Great advice coming, I love it.
StrainedOblique, excellent advice! Many of the things you have mentioned is exactly what I’ve talked with the team about. Starting with field maintenance. Although our facilities are not bad they are terribly unkept, junk everywhere, equipment everywhere. One day in the fall after I had gotten my duties done on the football field and was waiting for game time I went down to take a look at what equipment needs we had so I could get a head start on requestioning equipment. I can’t even begin to tell you how bad it was. Baseballs all over the field, wiffle balls all over dougout. Tee’s broken. Field tarps wadded up against the backstop...shambles. In our preseason meeting we discussed this and I informed them that part of baseball until you reach a level where someone is paying you to play you have a responsibility to keep up and maintain the field.
One of the others areas we’ve already discussed is errors. We’ve had discussions about the dynamics of baseball and how it is such a skilled game and a game in which you must know what you need to do in various senerios and understand the philoshy to anticipate what is coming. We have also discussed that baseball is the only sport that errors are so vital to the game that it is part of the score board. Reduce the number of errors and increase the possibilities of scoring runs and keeping runs from being scored.
I love the 2 strike rule and think that is a good way to implement discipline at the plate even in BP.
Thank you all, keep it coming. 
