseballYouth and on Facebook at facebook.com/baseballyouthmagazine.  You can find Justin Stone at EliteBaseball.tv and...