The Best Idea For a Productive Baseball Practice!

Stations can be your best friend.

First, I like to think of about 3-4 drills that can be running at the same time.

You’ll have to put some thought into which drills work best with each other according to your available space.

If you have younger players, you can spread out and utilize the entire field.

For example, I’ll put a fielding and throwing station out in left field, a tee station in right field and batting practice at home plate.

As players get older you’ll have to rethink this strategy and you can probably combine some drills.

Such as being able to have fielders get some work in while you have batting practice on the field.

Hitters can work on hitting and then the fielders can field their position. 

In between hits you can have a coach hitting them ground balls if they aren’t getting any.

Just be sure that everyone is capable to pay attention to what’s happening at the plate otherwise you’ll have baseballs flying all over the field and worrying about taking one to the back of the head.

Second, I split my players up into smaller groups to keep my coach to player ratio to something manageable (this is where assistant coaches come in).

For example: 1 coach running a tee station and 3-4 hitters.

You can divide them by player skill level, drill complexity or more commonly by player personalities.

Really, there is no wrong way to split up for drills.

Third, keep drills short and sweet.

You want to be able to work for about 10-15 minutes at each station and then rotate.

This allows you to get some work done and keeps players focused.

Last thing you want is players getting bored and starting to goof around.