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Max Price

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5 years

So bizarre to me that we make high school students pay money to watch their peers play a sport. Want to build a better school community and culture? Make it free for students.

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2 years

Prom tonight. Scariest night of the year for a baseball coach.

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6 years

Backwards hat, tats, sleeveless shirt. Dee Gordon and the @Mariners are ruining the game. No class! Oh wait, they did this before? Griffey and Buhner were involved? And the game of baseball didn’t die? Stop being old & grumpy. Turn ahead the clock night isn’t ruining baseball.

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4 months

Just another high school program out here ruining arms in January 😉

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11 months

The costs of leadership: 1. You will have to make hard decisions that negatively affect people you care about. 2. You will be disliked, despite your best attempt to do the best for the most. 3. You will be misunderstood and won’t always have the opportunity to defend yourself.

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2 years

Goldy’s radio calls of the Julio Rodriguez game-tying HR (25) and Eugenio Suarez walk-off HR (30) in the bottom of the 9th against Atlanta. #Mariners win No. 79 for a tie in the AL Wild Card! #SundaySwings

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2 years

“Hey my freshman son is interested in coming out for baseball. He’s never played before. What can we do to get him ready for tryouts?” I get this email 2-3 times every year. And it always make me sad, because baseball is nearly impossible to start at such a late age.

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2 years

If you’re ever a parent of a baseball player, a great idea is to NOT yell something like, “Come on, we gotta have that!” when one of his teammates makes a defensive error. The game knows, and your son will be next.

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Max Price

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4 years

A freshman took his time packing up after hitting last night - so that only the two of us were left in the gym - to tell me he plans to make our varsity team this year (not in an arrogant or cocky way, just a simple explanation that he has big goals for himself). Fire me up!

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Hard to explain to someone who doesn’t coach at the high school level, how much you have to deal with (assuming you want to run a respectable program) at the high school level. It’s a nonstop gig.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

6 years

If HS baseball coaches’ job descriptions were honest: 1) Fundraising 2) Fieldwork 3) Budgets 4) Chasing down uniforms 5) Psychiatrist 6) Grade & attendance checks 7) Parent issues 8) Coach issues 9) Teaching kids how to use shelves 10) Coaching a little baseball Miss anything?

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2 years

I guess this is what happens at our field before 8:00am. My god.

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1 year

There’s something really special about a high school team with parents who go to the games and cheer on ALL of the players, who don’t get on the umpires, and who even show up for games an hour+ away when they know their kid might not even play.

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2 years

Handwritten cards for each of our freshmen team players congratulating them on playing in their first-ever high school baseball game last night. Aides delivering them to their classes throughout the day today! Little things matter.

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@MrMaxPrice

3 years

Some kids need baseball way more than baseball needs them.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

Side note: is there anything more embarrassing than a middle aged dad yelling at / taunting children playing in a high school game?

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

HS baseball players Christmas challenge Don’t wake up a second earlier than you have to. Your body needs sleep. Study after study after study has shown this. Doing a million pushups at 10am will not make you less of a man than doing a million push-ups at 6am. Go back to sleep.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Here’s Rick Rizzs’ radio call of the go-ahead Adam Frazier RBI double in the 9th to score the Big Dumper. They trailed 8-1 in the 6th inning. Destiny! #SeaUsRise #PostSeason

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@MrMaxPrice

1 year

Tens of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of hours destroyed in five minutes by two teens with nothing better to do on a Monday night. Gilmore Field is absolutely thrashed.

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@MrMaxPrice

8 months

Kid woke up at 3:30am and never went back to sleep. Went to leave for work, but truck wouldn’t start. Wife and kid dropped me off. Spent all day in an anxious funk. Not really present. Just worried about what comes next (tow trucks, $$$$, life with only one car, how I’m going to

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2 years

If you don’t run a hard 90, they’ll find someone else who will. In life and baseball.

