Application of a Skill
Monthly Practice Themes
Here at DREAM, we are going to streamline our development and work with the athletes to assist them in their growth and knowledge of the game. Each facility and field practice will follow a practice plan designed for optimum learning and efficiency. We are also dedicating each month to working on a concept in a theme. The skills that we will work on will fall into three categories, hitting, fielding, and baserunning. Pitching will fall on a completely separate practice so we can focus on that. The skills are as follows (each of these is roughly 30 seconds in video format):
Fielding:
- Fielding ground balls
- Catching a fly ball.
- Throwing to bases.
- Throwing to a base.
- Throwing to a cut off.
- First half of a double play.
- Fly balls.
- Tag plays
- Double plays.
- Lead runner.
- Secondary runners.
- Cuts and Relays.
- Lead runner.
- Secondary runner.
- Trap play.
- Bunt defense.
- 1st-3rd plays.
Hitting:
- Hitting a ball in flight.
- Ball on the tee hitting with backspin.
- Understanding a ball and a strike.
- Simulated at bats.
- Yes-yes-no hitting.
- Ball strike identifiers.
- 2-strike hitting.
- Hitting the outside pitch effectively.
- 2 strike approach.
- Hit-run.
- Hitting approach.
- Hitting the pitch away.
- 2 strike approach.
- Breaking ball.
- Situational hitting.
- Bunting.
Baserunning:
- Running a double.
- Running through first base and chop.
- Rounding first base.
- Getting a lead.
- Secondaries.
- Stealing a base.
- Sliding.
- Tagging up and advancing.
- 1st-3rd.
- Delay.
- Stealing first move.
- Avoiding running into an out.
- Delay Steal.
- Hit-Run.
- Base stealing against LHP.
- Reading Pitchers.
- Anticipation base running.
These themes will follow the timeline from January to June. The themes we are incorporating are as follows:
January:
Facility: Hitting
Field: Baserunning
February:
Facility: Baserunning
Field: Fielding
March:
Facility: Hitting
Field: Fielding
April:
Facility: Hitting
Field: Baserunning
May:
Facility: Baserunning
Field: Fielding
June:
Facility: Hitting
Field: Fielding
