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the best ballplayers are grinders

Whether a ballplayer is 8 years old or 28 years old, their goal is to become a better ballplayer. And as every player learns, it doesn’t happen overnight. It happens at a similar pace of the body’s growth in height and strength — one day at a time. The difference is that building skills is an active, not passive, pursuit. It’s a grind.

Travel sports done well and for the right reasons focus on the development of the player, not the blind and furious drive for W’s. Winning is fun. Who doesn’t love to win?! But development of the player trumps winning at all costs.

To make it to the higher levels of the game, it ultimately requires the insatiable commitment and drive of the player to push themselves, to spend the time, work their tails off, and get up every single time they are knocked down. The hardest part is doing all of this when they don’t feel like it.

That’s the idea behind this year’s shirt. We want to remind every player, coach, and parent that development is a slow growth process and needs to be learned and committed to by the player and positively encouraged by parents and coaches.

At the same time, a player’s development off the field is ultimately more important in the game of life. Who they become as a person, what type of relationships they have with family and friends, and their relationship with Jesus Christ are ultimately more important than baseball skills or success. These are the areas of life where they will both experience and make the biggest IMPACT.

Our hope is that all players in the Make an Impact Classic this year carry this with them going forward. Every day they should have at least three goals:

1. Put in the work

2. Get better than yesterday

3. Make an IMPACT

See you at the next level…Let’s GO!