CHIPS Performance Training

Most front toss looks like dad throwing rainbows from 15 feet while the kid swings tired. That’s not BP, that’s babysitting.

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Step with your back foot and throw on a line. The arm swing is the timing cue. Get behind the L-screen. Mix up locations and tempo. Up, down, in, out, step and pause, step and rush. The pitcher in a game isn’t throwing at one tempo either.

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Mix in bounced balls. Now he has to read the pitch instead of timing your arm.
Switch sides for bat path. Set up on his opposite side of the cage and throw at an extreme angle. He drives the ball low back at you, builds bat path and teaches him to stay through it.

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Every 6 to 8 swings, give him a break. Don’t fill the silence with coaching. Make the cage a place he wants to be.

Catching is tough, but it would have been a lot easier if I knew these things when I first started catching.

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1. Use the finger loop. Two and one in the finger slot. Hand stays secure, you don’t blow it up on a fastball, and you still get a clean pocket out of a smaller mitt. Secure beats big every time.
2. Weight in the middle of your foot. The only time you’re on your toes is flashing signs. After that, sit back, chest square to the pitcher, target up.
3. Drive your thumb under the ball. Almost every pitch is moving down. Sliders, curveballs, sinkers, splitters. Come up through the ball with your thumb under it. Your hands work up, not stabbing down.

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4. Don’t lock your front leg. A stiff front leg in a one-knee setup blocks you off the high fastball. Most youth and high school catchers lose the top of the zone and the corners way more than the low pitch.
5. Get the ball back fast. The biggest underrated catching habit. No double pumps, no strolls. Keep your pitcher in rhythm. The faster you work, the faster the inning ends, and the sooner you can go hit like a real position player.

Stop yelling at your hitter on every pitch. The kid up there has to hit one pitch, not every pitch. Let him take a few. Let him gauge the speed. Hitting is the hardest thing in sports. If you don’t believe me, come in the cage and we’ll throw you 75 with a slider.

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The problem isn’t that we mean well, we do. The problem is we send mixed signals every pitch. “Be aggressive.” “Don’t swing at the dirt.” “Make it a strike.” “Stop looking, swing the bat.” By the third strike the kid has no idea what to do. You’re literally yelling him into striking out.

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If your kid goes 0 for 3 and doesn’t swing the bat once, say something. After the game, when everything has cooled down. Not from the third base coach’s box when his heart rate is at 180. The sooner you chill out, the sooner they have fun.