Baseball is a game of failure. Baseball takes great skill but it also takes a strong mentality to be great. The best baseball player in the world, Mike Trout, has a career batting average of .305. This means that he fails about 69% of the time at the plate. Mike Trout is a successful baseball player because he doesn’t dwell on the past. To be a great baseball player you have to be mentally tough and have a great mindset. This is going to be a blog to teach you to develop this mindset.
Develop Confidence:
Confidence is something you want to have in life no matter what you are doing, this is even true in baseball. If you want to accomplish something in life but you don’t believe that you can do then odds are you can’t. If your ho up the plate thinking “I won’t get a hit” then you might as well go back to the dugout. You need to have the mindset that says “I am going to get a hit.” There are several ways that you can go about developing confidence on the baseball field. One way to do this is to perform what you are trying to do. For example, going to the cages builds confidence because you are seeing yourself hit the baseball and this builds confidence. Another way is to visualize your success. This is important because you see yourself hitting the baseball and this gives you a boost of confidence before your at-bat.
Learn to Let Go:
In a game of failure, you can’t dwell on the past. You have to move forward and not let previous mistakes haunt your future play. You only get a few at-bats in a game don’t let one ruin the rest of them. This is a part of being mentally tough, it’s hard to forget about previous at-bats or errors but you have to be.
Confidence is key in everything you do. Like Yogi Berra said “Baseball is 99% mental” and this is true. In a game where the best of the best fails about 70% of the time, you need to be mentally tough and have a solid mindset. Every player needs to instill an “I will get a hit” mentality into their game. The key to success is to do what you want to achieve and to visualize yourself being successful. You must also not dwell in the past; you can’t let one mistake snowball into more mistakes that will hurt your team.