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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

SkillAll Hitting Pitching Fielding Baserunning Strength & conditioning General

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SportAll Baseball Softball

TagAll Showcase Prep Warm-up

Beginner

At-Home Mirror & Sock-Ball Swing Builder
A no-equipment solo hitting routine you can run in a bedroom or garage: groove your swing in a mirror, then make real contact off a hanging sock-ball - no teammate, coach, or batting cage needed.
HittingAt-home (no equipment)Off-seasonIn-season

Intermediate

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

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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

Grip and Stance Setup: Your First Step as a Hitter

A beginner setup drill for young players that builds a relaxed bat grip and a balanced, athletic stance before you ever take a swing. Get your hands and feet right and hitting gets easier.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)In-season

Knock It Off: The Contact Points Hitting Game

A fun, competitive contact game for young players. Score points for solid contact and bonus points for knocking a ball off a target tee — kids compete, laugh, and rack up quality reps without realizing it.

HittingIn-seasonAt-home (no equipment)

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

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)

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

Slot-Net Strike-Zone Discipline Game

Tape a strike zone onto your hitting net and turn swing decisions into a scoreboard game. Hitters earn points for crushing strikes and taking balls, and lose points for chasing.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)In-season

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 to Coach Pitch: The Contact Confidence Ladder

A beginner-friendly progression that walks young hitters up a ladder — tee, then soft toss, then easy coach pitch — so making contact feels easy and confidence is built one rung at a time.

HittingIn-seasonAt-home (no equipment)

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

The Simple Balanced Swing: Watch It, Swing Through It

A beginner swing drill for young players: stay balanced, keep your head still, and swing through the ball instead of at it. Three simple feels that turn a wild swing into solid contact.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)In-season

Two-Plate Plate-Discipline Tracking Drill

A bat-free pitch-tracking drill where the hitter calls ball or strike out loud on every machine pitch, training the eye and strike-zone judgment before the swing ever enters the equation.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)In-season

Two-Tee Swing-Path Channel Drill

A two-tee drill for youth hitters: set a back path tee slightly lower as an obstacle and a front contact tee with the ball, then swing so the barrel skims past the back tee and drives through the front ball — building an on-plane, in-the-zone barrel without one-hand work.

HittingAt-home (no equipment)In-seasonOff-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

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

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

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)

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)

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