Hitter Drills - Front Toss Drills

Alright, the drill I want to explain to you really quick, it's probably one of my favorite drills to do with the hitter is front toss and once you have a set up here where you have the hitter at a plate, the home plating be a third arm play, it can be on the field, it can be in a cage, it doesn't matter. What you want to do is, you want to have a screen, it can be a L screen turned around, it can be catch net, again that doesn't matter either and you have to set up about 10-15 feet apart.

And the purpose of this drill is to have hitter hit a -- it's kind of a simulated pitched ball where the distance is close, so they have to react quickly to location and to speed and you can be more efficient as a tosser so hopefully you can maximize the amount of swings that you get but you can also be effective with it as well as efficient.

So we are demonstrate the toss and we try and show them the baseball; take it back nice and easy, give a nice firm toss. I can imply, this is very important that you want to throw the ball, so it's kind of coming on a straight angle.

Lot of times in soft toss, we obviously put an arc on the ball. We want to throw the ball as if it's coming in to the hitter as it was a pitched ball. That's the only way this drill is going to work from a pitch selection stand point and obviously a location and learning where to hit each type pitch where it's located properly.


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