Get Ready for Try-Outs with this Checklist

Are you getting ready for Try-Outs this season?  We found a great checklist from High School Baseball Web and sharing a few below to help you be ready for success.

• Grab your Bat Bag and Clean It Out.
• Make sure your Glove is ready to go and conditioned.
• Check to make sure you have the basics ready – socks, cleats, batting gloves, baseball bat, baseballs, etc.
• Remember, persistence is more important than talent
• Respect the game as much as you want to be respected
• Practice hard because you play the way you practice
• It doesn’t take any talent to hustle
• Be a student in baseball. Learn the game – Study the history of baseball
• Agree to let your coaches train you
• Set high standards along with knowing the steps to attain them
• Don’t tell people what you are worth, prove it to them
• It is your coach’s opinion of you that counts. He makes out the lineup. Fail to understand this point and you will soon be out of the game
• Be passionate about your teammates
• Love the game
• Body language screams. It never whispers
• Balance makes champions. If you focus on hitting and ignore the defensive part of your game you will never be a complete player
• Be as diligent on defense as you are on offense
• Defense wins more games than offense
• Games are lost not won. Mistakes lead to losses
• Work on your game every day of the year.
• Who you are today is a result of who you were in the past. Fill your past with smart work and good deeds and you will maximize your potential
• You don’t have to be a great athlete to be a good baseball player

Show off your talent to your current coach and your future coach by doing the following: (ALL THE TIME)

• When you jog to warm up finish first.
• When you stretch do it best.
• When you play catch, throw to a target and hit it every time.
• When you play catch, catch the ball or block the bad throw and keep it in front of you every time.
• When you are doing a drill, do it perfect, every time.
• Go hard all the time. Never walk on a baseball practice field.
• As a batter/runner run to first as though it matters that you are safe.
• Know the situation on defense and do the right thing.
• Baseball reveals character it doesn’t build it.
• Character means doing the right thing when nobody’s watching

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