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Coaching Youth Baseball

Dave Holt shares his 19 years in professional baseball player development experience with youth baseball coaches. Discover the baseball coaching methods, processes, and philosophies that will make you stand out in the crowd and be "THAT" difference- maker coach. Dave helps mentor youth baseball coaches and baseball parents in the vitally important areas of player development. You will hear from someone who has inside experience and knowledge on how to use some of the best coaching approaches and

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34:51

CYB 103: Tee ball to the Pros Whats Your Status Score

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2026/01/12

Youth baseball parents and coaches are in a vicious cycle of trying to accumulate "status symbol points" watching their kids play ballgames and giving up the status points and allowing the kids to develop more during on-field baseball practices. Listen in as Dave talks about how the 'Big-people' are locked in and obsessed with status points and at some point got to give it up and let kids have more on-field practice opportunities. www.coachandplaybaseball.com

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51:57

CYB 102: Youth Baseball Coaches Checklist Part V

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/11/12

We complete our 100-point youth baseball coaches checklist with this episode. We cover several topics of interest and concern especially digging into how to coach hitters during competition and coaches demeanor during ballgames. In addition, we also discuss the problem of playing too many ballgames and neglecting on-field well organized baseball practice. We say, "Develop, develop, develop, but where is the development"? coachandplaybaseball.com

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47:41

CYB 101: Youth Baseball Coaches Checklist Part IV

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/09/23

Our 100-point baseball coaches checklist continues and we hit a bunch of topics that commonly we have to deal with as youth level coaches. We also try to answer a really big question that I cannot get a fair answer to that makes sense to me. Want to know what that question is then tune in and maybe you can help give us an answer. I doubt if you can but let us know your best shot.

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33:10

CYB 100: How to Shift Your Youth Baseball League to...

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/08/14

The “business model” of the major youth baseball national organizations is “ALL-STARS”. It is the main carrot that these national entities use to attract families. Unfortunately, the collateral damage from All-Stars is what turns many families away. We take a big long look into what it would take to shift from a national umbrella organization and just play as a local independent youth baseball operation. You could be a local league or a travel ball tournament team you should listen in and see if

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47:23

CYB 099: Baseball Coaches Checklist Part III

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/07/17

We have so many opportunities to communicate and interact with our players, parents, umpires and opponents. It is really good to have your coaching style, approach and philosophy on solid footing so we are able to handle the ups and downs of the baseball season. We continue through our 100 point checklist here and we end with a call to action for decoupling from your National Organization and starting your own local league free from dictatorship and the business model of major baseball

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46:45

CYB 098: Coaching Youth Baseball Checklist Part II

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/06/24

Wow, youth baseball coaches have a huge task list to cover in order to do their jobs effectively and leave a quality legacy. We continue with our coaches checklist and touch on several important bullet points on our 100-point checklist. Listen in and hear what vital topics we discuss on this one as we try and speak to coaches of all levels and experience. www.coachandplaybaseball.com

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44:53

CYB 097 Youth Baseball Coaches Checklist Part 1

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/06/05

Each youth baseball coach must work out their own style, philosophy and approach. We go over several topics in youth baseball coaching to ponder and chat about. Some you may be on the right track with and some of this might be new, beneficial material that you can use to coach your kids better. This is part one: 1-20 of my 100 point baseball coaches checklist. www.coachandplaybaseball.com

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42:14

CYB 096: Walk Towards the Fire

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/04/15

Youth baseball age kids are truly not athletically equipped yet to perform the necessary baseball skills at a high level to be able to play baseball like MLB, college and High School ballplayers. Yet the ‘Big-people’ will not let go of forcing our kids to play “Real Baseball” rules despite the USABaseball/MLB American Development Model’s allowing us to take the off-ramp. We will be interviewing the ‘Real Baseball’ crowd to see why they are so convinced that ill-equipped kids must play “Real

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48:38

CYB 095: My 5 Favorite Youth Baseball Practice Drills

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/02/27

Does anyone conduct on-field baseball practice any more? Well if you are fortunate to have regularly scheduled on-field youth baseball practice here are some ideas for you listen to and see if they can benefit your teams. Most of them I use every practice and prior to ballgames. Get your notepad and pencil and jot down some of these drill ideas and try them out at your next on-field baseball practices. Coachandplaybaseball.com

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42:40

CYB 094: Begin with 'Sandlot' & Build Toward the...

