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title: FungoMan Journal | Baseball Coach
description: Baseball Coach | Find limitless innovation in the latest stories from FungoMan. Browse baseball and softball coaching and training articles, and get to know the people, places and innovations that drive the game forward.
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# FUNGOMAN JOURNAL
*Stories to inspire training.*
### We’ve spent over 20 years challenging traditional ideas with innovative, training-intuitive platforms evolving our products, powering our design ethos, and celebrating our athletic community.
## Feature Story
[](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/assessing-natural-movement-vs.-one-size-fits-all-system)
Department of FungoMan Archives
## Empowering Athletes and Those Who Train Them
We built our technology from a dad's desire to empower his son with better training. Our latest articles honor ideas of the past and advance them in service of tomorrow's generation of athletes.
[](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
[Coaching](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
[5 Helpful Tactics Coaches To Use After a Loss with Romy Cucjen](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
[FungoMan President, high school coach, and professional baseball player, Romy Cucjen shares his shortlist for handling a tough loss.](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
[](https://info.fungoman.com/journal/5-amazingly-effective-tactics-coaches-should-use-after-a-loss)
Training
7 Creative Infield Drills To Effectively Develop Players with Trent Mongero
Winning Baseball fielding guru, ABCA Coach of the year, Trent Mongero shares infield drills you'll want to implement in your next practice.
[Coaching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QxMOkDNj-g&t=380s)
[Scouting Talent with Jerry Manuel](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/8-baseball-practice-secrets-for-the-coach-who-wins-championships-checklist)
"The Sage" Jerry Manuel is former MLB Player, Manager, Coach, MLB Network Analyst, and CEO of the Jerry Manuel Foundation. He shares on scouting talent—seeing movement and rhythm.
### Behind the Scenes
## Let's Reimagine Practice
Introducing FungoMan, our most significant training innovation. The platform revolutionizes traditional training methods by hacking exact line drives, ground balls, fly balls for the purpose of making a premium efficiency-minded product. It's time to games. But first, let's win practice.
### Latest Stories
[](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/how-to-be-the-smartest-player-in-the-dugout)
### [How To Be the Smartest Player in the Dugout \[5 Tips\]](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/how-to-be-the-smartest-player-in-the-dugout)
in [Baseball Coach](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/topic/baseball-coach)
on May 10, 2019, 3:00:00 PM
By [Camille D.C. Sutton](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/author/camille-d-c-sutton)
[Leave a comment](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/how-to-be-the-smartest-player-in-the-dugout/#comments-listing)
You were once the best player on your team, but now you've leveled up. With a higher talent pool, you've got to win your starting spot. Obviously, coaches expect players to develop their skills and physicality to earn their positions. However, other qualities can set players apart from the rest. If a player can master these five habits, he'll be well on his way to becoming the smartest player in the dugout—and win his spot on the roster.
[Read More](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/how-to-be-the-smartest-player-in-the-dugout)
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### [\[VIDEOS\] Throwback Thursday: 5 Coaches Give Their FungoMan Review](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/fungoman-reviews)
in [Baseball Coach](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/topic/baseball-coach)
on Oct 4, 2018, 12:00:00 PM
By [Camille D.C. Sutton](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/author/camille-d-c-sutton)
[Leave a comment](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/fungoman-reviews/#comments-listing)
Born from the baseball dad who wanted to give better fungoes to his son outside of practice, he figured: "surely there's a machine out there that can challenge my son with the exact reps he needs." No such machine existed at the time. And hence, FungoMan was idealized for the baseball dad and player who just wanted extra practice. Today we're sharing 5 coach reviews for the teams wanting better baseball practice.
[Read More](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/fungoman-reviews)
[](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/measuring-success-baseball-coach-survey)
### [How Do You Measure Success? \[Baseball Coach Survey\]](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/measuring-success-baseball-coach-survey)
in [Baseball Coaching](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/topic/baseball-coaching)
on Sep 14, 2017, 12:00:00 PM
By [Camille D.C. Sutton](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/author/camille-d-c-sutton)
[Leave a comment](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/measuring-success-baseball-coach-survey/#comments-listing)
Understanding success may at first seem like a no brainer. Winning games equals success. But what about the success of growth? The success of discipline? The success of fundamental development? These questions lead to a larger question: How are YOU measuring your success? Take our 7-question super short survey below to share how you define success and growth.
[Read More](http://info.fungoman.com/journal/measuring-success-baseball-coach-survey)
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