This time of year is known for its resolutions. With those resolutions often comes new routines. Routines allow your resolution to become your new normal so they’re a consistent part of your life. The same can be said for your routines on the baseball field. As an infielder, having a hands routine and completing your … More Hands Routine
I believe a great defensive first baseman can me an infield with average talent good and an infield with good talent great. If you’ve read any of my previous posts about first base play that shouldn’t come as a surprise. The effect they have on infield defense comes in how they prevent the error column … More Pick It!: 1st Base Balls in the Dirt
The double play feed from right handed first baseman is a tough play. I don’t have statistics to back this up but, I’d venture to say that it’s the ground ball least likely to be turned into a double play. Right handed first baseman must field it, align their feet, create a throwing lane and … More The Key to Right Handed 3-6 Double Play Feeds: Efficiency
This week we’ll continue to look at double play feeds around the diamond and focus on 6-4 feeds with this post. I’m going to again preface this post with the importance of being efficient and having a sense of urgency when feeding from the shortstop position. To piggy back on that, we need to again … More A Complete Guide to SS Double Play Feeds
Effective infield play is all about rhythm and momentum. Watching infielders with elite rhythm and momentum is like watching poetry in motion. They’re smooth and they flow through the groundball into the throw, and it’s flat out pretty to watch when it’s done properly. Often, when an infielder lacks flow, the main reason is a … More One “Step” for More Rhythm & Flow Thru the Groundball
Ground ball is hit at us. We get outside of the ball, establish great rhythm with our feet, arrive into a textbook fielding position with our right, left, field footwork. It’s at this very moment that the fielding triangle is present. The fielding triangle is a term that refers to the setup of the feet … More Fielding Triangle
Darren Willman, creator of BaseballSavant.com, has a fabulous website with TONS of data from Major League Baseball. The site is a must visit for baseball geeks, like myself, who like to dive into numbers to see what they can tell us. He has provided data from as recently as January 2020 to evaluate infielders. The … More MLB Outs Above Average
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