As Major League Baseball continues to assess potential ways to return to the field, a lot remains uncertain. Mental-Skills Coaches have become more prominent in baseball recently, elevating the importance of approaching the game from more than a physical standpoint.
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00:00 As Major League Baseball continues to assess potential ways to return to the field, a lot
00:07 remains uncertain.
00:08 And in today's Daily Cover, Emma Bocciolieri examines the question, "How do you prepare
00:13 players when you don't know when or how they'll be playing again?"
00:17 Emma, you point out how mental skills coaches have become so much more prominent in baseball
00:23 recently.
00:24 And how would you describe the role of a mental skills coach?
00:26 Yeah, so we've seen a lot of teams add these in the last five or ten years.
00:31 And really their job is to do everything that a strength and conditioning coach, that a
00:37 physical trainer would do for a player's body, to take that same kind of work and apply it
00:42 to his mind and his mental skills and his emotional approach to the game.
00:48 So everything that can be focus or confidence, you know, meditation, things like that, that
00:55 help a player kind of stay centered and just be able to have his mind in the best place
01:00 needed to be able to execute what he wants to do between the lines, they take care of
01:05 all of that.
01:07 And having a resource like that must be hugely important at a time like this when so much
01:12 remains uncertain.
01:13 Yeah, absolutely.
01:16 You know, a lot of mental skills coaches right now say that it's really kind of showing how
01:21 the skills that they would normally be teaching them, they can work just as well for life
01:26 as they do for baseball.
01:27 So things like setting routines, meditating, kind of being mindful, being really in touch
01:36 with your emotions and how you're feeling and processing uncertainty, all of that, you
01:41 know, that's stuff that they've been taught in the context of baseball.
01:44 But right now for any for baseball players, but really for just about anyone, it's really
01:49 powerful as a tool to kind of navigate the uncertainty that everyone's going through
01:53 right now.
01:54 Absolutely.
01:55 SI, MLB writer, Emma Boccioli, thank you so much for the time.
01:58 Thanks.
01:59 Thanks.
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