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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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Intermediate

Anchor the Base: Lower-Half Isolation to Cut Chase Rate
A footwork-isolation hitting drill that quiets the stride and locks the base so the hitter stops leaking weight forward and swinging at out-of-zone pitches. Feed a scripted mix of strikes and clear balls; the hitter strides, sticks the front foot on every pitch, and only finishes the swing on strikes. Trains the mechanical root of chasing.
HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

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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

Anchored-Cord Resisted Turn & Release Contrast Swings

A resisted-swing contrast drill that pairs band-loaded rotational swings with immediate free max-intent swings to unlock a measurable bat-speed jump. Uses a fence-anchored cord to overload the turn, then removes it so the barrel fires faster than baseline.

HittingOff-seasonIn-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

At-Home Freeze-Frame Video Pitch-ID Prediction Drill

Using only a phone or tablet, a hitter watches slow-motion pitcher clips, pauses at release, predicts pitch type and location, then plays on to grade the read - training the eyes to recognize pitches early without a partner or a cage.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)Off-seasonIn-season

Barrel Wars: Head-to-Head Max Exit-Velo Bracket

A small-sided, bracket-style hitting competition where players go head-to-head to post their single best-struck ball. Each duel is decided by top exit velocity, so hitters learn to bring true max intent on demand while a radar or hit-tracker keeps every winner honest.

HittingShowcase PrepIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

Blast Bat-Speed Sensor Session: Move the Barrel Faster

A Blast Motion bat-sensor session where you read your bat speed after every swing and train with smart intent to move the barrel faster than you ever have.

HittingShowcase PrepOff-seasonIn-seasonMajor

Chase-Down Duel: Small-Sided Take-or-Swing Scoring Game

A head-to-head plate-discipline competition where hitters earn points for laying off out-of-zone pitches and driving strikes, and lose points every time they chase. A live scoreboard turns swing decisions into a game, driving chase rate down under real competitive pressure.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

Checkpoint Launch: Static-Start to Full-Swing Exit-Velo Progression

Hitters freeze at the launch-position checkpoint, fire a max-intent swing off a tee, then re-add movement one layer at a time (stride, then load, then rhythm) while proving peak exit velocity holds or climbs at every stage.

HittingOff-seasonShowcase PrepIn-seasonMinor

Commit-Line Ladder: Earlier-Checkpoint Pitch Recognition Drill

Hitters call ball or strike before the pitch crosses a physical commit gate, then earn the right to move that gate closer to release. Each checkpoint forces the recognition decision earlier in ball flight, building the trained ball/strike accuracy (pitch_recognition_pct) that turns takes and swings into good decisions.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

Constraint Bat: Short-Bat Inside-Pitch Drill

Use a short training bat to force tight, quick hands so you can barrel up the inner-third pitch and turn on it instead of getting jammed.

HittingBaseballOff-seasonAt-home (no equipment)Minor

Decision-Gate Recognition Ladder: Call It Before the Line

A pitch-recognition drill that squeezes the decision window: the hitter must verbally commit swing/take (or pitch type) before the ball crosses a taped commit line, and the line is moved earlier each round to force faster, more accurate reads under time pressure.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonShowcase Prep

Fastpitch Drag Bunt for a Hit Drill

A short-game drill that teaches the drag and push bunt as weapons for a base hit - showing it late, deadening the ball softly down a line or pushing it past the charging corners, and leaving the box on time.

HittingSoftballIn-seasonOff-season

Fastpitch Slap-Hitting Footwork Progression

A staged progression that builds a left-handed slapper's crossover-step footwork from a stationary line drill to live, on-the-move contact — turning lefty hitters into contact-and-speed threats out of the box.

HittingSoftballOff-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

Front-Toss Full-Send: Max-Intent Bat Speed Against a Moving Ball

Hitters chase peak bat speed on a moving ball, not a tee, by taking full-intent 'green light' swings against front-toss or a pitching machine while a bat sensor logs every swing.

HittingOff-seasonIn-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

Front-Toss Take-or-Drive Swing Decision Drill

A front-toss decision drill that trains high school hitters to recognize ball vs. strike out of the hand, drive the pitches they can punish, take everything else, and fully commit to every swing they start.

