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Is Youth Baseball Broken?

May 6th, 2022 by

I fear that it may be. Actually, I’ve never been more convicted that we adults are ruining this game. But …

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Great Time of Year

October 21st, 2021 by

It’s been a long time since the last update and let me start with a hearty welcome to those new …

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Lets Get Ready to Rumble!!

January 25th, 2021 by

Today, Monday 1/25/21 California lifted the statewide stay-at-home order. While we aren’t out of danger yet, and we don’t want …

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Drill Library

Complete access to Dugout Captain's proprietary instructional library. Created from real-life experience working with the most challenging athletes, drill details include video, text, diagram, and patented DC Keys to provide tricks and tips to save time and frustration.

Practice Plan

200+ ready-made and professionally programmed team practice plans, built with the drills from the DC Library. Each plan includes notes specific to that drills use at that practice for that age level. Plans available by age and by time length - edit a plan with the DC Clipboard to best fit your crew!

Skill Training

Coach-the-Coach lessons for training pitching, hitting, infield, and the catcher position. Provide your athlete with a plan.

Curriculum

The DC Athlete Development Plan provides a standardized curriculum for coaches, teams, and leagues. With bullet-point development objectives organized by age level, the curriculum is a running narrative to guide and support the volunteer coach. DC Practice Plans combine to achieve these objectives, and provide the coaching roadmap to effectively and efficiently expose the athletes to all of the goals laid out by the curriculum.

Clipboard

Dugout Captain's proprietary Virtual Clipboard technology (patent-pending) is the unique tool that allows users to apply instructional content to the ball field. Build or borrow a practice plan onto the clipboard, then share an interactive plan to assistant coaches and team families. Share a homework drill with a struggling team member, or use DC's Skill Training Lessons to train your own athlete in hitting, pitching, infield, or the catching position.

TESTIMONIALS

#1 – Thank you for helping me find

Thank you for helping me find one of my true passions and for giving me one of the best summers of my life. I was blown away when I found the full library of drills at Dugout Captain, started implementing them immediately. The athletes responded right away! I absolutely believe Dugout Captain played a huge role in our success.

#2 – The drills and practice plans

The drills and practice plans listed on this site have helped us have some of the most impactful and active practices I have ever been a part of. After years of watching the same type of practices with a bunch of kids standing in line waiting for their turn to take a ground ball, the station drills have radically changed our practices.

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PARTNERS

National / International Partners

AABC
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Dixie
Pony
Babe Ruth

League Partners

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FV
FV Pony
Great Neck
Garden Grove Pony
Kaufman
HVIL
Newport
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Murrieta
Trabuco
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West Covina
Washington
So Bay
El Rio Hawks
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