“Have An Undefeated Attitude, Everyday”
Dragon Baseball Philosophy
Taking Control:
Confidence is the goal of the mental game. If you’re not in control of yourself, you aren’t playing with confidence. With all those thoughts and feelings running wild, you aren’t playing the game one pitch at a time. It’s your responsibility to be in control or yourself.
A confident player has strong positive thoughts and images running through his head. When he’s thinking about baseball, he sees himself playing well and making great plays.
Three Steps
-Have a plan
-Trust yourself
-Self-control
Hitting:
Hitting is a confidence game. If every time you hit you have the mindset that you love hitting and you’re having fun, the rest of the mental game will take care of itself. You can’t control getting hits, but you can control the quality of your at bats. The more quality at bats you have, the more hits you are likely to get.
“It was a constant battle of adjustments. Every at bat, every time in the batter’s box there was a game plan.”- former Boston Red Sox all-star Carl Yastrzemski.
Examples of plans at the plate:
“See it and hit it”
“Hit it hard up the middle”
“Put the fat part of the bat on the ball”
“Look for my pitch in the strike zone”
Pitching:
In no part of the game is being heads-up and playing the game one pitch at a time more crucial than on the mound. Pitching is the most important part of the game. The confidence a pitcher has in his next pitch is probably the most important variable in baseball.
Get into the right mind-set. First, keeping a mind-set of having fun, loving what you are doing and generally keeping the game ‘in perspective’ can be a big help. Those mind-sets clear the obstacles that lead to problems on the mound.
“You’ve got to trust yourself out there. Trust allows you to make the pitch that gets you the ground ball instead of the base hit.”
-Jim Abbot, Former New York Yankee
Fielding:
Success in fielding boils down to anticipation. Good defensive players always know the situation and know what they are going to do with the ball if it is hit to them. There are many things to consider when deciding what to do with a batted ball, including knowing the speed of the runners, the score, the batter’s position in the lineup, the number of out, the type of pitcher you have on the mound, and your strengths and weaknesses as a fielder.
Baserunning:
Baserunning isn’t just about speed. Speed is great if you have it, but if you don’t have quickness in your legs you can still be an excellent base runner by being quick with your mind. Taking an aggressive lead to distract the pitcher, faking a steal and getting a good jump on a base hit are some of the things you can do to get an advantage on the other team regardless of what kind of ‘wheels’ you have. Good base running is as much about have the right mind-set as it is about having physical tools.
Source: Heads-Up Baseball By- Ken Ravizza and Tom Hanson
Dragon Baseball Philosophy
Taking Control:
Confidence is the goal of the mental game. If you’re not in control of yourself, you aren’t playing with confidence. With all those thoughts and feelings running wild, you aren’t playing the game one pitch at a time. It’s your responsibility to be in control or yourself.
A confident player has strong positive thoughts and images running through his head. When he’s thinking about baseball, he sees himself playing well and making great plays.
Three Steps
-Have a plan
-Trust yourself
-Self-control
Hitting:
Hitting is a confidence game. If every time you hit you have the mindset that you love hitting and you’re having fun, the rest of the mental game will take care of itself. You can’t control getting hits, but you can control the quality of your at bats. The more quality at bats you have, the more hits you are likely to get.
“It was a constant battle of adjustments. Every at bat, every time in the batter’s box there was a game plan.”- former Boston Red Sox all-star Carl Yastrzemski.
Examples of plans at the plate:
“See it and hit it”
“Hit it hard up the middle”
“Put the fat part of the bat on the ball”
“Look for my pitch in the strike zone”
Pitching:
In no part of the game is being heads-up and playing the game one pitch at a time more crucial than on the mound. Pitching is the most important part of the game. The confidence a pitcher has in his next pitch is probably the most important variable in baseball.
Get into the right mind-set. First, keeping a mind-set of having fun, loving what you are doing and generally keeping the game ‘in perspective’ can be a big help. Those mind-sets clear the obstacles that lead to problems on the mound.
“You’ve got to trust yourself out there. Trust allows you to make the pitch that gets you the ground ball instead of the base hit.”
-Jim Abbot, Former New York Yankee
Fielding:
Success in fielding boils down to anticipation. Good defensive players always know the situation and know what they are going to do with the ball if it is hit to them. There are many things to consider when deciding what to do with a batted ball, including knowing the speed of the runners, the score, the batter’s position in the lineup, the number of out, the type of pitcher you have on the mound, and your strengths and weaknesses as a fielder.
Baserunning:
Baserunning isn’t just about speed. Speed is great if you have it, but if you don’t have quickness in your legs you can still be an excellent base runner by being quick with your mind. Taking an aggressive lead to distract the pitcher, faking a steal and getting a good jump on a base hit are some of the things you can do to get an advantage on the other team regardless of what kind of ‘wheels’ you have. Good base running is as much about have the right mind-set as it is about having physical tools.
Source: Heads-Up Baseball By- Ken Ravizza and Tom Hanson