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Kevin Gee retweeted
“Worry is a waste of time." – Pat Murphy at the World Series
Worry lives in the future. Your job is this pitch.
Learn. Control. Plan. Commit. 🎯
Kevin Gee retweeted
Want to know what a great teammate looks like?
Someone who cares more about the TEAM winning than who gets the credit.
No ego. No complaining. No worrying about individual recognition.
Just doing whatever it takes to help the team win. 👇
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“We are not here for egos… we are here to win a ring.” How refreshing…. 90% of travel teams, 70% of HS teams, and 50% of college teams… could take a hard lesson from the best!
I asked Trevor Megill his thoughts after not coming in for the save/Murph keeping Ashby out there for the 2nd time this postseason. His answer, “we’re not here for egos, we’re here to win a ring.”
#Brewers | #WinOurWay
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One thing baseball taught me that took years to fully appreciate...
Not everyone who works hard gets rewarded right away.
Not every talented player gets an opportunity.
Not every good person catches a break.
And sometimes, the people doing everything right are the ones struggling the most.
That's life, too.
Keep showing up. Keep treating people right. Keep doing the work.
Just because the results haven't caught up to your effort doesn't mean they never will. 👊
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Hi. We are the Rays, Guardians and Brewers. We play the game the right way. With a runner on 2b and zero outs, we hit behind the runner. We bunt, steal and take what the game gives us. We do not strike out like other teams. We don’t care about home runs, overvalue analytics, etc. We care about baseball. We care about winning. We can beat anyone despite our payroll. Cheers.
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At some point, baseball has to get back to valuing ballplayers and not just numbers on a screen. Give me the Freddie Freemans, the Buster Poseys, Hunter Pences, Pablo Sandovals, Michael Youngs, Ian Kinslers of the world. Guys who just flat out know how to play the game. Everyone wants to talk launch angle and exit velo, but what happened to valuing a quality at bat?” The 9-pitch battle that might end in an out, but forces a pitcher to show everything he’s got.
The guy who hits behind the runner, takes what’s given, or just refuses to give a pitcher an easy inning. Those at-bats might not look sexy in the box score, but they show up in the 7th, 8th, and 9th. Some of these dudes could absolutely leave the yard too. That’s the point. They weren’t one-dimensional. Somewhere along the way, we confused measurable tools with knowing how to win baseball games.
I’m not against analytics or hitting the ball hard, but there is an art to winning that you can’t fully measure. We need more guys who know how to play baseball, not just hitters, not just athletes, ballplayers. And I promise you, those dudes never go out of style
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Bryce Harper thought about his son Krew and "what [he] would say to him in that situation" as he turned the page on the misplay in right field. ❤️
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Hard is coming.
In baseball. In school. In your career. In relationships. In life.
You don’t get to choose whether hard eventually finds you.
But you DO get to choose who you are when it arrives.
Confidence helps you through hard. I believe that.
So does preparation.
So does discipline.
So does having people in your corner.
So does faith.
So does doing difficult things when life is still comfortable.
Because when adversity finally shows up, you rarely rise to some magical new level.
You fall back on what you’ve built.
The bullpen when nobody was watching.
The extra reps.
The early mornings.
The failures you refused to run from.
The promises you kept to yourself.
Don’t spend your life hoping things get easier.
Build yourself into someone who can handle when they don’t.
Hard is coming.
Build your floor. Chase your ceiling. 🔨⚾️
Kevin Gee retweeted
Iowa QB Hank Brown talks about his tattoo of Acts 20:24 on his arm:
“My purpose & my aim in this life, is to tell others about the good news of God’s grace, which is the fact that God sent his son to die on the cross for our sins. We deserve to be on the cross & pay that penalty, but he was the substitute for us… Now he extends that gift of grace. All we have to do is accept it... I want everyone to know that gift. Ultimately, that’s my purpose & that’s why I have that [tattooed] on my bicep”
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Tony Gwynn shares what it took to become one of the greatest hitters of all time and how to master the mental game.
"It took me a while to figure it out, but after about 4 or 5 years, I started to realize that this thing was more mental than it was physical."
He didn't figure it out alone.
"Those first 5 years, I had great conversations with a lot of great players. Pete Rose, Willie Stargell, Henry Aaron, Mike Schmidt. I had a chance to sit down and talk to 'em - pick their brain, find out how they do what they do."
The greats learn from the greats. They never stop learning. They never stop wanting to get better.
"After about 4 years, I started to realize that this is more mental than physical. So what I need to do is get an approach that I think will work and then just trust the approach. Trust what you practice on. Trust it."
That's the key. Create the plan then work the plan. And when it's not working, you still trust yourself.
"During the winter, I can hit in a cage and be mechanically sound. But the first time I hit live in spring training, I'll be lucky if I get a ball out of the cage."
"For younger guys, that's a sign of, 'Oh, I'm not getting out of the cage,' so they try to speed things up, do things quicker."
Trust your approach and stay under control. Don't let frustration change who you are.
The game is mental.
The greats know that and they learn how to build a process that works for them.
They adapt as needed, but they learn the art of focus. Focusing on how to master and trust the process.
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Hitters: BE ON GO!
Think: YES. YES. NO.
Anticipate getting YOUR pitch in YOUR zone.
You’re not waiting to decide whether you should swing.
You’re preparing to swing until the baseball tells you NOT TO.
The TAKE is the decision.
Yes - I’m hitting
Yes - I’m hitting
No - that’s not my pitch
Too many hitters operate:
No. No. Maybe…
And then they're late when the pitch they wanted actually shows up.
Be ready to hit. Hunt your pitch. Let the ball stop you.
Be on GO!
Kevin Gee retweeted
Too many people have gotten way too comfortable with being horrible human beings.
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🚨 A MUST LISTEN for all amateur ballplayers wanting to play in college. Long but SO MUCH VALUE here!
Alabama HC Rob Vaughn on college baseball recruiting and the type of player you truly want in your program, no matter the level.
“Our job in college baseball, yes, it's to win games. Yes, it's to develop big leaguers, and yes, it's all the things that we all talk about in recruiting, but more than anything, it's to prepare these kids to be successful for whatever comes next. And man, as good as the talent is in this league, as good as the talent is on this team, not all of them are going to be career big leaguers, you know. And I think what makes Tyler Fay’s journey so awesome, is in a world that is inundated with particularly moms and dads that want your kid to cut and run when when they're not starting every day or they're not playing every day. You see at one end of the equation, you either get the parents are like, ‘Hey man, put your head down to work. We got to get better.’ And you get the parents that feed into the narrative, ‘man, they're not giving you a chance. You got to go. You got to leave.’ the thing about him that makes him so special is regardless of whether Tyler's a 20-year big league or not, that guy's going to be a smashing success in life because when things get hard, he doesn't cut and run. He's not sticking his hand out looking for the next easy way and who's going to pay me more. He’s the I'm going to put my head down. I'm going to work and I'm going to get better.”
Guys like him are the exact reason you believe in what you recruit. You believe in makeup, you better hunt makeup because that guy has that in spades. And that's why he deserves every ounce of what he's getting right now.”
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