Baseball Coach Training - Where to put your players

Baseball Coach Training - Where to put your players

All positions require certain skills which eventually determine where ballplayers will settle in over their years. With Proper Baseball Coach Training you can figure this out.

At the younger levels, determining your best infielders may just be your best athletes and sometimes, your biggest kids … the ones who can actually catch and throw the baseball. I recently watched a 9-10 yr old game and saw the biggest player on the field playing shortstop… it happens at these ages… but this tends to be short lived.

As kids mature, growth evens-out and the true skills, training and experience tends to decide where players may be best-suited…. Again, with exception, of course.

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How Do You Determine These Qualities? 
By using the 5 tools that pro scouts use!

1. (RA) Running Ability

2. (TA) Throwing Ability – Arm Strength

3. (FA) Fielding Ability

4. (HA) Hit for High Average

5. (HP) Hit For Power

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But What Are The True Attributes of Infielders?
• Quick Active Feet–lets call them “educated feet”
• Quick, Soft Hands–easily working Down to Up-Out to In
• Instincts – just what you think!
• Agility – just what you think!


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There is a hierarchy by position… let’s compare in order by position.
• First Base – HP, HA, FA, RA, TA
• Second Base – FA, TA, RA, HA, HP
• Short Stop – FA, TA, RA, HA, HP
• Third Base – FA, TA, HP or HA, RA

* Intangibles & Make Up – The more that’s at stake… the more they will look closely.

Remember players… coaches and scouts will always catch you, so let them catch you doing things right!

They are watching you as soon as you get off the bus or step out of the locker room or the dugout… make ‘em remember you for all the good that you are!

Baseball Coach Training. This is where coaches, whether they be HS, College or Pro Scouts will dig deeper into who the player actually is. This can become a deal breaker when it is seen that a player is perhaps a poor student, does not appear to be serious about his game, doesn’t seem coachable, is a whiner, not a team guy or maybe has poor practice habits.

Baseball Hitting Drills

I've studied hitters during practice practices (BP) for years and come to the same conclusion each time. Hitters who take every pitch in this manner get pops, chops, and routine ground balls with every pitch. In fact, the going rate of hard hits is three or four out of ten.
Instead, try my proven Power-10 Baseball Hitting Drills, which will help players hit the ball hard with super contact every time. Power-10 drills used in batting practices will train hitters to hit each ball well, making practices more meaningful. Hitters will concentrate more on hitting the balls hard and sharply, rather than hitting everything deep. As you see below, this method is proven by improved batting averages.

• Efficiency at least 80%: batting average over.400
• Efficiency at least 70-80%: mid.300 batting average
• Efficiency less than 70%: .280-.300 batting average

Here's how the Power-10 drill works:
A hitter chooses which pitches to hit. But call a strike if he takes a good pitch.
Scoring:

• Hard Hit = 1 point
• Week hit = 0 points
• Swing and miss/foul/strike = (-1)

A hitter strives for a minimum 7 out of 10 (70%). If a hitter is not at that level, he needs to work for that. If time permits, players can do more than one Power-10. With these batting drills, they look forward to the challenge of getting better each time.
EXTRA TIP -- Is 'Stride' Important?
What causes a player to sacrifice power when hitting? Several reasons:

1. Hitting for power has always been associated with the big strong player. But our research reveals that it's not so much the size of the player, but rather the strength of his hands.
2. Many young players are taught to just "meet the ball" rather than hitting through the ball.
3. And some hitters let go of the top hand too soon, resulting in a less-than-powerful performance at the plate.
4. Lastly, many players are taught to place their hands out over the plate on contact. Sometimes this is a result of being taught incorrectly to get extension over the plate.

My Solution: 
This proven method for how to hit a baseball will increase batting speed and power by up to 30-40% if used correctly. Here's all it takes:

1. Strong, quick hands, quick hips, and an agile body
2. Hands out front on contact
3. Hitting through the ball
4. Controlled aggression

To achieve maximum hitting force and greatest distance, both large and small players must learn to develop a quick pivot and quick hands while in the stroke. Power hitters have learned to use hips first, and hands last, with a powerful snapping action. Getting the hands out in front of the body to contact with the ball, with the top hand over the bat, and the bottom hand under that bat, converts a mediocre hit into something like a hammer hitting a nail with full force. This type of "controlled aggression" while still maintaining balance, will finish the stroke with both hands, allowing the batter to hit through the ball with maximum strength. It's important to remember not to let the top hand go too soon.

Extension does not occur on contact, but rather after contact. When hitters try to extend on contact, it is like sawing wood, using too much arms and shoulders. This method will not power the ball. In order to learn how to hit for power in baseball the hitter has to get his hands out in front of the body to contact the ball, with the top hand over the bat, and the bottom hand under the bat. The top hand is then like a hammer on contact.
Baseball Hitting Drills Tips
Tip: Hitting is controlled aggression, while maintaining balance and control.
Hi. I'm Coach Joe Brockoff, a Division I Head Baseball Coach for Tulane University for more than 19 years, and former minor league player for the New York Yankees. Over the years, I've taught thousands of baseball players how to increase batting speed and improve their overall performance on the field. In fact, my proven training system has sent 45 baseball players to the pros.