HITTING 

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Hitting is about making adjustments.  Those that learn to make them get better faster and learn to not make the same mistakes over and over.  I teach my hitters to overcome their weaknesses and become confident at the plate.  Hitters must learn to quiet the mind, have a plan and square the ball up and drive the baseball consistently.   I teach them to have flexibility in their swing and use the entire field. 

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There are so many things that can be wrong with a swing.  If you are not careful trying to fix things, you will bog down your hitter with too many cues and too many 'negatives'.  Before long, they are robots and are so far gone that they have forgotten what the goal of hitting is all about.  I am always striving to make my hitters smarter about what they do and better faster, but I am ever mindful that learning is a process.  Everyone wants to mash, but you have to keep  'first things first' and develop the hitter.    Programming proper movements and then being aware of and 'feeling' the right things matter.  If they don't know what they are doing (when they do it) and feel what they are doing, they are never going to be able to make adjustments and get consistent results.  I will help them learn to become a 'hitter' vs. a 'swinger'.  The mental game of hitting is always a focus.

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The basics of hitting are always worked  on: picking good pitches to hit, hitting the ball hard, hitting the ball where it's pitched, good timing, balance, patience, pitch count strategy and game situations.