by Dave Franco | Interview, Mental Baseball, Pitching, T: NLB Pitching
Repetition can be used as a tool to regain focus in many different sports. In basketball, players will dribble the ball and spin it in their hands a unique way before a free-throw attempt to clear their head and focus on the shot. In tennis, before a serve, the player...
by Dave Franco | Pitching, T: NLB Pitching, Th: Coaching
Today we get a great interview with Mississippi State University’s pitching coach, Wes Johnson. He has been a coach since 1998 and has had numerous pitchers of his drafted by MLB teams. His specialty is developing pitchers and increasing their velocity. This is...
by Dave Franco | Uncategorized
Most people think of outfield defense and golden gloves when the name Alex Gordon comes to mind. It may come as a surprise to hear that in his second year in the MLB while playing with the Kansas City Royals in 2008, Gordon led all American League third basemen in...
by Dave Franco | Hitting, Interview, T: NLB Hitting
A common mistake high school hitters can make is getting hung up on their swing mechanics rather than getting in the right place mentally before and during an at bat. Dante Bichette, the proud owner of the first home run in Colorado Rockies’ history, claims...
by Dave Franco | College Recruiting/Scouting
I recently had the opportunity to spend a week in the Dominican Republic with the Elon University baseball team and thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Coach Kennedy. Coach Mike Kennedy has been the head coach at Elon in North Carolina for 18 seasons, 17 of...
