Tag: "coaching youth baseball"
Youth Baseball Drills
Hi Coach – welcome to the site! Below, you’ll find four great videos covering different aspects of coaching youth baseball. All of these clips are samples from the “Youth Baseball Mastery” online video clinic. Inside that resource, you’ll find a complete “color by numbers” system for successfully coaching youth baseball. It includes 42 wickedly effective [...]
Baseball Hitting Drills
Here’s a great baseball hitting drill you can use with all ages and ability levels. It’s called the “Identification Drill” – and the goal is to help your hitters identify the spin and trajectory of the ball out of the pitcher’s hand, then use that information to make better decisions at the plate. I love [...]
Coaching Baseball – Pre-Season Player Assessment Drill
At the beginning of the season, I like to use this drill to get to know my players. It helps me to get to know their strengths and weaknesses and how I need to plan my practices. Player Assessment Drill I use this drill just to learn about my team. I have the kids [...]
Coaching Tips for Youth Baseball – Fear of the Ball and The Talk Ball
When you’re working with younger and/or first time players you have many areas to cover besides teaching skills. One of the most frequent is “fear of the ball”. This is followed by getting their attention and teaching them to listen to you and to their teammates. Old Socks and Fear of the Ball Here is [...]
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 [...]
How to Teach or Correct Batting Stance
I noticed after looking at pictures and videos of my players last season that alot of them had all kinds of different batting stances. Some looked good and some just were not right. So, I decided I would fix it from the first day of practice. The problem was how to fix it fast and [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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