Youth Catcher: Throwdowns to Third Base
A baseball team cannot allow the other team to do what they want in terms of base running. Allowing this to happen allows the game to get out of hand quickly. Nothing...
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Baseball Running is Not Running the 100 Meters
I have taken some heat about speed and sports posts. The crux of these posts is that we have to stop thinking of training hundred meter sprinters when we are training athletes...
Baseball Players Are Not Track And Field Athletes
In a previous article, I addressed the fact that most athletes are not track and field sprinters and that, as coaches, we may be missing the boat with their speed training when...
Position Yourself For Success At First Base
In baseball there are a number of reasons that we have pick offs at first base. First, if the base runner has a big lead or is asleep we might get an...
Baseball Speed and Agility, Part 2
This post is going to present a series of drills for baseball speed and agility. Some of these are for offense, some are for defense. We’ll fit these drills into the bigger...