I'm hoping you guys can give me a little help here....
I have a player on my little league team with a beautiful swing. He's 11 years old, and at this point there is nothing I would change. When he gets hold of a ball he can crush it. Nice quick hands, great rotation, good lower body, Its just a really pretty, high level swing for this age group.
Here is his problem: He cannot establish any sort of timing. The slower the pitcher throws, the worse his swing. He cannot stay back. The harder the pitcher throws, the better the swing. He plays 12U club ball and the harder the pitcher throws the better he hits. But even with hard throwing pitchers, he will get a lot of strikeouts by being out in front, or make out by hitting the ball off the end of the bat. For a big strong athletic kid with a very fundamentally sound swing, he does not get a lot of hits due to this problem.
I've worked with him in batting practice, doing softoss, throwing him BP from maybe 15-20 feet out and varying the speeds of my toss from slow to fast trying to get him to trust his hands and get him to stay back on the ball. Its working great in practice, not so much in live games.
I really want to help this kid out so any advice or pointers, any drills that will help him, is more than appreciated.
Thanks-
John
I have a player on my little league team with a beautiful swing. He's 11 years old, and at this point there is nothing I would change. When he gets hold of a ball he can crush it. Nice quick hands, great rotation, good lower body, Its just a really pretty, high level swing for this age group.
Here is his problem: He cannot establish any sort of timing. The slower the pitcher throws, the worse his swing. He cannot stay back. The harder the pitcher throws, the better the swing. He plays 12U club ball and the harder the pitcher throws the better he hits. But even with hard throwing pitchers, he will get a lot of strikeouts by being out in front, or make out by hitting the ball off the end of the bat. For a big strong athletic kid with a very fundamentally sound swing, he does not get a lot of hits due to this problem.
I've worked with him in batting practice, doing softoss, throwing him BP from maybe 15-20 feet out and varying the speeds of my toss from slow to fast trying to get him to trust his hands and get him to stay back on the ball. Its working great in practice, not so much in live games.
I really want to help this kid out so any advice or pointers, any drills that will help him, is more than appreciated.
Thanks-
John
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