When you’re coaching baseball, you’re always searching for new ideas for baseball practice. Give these baseball drills a try to improve your teams fielding skills.
Outfield Quick Throw Drill
Purpose: To improve the outfielder’s ability to field a ground ball and throw it quickly to a base
Directions: This baseball drill uses three tossers and three shaggers. Each tosser is near a base and has a shagger, who is at the base. The drill has one or more outfielders at each of th three outfield defensive positions. The outfielders are pulled up in order to get a force play at a base.
The tosser throws or hits a ground ball to the outfielder, who fields the ball and quickly throws it to the respective shagger.
V Throwing Drill
Purpose: To improve the infielders’ throwing accuracy.
Set-Up: The catcher, first baseman, and third baseman are at their respective bases while the second baseman and SWS are at their defensive positions.
The baseball should be thrown continuously in the following sequence: C to 1st to 3rd to 2nd (Covering bag) to C to SS (covering 2nd), SS to 3rd then back to C.
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