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Happy Monday - We’re closing in on the holidays and today we’re looking at a great new Pitching App that I love, along with a way we can help give our players a roadmap for handling life.

So Let’s Go!

Table of Contents

• You’re a Constant Billboard for Your Players

• Great New Pitch-Tracking App

You’re a Constant Billboard for Your Players

We ask a lot of our players and often overlook how powerful we can be for them. We’re human billboards constantly showing them how to be strong, weak, happy, sad, resilient or frazzled. While they may not be seeing, they’re always watching.

I got this article from The Daily Coach and it was written by @leadersonlyco.

Heal in front of your players so they understand that it’s normal to be imperfect.

• Let them see you apologize when you are wrong.

• Let them see you cry on the days that life feels heavy.

• Let them watch you get back up when you fall, not pretending you never hit the ground.

Kids don’t learn resilience from perfection. They learn it from watching someone rise, even when it hurts. They learn love from watching you choose patience and compassion, even in the moments you feel stretched thin.

• You are teaching them that mistakes don’t make you unworthy.

• Growth doesn’t start once life is perfect, it starts right in the middle of the mess.

• So heal loudly, bravely, and honestly.

You’re always giving them permission to be human.

Great New Pitch-Tracking App

Through a quirk of fate I’m back coaching at UCR. When I got there, one of the notes on my desk was from a former UCR baseball pitcher (Fareed Ahmed) who’d developed a pitching data app that was dying to show me how it worked.

Well he did, and it’s remarkable!! It’s called NextPitch Analytics and it’s an amazing app that works on your phone or your tablet. This power packed app makes pitching data simple to gather, to read and to understand.

It’s built to replace your pitching charts including pitch type, location and outcome - during bullpens, live and games.

All the data is displayed in easy-to-read visuals including leaderboards and staff averages The data includes the following, per pitch:

• Strike Rates

• Whiff Rates

• Command Trends

• Location Patterns

• Hard Contact

• Soft Contact

• Strike Rate

• 1st Pitch Strikes

• WHIP

  

• Free 60s/7

• K/7

• Pitches/Outs

• Strike Distribution per Pitch

• Aresenal Stats vs L/R and Both

• Pitch Trajectory

As you can tell - I love this app! I think it collects an amazing amount of data and quickly turns it into usable visuals to help you and your pitchers. I don’t work for them, or get anything out of this - other than sharing a terrific tool that I know will help so many of you.

Plus - it’s SUPER affordable! Give Fareed a call or send him an email - check out NextPitchAnalytics today!!

Website: NextPitchAnalytics.com
App Store: NextPitch Analytics
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 650-430-6639

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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