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@MrMaxPrice

3 years

An important lesson.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Still trying to figure out how allowing (i.e. encouraging) your players to chirp directly at opposing players helps make them better people. I’ll let you know if I ever find the answer, but I have a feeling it doesn’t exist.

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Max Price

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2 years

I had to cut two players today. We do our best to find ways for kids to stay connected to the program if they so choose, but it’s never fun telling someone that they won’t get to play high school baseball this year. Never take that responsibility lightly.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

HS Athletes: the ability to communicate with your coach is important. Mom shouldn’t be telling him you’ll be gone. Parents: allowing your son to be the main communicator with his coach might be a scary idea, but it’s imperative that you give him the space (& tools) to do it.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

Imagine not playing in a high school baseball game since 2019 and being given the bunt sign in your first plate appearance in 2021.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

One player, after every game, every practice, and every open gym, shakes my hand, looks me in the eyes, and says, “Thank you.” He’s probably done it with me a couple hundred times. It still surprises me every time. And it still makes me feel good every time.

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Max Price

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2 years

Getting comfortable saving runs!

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

When a HS player wants to play college ⚾️, we need to be supportive. But we also need to be honest. Every level of college baseball is better than it was when we played it. The guy “only” playing D3 baseball also throws 90mph & was one of the best players on his HS team.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

Match your 2019 practices to what you saw in your 2018 games. Examples: opposing teams attempted 1&3 plays only 7 times, squeezed never, sac bunted 13 times. Maybe we shouldn’t take time out of every practice to work on these things 🤷‍♂️

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Max Price

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3 years

Four baseball accounts to block right here, right now, that will make your Twitter experience more positive, your life less toxic, and your mind safer: 1. Top Velocity 2. Next Level Baseball 3. Jeff Frye 4. Teacherman And don’t forget to mute the phrase SheGone Enjoy!

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

Group of 5 kids in the back of the bus who didn’t ride home with parents. They’re all talking situations that came up in the game. They don’t think I can hear them. But I can. And it’s good stuff.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

11 months

Someday I will publish a book on what it’s really like to be a head coach of a high school program. But the honesty required of such a book requires the current me to keep it shelved until future me is no longer coaching 🤣

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

6 years

How real job interviews for HS baseball coaches should go: Would you like to be the head groundskeeper of two baseball fields and some large grassy areas 365 days a year? *uhh, well, if that’s what it takes to coach Okay! You’re hired!

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2 years

Huge believer that there should be no hierarchy in a team based on age, no making the freshmen do the unwanted tasks, no kicking the can down the line. Teammates serve each other. Period.

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@MrMaxPrice

2 years

If you spend two minutes on your phone tonight, spend it watching this

Marie Crowe

@mariecrowe

2 years

Love this

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@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Am in the minority in that I actually like when our better HS players go play for different organizations during the summer? You hear my voice from September to May. Go learn something new, or find a nugget I can’t offer, from someone else during the summer. I think it’s healthy.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Don’t compromise your commitment to do the right thing, even when all of your teammates are doing the wrong thing. Whether or they not they follow you is up to them.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Be the kind of parents who show up to watch your 23-year-old son working in his first game as a high school baseball coach in the heat of the summer.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

Two dirty secrets: Shhh.... don’t tell... College outfielders were shortstops in high school. College first basemen were shortstops in high school. (100% of the time it’s true 98% of the time.)

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 months

High school sports (this includes marching band, IMO) have the power to positively impact society in ways nothing else can. The more we can do to protect these endeavors, the better.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

We have a freshman who has never played baseball before. He showed up to a workout two weeks ago. Coulda walked in on day one, looked around, and thought, These guys are good, I think I’ll just go home. But he keeps showing up. Day after day. And it’s incredibly inspiring.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Here’s a question for you, stemming from a true story: If you tear your rotator cuff while throwing BP to your team as a paid HS coach, is that covered as a workplace injury?

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

Grinds my gears when teachers don’t round an 89% up to an A at the end of the semester. Are we really so narcissistic that we don’t think we’re capable of even a 1% margin of error in our grading or teaching practices?

