Holding runners is a lot more than stopping the stolen base. It’s also about keeping base runners off your middle infielders on double plays. It’s about keeping runners from going 1st to 3rd on base hits. It’s about stopping the …

As baseball season is finally approaching, I wanted to share some notes and thoughts I came across when a fellow coach asked what our program looked like while I was the head coach at Sacramento City College… I spent 23 …

Own (control) the middle 10 inches of the plate from waist to kneecap with less than 2 strikes. Below are 2013 MLB stats based on pitch location. 50% + of the pitches are in the middle area of the plate. …

The statistical validation for 1st pitch strikes is irrefutable.  92.7% of first pitch strikes lead to an out or strike one; so that means that less than 8% of first pitch strikes become hits.  69% of strikeouts start with first …

Your goal as a catcher is to make sure that every pitch that is a strike is called a strike; plus you want a minimum of those 50/50 pitches (stri-balls) to be called strikes. There are somewhere between 18-36 stri-balls …

As a teacher/coach/instructor, you need to know what the critical elements (attractors) of a good swing looks like & have the ability to differentiate between the individual style aspects of the swing (fluxuators) that vary with each individual hitter. It …