Focusing on Your Accomplishments not Comparisons Have you or your athletes ever felt overwhelmed playing with older ball players? Aging up, being a newcomer on a travel team or making your high school or college team as a freshman can be overwhelming. Finding out where you fit in, battling … [Read more...]
How to keep Confidence after a Bad Game
Stabilize your Confidence Chalk it up to experience. This phrase is used to relay that bad circumstances, mistakes or outcomes can be used as learning experiences or dismissed altogether rather than dwelling on the negative, reliving the experience or beating yourself up over the result. As a … [Read more...]
How to Stay Mentally Sharp While in the Dugout
How to Stay Mentally Prepared on The Bench How can a baseball player stay mentally sharp when not starting a game? For a starter, that player can go through their normal routine of batting practice, fielding practice, warm-up, stretching, getting equipment ready and dressing in his … [Read more...]
Athletes Who Worry About What Others Think
Ball Players Who Focus too Much on What Others Think Validation is something sought after by all athletes, no matter the sport. Every athlete tries to prove their worth whether it is: To impress your coach Break into the starting lineup Show your teammates that you belong on the … [Read more...]
How to Bring High Confidence to Ball Games
Strategies to Help Build Your Confidence Glove? Check!... Ball? Check!... Bat? Check!... Cleats? Check!... CONFIDENCE??? Every time you head to practice or a game, you most likely go through a mental checklist of the essentials you need to play (uniform, equipment, water, snacks, … [Read more...]
Do Past Ball Games Haunt You?
Letting Go of Your Performance in Past Games "Here we go AGAIN!!!" Have you ever had that feeling during a baseball game that the past was about to repeat itself and not in a good way? For instance, you whiffed the last two at-bats swinging at balls in the dirt and now you are facing the same … [Read more...]
How Soto Couldn’t Let an At-Bat Go
Letting Go of Unfavorable Calls Do you get upset when you strike out? Are you more upset when the umpire calls a strike 3 that you don’t agree with? Can you let that strikeout go before stepping to the plate for your next at-bat? Striking out can be extremely frustrating for baseball players. … [Read more...]
How to Keep Your Composure Like Milone
How to Control Nerves by Improving Composure Are there times where you’re more nervous or anxious than others? Maybe you’re coming back from an injury or moving up a level. You might be stepping in to help out a team who is struggling. Or, you could finally be getting your opportunity to … [Read more...]
Ruth: Every Strikeout Brings me Closer to my Next Homerun
Focusing on Yourself to Improve Your Mental Game Mike Trout, an outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels is the closest thing to a "perfect" ballplayer that any of us have ever seen. In return for being the "perfect" ballplayer, Trout asks that he be allowed to be him, whatever that … [Read more...]
How Cashner Stays Composed in Tough Outings
Focusing on What You Can Control in Games Is it frustrating when you’re doing all you can to help the team, but your teammates don’t seem to be producing? Is it challenging for you to stay composed and continue to be positive and uplifting in those situations? Orioles’ pitcher, Andrew Cashner … [Read more...]
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