Team management + AI coaching · youth baseball

Spend less time planning.
More time coaching.

Schedules, availability, volunteer signups, and a team chat that actually makes sense. Plus fielding rotations, batting orders, and practice plans built from your roster.

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Works with your data·GameChanger imports·Game logs & box scores·Combine results·Your own notes
See it in the dugout

The screens you'll live in on game week.

Real screens from the app: the AI-built practice plan, the suggested batting order, and the tabbed player profile, season stats, recent games, combine numbers, notes, and AI video analysis all in one place.

PRACTICE PLAN
A full plan, built for this week
A timed station plan tied to your real weaknesses, each block opens to the drill, setup, coaching points, the "why," and the official USA Baseball drill.
BATTING ORDER
A lineup with the reasoning
Every spot comes with a why, an alternative order, and honest notes on what it assumed. Drag to reorder, tweak, or override.
PLAYER PROFILE
The full picture on every player
Season stats, recent games, combine numbers, your notes, and AI swing + pitching breakdowns, organized into tabs, with the player pinned on top.
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For coaches

Plan practice, set the lineup, run the roster, and see what changed since the last game.

New · Fielding position generator

Nine positions. Six innings. Zero dugout math.

Tell it who showed up. It fields every inning fairly, then prints for the dugout fence.

Built from position tags. Every player lands where they can actually play.
Your rules, enforced. Bench time spread evenly, nobody sits twice in a row, position caps respected.
Tap two players to swap. Shuffle for alternatives until it feels right.
One-tap PDF. A printout with field diagrams per inning, plus the full rotation grid.
Exportable fielding plan PDF, field diagram per inningDefense by inning screen in the DugoutPal app
The rotation grid
The whole game on one grid.
Every player, every inning, color-coded infield, outfield, and bench, so parents can see the rotation is fair before they ask.
Full rotation grid, every player, every inning
Log a game · about 2 minutes

Every game you log makes next week smarter.

Five prompts on the ride home. All skippable.

01Snap the box scorepre-fills everything
02Confirm game & who playedtwo taps
03Tag player strengths & work-onsnotes save to profiles
04Grade the batting orderteaches future lineups
05Add team notes & saveone record per game
feeds every future suggestion
Fielding rotationsBatting ordersPractice plans
Live scoring

Score the game with one thumb.

Draw the ball where it went, slash a runner who got tagged, drag a runner to the next base. Every call lands as a chip you can confirm, retag, or undo before it saves.

Live scoring field view with batter chip, count, and gesture legend
FIELD VIEW
Swipe the batter chip for ball and strike. Draw from the plate to trace a hit, then tap fielders to build the out chain.
Play log listing recorded plays with edit affordances
PLAY LOG
Every play, newest first. Tap one to change the call and the outs, count, and box score re-compute behind it.
Confirm chip, not a form
The best guess is pre-selected and auto-saves on a timer. Change it in a tap or cancel outright.
Pitch counts and rest
Pitches tally per arm as you score, with a warning as a young pitcher nears the limit. Coach-pitch innings are handled too.
Undo anything
One tap reverses the last play. Nothing you record in the third inning is stuck there.
Straight into the game log
The final book becomes the box score, player stats, and the parent recap. No second entry after the game.
New · Game-day readiness

Saturday morning, already handled.

Parents open the app and see one card with everything: what time to be there, first pitch, which uniform, whose week it is for snacks, and one tap to answer the check-in. Coaches watch a live tally instead of sending a fourth reminder text.

Arrival time, not just game time
"Be there 8:45" for a 9:30 first pitch, so nobody is warming up in the parking lot.
Check in without opening a thread
In, out, or running late with a note. Either parent's answer counts for the family.
Plans change, check-ins reopen
Move the field or pull arrival 45 minutes earlier and DugoutPal re-asks the families it just got harder for.
Streaks reward answering, never attending
Families build a streak for replying, in or out. Three full houses in a row and the team picks the warmup playlist. Nobody is ever ranked on who shows up.
Parent game-day home: arrival time, first pitch, uniform, snack duty, and the check-in
GAME DAY · PARENT
Family check-in streak, team full-house meter, and the coach-chosen reward
STREAKS · FULL HOUSE
New · AI video analysis

Score every swing and pitch, from one video.

Upload a face-on cut of a hitter or a side-on cut of a pitcher. AI grades 20 mechanics metrics, flags what's improving and what to work on, tracks each one over time, and hands you a drill you can drop straight into the practice plan.

HittingPitching
New · The assistantBETA

The assistant coach you've been doing without.

Someone who watched every game, remembers every at-bat, and never minds being asked at 11pm. One line at the top of your home screen. Ask it anything about your team.

DugoutPal home screen with the assistant ask bar sitting above the setup checklist

Ask in five words. Get an answer in one line.

No menus, no digging through stats. Just say what's on your mind on the drive to the field, and go in knowing what you're doing.

“Who should bat cleanup Saturday?”
Marcus. And here's the six games that say so.
“What should we work on Thursday?”
Hitting with runners on. Here's the practice plan to fix it.
“Chase down the parents who haven't answered.”
Done. Nine reminders sent, and you saw the words first.
The assistant answering who should bat cleanup, showing batting averages with runners on from the last six games and a button to put it in the lineup

It gives you the name, the numbers, and the button.

Not a wall of text you have to interpret at 6am. A straight answer, the games it came from so you can trust it, and one tap to make it real in your lineup.

Straight answers
A name or a number. Never “it depends.”
Receipts included
Every answer shows the games behind it.
One tap to act
Advice you have to re-type isn't help.
You approve everything
Nothing reaches your team unread.
Useful from day one

It gets smarter every game you log.

