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🧒 Youth development (12U & under)

Beginner-friendly, low-load fundamentals safe for younger players.

SkillAll Hitting Pitching Fielding Baserunning Strength & conditioning General

LevelAll Beginner Intermediate

SportAll Baseball Softball

TagAll Showcase Prep Warm-up In-season Off-season At-home (no equipment)Arm care Mobility Posture Recovery

EquipmentAny Balls Weighted/plyo balls Bat Tee Glove/mitt Catcher's gear Batting helmet Net/screen Pitching machine Cones/markers Bases & home plate Mound/rubber Resistance band Weights Plyo box/step Agility ladder

Beginner

Match the Plane: Stay-Long-Through-the-Zone Tee & Toss Drill
A beginner drill that uses three tee heights plus soft toss to teach your barrel to match the slight upward plane of the pitch and stay long through the zone for more consistent contact.
HittingAt-home (no equipment)Warm-upOff-season

Intermediate

Rotational Med-Ball Shotput: Exit-Velo Power Builder
A standing, side-on medicine-ball shotput throw that grooves the same hips-lead, trunk-follows sequence as the swing so you learn to transfer ground force into real exit velocity.
HittingOff-seasonWarm-upShowcase Prep

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Opposite-Field Extension: The Deep-Tee Drill

A beginner tee drill that moves the tee back and outside so you learn to let the ball travel, stay through it, and drive a hard line drive the other way with full arm extension.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)Warm-upOff-season

Partner Pepper Contact-Rate Station: Alternating-Feed Barrel Control

A fast, competitive partner (or small-group) station that reworks classic pepper into a scored barrel-control game: partners rapid-feed short flips while the hitter makes clean, controlled contact and the group tracks made-contact percentage every round.

HittingWarm-upIn-seasonAt-home (no equipment)

Rhythm & Load: The Continuous Soft-Toss Drill

A beginner soft-toss drill where you keep loading and striding in a smooth, repeating rhythm and only swing when the ball is tossed - building balanced timing and a calm, on-time load.

HittingIn-seasonWarm-upOff-season

Shrink-the-Ball At-Home Contact Ladder

A minimal-equipment home drill where you self-toss progressively smaller balls - big plastic ball down to a bottle cap - and only shrink the target once you square up 8 of 10, forcing your eyes and barrel to get precise and driving up your contact rate.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)Off-seasonIn-seasonWarm-up

Slow-Load, Fast-Swing Rhythm & Timing Drill

A front-toss timing drill that syncs your load to the pitch using a simple out-loud count — slow, smooth load and stride, then an explosive swing — so your foot gets down on time and you stop being early or late.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonWarm-up

Soft-Toss Top-Hand Barrel-Control Drill

A simple soft-toss drill that uses top-hand-only swings to teach barrel accuracy and a strong palm-up finish — without over-swinging. Great for hitters learning to control the bat through the zone.

HittingWarm-upAt-home (no equipment)Off-season

Tee Work: Bottom-Hand Drive Through the Ball

A one-hand tee drill that isolates the lead arm so young hitters feel a flat, on-plane path and learn to drive through the ball before adding the top hand.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)Warm-upOff-season

Youth Hitting Drills Off the Tee: Load-Stride-Swing

A slow-motion, count-based tee drill that walks young hitters through load, separation, and a soft, balanced stride one piece at a time. Built on USA Baseball's 1-2-3 (load-stride-swing) sequence, it grooves timing and rhythm before speed is ever added.

HittingWarm-upAt-home (no equipment)Off-season

Minor

Shrink-the-Ball Tee: Small-Ball Barrel-Precision Contact Drill

A tee-based constraint drill that swaps the regulation ball for a golf-sized target so hitters must center the barrel to make clean contact. By shrinking the ball and rotating the tee through nine locations, it isolates and trains bat-to-ball precision (contact rate) without adding speed or fear.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)Off-seasonIn-seasonWarm-up

Soft-to-Hard Focus Release-Point Tracking Drill

A no-bat vision drill that trains hitters to start with a soft focus on the pitcher, shift their eyes to the release-point window at the right instant, and pick the ball up out of the hand so the pitch looks slower.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonWarm-up

Step-Behind Gather: Lower-Half Footwork Isolation for Exit Velo

A controlled crossover "gather" step that isolates the load-and-stride footwork of the swing, teaching hitters to build directional ground force and convert linear momentum into rotation so more energy reaches the barrel as exit velocity.

HittingOff-seasonShowcase PrepWarm-upIn-seasonMinor