The 2026 Milwaukee Brewers Are Everything I Love About Baseball
Pat Murphy, complete hitters and a reminder that there’s more than one way to win.
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MLB Breakdowns · Complete Hitter · Baseball IQ
MLB Breakdowns · Hitting Development · Baseball IQ
I Love This 2026 Milwaukee Brewers Team!
Line Drives. Stolen Bases. Smart Bunting. Baseball IQ. And a Relentless Commitment to Scoring Runs.
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The ’87 Chokes · Winners
Kevin Long: Not Just a Great Hitting Coach. A Winner.
From the 1986 Arizona champs to the ’87 Chokes to four pennants and two rings, my old teammate has won everywhere he’s gone. Here’s why.
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Complete Hitter · Baseball
How to Hit a Baseball: A Step-by-Step Guide for Players and Parents
Six steps, in order, from the stance to the finish. What a hitter ages 10 to 18 should actually work on, and what parents should look for.
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Small Ball · Fastpitch
How to Bunt in Softball: Sacrifice, Drag, Push and Squeeze
A good bunt is caught, not hit. Here’s the grip, the setup, the targets and when to use each bunt in fastpitch.
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Swing Development · Fastpitch
How to Hit a Softball: A Step-by-Step Guide for Fastpitch Hitters
Six steps, in order, from the stance to the finish. What every fastpitch hitter from 10U to 18U needs to own, and what parents should look for.
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Complete Hitter · Players & Parents
Offseason Hitting Plan: 12 Weeks From Fall to Tryouts
Assess, build, add speed, then compete. A week-by-week offseason hitting program that peaks on tryout day, not in November.
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Complete Hitter · MLB Development
A Swing Change Is Not a Plan
Why a beautiful cage change can look exactly the same in games. Every swing cue needs a game question.
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Kehoe Going All Kehoe · Hitting Philosophy
Hitting Is Simple. It’s Just Not Easy.
See the ball. Get on time. Get the barrel on plane. Hit it hard. Simple — just not easy.
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MLB Breakdowns · Complete Hitter · Player Development
Data Doesn’t Swing the Bat
The Red Sox scored two runs in two games. Willson Contreras said data and computers aren’t enough. Here’s what every hitter should take from it.
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Complete Hitter · About AHD
What Is Athletic Hitting Development?
The AHD system explained: four pillars trained on purpose, then synced into one complete hitter.
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Kehoe Going All Kehoe · Player Development · Complete Hitter · Mental Game
How Good Can You Be?
52 years of playing, coaching and scouting. Less than 1% of players max out. Here are the six things they do.
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Kehoe Going All Kehoe · Player Development · Mental Game · Complete Hitter
We Can Be So Much Better.
A brutally honest look at amateur hitting. I see a lot of meh. We can get so much better, and in a hurry.
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Kehoe Going All Kehoe · Complete Hitter · MLB Breakdowns · Hitting Processor
They’re Not Extinct. We Stopped Building Them.
Gwynn, Boggs and Carew would win games in 2026. Why the contact artist is a winning brand of hitter.
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MLB Breakdown · Swing Development · Player Development
Miguel Cabrera’s Timeless Swing
What Cabrera’s 500th home run teaches hitters about adjustability, consistency and building a swing that survives change.
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Kehoe Going All Kehoe · Mental Game · Player Development · Complete Hitter
The Pain of Discipline vs. the Pain of Regret
Every hitter pays a price. See how discipline now—or regret later—shows up in the swing, strength, processor and mental approach.
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Kehoe Going All Kehoe · Player Development · Mental Game
What I Wish the Game Was Today
Energy. Teamwork. Accountability. Urgency. Joy. The AHD non-negotiables for playing like it matters.
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Kehoe Going All Kehoe · Mental Approach · Complete Hitter
It’s Not Okay: Understanding Athletic Integrity
A lot of people gave a lot to get you here. One player’s integrity can hold a team together, or break the chain.
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Kehoe Going All Kehoe · Mental Approach · Complete Hitter
It’s Not My Fault, But It’s My Problem
Too small, too slow, a bad call, a coach who doesn’t see it. Here is the way out for every hitter.
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Complete Hitter · AHD System
What Every Hitter Must Know
Great hitting is a system: movement, swing mechanics, pitch processing, timing, adjustability and mental performance working together.
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Hitting Processor · Swing Development
The Value of Time: Why the Best Swings Let Hitters Decide Later
Jacob Wilson shows why efficient movement and adjustability can give hitters more usable time to recognize, decide and attack.
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Complete Hitter
The 4 Pillars of a Complete Hitter
Why the swing, athletic development, mental training, and the hitting processor must work together.
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Mental Approach
Heater, Hanger: Simplifying the Mental Approach
A simple approach for competing without overloading the hitter with thoughts.
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Complete Hitter · 2015 Archive
Where AHD’s Fact-Based Hitting Program Came From
How BK charted 24 swing movements across top MLB hitters, then interviewed coaches and players to build a fact-based hitting program.
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Stories · 2015 Archive
Testing a Fact-Based Hitting Program in Colorado
A 2004 road trip to test a new fact-based hitting program on a top American Legion team in Colorado, and what three days of camp showed.
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Softball · 2015 Archive
5 Keys to Maximize a Softball Hitter’s Potential
The five ingredients every fastpitch softball hitter needs: the swing, mental approach, pitch recognition, work ethic and physical training.
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Complete Hitter · 2015 Archive
The 5 Areas of Hitting Development
The five areas every hitter must train beyond batting practice: swing, mental approach, pitch recognition, work ethic and physical training.
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Coaching · 2015 Archive
The Spark: Rethinking What We Teach Hitters
Why BK stopped teaching “squish the bug” and started teaching what elite hitters actually do, the spark behind a fact-based program.
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About AHD · 2015 Archive
Why Krush Athletics Started: The Roots of AHD
How a player who saw the swing differently became a hitting coach, and why Krush Athletics, now Athletic Hitting Development, was built.
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