HittingIn-seasonOff-season

Garage Radar Peak-Chase: At-Home Exit-Velo Ladder

A minimal-equipment home drill that pairs a gather-and-go momentum load with a rising effort ladder and a cheap radar reading, so a hitter can chase and log a true peak exit velo off a tee in the garage or driveway.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)Off-seasonShowcase Prep

Have-a-Plan Pre-Pitch Plate Approach Routine

A repeatable mental and visual routine for the batter's box: build a plan, hunt your A-swing zone, breathe and lock onto the release point, and reset between every pitch.

HittingShowcase PrepIn-season

Heavy-Ball Rotational Med-Ball Throws

A sequenced side-throw med-ball drill that trains hip-to-hand rotational force production. Members get the full half-kneeling-to-standing progression that transfers straight to bat speed and exit velocity.

HittingOff-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

HitTrax Damage-by-Zone Game: Swing at What You Can Crush

A HitTrax game that scores you on the strike-zone heat map so you learn to attack the pitches you can damage, lay off the ones you can't, and turn plate discipline into points.

HittingShowcase PrepIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

HitTrax Exit-Velo Feedback Session: Chase Your Peak Number

A premium HitTrax session where you take swings off front toss, read your exit velocity on screen after every ball, and chase a new peak EV by swinging with smart, controlled intent.

HittingShowcase PrepOff-seasonIn-seasonMajor

HitTrax Launch-Angle Lab: Live in the Line-Drive Window

A HitTrax session that pairs your exit velocity with launch angle so you stop topping the ball and start living in the 10-25 degree line-drive window where damage happens.

HittingShowcase PrepOff-seasonIn-seasonMajor

Inside Pitch Tee Drill: Turn the Barrel, Pull in the Air

A tee drill for high school baseball and softball hitters that trains turning on the inside pitch: let the ball travel to the front contact point, turn the barrel out front, and drive it in the air to the pull side without getting jammed or pulling off.

HittingOff-seasonIn-seasonAt-home (no equipment)

King of the Cage: Head-to-Head Bat-Speed Swing-Off

A small-sided bat-speed competition where two to four hitters go swing-for-swing on a sensor, winning rounds by posting the higher peak number — turning max-intent swings into a game.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonShowcase PrepMajor

Late-Cue React-and-Rip: Reaction Bat-Speed Drill

A sensor-based hitting drill that trains max barrel speed under a compressed decision window. The hitter tracks a feed, waits for a late go/no-go cue, and must produce a full-intent swing the instant the cue reads green — proving they don't lose bat speed when they're forced to react late.

HittingIn-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

Launch-Position Checkpoint Progression: Build Contact From a Loaded Start

A four-stage contact builder that starts you frozen at your launch position — front foot down, hands loaded, barrel set — so the only job left is finding the ball. You earn your way from a paused checkpoint off the tee up to full-movement swings, and you only advance when you hold a high contact rate at the stage you're on.

HittingIn-seasonOff-season

Lefty Slapper Crossover & Contact-Down Drill

A footwork-to-contact progression for left-handed slap hitters that grooves the jab-and-crossover move through the box and an inside-out, lead-hand swing that drives the ball into the ground - turning speed into infield hits.

HittingSoftballIn-seasonOff-seasonAt-home (no equipment)

Live At-Bat Take-or-Swing Chase Game

A competitive live-BP at-bat game where hitters see game-speed pitches from a live arm or high-velo machine and are scored only on their swing decisions on out-of-zone pitches. A charter calls each pitch ball or strike, chase swings cost points, and the hitter chases their lowest chase-rate number across a set of full at-bats.

HittingIn-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

Live-Arm Damage At-Bats: Peak Exit Velo Off Game-Speed Pitching

Competitive count-based at-bats against a live game-speed arm where the hitter hunts one pitch to punish, chasing a peak exit velocity that matches the cage. Trains a hitter to turn tee/BP power into real damage when the ball is coming hard and on time.

HittingShowcase PrepIn-seasonMinor

Machine Speed Step-Up: Exit-Velo Progression Against Rising Velocity

A pitching-machine BP progression where you climb through rising pitch speeds and chase your hardest-hit ball at each level, training a higher peak exit velocity that holds up as the ball gets faster.

