Baseball Practice Tips

  In 2013, American Legion Baseball is joining many other leagues in moving exclusively to wood bats.  This is going to dramatically change the way that the game is played as small ball becomes more and more important. You are going to see team batting averages drop by .75 to .100 points, probably more at [...]

Some aspects of the suicide squeeze make it a little different than bunting to move a runner up. In this video, Billy Ripken talks about squaring around a little later.  Ripken also talks about the importance of putting every ball in play, regardless of where it is pitched. In youth baseball, pitchers tend to wind [...]

College baseball hitting trends showed a dramatic drop in home runs and batting average in 2011 after the implementation of the BBCOR standard for bats.  The chart below shows the drop in batting average in the 2011 season.  Note that the NCAA began allowing aluminum bats prior to the 1974 season.  Weight limits curtailed batting [...]

Watch the perfect baseball swing from Albert Pujols.

I know that it’s mostly a softball thing, but I have spent over an hour after practice folding up a Jugs batting practice net.  But, that was before I watched Barbie and Mad Dog do their thing in this video which will make it very simple how to fold up the Jugs batting practice net. [...]