Are Mental Skills Important in Baseball? Baseball is a mental and physical game. You can’t reach your potential as a baseball player if you only work on one aspect of your game. Yet many players only work on the physical aspects of the game, such as throwing mechanics, hitting technique, … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Mental Keys to Stable Confidence One sure-fire way of killing confidence is to be excessively hard on yourself after a bad game. Berating yourself or focusing on mistakes hurts your confidence greatly. Imagine if you had a coach that verbally beat you down after an error, giving up a run … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Stay Patient when in a Hitting Slump Slumps are difficult to process for baseball players and one of the most frustrating experiences any player can have. One day you are hitting the cover off the ball, driving the ball in the gaps and piling up the hits. Then … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Stabilize your Confidence Chalk it up to experience. This phrase is used to relay that bad circumstances, mistakes or outcomes can be used as learning experiences or dismissed altogether rather than dwelling on the negative, reliving the experience or beating yourself up over the result. As a baseball player, you … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Developing a Positive Attitude to Improve Success What affects your baseball confidence the most? Some may say your thoughts and it is very true that your thoughts affect confidence. Think about making mistakes and your confidence drops while thinking about your talents tend to enhance confidence. Another factor that impacts … Read Sport Psychology Tip
The Mental Game Hot Streaks Many baseball players believe it is easy to play when you are on a winning streak or hitting streak. These players just go out and play the game; it is just a matter of riding the momentum wave. While there may be some truth in that … Read Sport Psychology Tip