Category: hitting tuts

Hitting Tip: How Far to Stand from Home Plate

Instructors teach this different ways, but here is a general school of thought that makes the MOST sense to me for the distance a hitter should stand from home plate. Because players at all ages are different sizes and swing different size bats, it is tricky to find a good go to for a hitter’s [...]

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A Bad Game Doesn’t Mean Change

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.

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Tanner Tees

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.

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Should I Keep The Barrel Above The Ball?

Continuing giving you little “nuggets”, something players hear a lot is to “keep the barrel above the ball”. Our team wants to give you some pictures to look at. You make your own judgment. Again, we are trying to give you instruction you can use to improve your game!

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About Tuts

Hitting Tuts will be all hitting tutorials. Bunting may be include, sorry to the power hitters our there. We are firm believers that there are many different ways to hit. Face it, watch a big league game and you may see 20 different stances.