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The Closing Pitch Baseball Podcast — 156 episodes

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150. MLB Hitting Expert Reveals His Approach (ft. Matt Borgschulte, Minnesota Twins)

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149. Why Working in Pro Sports Is the Ultimate Career (ft. Joshua Korlin, Florida Panthers)

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145. I Hate The Term Daddy Ball, Here's Why

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148. Road to the Show (ft. Erik Miller, San Francisco Giants)

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147. Unleash Your Athletic Power!

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146. Dugout Chronicles: The Secrets, Rituals, and Hype That Fuel the Game

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144. Baseball Recruiting With NCAA Roster Ruling, NIL, and Transfer Portal

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143. Should Baseball Coaches Let Hitters Swing on 3-0 Counts?

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142. The Most Underrated and Overrated Topics In Coaching

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141. D2 Athlete to World Ranking (ft. Tyler Christophel)

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140. Major League University - Austin Byler

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139. Creating the Glue for Your Team's Culture

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138. The Power of Routines for Athletes

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137. Embracing Obstacles: Why Anything That Stands in Your Way is Worth Pursuing

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136. The Road to Redemption: Stories of Being Cut and Coming Back Stronger

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135. Scholarship Dreams: May the Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

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134. Behind Bars for Berating Sports Officials: The New Kansas Bill on Youth Sports

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133. Fueling Champions: How Healthy Eating Impacts Youth Athletes and Coaches

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132. Best Player On The Team (ft. Evan Pratte)

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131. Skills That Scale, Deven Morgan- Round 2

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130. Don't Be That Travel Ball Coach

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129. These are the next big things happening in baseball (ft. Aaron Jaworowski - President of the Rawlings Tigers)

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128. Pro Baseball Scouts Look For This (ft. Mark Adair: Oakland A's National Crosschecker Scout)

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127. Is The Deck Stacked Against You?

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126. Swim in a Different Direction

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125. Johnny Hustle v. Peacocking Peet (ft. Rafael Lopez- former MLB player)

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124. The Most Persuasive Voice

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123. The Deceptions of a Crowd

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122. Play Fast & Play Free With This Hack

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121. How To Know When It's Time To Move On

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120. The 5 Caps To Make an Alpha Decision

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119. Stack 'em High For All To See

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118. How To Get Off The Island of Me

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117. The Career Curse

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116. Three Things To Know During Tryout Conversations

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115. Know EXACTLY When Your Pitcher Shouldn't Throw

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114. Leaders Avoid This Mistake

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113. Tactical Guide To Recruiting V3.0 (ft. Evan Pratte)

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112. The Kershaw Exit

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111. How You Can Feel Good Everyday as an Athlete (ft. Brett McQueen)

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110. You Will Want To Lock This Down (ft. Scott Brown and Evan Pratte)

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109. The Commodore (ft. Scott Brown & Evan Pratte)

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108. THE LOST EPISODE! Character Outperforms in the Long Run

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107. Is It a "Do" or a "Don't Want It?"

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106. 10X Your Baseball OR Softball Showcase (ft. Evan Pratte)

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105. MASSIVE Opportunity for COLLEGE BASEBALL To Win Over Fans (ft. Evan Pratte)

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104. STACK 'EM HIGH! A Veteran Move As Old As Time

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103. High Performance Athletes! Hold These Keys 🔐 (ft. Dr. Ellen Reed)

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102. 🤑 Are You Ready for College Millionaires? How The NIL Changes Everything

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101. You Must Specialize In a Sport To Make It? (ft Ben Brewster- Tread Athletics)

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100.📍🗺 The Box Score Is Not a Map For Development (ft. Deven Morgan of Driveline Baseball)

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99. 🚀Optimize for Speed (ft. Deven Morgan of Driveline Baseball)

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98. STOP THE CRAZY, Youth Coaches Need To Avoid Doing This

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97. Are The 3 Sport Athletes on the Verge of Extinction?! 😳

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96. BEWARE of the EASY PIVOT!

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95. Trolls Feed On Attention

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94. The Big Pivot (ft. Matt Adams & Rafael Lopez)

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93. The Hard 90 (ft Aaron Jaworowski & Rafael Lopez)

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92. How Do You Start THIS Conversation?

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91. You Got CUT From The Team, Now What?! Overcoming Rejection

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90. Your Uniform is Your Supernatural Power

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89. Three Pages From The School Of Hard Knocks

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88. Cutting Through the Noise, An Anecdote on Making Bad Career Decisions

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87. A DEEP DIVE into a Non-Surgical Decision For Athletes (ft. Dr. Ravi Yadava)

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86. BEWARE! THE TOXIC CLUBHOUSE, How To Actively Change Your Baseball Teams Dugout and Culture (ft. Rafael Lopez)

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85. Former D1 Coach Reacts to Travel Baseball (ft. Evan Pratte)

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84. ACE's Main Ingredient (ft. Adam Jahnsen)

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83. The Secret To Teaching 7-12 Year Olds ANYTHING! (ft. Coachballgame- James Lowe)

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82. Why so serious?

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81. Your Support System

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80. Your Most Important 3 Seconds After a Bad Outcome

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79. The 7 Things To Know About Teams

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78. The Golden Compass (Your Ikigai)

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77. The 10 Competitive Advantages You Can Develop To Outperform Your Competition (ft. Sahil Bloom)

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76. The New Update To The Pod, Onward and Upward!

