1. Hold the bat so loosely if the wind blows it should move your bat.
2. How you do you jump? You bend your knees, which is how you get athletic. Hitters need to be athletic to hit, so they need to bend their knees.
3. How does a boxer throw a punch? He loads back and punches. He does not punch without loading, because momentum equals force created. Hitters must load to be successful.
4. Get all your energy flowing in a straight line.
5. Take the effort out.
6. Take a slow, long breath before stepping into the box. The muscles need oxygen to function properly.
7. Focus on the task at hand, which is getting your best look at each pitch.
8. Focus on each pitch independently of each other. The best hitters eliminate the past and the future to focus in on the present.
9. You are good enough; don't play for anyone else but yourself, because it is not your job as a hitter to please everyone.
10. See the ball, and be easy.
11. Loose muscles are quick twitch muscles.
12. Drive the back knee to the pitcher.
13. Be aggressive with the lower half, loose with the upper half.
14. Have flex in the back knee when the stride foot lands.
15. The knob must be pointing towards the back foot when the stride foot lands.
16. Develop a plan for seeing the ball (ex.-early: whole body, one windup starts move to bill of hat, late: shift eyes to release point).
17. Tension causes poor decisions and loss of seeing the ball well.
18. Eliminate tension by visualizing what you want to happen.
19. Eliminate tension by taking long, slow deep breaths, which allows your muscles to breathe.
20. Good hitters get jammed, bad hitters are always early.
21. Great players love hit by pitches and walks, because they know they are helping the team, on base percentage is huge.
22. Great hitters make their living off hitting fastballs.
23. Eliminate offspeed pitches unless you have 2 strikes.
24. If a pitcher proves he can throw offspeed for a strike, then live by the motto, "if it's high let it fly, if it's low let it go."
25. Figure out the umpires strike zone in the first 20 pitches of the game and adjust our approach.
26. Look for pitches you can drive early in the count.
27. With 2 strikes shorten your swing and put the ball in play.
28. Stay on balance throughout entire swing, ensures a good jump to 1b.
29. Goal should be to hit the ball on the barrel everytime; if a pitch won't allow you to do that, take it.
30. Learn about the pitcher and umpire from paying attention to teammates at-bats.
31. Handle adversity well, realizing baseball isn't fair (but better than losing a job), but you move on to focus on the next play.
32. The pressure is on the pitcher with the bases loaded; be patient and don't try to do too much.
33. Great hitters are constantly working on their craft.
USE the cues to keep things simple for your hitters, and you will notice the improvement. A certain cue can have a profound effect on a hitters swing.
Coach it up,
Miles
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2. How you do you jump? You bend your knees, which is how you get athletic. Hitters need to be athletic to hit, so they need to bend their knees.
3. How does a boxer throw a punch? He loads back and punches. He does not punch without loading, because momentum equals force created. Hitters must load to be successful.
4. Get all your energy flowing in a straight line.
5. Take the effort out.
6. Take a slow, long breath before stepping into the box. The muscles need oxygen to function properly.
7. Focus on the task at hand, which is getting your best look at each pitch.
8. Focus on each pitch independently of each other. The best hitters eliminate the past and the future to focus in on the present.
9. You are good enough; don't play for anyone else but yourself, because it is not your job as a hitter to please everyone.
10. See the ball, and be easy.
11. Loose muscles are quick twitch muscles.
12. Drive the back knee to the pitcher.
13. Be aggressive with the lower half, loose with the upper half.
14. Have flex in the back knee when the stride foot lands.
15. The knob must be pointing towards the back foot when the stride foot lands.
16. Develop a plan for seeing the ball (ex.-early: whole body, one windup starts move to bill of hat, late: shift eyes to release point).
17. Tension causes poor decisions and loss of seeing the ball well.
18. Eliminate tension by visualizing what you want to happen.
19. Eliminate tension by taking long, slow deep breaths, which allows your muscles to breathe.
20. Good hitters get jammed, bad hitters are always early.
21. Great players love hit by pitches and walks, because they know they are helping the team, on base percentage is huge.
22. Great hitters make their living off hitting fastballs.
23. Eliminate offspeed pitches unless you have 2 strikes.
24. If a pitcher proves he can throw offspeed for a strike, then live by the motto, "if it's high let it fly, if it's low let it go."
25. Figure out the umpires strike zone in the first 20 pitches of the game and adjust our approach.
26. Look for pitches you can drive early in the count.
27. With 2 strikes shorten your swing and put the ball in play.
28. Stay on balance throughout entire swing, ensures a good jump to 1b.
29. Goal should be to hit the ball on the barrel everytime; if a pitch won't allow you to do that, take it.
30. Learn about the pitcher and umpire from paying attention to teammates at-bats.
31. Handle adversity well, realizing baseball isn't fair (but better than losing a job), but you move on to focus on the next play.
32. The pressure is on the pitcher with the bases loaded; be patient and don't try to do too much.
33. Great hitters are constantly working on their craft.
USE the cues to keep things simple for your hitters, and you will notice the improvement. A certain cue can have a profound effect on a hitters swing.
Coach it up,
Miles
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