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

11 months

I can’t reiterate enough how much I miss the old format when I was a kid. 10 outs > timed rounds We got to enjoy watching the majestic shots from contact to landing.

Awful Announcing

@awfulannouncing

11 months

It's hard to keep up with the Home Run Derby action as a viewer. ⚾️💣📺

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

Our PVC routine guys will use every day this summer. Disclaimers: 1) Everything here has been stolen. I take absolutely ZERO credit for any of it. 2) Obviously some aren’t doing them perfectly, and why should they? It’s new for many of them!

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Max Price

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2 years

High school sports are in crisis mode. In Oregon, the lack of bus drivers and umpires is preventing baseball and softball games from being played. It’s been compounded by the unusually wet spring, leading to good weather days being wasted for most. Something has to give.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

This is a real picture from one of the bathrooms in the just-completed new wing of our high school.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

Moneyball is a fantastic film, but let’s not forget some of the players on that roster that the filmmakers conveniently ignored: Zito, Hudson, Mulder, Tejada, Chavez, Dye, Durham, Ellis Someone watching might be led to believe this was a bunch of scrubs winning a pennant.

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Max Price

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6 years

Our hitter swung at a 3-0 count (whaaaat!?!?) and popped out in the infield today. Guess how I angry I got at him? 🤬 Just kidding. Didn’t get angry at all. Why? ✅ he took a daddy hack 💪 ✅ if he’d hit a dinger, I’d be pumped 🚀 ✅ I don’t coach outcomes ❌

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

We’re gonna have kids sit in front of a computer screen for 5+ hours. Sports have never been more important.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Sometimes when I need a good chuckle, I remember being trained on how to sanitize baseballs so we would be allowed to hold workouts in the summer of 2020.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

And in his 2nd @SKVolcanoes career PA, @_HunterBishop_ goes yard with a no-doubter to Interstate 5.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

1 year

What were you looking for there? ➡️ Fastball… I didn’t get one. I just threw my hands at it. 🤣 Got a slider. Crushed a walkoff 💣 to send LSU to the CWS championship. When you keep your hands “back,” you can be committed to a fastball & *still* destroy a different pitch.

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Max Price

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4 years

I miss Dustin Lind. For anyone who didn't have the pleasure, here's the link to his hitting library (quite possibly the most important document on the web today):

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

So many guys are scared to play JUCO baseball because they’re afraid that they’re gonna show up in the fall, look around, and realize they’re not as good as they thought they were.

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Max Price

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2 years

From a sophomore throwing 72, to a senior throwing four consecutive complete game victories, to a college freshmen with a 7.57 ERA, to a final D3 season throwing 95mph as one of the top relievers in the nation, to an Oregon State University commit!

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Max Price

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11 months

A difficult piece of coaching is witnessing a parent who only sees their child’s worth through the lineup card. Even worse is a parent who thinks that, because their son isn’t in the lineup, the coach must not value him, either. “If you valued my son he’d be in the lineup.”

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

6 years

Just go to the game, sit back, relax, and enjoy watching your son play baseball. It really IS that easy. I promise. 👊

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

If your principal agreed to buy a book for each of your baseball team's leadership group / inner circle (12-15) players to read next year, what book would you get? The Saxon Ironsides read Legacy by James Kerr this year. Interested to hear what recommendations you all have.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Last night we had one of the rarest calls, one I’ve only ever seen 2x in high school baseball. Hitter called time at the last moment & stepped out of the box, HP ump didn’t grant it, pitcher balked (didn’t throw the pitch). Correct ruling: no balk. No pitch. Reset. Ump did well

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@MrMaxPrice

2 years

A sophomore helping a senior; a senior taking advice from a sophomore. Two guys who were among the state’s best hitters last spring. It’s not an accident. Iron sharpens iron.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Today’s practice plan. Baserunning circuit, modified scrimmage. Lots of reps. You go home tired, but it’s a tired bred from working hard on baseball skills, not a tired designed for the sake of being tired. I’ll post the running circuit later (it’s all stuff I’ve stolen anyway).