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75. The Art and Science of Building a Pitcher's Arm (ft. Dr. Alexander Aleem)

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74. Is The Leader An Imposter?

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73. The Countdown To Your 2030 Self

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72. I Want To Be "THE DUDE"

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71. How a Free Car Ride Could Make You Lose Part of Your Athletic Scholarship (ft. Jared Waldhoff)

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70. Explosive Innovation Is Coming To Amateur Sports (ft. Todd Lawler- Co-Founder of Tourney Machine)

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69. The Masterful Art of Speaking Data (ft. Jon Moscot of Blast Motion)

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68. The Priority List for Athletes Who Want to Play College

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67. How to Stop a Funk and Upend Your Routine (Ft. Brandon Magierowski of 2D Sports)

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66. A Striking Revelation Of How To Become A Top-Percenter (ft. Jason Bell- Houston Astros Minor League Coordinator)

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65. THE END IS NEAR! I'm Burned Out

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64. Christmas Show! Can a Team Really Be Family?! (ft. Aaron Jaworowski)

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63. Explosive Gains by Following This Simple Formula (ft. Brian Fitzmaurice)

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62. Mastering Your Adjustments through a Black Swan Event

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61. Only 7% of People Can Say They Did This

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60. Get to VS Have to

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59. Feed the Beast

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58. Your Great Reset (Winter Training Secrets Revealed!!!)

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57. We’re Not Going to Play This Card

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56. This is a Slippery Slope

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55. The 5 Step Formula To Dominate Your Greatest Opponent

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54. Can You Manufacture a Successful Culture?

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53. Trust It BUT You Need to Verify

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52. I Wish This Turned Out Better For You

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51. Are My Eggs In Too Many Baskets? The Multi-Sport Paradox

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50. Addicted to the Wrong Type of Winning

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49. In 5 Years, 64 mph To 95 mph, And Here's the Secret

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48. We Have to Be Honest About This Show

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47. The Mistakes You Could Be Making in Your Recruiting

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46. We Need More Of This In Youth Sports

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45. The Battleground For The Ultimate Coaching Style

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44. You Will Need This to Level Up

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43. The 5 Lockdown Moves For High Pressure Situations

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42. I Can't Do This Anymore

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41. The Unwritten Rules

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40. Indecision Is The Thief Of Opportunity

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39. How Every Rumor Gets You Farther Away From Your End-Goal

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38. WARNING: Here's What Everyone Needs to Know About Goals

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37. Knowing Your Unfair Advantage

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36. Status Wars

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35. The 6 Skills That Have Helped Us Create Strong Relationships

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34. Mastering the Art of the Tough Conversation

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33. The Greatest Teacher of All Time

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32. You Can't Plan For The Unexpected

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31. The Best Way To Neutralize Trash Talking

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30. Your Approach Could Prevent Relationship Nuclear Warfare

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29. That 1 Reason

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28. The Mouse Is Always Pressing On The Gas Pedal

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BONUS 6. How a Professional Scout Finds You (ft. Torre Tyson)

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27. How To Win Someone Over During Controversy

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26. I’m too busy to give you a real reason

127

25. Creating the Winning Lifestyle

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24. How Good Could You Be? (Ft. Jason Bell - Houston Astros Minor League Coordinator)

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23. Change Is Happening Fast (Ft. Jeff McGarry & Jon Moscot of Blast Motion

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22. Getting Your Team To Row In The Same Direction

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21. The Worst Fear But Possibly The Best One For You To Lean Into

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20. One-Email and One-Conversation Later Brought Us To This Opportunity For Players

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19. The Goliath Mentality

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18. The Tactical Guide to Getting an Athletic Scholarship

135

17. Is Your Goal To Be Famous Or To Be Well-Known?

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Bonus 5. This Is What To Expect For Your 2020 Summer (Ft. Tom Davidson of Pastime Tournaments)

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16. The Blueprint To Become Clutch

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15. Use This Idea To Motivate a Person or a Team

139

Bonus 4. The Cross Section Between MLB, Olympic Ski, and The X-Games (Ft. Bret Kelly of EXOS)

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14. Do You Know How Hard This Is?

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13. The #1 Thing You Should Be Aware of in 2020 as a High School Player

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Bonus 3. He is only 5'8 and Has Hit Over 40 Home Runs In College (Ft. Erik Webb)

143

12. An Unhealthy Want For Competition

144

11. This Is the Scariest Feeling

145

Bonus 2. Don't Underestimate This Valuable Conversation (Ft. Dexter Swims)

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10. How To Get Out Of The Dead Zone

147

9. Your Competition Will Be Mad When You Find Out How to Do This (ft. Tommy Woods)

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Bonus 1. Will This Pandemic Make Us Adopt The Air Five?

149

8. The Past Matters But Your Current At-Bat Matters More

150

7. Embrace the Weird, You'll Be Surprised How Valuable You Are

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6. The 3 Differences Between Long Term Winners and Losers

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5. It's a Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood to Master Your Relationships

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4. Flatten The Curves, Manage Your Peaks and Valleys

154

3. Stop Worrying About FOMO

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2. Get Noticed Now, You're in Control

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