How To Throw A Baseball Harder

strike zone | September 19, 2015 | Baseball | No Comments

VIDEO: Some Practical tips On THROWING A BASEBALL HARDER.

Another aspect of some of the drills, is the use of space. There are advantages to using less space on the baseball field when running your practices. Unless you are specifically interested in throwing for distance in a drill, work on throwing when you have the kids play catch.

It’s easier to communicate and coach when the kids are closer to you.
It’s easier to get more reps in if the kids don’t have to make as long of throws.
Often People will be able to perform better when there is less distance involved.

There are thousands of drills out there. Through the trial and error process you can develop a set of drills that work for you, and your situation. Adopting a set of core drills that you can use, year after year, will provide you with some consistency and stability within your practice structure, and program.

Keep on the lookout for a new, and possibly better way to accomplish something. Two years ago, while playing one of the teams in our conference, we noticed they had developed a unique between innings, infield warm up. We were quick to implement it into our system, as it cured some issues we had been having with loss of focus. That drill is listed in the infeld drills below, as infield, between innings warm up.

My first year with the Diamondbacks’ Training Centers, we were teaching relays. One of the coaches I was working with added the running relay portion to the relay drill listed in Team Defense below. I have been using it as such ever since.

Just a couple of examples of ways to spice up your drills, adding to your base package as time goes by.

Some Practical Thoughts On Baseball Drills By Category

Drills are the essense of sports.
Knowing the fundamental basics within each drill, allows you to make on the spot corrections and suggestions for the players.
Look for versatility in your drills, can they provide you with more than one purpose? You will
ALWAYS find that time is short, making versatility more important.
Keep drill segments to a time allotment. If it’s not working, move on. If they have accomplished your goal for that drill, move on, even if you have time left in your schedule.

Select drills that are easily implemented as well as fun. Lining up on the foul line to run sprints has been fun for very few over the years. Working on increasing your base running times, somehow isn’t running, it becomes good hearted team and individual competition. In doing so, you gain practice time on baseball skills; but maintain the conditioning. Win/win! This is but one example, you can accomplish the same results with any skill you want to work on.

The more activity, the better. Keep groups small, repetitions high. If a drill runs for too long, quality of the repetitions diminishes, not from fatigue; but from loss of concentration.

Strive to stay away from situations where you are painted into a corner. Running a drill until players have completed X number of perfect repetitions can be counter productive.
The focus often shifts from fluid athletic movement to robotic, by the numbers movement, in the hopes of not making a mistake.