Category: Baseball Hitting Drills
Baseball Tips and Drills – Improving Hitting Skills
If you’re working with younger players and want to work on their hitting skills, give these tips a try. The first one uses a basketball to improve strenght and the second one uses varying size items to work on skill. Basketball Drill One good inexpensive idea that helped many of my players was to soft [...]
Baseball Plays – THe FBH Drill & the 4 Watch the Bunt Play
Try these two ideas with your team next practice. The first is a drill I call the FBH (Fake, Bunt, and Hit) drill. The second idea is a bunt play that you’ll be glad to use in your next game. FBH Drill I call this the FBH drill (Fake, Bunt and Hit Drill). This is [...]
Baseball Hitting Drill – Bunting Practice Drill
I used to use a nice, slow, old pitching machine to teach bunting. I wasn’t getting the results I wanted, so I have abandoned the machine and now take a two pronged approach. Bunting Practice Drill I throw bunting to each player on the team, from about 15 feet, as often as I can, working [...]
Baseball Hitting Drills – Beach Ball Hitting Drill
I’ve come up with a pretty cool and really fun hitting drill for the kids. It goes along the same theme as your tee drill hitting square targets on a fence. Then you can give the wooden plank a try. It goes right along with this Beach Ball Hitting Drill. Beach Ball Hitting Drill Depending [...]
Baseball Hitting Drill – The Hit Stick Warm Up Drill
One of the best drills for hitting that I have found show immediate results is using a “hit stick”. I know this is not new, but the big difference I found is that if you make this part of a batter’s preparation during games it totally changes how well they do when they are up [...]
Baseball Training Drills and Tips – Hitting and Fielding Drill
Here is one of my favorite baseball training drills since it is great for all ages and levels of experience. It keeps skills sharp, is fast paced and the kids have fun with it. Hitting and Fielding Drill To keep the drill organized, safe, and productive call out the number of the tee that you [...]
Hitting a Baseball – Eye on the Ball
One of the drills I use with my younger players, ages 7-8 years, is something I started with my oldest son when he was that age. He had trouble “keeping his eyes on the ball”, and wouldn’t watch the ball all the way into the hitting zone. Eye on the Ball Drill The emphasis of [...]
Baseball Batting Drills – Candy Bar Drill
Try these baseball batting drills with your team. They work best with players generally age 9 – 16. The Candy Bar drill rewards all players, but “winners” get first choice as incentive to improve. It helps them develop the skill of being able to toss up ball properly, develop a quick swing, and hit hard [...]
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