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[quote=Anonymous]Another longtime baseball parent here. If I understand you correctly, your kids (twins?) just started playing baseball for the first time this season. Before you go looking at the IMG camp schedule or booking your Cooperstown hotel, you may want to let them finish out the season and see where they're at. Baseball is a game of failure and heartbreak -- the best pros strike out 2/3 of the time, and entire games/seasons/championships can turn on one little mistake (*cough* Buckner *cough*). They love it now, three weeks in. But will they still love it in May, when it's hot, their hitting slump continues, they're in right field, and both teams are still scoreless?

If they do love it, great! Get them all the baseball IQ you can. Watch games (their level, high school, college, pros) and talk about each situation. Notice how and when fielders move their feet. Notice when runners try to steal -- and when they're successful. Try to predict pitches. Try to suss out signs.

All the mechanical fine-tuning in the world doesn't make a difference if a fielder doesn't know what to do with a ball, or takes too long deciding. It's this sort of knowledge that takes a long time to build, and what gives the earlier-starting kids an edge.

Barring that, teach them to pitch and/or catch. Teams always need more of both.[/quote]

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