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🏠At-home drills — minimal equipmentWork you can do in the yard or garage with little or no gear.93 drills 🧒Youth development (12U & under)Beginner-friendly, low-load fundamentals safe for younger players.245 drills 🎯Showcase & tryout prepSharpen the tools scouts measure — velo, pop time, exit velo, speed.149 drills 💪Arm care & recoveryProtect the arm — care, mobility, and recovery work for every thrower.76 drills ❄️Off-season & winter workBuild a base in the off months — strength, mechanics, and volume.287 drills ⚾In-season maintenanceShort, sharp work that keeps you fresh without adding fatigue.280 drills

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Attack-Angle On-Plane Line-Drive Window Drill
A tee-and-rope drill that grooves a slightly upward, on-plane attack angle into the line-drive launch window so the barrel stays behind the ball longer and produces hard liners instead of grounders and pop-ups.
HittingOff-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

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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 Sled/harness Agility ladder Mat Wall/fence Tape/chalk Dowel/PVC Mirror Radar/tracking tech Stopwatch/timer Phone/camera Whiteboard/cards Towel

Coil-and-Hold: Hip-Shoulder Separation for Bat Speed

A paused load-and-hold drill that teaches the hips to start while the shoulders stay back, building the stretched-rubber-band separation that turns into bat speed.

HittingOff-seasonWarm-upShowcase PrepMajor

Colored-Ball Pitch Recognition Reaction Drill

A hitter reads a colored mark on the ball mid-flight and reacts to a pre-assigned command, training the eyes and swing decision to fire only on the right pitch.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonMajor

Delayed Green-Light Crush: React Late, Still Hit It Hard

A late-cue reaction drill that flashes a swing/take signal deep into the ball's flight, forcing the hitter to decide under time pressure and still produce a max-effort, on-barrel swing. Trains peak exit velocity when the decision window is short.

HittingShowcase PrepIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

Game-Speed Carryover: Attack the Live Fastball at Full Bat Speed

Most hitters swing hard on the tee and then get tentative against a live arm. This drill closes that gap: hitters attack a hittable, game-speed fastball with a bat-speed sensor on, so their peak barrel speed shows up in the box, not just in the cage.

HittingIn-seasonShowcase PrepMajor

Heavy-Ball / Light-Ball Contrast Tee Series: Overload the Barrel for Peak Exit Velo

A contrast-training tee series that overloads contact with heavier-than-normal training balls, primes the swing with lighter balls, then measures peak exit velocity on standard balls while the barrel is potentiated.

HittingShowcase PrepOff-seasonIn-seasonMinor

High-Tee Launch-Angle Exit-Velo Builder

An elevated-tee power drill that pairs a raised contact point with max-intent cues to train barrel-up contact and push your hardest-hit exit-velo numbers higher.

HittingShowcase PrepOff-seasonMajor

High-Velo Machine Late-Count Battle BP

An advanced machine BP drill that cranks perceived velocity and shrinks the hitter's count to train the recognize-adjust-battle sequence of a real two-strike at-bat against elite arms.

HittingIn-seasonShowcase Prep

Hit-and-Run & Move-the-Runner Situational Contact Drill

A live-rep situational drill that trains you to put the ball on the ground on command — protect the runner on the hit-and-run, hit behind the runner to move them over — so you can execute a team at-bat instead of just swinging for yourself.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

Hitting Up the Middle Drill: The Middle-Gap Block BP

A constraint-based batting-practice block for college and elite hitters that takes the pull side away and rewards only hard contact through the middle and to both gaps. By shrinking fair territory to center and the oppo gap, the drill forces hitters to let the ball travel, hit the inside of the ball, and deepen their point of contact for a more repeatable, all-fields approach.

HittingIn-seasonOff-season

Live At-Bat Recognition Scorecard: Read It at Game Speed

A competitive live-BP drill where hitters take real, full-swing at-bats against a mixing live arm while a charter scores every pitch for correct recognition, turning pitch reads into a pitch_recognition_pct under true game-speed pressure.

HittingIn-seasonShowcase PrepOff-seasonMajor

Overload/Underload Bat-Speed Ladder

An advanced 6-week off-season block that alternates heavier and lighter bats across timed sets to drive measurable bat-speed and exit-velo gains. Built for hitters who already own a sound swing.

HittingOff-seasonShowcase PrepMajor

Overspeed Underload Whip Swings (Radar Ladder)

An underload-driven overspeed protocol that lets you swing a light trainer bat faster than your body normally allows, teaching the nervous system to fire quicker — tracked rep-by-rep on a bat-speed sensor.

HittingOff-seasonShowcase PrepMajor

Three-Zone Count-Leverage Hitting Drill

A green-yellow-red zone drill that teaches hitters to attack their hot zone early in the count and intelligently expand to a survival zone with two strikes, so swing decisions match the count.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor