Better Men, Better Ballplayers

Better Men Better Ballplayers Podcast with Billy Emerson of Paul VI HS

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BIO

• HC of Paul VI HS
• Career record 336 - 191 (winning over 50% games in his career)
• PVI since 2003 season
• 3 Conference WCAC championships
• 4 VISAA championships
• 8 times nationally ranked
• Over 100 players in college or drafted
• Paul VI HOF class of 2022

NOTES

• Coaching in the summer is a way for me to learn and get better from the college guys
• Each year you are taking a big hunk of clay and hopefully by the end of the year you hope it becomes a masterpiece
• You win games you should of lost and you lose game you should of won
• If you want consistency you have to be consistent
• You have to stick to the plan
• Maintain a coaching staff that can stick around a long time
• Put together standards and values that you can stick to
• Focusing on development players
• Its also about developing human beings
• Using the game to create things that they can use later in life
• If you focus on the right things the baseball things take care of themselves
• End of season meetings
• Using the battles to do use as fire and do more than this year
• You can do things to foster team chemistry (this is how we do things)
• You can’t force it, you need to foster it
• You can’t fool the players, it has to be real
• You can’t force someone to love you
• Expose our guys to different types of people
• Classroom session in the off season
  • Pitchers and catchers, hitters, mental toughness training
• When a guy walks out of our program and he is blessed to play college baseball and he is prepared to step on campus that is an awesome thing
• Another huge win is when a guy comes back and says I know what you were saying
• We have objectives everyday
• Explain to the guys why and how this is gooing ot effect you now and down the road
• The game mirrors life because you have to sit there during moments of inactivity but be ready
• The value of paying attention to details
• There is a karma around the game and if you don’t pay attention it will bite you!
• Keep the baseball demons away from us!
• Every time we take batting practice we implement baserunning system
• Defensively we take balls live - making people make throughs at game speed
• Challenging the pitchers and hitters at practice with game situations
• Pitchers that have not gotten innings will be throwing more in practice of game situations
• Its about collecting outs. We need to get 21 of them as fast as we can
• This is an audition! For the regulars and for the guys who have not had an AB
• Keep stats in practice and it makes the process from objective
• QPA average - quality plate appearance - 60% or better
• 150 or lower strikeout %
• Pop up or routine flyball = airball (set goal for no airballs)
• Strike % and first pitch strike %
• Force bad contact as early as possible
• Defensively 1 error or less
• Turn as many DP as games played
• Always looking to take 2 until you can’t
• Reading dirt balls good secondary, read the trajectory, and take off
• Preparation, attention to detail, effort, focus, selfless, and toughness
• Aggressive in hitting situations - looking for FB
• 2 strike approach - the strikeout does nothing for us
• Execute when called upon
• Baserunning excellence - eyes up and hustle
• Pitch to spots, execute pitches > selection, make adjustments, rise to the challenge and post a zero
• Defense cherish outs - love outs as much as HR
• No play no throw - calculated risks
• The kids are our customers***
• What did we do to prepare them for the majority of their life?