I'm not sure how to word this without sounding like an A-hole. You hit the ball well. Stay in your swing and don't stand up and you'll have all that lower half behind the ball. You're standing up in the swing. It's causing your back foot to finish flat. You don't want that. Use your leverage homie. Keep it up man.
Haha yeah in Boerne. I overheard your son talking with a coach in another cage: "On Tuesdays I take this and that class, Mon-Wed is my day to hit the cages..." I didn't catch all the details, but he was cute explaining his schedule 😄
@@albertvandellen4101 yeah he’s pretty passionate about the game. We’ll see you there. Don’t know how the algorithm works but saw the thumbnail pop up. 👊🏼
I was giving up lots of stolen bases a couple seasons ago. Now I try to crouch and do the quick pitch with runner on first. I can get it to the catcher in about 1.2 seconds; if my catcher can give me a 2.2 pop time, there aren't many runners in our league who can steal in under 3.5 seconds.
@@albertvandellen4101 awesome definitely play around with the timing. Do it quick and sometimes from that position do it slower. Or wait a long time before delivering the quick pitch or do it right when they get in the box. The batters will hate it, won't be able to get their timing down lol
The reason why you're hitting a lot of ground balls is because you're not keeping your knob close to you when you swing making your barrel go flat through the zone not creating an angle. Apart from that though you're doing really good, keep up the good work 🔥🔥🔥
Yes. My teammates tell me to "stay quiet" in my lower half. The quiet is less movement. I think the trick to becoming consistent with squaring up the baseball is repeating the same motion over and over.
I swear I haven't broken a bat on a machine in a few years. I had an older one start flaking off the barrel a few months ago, but that bat was a few years old.
Nice pick with no mask! I’m glad I found this video. I’m about to use the iron mike at the facility I’m starting to go to for both hitting and catching drills. Can you lower the arm enough to get constant balls in the dirt to work on blocking?
I was most worried about not having the mask (cup) down in my underwear! There are a couple ways to adjust the arm. If you tighten the spring-there's a twisty arm thing that will tighten or loosen it-that will adjust how fast the pitch is thrown but I also noticed it changes trajectory. So I think if you tighten it down, creating more tension on the spring, I think it would throw you balls in the dirt. The other way to adjust it is the "hand" of the arm. The thing that grabs the baseball as it comes around. So if you look at that, look at where the hand attaches to the arm, the "wrist" we'll call it, there are two sets of nuts/bolts that affix the wrist and hand to the arm. I think it is 1/2" socket or wrenches you'll need, you'll need two of them. If you loosen those you can adjust the angle of that hand on the arm. That will change how high or low it throws the ball. But only adjust that thing like 1/4' at a time, a little bit makes a big different I noticed. But first try the spring tightening. Hey! Most important: Don't go messing around inside that machine until you unplug the power cable from it. That thing could maim you permanently if it got turned on and threw while you were working on it. And I'll tell you one more: So I bought new flat seam baseballs for my Mike, but I haven't put them in there yet bc they're so pearly and pretty. I'm pitching bullpens with them for a bit before I use them to hit off. I'm using my old raised seam baseballs in the Mike rn. I think the raised seams are what makes it inconsistent for me taking BP. It throws the balls high a a lot, and sometimes it hits the plate or right in front of the plate with them. So if you have some older baseballs with scuffs and raised seams, that might be all you need. What's cool about that for you is you don't know where the ball is going; would mimic a real-life pitcher that ain't a pro lol.
IDK, Coop. I turned the radar off just before that last one. It looks like it's the same as my other 75 mph fastballs. Whenever I throw a 4sfb I pretty much go with max effort since I'm a relief pitcher. Don't have to reserve anything for the long haul.
I have this idea that I can put that machine on a little lawnmower trailer and run it on a little portable generator. I mean we can get a BP going anywhere. But I still gotta work out the kinks and figure out how to adjust it around. This model they said is supposed to go up to 70 MPH.
I don't even know how things have started clicking for me. I think it's just reps, reps, and more reps off the machine. I always knew you gotta shorten the swing, don't get long with the arms until after ball contact / follow thru. And just going on those principles, hitting off the tee a bunch, basically I was swinging 100 to 150 swings a day about 5 days a week whether it was at home off the tee or off machine at dbatz. Two months of that and, as Chris Brown sang it once, "look at me now."
