10 benefits of working with a catching coach/getting catching lessons

Working with a catching coach can lead to many benefits for you and your son, such as increased skill level, more playing time, and so much more.

If you don’t know who I am, my name is Anj Bourgeois and I’m the founder of Catching Made Simple. I transitioned from infield to catcher my Junior year of college, having never caught before, and now have a passion for teaching other catchers the fundamentals of the game.

I’ve helped hundreds of catchers get into a better stance, learn the fundamentals of the game, and get their mindset right.

By the end of this article, you’ll know 10 benefits (some expected, some unexpected) of working with a catching coach.

1. Increased skill level

Working with a catching coach will help you get better at catching! A good catching coach will help you dominate the “Core 4” skills of catching: Stances, receiving, blocking, and throwing.

2. More playing time

Working with a catching coach helps you develop the skillset of a catcher. As a result, it can help you get more playing time as a catcher. Makes sense, right? The higher your skill level, the more likely you are to play.

3. Stronger mindset

A good catching coach won’t just coach the hard skills of catching, they’ll also coach the mindset. A player who has a stronger mindset will wildly outperform a player with a weak mindset. So this is a massive benefit both in baseball and in life.

4. Daily practice habits

A good coach will equip players to work on things at home. And at times, they will work to keep them accountable too. The player who practices every day is much more likely to out perform the player who doesn’t!

5. Learning to think effectively

A good coach will help you and your son to think effectively about failure, learning, and so much more. Our thoughts shape who we are, and having a coach to help shape our thoughts can have an enormous impact on our game and our life!

6. Higher grades

A catching coach can remind players how important their grades are and push them to work harder in the classroom. If you’re getting a catching coach, you likely want to play at the next level. If you want to play at the next level, you need to have good grades!

7. A ‘richer’ high-school experience

A catching coach can provide a ‘richer’ high school experience for the catchers. Like it or not, your friends and extracurricular activities have a big impact on your high school experience. If you’re the starting catcher and a critical part of your team’s success, you’ll likely have more fun, more friends, and the confidence to have a rich high school experience.

8. A college scholarship

A catching coach can help you get a college scholarship. This will come from being a more highly skilled catcher. A catching coach has likely played college themselves though and knows what to look for and what to look out for in the college recruitment process. They also may have relationships with other coaches that could help introduce you to college coaches.

9. Opportunities after college from being an athlete

A catching coach can help give you the skill needed to play in college, which opens up a plethora of benefits after college. College athletes are in hot demand in the workplace because skills like preparation, competition, and team-work are so valuable.

10: Belief in themselves

This is my favorite part of being a catching coach myself: Helping young men to believe in themselves. Believe they have what it takes. Believe they’re dangerous and a force to be reckoned with behind the plate. Believe they have what it takes to learn, grow, and get better.

Next steps to getting the benefits of a catching coach for your son

You came wondering what some of the main benefits of working with a catching coach were.

Now you know about many of the expected and unexpected benefits a catching coach can provide.

At Catching Made Simple, I create content, courses, and coaching programs to help hundreds of catchers increase their mobility, strengthen their mental game, and develop the physical skills they need to catch at a high level.

Book a call for a free 15 minute Catching Consultation with Anj if you want to get an expert take on what you need to do to get better.

And if you’re not yet ready to talk with me, check out these other resources:

• 7-Day Stance Challenge - get a stance like the pros in 5 min a day