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Happy Monday! It’s hard to believe this is the last newsletter of 2025! 54 total issues where I’ve tried sharing things I hope have helped you or your pitchers in some small way. Our Pitching Zooms are back with a bang - check out the upcoming schedule - along with how to crank up your pitching culture.

With the season upon us - Happy New Year to All of You!

Let’s Go!

Table of Contents

• Zooms Are Back

• Crank Up Your Pitching Culture

Zooms Are Back

After a nice break for a Convention and the Holidays our Pitching Zooms are back!!

On the next two Sundays our Zoom Members will be kicking off the season with two outstanding coaches. Not a Zoom Member yet? let’s fix that right now!

• SUNDAY, JANUARY 4th: 4:00-5:00pm Pacific Time - LANCE GLASOE (“What I Focus on the First Month of the Season.”)

• SUNDAY, JANUARY 11th: 4:00-5:00pm Pacific Time - ZACH BRANDON (“Lessons on the Mental Game I’ve Learned from Working with the World’s Best.”)

Crank Up Your Pitching Culture

James Kerr wrote a book called Legacy. It’s a great book that details the most successful sports team in the world - the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby Team. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend you do.

Meanwhile there’s a quote in the book that states what we need our staffs to embrace as we head into the start of the season. A season that will require all our pitchers in order to successfully navigate it.

This quote is about oneness, which is much greater than family. It’s even more important than having clearly defined roles. Oneness is about helping players understand that their success is dependent on their teammates — and vice versa.

As in “I can’t be my best unless you’re at your best”. When pitching staffs really buy into this concept, role clarity stops feeling like being put into a box and starts feeling like responsibility to the group. It begins to feel like I need to do my job for my teammates.

For the All Blacks this turns into saying things like: “I need you to do this so I can do my job.” or “What can I do to help you do yours better?” That’s when oneness becomes real. Not chemistry. Not vibes. But Interdependence. And that’s what winning cultures on winning pitching staffs are built on.

My other favorite points from Legacy are:

As a note, I took this concept and a large part of this article from a post by @Mike_Jagacki

Thanks for reading this week’s Curveball Chronicles. I hope you gained some insight, some encouragement, some knowledge or some grace.

Go make this a Great week!

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