Baseball Outside the Box - Coaching Podcast

One of the best radio shows for parents, players and coaches on all sports development is The Sports Doctor. Dr. Weil has some of the best experts in sports development.

Formerly on Healthy Life Radio and was also on WDCB public radio in Chicago for over 20 years. He has written articles for many newspapers & magazines and is a frequent guest on other networks. And his new book, co-written with Sharkie Zartman, titled '#Hey Sports Parents! An Essential Guide for Any Parent with a Child in Sports' - is now available on Amazon!

Join the Sports Doctor and his great guests for important topical information for injury free exercise, wellness and sports performance for both adults and kids. Frequent topics include, the role of the foot in sports, all aspects of sports medicine including, proper sports shoes, youth safety, health, wellness, and sports performance for both adults and children.

Want to learn about Chicago Cubs Minor League spring training and baseball running operations? Listen to this show.

From Cubs Arizona spring training Kevin Graber shares with us some great ideas on the following.

• How he went from successful high school and college coach to running minor league spring training for a marquee franchise.

• 1st meeting with coaches in the system.1st meeting with all minor league players.

• How they evaluate their coaches.

• Working with coaches in the system.

• Baserunning coordinator, shares some great things in leads, steals, breaks.

• At 1st and second base.

• Technique, timing, distance and anticipation.

• 6 foot lead vs 12 feet.

• Different lead off left handed pitchers.

• Leads at second.

• Was to fundamentally train for this new system of leads and breaks.

• And much more.

Your host Peter Caliendo

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While in Serbia at the (WBSC Europe) World Baseball Softball Confederation European Congress Pete Caliendo is interview about ISG Baseball/Baseball for Good and the ABCA by his good friend with Serbian Baseball Nikola Woo.

Lots of discussion of international baseball:

Baseball For Good www.baseballforgood.org

ISG Baseball www.isgbaseball.com

American Baseball Coaches Association www.abca.org

Caliendo Sports International www.caliendosportsinternational.com

Your Host Peter Caliendo

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Get the inside scoop on Team USA in the 2023 World Baseball Classic from one of the coahes, Carlos Munoz.

MLB Scouting School.

Sabermetrics Presenter.

BP Catcher 2017 World Series Champion Houston Astros.

Played in Mexico and Venezuela.

Was asked to be on both USA and Venezuela WBC teams, had to make a tough choice, Born Venezuela and moved here, now a US citizen.

Been on the show before.

Discussed many things:

How he made the decision on picking which country he would represent.

This is not an easy tournament, special rules, only a couple weeks, single elimination, how you navigated through it all.

First time meeting the team of super stars and great coaches.

Role in the bull pen as a coach and catcher.

Different pitchers' preparations.

What did you learn from the players and coaches.

How the team jelled so much with so many super stars and possible big egos.

Player you were really impressed with.

How you guys dealt with after the big loss to Mexico.

Mike Trout and how excited he was.

Batting practice routines of the players.

Pressure of throwing BP to all these super stars, how you dealt with it.

Most explosive crowd/game.

And much much more.

Wojo at 4 years olds moves with his family as missionaries to the Dominican Republic. Then off to Bucharest, Romania and he plays for their Little Team in the Little World Series in Kutno, Poland. Back to the USA at 12 years, plays high school baseball, multi-sport athlete, signs college scholarship with the Cidadel, gets drafted, makes it to the big leagues with Houston, plays 13 years in professional baseball, about 5 in the major leagues, retires in 2022 and goes to Caio, Egypt to help 2500 kids learn about the game.  These kids in the schools never played baseball. While in Cairo he sees that John Carlos Stanton is in Cairo on vacation, texts him and John Carlos comes and helps with the kids. What a life journey and Wojo is just getting started.  Your Host Pete Caliendo Twitter @baseballout Face Book Peter Caliendo Email: baseballoustdiethebox@gmail.com

Historical conversation live from Ukraine with Baseball National Team Manager and Ukraine Baseball Federation Board member Oleg Boyko. 

They discuss about the war in Ukraine, kids playing baseball, national teams traveling to other countries and how do they do all they do through this tough time.  

Special thanks to ISG Baseball www.isgbaseball.com and Baseball for Good www.baseballforgood.org who for years have been helping Ukraine Baseball and continue to do so today.  

This is a must listen episode. Know that whatever problems you may have in your life or baseball, may not even come close to your country being destroyed. They keep fighting, continue to do what they love, teach baseball, help kids stay focused on the game and less on the war.  The solders are true heroes as Oleg and other coaches will tell you, but these baseball coaches, officials and players in our eyes also are hero's and incredible people for fighting through these imaginable times.  

If you can help support them, email Peter Caliendo at Caliendo19@gmail.com for details.  

We discuss:   

The war. 

How are they doing? 

How they get through it daily? 

How they manage to Travel to other countries with their national teams in baseball and softball. How they get funding to be able to continue and travel and play.

Organizations like, ISG Baseball and Baseball for Good who help them financially, sending coaches to help and more. 

