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by Ken Carpenter
Baseball Coaches Unplugged is a podcast for insights on high school baseball coaching, travel baseball development, and college recruiting from coaches building winning programs. Each episode features real conversations about high school baseball coaching, travel baseball development, college recruiting, player development, practice planning, pitching and hitting development, and building a winning baseball culture.If you’re a baseball coach looking for practical ideas on running better practices, developing players, navigating the recruiting process, and leading a successful program, this podcast delivers insights from experienced coaches across high school, travel, and college baseball. Hosted by 27 year veteran high school baseball coach Ken Carpenter.New episodes drop every Wednesday!
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- 3 days ago11 min
Neuroplasticity Drills That Train Hitters and Infielders to React Faster
Send us Fan Mail Host Coach Ken Carpenter argues that a player's instincts and mental makeup are not fixed, and that neuroplasticity gives coaches a way to train them. This solo episode covers why practice has to challenge the brain, how to coach self-talk, and three drills for tomorrow's practice. It runs about 10 minutes. In this episode Instincts are trainable: Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. The brain wires what it repeats, s...
- 1 weeks ago30 min
Why This Hall of Fame Coach Still Wins With Small Ball
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Baseball Coaches Unplugged, Coach Ken Carpenter sits down with Buck Workman, longtime head baseball coach at Northmor High School and a Central District Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductee. Buck reflects on 27 years leading a rural program, building a culture that minimizes parent conflict, and adapting his coaching style for today’s athletes. The conversation digs into the value of pitching, defense, bunting, baserunning pressure, managing ...
- 2 weeks ago32 min
Strategies For Building A Winning High School Baseball Program
Send us Fan Mail A high school baseball program doesn’t turn around by accident and it definitely doesn’t happen just because you post better clips. We sit down with Kyle Parker, head baseball coach at Lincoln Northeast High School in Nebraska, to talk about what actually moves the needle: culture, relationships, and the unglamorous skills that win tight games. Kyle explains what pulled him back to his alma mater after building success at Waverly, then lays out his first priorities when taki...
- 3 weeks ago11 min
Why Playing Other Sports Can Improve Baseball Performance
Send us Fan Mail Parents Are Running Baseball This episode makes a direct case against year-round single-sport specialization in youth baseball. Coach Ken Carpenter argues that multi-sport athletes are more durable, less burned out, and better prepared for long-term development than kids who play baseball only. He breaks down the issue through sports science, psychology, and real-world coaching observations, with the core message that athletes should diversify instead of locking into basebal...
- Sep 30, 202652 min
How To Teach Base Stealing That Wins Games
Send us Fan Mail Kevin Graeber on Masters Academy International, year-round development, and a practical system for base stealing Coach Ken Carpenter talks with Kevin Graeber, the coach behind Masters Academy International in Massachusetts, about building an athletics-centered school, developing runners without overloading them, and teaching base stealing with repeatable mechanics. Kevin breaks down his approach to leads, returns, right-handed and left-handed pitchers, momentum steals, and st...
- Sep 23, 202630 min
3 Reasons Why Command and Movement Will Always Beat Pure Velocity
Send us Fan Mail Win a state championship as a player, win a gold medal with Team USA, then come home and win another state title as the head baseball coach. That is the arc Coach Kristen Caldwell brings to Baseball Coaches Unplugged, and it is packed with practical lessons for anyone building a high school baseball program the right way. We talk about the real transition from assistant to head coach at Caravel Academy in Delaware, including how she handled roster turnover, set priorities, an...
- Sep 16, 202612 min
How Elite High School Coaches Win With Average Rosters
Send us Fan Mail The gap between a good high school baseball team and a great one is rarely just talent. It is the coach’s ability to create an environment where “average” players execute like winners and where the team keeps improving when the schedule gets tough. We start with an uncomfortable question: if two programs have the same roster of gritty, ordinary athletes, why does one compete for district and regional titles while the other scrapes for 10 wins and blames everyone else? We get...
- Sep 9, 202630 min
Is It Mechanics or Overuse? The Truth About High School Tommy John Surgery
Send us Fan Mail Tommy John surgery shouldn’t feel like a rite of passage for teenage pitchers, yet more high school baseball players are dealing with UCL tears and elbow sprains before they ever graduate. We sit down with Dan Deleandro, a sports physical therapist at Ohio State University Sports Med and an assistant varsity baseball coach, to get honest about what he’s seeing in the clinic and on the field and why the elbow is taking the hit more than the shoulder. We dig into when throwing...
About BASEBALL COACHES UNPLUGGED
Baseball Coaches Unplugged is a podcast for insights on high school baseball coaching, travel baseball development, and college recruiting from coaches building winning programs. Each episode features real conversations about high school baseball coaching, travel baseball development, college recruiting, player development, practice planning, pitching and hitting development, and building a winning baseball culture.If you’re a baseball coach looking for practical ideas on running better practices, developing players, navigating the recruiting process, and leading a successful program, this podcast delivers insights from experienced coaches across high school, travel, and college baseball. Hosted by 27 year veteran high school baseball coach Ken Carpenter.New episodes drop every Wednesday!
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