How the 2016 Mariners Are Effecting Organizational Change Through Solid Pedagogical Strategies And Turning These Frowns Upside Down
In many ways, an MLB club is a classroom writ large. Players go for batting practice, participate in drills, and have their performances assessed through a variety of measures. Even as spring training is dismissed as a holdover from the days when players had to hold second jobs in the off-season and often showed up with all the sleek musculature of a sock drawer, it also provides an opportunity for players to work on a specific skill or skill set under the watchful eyes of the coaching staff—what in education is called "guided practice.