Rob Tong: Youth Baseball Coach, Consultant and Training & Development Leade
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Rob Tong from the Youth Baseball Edge blog interviews experts in youth baseball and related fields as they share their practical, actionable secrets for youth baseball success. Discover coaching tips, resources, drills, practice plans, strategies and much more so that you can help develop a more complete ballplayer and team. Understand how pitching, hitting, catching, fielding, baserunning, throwing, infield and outfield defense, bunting, pre-game routines, the mental game, practice organization, in-game strategies, sportsmanship and even post-game speeches are not just separate parts but interconnected parts that should be taught from a big picture perspective. Learn from the interview gues…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rob Tong turns youth baseball coaching into specific decisions about practice time, development, training and the pressures surrounding rec and travel ball.
Rob Tong keeps returning to a practical coaching question: what actually gives young players more useful repetitions? The Youth Baseball Edge Podcast moves between Tong's own lessons and conversations with Grant Cowan and Joey Greany, covering practice structure, player…
Fifteen minutes of aimless catch play vanish before Rob Tong asks where your good throws went.
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A plainspoken reminder that rec league practice works better when the start is already organized.
Grant Cowan and Rob Tong spend this episode on a familiar youth-baseball problem: how to keep rec league practice organized without draining the easy energy that makes kids want to stay engaged.
A blunt, useful check on whether the next baseball step is really the right one.
It stays focused on a familiar problem for youth baseball parents: how to help a player without mistaking motion for progress. The strongest stretch is the practical one, where it compares travel-ball assumptions with the small number of at-bats and real field time a kid may…
Practical speed training for youth baseball, with sprint work, strength basics, and a clear roadmap for coaches and parents.
This episode stays close to the practical side of youth baseball training, tying speed work to strength, plyometrics, and year-round consistency.
Practical youth-baseball coaching advice centered on practice structure, player grouping, and roster dynamics.
Rob Tong lays out practical coaching takeaways from youth baseball, with the clearest value coming from his advice on practice organization, grouping players by similar skill level, and managing roster turnover.
A practical look at youth nutrition, recovery, and the weekly grind around pitching.
This episode keeps its focus on what matters to coaches and parents: what young players eat, how they recover, and where strength work fits around throwing. Rob Tonk stays practical, and Joey Graney turns nutrition into something usable instead of a slogan.
A practical 2024 coaching reset that turns mistakes into field-ready lessons.
Rob Tong treats a late season pivot as a reset button for 2024, and the episode stays grounded in that practical lane. He starts with a familiar self audit, then gets into advice parents and coaches can actually use: bring in catch play early, favor short hops over long ones,…
Cubs recaps with bleacher-level patience.
Daily Tigers tension, sorted fast.
Nebraska athletics, close up and week by week.
Rob Tong interviews Joey Graney, assistant strength coach for the Tampa Bay Rays, about youth nutrition and strength training, covering topics like proper fueling during games, protein shakes for kids, and listener Q&A on exercises and recovery.
Rob Tong’s Youth Baseball Edge Podcast episode 168 features Grant Cohen, a McKinney Baseball and softball association board member who coaches a 12U player and an 8U player.
Rob Tong shares seven lessons learned from 2022 in youth baseball coaching, covering parent meetings, practice drills, tryouts, and player grouping.
Rob Tong opens session 169 by framing the show as practical help for youth baseball families.
Rob Tong opens Youth Baseball Edge Podcast session 167 by renaming a planned guest episode into “Top Tips for 2024” and promising seven coaching lessons plus a bonus tip and a question about situational awareness.
Rob Tong opens session 165 by restating the show's goal: cutting through misinformation about coaching youth baseball and keeping the advice practical.
Rob Tong interviews Toby Gardenhire about the third-base coach’s responsibilities, including positioning, reading outs and score, communicating with runners, and deciding when to send them home.