I'm coaching a 9-10 LL team again this year. Against my loud protests - our league decided to bump most of our best 10yr olds up to the 11-12 Majors division. This has left most of our minors division teams really short on pitchers & catchers. I've had pretty good success working w/ kids who have never pitched before, getting them so they can at least get through an inning or two here and there without embarrassing themselves. While on the catching side, I've always been fortunate to have good athletes who wanted to catch and were pretty good at it without much intervention on my part. This year, I have a very young team - with only 2 kids who have ever caught before (one of whom is also my only pitcher who has more than 1 inning of experience), and 2-3 reluctant volunteers who are not the most athletic kids by any stretch. Anyone got any good tips for breaking in new catchers? I'm conceding that we're going to give up a zillion SB this year - I'm mostly concerned with improving receiving skills and minimizing trips to the backstop so we don't have too many 40 minute innings.