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Hosted by Ken Carpenter · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 220 episodes
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Baseball Coaches Unplugged is a podcast for insights on high school baseball coaching, travel baseball development, and college recruiting from coaches building winning programs. Each episode features real conversations about high school baseball coaching, travel baseball development, college recruiting, player development, practice planning, pitching and hitting development, and building a winning baseball culture. If you’re a baseball coach looking for practical ideas on running better practices, developing players, navigating the recruiting process, and leading a successful program, this podcast delivers insights from experienced coaches across high school, travel, and college baseball. Hosted by 27 year veteran high school baseball coach Ken Carpenter. New episodes drop every Wednesday!
Ken Carpenter hosts BASEBALL COACHES UNPLUGGED, a sports show with 220 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Baseball can feel like it’s thriving on highlight reels while quietly shrinking in the neighborhoods that used to feed high school programs every spring. We sit down with Pittsburgh coach Joe Capobianco
Send us Fan Mail A 14-year-old can have a loose arm, quick feet, and a bat that makes every coach look up and still get pushed out of baseball by one question: “How much is this going to cost by the end of the summer?” T
Send us Fan Mail You can watch a high school baseball game and think it’s all about the swings, the calls, and the final score. Then you talk to a head coach and realize the real game is happening in a hundred small mome
Send us Fan Mail A two mile an hour ride on a hospital gurney can do what 27 years in a baseball dugout never could: tell you, without mercy, what actually matters. We step away from signs, stats, and strategy and talk a
Send us Fan Mail Division I baseball isn’t just "more intense"—it’s a daily war of attrition where a single bad day can cost your players an entire week of progress. On this episode of Baseball Coaches Unplugged , two-wa
Send us Fan Mail Your son makes a top travel or select team and suddenly everything feels urgent. Tryouts, fees, rankings, showcases, guest players, tournament schedules, recruiting promises. We slow the moment down and
Send us Fan Mail A lot of families make the same travel baseball mistake every July: they chase the loudest logo, the flashiest graphics, and the team that “wins the weekend,” then wonder why their player stops improving
Send us Fan Mail The biggest mistake high school players make is treating college baseball like a status contest instead of a development decision. Riley Bender just finished his career at the University of Mary Hardin-B
Send us Fan Mail What does it really mean to build a “fundamentally sound” baseball program? In this episode, we sit down with Eddie Hull, Head Baseball Coach at Charlotte Catholic High School in North Carolina, whose te
Send us Fan Mail A winning program can be built on talent, but it’s sustained by something harder to measure: trust, standards, and relationships that outlive the final box score. I’m joined by recently retired West Virg
Send us Fan Mail College baseball used to give players time to grow up. That window is closing fast, and Troy University head baseball coach Skylar Meade doesn’t sugarcoat why. With transfer portal mobility, rising inves
Send us Fan Mail Preseason rankings feel nice until you realize you start playing the games and now you have to earn everything again. Denison University associate head coach and pitching coach Ryne Romick joins us to ex
Send us Fan Mail Most teams chase talent. The teams that last build an environment that makes talent behave like a teammate. We sit down with Denison University head baseball coach Mike Deegan to talk about what actually
Send us Fan Mail A head coaching interview can be won or lost before you ever shake a hand, and Granville Gehris proves why. We talk with the First Flight High School Head Baseball coach about how he earns trust quickly
Send us Fan Mail One game can erase months of work, and that reality changes how coaches think. We’re joined by Chris Stewart, head baseball coach at Eastern High School in Ohio and host of the Coaching Life Podcast, jus
Send us Fan Mail If baseball has more technology than ever, why are so many players training harder and developing slower? I’m Coach Ken Carpenter, and I want to dig into a problem I keep hearing after more than 200 conv
Send us Fan Mail What do college coaches really look for when they walk up to a field and why do so many talented players are losing out on opportunities? We talk with Ray Birmingham, the winningest coach in University o
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Send us Fan Mail High school baseball seasons rarely fall apart because of talent. More often, it’s the challenges that show up during the season that quietly pull a team off track. So we asked four experienced coaches o
Send us Fan Mail Two hundred episodes sounds like a number until you realize what it represents: 200 chances to sit down with real coaches and talk about what actually builds players. I’m Coach Ken Carpenter, and this mi
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