Greetings!
The topic of my latest podcast was a discussion about the “Matheny Manifesto”. I went over the bullet points of the letter Mike Matheny wrote to his prospective youth baseball parents when he took over his son’s baseball team to coach for a while.
SIDE NOTE: If you have never read the “Matheny Manifesto” here is a link to it.
Mike’s youth baseball player development philosophy is in clear print pretty much right in front of our face. Every adult that is involved with youth baseball needs to read this.
So, I challenged my podcast listeners to make their own “Matheny Manifesto”.
- What is your approach?
- Philosophy?
- Protocols?
- Operational Plan?
- Goals?
- Purpose?
Do you go over your approach with your parents before the season starts? If you want the parents to be pretty much on the same page with you then you need to have a
Some parents will like your approach and some may not see it the same way. That’s ok. Can’t please everyone and Mike Matheny didn’t please them all either.
Takeaways
I have come up with two (2) questions to ask yourselves from player development eyes.
Player development priorities come down to these two questions.
1) How do we best build our young kids and prepare them to be quality, dependable, righteous young men and women?
2) How can we best develop our players into quality ballplayers who reach their talent ceiling?
If we can put down in writing the answers to these two questions I think we have a very good head start in building our own “Matheny Manifesto”.
Now. go and tell your baseball parents all about it!
It will be much easier to navigate the rough waters of the baseball season when you have a good, sturdy boat to sail on that will not sink when you hit the storms.
Listen to my podcast on this topic.....
What’s Your Plan?
Do you have any ideas to wean 12 & under age baseball off the weekend travel ball and turn it back to player development focused baseball?
So, thankful for what you all do to help service our kids and baseball.
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