Can I Use The Bat: Meeting The Need For your Team To Succeed

Can I Use the Bat is a powerful, thought-provoking guide to relationships built on a simple but transformative question: Are you giving your partner what they need to succeed?

Using the vivid language of baseball, Bishop Kevin J. Hollingsworth reframes love, communication, and partnership through the lens of teamwork. In every relationship, someone is at bat—under pressure, expected to perform, and trying to win for the team. But too often, they’re doing it without the right tools. This book challenges readers to stop focusing on what their partner is doing wrong and instead ask a deeper question: Have I given them the bat?

Through relatable stories, real-life experiences, and biblical principles, Can I Use the Bat exposes common breakdowns in communication, unmet expectations, and silent frustrations that plague relationships. It tackles everything from emotional disconnect and miscommunication to intimacy, vulnerability, and unspoken needs—offering practical insight on how to build a foundation of trust and safety.

This is not a book about controlling others—it’s about mastering the only person you can control: yourself. It’s about becoming intentional, aware, and equipped to contribute what’s necessary for your relationship to thrive.

Whether you’re married, dating, or preparing for the future, this book will shift your perspective and give you the tools to create a winning team—where both partners are supported, understood, and empowered to succeed.

Because in the end, strong relationships aren’t built by chance—they’re built by design.