Catcher Stance and How to Frame the Ball Framing The Ball So most of my career was made because I made the pitcher look good. Not because I swung a giant stick. Not because I was the smartest guy on the field. I made the pitcher look good. So how do we do that? When...
Giving Baseball Signs to the Pitcher All sports have their different stances. Golfers stand over the ball like this. Tennis player kind of bend their knees in an athletic stance. Football players, the quarterback’s under center in his own little special stance,...
Hitting Stance Head Placement Like we talked about in the previous segment, a lot takes place up here in our head, a lot of things that can screw us up at the plate. We’re not going to talk about that in this segment. We’re going to talk about the actual location of...
Hitting Stance Rhythm So I’m not much of a dancer. I don’t know maybe you are, but I’m not, because you’ve got to have a little rhythm to dance. But rhythm and dancing is different than rhythm and hitting. Rhythm and hitting is necessary. Lack of rhythm at the plate...
Catcher Blocking Drills So you want to find out who wants to be a catcher? A lot of guys think it’s cool to put the gear on, maybe flash a few signs. Some even may want to try to throw to second base. But if you want to find out who actually really wants to catch,...
Hitting Stance – The Load So if you were going to throw a punch and I’m not advocating fighting, but if you wanted to really throw a hard punch, what would you do. Would you stand here like this and just throw a little punch or would you pull your hand back and...
