Remote Catching Coach. All-SEC C @OleMissBSB, @SanDiegoPadres alum, Fmr @USABaseballCNT Bullpen Coach. Questions/remote instruction? [email protected]
Birmingham, AL
Joined January 2014
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Brett Basham retweeted
Full day catcher training with Coach Basham sharpening all catcher skills. We worked on receiving, blocking, special drills, block and recover and throwing technique. Was a good day of work!! Thank you Coach!
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Brett Basham retweeted
My oldest son is 29, a captain in the USMC. He traveled all over the place, playing baseball, until he was 21. Then he'd had enough, decided not to play at the Naval Academy. He tells me, in regard to my business, "Dad, sell fun. Try to convince dads to keep it fun." That's all.
100%
"I would want to punch him in the face underneath the dugout." 😳
@ErikKratz31 says it makes his skin boil to think Framber Valdez would intentionally cross up his own teammate.
Brett Basham retweeted
Pitching, in its most general sense, is the disruption of a hitter's timing.
Inducing weak contact, or swings and misses, is the goal.
Greg Maddux told me one time, during my first WBC when he was the @WBCBaseball @USABaseball pitching coach, that every pitch he delivered was thrown with the "intent" to get the hitter out.
Intent is the key word here.
As a pitcher, or catcher, what is your intent?
Not spin rate, or any analytical number.
Intent.
Brett Basham retweeted
Dear Catcher,
This is Mr. Coach. How dare you do a deflection with your mitt on the 100mph FB spiked at 56’ feet. You need to first get off your knee, slide your body over with two knees down, tuck your chin, and get your barehand behind the ball!
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Reality: Nice athletic game-saving stop. Do what you gotta do!
Catch first, Stop it second.
Hands move faster than the body!
I’ve never met a pitcher that tried to intentionally throw a fastball in the dirt.
Brett Basham retweeted
For those of you who believe in glove load & moving the ball, this is a good drill to reset when you are coming out of your load too soon & don’t have enough ball flight to accurately assess where the pitch will end up.
This is a great concept from @DrBhrettMcCabe on how to accurately review poor performance.
When reviewing the particular aspects of competition that didn’t go as planned, you can usually point back to 5 ways to assess what went wrong. 🧵
4.Bad Mental Focus
You just had a mental letdown at the moment that mattered the most, or, for a team, at exactly the wrong part of the game. If you feel that < optimal amount of mental focus contributed to the adverse result, its important to figure out what contributed to it
Catchers waste a ton of reps in the bullpen.
There are three phases of a bullpen where, if taken advantage of, you can really help yourself and help the team.
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2. Bullpen
- Train receiving, blocking, and throwing at game speed. This is the best way to simulate game-like reps.
- Give pitcher honest feedback on stuff (shape, movement, etc.) and anything mechanical you see