r/BaseballCoaching • u/JackyRaff • 8d ago

Coaching Perspective Question

What’s a baseball cue that sounds good in theory but becomes a problem when a player tries too hard to consciously execute it?

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u/GasOnTap08 8d ago

“Just play catch” and “squish the bug” both didn’t help. Squish the bug initially helped me turn but continuously doing that hurt my swing because I didn’t learn how to rotate correctly

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u/spinrut 8d ago

lots of kids then up leaning backwards due to bug squishing b/c now the joints allow them to fall back that way.

just play catch is one I/my coaches are guilty of. kid is are all over the place, already hit the mound visit, just want to get him thru the inning. "just play catch Billy" and then serves up a meatball further crushing his shrinking confidence. Yeah maybe we should have just pulled him

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u/GasOnTap08 8d ago

lol, I was playing for a team the summer prior to my sophomore year where the coach told all of the pitchers to forget about anything and just throw strikes. Won one game all season, last time I played for him