Coming up project with ISG/Baseball for Good to take 50 baseball and softball Cadet players to Poland for a week of fun, games, training and more.

And so much more to this conversation.  

Your Host Peter Caliendo, " This was not an easy conversation to have knowing all that is going on in Ukraine" My heart goes out to all in Ukraine. 

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This is an outstanding show with Jeremy Guthrie former MLB pitcher, 1st round pick, traveling to 38 countries working with players and coaches. Jeremy has a great passion for international baseball and giving back to the game. His understanding of working with players and coaches is incredible. There are many things discussed here that coaches, parents and players will take extremely valuable.  

Just some of the things discussed:  

His career from being a 3-sport athlete, his influence parents influence and a Japanese/American Mother from Hawaii. 

Being discipline and consistent with his training since he was young. 

Dealing with adversity. 

Pitching movements. 

Recovery routines. 

Being on Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. 

Never had any major injuries in his career, why? 

Developing arm strength. 

Throwing a football, how that helped his arm action. 

Type of pitches to develop and when, why? 

And so much more.  

Your host Peter Caliendo 

Email: Caliendosports69@gmail.com 

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Twitter: @baseballout  

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Here are the bullet points;

• Head Coach Stepinac HS JV      Baseball
• Scout - USA Baseball NE NTIS
• Presenter - USA Baseball      Community Clinics - Practice Planning & Time Management
• ABCA member / Published      contributor to Inside Pitch Magazine
• Evolution Baseball Club - Founder/Director      of Operations
• Clearing The Bases Podcast - We discuss all things related to the preparation and      development of youth baseball players, coaches and parents.

Here is a little bit about Evolution Baseball - This is my startup organization that will work with baseball players ages 13 & 14 that have the talent, drive, dedication and commitment to take their game to the next level. The concept at Evolution Baseball is to teach our players the fundamentals of the game, build baseball IQ and strengthen mental performance in order to prepare them for HS baseball and beyond with experienced high school and college level coaches. We will hold several 2023 spring camps and select 2 travel teams to begin training/competing in the fall of 2023.

Coach Caliendo's Message " The Show Is Back!" plus:

Apologies to our listeners, but life changes caused a delay in bringing shows to you, our move to Charlotte, NC and the former host company of our podcast closed down. We are now hosting our own show. Thanks to all in the USA and around the World, plus at ESPN Honolulu for your patience and understanding.

Caliendo Sports Baseball/Softball Teams traveling to Italy/Dominican.

New Senior League Baseball Fantasy Camp travels throughout Italy playing games and enjoying the culture.

Off to WBSC Europe Congress in Serbia, then Hungary to work with coach.

Coffee with Blackjack McDowell former CY and great coach.

ISG Baseball coaches' conferences around the world, just returned from Rom, Italy, off to Peru for a coaches' conference. 

Guests coming up, 

1. JP Michaels of WBC Face Book page, over 100 k members on page.
2. Nick Swisher Yankee World Series Champion.
3. Jeremy Guthrie KC World Series Championship Pitcher.
4. Justin Seager of Blast Motion covers MLB teams.
5. John Miedreich one of the founders of the new Dubai league, Baseball United.
6. Jimmy Finingeri, host of Clearing the bases podcast and top high school coach.
7. Rick Eckstein former MLB hitting coach, brother of David Eckstein.
8. Mickey Calloway former MLB Coach
9. and so mnay more lined up.

Plus a lot more going on.

Thanks to all our listeners in the USA and around the world. Please share the show with others.

Peter Caliendo

Your Host

Short promo clip or Host Peter Caliendo and Head of MLB International Baseball Jim Small. Talking some international baseball.

Instructors at the WBSC Europe Winter League discuss some things they teach during the event and the importance of it. 

One of the top managers and instructor Coach Caliendo has been around Nestor Perez Jr understands long term development for European players. He explains it well in this episode.

One of the best pitching coaches around in Tenerife, Spain at the WBSC Europe Winter League with Coach Caliendo discusses the ways of teaching players today also utilizing technology and more.

From Tenerife Spain at the WBSC Europe Winter League Coach Caliendo talks about how lucky he is to have traveled the world helping coaches but also learning from many people at the coaches' conferences. No other experience like it.

Great stuff from Coach Caliendo about hitting, vision # 1, we should be working on this more than anything. Listen.

Coach Caliendo wishes all his friends in the USA and around the World a very Merry Christmas from Tenerife Spain where he is managing a team of 21 u in the WBSC Europe Winter League.

Host Peter Caliendo Special Message.

Coach Caliendo wants to apologize for a lull in the show episodes but with the studio and home move to Charlotte, NC from Chicago it delayed many episodes.

Also, his web site hosting company the Line Up Media Group will no longer be hosting podcasts. Special thanks to them for all their help the last 3 years. 

We now are hosting our own show on Anchor and great new things will be happening.

Special thanks to all our listeners from the USA and around the World for sticking with us.

Be ready for some new and great episodes very soon.

Baseball Outside the Box