Over the years, many promising baseball careers ended because certain hitters couldn’t hit breaking pitches if their lives depended on it. I remember playing against a couple of big bonus babies after they were released, and they were still playing in semi- pro leagues. The worst curveballs got them to swing and miss, but

One modern day philosophy I will never adhere to is the idea that striking out is no worse than any other way of making an out. It had to be a metrics analyst who never played the game to come up with that one!  Nor did he watch the Arizona Diamondbacks upset the Phillies in

Any hitting coach worth his salt will tell you that AGGRESSIVENESS is perhaps the most important trait a hitter can have. Yet in the United States our feeder systems are definitely not doing a good job of teaching it. Players are rewarded for walking or getting hit by a pitch and punished for swinging at

  All moves start with the P looking at the split (1) halfway between H and 1B (3). Drill 1 Turn sideways. Look at 1, step at 1, throw sidearm to 3. Bad Move: Come to set looking at 1, lift leg, look at 3, step at 3, throw to 3 chest high over bag.

It’s a given that very few players hit quality breaking pitches well and it’s also a fact that hitters see nothing but fastballs in practice and games 99.9% of the time right from the beginning. When they are finally introduced to breaking pitches at the middle school level most of them are outside of the

Hitting coaches world-wide will agree that TIMING is the key to hitting!  Ask them to define “timing” and the methods they use to teach it and they are stumped. There are a ton of drills to teach swing mechanics, bat speed, etc., but not a lot of ideas on how to teach TIMING once our students