Youth Catcher: Blocking, Part 1
Our previous posts have dealt with telling the pitcher what to throw and then setting up to receive that pitch. Sometimes the pitcher doesn’t throw a good pitch. Sometimes the pitch goes...
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Youth Catcher: Receiving the Pitch
In our last post ( https://www.cissik.com/blog/?p=6480 ) we covered how to call signs for the youth catcher. With this post we’re going to cover how to receive the ball, which is the...
Youth Catcher: Calling the Pitch
As a youth baseball coach, one of my goals is to give my athletes the skills and knowledge to be able to play in high school if they want. This means that...
Position Yourself For Success At First Base
In baseball there are a number of reasons that we have pick offs at first base. First, if the base runner has a big lead or is asleep we might get an...
Improve Your Fielding To Deny Base Runners
Being able to field ground balls is an essential defensive skill for baseball players. Doing this well can result in outs, doing this badly means extra-base hits. This post is going to...