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Love doing live at bats in the cage and seeing the learning and growth opportunities that come from it for our hitters. As hitters, we have to understand the why behind the result before we can make the right adjustment.

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If we load the upper body back too early, some hitters can lose their ability to control the forward move. We need something in the upper body to counter against the forward move. We want to land with max stretch so that we can fire from our strongest position. If we get to max stretch too early and there’s nothing to go against the forward move and we fall out of our backside, that is when hitters run into timing issues and inconsistent ball flight.

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Catching the ball off the end too much? When this happens a lot of hitters assume they’re just early, but sometimes their timing and the actual contact point aren’t the issue. For some hitters this result shows up because they are running out of barrel. In this example, the contact point was good, but in relation to his body, he was too far out in front because his upper body was stuck back when he got into his launch position.

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Maintaining posture throughout the swing can be a great way to improve ball flight. Some hitters need to set more posture in their setup and maintain it as they make their positive move toward the baseball. Others may not need that cue. The goal is to consistently hit the ball hard with good ball flight. If you’re hitting the ball hard but consistently living on the ground pull side, try adjusting your posture in your setup and see how it changes your ball flight.

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It’s easy to say, “That was your best swing of the day,” to a hitter when it is the hardest ball they hit in a lesson. But the important thing is that the hitter needs to understand why that result showed up. Hitting the ball harder with good ball flight is a byproduct of consistently making good moves to and through contact.

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If your hands get too far behind your body when you get to your launch position, you’re going to have to over rotate to get the barrel to the baseball. When the hands launch from too far behind us, the barrel has to work around the body to get to contact. That makes it harder to stay through the baseball and can cause the hitter to hook around the ball and lose our direction.

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We want young hitters to be athletes. We want them to move fast and create bat speed, but the effort has to be created behind them. If they are launching from a good position but over rotate the chest, they will lose their direction through the zone. The goal isn’t just to move fast. It’s to create bat speed while maintaining their direction.

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VIDEO > NUMBERS
The better the moves look on video, the better the numbers will be. The more consistent the moves are on video, the more consistent the numbers will be. Being able to slow things down, identify flaws, and make adjustments on video is far more valuable than simply hitting balls hard in the cage.

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We have to control how we move into the ground to establish a consistent launch position. How each hitter gets into that position will vary, but the ability to consistently land in a good launch position is critical. How can we expect to be consistent in games if we aren’t consistently launching from the same spot every time?

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FRONT-END ADJUSTABILITY. The longer you can keep your barrel available to the baseball, the bigger a hitter’s margin of error becomes. The better front-end adjustability a hitter has, the better opportunity they have to do damage when they are just a click early with their timing. It also gives the hitter a better opportunity to stay on off-speed pitches.

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When a hitter starts to see their exit velocity increase, their natural reaction is to want MORE. But this is where hitters can get themselves in trouble. We have to stop trying to create more with our hands, arms, and upper body. If we put the effort in the wrong places, it’s going to throw off our bat path, direction, and timing. The goal isn’t to feel like you’re doing more. The goal is to feel like you are doing less with your body while hitting the ball hard consistently.

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Fast and left vs fast and behind and through. How fast you swing doesn’t mean much if you can’t maintain your direction. Our barrel needs to release to the middle of the field. If you hold onto it for too long and don’t release your effort, you will pull up and off a lot of baseballs that you should have crushed.

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