How fast do ballplayers develop? Is baseball skill related more to absolute skill? Or size and strength PLUS a requisite amount of skill? Is it better to be small and have great mechanics, or big with lesser mechanics? Plus, Dan discusses what scouts think about wearing a cap backward and whether ballplayers can be big-boned and still perform well.

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Transcript: EP93 – Developmental Age of Ballplayers; Wearing Your Cap Backwards; Can Baseball Players Be…Fat?

Hey, welcome back. This is dear baseball gods. I’m Dan Blewett and this is episode 93. So in today’s episode, we’re going to cover three topics first. How does developmental versus biological age play into your development as a player? Uh, in our 92nd mindset, we’ll talk about wearing your baseball cap and how that is important or not important.

And lastly, we’ll talk about body types and do you have to be really fit to play baseball? Well, So first let’s, uh, be philosophers here a little bit about what does it actually mean to be skilled at baseball or any sport in general? So a really good example here is women’s basketball versus men’s basketball.

So we all know that women have the ability to be as skilled at anything as men, but we know that there’s a difference biologically, and that they’re less. Able to develop the same level of strength. So when we start comparing the NBA to the WWE MBA, we know that the female players and the NBA, or as technically proficient at basketball as any of the men, they can shoot, they can pass, they can, you know, do all the basketball thing.

I’m certainly not a basketball expert. Um, but. Their skills. As far as basketball skills go are absolutely as good or can be as good or better than any comparable man, but given the physicality of the game and how many men or towering over them height-wise are more physical. Basketball is pretty rough at times as is like even non-contact sports like soccer, obviously lacrosse is like a medium contact sport, even though these sports aren’t like football, right.