Working on picking dropping balls with my youngest hardworking prospect ⚾🙏🇺🇬

I’ve shared this before, but I wanted to put it back out there for any baseball coaches, pitching coaches, parents, or pitchers looking for a more complete approach to pitcher development. I created the Baseball Pitchers Handbook: A Year-Round Development Resource to provide a clear, organized system for developing pitchers beyond simply throwing bullpens. Inside the 260+ pages, I cover: • Pitching mechanics • Arm care and warm-up routines • Throwing progressions • Bullpen structure • Pitch design • Velocity development • Conditioning and PFP • Mental approach and game planning • Recovery, nutrition, and hydration • Injury prevention • Offseason development • Evaluation sheets and goal-setting tools My goal was simple: put everything I would want a high school pitcher to understand, develop, and consistently work on into one resource. I’ve received some really positive feedback from coaches and pitchers who have picked it up, so I wanted to share it again for anyone who may have missed it. 📘 Available now on Amazon: https://a.co/d/00zAxBqY If you coach pitchers, have a pitcher at home, or are a pitcher looking to take more ownership of your development, I’d love for you to check it out. And if you already have a copy, let me know what section has been most useful for you.

Coach JT here. Whether you coach baseball or softball, your experience and questions belong in this community. Let's get you connected and help you find something useful for your next practice. 1. Introduce yourself below - Sport and age group: - Coaching role: - City/state or country: - Biggest coaching challenge right now: - What you've already tried: Already part of the Pack? Share an update about your current team or challenge. 2. Open Start Here: Your First 10 Minutes in the Classroom The guide points you toward resources for practice planning, team culture, parent conversations, hitting confidence, and recruiting. 3. Join a conversation Reply to another coach or post a specific question in Ask a Coach: Q&A. Include your sport, age group, situation, and what you've tried so others can give useful answers. 4. Try one idea - and tell us what happened Your field experience helps the next coach. Share what worked, what didn't, and what you changed. Check the Calendar for upcoming live sessions. Start with one connection and one useful idea. Let's build from there. - Coach JT Pack Baseball & Softball Academy

Coaches, It’s been way too long since I’ve personally posted in here. I’ve been watching from a distance, and I love seeing that so many of you have continued talking, sharing ideas, helping each other and building relationships even while I haven’t been as active as I should have been. First — thank you. And second… there’s a reason I’ve been so quiet. For roughly the last six months, a huge amount of my attention has been focused on building something that I believe could have a major impact on coaches, trainers and training businesses. And we are finally ready to start showing it to people. Here’s the problem we’ve been trying to solve: As coaches, almost everything we earn is tied to our time. One coach. One athlete. One lesson. One hour. Eventually your schedule fills up. Your best coaches fill up. Your facility fills up. And even though you may have years — sometimes decades — of coaching knowledge, your ability to share and monetize that knowledge is still limited by the number of hours you can physically work. We started asking a different question: What if your coaching expertise could keep working even when you weren’t personally standing next to the athlete? What if athletes could have more access to: • Your coaching philosophy • Your teaching methods • Your drills • Your standards • Your evaluations • Your feedback • The questions you would ask • The corrections you would make …between lessons, practices and games? And what if you could turn that additional access into an entirely new recurring-revenue stream for your coaching business? That’s what we’ve been building. It’s called ReplicAI•tor Coach™. The simplest way I can explain it is: Replace yourself with yourself. This is NOT about replacing coaches with AI. I have absolutely no interest in that. It’s about giving great coaches a way to capture what they know, amplify their impact, serve more athletes and build revenue beyond the number of appointments on their calendar.

When you’re a new coach, the hardest part usually isn’t knowing that you need to coach. It’s figuring out how to organize everything. What do I run at practice? How do I explain this drill? How do I keep parents updated? Where do I save my practice plans? A few tools can make that learning curve a lot easier: - ChatGPT / Claude can help turn a basic goal into a practice plan, suggest drill variations, or help you structure a practice when you’re not sure where to start. - YouTube is incredibly useful when you’re learning a new drill yourself. Sometimes watching an experienced coach demonstrate something is much easier than reading instructions. - Canva can help you create simple visual drill cards or practice sheets that you can keep on your phone and reference during practice. - Google Drive gives you one place to keep your practice plans, schedules, team documents, and coaching resources instead of having them scattered across your computer. - TeamSnap can take some of the communication headache away by helping with schedules, attendance, and keeping parents informed. - Loom is handy if you have assistant coaches. You can record a quick explanation of how you want a drill run instead of trying to explain everything through a long text message. - Floment is another option for keeping coaching resources, tasks, discussions, and useful materials organized in one workspace. The important thing for a new coach isn't having the most advanced setup. It’s having a simple system that lets you spend less time figuring things out and more time paying attention to your players. And honestly, you don't need to be the coach who knows everything. You just need to keep learning, stay organized, and create an environment where your players can improve and enjoy the game. For the coaches who have been doing this for a while, what’s one resource, tool, or coaching habit you wish you had when you first started?