Baseball Improvement Drills – Shuffle Drill

Coming up with simple effective baseball improvement drills can be challenging.  Here is a baseball drill that seems to work well with younger players but all ages can benefit.  I call it the shuffle drill.

Basically what you do is have one player about 10 feet from a baseball coach who is on one knee.  Have the player bent over in his ready position to field a ground ball.  The coach then rolls a ground ball to the right of the player, the player then fields the ball with both hands (using no glove) and flips the baseball back to the coach as quickly as possible. 

The coach then rolls a grounder back to the left of the player and the player has to shuffle his feet across, staying in a crouched position to field the ball.  Do this around 10 times back and forth.  Then go to the next player.

Object of this baseball drill is for the player to be able to shuffle his feet as quickly as he can and field the ball with both hand trying to stay in front of the ball.

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