Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

As this year winds down, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you readers and supporters of Baseball By The Yard.  Six years ago I created this website to get what I knew about the game out of my head so as to help players, coaches, and parents learn more about the […]

Off-Season eBook now available!

You may have noticed a new ad in the upper-right side of my website.  It is a new eBook I created specifically for Off-Season workouts.  Subscribers to the site have known about this eBook for about a week now (that’s a benefit of being a subscriber!) and now I am making it available to everyone. […]

Get better through observation

When Tiger Woods was a young child and being watched by his father, he would often be put in a high-chair so dad could practice his golf swing.  For safety reasons, Tiger’s dad didn’t want little Tiger to be walking around while dad was swinging a golf club.  The high-chair kept him safe.  It may have […]

A note for subscribers

A reminder to subscribers to check their email! Friday is the last day to get a bonus video with the new eBook I created on Off-Season Workouts for players and coaches!  After Friday, 8pm (EST), the bonus video goes away and I make just the eBook available to everyone on the website. If you are […]

Pickoffs: Inward turn vs Spin Move

Today’s video tip is a reply to a comment from someone who watched a previous video on the “Inward turn” pickoff move from pitchers.  Here was the comment … “just step off and snap throw, its faster and not a balk.” Both types of pickoff moves have value but each one only works in certain […]

2017 Pitch count rules – a warning

If you are into sharing posts, this may be a good one. Over the past couple years there has been a lot of debate about the growing number of serious arm injuries at the younger levels.  Of course, most of the debates center on two issues: 1) What is causing them to occur and 2) […]