Better Men Better Ballplayers Podcast with Billy Emerson of Paul VI HS

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BIO

HC of Paul VI HS
Career record 336 - 191 (winning over 50% games in his career)
PVI since 2003 season
3 Conference WCAC championships
4 VISAA championships
8 times nationally ranked
Over 100 players in college or drafted
Paul VI HOF class of 2022

NOTES

Coaching in the summer is a way for me to learn and get better from the college guys
Each year you are taking a big hunk of clay and hopefully by the end of the year you hope it becomes a masterpiece
You win games you should of lost and you lose game you should of won
If you want consistency you have to be consistent
You have to stick to the plan
Maintain a coaching staff that can stick around a long time
Put together standards and values that you can stick to
Focusing on development players
Its also about developing human beings
Using the game to create things that they can use later in life
If you focus on the right things the baseball things take care of themselves
End of season meetings
Using the battles to do use as fire and do more than this year
You can do things to foster team chemistry (this is how we do things)
You can’t force it, you need to foster it
You can’t fool the players, it has to be real
You can’t force someone to love you
Expose our guys to different types of people
Classroom session in the off season
- Pitchers and catchers, hitters, mental toughness training
When a guy walks out of our program and he is blessed to play college baseball and he is prepared to step on campus that is an awesome thing
Another huge win is when a guy comes back and says I know what you were saying
We have objectives everyday
Explain to the guys why and how this is gooing ot effect you now and down the road
The game mirrors life because you have to sit there during moments of inactivity but be ready
The value of paying attention to details
There is a karma around the game and if you don’t pay attention it will bite you!
Keep the baseball demons away from us!
Every time we take batting practice we implement baserunning system
Defensively we take balls live - making people make throughs at game speed
Challenging the pitchers and hitters at practice with game situations
Pitchers that have not gotten innings will be throwing more in practice of game situations
Its about collecting outs. We need to get 21 of them as fast as we can
This is an audition! For the regulars and for the guys who have not had an AB
Keep stats in practice and it makes the process from objective
QPA average - quality plate appearance - 60% or better
150 or lower strikeout %
Pop up or routine flyball = airball (set goal for no airballs)
Strike % and first pitch strike %
Force bad contact as early as possible
Defensively 1 error or less
Turn as many DP as games played
Always looking to take 2 until you can’t
Reading dirt balls good secondary, read the trajectory, and take off
Preparation, attention to detail, effort, focus, selfless, and toughness
Aggressive in hitting situations - looking for FB
2 strike approach - the strikeout does nothing for us
Execute when called upon
Baserunning excellence - eyes up and hustle
Pitch to spots, execute pitches > selection, make adjustments, rise to the challenge and post a zero
Defense cherish outs - love outs as much as HR
No play no throw - calculated risks
The kids are our customers***
What did we do to prepare them for the majority of their life?

129 Billy Emerson - St. Paul VI HS