Practical youth baseball coaching, one drill at a time.
THE 8020BASEBALL PODCAST is a coaching-first baseball show built around youth development, practice design, and smarter fundamentals. Its episodes mix solo instruction with guest conversations on hitting, pitching, speed, strength, parent communication, and keeping players engaged.
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THE 8020BASEBALL PODCAST is a youth baseball coaching show with a strong instructional spine. It sounds like a weekly coaching clinic, but the useful part is how often the advice lands on an actual practice decision. The show keeps returning to a simple premise: coaches have limited time, so the work should start with the biggest needle movers. That means fundamentals, but not in a stale way. Episodes look at how to make routine skills more energetic, how to turn tee work into competition, and how to keep drills from becoming robotic. Hitting gets serious attention. Recent episodes cover swing priorities, home training without much equipment, two-strike work, and lessons from coaches who work with hitters across several levels. Pitching is treated through the same simplifying lens. Rather than perfecting extra movement, the show argues for removing what does not help, then building toward strikes, command, arm health, and useful velocity. Speed work broadens the field. Coach Dexter Pendergraft brings the discussion toward acceleration, full-speed running, sprint mechanics, agility, and drills that help athletes feel the right positions instead of only hearing cues. The show also spends time on the adult side of youth sports. Coach Jeff Sofa’s appearances bring in resources for coaches, parent buy-in, reframing winning, communication, and helping players respond to errors and failure. It is not only a drills show. It pays attention to energy, enjoyment, confidence, resilience, and the coach’s responsibility to make baseball feel worth coming back to. Professional baseball appears as a teaching source rather than a gossip lane. Bryce Harper, JT Riomuto, Freddie Freeman, Tony Gwynn, the Dodgers, the Blue Jays, and the World Baseball Classic are used as examples to translate higher-level baseball into youth-coaching lessons. Coach Bo is the recurring coaching voice, and the format often moves from a strong opinion to a story, then to a rule of thumb. The pacing can be repetitive, but the repetition works like chalk-talk emphasis. Listeners also hear direct promotion for 8020 Baseball plans and resources, so the show sometimes blends instruction with sales. Still, its center of gravity is clear. It is for coaches, parents, and serious young players who want practices to be cleaner, smarter, more competitive, and more connected to the real game.
Made for: Youth baseball coaches are the core audience, especially volunteers or developing coaches who want clearer priorities for practice. It also fits parents and players who want to understand hitting, pitching, speed, strength, and baseball habits in coach-friendly language.
What sets it apart: The show separates itself by turning broad baseball ideas into field-ready coaching rules. It combines fundamentals, guest expertise, and professional-baseball examples without losing sight of the youth practice environment.
The 80/20BASEBALL MASTERCLASS is a fast-paced, weekly podcast designed for busy youth coaches who want to master all the key aspects of coaching baseball. ⚾Coach Bo (and guests) lean on the 80/20 Principle to guide youth baseball coaches to a much higher level of success. ⚾Coach Bo combines his 20+ years of coaching experience with his 20+ years of teaching experience, while also drawing on his experiences playing professionally, collegiately, and at every level along the way, to guide coaches around the common frustrations and challenges that coaches often face. ⚾
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed drills and clearly framed coaching decisions make youth baseball instruction easier to apply at practice.
Coach Bo turns youth baseball coaching into a sequence of decisions that can be carried straight onto the practice field. THE 8020BASEBALL PODCAST combines solo instruction with interviews, moving between hitting mechanics, drill difficulty, pitching adjustments, speed…
A batting tee becomes a laboratory when you want practice advice that survives contact with actual kids.
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Coach Bo considers what youth baseball coaches can take from J.T. Realmuto's changing training routine.
Coach Bo uses J.T. Realmuto's training routine to ask what youth baseball coaches can take from a professional player's approach. Realmuto describes how his baseball activity changes as spring training gets closer and how he adjusts his weightlifting after the offseason.
Coach Bo recommends the power slide step when runners can lead off and steal.
A high leg lift can give a base stealer an opening, and Coach Bo wants pitchers to pay attention to it. At levels where runners can lead off and steal, he recommends the power slide step. He says runners may go on a left-hander's first movement.
Daily Blue Jays therapy after every swing.
Mets panic, patience, and prospects.
Tech news with the patience removed.
Mets anxiety, translated into roster logic.
NHL chaos, argued quickly.
Fort Myers to Fenway, one swing at a time.
Coach Bo reveals his 20-40-40 drill difficulty ratio and proposes three new labels to transform practice.
The 80-20 Baseball Podcast #253 opens with Bo's advice to keep one coaching vocabulary across the staff and assign a primary voice for pitching, hitting, or outfield work.
Coach Bo Asher-Browner shares a key pitching tip about removing unnecessary movement and continues an interview with Coach Jeff Sofa.
Coach Bo says strong baseball drills should feel like games, include a portion of harder reps, and scale safely.
Coach Bo uses the Little League World Series finalists’ 73 runs in 10 games and zero home runs to question home-run-centered offense.
Coach Bo makes consistency the first pillar of player buy-in, arguing that kids stop giving full effort when coaches are unpredictable.
The 8020 Baseball Podcast episode with Dexter Pendergraft of Speed Training Co.
Coach Bo of THE 8020BASEBALL PODCAST argues that baseball fundamentals become engaging when coaches add pace, variety, organization, and competition instead of chasing novelty.
Coach Bo of THE 8020BASEBALL PODCAST covers umpire mistakes, pitcher mechanics, baseball fundamentals, and how coaches can study successful smaller players.
Former player Chad Jacob shares expert hitting tips and coaching strategies for baseball players and coaches.
A baseball coaching podcast discussing the World Baseball Classic and upcoming hitting coach interviews.
Coach Bo uses Tony Gwynn, Joey Votto, Brian Giles, and Carlos Delgado to argue that weighted runs created plus is a better hitting lens than batting average.
Coach Bo Asher-Browner shares a key pitching tip about removing unnecessary movement and continues an interview with Coach Jeff Sofa.
Coach Bo discusses the Toronto Blue Jays' superior offense and begins an interview with Coach Jeff Sopha on coaching resources, winning, communication, and building player resilience.
Coach Sarancic shares actionable tips to improve the mental game for baseball players in part two of an interview.
Coach Bo interviews Coach Adam Sarancic about maximizing the time between innings in youth baseball games to improve team performance.