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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Baseball is an extremely time inefficient sport to get practice playing. We lucked into getting an amazing club soccer coach when my kid was 7. He was all about “touches on the ball”. He wanted the kid at every practice to have hundreds of touches on the ball to improve. So there was no standing in line to kick the ball into the net or large scrimmages. All the drills were in small groups with passing or 2v 2 or 3v3 games with cutting the ball dribble get past. Anyone who was out was doing a dribbling drill or something productive.

Contrast that with baseball. One drill was the coach standing at home plate with a kid standing at catcher, pitcher, 1, 2, 3 and SS. Then there was a back up kid in each of those places. The coach would hit to all the positions a grounder or pop up. Kid would throw to first then back to catcher. Then the back up would come in and the kids playing would go behind and wait. So each kid would touch the ball once every 12 hits unless you were 1st base or catcher. Totally not time efficient. Most kids would get to field the ball and throw to first once every 10 minutes. So that’s three times in 30 minutes.

Let’s say the coach is more organized and there are no back up players. So a kid gets to touch the ball 6-10 times in 30 minutes. You aren’t getting better doing that twice a week.

There is just too much waiting in team baseball practices. Waiting to field, waiting to hit, etc. [/quote]

Very true. The better coaches will run stations at that age (for example 1/2 the kids will be taking IF practice while the other half are at the batting cages with 2 dads one throwing in each lane, then switch) but that requires extra volunteers. With little kids, 2 guys can’t really run an efficient practice with 12+ kids IMO. [/quote]

+100. DH was a coach for 6U and 8U softball. He ran a minimum of 3 stations and preferred more for some days. Tried to make it so during stations time all the girls were moving for at least half of each station, preferably the whole thing. The problem you run into with trying to do that is if you don't have enough engaged parents to help at practice. Doesn't sound like that was OP's problem since there were too many people who wanted to coach, but definitely happens in some leagues/on some teams.[/quote]

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