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/02/03

Youth baseball has a big problem by using “Real Baseball” rules with almost zero modifications or adaptations. Ever heard of “Sandlot” baseball? Well we are taking a look at starting with “Sandlot” style baseball and find some middle ground with “Real Baseball” rules and procedures. How do we make youth baseball act and mimic more benefits and features of ‘Sandlot” baseball? coachandplaybaseball.com

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36:59

CYB 93 Sorry Not Here to Please Grandma

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2025/01/09

If you know the truth then are you ready to take a stand? Hear about the main purpose for youth baseball and here’s a hint. It is not to please the ‘big-people’. If it doesn’t benefit the kids then we will not be doing that. The Berlin Wall stood over 40 years and through the leadership of Ronald Reagan the wall came down in two months. We can take a stand for our kids and we can do it quickly. coachandplaybaseball.com

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41:46

CYB 092: Wow! 'Big-People' Love the Ballgames

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/11/21

Youth baseball games brings a huge amount of entertainment to the adults. We talk about why adults are so infatuated about watching their kids play baseball. Yet have little or no appetite to make sure the kids practice baseball skills. It’s like they have no concern for them about playing the game well or playing a long time---they just want to go to the ballgames every Tuesday and Thursday night. Coach and Play Baseball.com

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44:12

CYB 91: Its Baseball Dress Up Day

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/10/23

How much “player development” actually is going on in youth baseball? Is youth baseball more about entertaining the “Big-people” or giving kids vitally important reps to build and develop baseball skills? Listen in and decide if you think we are just dressing up in our baseball uniforms or actually ‘playing” baseball. Let’s see if there are improvements to our youth baseball systems that we can implement immediately. Coachandplaybaseball.com

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34:46

CYB 90: Collateral Damage of Youth Baseball

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/09/17

Kids who start playing baseball at age 5 or 6 then reach age 13 & 14 have played 8,9, maybe even 10 years of organized youth baseball. They should be pretty polished by the time they are 13 or 14 right? Not always the case. Too many players are lacking baseball skills. The collateral damages of playing too many games, never practicing on the field and having coaches that are trained to organize player development minded practices are often more the norm than the exception.

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34:29

CYB 089 Baseball the Right Way or Wrong Way

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/08/26

How many on-field baseball practices will a player participate in during their under 12-year-old career? From age 7 to 12 or about 6 seasons how often will kids have an on-field team practice? In addition, how many coaches will be thoroughly trained to conduct these on-field practices which include a large quantity of reps, wide range of throwing skills, sampling of multiple positions, many baserunning opportunities, turning double plays, catching fly balls on the run, numerous times to bat? All

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33:21

CYB 88: Everybody Loves When the Carnival Comes to Town

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/07/26

You all have been to your town carnival or county fair right? It’s exciting and entertaining to go to a town carnival. Youth baseball has a bit of hullabaloo around it that somewhat mimics a carnival. It has an entertainment aspect to it. But the consequences of making kids play games and never practicing on the field leaves players ill-prepared for the 60’-90’ fields. Pro baseball has a rookie level that you may not be aware of that youth baseball should take a long look at and it does not look

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36:37

CYB 087 Sorry Kids Its Out of Order

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/07/11

When we find something ‘out of order’ like an elevator for example it means it needs some special repairs to get it back functioning correctly. It is broken to some degree and working like it should. Is there any part of youth baseball that we can consider as ‘out of order’? Well, here is a couple areas that we will discuss and let you decide if there might be cause for an ‘out of order’ sign. www.coachandplaybaseball.com

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45:53

CYB 086: The Perfect Hitting Technique

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/06/11

Listen to Dave’s suggestions on how to turn the perfect hitting technique into a full-on culture of hitting on your baseball team. You will hear how the professional baseball coaches communicate hitting methods to their players. You might be surprised to hear some hitting techniques that you have never heard before. www.coachandplaybaseball.com

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42:16

CYB 085 Looking for a Few Good Youth Baseball Leagues

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/05/15

What are the options for your area ballplayers when they hit the 60’-90’ ballfields at age 13? Has your organization fully prepared them for this age level? We are looking to join in with your local leagues and teams and work with you on our High Tempo© Baseball Development System and close up all the holes in your player development model and increase the kid’s fun-level at the same time. www.coachandplaybaseball.com

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45:33

CYB 084: Are They Laughing at You Yet?

Coaching Youth Baseball ·

2024/04/18

Have you been brave enough to bring up kid friendly modifations and variations to your local youth baseball leaders and travel ball coaches? Often new ideas are met with laughter and little interest. If they are not laughing at you then maybe it is time to step up your game and get prodding. People only know if we tell them, so it’s time for those laughing at us to get educated. www.coachandplaybaseball.com

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