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Baseball Hitting Drills | Youth Baseball Batting Drills

Baseball Hitting Drills – The short is that there are 3 basic areas to begin

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Use A Batting Tee like the pros

1. You Must Have Batting Tee Practice
Working off a tee is probably one of the most important youth baseball hitting drills you can have. Having a batting tee station at all your practices is a must. This will help your team improve swing mechanics without having to track a moving baseball. All it takes is a good batting tee and a catch net to keep the balls out of the neighbor’s yard or neighboring practice fields. They say that Derek Jeter wore his tee station out during the long Michigan winter months.
Batting Tee practice is the perfect time to work on three areas crucial to young baseball players…
1. Get your feet right
2. Get your hands right
3. See the ball

I always had a tee station setup at practices and games for warm up. Sometimes We wouldn’t even have tee work scheduled and you would see kids go hit off the tee before practice started, between stations, at break time… a lot of kids take to it.

Angle Toss

2. You Must Hit Angle Toss – Angle Soft Toss, also known as flip drills is simply a drill where a coach sits on a bucket at a 45 degree angle on the open side of the hitter and tosses a looping flip about every 6 seconds. You can use the same catch net from your Tee Station, saving you some extra cash or as we prefer, is to have a totally different practice station.
This valuable youth baseball batting drill builds on your tee station and adds timing and the focus you must have to consistently hit hard shots. Balls are tossed toward the front knee, the mid body and then the back knee to teach hitting to all fields

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Batting Cage Time

3. Cage Soft Toss – A coach or a partner either stands or sits on a chair 25 – 30 feet in front of the hitter and behind an “L” screen for protection.  The coach/partner soft tosses baseballs to the hitter.  It’s a good idea to alternate hitters or rest after every 5 or 6 tosses other wise the hitter loses his focus and or gets tired, resulting in poor hitting mechanics and thus destroying everything the hitter has tried to build on.

These are three powerful baseball batting drills in developing proper swing techniques and getting kids hitting the ball hard. Put this in with some cage time and live hitting, youth baseball players will hit the ball more and harder, thus resulting in more success and fun for everyone.

Youth Baseball Batting Drills

The art of hitting a round ball with a rounded stick was identified by USA Today as the hardest feat in all of sports…what other sport identifies prime talent as those who fail 7 out of 10 times (a .300 BA) and the greats of the game by failing only 6.50% of the time (a .350 BA)!
Your actually considered a good hitter with a .280 batting average , so we are expecting quite a bit for our kids to hit baseballs well. So we must have proper batting drills.

One ugly reality of youth baseball is that by age 13…70% of players have left the game and the #1 reason given in the one major study I have seen  is that it’s not fun…Possible translation = a lack of success. Hitting is one of the biggest measurements we put on our youth baseball players.

As parents and youth baseball coaches, we thrive on success and the approval of our peers. We enjoy being good at things and getting slapped on the back for a job well done! Good golfers don’t play tennis on the weekends…bad cooks probably don’t enjoy cooking in their spare time.
The best players don’t always become tomorrow’s superstars. Take talent and add commitment and you will have many of the MLB Players you see on TV… Take tremendous gifts and add that same competitive work ethic and you have the few superstars that exist in any generation!

Kids Don’t Swing Enough… so most players don’t ever maximize whatever gifts they have! Youth baseball players need more fun interactive youth baseball hitting drills, not just standing at the plate taking pitches.
Most youth baseball teams practices do not give kids enough quality swings to go beyond their physical talents to become a successful hitter. Proper baseball batting drills are a must at home and need to be made fun! This encourages today’s players to stay in the game…long enough to thrive! And everyone has more fun.

youth baseball hitting drills

So How Do You Become Your Best ?
It’s a 2 Part Answer:
1. Learn how to most efficiently swing your bat…this takes a coach, a dad with some knowledge and  good videos, books, and other training aides (remember, even the best in the game have a hitting coach in the dugout so there’s always little tweaks until the day you play your last game)
2. Do it over and over and over…the right way.