FUNGOMAN JOURNAL

In the fall, while some are gearing up for football, others hit the gym to cross-train through the autumn months. Fall provides a great opportunity to both work on improving areas of expertise and targeting skill deficits that need attention. Typically players use off-season to gain traction on skills of the tangible sort: speed training, strength training, and fielding. Today we're addressing FIELDING. Check out our 10-week template for improving your player's defensive consistency.

Statistics and analytics are here. Take this quiz to see where you're at on the latest numbers. Using the Statcast Leaderboard at MLB.com, we've lassoed in some data, now we need your answers. Time to test your knowledge not your ability to look up the answers.

At one point or another, we all need inspiration to do our jobs better. It doesn't matter whether you're a little league coach, navigating through the politics of parents, years of coaching young kids can take a toll -- we all need examples of great leadership. It empowers us to imagine better versions of ourselves, and we become the great coaches we aspire to be. Today, we'd like to deliver an inspiring story about a dad and son on the big stage of the Little League World Series.