Youth baseball coaches should be inherently selfless, giving, instructional, interested in the greater good, and never self-interested. Leagues should ask volunteer coaches to submit a brief written statement of purpose, and look for these character traits to be revealed.
Youth baseball coaches should share everything. They should seek opportunities to coach the weakest players who can benefit most from them. They should tutor an individual player on an opposing team, 1-on-1, each season in fundamentals.
There will be plenty of other opportunities to coach exceptionally talented kids if you’re a good coach. When a youth baseball team wins a championship one year, the players should get trophies and the coach should get to coach the last place team the following year. Youth baseball coaches in a given league should see themselves as a collective unit, similar to a staff of counselors at a baseball camp, not competitive adversaries. If your league has a selfish coach, he should be phased out as soon as possible.
If your league has a draft, encourage a blind draft where all coaches work together to form balanced rosters and then draw teams out of a hat after rosters are set. Besides, in most youth league drafts, highly rated players are over-rated and lower-rated players are under-rated. Youth coaches should worry less about getting the best players and more about developing the best players.
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