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Why Playing Other Sports Can Improve Baseball Performance

2026-10-0711:54

Send us Fan Mail Parents Are Running Baseball This episode makes a direct case against year-round single-sport specialization in youth baseball. Coach Ken Carpenter argues that multi-sport athletes are more durable, less burned out, and better prepared for long-term development than kids who play baseball only. He breaks down the issue through sports science, psychology, and real-world coaching observations, with the core message that athletes should diversify instead of locking into basebal...

How To Teach Base Stealing That Wins Games

2026-09-3052:36

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Graeber on Masters Academy International, year-round development, and a practical system for base stealing Coach Ken Carpenter talks with Kevin Graeber, the coach behind Masters Academy International in Massachusetts, about building an athletics-centered school, developing runners without overloading them, and teaching base stealing with repeatable mechanics. Kevin breaks down his approach to leads, returns, right-handed and left-handed pitchers, momentum steals, and st...

3 Reasons Why Command and Movement Will Always Beat Pure Velocity

2026-09-2330:58

Send us Fan Mail Win a state championship as a player, win a gold medal with Team USA, then come home and win another state title as the head baseball coach. That is the arc Coach Kristen Caldwell brings to Baseball Coaches Unplugged, and it is packed with practical lessons for anyone building a high school baseball program the right way. We talk about the real transition from assistant to head coach at Caravel Academy in Delaware, including how she handled roster turnover, set priorities, an...

How Elite High School Coaches Win With Average Rosters

2026-09-1612:50

Send us Fan Mail The gap between a good high school baseball team and a great one is rarely just talent. It is the coach’s ability to create an environment where “average” players execute like winners and where the team keeps improving when the schedule gets tough. We start with an uncomfortable question: if two programs have the same roster of gritty, ordinary athletes, why does one compete for district and regional titles while the other scrapes for 10 wins and blames everyone else? We get...

Is It Mechanics or Overuse? The Truth About High School Tommy John Surgery

2026-09-0930:04

Send us Fan Mail Tommy John surgery shouldn’t feel like a rite of passage for teenage pitchers, yet more high school baseball players are dealing with UCL tears and elbow sprains before they ever graduate. We sit down with Dan Deleandro, a sports physical therapist at Ohio State University Sports Med and an assistant varsity baseball coach, to get honest about what he’s seeing in the clinic and on the field and why the elbow is taking the hit more than the shoulder. We dig into when throwing...

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