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

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

Rob Tong: Youth Baseball Coach, Consultant and Training & Development Leade

Rob Tong from the Youth Baseball Edge blog interviews experts in youth baseball and related fields as they share their practical, actionable secrets for youth baseball success. Discover coaching tips, resources, drills, practice plans, strategies and much more so that you can help develop a more complete ballplayer and team. Understand how pitching, hitting, catching, fielding, baserunning, throwing, infield and outfield defense, bunting, pre-game routines, the mental game, practice organization, in-game strategies, sportsmanship and even post-game speeches are not just separate parts but interconnected parts that should be taught from a big picture perspective. Learn from the interview guests how to distinguish proper fundamentals from fraudulent ones. Plus, exclusive segments and occasional surprises. No fluff, no promotion of other people's stuff, no wasting your time. Whether you coach travel baseball, Little League/Ripken/Babe Ruth/Pony/USA baseball/etc, or just your local park league, be inspired and help develop a love and passion for the game in the kids you lead, the next generation of baseball players.
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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 138: Improving on The Science Of Hitting with Steve Ferroli

YBE 138: Improving on The Science Of Hitting with Steve Ferroli

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12/08/20 • 47 min

What can the Science of Hitting teach you about hitting, and can you improve on the Science of Hitting? Steve Ferroli, the personally-chosen successor to Ted Williams' theory of hitting shares some of his thoughts in part one of a two-part interview.

Plus Rob answers the Question of the Week about what travel teams can do in-between games at tournaments.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 139: 3 Things Killing Youth Baseball (and How To Fix Them) with Steve Ferroli

YBE 139: 3 Things Killing Youth Baseball (and How To Fix Them) with Steve Ferroli

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01/08/21 • 54 min

Steve Ferroli says three crucial things are killing youth baseball. Is the sport of youth baseball—and the millions of kids participating in it—in serious danger? Does youth baseball need to be saved? Can it be? This is part two of a two-part interview.

Plus Rob (and Deven Morgan, the Director of Youth Baseball at Driveline Baseball) answer the Question of the Week about whether it matters if kids pitch from flat ground instead of raised mounds.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 141: Training Youth Pitchers, The Driveline way with Deven Morgan

YBE 141: Training Youth Pitchers, The Driveline way with Deven Morgan

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03/19/21 • 52 min

Training youth pitchers is not easy (safe to say that's an understatement). What does Driveline do and recommend? Deven Morgan, the Director of Youth Baseball at Driveline Baseball, shares some tips in part one of this two-part interview.

Plus Rob answers the Question of the Week about how to help a batter who mashes in training but is late to load in games.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 145: Train Like A Big League First Baseman

YBE 145: Train Like A Big League First Baseman

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08/05/21 • 48 min

If catchers wear the "tools of ignorance", then first basemen play the "position of neglect" because many youth coaches don't teach much to their first basemen even though it is a highly important position. Perry Hill, the first base coach and infield coach for the Seattle Mariners, breaks down how you can properly train your first basemen. This is part 1 of a two-part interview.

Plus Rob answers the Question of the Week about how to help a kid who's hitting grounders in games but fly balls in practices.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE148: One-Knee Stances & Calling Pitches with Jay Weaver

YBE148: One-Knee Stances & Calling Pitches with Jay Weaver

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10/29/21 • 34 min

Finishing our discussion of catcher attack angle from the previous episode, Jay Weaver from catchingcamp.com also jumps into one-knee stances for youth catchers as well as simple methods for youth catchers to call pitches and pickoffs. This is part 2 of a two-part interview.

Plus Rob answers the Question of the Week about considerations for doing warmups and what age to start.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 151: Advanced Baserunning with Tyler Gillum

YBE 151: Advanced Baserunning with Tyler Gillum

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12/17/21 • 46 min

Can advanced baserunning be taught to youth players? Tyler Gillum from South Mountain Community College and the Savannah Bananas says yes, and explains how to teach advanced baserunning to your kids in part 1 of a two-part interview.

Plus Rob answers the Question of the Week about whether establishing concrete rules of thumb would be better than trusting your gut when it comes time to pull a pitcher out of an inning.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 153: Lessons Learned in 2021

YBE 153: Lessons Learned in 2021

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01/25/22 • 29 min

Reflecting back on the past year is a productive way to see what went well and what could have been better. Consider doing that with your own team to get your own specific lessons learned! In the meantime, Rob shares seven lessons that he learned this past year that may help you for the upcoming year.

Plus, Rob answers the Question of the Week about whether to strictly train your kid to hit against the travel tryout pitching machine speed for the upcoming tryout or let the kid hit faster speeds.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 156: What is Speedball? with David Klein

YBE 156: What is Speedball? with David Klein

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02/25/22 • 44 min

We as coaches work hard to revolutionize youth baseball practices so that it's no longer long, slow and boring. But is there a way to make games less slow and boring? David Klein is back (again) to share his idea for fast-paced youth baseball games where everyone gets lots of reps and no one sits the bench in Part 1 of a two-part interview.

Plus Rob answers the Question of the Week about how to manage rotation of a lot of kids in and out of games.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 158: Rules Every Coach Should Know Before Arguing With Umpires, Part 1, with Brandon Jackson

YBE 158: Rules Every Coach Should Know Before Arguing With Umpires, Part 1, with Brandon Jackson

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04/07/22 • 72 min

Admit it. You think you know the rules as much as the umpires do. I'll bet you don't. Brandon Jackson, former umpire at the D1/DII/DIII level, explains some rules coaches ought to know before going out to argue with the umpires. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview. Plus Rob answers the Question of the Week about how to control young teams in the dugout.

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The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy - YBE 016: Nature Over Nurture: The Ben Zobrist Story with Tom Zobrist

YBE 016: Nature Over Nurture: The Ben Zobrist Story with Tom Zobrist

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

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03/01/16 • 47 min

Tom Zobrist, father of Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist, talks about how he raised Ben and how Ben got to the Major Leagues.

If you love the show, please let us (and others) know by giving us an honest review & rating on iTunes!

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How many episodes does The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy have?

The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy currently has 181 episodes available.

What topics does The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy cover?

The podcast is about Baseball, How To, Podcasts, Education, Sports and Coaching.

What is the most popular episode on The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy?

The episode title 'YBE 127: How Non-Elite Players Can Get To The Next Level with Joshua Band' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy?

The average episode length on The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy is 44 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy released?

Episodes of The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy are typically released every 7 days, 5 hours.

When was the first episode of The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy?

The first episode of The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast with Rob Tong: Coaching | Drills | Strategy was released on Dec 2, 2015.

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