114 Ed Blankmeyer, Former St John’s HC

Ed Blankmeyer notes

 

Bio

• Former manager of Brooklyn Cyclones of New York Penn League
• Former St Johns HC (1996 - 2020)
• Winningest coach in St Johns history
• 6 Big east conference regular season championships
• 5 Big Beast tournament championships
• 1 super regional appearance
• Winningest coach in Big East history
• ABCA Hall of Fame 
• Ranked top 25 of all Division 1 coach in career wins
• 3 tours with USA Baseball

 

Notes

• Had an itch for professional 
• Develop a winning program, a winning culture
• College baseball pays better
• Coaching is coaching
  • Relationships
  • Accountable
  • Routines
• Good players are routine driven
  • Daily routine
  • Game prep routine
  • Post game routine
  • Finding the right data
  • Stick to it, tweek it, and it gets you through the season
• Work through drills to help work through the drill
• Defensive sequences
• Hitting routines
• Individual development complimented by team development
• Ins the framework  make it competitive
• How will we know if our drills are working?
• Game comes down to pitching and hitting
• Its a game of 1-1
• Game called 1 pitch
  • Script pitches
  • Script counts
  • Scripts situations
• Live defense work
• Time clock when doing defense work
  • 8 seconds to 2b
  • Change up times to 1b
• Situations
• Define the game
• 8 different situations
  • What happens the most
    • No runners
    • Runners on 1B
• Played against the clock with all defenders out
• Clips video of plays good and bad to go over in meetings
• Utilize video to catalog when they are swinging the bat good
• Video the pitcher on 3 sides of pitcher to see if we are missing anything
• Get a person facing a batter on your game mound more they will get better
• How do you know how the player will respond when it gets tough?
• Prior to stretch we would go through mental routines.
  • Runners on base 
  • Pre pitch 
  • Post pitch
  • Infielders step in
  • In the box
  • On deck
  • Visual, self talk, and breathing
• For all physical skills you need to train your mental routines
• Meditations are good
• Breath and meditate to relax
• Some guys are better at 70% what they are
• Find the level of flow that you feel comfortable to allows you to execute consistently
• If you expect them to do mental routines, you have to practice
• Quality vs quantity
• Before defensive we would do baserunning techniques then do baserunning reads, situations, BP live reads
• Is it right for this player? (in terms of the weather)
  • Not putting players at risk
• Would we play in this weather?
• Teaching is done in classroom or locker room if needed
• Work and repetitions in cold weather
• Modified intersquad when its cold
• Pitches outside and then finish inside
• Concerns with the ups and downs and how many pitches
• red , yellow, green pitching communication for pitchers to get ready (warm up, get hot, go in)
• Get good players to buy into what you want to do
• Good players that fit your system
• Continuity in the coaching staff
• Work hard, work smart
• All about relationships that improve communication
• Communicate and collaborate with the player
• You create the bond and trust you can get more out of the player
• Get athletes - they will grow and improve
• You have to be able to adapt to the game
• The game is the game, teach the game the way its supposed to be played
• Synthesize the information for all the information that the player can consume.
• I’m going to coach you the way you need to be coached!
• I’m a learner
• I’m going to let you do it, and we will collaborate it
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