Today I show 12 fun tosses for baseball hitting drills to keep you practices engaging and challenging.
Changing up the way you toss the ball teaches the batter to adjust their timing, visually track the ball, become efficient in their swing mechanics, and identify where to hit the ball in relation to their stance so no matter the toss, the result is a head height line drive. The more ways a batter can hit a head height
line drive, the more adaptable and successful they will be hitting in games.
Some key teaching points when tossing the ball to the batter are:
1) Give them time to set up time before the pitch
2) Give the batter time to reset between pitches
3) Go through a full throwing motion, whether tossing underhand or overhand, so the batter can time up the incoming pitch.
The Reasoning coaches should utilize the different tosses is because in a game no pitcher is the same. They have different mechanics, pitches, movement, velocity, and pitch sequencing. You never know what pitch you're going to get so being able to adapt and hit a ball coming from anywhere gives you a competitive edge as well as the confidence to know that you can hit ahead height rising line drive.
I recommend using front toss and overhand throws the majority of the time and adding in the other tosses for variety, challenges, and competitions during practice.
For the video challenge I have one minute to hit line drives using 5 of the different tosses. If I fail l have to crack a carton of eggs on my head.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Why using different tosses is valuable
0:47 - Key teaching points for tossing the ball to a batter
1:07 - Tee
1:18 - Self Toss up
1:32 - Side Toss
1:46 - Self Bounce Toss
1:59 - Behind The Plate Toss
2:13 - Self Rolled Toss
2:27 - Front toss
2:41 - Running Self Bounce Toss
2:56 - Overhand Toss
3:09 - Self Wall Toss
3:24 - Overhand Bounce Toss
3:38 - Behind The Back Toss
3:52 - Reason to use different tosses
4:24 - Challenge
6:07 - Consequence
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