So what are we really doing with all these drills.  We are trying to build muscle memory.  When you pick up a ball and its in aplay you don’t thing, “Step 1, pick up ball to do that I have to bend my knees, reach down, grasp ball, open fingers, close fingers….”  You...

OK this one is hard.  You need space for real hitting.  You can use nets, but most parents don’t have them and if a kid hits a ball they have to go chase it.   Batting cages are nice if you have any that are open during the pandemic.   If not hitting off a T is...

This one seems hard.  I mean don’t you need a baseball field to work on fielding.  Surely you need a dad to line the kid up at shortstop, get a bucket of balls, walk over to home plate and toss one up and hit a shot 6 feet to the kids left so he can show some agilty...

The key to defense is to throw to a target.  If you can get to the ball, you usually have to throw to a target and the accuracy of that throw drives success or failure.  Getting it close to the target is often not good enough.  A throw that pulls the first baseman off...

Here's a question I just saw on a parents forum --  a friend of mine sent it and I think the answer is worthy of a blog post. The question: It's only the second game in on this team, with 8, 9, and 10 year old boys. One boy has expressed his disgust at "being on a...