Looking for Your Pitch

Looking for your Pitch-               Most hitters know what pitch they hit best.  That being said most hitters know what the holes in their swing are.  The question becomes what do you do to maximize your strengths and try to hide our holes?  If you don’t know...

Before You Get in the Batters Box

Mental Preparation : Have a Plan   My rookie year I’m playing for the Minnesota Twins and we’re facing the great New York Yankees. Yes the great New York Yankees. I’m facing Andy Pettitte and I’m nervous. For me to have any chance to succeed, I need to be...

Baseball Hitting Stance – The Hands

How to Place Your Hands in Your Hitting Stance    So as in our previous lesson, we talked about stance. In this lesson I want to talk to you about where our hands should be. We talked about where our feet, our chest, our legs should be in our stance. Where...

Baseball Batter Stance – Stride and Separation

Baseball Batter Stance Stride and Separation   So if you’ve watched baseball for any amount of time, you know that most hitters take a stride. The stride is that small step that the hitter takes before he swings. Well when should that happen? How should that...