Many youth baseball coaches believe that hitting, throwing and fielding skills are the most important skills to look for in a youth baseball player? Sure these baseball skills are important, but there are other skills that many overlook.
Skills such as positive attitude, desire to learn, respect, disciple and hustle are key to being a good baseball player and a good teammate. If you were to ask college and professional baseball scouts what they look for when recruiting young baseball players, you would be surprised: Mental aptitude, good attitudes and maturity rank at the top with pure physical baseball talent.
Players who have the fundamental baseball skills and the right mental attitude make it easy to manage and contribute the "team approach". "Superstar" players who lack maturity or have the "me first" attitude can be difficult to manage and negatively impact the team concept.
So if you happen to find yourself in the position of selecting youth baseball players in a draft, remember to give high marks to those players who hustle, show discipline, respect and the desire to learn - they won't let you down.
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