Cornerstone Coaching Academy Podcast

  This is combination podcast/blog post, so you get choose your medium for consumption!  As you will see in this episode/post, we are all about choices!!!       We've seen it in every aspect of the game, your players dominate practice!   They are great mechanically. They can field forehands, backhands, make routine plays, make double plays, field slow rollers, and their arm looks great.   Then game time comes.  Their "mechanics" still look good, but they make errors. Lots of errors. They seem unsure and hesitant. They don't know where the ball needs to go.  They seem surprised the ball is hit to them.   Then they look like they don't want the ball hit to them.   What's going on?   Let's look at the top 4 reasons infielders don't translate practice performance into games. 1.) A lack of understanding of what a "good fielder" at your level is - Here's the bottom line, we aren't dealing with professional infielders.  I went back and looked at how our shortstops have fielded since 2011.   In that gro