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Baseballmos help me train my kid to be a good player
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:28 PM Author: Flickering bawdyhouse I grew up a basketballmo and stopped playing baseball at like 12. But my 7 year old son has been obsessed with baseball since he was like 5 and says it’s the only sport he wants to play. He seems to have real aptitude. He was on a T-ball team this year but that was basically a joke, he was one of like 3 kids even interested. We play catch almost every night and he can actually fire it pretty hard right at my glove consistently and can catch consistently and basically effortlessly when we play catch (I’m tossing it soft not me firing it yet) and field decently hard ground balls and popups. I take him to hit on the weekends and when I throw him soft “coach pitch” type pitches he crushes them at a fairly high rate. My overall assessment is that he is somewhat precocious for a 7 year old. I’m happy to play catch and throw him pitches but I do not have the knowledge to even teach him good fundamentals.
What should I start doing now if I want to put him on the path to being a good high school level baseball player? Too early for a private coach? Any good resources you would recommend to me? Books or whatever? |
Date: August 17th, 2025 7:29 PM Author: Diverse community account university my advice would be to quit being a faggot and wait until your son hits puberty to worry about whether or not he will be good enough to play fucking high school baseball (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192862) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:30 PM Author: Flickering bawdyhouse My understanding is that is way too late these days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192863) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:32 PM Author: Diverse community account university your understanding is derived from parents with children in professional sports or is it retarded umc strivers thinking they will increase their child's chance at Bowdoin by spending money? Because almost all good athletes grew up poor, like literally almost all of them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192872) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: Flickering bawdyhouse This seems less and less true over time. The shift in the NBA in particular is crazy. There are still some guys from the hood, but it’s much different than it was in the 90s. Increasingly the league is made up of relatively well off kids who have been getting personalized training from a very early age. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192888) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Diverse community account university lolno, it is made up of very tall black people that get identified young as extraordinary physical specimens and then given training for free to go to the school you will pay for your child to attend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192893) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:38 PM Author: Fighting Senate Ok now do baseball. Most players not from San Pedro de Macoris were relatively well off + insane hand eye coordination / lightening in their arm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192898) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:42 PM Author: Diverse community account university because baseball is more suburban as a sport, the guys who make it are still just the physical specimens, there is no magic trick where you can pay for athletic ability, have you ever played a sport agaisnt anyone who actually even got close? There is no sense, no sense, in trying to train for that, they are just better. I grew up with a guy who made it to Met's training camp and a short stint in the minors. He was throwing heat naturally at 9 years old (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192905) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:30 PM Author: razzmatazz garnet boltzmann coldplay fan put him on HGH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192864) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:31 PM Author: Fighting Senate How tall will he be and how fat?
Right handed batting and throwing? |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:33 PM Author: Flickering bawdyhouse He is right handed. All the men in my family are 6’0-6’3. Father in law a little shorter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192875) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 4:09 PM Author: Arrogant hissy fit shrine (married to aZn) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49194875) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:34 PM Author: Hot corner chad Paging gibberish tp he can also teach you how to fuck your wife fodip (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192880) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Flickering bawdyhouse You used to be able to come here for some insight and advice on random Qs like this. I remember some long thread about the nuances of youth soccer, which made me think to post this. But now you post and just get all kinds of lulzy negativity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192895) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:50 PM Author: Diverse community account university you are getting advice you just don't like it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192921) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:44 PM Author: ivory space lmao you shell out for little league obviously. other than that the best thing you can probably do is get him to play another sport so hes not doing some autistic superstriver thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49192912) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 9:04 PM Author: Cerise domesticated mood sanctuary have him play on a more competitive team. volunteer as a coach and learn from other coaches. watch youtube videos. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49193089) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 9:36 PM Author: high-end locus toaster The most important fundamentals for batting are the grip, the stance, and the swing.
He should be lining up his knuckles when he grips the bat. That’s rule #1.
You need to find out if he’s swinging too early or too late and you can tell by watching him swing and miss and also what side of the field he hits it.
Since he’s right handed a little early will be on third base side and late on first base side.
If he’s early have him use a heavier bat and vice versa.
Back elbow should be up, parallel to the ground.
The single most important part of the swing is rotating his hips. That’s where the speed and power come from, not the arms.
The hips turn the body and the arms are along for the ride.
Second most important thing is to keep his head steady and keep his eyes on the ball. Debatable that this is more important than the hips.
Rotate hips, keep head steady, eyes on the ball through contact.
Tell him he needs to run through first base even if he’s thrown out by a mile. Never stop before reaching first base and head back to the dugout, that is a cardinal sin. Always run through first base and sprint doing it.
Pete Rote use to literally sprint to first when he walked, sprinted everywhere.
When inning is over, sprint to dugout or sprint to position on the field.
If he’s pitching and gives up a home run and the next time that batter comes to the plate, if he’s taking a little longer than normal to set up, adjusting his helmet, digging his feet in the dirt, etc., throw it at his head.
He’s maybe a little too young for that one, might want to wait until he’s ten to teach him that. |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 2:16 PM Author: topaz hell yarmulke buy him a set of golf clubs and get him into that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49194586) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 2:17 PM Author: Frum Amethyst Public Bath Foreskin sweet humble brag bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763462&forum_id=2],#49194593) |