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

3-1 curveballs. Only two 1st & 3rd plays. Swinging on 3-0 counts. Green lights for all baserunners. Not giving signs on offense. Letting our C call the game.

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Max Price

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1 year

The Inner Game of Tennis is one of the most-read guides to peak mental performance ever written. And while it uses tennis, it's not about tennis. Want the highlights? Let's do it. ⬇️ Decades ago, researchers at Arizona State University "found decreases in activity in the left

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2 years

@Tjsmith1112 But why would I want to leave a cloud over what should be a great experience for people I care about? Get home super late, spend the night at all your friends’ houses, sleep in, eat, relax. I would rather trust them.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Checking out at Dick’s, chatting it up with the cashier. Long story short: his 5yo son’s had 15 open heart surgeries, spent 3 years in the hospital. Home and healthy now. He said, “There’s always someone going through worse. We’re super grateful and happy!” PERSPECTIVE

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Had a lot of people asking for a copy of our end-of-season player eval form to use in their own programs, so check the replies for a link to download it.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

All these TX schools getting turf diamonds, while we’re up here in Oregon getting every other game rained out on the dirt. I don’t think any state understands the value of high school sports nearly as much as Texas does. Beautiful field ⬇️

Shelbyville Dragons Baseball

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2 years

It’s getting closer!

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

One of the most important questions high school players need to ask themselves is this: Do I truly love this game enough to play in college? So many parents automatically assume their son's answer would be "yes," but playing college baseball is not a recreational experience.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

I’m disgusted that this account exists. I’m disgusted that people think rankings matter. I’m disgusted that a group of 11u kids were subjected by their parents to playing 109 baseball games this year.

Baseball Youth ⚾️

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5 years

And you're number 1 team... Easton Top Notch earning the top spot for the 2nd year!

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

The progression. Surprised it took this many years for Next Level Baseball to finally block me.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

No scholarship offers heading into the fall of his senior year. One school had him set to fly out, only to call him a few days before and cancel. Visits @uoregon on a weekend. Enters campus as a preferred walk-on. Three years later:

MLB Draft

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3 years

With the 38th pick, the @Rangers select @OregonBaseball outfielder Aaron Zavala, No. 76 on the Top 250 Draft Prospects list. Watch live:

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Max Price

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2 years

Whenever grown men in the stands yell stuff at teenage boys playing in a baseball game, I immediately assume that they peaked in high school and the remainder of their life has been a sad, lonely, desolate search for anything resembling the feeling of importance they once had.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

In high school baseball, both of these things are true: ✅ We can win games by focusing on player development centered around individual skills ✅ We can win games by focusing on making opposing teenagers screw up (hard grounders, sac bunts, 1st & 3rds, etc.)

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Max Price

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3 years

I learned a long time ago, while routinely losing by 20+ runs as a head JV coach, that if you can just watch carefully and give each player at least one thing every single day, then by the end of the season they will be exponentially better than they were on day one.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

You don’t throw a 1.80

MLB Stats

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4 years

Don't try running on these backstops. 💪

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@MrMaxPrice

2 years

High school coaches: let’s start a thread for those who haven’t been a head coach yet. Reply with something you didn’t even know you had to think about until you became a head coach (you don’t know what you don’t know) ⬇️

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

Public high schools are supposed to provide sports opportunities for kids. Instead, we are making sports accessible only to kids fortunate enough to have parents with disposable income. The gap is widening. Are we paying attention? Do we care?

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

I can run a private school, only accept the “best” students, kick them out if they struggle, and then advertise that my school produces the best results. I could do the same thing with a travel team. Great coaching runs much, much deeper than great results. Beware of snake oil.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

11 months

The baseball community is awesome, and the Pacific Northwest is full of class. Go Beavs!

