The number one query that brings folks to this site is PITCHING DRILLS. So I get it, you might be a new coach and you know baseball and you know how to hit and you figure how hard can it be to teach some kids to hit? You throw to them and eventually they’ll hit. Of...
CoachingYouthBaseball.com was officially established in 2015, but I have been coaching since 1999. I even had a website for my team in 1999 but it was on some long-forgotten server. The world is full of baseball experts – former players – baseball schools – full of...
So what are we really doing with all these drills. We are trying to build muscle memory. When you pick up a ball and it’s in a play you don’t think, “Step 1, pick up ball to do that I have to bend my knees, reach down, grasp ball, open fingers, close fingers….”...
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 great. Many...
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...
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...
