Baseball Drills – Pitching and Batting

Looking for some fresh ideas for baseball drills?  You’ve come to the right place!  Try out these ideas below from Jeff and from Jason.

From Jeff…
One baseball drill that I have found that adds value is “Target Practice”. I am sure that this drill exists somewhere. Anyway here we go.

I set up a Juggs net (with strike zone) and a pitching rubber at 48′. I then have the player warm up and throw 15 pitches from the stretch and 15 from the wind-up.

I then measure the accuracy rate of the player from each position so that I can understand what to develop or drawbacks that may need to be addressed for each player during a game (i.e. if the pitcher cannot throw a strike from the wind up then they they should only pitch from the stretch etc.).

I repeat this every couple of weeks to see if our work on pitching fundamentals is effective.

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From Jason…
3 Home plate Drill
When we take batting practice off a machine, I like to place three home plates for the players to stand at.  We take 5 cuts at the normal distance then, move up and take 5 cuts, and then move up 5 cuts.  This makes cage work more challenging and eliminates the player getting the machine timed.  I also like it because it varies what the pitch looks like without changing the machine.

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