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Jun 11
This is fair but incomplete. It's not a battle between "players should be paid" and "players should F off".
Yes, NCAA is big business. Players deserve their rightful share. But it's also fair to note that something huge has been lost as we've professionalized amateur sports.
Jun 10
Don’t you dare take an opportunity to better your personal situation while doing something you love!!!
Said NO ONE EVER!
Broken record during Portal Season about how it has ruined the game.
The portal is the free market, if you don’t like it, be better. Adapt or die.
Coaches changing jobs..it’s the free market…let it rip.
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Jun 9
Have your athlete write, in their own words, why they want to compete in college. Not the answer a coach wants, the real one. If it is "because everyone expects me to," it is better to know now, at the kitchen table, than in a dorm room in October.
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Jun 1
This matches what I have witnessed.
Jun 1
May is over. Here is what the next thirty days actually look like inside college baseball, since most parents do not see it.
June 1 opens the main transfer portal window. Within seventy-two hours, hundreds of college players enter. Some are walking away. Most have been pushed.
Coaches who lose players to the portal are on the phone within hours, sometimes minutes, reshaping their rosters. That reshaping cascades downward — Power 4 takes from mid-major, mid-major takes from D2 and NAIA, D2 and NAIA take from junior college, and junior college reaches into the high school class.
A 2026 who thought his commitment was settled in March can find his depth chart completely different by July 4.
If your son is committed, this is the month to have an honest check-in with his future coach. Not a panicked one. A direct one. "What does the roster look like for me right now?" is a fair question. Coaches who answer it honestly are the coaches you want.
The June portal does not slow down for anyone. The families who watch it carefully are the ones who avoid the August surprise.
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Jun 1
Every player is different but this is generically bad advice.
What % of big leaguers "pitched minimally" in HS vs the threw really hard and pitched/won a lot.
Pitching is a skill. Optimizing to minimize injury risk when that's so hard to quantify is not a great plan IMO.
May 31
“If you throw 95mph in high school, the best thing you can do for your career is stop pitching.” -Nick Sanzeri (HC of Menlo Park Legends collegiate team) @SanzeriBaseball @MPLegends
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May 30
Is there anything baseball color commentators love more than "not trying to do too much"?
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May 23
Tommy Troy finding out that he has been called up to the major leagues
#DBacks
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May 20
All roads in college sports lead to a collective bargaining agreement between athletes and colleges.
Even if the most NCAA friendly version of the SCORE act had passed, the ripple effect would have been player unionization, a strike or threat to strike, and ultimately a CBA.
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May 20
We are now at a weird point where the ending is clear, but how we get there is incredibly unclear. Hardest to figure out is why the NCAA's member schools are still fighting to avoid what they will eventually welcome.
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Regular season comes to an end (sophomore/varsity)
- .327 BA
- .430 OBP
- 25 hits
- 20 rbis
- 5 doubles
Pitching got delayed mid season due to some shoulder problems but going to be coming back on mound for playoffs.
@HankLoForte @RealAdamFarb @Alpha_BSB @WCPSacramento
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Feb 5
Ray Gun -> Jugs (3-4 mph)
Jugs -> Stalker (roughly 1 mph)
Stalker -> TrackMan (1-2 mph)
No one has used a Ray Gun for a long time.
There IS a difference between how velo was read in 2000-2010 and now; but the increase in velocity in the game is not fully explained by the guns
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11 Nov 2025
No No No No No! This is a baseball trope that is flat wrong.
The reason BATTING AVERAGE goes down so much on 2-strike count is bc you can't STRIKE OUT on a 1-strike count.
BABIP on 1-1 is .308
BABIP on 1-2 is .293
I'm all for count leverage. But against misleading stats.
11 Nov 2025
Listen to Eugene Get In depth about getting ahead in the count🔥🥎
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4 Nov 2025
There's a bunch of misinformation out there, so let's clear it up:
Yes, we sold NCTB... but @NCTB_TheLeague will be unchanged. Same management, same format, etc.
No doubt my favorite thing I've created or done in baseball- The League is a joy every year. Can't wait!
4 Nov 2025
Year 13 of The League is loading!
Tryout Dates/Sites: playnctb.com/events/the-leag…
Info on The League:
playnctb.com/league/
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4 Nov 2025
Apparently the baseball world is going crazy because "Steve in Accounting" liked or didn't like something...
I stay out of all that- that was an AWESOME World Series and I loved every minute! Guys played their tails off! Baseball with that kind of urgency is a great game.
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31 Oct 2025
Understanding pitching metrics does not make you a good pitching coach.
But if you don't understand what's worked and what hasn't in the modern landscape, it's pretty much guaranteed that you are not a good pitching coach.
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31 Oct 2025
It all matters: command, pitch development, ability to compete, biomechanics, power generation. All of it. Be suspicious of any coach who thinks one thing is a silver bullet.
Coaching high-level skill development is an art. Being a specialist in just one area doesn't cut it.
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18 Oct 2025
Anecdotally, shadow zone 2 seamers (moving back towards the zone) seem to be called strikes at a higher rate than shadow zone breaking balls moving away from the zone. Any analytics folks know if that is true?
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17 Oct 2025
For those who saw my post a few weeks ago and don't know, on August 29th, we completed the sale of NCTB (my business for the last 20 years) to Unrivaled Sports.
It was a long process with a fantastic outcome for myself, Jim and Vince.
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17 Oct 2025
I want to say thank you to everyone who was a part of the journey with me at NCTB. It's way too many for a twitter post. Please know I am grateful to all of you and it was a joy to share this road with you.
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17 Oct 2025
20 years of tourneys, the Cal Cup, 11 years of the USA Baseball NTIS, 12 years of The League. We've gotten to see generations of players grow up in front of us and we were able to provide them places to hone their craft. That is its own reward.
I am filled with gratitude.
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