Check out my full video on baseball rules for beginners: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pnmXzaytfMq2edY.html

Great video. As someone new to baseball, I've always wanted to know why certain players play in certain positions. How they hit, throw and run makes a big difference.

@FastDuDeJiunn

Жыл бұрын

with the new stat cast measurements for games now its evolving fast. showing spin rate on pitches, hit balls launch angles, and exit velocity to name a few. ground ball hitters are a thing of the past and are quickly being phased out to people who hit it up. my baseball simulator game i play. many of my batters ground out.. even though my team has really high Battin average, like .320 team avg to next best being around 290. my team didnt get the most at bats, becaues of all the double plays we hit into. 1 at bat and giving up 2 outs. is very costly. especially when u got a team like mine that avg around 360 on base. for first time viewer baseball can be boring. but if u learn all the aspects to it. at least imo it becomes really fun. The only game that i know of where every single thing is recorded. that happens on the field.

Thank you for telling me the different positions for base ball

Jose Altuve has to be the most inspirational athlete for me I've ever seen. I'm the same height as him and even though I was a decent athlete and have built up a lot of muscle, my height always kept me from playing Varsity and College sports. When I heard that he was the shortest in the MLB and everyone calls him midget, I felt kind of bad since we are both the exact same height at 5'6. But when I found out he hits 30 homeruns a season!!?!?!?!? That brought me so much joy!!! I've heard there might be controversy around him, but he is such a feel good story he made me so happy. It made me question all the limitations I thought I had about myself

@thebasedgodmax1163

6 ай бұрын

keep ya head up fellow short king. you're taller than me haha. as much as it's taboo of me to praise an Astros player, but cheating scandals aside Altuve is really good.

Interesting and well-presented.

Starting to get back into baseball, and this is exactly the video I was looking for!

Great explanation, thanks Dan!

Thanks for sharing this!

Excellent video! I love to hear someone with a great baseball IQ.

This channel is such a great ressource for coaches!

@DanBlewett

2 жыл бұрын

thanks, glad you've found it useful!

@haroldb6773

Жыл бұрын

Thanks coach

Great vlog…. Never understood the position numbers till now.

I don’t know why I love watching these when I’m a lifelong baseball fan

I think the most interesting play I've ever seen is the rare 9-3 ground out. Always come from the arm of a Right Fielder with a cannon of an arm grounding the batter out who didn't respect the RF's arm enough. The first time I heard of this type of play was when Larry Walker threw some dude out on a liner to Right Field that Larry played on the 1 hop and fired a throw into 1st to get the runner by about a half a step. Good head's up play to not just concede the base hit when he realized he had the chance at an unusual ground out.

@patrickbaklava7297

Жыл бұрын

That's funny cuz I found this video from a 9-3 compilation

@Seriously_Unserious

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickbaklava7297 There may be enough such plays to form a compellation, but it's probably from decades of plays to find enough of them. You don't see 9-3 groundouts that much. Maybe 1 every 1-3 years or so.

@AzureKite

Жыл бұрын

Ichiro would get so many 9-3 outs because his arm was godlike.

Thanks bro

I love this game so much

Great video! As a guy who played other sports growing up and wants to learn the nuts and bolts of Baseball, these videos are perfect!

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear! I also have a full rules video and a few others.

Thanks, Dan! It will be the first time I come to see a game (Yankees) and am trying to get a grip on positions and rules, many thanks for these basics. I will try and understand a bit more. Regards L

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Good luck. Check out my baseball rules video as well if you haven’t.

@yourbilingualchild1757

Жыл бұрын

@@DanBlewett Yes, I am watching that but slowly because it is quite complex. Thanks! L

Thank you!! I am new to trying to learn baseball as I have only followed Hockey my whole life, this has been so helpful! Cheers from Canada

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Another excellent video coach

@DanBlewett

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

This was Great !!! Thank you so much !!!

@DanBlewett

2 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

Esto video es oro puro, gracias por todo!

@ADBP

2 жыл бұрын

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Great stuff! I'm not a sports fan in that I don't follow any teams, but I can watch and be entertained by a baseball or football game (basketball is crap). Have been my whole life. Consequently I know the major rules but few of the details and certainly none of the nuances. Until this very moment I had no idea what a "standard 6-4-3 double play" meant. I'm a typical nerd in that I don't like sports but I love learning the technical details of things. The "math" of baseball if you will, the mechanics of the game not the statistics..

As a guys that knows little to nothing about baseball and is starting a online franchise with my friends who also knows very little about baseball this video helps a lot I’m sending it to all the homies Great video 👍🏾

The Number system is based off a very old ball game called One o' Cat. The SS batted sixth in the order of batting in that game.

Amazing videos and explanations. Coach in todays game who are the examples of long reliever ? I usually see first and second bin more often .

