In this series we will be breaking down the mechanics of pitching. The first thing we need to discuss is your setup before you pitch. We realize there are many different ways to step on the mound. Someone that tells you that you have to stand a certain way is crazy! These four points will give you a breakdown of things to look for and think about when your spikes hit the rubber.

Many of you have a personal page on a social networking site, myspace, facebook, etc. Beware. If you don’t think college and professional scouts are looking at them, you are out of your mind. Let’s take a look at the do’s and do not’s of your profile page.

How often does a player have a great game or two, then a bad game and all of a sudden it’s time to change the player’s swing? It happens all the time! Baseball is a game of failure. It happens to the best of us just about 7 out of every 10 times we step to the plate.

Have you ever been told that speed can NOT be taught? I have, and I believed it until meeting one of the best SPEED coaches on the east coast. How could I drop my 60 yard dash time 4 tenths of a second at 24 years old? Well, my body was not positioned nor developed correctly to run with the highest efficiency and maximum speed. Could you train smarter and become faster … ABSOLUTELY!

If you haven’t heard of Chipmaker, you probably haven’t been searching for baseball content on the web. Chipmakers home team is Yahoo! Answers. If you are not familiar with the site, check it out, vast amounts of knowledge. Question: Chipmaker, Yahoo! Answers, what does that have to do with Baseball Tuts?

A lot of the hitting drills featured on Baseball Tuts will require using a tee. There are a lot of them out here, we want to help make your decision an easy one.

When a ball hits off the fence and causes the outfielder to run around like a chicken with its head chopped off, you often hear a reply from the outfielder saying he didn’t know it was going to do that. Here at Baseball Tuts, we don’t want you to say that, we want you to hold them from getting that extra base.

Every week or so we will be taking questions from you, our readers. Anything is free game, baseball related. We will do our best to respond to as many as possible. If we don’t get to them the week you write them, we will try and get to them at a later date. Our first answer to a readers questions…

We will be trying to point out certain “terms” or “buzzwords” some people like to use when teaching the game of baseball. In this little nugget, we will discuss the term of “hand to ear” or “glove to ear” in terms of throwing as a catcher.

A lot of times players don’t realize how big of a lead they can get off of first base. I’d be willing to bet that if you asked a team how many times each one of them has been picked off, 90 percent would say never. That’s good and bad, let’s look at a drill that will help you maximize your lead, ultimately resulting in more stolen bases.