“I have struggled for so long man to define what it is I am supposed to do, and I don’t know that I am doing what I am supposed to do. I am just doing it”. – Chris Snyder Born and raised in Knoxville, TN on a mission to make it to the Big Leagues. …
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My first trip to the Dominican Republic as a scout for MLB Scouting Bureau was better than any Christmas morning. I felt like a kid walking downstairs, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes in order to focus on all the sparkling new toys that Santa left. I could hardly contain my emotional state, as …
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“We not only want to be a feeder for the players we find across the country into MLB organizations, but we also want to be a feeder organization for future MLB scouts, baseball operations interns, social media interns, writers, and analytics personnel.”. – Justin Volman A Red Sox fan born in the heart of Yankeeville, Justin …
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“ It’s not always going to work out the way you thought it would. You never really know how it is going to work out. There are so many different things to do in baseball. Just do something”. – Carmen Bucci Born Carmen (no middle name) Bucci on March 29, 1973, in Chicago, IL he …
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“ If I wanted to chase the sun I had to go to South Africa, Australia or New Zealand and that can be my winter baseball fix. If I wanted to be closer to home during the summer in the Northern hemisphere then Europe, United States or Canada are going to be my places to be.” – …
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“Those who can’t play, coach.” This was the version of a quote or should I say misquote that a parent said to me one day while we were discussing my former playing career and why I became a coach. “Those who can’t do, teach.” was the way I remembered hearing that saying as I assume …
“ Taking the train to work every day I dreamed about working online but I didn’t know what that would look like. It was an accidental business” – David Burns A native of Vernon, British Columbia, David took his first trip to Austria in 1999 to play baseball as an import player while in college. …
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“I try to see guys in a growth mindset of this is where they are at, get ’em to the next dot. Because you know what? They have limitless dots that they can get to and it’s just about how badly they want to get to it ” – David Turgeon Born David Andrew Turgeon …
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I have to thank my Uncle Tom O’Brien for introducing baseball to me at the age of 7. At least that is as far back as I can remember. I loved to play catch, and field grounders and pop flies with him every day after school and on weekends. He taught me how to use …
(Photo via the Flickr Creative Commons, thanks to Ian D’Andrea) I tell this story every chance I get to be in front of aspiring baseball players and coaches of all ages. As coaches, we say things all the time that get repeated over and over again, especially when it comes to mechanics or motivating a player. …
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