Upload your roster and it'll help you set the season up. Add a box score and it starts noticing things. A month in, it knows your team better than the stat sheet does, and it's honest with you about the difference.

It'll tell you what it doesn't know rather than make something up about your kid.
Your team's numbers stay your team's. Nothing crosses between rosters.
In beta. Free while we get it right, and every thumbs-down goes straight to the people building it.
The assistant on day one, offering the two fastest ways to make it useful and three questions it can already answer
Runs the whole team

One app instead of five group texts.

Schedule, availability, chat, volunteers, roster. All of it in the same place as the coaching.

Season in one pass
Tuesdays here, Thursdays there. Set the pattern, skip the blackout weeks, done.
Availability, answered
One tap per event. You see your count before you build the lineup.
Team chat that catches up
Threads, mentions, and a summary of what you missed.
Volunteer signups
Snack, scorekeeper, field prep. Open slots nudge themselves.
Roster and contacts
Families join with a code. Numbers stay with the coaches.
Reminders, not spam
One digest for a batch of changes. One nudge the day before.
Assistants and team parents
Roles you grant, permissions nobody claims for themselves.
Fields and directions
Saved locations with parking notes, one tap to navigate.
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For parents & players

One place for schedules, signups, and honest progress on your kid.

New · Parent portal & team chat

Not just a coach's tool. The whole team's app.

Invite a family and every parent gets their own portal to follow their player, plus a team chat with its own tab. DugoutPal even handles the game-day “who's in?” texts for you, so nobody's chasing a headcount on Saturday morning.

PARENT PORTAL
Their player, on their phone
Parents auto-join when you invite them, then follow stats, coach's video breakdowns, the schedule, RSVP, and two-way notes.
TEAM CHAT
One thread, zero group-text chaos
A game-day check-in pins to the top until each family answers, coaches post standout announcements, and the whole team can react and reply.
Auto-added, no setup
Invite a family once and they're in the team chat and following their player. No accounts to wrangle.
Game-day check-ins
DugoutPal asks who's in or out on game and practice days. Coaches get a live tally instead of chasing texts.
Coach announcements
Post a standout, pinned message pushed to every family, even the muted ones, with read receipts.
Automatic team updates
Rain-out alerts and auto game-score recaps post themselves, so the whole team stays on the same page.
AI chat catch-up: what needs you, what changed, and what settled without you
New · AI chat catch-up

Forty-seven messages. Twenty seconds.

Come back from three days of work and DugoutPal reads the thread for you, sorted by whether it actually needs you. Every line is tappable back to the original message, and the actions run right there in the summary.

Needs you
Snack volunteers still short, your check-in still open. Tap once to answer without leaving the summary.
Schedule changed
Field 3 became Field 5, arrival moved up. Flagged as earlier than before, with your answer reopened.
Settled without you
Uniform confirmed, carpool sorted, photo day moved. Read it and move on. Thirty-nine emoji replies skipped.
Rewrite before you send
Clearer, shorter, or warmer. Your original is always kept.
@ the player, reach the family
Mention a kid by name and both parents get it. Coaches get @everyone, which pierces mute.
Share the progress

A player report parents actually read.

One tap turns any player profile into a clean, shareable PDF: season stats, swing and delivery scores, and the exact drills to run at home. Email it to a parent or hand it to another coach so everyone sees the same picture and knows what to work on next.

Season snapshot: stats, recent games, and combine numbers at a glance.
Swing & delivery scores: the key mechanics, with what's improving and what to work on.
Drills to run at home: two specific fixes, linked to how-to walkthroughs.
DugoutPal player report, page 2: hitting and pitching analysis with drills
DugoutPal player report, page 1: season snapshot and development summary
PDF
Carter-Mills-Report.pdf
Ready to send
What's under the hood

Built to save you the Sunday-night scramble.

Four-question setup
Team name, age group, roster, schedule. Answer four questions and your season is built, in about five minutes.
Fielding rotations
Fair defensive positions for every inning, built from position tags and your bench rules, with a printable PDF.
AI practice plans
Timed, station-by-station plans that target your team's actual weak spots, not a generic template.
Smart batting orders
Set the game context and get a suggested lineup with the reasoning behind every spot.
Roster & combine tracking
Player profiles with stats, notes, and combine results, so the whole picture is in one place.
Live scoring
Gesture-based book keeping with pitch counts, an undo for every call, and an editable play log that re-computes the game.
2-minute game logs
Snap the box score, tag what you saw, grade the lineup. Every log sharpens future suggestions.
Fast player notes
Jot what you saw at practice in seconds. Those notes feed straight into the next plan.
AI swing & pitching analysis
One video in, 20 scored metrics out, for hitting (face-on) or pitching (side-on), tracked over time, with pitch-count & rest awareness for young arms.
Parent portal
Every parent auto-joins a private view of their own player: stats, coach's video breakdowns, schedule & RSVP, and two-way notes.
Team chat & game-day check-ins
One thread for the whole team. DugoutPal auto-asks who's in or out on game and practice days; coaches broadcast standout announcements.
You're always in control
DugoutPal suggests. You decide. Edit, override, or ignore any recommendation. It's your team.
Who it's for

Made for coaches with a day job and a lineup card.

Volunteer coaches
You said yes to coaching, not to hours of prep. Show up with a plan without the homework.
Travel-ball staffs
Juggling tournaments and player development? Keep every practice pointed at what moves the needle.
Little League managers
Fair playing time, real development, and a batting order you can defend to any parent.
Baseball parents
Follow your player, know when and where to be, and stay in the loop with the team, all in one place.
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