Majors Baseball: The Complete Coach's Manual for Ages 1012 — Player Pitching, Team Defense, and Game Strategy: Practice Plans a Full 12-Week Season

Kids pitch now. Runners steal. Games are won by the team that knows where the ball goes before it's hit.Majors Baseball is the complete coaching system for ages 10-12 - the biggest years of youth baseball, and the last ones for a lot of players. It takes both halves of the job seriously: building real ballplayers and keeping twelve very different kids in love with a game that just got harder.Inside you'll find: - The pitching chapter every youth coach needs: a twice-weekly bullpen program, mechanics cues, strike-percentage tracking, pitch counts and rest-day guidance, and how to build a 6-8 arm staff out of volunteers - with arm care treated like the professional responsibility it is- The four team-defense installs: backups everywhere, cutoffs and relays, steal coverage, and situational defense - taught in ten minutes a day- The complete 12-week season plan - 24 practices from fundamentals review to full situational baseball- A drill library of 20+ drills: Twenty-One Outs, Cutoff Chains, Blocking School for catchers, double-play feeds, live BP with an approach, the Two-Strike War, and more- The mental game as a skill: the reset routine, pre-pitch routines, and pressure breathing - plus how to coach big feelings, benchings, and blown saves- Game management: pitching changes, defensive positioning, the running game, playing-time systems that hold up, and the hard parent conversations (all-stars, travel ball, "why isn't he pitching more?")Level 3 of the Diamond Ready Coaching Series. Works with any recreational youth baseball program.Compete hard. Develop everyone. Send twelve players forward still loving the game.