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[quote=Anonymous]I am the poster whose son plays baseball now. I should add he still sometimes plays rec soccer and has fun. I hope when he is an adult he will play in an adult league just for fun.

I just don't think aggression and that desire to win every 50/50 ball is something you can coach. My son really was an amazing player from 6-10. He played in a Hispanic league, played travel, he went to camps, he played soccer with his cousins after school, played at school (they called him little Messi).  I even coached him in rec soccer so that he could work on being more aggressive when the game was slower. He was in a top travel team but by 10 he was losing steam.

A really good drill is to have the coach stand in sideline with two players standing next to coach. I placed two cones diagonally about 30 feet out one on each side of field (think two cones and coach with players made a triangle). When I said  go players race around cone on their side of field while I rolled the ball to the center. They would go around cones and sprint to ball then try to score on little goals that were set up in each side.

I even posted here when he was around 7 the same question. And people said you can't teach it and j refused to believe it. But it really is true. He started practicing baseball at 9 and by 10 he had made his little league all star team. All the footwork drills translated to bring an infielder. 
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