Did you know that less than 1% of the athletes who are currently playing high school and college baseball will ever get an opportunity to play professionally? Pretty amazing statistic isnt it. The odds are stacked heavy against those who have this dream of playing high level baseball down the road. At surface level this is a very discouraging statistic.

I share this with you as you learn how to play baseball as well as coach baseball because all truly successful athletes pay little attention to statistics in determining their future goals. Instead, success-minded athletes see the above types of statistics as a huge motivator. I know I did in my quest to play professional baseball when I was younger. Here’s how to utilize this mindset as you develop your capacity in how to play baseball better.

For those of you who have been around a while and played countless baseball games, did you ever evaluate the statistical probability of hitting a home run while you were up at bat? I say that rhetorically because I already know the answer. Of course not. Why? Because when you are concentrating on doing something big, your brain doesnt have time or room enough to factor in your chances for hitting a home run or your lack of hitting home runs in the past. Just look at how Little Leaguers go about playing the game of baseball. To those young kids, everything about the game is exciting, they all have dreams of playing in the Bigs, and the stats I shared in the opening paragraph are not in existence as far as they are concerned.

So the real question here is how do we as experienced coaches and athletes prevent the reality of failure to cripple our progress? Its a real challenge and unfortunately is what causes thousands of athletes every year to quit this great game of baseball. The main contributing factor in this is that they have chosen to allow a combination of failures (low playing time, poor performances on the mound or at the plate) to create this false reality that they cannot achieve because of how the past has gone for them. Therefore, instead of fighting through this, they find something else to do with their time.

If you will never let your mind go down that road, but keep persisting, you will find that you will achieve more than you ever thought you would. This thinking will undoubtedly transform your vision as you learn how to play baseball and develop your goals.

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