Jan 5, 2017 | Diamond Devotions
Coaches are always trying to teach players to think ahead, to develop instincts, to make wise decisions. If you listen, you’ll hear coaches trying to teach this. “Think about what you’re going to do with the ball before it’s hit to you…If...
Jul 5, 2016 | Diamond Devotions
If there’s anything baseball coaches hate more than laziness, it’s players’ girlfriends. Just ask them. “He was a great player. Then he got a girlfriend.” “He always stayed around for extra hitting. Then he got a girlfriend.”...
Jan 5, 2015 | Diamond Devotions
There are two types of people with whom you can surround yourself in baseball: those who know that they don’t know it all and those who don’t know that they don’t know it all. The first group are typically continual students of the game, always...
Feb 7, 2014 | Diamond Devotions
He burst onto the scene in 1995 as one of the most highly touted prospects in years. In fact, he was the biggest thing to hit Major League Baseball since his teammate Ken Griffey, Jr. Alex Rodriguez had it all. On the field, he was as good defensively as he was...
Aug 7, 2013 | Diamond Devotions
In the past decade or so, baseball has been littered with the scandal of players whose careers and legacies are tarnished because of the use of performance enhancing drugs. What those drugs helped the players produce was exhilarating for everyone involved–home...
