Take a look at these submissions from Glenn and from Ricky. Two great examples of drills for baseball coaching that work with your youth teams.
From Glenn…
Tiger’s baseball coaching tip.
To help my team prepare for defensive drills, I have purchased 9 leather pancake mitts. Everyone uses these mitts. We take regular infield at all practices for the 1st 15 min. with these pancake mitts. Then we switch to gloves for another 15 min.
This has mandated proper fielding and catching techniques and the use of two hands for all fielding. This has improved our fielding and catching of flyballs in the infield and the outfield and has markedly decreased the number of fielding errors.
I love this drill and now my players love it because they very rarely make a fielding error.
From Ricky…
I have spent the last 5 years coaching the younger kids within the community I live. From an offensive stand point we have seen a remarkable difference in hitting when we have spent time working with the quick swing. But we had to fix hand position on the bat and fix a few stances along the way. The kids clearly saw the importance of having quicker hands.
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