Coaching Baseball: How to Improve Plate Coverage

What is Plate Coverage? Plate coverage pertains to how big your hitting zone is. Simply put, can you hit an inside pitch as well as the low/away pitch

Coaching Baseball: The Best Batting Tees

What are the best baseball batting tees? This is a breakdown of, what I believe to be the best batting tees on the market

Coaching Baseball: Don Cooper

White Sox Coach More Comfortable Coaching than Playing Guest post by: Jim Mancari –

Coaching Baseball: What are you Showcasing?

What are you showcasing? Guest post by Tony Lowe from elev8 Sports Institute

Coaching Baseball: What is Swing Plane Part 2

Should I swing Level, swing down or have a slight upper cut? Part II In Part one, we talked about staying on plane

Coaching Baseball: How To Throw Batting Practice Part2

I’m pretty decent at throwing Batting Practice, how do my players get the most out of it?

Coaching Baseball: What is Swing Plane? Part 1

Should I swing Level, swing down or have a slight upper cut? Part I You may have heard the coaching cues like “swing down”, “swing level”, “Finish high” and so on. What should you believe? What should you teach your kids? Well I am going to add one more cue…”Stay on plane”. It kind of […]

Coaching Baseball: How to Throw Batting Practice Part 1

He must have a Rubber Arm… Have you ever wondered how a coach can throw so much batting practice (BP)  and get up the next day and do it again? Well, I have a couple of secrets but first lets describe a typical scenario. You are a youth coach or a parent that is working […]

Coaching Baseball: Glove Curl

What is “glove curl” or “glove roll”? I see many middle schoolers and elementary schoolers approach a ground ball with their glove close to their chest and the palm facing up or toward their chest as well. There are 2 problems with this… The player develops a habit of “stabbing” at the ball at the […]

Coaching Baseball: The Correct Way To Hold A Baseball

After years of coaching, giving private lessons, working at camps and clinics, it amazes me to see so many baseball players holding the baseball incorrectly. I am talking about basic throwing mechanics and the first step in proper throwing mechanics is holding the baseball the correct way. So what is the correct way to hold […]

Coaching Baseball: Eliminating Bat Drag

How To Identify & Eliminate “Bat Drag” So what is bat drag? Bat drag happens when the player “pulls” his hands through the hitting zone with the barrel dipped below the hands. One thing to look for when identifying bat drag is the back elbow. It will lead to the ball at the approach position […]

How Do I Approach The Batter’s Box?

We practice our swing thousands of times each season for those precious few cuts that we get while we actually playing a competitive game (those are the ones that really matter right?). As youth coaches, we sometimes get caught up in teaching technique and drilling our kids to hopefully develop the proper muscle memory so […]