How to get your youth catcher to block!
While blocking seems to be stuffed in the basement of major league baseball, youth coaches know how important it is at the lower levels...
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Jeremy Howard
- Nov 1, 2021
Spend The Off-Season In The Gym
One of the biggest reasons why we are so pumped to add in Strength and Conditioning to our facility is that it can really give our...
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Jeremy Howard
- Oct 25, 2021
Mask On or Mask Off?
Maybe the title is a little click bait, but we need views! But in all seriousness, I get asked this question often by many of my younger...
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Jeremy Howard
- Oct 18, 2021
One Knee Down: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Over the last couple of years we've started to see more and more big league catchers switch up their stances to a one knee down stance....
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Jeremy Howard
- May 18, 2021
So you want to play college baseball/softball!?
I remember when I was about 12 years old I started to really desire playing college baseball. That was the first year I played on a...
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Jeremy Howard
- Nov 6, 2020
Off-season Focus
Hey all! What a weird season it's been, but I know here in Colorado we've made the best of it and we got a good amount of game time and...
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Jeremy Howard
- Jun 16, 2020
Overcoming Adversity
Everyone! Thank you so much for continuing to wait for more content. I apologize for not updating the blog, but now I'm back at it. What...
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Jeremy Howard
- Sep 18, 2019
Setting Positive Expectations for Growth
Sorry for my absence on the blog here; Both my personal life and the training facility have been busy! I'm also in the middle of writing...
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Jeremy Howard
- Jul 29, 2019
Stay safe with plays at the plate
Earlier this month Jonathan Lucroy got absolutely blasted by Jake Marisinik at home plate. There was quite a bit of controversy with this...
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Jeremy Howard
- Jul 27, 2019
Should you be playing Fall Ball?
If you don't know yet, playing baseball year round is a bad idea. There, now you know! Why is that? Throwing a baseball isn't exactly...
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Jeremy Howard
- Jul 6, 2019
Difference Between Secondary Stance and Primary Stance
I've had a few questions on social media regarding what we do in our primary stance and what we do in a secondary stance. The first thing...
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Jeremy Howard
- May 20, 2019
The Catching Mentality
This weekend I was able to go watch some Division 1 baseball here in Northern Colorado. It was a great game to watch and I took some...
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Jeremy Howard
- May 10, 2019
MLB Draft #1 Pick - Catcher?
The MLB draft is coming up and the overall consensus is that Oregon State catcher, Adley Rutschman will be the #1 overall pick. While he...
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Jeremy Howard
- Apr 29, 2019
Making Changes
At many points throughout our baseball career we are going to make changes to our swing mechanics, throwing mechanics, and overall...
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Jeremy Howard
- Apr 22, 2019
Process > Results
So often I find young guys that are struggling too concerned with their results and when they're succeeding... too concerned with their...
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Jeremy Howard
- Apr 15, 2019
Tips For Receiving Breaking Balls
Here's part 3 of our receiving series on YouTube... this one goes over some tips for how to receive breaking balls. Whether it's sliders,...
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Jeremy Howard
- Apr 8, 2019
Mental Disconnect - Taking your skills from practice into the game
As this first month of the spring season has finished I'm sure some of you have been absolutely killing it! If that's you, keep going!...
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Jeremy Howard
- Mar 25, 2019
Improve Your Pop Time
If you aren't yet subscribed to our YouTube channel, here's a video we put out last year on how to improve your pop time:
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Jeremy Howard
- Mar 11, 2019
Communication: Why is it important and how can you get better at it?
Spring is mostly here and teams from MLB all the way down to little league teams are getting ready for the upcoming season. Our high...
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Jeremy Howard
- Mar 4, 2019
Throwing With Intent!
While having solid mechanics is great, at the end of the day we still want catchers to be athletes! I'm a firm believer in the fact that...
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