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

its because the players who are long relievers are lesser known, basically because theyre not as good. Go through a team's roster and stats and look for pitchers who have an innings-to-appearances ratio of 2:1 or more, such as 25 IP with 10-12 appearances. Those are the long relievers - guys going 2 or more innings on average per appearance.

im a longtime baseball fan but for whatever reason this was interesting

Hi coach im generally larger usually largest on my team and I've been playing 3rd should I try to switch over to first / start practicing there more or should I stick to third

@DanBlewett

2 жыл бұрын

either position probably would work fine for you

Thanks this helps a lot, I’m a 14 year old who has never played a school sport and I’m trying to learn and understand it so I can play it with my friends next year. Do you have any advice for someone like me trying to learn and get better and the game?

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

this video of mine will also help: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pnmXzaytfMq2edY.html

Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf

@DanBlewett

11 ай бұрын

no prob!

In a rundown situation where a single player touches the ball several times before tagging the runner out, does he get a put-out AND an assist?

I was a pretty big and strong kid for my age when growning up, and for some reason my coaches always put me at 1st. This explains a lot.

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

yeah, i dont think it gets explained as often as it should, despite being pretty much universal how these positions are doled out. glad you solved the mystery!

Hello Dan, i am 21 years old and started playing baseball when i was 7 years old. In my youth years i played the most of the time at 3rd base, 2nd base and 1st base but since last year my coach plays me in the outfield because "there is no place in the infield for me due to too many infielders in my team." Last weekend my coach told me he wants a fast outfield this season and to be honest, i have decent speed but i am not fast enough for him. So i asked him where i can play this season and he doesn't know and just puts me somewhere in the field, or on the bench. I am a decent player within the team (not the best but also not the worst). As it wrote earlier i have decent speed and also a decent glove. I do have one of the strongest arms on the team and when i look at my hitting, i can hit for contact and for power. I also have very good bat speed, good read on the ball and a natural swing, as my coach tells me. Right now i feel like i don't really belong on the team because "there is no place for me". I would like to aks you for some advice. What should i do? And based on what i described above, where do you think i can fit on the field and within the batting order? I've already talked with my coach about it but he doesn't cooperate....

@DanBlewett

2 жыл бұрын

I really can't say. It sounds like you're not being honest enough with yourself about your abilities, as you describe most of your attributes as good, but yet you're not good enough to earn a spot in the starting 9.

@JS-jf7gv

2 жыл бұрын

You better have a top 3 batting average and slugging percentage. If you can rake, they’ll find a spot for you. Hit the cages bro. Practice hitting everyday.

Sometimes I think the conventions surrounding the Long Reliever are due for a shakeup. Were I managing a team with young talent in the rotation I might keep a reliable veteran arm or two on call to work 3-5 competitive innings. Some days the starters just won't have their stuff or command, especially if they're still a bit green. It seems like having the option to call a mulligan on behalf of your starter while the game is still competitive could be good all around.

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Sounds good but it’s too problematic. 4 innings requires 3 days of rest. And predicting when a starter will blow up - either inning by inning or week by week - is impossible. So your quality long reliever sits on the bench waiting. You’d have to pull the starter before the damage was done which isn’t as easy as it appears in hindsight, on tv. What you’d end up with is one of your best pitchers sitting on the bench too often hoping to save a game that often can’t quite be saved in time. You don’t pull the starter after 2 runs in the third, do you? No. Long relievers usually go the longest without pitching of the whole pen for these reasons. Waste of a good pitcher, the right move for a marginal one.

sorry if this is a silly q, but why not just use another starter instead of a long reliever?

@DanBlewett

2 жыл бұрын

depends on the depth of your staff. long reliever(s) are typically the next to start if one is needed

@moo9067

2 жыл бұрын

well it depends if your playing a short 7 inning game you may just want your starter to go through 3 - 4 innings and use a long reliever instead if putting that type of hole

Guys help me out here. I'm short 5'9 but i'm also quitr strong batting and have a strong arm (tho i don't have much discipline when I swing) i'm quite slow running and I weight 204 lbs. Which position should I focus on? (Currently I can play C, 1B and 3B (3B being the one i'm worst at due to having to catch to the left instead of to the right)

@DanBlewett

3 ай бұрын

sounds like those three positions are about right - are you saying you throw with your left hand? That would make 3B a bad position for you - you pretty much have to be a righty to play any infield position except 1B

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I am very short but not fast what position would I play

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

2nd or third or catcher

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You forgot to mention that with certain positions throwing right handed is preferred.

@DanBlewett

2 жыл бұрын

yes

MY position was always 10

What’s the right position for someone who is: - average height - not so big - lefty - no strong arm

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Left field

@petezm

Жыл бұрын

@@DanBlewett thanks a lot, coach!

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