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🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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How do you get a player past the point of being scared to fail? Getting his pitchers to believe they have the stuff to succeed is Matt Hobbs' M.O. We chat with Arkansas' pitching coach and learn how he does just that, becoming known as one of the top coaches in the game when it comes to using analytics and technology. Hobbs takes us through his coaching journey, why he loves to learn and why working at Arkansas is the best baseball job in the country.
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0:00.0 | That goes on down there every day. |
0:02.0 | Like a guy is afraid to like, what's it going to look like if I do this and I fail? |
0:07.0 | And it's just getting them past that point. |
0:10.0 | Like getting them past that point is hard. |
0:12.0 | That's amazing. That's such an amazing. |
0:14.0 | It's very difficult to get them past the point of |
0:17.0 | if I try my hardest and it's not good enough, then what? Welcome to the Hog Pie. I'm Bo Mat Maddingly and this episode is made possible by |
0:34.4 | our friends at Core Brewing Company, Rockin Protein, First Security Bank, and |
0:39.1 | Sarah's in Resort. To be a coach you first have to learn things and then you have to be able to |
0:45.9 | teach it and then you've got to know how to get the most out of each player. |
0:50.8 | In middle this will be spin. |
0:53.0 | For Arkansas pitching coach Matt Hobbs, those things all go hand in hand. |
0:57.0 | I love learning and right now in baseball that's what challenges you. |
1:01.0 | Getting his pitchers to believe they have the right stuff |
1:05.0 | is one of his emos. |
1:06.4 | We have a ton of talented players, |
1:08.9 | but some of those guys struggle |
1:10.6 | to show their talent on the field. |
1:12.4 | They struggle to get to their stuff. |
1:14.3 | Consider one of the top coaches in the game when it comes to the use of analytics and |
1:18.4 | technology. Hobbs has the tools at his disposal and the knowledge of how to use them to develop the game's top talent. |
1:26.0 | Your splits are really good and you're getting the same amount. |
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