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Baseball players are susceptible to injury no matter what position they play. We hear all the time about major league players going onto the disabled list for moderate to severe muscle strains or sprains, hamstring injuries, or lower back injuries such as Spondylolysis. Knee injuries can also be quite painful […]
Hitting is about timing and body mechanics. The faster players react and move, the harder they can hit the ball with power and accuracy. Here, we’ve compiled 9 batting drills that help take your hitting to the next level. Batting tees have become more and more popular over the last […]
Hitting, throwing and fielding are necessary skills for teams to have in order to win ball games. Youth teams who have the most wins have a well-developed practice regimen and excel at every facet of the game. This includes base stealing. What if you can make it so that your […]
Players in baseball will bunt instead of swinging fully mainly for strategic reasons, such as to move a baserunner. However, some hitters are able to get base hits from a bunt because they have perfected bunting mechanics. They’re also aware of bunting strategy – why you bunt, and when to […]
Being agile means being able to move quickly and easily. Infield and outfield defensive ballplayers need to have agility, as well as the footwork to react fast and field ground balls that hops unpredictably, and outfielders who run back to catch fly balls behind their bodies. Batters also need agility […]
The backbone of any winning team is their defense. In youth baseball, the majority of defensive plays occur in the infield, either short hop ground balls, soft grounders or line drives hits. The better the infield drills you as coach run through with your team for these kinds of hits, […]
Watching a baseball game can be deceiving. The viewer can’t see the catcher’s hand signals, nor do they know what type of pitch from the pitcher’s arsenal will be thrown until later. While we can try to predict what the pitcher will throw next, such as a 4-seam fastball, changeup, […]
Techniques and practice drills for baseball players have improved greatly since the game became an organized sport in 1850. Coaches and players have come up with new approaches and manufacturers have applied new technologies to their products to help pitchers, catchers, fielders and batters improve their ability to perform baseball […]
If you’ve ever watched a baseball game, you might realize that people talk about 4 seam versus 2 seam fastballs and want to know the difference. While both of those particular pitches in baseball travel at high rates of speed, unlike a curveball or slider, these two types of pitches […]
