Category: Youth Baseball
Youth Baseball Drills – T-Ball Throwing Drill
Here are the summarized steps I go through with teaching my T-ball kids who are just getting started on the fundamentals of throwing. Give these a try with your young players and they will have a great foundation for the sport. T-Ball Throwing Drill Group Knee Position – Throwing & Catching (All Kids) 10 min [...]
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 [...]
Coaching Youth Baseball – Warm-Up Drill & Throwing Tip
My favorite baseball warm-up drill at the start of practice is to have half the players at the pitchers mound (for 8U) or at the short stop position (for 10U) and the other half at first base. Baseball Warm-Up Drill I stand at home plate. The pitchers mound/shortstop players field the ball from me and [...]
Gloveless Fielding Drill
I find that a lot of times my youth players attempt to field the ball in the infield like they see the “cool” players do it, scooping it to the side or one handing it. So what I’ve done to help “re-train” them is this gloveless fielding drill. Gloveless Fielding Drill 4 positions (1st, 2nd, [...]
Coaching T-Ball Tip – How to Keep Their Attention
With 4-year-olds, the greatest challenge is getting everyone to pay attention and not horse around. I have found that you have to constantly interact with the players to accomplish this, and lines do not help. How to Keep Their Attention One thing that has really begun working for me is throughout practice, and during drills, [...]
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 [...]
Fun Baseball Drills – COACH SAYS Drill & GLOVE SIDE Drill
These are two fun baseball drills I use with my younger players a lot. They enjoy these and forget that they are practicing drills. They’re great for teamwork as well. “Coach Says” Drill This is a twist to one of the popular ideas for “show me the ball”, “invisible bat”, and “coach says”. I have [...]
Youth Baseball Coaching – Running 1 through 4
This is one of my favorites for youth baseball coaching and I don’t see other teams doing in our league. It is a simple base running drill that I call “Running 1 through 4″. Running 1 through 4 Two lines down at home plate. First line in the right-hand batters box. Second line about 10 [...]
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