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?
