Transcript HOYB Manager and Coach Training

HOYB Manager and Coach
Training
March 2013
Agenda
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Welcome and Introductions
Board roles and overall league information
Manager and coach expectations
Sticky Situations
Rules review
Website training
Board Roles
• President: overall administrator of league, liaison to
HOC, Babe Ruth International, District commissioners
• Vice President: part of executive team, second in
command, oversees baseball administration
• Head commissioner: responsible for commissioners
and managers, leads the way on rule changes, other
baseball issues
• Secretary: provides administrative support and
oversees marketing activities
• Commissioners: oversee a particular league for
manager selection, rostering kids, parent issues,
adherence to policies and rules
Other Board roles
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Fields managers: plan out spring work, take care of issues during season, work
with town on maintenance issues, leads field closing activities
Scheduler: produces the initial schedule, handles changes, rainouts, reschedules
Umpire Manager: trains and mentors umpires, schedules umpires
Uniform Manager: selects team names for the season, orders uniforms, collects
uniforms
Player and coach development: new role, will be working on developing a set of
benchmarks for each league that players and coaches will work toward
Sponsor Manager: markets leagues to local businesses to attract sponsorships and
other donations
Equipment manager: orders, distributes and collects equipment, maintains
equipment in container at HMS
Webmaster: keeps website up to date with information, branding, etc.
Parent at large: sits on the board to represent a segment of the player base
League Information
• Developmental focus first
• Competitive experience second (in drafted
leagues)
• Non-drafted leagues are neighborhood based
• Drafted leagues are skill based, within a
suggested age range
• Rules provide for movement around positions in
all leagues
• Rules provide for equal playing time as is possible
HOYB Philosophies
• We have the privilege to perform a community service by
providing a baseball experience for all children in greater
Herndon
• We are house league first
• All children deserve equal attention and development
• While we have rules to control many situations, we expect
our managers to understand and EMBRACE the spirit of the
rules as well as the actual rule itself
• No one ever questions or challenges or negatively
addresses an official on a judgment call
• Our managers and coaches are examples to the families
they interact with: we hold them to a higher standard
during games and practices
Manager and Coach Expectations
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All Leagues:
Undergo a background check through the Fairfax County’s athletic league system (managers and official assistant
coaches)
Complete the Babe Ruth certification exam (managers and official assistant coaches)
Ensure that the Babe Ruth rules are followed, alongside HOYB rules
Make every attempt to attend any manager/coach training that is offered
Utilize the HOYB’s League Athletic system to generate emails, post team news, and other general functions
Collect paperwork with regard to emergency care
Support any fundraising effort that the league undertakes
Seek to create a learning experience that will grow the children in baseball skills and sportsmanship
Support the umpires in their calls and their own learning experience
Follow the league guidelines and use discretionary judgment to follow the spirit of the guidelines if they are not
clear
Ensure that an official scorebook is kept.
Organize parent volunteers for field duty, fundraising and other jobs
Ensure that parents, kids and coaches are observing the Code of Conduct that everyone has signed, and intervene
if violations occur
Drafted Leagues
Post pitch counts within 48 hours of each game (spring only)
Provide score and commentary on game (spring only)
If keeping statistics on players, utilize the League Athletic system to do so
Specific Recommendations
• Have a parent’s meeting before first game and cover:
– Read the code of conduct together
– Discuss your philosophy of working with children and how you will be
instructing, providing corrections, supporting the team
– Discuss practice expectations and any repercussions of not attending
– Discuss the league goals of position movement and how you plan to
implement
– Discuss specific expectations you have for parents with regard to helping at
practices, helping at games, dugout needs, other volunteer needs
– Discuss umpire calls, what is a judgment call and what isn’t, who is allowed to
speak with the umpires, etc.
– Make it clear that you expect the parents to contact you first if they are not
satisfied with their player’s experience for any reason.
• Utilize your commissioner if you have questions on ANYTHING. If they
don’t know, they have other people that they can contact.
Sticky Situations
• Kid goofs off at practice, creates dangerous situation
• Parents think little Johnny is Cal Ripken and should always bat first, play
every inning, only play the infield
• Parents in the stands are loud and distracting to their own kids plus others
• Parent yells specific instructions to his own kid from the stands or
sidelines (usually contra to yours)
• Kid is outright disrespectful to coaches and teammates
• Parent is outright disrespectful to coaches
• Kid has deeply lower skills than any other kid on the team
• Kid doesn’t come to practice regularly, parents don’t understand why he
isn’t playing in a position that requires situational knowledge
• Parents don’t volunteer for field raking or other game duties
• Other managers/coaches in your league don’t adhere to the spirit of the
HOYB rules or break actual rules
Managing at Games
• Have lineup and positions posted and
available at the game
• Appoint official base coaches and dugout
manager…..only people allowed in dugout
• Assign someone to keep pitch count and
scorebook
• Rainout information and rescheduling
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Rules Highlights: Blastball
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PLAYERS
A typical blastball game features two teams of five players each. With no pitcher required, the
fielders take position anywhere in the field, provided they stand behind the 15-foot fair line.
Coaches may want to position fielders farther back if there’s a chance they could get hit with batted
balls.
GAME PLAY
Blastball begins with a batter hitting the ball from the tee. Players may take as many swings as
needed to hit the ball. Batted balls must cross the fair line to be in play. Any balls that don’t land or
roll past the fair line are considered foul. Once the ball is hit, batters attempt to run to first base.
Fielders record outs by catching the ball or grabbing it off the ground and yelling “Blast!” before the
runner reaches first base.
SCORING
While one point may be awarded for reaching first base, blastball leagues for younger children
typically don’t keep score and allow every hitter to bat each inning before changing sides. The
entire goal is having fun. Blastball games also don’t play toward a set number of innings, instead
adhering to a suggested time limit of 45 minutes.
Rules Highlights: Tee-Ball and Coach
Pitch
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Everyone plays, no score or standings kept
Emphasis on form, fielding, running bases
“Last batter” concept to make it fun
Managers, parents allowed on field to direct
the plays, help with overthrows, etc.
Rules Highlights: Machine Pitch
• Everyone plays, 10 in the field
• Machine helps improve the batting, provides
more experience with fielding
• Scores not kept, standings not kept
• Umpires help control field, plays
• Parents not on field, start limiting parental
interaction with players
Rules Highlights: Farm
• May start as Machine Pitch, commissioner and
managers to agree on timeline
• Run limits to help game pace
• Once pitching, coach comes out to pitch 3
pitches after four balls reached by players
• 10 in the field
• Stealing allowed up to 3rd base
Rules Highlights: Majors 65
• Full kid pitch, 65’ foot baseline
• Balks called at some point during season, TBD
by commissioner and managers
• Stealing allowed, leads and pickoffs
• No run limits
Rules Highlights: Majors 70
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Full kid pitch, 70’ baseline, 50’ mound
Balks called
Leads, pickoffs, stealing allowed
No run limits
Website Training
• Manager sign in
• Sending emails (always use, do not keep personal
list)
• Posting news and pictures
• Checking attendance
• Using statistics
• Entering results and game summaries
• Requesting equipment and game reschedules
• Looking up master schedule
• Hey, Coach page