Are you a Coach? By: Reggie Davis - Sports-A-Rama Dallas Forums

Admin · 11-01-2009

Are You a Coach?

As an amateur coach are are you more concerned about about having the number #1 all-star team or the development of the players on your team? Do you look for ways to teach the game of baseball or are you concerned with teaching our young players to determine success in a win/loss record? These are a few of the questions that we all have to ask ourselves when we step up to the plate and accept the role of a baseball coach. Where do you stand?

Each year when spring rolls around the parks fill with players as they go through their baseball tryouts. Coaches stand around and watch with anticipation making their marks whispering about their hopeful picks. Once the draft has concluded, the teams have been set and the players have been contacted the season begins. This is when the fork in the road of a baseball coach comes. Which road are you going to take as a coach, the development of players or the number #1 all-star team?

Each year our parks grow in the number of players who have the hopes of playing as a future Chipper Jones or Brian McCann, are we giving them the opportunity to do so? As a coach we have graduated to being more concerned with our own personal win/loss record than the true aspect of being a coach. We are teaching our players that to be successful in baseball means to have more wins than losses or to make the all-star team. There are numerous major league players who are very successful in the game that never make the all-star team and have finish with a less than perfect record. Does this mean they are not successful? We need to strive toward the development of our young players to teach them the physical and mental aspects of the game. If we use this as our foundation and teach our players that to be successful means to put forth 100% of their efforts and know when they walk away they competed at their best.

As a coach we need to be more concerned about our players than ourselves. We have been given an opportunity to change a young ones life through the game of baseball so take advantage and prepare them for THEIR future not YOUR perfect season.

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Admin Administrator Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 37 Rep Power: 10	Are you a Coach? By: Reggie Davis Are You a Coach? As an amateur coach are are you more concerned about about having the number #1 all-star team or the development of the players on your team? Do you look for ways to teach the game of baseball or are you concerned with teaching our young players to determine success in a win/loss record? These are a few of the questions that we all have to ask ourselves when we step up to the plate and accept the role of a baseball coach. Where do you stand? Each year when spring rolls around the parks fill with players as they go through their baseball tryouts. Coaches stand around and watch with anticipation making their marks whispering about their hopeful picks. Once the draft has concluded, the teams have been set and the players have been contacted the season begins. This is when the fork in the road of a baseball coach comes. Which road are you going to take as a coach, the development of players or the number #1 all-star team? Each year our parks grow in the number of players who have the hopes of playing as a future Chipper Jones or Brian McCann, are we giving them the opportunity to do so? As a coach we have graduated to being more concerned with our own personal win/loss record than the true aspect of being a coach. We are teaching our players that to be successful in baseball means to have more wins than losses or to make the all-star team. There are numerous major league players who are very successful in the game that never make the all-star team and have finish with a less than perfect record. Does this mean they are not successful? We need to strive toward the development of our young players to teach them the physical and mental aspects of the game. If we use this as our foundation and teach our players that to be successful means to put forth 100% of their efforts and know when they walk away they competed at their best. As a coach we need to be more concerned about our players than ourselves. We have been given an opportunity to change a young ones life through the game of baseball so take advantage and prepare them for THEIR future not YOUR perfect season.