Nobody Can Change Everything, Right?

Baseball is such a great game. It’s the only game where the defense has the ball. It has no time limit. Players who aren’t good at offense must still often hit for themselves, while those who aren’t good at defense can still often be found by the...

Culture-Changing Leaders

Coaches and team leaders have a difficult job. In some cases, they’re trying to rescue a team or program that has been in steady decline (or even crisis) for many years. They might lack resources, facilities, talent, and support. Perhaps they’ve inherited...

The Hardest Players to Coach

Proverbs 1:23a “Turn to my reproof…” The hardest players to coach are the ones who see no flaws in their game. It’s not always because they are arrogant, but just that they’ve had so much success they see no obvious reason to change...

Numbers Don’t Lie (Neither Does Your Heart)

Some love it, some hate it, but advanced statistical analysis is here to stay in baseball. Those who hate it, in some cases, want to remember their baseball heroes as the legends they were. Those who love it do so because it gives them a way to better evaluate a...