Bio
- Current Head Coach at Ohio State University
- One of the most accomplished assistant coaches in the country with stops at seven different Power 5 programs.
- associate head coach at TCU for nine seasons (2014-22)
- nearly 30 years of collegiate coaching experience and seven more years of experience as a minor league manager.
- 2017 he was tabbed a coach on the USA Baseball 18U National Team
- 2018 16U NTDP head coach
- coached over 90 major league players, 28 All-Stars, two batting title winners, two AL MVPs, one AL Rookie of the Year and 2012 Cy Young award winner R.A. Dickey.
- tutored MLB phenom Mike Trout for nearly two full seasons when he was part of the Arkansas Travelers AA club of the Angels
- Worked in the Yankees organization as well as with coaching icon Auggie Gorrido at Cal State Fullerton
- Offensive mastermind at each step of the way working with the top 5% of the game
- ABCA clinician speaker
- Incredible baseball mind
- Hell of a baseball GUY!!
Notes
- Adapt or die and you have to make some adjustments.
- I Have a certain set of core beliefs
- Have to be able to relate to the players
- How do players learn?
- Wear the pants the right way
- No bat flips - play the game with enthusiasm
- Going to keep joy in our own team
- Want them to have a blast but you have to respect your teammates and your team
- Teach guys to play the game the right way. Respect your opponents and respecting the team
- Baserunning is something we can bring to the park everyday
- Runner at 1b never knows when the guy at 2b will steal
- Baserunning worked on daily - some type of theme
- You can work on instincts
- You need to make a big deal about it everyday
- Don’t mistake activity for achievement. If you are not detail oriented you are just oding activity
- A great player learns from other players mistakes
- Good players learns from their own mistakes
- I have to do a better job articulating
- You cannot assume anything
- We can steal runs throughout the season from our daily baserunning work
- The FREEBIE WAR is huge for us! Just like the football coach is trying to win the turnover battle
- Different between reckless and fearless
- My guys are going to run because they can make it
- Enable your players that they can do things.
- Never underestimate your players
- Trust your players the sky limit
- Culture is how you operate
- Define it and then demand it
- Its just like a swing, you teach it daily
- O - ownership
- H - hard working
- I - integrity
- 0 - one pitch at a time
- Define them and what do they mean
- If you are doing it right they can tell you and you need you need to teach it daily
- Thoughts become things!
- I need them to see it, and make it important to them
- There are great kids all over the country
- Lets keep it simple
- Meet everyday and discuss everyday and keep it simple - 5 minutes a day
- Compound effect - doing a little a lot
- Video of what the play looks like
- Take notes, watch video, demonstrate, and then rep it out
- Brian Cain talking about dugout participation
- be a great teammate, be engaged, and be sure they are doing it
- Team organizational meetings
- Special guest speaker
- What do you know now that you wish you knew then
- All these things you have to teach and worked on daily
- You can only take out what you put in (bank account)
- Great players
- Super coachable
- Invested in teammates
- Quick learners
- Comfortable being uncomfortable - when you make changes that is where you grow
- Success leaves clues!
- Growth is what we are all trying to get
- Learners mindset
- Its what you know after you know it all that counts the most
- If i am going to ask my players to grow why wouldn’t I, the coach, be growing
- Great coaches
- ask questions
- We all need help
- Learners
- Humble in the way they acted
- Be who you are
- Continue to make adjustments
- I like to stay in the dugout so they don’t even know I am there
- Ohio State website - https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/coach/bill-mosiello/
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