The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy

We talk quite a bit about the mental game here on Youth Baseball Edge. But is it a separate area of focus from the physical? Dr. Tom Hanson, co-author of "Heads Up Baseball 2.0", discusses this and provides some practical tips to help our kids up their mental game. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview. Plus Justin Stone of EliteBaseball. TV answers the Question Of The Week about how to handle ki...

Kai Correa, assistant coach at the University of Northern Colorado and creator of the fantastic #FridayFielders series on Twitter, lays down the foundations we should be teaching to young players and presents a ton of ideas for how to teach them. This is Part 2 of a two-part interview. Please let us (and others) know how you feel about the show by  giving us an honest review & rating  on iTunes!

As discussed in Session #70 with Billy Boyer, elite infielding is not just about "get in front of the ball" and "get your glove dirty". Kai Correa, assistant coach at the University of Northern Colorado and creator of the fantastic #FridayFielders series on Twitter, breaks down how to teach fielding fundamentals to young players. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview. Plus, Justin Stone of eliteb...

Tommy Hottovy, Chicago Cubs' Coordinator of Advance Scouting—Run Prevention, has a fun job. But what can you and I do, given that we don't have the benefit of reams of data? How can we still help our teams improve their odds of success? This is Part 2 of a two-part interview. Plus, Justin Stone of elitebaseball.tv answers the Question Of The Week about how to make hitting sessions in practices mor...

Tommy Hottovy, Chicago Cubs' Coordinator of Advance Scouting - Run Prevention, helps explain what his job is and how he helps his team prepare better game plans using data analytics. Please let us (and others) know how you feel about the show by  giving us an honest review & rating  on iTunes!

Billy Boyer, assistant coach at the University of Washington, gives a detailed tutorial on how to teach the many intricate aspects of high-level double play feeds. This is Part 2 of a two-part interview.  Plus Justin Stone of EliteBaseball. TV  answers the Question Of The Week about how to help tee-ball players hit with more power more consistently. Please let us (and others) know how you feel abo...

Billy Boyer, assistant coach at the University of Washington, helps break down some of the nuances that can help elevate the infield play of your players. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview. Please let us (and others) know how you feel about the show by  giving us an honest review & rating  on iTunes!

One of my favorite guys, Kyle Boddy, founder of Driveline Baseball, is back to discuss technology in amateur baseball. What is promising? What has some bumps to smooth out? What gets him really excited about the future of amateur baseball? Kyle chats about these things as well as some other pitching-related issues in this part 2 of a two-part interview. Part 1 is here . Plus Justin Stone of  Elite...

You are in for a treat. Kyle Boddy, founder of Driveline Baseball, is known for his passion for sports science and helping players properly recover from injury. And while he discusses this during this interview, you are going to also hear about other data-based findings, such as overload/underload training with bats—a new area of research-backed baseball training—as well as overload/underload trai...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the Aug 1, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode discussing favorite drills is the most popular episode ever. This was originally episode #56 and originally aired Dec 6, 2016. Rob rounds up the favorite drills of several coaches and former podcast guests in this Favorite Drill Roundup Please let us...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the Aug 1, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode discussing efficient practice planning is the 2nd most popular episode. This was originally episode #59 and originally aired Jan 10, 2017. Tug Gillingham of Lincoln Park Baseball Academy chats about how to organize and structure baseball practices. W...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the Aug 1, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode discussing efficient practice planning is the 3rd most popular episode. This was originally episode #57 and originally aired Dec 13, 2016. Rob discusses the theory behind efficient youth baseball practice planning so you know what to avoid and gives...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the Aug 1, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode featuring John Fitzgerald is the 4th most popular episode. This was originally episode #61 and originally aired Jan 24, 2017. Fitzgerald, the founder of Sports Vision Training, explains the core concepts of vision training for baseball and how coache...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the Aug 1, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode featuring Bobby Tewksbary is the 5th most popular episode. This was originally episode #48 and originally aired Oct 11, 2016. Tewksbary, the founder of TewksHitting.com, shares some important information on how to strive towards the elite swing. This...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the May 30, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode featuring Tanner Swanson is the 6th most popular episode. This was originally episode #64 and originally aired Feb 14, 2017. Tanner, who is the assistant coach at the University of Washington and a popular speaker on the topic of catching, sets the...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the May 30, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode featuring Brent Kemnitz is the 7th most popular episode.  Originally episode #62, Brent Kemnitz, former pitching coach for Wichita State, shares how to coach the little-discussed aspect of the mental side of pitching in part 1 of a two-part intervie...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the May 30, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode featuring Xan Barksdale is the 8th most popular episode.  Originally episode #13, Xan Barksdale, founder of catching-101.com, breaks down how to teach catching to your youth catchers in part 1 of a two-part interview. This session originally aired F...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the May 30, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode featuring Nate Trosky is the 9th most popular episode.  Originally episode #55, Nate, founder of Trosky Baseball, explains what complete player development is—and how to achieve it. Coaching youth baseball effectively is not just random drills pulle...

Re-airing the Top 10 most downloaded YBE sessions leading up to the May 30, 2017 return of YBE to new episodes from a multi-month hiatus, this episode featuring Russell Greene is the 10th most popular episode.  This is part 1 of a multi-part interview with Russell Greene, father of prep superstar Hunter Greene. Originally episode #50, Russell explains some of the significant struggles Hunter had t...

Ready for a 201-level course on teaching the catcher position? Tanner Swanson, assistant coach at the University of Washington and popular speaker on the topic of catching, gives some key insights on how to help your intermediate-level and advanced catchers. This can apply to youth, high school and college catchers. This is Part 2 of a two-part interview. If you missed Part 1 , you can catch it he...

Tanner Swanson, assistant coach at the University of Washington and popular speaker on the topic of catching, sets the vision for us on what it takes to develop good catchers and then begins to share how to make that happen at the younger levels. Plus Justin Stone of EliteBaseball. TV answers the Question Of The Week about whether it's worth teaching kids how to bunt. And Austin Wasserman of Wasse...

Brent Kemnitz, distinguished former pitching coach for Wichita State, shares some insight on how he coached the mental side of pitching with his pitching staff. We don't want to talk our pitchers into a slump, as he warned in Part 1 of my interview , but we do want to get them feeling happy, strong and confident. This is Part 2 of a two-part interview. Plus Austin Wasserman of WassermanStrength.co...

Brent Kemnitz, renowned former pitching coach for Wichita State, shares about how to coach the little-discussed aspect of the mental side of pitching. The mental game of baseball doesn't just apply to hitters! Coaches and pitchers may inherently know that the mental game is just as important as the physical game but how exactly do coaches and pitchers improve their mental game? Plus Justin Stone o...

John Fitzgerald of Sports Vision Training explains the core concepts of vision training for baseball and how coaches and parents can help. This is Part 2 of a two-part interview. Plus Justin Stone of elitebaseball.tv  answers the Question Of The Week about how to teach pitching to 9-year-olds, and Austin Wasserman of WassermanStrength.com introduces side lunge slides in his Wass Strength Tip Of Th...

John Fitzgerald of Sports Vision Training explains the concept of vision training for baseball and how it can help young baseball athletes improve their game. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview. Plus Justin Stone of elitebaseball.tv  answers the Question Of The Week about why advanced baseball players do  not  put their entire hand inside their glove.  Please let us (and others) know how you f...