HittingShowcase PrepOff-seasonIn-seasonMinor

Machine Two-Speed Gear-Change Pitch-ID Drill

An operator secretly switches a pitching machine (or front-toss feeder) between a fast gear and a slow gear pitch to pitch, and the hitter must identify the speed and call it out before the ball crosses a commit line 15 feet out front.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

Overload-Ball Tee Post-Activation Exit-Velo Drill

A tee-based contrast drill that pairs heavy overload training balls with regular game balls to potentiate the swing and chase a new peak exit velocity. The weighted ball is the constraint: it forces full-body force into contact, then the light game ball rides that primed nervous system to a higher number on the radar or HitTrax.

HittingOff-seasonIn-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

Overload-Bat Chase Governor: Resisted Take-or-Drive Decision Drill

A resisted swing-decision drill that puts a heavy overload bat in the hitter's hands during a scripted take-or-drive game, so committing to an out-of-zone pitch feels physically costly. Hitters learn a deliberate go/no-go trigger, then transfer it to a game bat to drop chase rate.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

Partner Feed-and-Read Exit-Velo Station

A two-person team station where one hitter rips max-intent front toss while a partner mans the radar and calls the number out loud after every swing, turning instant feedback into a beat-your-best competition for peak exit velo.

HittingShowcase PrepIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

Partner Recognize-and-Relay Pitch-Call Station

A two-person team station where a feeder mixes marked pitch types on a stopwatch tempo while the hitter reads and calls each pitch out of the hand; the partner instantly scores it, then they swap, racing to beat the group's correct-call target.

HittingIn-seasonOff-season

Plant-and-Pivot Footwork Isolation for Bat Speed

A tee-and-sensor drill that strips the swing down to its footwork one piece at a time — frozen feet, then back-foot pivot, then front-foot plant — so a hitter can feel and measure exactly how much bat speed their lower half is worth.

HittingOff-seasonIn-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

Random-Feed Machine Contact Gauntlet: Score Your Put-It-In-Play Rate

A scored machine (or front-toss) hitting drill where the location and speed change every pitch and you count how many balls you put in play out of a fixed set - turning contact into a number you can chase and beat each round.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonShowcase Prep

Recognition Duel: 1v1 Read-and-Call Points Game

A head-to-head, small-sided competition where two hitters alternate as stand-in 'readers,' calling each pitch's type and swing/take decision out loud before it reaches the plate. Correct calls score points, wrong calls give points to the opponent, and the first to a target score wins. It isolates pitch recognition from swing mechanics so the only thing being trained and scored is the eyes-and-brain read.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

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 PrepMinor

Runner on Third, Less Than Two Outs: RBI Execution

A situational hitting drill that trains the read-and-execute habit for scoring a runner from third with less than two outs — drive the ball when the infield is in, hit it the right way when they play back.

HittingIn-seasonOff-season

Sacrifice Bunt: Square Early, Deaden the Ball

A rep-based bunting drill that builds an early square-up, a high-to-low bat angle, and the soft hands that deaden a sacrifice bunt dead in the grass for an easy runner advance.

HittingIn-seasonOff-season

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

Stay-Back Offspeed Timing Adjustment (Mixed Toss)

A mixed-speed front-toss drill that trains you to stay back, let the ball travel, and keep your hands loaded so you can adjust from a fastball to an offspeed pitch without lunging.

HittingIn-seasonOff-season

Step-Behind Crossover Tee Drill: Momentum to Peak Bat Speed

A tee-based overspeed constraint drill. The hitter is not allowed to swing from a static stance; instead they feed a controlled crossover step-behind into a stationary tee ball, stacking linear momentum on top of rotation so the barrel moves faster than it ever does from a still load. Every rep is scored on a bat-speed sensor, teaching the nervous system a higher ceiling for peak bat speed.

HittingOff-seasonShowcase PrepMinor

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

Tee-Gate Zone-Read Recognition Drill

Two batting tees frame a target window beside the plate, giving the hitter a physical strike-zone reference. The hitter then reads live feeds against that gate and swings only at pitches that travel through it, sharpening location recognition.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor

Two-Strike Battle: Inside-Out Opposite-Field Reps

Choke up, widen out, and learn to shoot the ball the other way with two strikes so borderline pitches turn into productive contact instead of strikeouts.

HittingIn-seasonMinor

Two-Strike Choke-Up & Spread-Out Spoil Drill

A front-toss survival drill that grooves the physical two-strike adjustment — choke up, spread out, shorten the swing — so you can foul off close pitches and put the ball in play instead of striking out.

HittingIn-seasonOff-seasonMinor