BaseballThink was founded by Andy Katz. Andy has coached baseball at various levels and currently plays and manages in the Boston Men’s Baseball League. He recently teamed up with Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox to create the Grip N’ Rip Club. The Club provides ballplayers with savings on batting cages, equipment, apparel, and more. The effort also benefits children’s charities in the Boston area via Kevin Youkilis Hits For Kids.
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Hi Andy,
Love the web site. Great for kids if they want / need tips on how to play this game. I’ve been coaching and teaching kids pitching for almost 24 years now myself. I work with Dan Jalbert and the guys at Extra Innings in Woburn and would love to write something on pitching tips for kids if you ever need. I also play in MSBL (still) at my ripe old age of 42. I still coach at the youth level within St. Mary’s Cal Ripken in Revere and also I’m a pitching instructor / coach within the Boston Jr. Rams AAU program. Thanks again and again…great web site !!!
John “Smokey” Moore
Andy, seems odd that you ask for opinions from professionals in baseball instruction and ask for their web addresses, but then don’t publish the addresses with the comments. When I commented on the 3-0 green-light question, I used “we” – it was not the “royal we” but I referring to webball.com as a site and community which I thought would be references in the reply.
Richard-
Thanks for contributing your opinions on the blog. You will notice that if anybody clicks on your name it links to webball.com. This is how WordPress handles it. If you find a way to mention your website in your post that is relevant to the discussion, please feel free to do that as well.
Andy
Interesting, after reading some of your comments about how unprecise (?) the rules of baseball are. I looked in MLB rules for the definition of a strike, then came across the rule for Base On Balls..
A BASE ON BALLS is an award of first base granted to a batter who, during his time at bat, receives four pitches outside the strike zone.
notice that there is no mention about whether the batter hit (fouled) one of the pitches outside the strike zone.Just that there were 4 pitches outside the strike zone.
any comments on this…