This drill teaches outfielders to communicate, call for fly balls, and apply the CF-priority rule under pressure. Equipment: bucket of balls, pitching machine, 2 bases 1. Set up the pitching machine at home plate and aim it for fly balls. 2. Put a base in CF and a...
Well over the years I’ve seen other coaches do it, but at yesterday’s practice we were using the pitching machine for fly balls. I also used a new toy I got over the weekend https://www.amazon.com/Accubat-Racket-Baseball-Softball-Training/ (it’s an...
OK, a new thing happened. Over 25 years of coaching youth baseball and it’s really something when new things happen. I’m at practice and a player is throwing his glove up in the air. Alas, he was close to the dugout and the glove fell on the roof. Yes it did. He said,...
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...
There is no substitute for repetition for ground balls. Remind teams that games are usually won or lost based on fielding routine ground balls. If a shortstop misses a tough smash deep in the hole, well the team just shrugs and moves on. If the second baseman...
Balls hit in the air (or balls thrown from one player to another) are adventures. No single action in baseball tests your fear of the ball like having a ball hit or thrown to you. Most players outgrow the fear of being hit by the ball, but at AA age (8 or 9) the...
