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A few I remember:
Hitting wiffle golf balls with a broom stick
Hitting white beans with a bat
Inside a batting cage - have the kids line up in the box ready to hit - put up a pitching fence and stand in the halfway point - then rapid fire throw tennis balls - it helps with bat speed
All I can remember right now.
Any hitting of the tee drills will help. Also make competitions out of drills, the kids will love it. My dad used to coach me in dixie and we played a game called king of the mountain. Get all the players in the line. Hit a ground ball to the first player, make sure he fields it without bobbling the ball (any bobble and they are out), and have them throw the ball back to the catcher next to the coach who is hitting the ground balls, if they throw it bad to the catcher then they are out also. The last player still in the competition wins. The more rounds you get into the harder you make the balls to field. The kids get a lot of practice fielding balls and making accurate throws and have a great time doing it.
Also start kids young at going to opposite field while hitting a outside pitch. So many hitters are all pull hitters and cant hit a outside pitch to save their life. In batting practice throw them outside pitches over and over again to help with this. Tee drills will help. Set the tee on the outside and around the back foot the help kids get used to driving the ball to opposite field.
Here is the banner of the young men you are helping out. Keep giving advice and thanks again. They loved the tennis ball drill and "king of the mountain". More to come.:icon_wink:
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Have them face the fence in their batting stance. Hold knob of bat against belly button and have end of barrell touching the fence. Without backing away from the fence, have them swing without the bat making contact with the fence. This will prevent a looping swing and teach them to stay inside the ball.
For your pitchers,teach them that throwing a first pitch strike is the most important thing they can do.
And teach them to wear their caps like a baseball player, not an abercrombie model.
AMEN brother
Hitting drill- soft toss into a net or fence is great for timing and footwork at the plate. You can do that with baseballs or wiffle balls. Just toss the ball up from the side and the hitter hits the ball into the net.
Outfield drill. Footwork is key when delivering the ball from deep in the outfield. Get a bucket and lay it over on it's side. The fielder charges in and fields a ground ball as they stide over the bucket and deliver the ball to the short stop or second baseman in one motion. If right handed, their left foot should land in front of the bucket and their right foot leads over it. 2 strides past the bucket they release the ball toward the infield. It will be rough at first, but they can do it. Footwork is opposite for lefty.
Also teach them to wear their pants like a ballplayer. Show some sock. I hate the pants being down around their heels.
I agree about the hats but honestly I couldn't care less what they wear as long as they are playing well. If you want to wear MC Hammer pants and hit .450 thats fine with me.
You aren't a pureist. Also, let's face it... how many people hit .450? Teach them to respect the game and not to make a mockery of it. Wearing pants down and hats sideways are examples of "big leagueing it." To quote Bull Durham, "Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob."
Depends on whose mamma is keeping the book.
I do plan on keeping a more accurate book this year. Some of those errors are about to be charged from here out.:icon_wink: Some of the averages reported before all star voting are just rediculous.
Oh I see it in high school ball, too. I looked at a box score the other day in the paper that said a kid was 3 for 4 with a triple and a double... in my book however, I had the kid as 1-4 with a double (one base error gave the triple). The double was on a ball that hit off the center fielders glove on a can-o-corn (should have been out) and the single was on a throwing error.Depends on whose mamma is keeping the book.
I do plan on keeping a more accurate book this year. Some of those errors are about to be charged from here out.:icon_wink: Some of the averages reported before all star voting are just rediculous.
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