Derek Jeter Teaches Baseball - Reading the Baseball Hop on Defense

Shortstop Drills with Derek Jeter Reading the Hop www.weplay.com Derek: I’ll give you a drill you can do it. We’re doing a friend I’ll give you one person, one volunteer. When you’re catching aground ball you got to be able to— you have to know when, where the ball is going to bounce and whether you’re going to catch it back or you’re going to go get it. So what you gonna do is get in a ready position. Now I’m going to throw you some ground balls. Stay down, read the hop. You got to stay down and come up. Alright now we’ll go to the next one. There you go. The only thing I would tell you remember because you’re tall, get your butt down. See when I was younger if you don’t have somebody to play with you throw it against the house the more ground balls you take the better you’re going to get. You’ll be able to read the hops so you’ll know that it bounces out there but you could catch it back, alright. It bounces closer you got to go get it. All that comes from practice so just keep doing it, alright, got it. You want some come on. Oh! Make sure remember now, make sure you start with your glove low so when it bounces up you could come up, alright. Ready, if you don’t have to put the ground. Get ready, there you go. Ata boy now you got it. See you got it now. Ata boy. There you go. Alright you got it. Come on buddy. Ready! Put your butt down a little bit. You don’t want to spread out that way stay how you were. Go wide how you just were. Watch this you’ll fall over right make sure you’re in a strong position there you go. Don’t put it on the ground yet. Ready! Ata boy. There you go. You got it. Now just remember about your feet you don’t want to get too wide because if you get too wide what happens. Player: You’ll fall down. Derek: To push you over. Got it. Now you can just have just you and a friend the more you do it the better you’ll get. Weplay Check out more free skilsl and drills! Only on weplay.com