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The Coaches Corner has been established to report important information specific to managers and coaches. Please check this section on a regular basis for updates and meeting schedules. Injury Notification Form This form should be completed by the Manager/Coach whenever any player is injured during practice or league play. The completed form should be forwarded to the Vice President of Administration of the Lincroft Little League. Handout: Injury Notification Form Time Managing a Little League Game Every year it seems that innings are lost due to poor time management by coaches during games. These innings represent lost opportunities for skills improvement and sheer fun for the players, not to mention the effects on games following the one running late. This proves especially telling on Saturdays, and in a League with 1150 players and only 8 fields, you can see how this becomes a problem. Following are tips and expectations the League offers to make you a more efficient coach: 1) Start on Time: Nothing is more ridiculous than the sight of two coaches arguing over time limit for a game, especially when they started 5 or 10 minutes late in the first place. We know from experience, that VERY FEW GAMES ACTUALLY START ON TIME. If you're the home team, get your pitcher out to the mound 1 or 2 minutes before the scheduled start time. And expect the other guy to have his team ready, too. 2) Prepare: Have a written substitution grid ready. Why not even the night before? Do it in pencil in case someone doesn't show. Hang it in the dugout for the kids to see. Tell them it's a "plan", not a "promise". They'll soon learn to anticipate where they have to go and to understand when things don't go according to plan and you need to make adjustments. 3) Put a Sock In It: This is the most important. People come to see their kids play, not to marvel at your baseball genius. Forget the mid-game pep talks and the trips to the mound every inning. Get 'em out on the field, where they want to be. That's the whole reason they showed up in the first place. Here's a test: Get a watch with a second hand, sit comfortably, and when the second hand reaches 12,close your eyes and visualize your team making the last out of a half inning, then proceeding to their positions on the field (especially the pitcher warming up). When, in your mind's eye, your pitcher is ready to deliver the first pitch, open your eyes and check the watch. You'll be surprised. Most people use about 75 seconds. If you keep to 90 seconds down time during the season, it's all but guaranteed you'll get in 6 innings every game - comfortably. Put another way, 90 seconds lets you AVERAGE 9 min./half inning in a game and still qualify to play a 6th inning. Do the math. By the way, the warmup rule allows 8 pitches OR 1 minute, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST. So the issue really becomes, "Is there any reason you can't get your pitcher to the mound within 30 seconds of the last out being recorded?" We think not. Expect some umpires to focus on this, and the parents to love you if you do. Coaches -- A Good Time to Review the Coaches' Pledge Click onto "Handouts/Schedules" at left to review the Coaches'Pledge you should have already signed. Even if you didn't sign, you are responsible for its contents. |
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