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

Having assistant coaches you trust cannot be overstated.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

When I hang up the turfs someday, I’m going to write one hell of a book about emails related to coaching that I’ve received.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

I don’t think non-coaches understand how much time I spend thinking about baseball. It’s sickening.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

The 118th best amateur player in the world signs for only 4.09% of his slotted value. MLB teams know that a drafted senior has zero recourse. What are you gonna do? Threaten to go back to college? This whole system is an absolute joke.

Jim Callis

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5 years

4th-rder Jake Mangum signs with @Mets for $20k (pick 118 value = $487,900). Mississippi State OF, all-time SEC hits leaders, one of top senior signs in @MLBDraft , contact hitter with well above-average speed, good defender with plus arm in CF.

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2 years

Last week we installed the first base edition of our Saxon Baseball baserunning system. We're heavily influenced by @coachtalarico and @CoachSheets3 . Here's one part of our install, when we worked on our landing position.

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2 years

If I could offer parents one piece of sports advice, it would be this: just show up. Over the years I’ve seen so many young men disappointed time and time again because their parent didn’t show up, again. You don’t have to do anything special. Just show up for them.

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@MrMaxPrice

3 years

Charging kids just for the chance to attend a tryout for a team, and not refunding it if they aren’t selected, is gross.

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

5 years

Freshman girl in class: I’ve been talking to a ⚾️ player from another school. Says he throws 88-90. Me: what’s his name? (*looks him up online, finds a player profile on him from July 2019*) Me: he throws 74-77 Girl (2 days later): I confronted him about it. I’m over him.

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@MrMaxPrice

11 months

You can’t keep verbally abusing, mistreating, and pushing out good teachers and coaches… and then be surprised that you can’t find people to be teachers and coaches.

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@MrMaxPrice

11 months

“Winning has a price.” In 2021, the Willard Tigers won the Missouri Class 5 State Championship for the first time in program history. Just three months prior, head coach @ScottMcGee8 was a guest on the @HScoachesClub podcast. One of the golden nuggets he shared: “We’ve been in

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@MrMaxPrice

2 years

Same moment, but from the Braves radio booth. A much different feel ⬇️

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

2 years

I’d love to be at the @ABCA1945 , but if I was, I would have missed out on a great moment with my 2-year-old. He woke up and yelled “Dada!” When I picked him up, I asked if he’d had a bad dream. “No. Hold you.” What? “Dada hold you.” You just wanted dada to hold you? “Yeah.”

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

4 years

Try something like this in HS ball in the PNW, and be prepared for Mr Umpire sprinting over screaming “only 2!!”

Coach Bomber

@Coach_Bomber

4 years

Thanks to @K_Saenz_7 for the video. Your AB starts before the AB. Timing, routine, process.

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6 years

Easiest way to get likes: “Stop playing Fortnite. Go outside and ______.” Or you could take time to understand that your high school players are humans, & their sport doesn’t haven to define their life. What if I told you that you can be a professional athlete AND play Fortnite?

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

Jerry Brewer sent me a collection of videos back in 2017. He was a 🐐 of hitting Twitter. Here’s a preview below and a link to all of the videos:

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

1 year

"Hey we found a box in the old concession stand that looks to have a bunch of baseball stuff in it. Do you want it?" Some real OG cleats in here!

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@MrMaxPrice

1 year

Why an Amazon Wishlist is the BEST ⬇️ When you run a program, there’s a lot of items you want/need. But there’s only so much money. And for a lot of reasons, it’s hard to commit to using your limited budget to buy all of this stuff. Yes, we need new extension cords. Yes, we

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Max Price

@MrMaxPrice

3 years

In today’s episode of: What stat can I make up?

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11 months

#FridayFielders Simple infield circuit. All IFs rotate 5 spots: 1️⃣ SS double play turn 2️⃣ 2B fungo GB to SS 3️⃣ Receive throw at 1st 4️⃣ 1st base bunt throw to 3rd 5️⃣ Receive throw and lay down tag at 3rd

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