Today, we’re sitting down with Coach Jeremy Sheetinger, head baseball coach at Georgia Gwinnett (“GG”). I met Coach Sheets years ago at a conference, where we were both presenting. To put it mildly, he is Mr. Positivity which I absolutely love. In a world, where it’s easy to be negative and many are, Coach Sheets always focuses on the positives which is the underlying theme of this podcast.
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Today we’re sitting down with nationally renowned Texas A&M pitching Nate Yeskie. Having joined the Aggies in June 2021, he has long history of coaching at the highest echelons of college baseball. Before Texas A&M, he was with Arizona after coaching for 11 seasons with Oregon State.
During his nearly 18-year career, he has chiseled out a reputation as one of the elite pitching coaches in the country. He has taken his pitching staff to the College World Series with Oregon, Arizona and Texas A&M, which is quite an accomplishment. He has twice earned National Pitching Coach of the Year recognition from Collegiate Baseball and was tabbed the D1 Baseball Assistant Coach of the Year in 2017.
This one is coming to you live from The Bridge Seminar at Wake Forest University, where I presented this weekend. In today’s podcast I’ll be summarizing many (not all) of the great presenters at this year’s player development seminar. It was a blast speaking with, as well as listening and learning from some of, the best in the business of baseball player development. Topics include:
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When I think of some of the biggest bangs for the buck, I often think of my time studying the principles of speed and quickness with Lee Taft. Many of the principles that I learned from Lee have been implemented into our Speed Program which we run in Jan and Feb. Below is a brief summary of some of the principles that we incorporate on base stealing in our speed program to help our athletes become faster on the field.
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Today’s podcast is with Mike McFerran, Director of Player Development for the Wake Forest Baseball program and Coordinator of the Wake Forest Pitching Lab. Join us as we discuss a variety of topics, including:
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In this e-book, we are going to review speed training for baseball players, position-specific speed, and some of the techniques you could use to more explosive, so you can run faster on the field. Here is a brief outline:
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Today’s podcast is with Brian Bannister, Director of Pitching for the San Francisco Giants. Join us as we discuss a variety of topics including:
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I’ll be flying solo this Thanksgiving weekend, covering some of the questions I receive from the audience on the off-season “to-do” list. Off-season is a great time to address a variety of topics that you should deal with to improve in-season performance. Topics will include:
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In today’s podcast we are sitting down and talking pitching mechanics with Lantz Wheeler. Lantz is the Founder and CEO of the Baseball Think Tank, the inventor of the Core Velocity Belt, and owner and operator of the nationally renowned annual Pitch-a-Palooza conference. And he is definitely no stranger to coaching pitchers.
I have known Lantz for many years, and I have been really looking forward to this Podcast. I can tell you listening to Lantz is always highly educational and definitely entertaining. He has a way of simplifying complex human movement patterns into simple terms that most people can relate to.
