Category: Baseball Training

Baseball Training Drills and Tips – Back to Basics

Baseball Training Drills and Tips – Back to Basics

A couple of things I work on is with the theme of “back to the basics” which we all need.  Try these baseball training drills and tips to help your team with the Basics.  You’ll like the results. The Swing This drill is for getting the turn into the swing.Use a “T” for this batting [...]

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Baseball Training Drills – Decision Drill

Baseball Training Drills – Decision Drill

This is one of our favorite baseball training drills that encompasses the entire team. The players love it and it puts them into actual game time decisions and plays. It encompasses both offensive and defensive portions of practice as well as on deck batter and their responsibility on a runner scoring and a potential play [...]

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Baseball Catcher Drills – Game Situation Drill

Baseball Catcher Drills – Game Situation Drill

As a baseball coach you know how important it is to work with your catcher to hone his skills.  These baseball catcher drills will help him work on actual game situations. Game Situation Drill 1. Have catcher in squat position with coach directly behind him. 2. Toss the ball in front of him. 3. Let [...]

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Indoor Baseball Drills – Indoor Infield T-Ball Around

Indoor Baseball Drills – Indoor Infield T-Ball Around

These are some of the indoor baseball drills that we use that help both hitting and fielding techniques. The objectives for this drill: Batter – line drives to infield, base running with fielders in the way; Fielders – base runner should not be able to get home before all throws are made. Indoor Infield T-Ball [...]

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Baseball Conditioning – Warm Up Practice Drill

Baseball Conditioning – Warm Up Practice Drill

With my team, I like to start every practice off with base running.  It gets them warmed up, and reinforces the habits of good base running. You can’t find better baseball conditioning exercises than this one! Warm Up Practice Drill We concentrate on the basics first, specifically things like running ALL THE WAY THROUGH first [...]

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Baseball Practice Plans – Situation Drill

Baseball Practice Plans – Situation Drill

I have always used a simple drill called Situation. We usually do this the last practice before games. It is a one of the key baseball practice plans I use and it is an excellent warm up for them to get into “game mode”. Situation Drill You start with a full defense (pitcher included) and [...]

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Baseball Training Equipment –  Prop to Teach Proper Ground Ball Fielding

Baseball Training Equipment – Prop to Teach Proper Ground Ball Fielding

Here is an idea for baseball training equipment that is easy, inexpensive and best of all– IT WORKS!  We use the following prop to teach our players how to properly field a ground ball out in front of their body. We have had tremendous success with this prop teaching proper body mechanics for fielding grounders. [...]

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Baseball Training Drills and Tips – Cone Gate Drill & Running the Bases

Baseball Training Drills and Tips – Cone Gate Drill & Running the Bases

Try these baseball training drills and tips with your players.  They are quick, effective and your players will ask for them!  Give them a try. Cone Gate Drill Something that has worked very well with our intermediate outfielders is using cones as a gate and another cone out about 15 yards. The second drill helps [...]

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